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I haven't stopped smiling in the last 11 days! Did you see Trumps piece on FAA DEI on Fox News? ncrenegade.com/trump-on… He absolutely took Mayor Pete to the woodshed. About time. I have the bad luck to live in 'Mayor Pete's' city, and it is so refreshing to see him get called out for his BS.
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I haven't stopped smiling in the last 11 days! Did you see Trumps piece on FAA DEI on Fox News? https://ncrenegade.com/trump-on-faa-diversity-requirements/ He absolutely took Mayor Pete to the woodshed. About time. I have the bad luck to live in 'Mayor Pete's' city, and it is so refreshing to see him get called out for his BS.
This is what happens when the only reason one is tapped for a significant position in a Presidential cabinet is because one likes to pack fudge. The man had no business being in the position he was in. He was placed there to destroy. Just like Mayorkas, AKA Gollum, was placed in DHS. To destroy. To bring down the USA, the last bastion with even a semblance of freedom. Everything the Democrats have done was to bring about the destruction of the USA. They were damned successful. Thankfully, a majority of Americans are starting to see through the lies of the media and the celebrity influencers and are ignoring them. Hearing these celebrity blow-hards blubber about Trumps victory or the ICE actions against criminal immigrants (see Selena Gomez) is music to my ears. So far, I love and support what Mr. Trump is doing. I hope he continues it for next four years.
The Democrat Party is simply the Communist Party at this point.
Roger Stone advised us to stop using "republican" and "democrat".
It's Totalitarians versus Team Humanity.
The term "Team Humanity", incidentally, was coined by Alex Jones during a conversation with Elon Musk. I don't particularly care for it - it's a bit too cute for my taste - but I'll be on the team, whatever they may call it.
Yes, and the Republican Party late Capitalists.
Don't sell the Republican Party short, they are also the party of closeted, compromised fairies.
People on these threads give too much credit to the Republican Party. I've witnessed a few times when the Republicans held the Presidency and the Congress and did they do anything of the sort that meets the party's mission? Not at all. When they have the power they do not reduce spending, reduce government, end wars, stop printing money, etc. Even Trump didn't do anything to stop the spending madness. I find the Republicans to be even more despicable than the Democrats. At least the Democrats don't hide their lunacy. The Republicans pretend to be something they most definitely ARE NOT. They are hypocrites of the worst order.
The Dems have a program to scrub the backgrounds of prospective candidates and place them into Republican primaries. I witnessed this first-hand with my congress critter Kiley who seemed like a solid conservative before getting elected and now is obviously a Democrat. This has been going on for decades. So before throwing "Republicans" out with the bath water, just remember a lot of them are actually Dems. What needs to happen is a much better vetting process so we can spot these infiltrators and flush them down the toilet during the primary process. With Ronna McDaniel out of the picture, this will start to tighten up but will take some time.
No, Scott, what needs to happen is we need to get rid of political parties altogether and observe the council of one gorgeous George Washington, who, in his farewell address, admonished future generations to stay the hell away from partisan politics. I despise political parties. Political parties create tribalisms and put the party first over everything else. The result? Just look around. We have become so polarized that very little to truly benefit the Country actually ever gets done. I will always hate and eschew political parties. The Republicans have had their chances and they pissed those chance away in favor of more spending, more debt and more wars.
There would be no RINOs if there were no Republicans. Just saying.
Very good observation. A RINO mill!!!
IMHO, the Bushes were Deep Staters. They did not swing the political pendulum back to the Right when in office. Bush 1 despised Reagan, I believe he coined voodoo economics for Reagan’s programs. He also kowtowed to the Dems after promising “No new taxes”. “W” was a total disaster who wanted war and an open border then. We have had a Deep State government since 1988.
There are two parties in DC right now. MAGA and the Deep State. Dems and GOP are so passé.
Remember too that if any of Trump’s picks get put down, it will be the fault of RINOs closeted in the Senate. RINO - the Ex-GOP residual that is now a Deep State party member.
And there are two MAGAS, the good one and the MIGA one the I standing for Israel and/or India.
Anyone know why India is in such ascendance? It's suspicious.
Sedge - not sure how to parse this, but India has surpassed China as the most populous country and look at their view on Trump 2.0 - far and away the most optimistic country. What do you think?
Additionally, they've taken over Asians, in academic excellence, who for years were the most highly educated cohort.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/polarized-world-how-other-countries-feel-about-trump-presidency
New Info says that the average Indian IQ is 78 not 85 as previously reported.
A beastly people with a beastly religion. India is the most disgusting nation in the history of the world.
Yes, but with over a billion people, the tail region of the distribution encompasses a lot of people.
The republican party is defunct. Right now, we have the greatest president in my lifetime but, after President Trump, we're back to the same corrupt tool career politicians. Brown-nosing asswipe DeSantis, Peter Thiel's tool J.D.
We need an Alex Jones / Candace Owens ticket.
You are quite correct that Donald Trump promised to balance the budget last time- and then proceeded to sign off on- not once veto- 4 consecutive TRILLION dollar deficits. But he did try to garner some populist-cred by hanging the portrait of a man who did in fact balance 8 straight budgets and leave the U.S. $0.00 In debt when he left office: Andrew Jackson. A man who, unlike Trump did not take millions from the crypto industry and then pander to them (Jackson would be rolling in his grave at the mention of "digital currency"- and so should everyone here.
That's true, Andy Jackson is the only President in history to pay off the national debt. If Andy Jackson hadn't been such an asshole to the American Indians and padded his pockets from the sale of the tribal lands he stole from them I would say he was a great President. He was the first President who used the Presidency to enrich himself to the point of being a very very wealthy man. But he did pay off the national debt.
What was stolen from them? Why is the US theft and Constantinople is just a battle lost? The Colonists won a battle (several battles) across a vast, untamed continent and were magnanimous enough to give the losers their own lands to build casinos and sell cigarettes.
Andy Jackson was pretty good at bringing various indigenous tribes to the table, working out a treaty and then re-negging on that treaty. Knowing the land under the tribal ownership would suddenly become available he'd swoop in, buy the land up on the cheap before anybody else could do so and then sell the land for immense profits. Just ask the Cherokee Nation about Andy Jackson.
They had to be defeated and dispossessed. We wouldn't be here otherwise. Life is War of one kind of another.
Some of them weren't defeated in battle. They came to the table and pursued peace by way of treaty and were then betrayed by the Jacksonian government.
Face reality... the Repubs, the Dems, the Communists, the Capitalists, and any others in this category have done nothing but made a total mess of this country and our world. They all need to be erased and replaced with honest, constructive, survival-oriented groups.
Nancy Graham comes to mind.
There are too many to name. Remember when Larry Craig took a "wide stance" in the bathroom?
Unfortunately it's a slim majority that will drag out the corrections that must be made to reverse the slide into destruction.
I did a Google search, and there are only 12 moderate democrats in the entire country. Don't expect the democrat party (or voter) to change any time soon.
The only thing I want ti hear is their death rattle.
Yeah, I guess Mayor Pete was pretty hot over that, too, calling his comments (and Trump himself, no doubt) despicable. But the record speaks for itself.
I guess you might want to ask East Palestine Ohio what they think of “mayor pete”.
Yeah, after that belated visit, and then all the predictable comments by the faithful blaming Trump for cutting the regulations
Regulations bad! Toxic chemicals are good for people.
Why Biden didn't reinstate them, then, is beyond me.
After four years in Washington, you'd think he'd have a thicker skin.
Progtards and narcissists can't take jokes or criticism.
Just a thick brain.
Pete’s replacement is an actor. I’m still waiting for the call.
That actor was my congressman, and a good one. Very pro-MAGA. pro-family, as well. Had lunch with him, once, as well as with his predecessor, Dave "longest-serving" Obey, and I know which one came across as a hack and a poseur, and it wasn't the MTV actor.
I meant the Dept of Transportation Sec got an actor since Pete left.
Probably better an actor than a politician who failed at being a mayor.
Expanding that, I believe the FF wanted a Congress of Intelligensia to provide the knowledge bank for solving national problems. Washington warned folks about political parties, knowing that injecting politics into Congress would destroy its purpose. Today’s Congress is proof of his fears. The 100% partisan votes for any issue is proof of Washington’s foresight. Party before country.
I've heard that Mayor Pete is considering running for a senate seat in Michigan, or the governorship.
In Michigan he might have a good chance of winning.
In Michigan he's got to deal with the Muslim vote, and we know how they feel about gays
You mean the sodomites? They should be called what they are.
"and we know how they feel about gays"
The same way that every major religion felt about them until a couple decades ago?
I believe they still throw gay people off rooftops in some Muslim countries.
Democrats have cheating down to a science here.
Your governor is a uniquely evil woman. She's like the High Priestess of Abortion manifest.
You forgot to mention our AG and SOS. Together they comprise the Vagina Mafia. Truly evil women.
NGL, I LOL'd.
Gretchen Whitmer is evil incarnate. I don't scare easy, but one look into her eyes gives me the heebie-jeebies - bottomless black pools. Your AG & SOS too, an evil triad.
The Lansing Coven?
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Same here in washington state.
Wa went mail in vote only & has been deep blue ever since. This state being a backwater, no one pays attention to pioneered a lot of the corruption & fraud that was done nationaly in 2020.
Gotta check for KY jelly on that seat, ‘fore you sit on it.
Mayor Pete has all that Chest Feeding expertise and knowledge to parcel out to the ignorant masses. I can picture Mayor Pete as President of a company that manufactures Chest Feeding apparatus ... and marketing it at Pride Paredes coast to coast.
That guy is revolting. Somebody should throw him off a roof, in minecraft of course.
We need a gargantuan solar flare. Bad.