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Old 04-14-2019, 10:03   #286
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The chasm continues to widen.....


HERE

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Old 04-14-2019, 10:31   #287
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The chasm continues to widen.....


HERE
Where do these idiots think they live? When I read the headline I expected to see the "FLAG" not the image that has been incorporated into the word POLICE. The image does not offend me but I am not a fan of the Flag being incorporated into any logo, especially sports teams logos. But that's just me. YMMV
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Old 04-14-2019, 13:06   #288
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Here are a few bits on the Lefts perspective....
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It’s no mere coincidence that the states responsible for putting the most Tea Party representatives in the House are all former members of the Confederacy.
Along with many in this country they've never heard any ante-bellum backstory, and have no inkling of the entreaties made to the North by many southern states - just as the Colonists presented a long list of grievances to the King PRIOR to dissolution - to basically, well, avoid armed conflict and "just leave us alone. Secession is a legal remedy available & we want to do it & here's why."

Whether it is because they are socially insecure and cannot fathom that concept so, like guppies congregate toward one end of the tank with each other, or are ultimately afraid or mistrustful of those who would swim alone...duuno. It is obvious, however, that they're incapable of referring to anything culturally "south" of Eliteville without tying in racist innuendo whether it's there or not. It is the perjorative du jour. (That's why someone like Candace Owens and Blexit makes them foam at the mouth & twitch on the ground.)

But they are spending a lot of peoples' finite amount of patience daily.
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Old 04-14-2019, 13:44   #289
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When I think about all those “crazy” right-wing Tea Party people all congregating in one place and their “lunatic” ideas of openly carrying ARs across their backs and packing open and concealed handguns about them because they can, I remember thinking all those guns in one place and none of them caused anyone harm or accidentally went off.

If you ever watch television and there are more than five social democrats wearing black hoodies it’s almost guaranteed that windows will be broken, businesses trashed and personal/private property damaged or destroyed. Hell they (those 18-24 year old college students) can’t even celebrate a sports team win without destroying other people’s property and their downtown city districts.

It’s like they “feel” entitled to destroy! (Where did that come from?)
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Old 04-14-2019, 21:37   #290
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I'm currently working on my language skills by reading "El holocausto espanol, Odio y exterminio en la Guerra Civil y despues". It's a "scholarly work" written by an Englishman, Paul Preston (no axes to grind), about the Spanish Civil War, causes and history. Fascinating document. Some of it makes my skin crawl. Bottom line - diametrically opposed, irreconcilable viewpoints escalated into a classic example of man's inhumanity to man. Same thing in the former Yugoslavia, Syria, Lebanon, Ukraine, El Salvador, Colombia, sooner or later Venezuela, etc. etc. Anyone who says it can't happen here is naive, uneducated, willfully blind, trapped in their "normalcy bias" or part of the 5th column working to lure the proles into complacency so they'll be easier to manipulate when the inevitable happens.
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Old 04-15-2019, 10:21   #291
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Add to that their latest vehicle, "Red Flag Laws". This is a flagrant violation of the Constitution dressed up as a feel good step "to save the children!"

Thank God I no longer live in Colorado, now Commie-rado. It blows the mind to think how far that state has gone into decline.
Yup. Ignoring the Constitution, weaponizing the highest levels of federal law enforcement agencies against political opponents...

Sometimes, a simple reminder goes a long way...Peregrino’s signature line contains much wisdom.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

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Old 04-15-2019, 11:03   #292
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It will never happen...

The Sinking of the Titanic
Human flight
Men on the Moon
The Inquisition
The American Civil War
The Mai Lai Massacre
Gays in the military
Women in the Military
Women in Combat
Women in SOF
Transgendered Soldiers
Transgendered women in Combat SOF Roles
Hands up dont shoot
The Cubs with a World Series Ring


None of these things were ever supposed to happen. Hell, a World War was triggered because a motorcade took a wrong turn after a failed assassination attempt.
A failed assassination attempt the turned into a successful assassination because the wrong turn ended up at the working end of a small caliber pistol.

Yet here we are - with duly elected congressional representatives calling the duly elected president a mother fucker.
Duly elected representatives giving public speeches that suggest running people from the opposing political parties out of restaurants, gas stations, and any other public venue.
Duly elected representatives that refuse to follow the law and institute "sanctuaries" for illegal aliens - but become zealously combative when the government suggests that illegal aliens seeking asylum are sent to those sanctuary cites.
Elected leaders that should be seeking law and order choose instead to give the freedom of anarchy to "those who wished to destroy space" because they wanted to stage violent protests...


Yet the question persists - could there be another civil war in america?
No sir, the die is cast. We are growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years and just as sophisticated.
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Old 04-15-2019, 11:29   #293
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No sir, the die is cast. We are growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years and just as sophisticated.
"Very cosmopolitan..."
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Old 04-16-2019, 19:24   #294
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No sir, the die is cast. We are growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years and just as sophisticated.

Nice pull
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Old 04-17-2019, 06:05   #295
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No sir, the die is cast. We are growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years and just as sophisticated.
Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge - 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public Way Since 2008
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Old 04-17-2019, 07:49   #296
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I saw those maps, Oh Goody...I can hardly wait. NOT. I try and chart my ventures away from human waste!!

When I saw this post I started to look into the Russian experience, civil war 1917-1922... what a cluster... everyone fought against everyone, not a pretty picture, one of the reasons history is so important. Change what is considered one of the best systems in the World... at what cost.

Keeping it simple:
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Nothing to see here...but I would read it.

https://www.theamericanconservative....billie-murray/

Really, click the link. It’s the enemy out in the open justifying their end game - change the First Amendment through violence.
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Nothing to see here...but I would read it.

https://www.theamericanconservative....billie-murray/

Really, click the link. It’s the enemy out in the open justifying their end game - change the First Amendment through violence.
Thanks for that. For those too shy to click...

Villanova University’s Professor Billie Murray is giving a campus lecture April 24 titled “Reimagining Activism as Combative.”

Should be an interesting lecture...much better to have this out in the open than behind closed doors.

ETA:From the esteemed professor’s web page...

http://villanova.academia.edu/BillieMurray

I plucked just one piece of material from her page...the infusion (her word) of activism into a college communications course is interesting. Open and scroll through this college student reading material - including syllabus and assignments. Wow. Little wonder that current college students have an unusually strong Social Justice bias. I wonder how a dissenter would fair - grade-wise - in her classroom?

https://www.academia.edu/6057946/Fro...ation_Activism
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Old 04-17-2019, 10:28   #299
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Nothing to see here...but I would read it.

https://www.theamericanconservative....billie-murray/

Really, click the link. It’s the enemy out in the open justifying their end game - change the First Amendment through violence.
Some days Trump's greatest accomplishment seems to be that socialists, communists and others bent on destroying the Republic are increasingly open about their desires. It's helpful when the domestic enemies identify themselves.
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Thanks for that. For those too shy to click...

Villanova University’s Professor Billie Murray is giving a campus lecture April 24 titled “Reimagining Activism as Combative.”

Should be an interesting lecture...much better to have this out in the open than behind closed doors.

ETA:From the esteemed professor’s web page...

http://villanova.academia.edu/BillieMurray

I plucked just one piece of material from her page...the infusion (her word) of activism into a college communications course is interesting. Open and scroll through this college student reading material - including syllabus and assignments. Wow. Little wonder that current college students have an unusually strong Social Justice bias. I wonder how a dissenter would fair - grade-wise - in her classroom?

https://www.academia.edu/6057946/Fro...ation_Activism
One scary bitch and she is teaching impressionable minds what to think...not how to think!
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