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Region: Libertatem
Only when we film in big cities like Ontario, Vancouver, Chicago, NYC, etc. When we film in Georgia everything looks peachy. Capitalism has inbuilt economic incentives for conservation, making it the least damaging to the environment. Communist and Fascist countries had no incentive to respect the property rights of others, and historically have been the worst offenders.
I tell people that my State has 7 distinct varieties of Black Mold, but people still move here. sigh.
Southern Cone
Is anyone up for a canon roleplay this time?
Depends what's it like
Southern Cone
IÂ’d like to roleplay as a canon
Narland
The Democratic Republic
Regional Update
The Democratic Republic of Valeria would like to let the other regions know about the situation happened.
The Democratic Republic of Valeria hold the July Elections. They ended with a coalition between the Democratic-Republican Party, The Promethean Union and the Progressive Party. The coalition proposed the Government's proposal. The Opposition worked hard for making an agreement and at the end a compromise was reached. However the Consul vetoed the proposal, picking the Progressive Parry to form a Government.
In the meanwhile, NationStates expelled all the fake WA nations from the World Assembly, including some wa nations of some members in TDR. After some hours the member Cazadonia revealed he created some puppets to support its party.
Many quarrels started in the region between the executive branches and the Founders decided to announce the State of Emergency.
The Senate dissolved itself and called for a special election.
The results showed the increment of the Federalist Party and the Progressive Party, while The Promethean Union decided to do not run. However, the Democratic Republican Party, the Progressive Party and the Caesarean Commitment Party made a coalition and formed a Government.
The situation now seems stable and TDR is recovering quickly.
We wish good luck to everyone!
-Minister of Foreign Affairs Jac27
Southern Cone
I'd like to play the shoe, if the top hat isn't taken.
We need a global event. Hm, a pandemic? a supervolcano eruption? solar storm?
A long lasting solar flare that emp's most of the world's electronics over all time zones except for the shadow over Antarctica?
Southern Cone
I am a puppet of Narland in case some role-playing breaks out.
Rateria
sounds good
Suzi Island
I like it
Southern Cone
Protestantism suffers from three erring groupings today:
Confessionalists, Fundamentalists, and Liberals
Are these the people that lean into the "Christian nationalist" label?
Perhaps.
I wouldn't call them liberal, but I think I agree with the sentiment.
So what does that leave, the hollowed out middle?
In which way are confessionalists erring? As long as the understanding of the confession is that it's a good summary of what the Bible teaches and not our primary standard than I have no problem with them and would consider myself one
Narland
It could be sour sour grapes. European Confessionalists took to long to stand against Nazism, Fascism and Communism. American Confessionalists were blindsided by smooth talking Progressives to figure out that Social Darwinism was as evil as it was, and over half of them succumbed to the Social Gospel. And Fundamentalists took their ball and powder, disengaged from American culture, circled the wagons and told the American Secularists to "Come and Get It."
Jury is still out for me on an opinion of whether or not Evangelical Christianity should take the bait on the Neo-Marxist termed "Christian Nationalism." We ate it with accepting Marx coined "Capitalism" and have been on the defense ever since for Economic Liberty and Free Enterprise. Torba and Wolfe each have a book by the title Christian Nationalism that purportedly guts the typical Communist double-think derangement and pins it as a badge of honor for tradition Christian discipling of the nations.
I hope to have both read by November election. But, since the Progressivist Era the atheistic secularists portion of Americana have taken over and shot everything to shambles. The neomarxists in our midst want a totalitarian utopia pipe dream that would make any mismanaged corrupt country hell-hole look like paradise. It is about time for Christians get off their duffs and reengage society as Christians.
As of recently, me too. I am still a nondenominational boogerhead, but the Westminster Standards are pretty keen. Our church recently adopted adherence to them (or any Confession that is evangelical, catholic and orthodox (small e, c, and o).
The Atheists hadn't yet gotten around to using the State court to kick God out of the public schools when I was in the 2nd grade. Those who weren't JW, LDS, or SDA went to their respective classes, and those of us who stayed read from portions of the Heidelberg Catechism. The Friends didn't have a problem with it as long as I read George Fox's Journal and the Fruits of Solitude by Wm Penn, and the Pentecostals gave me a refresher after Sunday School on Wesleyan soteriology. If I had bought a Heidelberg Catechism as a 7 year old and applied it, it would have answered some deep seated questions and may have alleviated a lot of grief as a teenager.
Fierrol
ah yes, those darn liberals and their progressive ideas of equality, freedom and justice smh no rejection of rightly oppresing minorities on my watch!
Liberals in this sense are those who reject the inerrancy of scripture
Southern Cone
What disgusts me most about Hegelian disingenuousness is constantly redefining terms to one's own advantage, and constantly moving goalposts for same. When the term Liberal meant a practitioner of Liberty (Bible-believing or otherwise) and not an illiberal socialist who disbelieves the plain meaning of the Gospel, most Liberals in the US did hold to one form of Scriptural inerrancy or another (viz. the Bible is unerring regarding matters of doctrine and faith). When the mainstream denominations succumbed to the Social Gospel (actually the Socialist Anti-Gospel -- gotta hand it to dialecticians repacking things as what they are not) and were seduced by Liberation Theology (Marxism reworded in Christianese) the salt lost its savor, and the rest is history. The Bible cannot be what it testifies of itself, nor the Church is anything but a creation from the mind of man, lest man be found a liar.
Fierrol, Southern Cone
Did anyone see the House Censorship hearing? I won't get a chance to watch until tomorrow.
In that case I am a liberal.
I know they tried to censor RFK Jr.
Narland
I know Michael O'Fallon, David Knight, and the agnostic James Lindsay have been warning Christians against taking the bait of identifying as Christian nationalists. It's clearly a dialectical trap, where the term is a Rorschach test and the intended meaning is imputed by each user and each observer to fit into their outlook, and of course the neo-Marxists are hard at work poisoning the well so that anyone who takes on the label can be summarily dismissed from any serious conversation.
Narland
The Christian nation isn't of this Earth anyway, it is Heaven
Narland
Yes, and that's why they fear many Christians are going to rush into this. Either one might think of this as a synonym for the Kingdom of God, or else one might think Christian + nationalist/patriot/nationist = Christian nationalist. But if they didn't coin it, the neo-Marxists are at least promoting it for the purpose of tying well intended Christians to a presumptive position of theocracy and a general hostility to Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment sensibilities.
Narland
I watched some of C-Span's coverage of it. I was so disgusted that I had to turn it off.
Auxorii and I will be reading the New Testament as part of our planned reading/study group.
Auxorii
WHAT?! WHEN?! WHERE?!
Auxorii
I'm down for that as well. When are we starting
Narland, Auxorii
When, where, and how?
Auxorii, Southern Cone
We will be starting as soon as possible. I think people can read on their own. My thought is that weÂ’ll read a pre-determined section and set a date for completing it. Things will be pretty informal and weÂ’ll have an open discussion. Any version of the Bible will do (but I would recommend something close to the NRSV, or other modern translations, for accuracy).
Auxorii
Outragerous! 👹👺
Sidenote:
Which theory on the origin of man do you believe the strongest in - creationism or evolution?
Those are not necessarily opposites. I donÂ’t think it particularly matters.
IÂ’m legit in shockÂ… wowÂ… youÂ’re the last person I would expact to not care about a religious subjectÂ
ItÂ’s not that I donÂ’t care, itÂ’s that I donÂ’t think it really matters. Whether God created man exactly as described in Genesis, or whether man came to be via the process of Darwinian evolutionÂ… Genesis would be unaffected.
Re the NT, are starting with Matthew 1:1 and reading to Revelation 22:21, or is there a particular passage?
wdym Genesis would be unaffected?
There are multiple acceptable viewpoints (at least in my denomination OPC) to creation and whether or not the six days were literal twenty-four hour days or a figurative six days
Southern Cone
My thought is that we will at least start by trying to read the entirety of Matthew.
Sounds good.
When learning Russian I was surprised that that Russian Bibles (and Eastern Churches tend to) put the General epistles before the Pauline Epistles. I always thought James, Peter, and John after Acts made more sense.
A Wesleyan missionary friend once complained that Bibles in India have the Gospel of John as the first book of the new testament, and it made it hard for him because of the deep dive straight into theology that Matthew builds toward. I always thought that the best way to reach a Hindu mindset was to get straight to the point and bridge the illusion of nothingness by contrasting it with the God who is there.
My fleshly nature still can't find the Book of 2nd Opinions, but it likes to try.
There is nothing in the Bible, and especially Genesis, that indicates that it was meant to be an historical record infallibly telling us the history of Man. Genesis, and the creation myths contained within are not records of the history of man, but allegories concerning the relationship between God and Man, God and the World, and the World and Man. As an allegory, it attempts to record Truths according the the Hebrew prophets and scribes, using imagery that can be at least partially understood by the Fallen Man, and should not be taken at mere face value. The language of the manuscript texts indicates on numerous occasions that it is an allegory or fictionalized text, and the names of people and places are often very apt, which is not unusual for an allegorical work. But this does not hurt the value of the text except in the eyes of fools and the most impious literalists. Fictional works can be true, and even if Adam were the invention of the author of Genesis, and we evolved from single celled organisms, we would still remain the progeny of Adam. We would still be Fallen Man who chose sin and death, expelled from Paradise and unable to return. The Jews would still be GodÂ’s chosen people wandering through the wilderness, separated from the nations, and a testament to the existence, grace, and lordship of God.
It should always be remembered that Genesis myths do not actually claim to be historical records in the sense of “The Oxford Companion to the History of the World” or something along those lines. Beginning with “In the beginning God created” and ending with the beginning of the Israelites’ exile in Egypt and commands to seek forgiveness and to not be afraid, the entire relationship between God and his prodigal children.
Southern Cone
Except for the plain reading of the text. It is historical narrative for a bronze age people to understand (as best as finite beings can understand the ineffable One). The Hebrew prose for the historical narrative is object-orientated and perspectival to those whose feet are squarely set on dry ground (eretz) looking round about, and up to the sky. Each Genesis narrative is testimonial witness and succinct. They do not use the verbiage or attributes of mythological characters/characteristic to be myth. Neither do they use the exaggerations of legendary tales to be legend. The error historically is to eisegete the text as allegory and then put some vain imagination from the heart of fallen man into the divine expression, hindering the truth of God, and the wisdom of HIs Spirit.
The Creation account (still the same author) is rendered in Exodus as historic fact during the giving of the 10 Commandments stating that "In 6 days God created the heavens and the earth. On the 7th day he rested." And as with God interacting in space-time, we are to follow his example and do likewise. Jesus himself treats Adam and Eve as historic persons created in the beginning (6th Day of Creation), and so does Paul. They do not say according to myth, or according to legend, or that it was allegory but let the narrative itself speak as the plain truth that it is in space-time reality.
Outside perspectives may give us the option to disbelieve that the God who is eloquent enough to speak the complexity of space, time, matter, and energy into existence on the first day is not learned enough to plainly explain to his image-bearers the where, when, how, and why. But the plain meaning of the text does not let us (those who claim the name of Christ) pick and choose. Jesus said to Nicodemus, "If I have told you about things that happened on earth and you donÂ’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?" That doesn't mean we cannot hypothesize and extrapolate from the plain meaning of the text to connect the dots regarding matters deduced from it for our benefit -- God takes pleasure when we seek these things out. But to assume that Genesis is a fiction from the onset, instead of having a proper frame of reference for the literary exegesis of the text (literal interpretation), does make God a deceiver.
And by literal it is mean the literal school of interpretation that treats the bible as works of literature whose author is God (in concert with man). The text is what it is. If it is history interpreted as history, poetry as poetry, parables as parables, homilies as homilies, wisdom as wisdom, prophecies as prophecies, apocrypha as apocrypha, etc. The most plain meaning of the text explains the less clear meaning of the text, in harmony with the character and nature of which God testifies of Himself and creation -- and the historic teaching faithfully transmitted by the church in thinking rightly (orthodoxy). This is why Genesis is so important as it forms the historicity upon which man is to act and behave to himself and others, and how he is to act and behave before the Creator.
And by literal it is not meant the manner of foolish men like Bertrand Russel (as great a mind as he possessed showed the darkness of his heart) persisting in presuming that literal must and shall only mean wooden slavishness to strict letterism from which one can only mindlessly do or not do accordingly -- such as stopping at a stop sign and never proceeding because there is no further instruction on the sign to do so -- as he berated with mocking derision and willful ignorance the historic meaning of literal interpretation within Christianity itself.
Southern Cone
Vivek R was the only other candidate to explicitly call out the lawfare being waged against former president Trump
He wants to raise the voting age to 25. He gets a no from me.
Speaking of which, Ramaswamay won his lawsuit against the Global Economic Forum. They can no longer call him the World's foremost upcoming Globalist. Years of trying to give him an award so they can coat-tail of his name, ruined.
Yeah. It's not going to happen, and Ramaswamay knows it. I think it's refreshing that someone going into politics speaks his druthers instead of what pollsters say which way the wind is blowing. I have always wanted the voting age, draft age, drinking age, and speed limit to be 120 (in mph) just to be ornery but that isn't going to happen either. :)
Southern Cone
The Democratic Republic
Regional Update
The Democratic Republic of Valeria would like to let the other regions know about the situation happened.
The month of July started with some difficulties, but after the special elections of July 8th, the new majority managed to establish a stable government. Tranquility has returned, but together with inactivity. On July 30th, the Premier announced a State of Emergency and closed the embassy with the region of Red Wolf Alliance. This action created turmoil in his Concilium: The Department of Foreign Affairs claimed it had not been informed of the situation, the Premier had only ordered the department to check RWA's embassy, which the Minister of Foreign Affairs did, noting any lack of requirements.
After some discussions, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with its Deputy, decided to resign, but they didn't make it in time for the Premier to fire them.
The August 2023 Senatorial Elections ended. The Federalist Party returned to govern, in coalition with the Independent Caucus. The FED chose the Independent senator Amacoly to form a Government, he's the second Independent Premier of the Third Republic since January 2023. The proposal of the Formation of the Government is passed and now the Concilium is active again.
-Ambassador Jac27
Southern Cone
When a leftist says no one is above the law they really mean no conservative is above the law (even if they have to make up what they did)
Narland, Nosam Republic, Southern Cone, Nordhessir
sounds like what a right-wingers would say about leftists
Narland
Make no mistake. They haven't an iota of concern for the law. It's just a tool in their exercise of power, and innocence is no defense.
Narland, Southern Cone
I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that when a Leftist says "no one is above the law," what is usually meant is "My narcissistic framework dictates that I must state X in this case to derive a synthesis that is conducive to my will to power over your petty concerns." When an liberty-loving traditional American boogerhead says that nobody is above the law, they usually mean, "Nobody is above the law."
Come to think of it, it seems that whenever a Leftist says anything political, what they usually mean is, "My narcissistic framework dictates that I must state X in this case to derive a synthesis that is conducive to my will to power over your petty concerns."
The United States Of Patriots, Southern Cone
Chaos in NYC yesterday felt like a preview of 2024 summer
Narland, Southern Cone
I have gotten cynical. The Democrat created permanent urban underclass is being groomed for post-covid France like street-mobbery. This only benefits the Democrat ruling elite in Statist strangleholds like NYC. The creation and fostering of hateful incompetents who are so inept that the only beneficence they can offer is to give their children to the State (the Aristotelian definition of a proletariat) is very sad to see.
If I ever have to work in NYC again, it will be too soon.
It's sad because I like a lot of things about NYC, the people are usually hardworking and it has a good food culture and independent spirit (or at least used to)
Southern Cone
AmErIca HaS fAlLeN!
It's in decline right now
Southern Cone
tHe ErA oF PaX aMeRiCaNa HaS cOnClUdEd, PaX SinIcA iS CoMiNg
It's too bad we never really had a Pax Americana. What we have are Paces UnAmericanae -- Rhodesian Diplomatic thuggery instead of Washingtonian/Monroevian Diplomacy, Keynesian fiscal and monetary fraud instead of Franklin/Sherman honest banking and sound currency, Fabian Socialist Rational Administrative State tyranny iinstead of Constitutional Governance in the Promotion of Liberty sacred to every single Founder, and symbiotic nepotism of numerous industrial complexes instead of constitutionally guaranteed pursuit of happiness in the right to free and open markets)-- all the former being the antithesis of Americana.
I think that if US doesn't have a reformation, it will be the era of BRIC sans China. China has peaked demographically. The belt and road initiatives is a (lessor of two evils) gambit to ameliorate the damage from the one-child policy. It is an inconvenient step back to leap two steps forward with the 5-fold path.
It will take 40-80 years for China to recover, but they are planning to dominate while strengthening that which remains. Unless China goes to war within the next 5 years to take Western Russia, and divide the Stans with Iran (which is unlikely) they will play second fiddle to India by the end of the decade. China is dedicated to a strategy that will further alienate SE Asia to win favor with the nations of Africa and South America for the long term 100 year goal.
If India actually gets serious about being dedicated to a real market economy, and tags its commerce with the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Japan (and pulls Indonesia closer) it can create a coalition with strategic South America and African nations started by China. A winsome Indian hegemon will give (unless trajectories change) a Globalist authoritarian centralized European Parliament and despotically corrupt unamerican deep state US oligarchy a literal run for its money.
Southern Cone
I am not surprised High School boys are trending Conservative. The most rebellious hooliganism against society in 2023 is to become morally straight, join a church, pledge allegiance to the flag, read the Constitution, be responsible for one's actions, and remain respectful even to those who disagree with you.
(I am loosely paraphrasing someone well known who said something similar recently).
Miencraft, Fierrol, Southern Cone, Nordhessir
Out of all the guys in my graduating class this year I would say maybe 15-25% were liberal/liberal leaning while at least 30-50% were conservative/conservative leaning. We're all tired of The Media™ bashing us and we're not scared to fight back.
Narland, Fierrol, The United States Of Patriots, Southern Cone
thatÂ’s hot.
Auxorii
I can definitely see that happening. It was beginning when I graduated eight years ago
Narland
It's amazing that even in a blue state (NJ) DJT has a good amount of support as I witnessed in person at the liv event at his bedminster course today
Narland
NJ has strangely seemed more republican lately. strong support of trump plus the near election of an R governor 2 years ago..
Narland
Hopefully they will be like certain other generations that stood for Liberty against the excesses of King George III; the generation of the Glorious Revolution replacing King James II with Prince William of Orange; or the generation on both sides of the Atlantic that ended the slave trade and enforced abolition; not the generation that took their ball and bat and went home while the neighborhoods burned to the ground.
Southern Cone
William of Orange sucked though
Auxorii
He was the only man for the job, and he did what he knew to do, but what he did preserved the British sense of Constitutionalism that lead to better things.
Better things..?
A natural understanding of constitutional governance that led to the American Revolution; the drive show to the world the self-evident superiority of self-governance over the ineptitude and serfdom wrought from authoritarian and totalitarian schemes; and the proof that new world Liberty trumps old world tyranny each and every time it is practiced using civic virtue.
Yesterday marked the 31st anniversary of Ruby Ridge
You have a very wrong understanding of the glorious revolution, friend.
Auxorii
From a Christian perspective, we get the government we deserve, and are loosed from our chains when we look to God and nature's God and the principles he has placed in the fabric in the universe for freedom from bondage, despotism and tyranny -- the political end being the fruits of Liberty. Once a people are mature, responsible, and productive enough in their ability to love God, their neighbors, and treat others as the would themselves, enough individuals can then press forward and fight against the evils in their midst and perchance prevail. The Glorious revolution was one such benchmark from what darkened minds then (and Marxist revisionists in academia today) would proclaim otherwise.
Please do not take this to mean that I think you have a darkened mind, but I am referring to academicians and historians who know better yet persist with a narrative contrary to what the people who were actually there, and actually wrote and discussed what it was that they were actually thinking and doing doing according to their own words. They accurately predicted what their actions would wrought, which is the hallmark of wisdom. The revisionist idiocy from Neo-Marxist controlled academia, that the Liberals of early and mid modernity were were too stupid to know what they were doing, and that their viewpoints must be expunged has gotten wearisome to me.
The concept of a Biblical understanding of the Monarchical power, earlier published by such as Samuel Rutherford in Lex Rex, and framed by Locke's social contract came out of this. Kings and monarchical hierarchizes (an elite ruling class -- whether Royalty, DC Establishment, or Vanguard of the Proletariat) are a curse of God for the People rejecting Him as King among them in the body politic. Of course, some denominations long ago rejected the Biblical understanding of politics being between a man's conscience and God with each other in community, leaving themselves at the cruel mercies of courtly intrigue and priestcraft. God intends for a righteous people to live free and cast off evil rulers from over them.
Without the Glorious Revolution there would probably be no Great Awakening, and certainly no American Revolution, at least one dedicated to the Principles of Liberty and Equality. They fought to keep their constitutional Rights from King Henry II through the Magna Carta, through the Bill of Rights that came out of the GR to their present, and for their posterity. It is also a good contrast of how revolutions should work against failed revolutions that lead to horror, tyranny, with the People enslaved and death such as the French Revolution, sadly every Mexican Revolution (or attempt thereof), and every Marxist Revolution since the 20th Century.
Addenda:
I learned most of what I know of the Glorious from the stepping stones developed from it looking back into it from a bibliographical standpoint from the works of the American founding. The University class I took on the subject was worthless as the professor tried to teach it from an economic perspective from those who did not seem to know the basics of economics or how humans behave as economic creatures. Also as imperfect as a species (and individuals such as myself) as we are, there usually is much wrong with anything we do. I am sure the GR did have a lot wrong with it, just as the American Revolution and our founding had a lot wrong with it. It took a bloody civic war and the blood of an entire next generation to fix one of them; the fight against the Democrats' prejudice and bigotry from their slaveholding went well into the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
I am curious as to your perspective on it or any books you would recommend from your understanding.
The Democratic Republic of Valeria
Regional Report
Good Afternoon friendly regions of TDR! The Republic is strong as it moves forward towards the end of August with increases in activity and population from the previous months.
Foreign Affairs
ItÂ’s been 8 months since the AU crisis and TDRÂ’s foreign image has completed its rebuild, now looking to build on this momentum, Foreign Affairs Minister, Valator, has successfully reopened relations with The Kodiak Republic while Founder, JB, has brought a new governorate under TDRÂ’s umbrella with the addition of The New United Pact region which is headed by a former TDR member. This is exciting as this new region brings rejuvenating activity to the United Regions of Valeria and also another great relationship to prosper on. TDR did close their doors to the embassy in the Red Wolf Alliance for the second and final time. A lack of activity and representation from RWA brought this unfortunate conclusion to fruition. More foreign projects are underway so stay tuned!
Domestic Politics
After a closely contested race, Consulship was given to Federalist Party candidate, Pasilz. Young but determined to make his mark as head of state of this great region, immediately completing a campaign promise by delivering recruitment letters to new regions in the NS for his strive to grow our region.
Judex Myri stepped down from being in the Judicial courts, deciding to step back into politics again. Consul Pasilz nominated former premier, Cobi to be the next to take the judicial seat. In the senate the historical Economy bills have been passed as well as revisions to help with the new TDR economic system that is slowly coming together created by federalist senator, Jac.
All in all, the region is looking more and more healthy as the months come and we look forward to future success as well. Thank you.
Minister of Foreign Affairs
ValatorJoe
Vivek was the star of the show last night but Trump remains the main man for the job
Narland, Miami Jai-Alai 3
The first Presidential debate of the 2024 G.O.P race was unsurprisingly immeasurably disappointing.
Narland
Rupert Murdoch did a good job of selling me on Larry Elder.
Narland
I don't like either. Trump was not good on gun policy or abortion. Vivek wants to raise the voting age to 25 and his ideas, while good, will never succeed.
I think DeSantis is still the best balance when it comes to policy and ability to beat Biden
Narland, The United States Of Patriots
Too true on gun policy, but what are your criteria for abortion? I don't think Roe v Wade was ever a well reasoned or constitutionally sound opinion. Unless you mean some policy that Trump took directly, which I'm not aware of.
Ngl I kind of like this. The brain hasn't finished physically maturing until around this age, when the fully developed prefrontal cortex allows for greater impulse control. The 26th Amendment was a mistake in more ways than one. However, as increasing the voting age requires a constitutional amendment, this isn't something Vivek can bring about, even with significant Congressional support. It would require a broad base of support from around the country.
Well, they won't succeed if people don't vote for someone who will enact them. Does that mean it's better to support another status quo candidate who's going to allow the continued creep of the national security state without fighting back?
I also don't like what I've heard about Ramaswamy supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
DeSantis has the best track record on fighting lock downs and the DEI cult, but he's become cozy with the Never-Trumpers and their spurious arguments regarding the political prosecutions against Trump. Most of Trump's unelectability comes from the "Cathedral's" smear machine that wants a safe candidate who won't challenge their authority or agenda. Any good candidate will be maligned. And if you think DeSantis is more electable now, wait until a major swathe of Trump diehards sit out the election if he isn't the nominee.
Narland, Miami Jai-Alai 3, Nordhessir
I will say that I like desantis, however the more the deep state goes after trump with these Indictments the more I want to vote for him
Narland, Miami Jai-Alai 3
There are many of us who still want to see a President Trump and Vice President Ron DeSantis in 2024. But they would have to work out the 12th amendment problem similar to how Bush and Cheney worked it out. I think if Ron DeSantis comes in second at the Republican convention by whatever percentage % of the votes and delegates, there is going to be lot of political pressure at the convention and outside of the convention, for Ron DeSantis to be President Trump's Vice President, I hope Ron DeSantis understands this, but getting President Trump to accept it is another matter.
A great-grandniece asked the question, "What is the difference between a court and a supreme court?" She let me talk for 5 minutes. When I finished she said, "Nope. Tomatoes and sour cream."
I spent most of the morning typing my heart out about the the Fox GOP Debate. One pounce of a cat on the kb and it is all gone. :( Long story short (sort of):
None of them persuaded me to not vote for Trump.
Too many people on the stage for any useful debate on the issues.
Fox missed an excellent opportunity to ask pertinent questions that would have made a dime's worth of difference.
Commentator Larry Elder won the debate hands down by not being invited by the Murdoch syndicate.
Entrepreneur Ramaswamy went up two notches in my opinion of him. He is young and brash, speaks his mind freely for good or ill, but hasn't his mettle hasn't been tested. He is a good prospect. He is someone I would like close at hand to Trump. He says he wants to dismantle the deep state and return to free enterprise. I hope he understands what that means.
I think Governor DeSantis is a Swamp Creature in the making, if not one already. If he became President I am under the impression that he is more likely to play ball with the deep state rather than treat them as the den of the unlawful liars, thieves, and murderous Stasi thugs in the making that they are. He is good upper or middle management material, but one who needs to be given Liberty-end marching orders.
I have seen Senator Scott on C-Span and Forbes Breaking News YT channel and like his resolve. He is very good as a Senator. I hope Trump finds a place for him in his Administration. I do not think he is prepared for what is coming, but will make the right stand when push comes to shove. He did not do very well in the debate compared to how he is in the Senate.
Nicky Haley is a Swamp Creature, and a true believer in tax and spend, forever wars, and the principles governing an unconstitutional administrative state. She is smart intelligent and someone I would like as a sounding board in my policy discussions. Much like some have need of others as sounding boards to find plot-holes in their tv and movie scripts. I have worked hard for the last 50 years in encouraging people like her to leave the GOP. I wouldn't mind her as a friend or neighbor, but at this time do not want her in any position of authority over the life, liberty or property of fellow Americans.
I like Pence. He is sincere. Knowing Bible to the degree that he does, and what little Christian principles conducive to Evangelical Liberty that he understands is what little saving grace that makes him someone whom God may yet again place at a turning point in history to do the right thing. I hope if / when that time once again comes, he will instead do the right thing. He has the propensity learn and grow in wisdom. At this time he is not ready for the Presidency.
What I do not like is that he is sincerely wrong on certain issues. Pence learned the wrong things at University. His understanding of Conservativism is a collegiate educrat's caricature of itself modified for lay consumption geared to pre-emptively cave when confronted with Progressivism and Statism. He seems clueless as to where we are at this point and time in American history. History doesn't repeat itself as much as it rhymes. The Senate has issued its illegal edicts; the People are sufficiently diverted by bread and circuses, and Caesar is about to cross the Rubicon. It is about to get very ugly.
The only thing I have to say about Christie is, "No, nope and probably never."
The rest were not given fair opportunity to step up and announce their policies and goals in any significant manner.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Hey Miami. Good to hear from you. I hope you are right about DeSantis. I have the sinking feeling that he has been bit by the Zombie State and is slowly turning into one.
Kumquat Cove, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Hypocrite leftist democrats challenged the election results of certain states in 2016 in favor of Hillary, using the same and similar words of Republicans who did so for President Trump in 2020.
Republican Vice President Mike Pence could have at least tried to send the election challenges of certain states back, and it would have been appealed by the leftist democrats and the US Supreme Court would have decided it either way. After he did not do so, the leftist democrats passed a law stating you cant do so, so Mike Pence could have at least tried. I tweeded this to Mike Pence on Twitter.
Narland
Guys, is it true TCB tried to raid TNP for not wanting diplomatic relations at all with TCB? 💀
Nvm:
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1924791
All I know is, President Trump needs to win in 2024 to Make America Great Again.
Narland
I would be satisfied with working on making America sufficiently good again, and by good I mean the lawful practice of beneficent indifference, which has been thrown out the window, backed over, ran over and backed over incessantly by those in power in both parties.
I have looked at Trump's website, and it is satisfactory. By Great Trump mean's returning to some if not all of the founding principles. I agree to all. While Trump is almost fully Disestablishmentarian, he is only half-conservative. I would that his guiding star be Liberty instead of a conceptual greatness. Nevertheless, he has my vote for President 2024.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
The only bad alternative we are going to have in 2024 is, Biden or any other Woke, Leftist, Globalist, New World Order Democrat.
I think the California governor is waiting in the wings to step in.
Nosam Republic, Miami Jai-Alai 3
As a former Californian it is truly sad to see a state blessed with such physical beauty, great weather, and a history of producing liberty loving leaders (notably Reagan) go down the tubes to the siren song of leftist globalism.
Narland, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Yes, Narland is right and you are right, the only good thing about California is Republican Governor Ronald Reagan and Republican President Ronald Reagan, the original Make America Great Again MAGA President of the USA, and I used to live in California too.
Narland, Suzi Island
Coming from Idaho, a place back in the 60s and 70s where common bumper-stickers were "Don't Californicate Idaho," "Turn Back Californian," and "Tourist -- Spend Your Money, Then Leave!", even back then for us it was clear that California was hellbent on becoming a Socialist hell-hole like some typical East Coast State or worse a criminal syndicate state like Illinois. As far as we were concerned they had succeeded 50 years ago. It just took that long for the poisonous ideas to come to fruition.
My grandparents and their kids could see the writing on the wall for California. All of my cousins that had agribusiness (farms, were in irrigation sciences, or had light factories (one family made a particular type of harvest equipment) in California moved out of state during the 1970s or went broke. Not that it did any good with the Federal Government gaining all that abusive (and unconstitutional) power under LBJ, Nixon, and Carter to squash and destroy rural family run industry. I am still perturbed that the GOP did nothing to stop the fascisfication of rural American businesses and banks, nor reverse us back to free-enterprise during and after the Reagan Presidency, and the Contract-On-America.
We have over 100 years of Socialist poison to root out at the Federal level and in every State. Even in Idaho, many of our grandkids think more like early 20th Century German Socialists or Russian Bolsheviks than actual Americans. I am thankful that there are those like Trump, Elder, and Ramaswamy that really want to finish the job of winning World War I, World War II, and the Cold War that the "ruling elite" have reneged on.
Nordhessir
Socialism is good. 👺
no
Narland, Auxorii, Miami Jai-Alai 3
No ❤️
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, Miami Jai-Alai 3
No, I'm a native Cuban and an American citizen, lol.
Narland, Auxorii, Nordhessir
More like Socialisn't
Narland, Auxorii, Miami Jai-Alai 3, Nordhessir
December 25, 1991: USSR
December 26, 1991: USSarenÂ’t
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, Nosam Republic, Nordhessir
One again yÂ’all united unanimously against me a victim 💀 Do you even know to define socialism in an objective concise manner without all of that American red scare type shid? Do you hate life?
commie cope
Auxorii, Miami Jai-Alai 3, Nordhessir
Socialism doesn't produce nearly as many innovation as free market capitalism
Narland, Auxorii, The United States Of Patriots, Miami Jai-Alai 3, Nordhessir
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