Republican 2024 primary picks

[Todd.K]

It’s important to understand your enemy. The never Trump isn’t about Trump. It’s about you. Remember the establishment hatred of the tea party. Regular, dirty, working class people disgust the establishment.

I don’t know any fan of Trump who isn’t honest about his faults. Some still support, more are leaning towards DeSantis.

I don’t know anyone who hates Trump that is honest about what he did accomplish, how much of the establishment worked to hind him back, and how much we needed him to see just how bad the swamp is.

[ABNAK]

I'm not sure if its been mentioned yet, but most Americans are simple minded idiots. They want to be emotionally moved by a candidate. Some might say it's what makes somebody electable. There are people that would be a fantastic president, but because they aren't exciting or good looking, or whatever, "conservatives" and "republicans" won't get off their rear ends and vote. Like it or not, we are in high school voting for a prom king/queen. Spot on.

And unfortunately there is WAAAYYY too much truth in what you posted. I agree wholeheartedly.

[ABNAK]

I don't disagree with you. But just because they took it farther than they've ever done simply means the goal posts have been adjusted to permit it. I don't believe Biden should be in the White House, but he's there and a big part of the reason why is so many people are "ok" with that and some of that is because Trump should have been focused on the game and not posting on Twitter.

Politics are corrupt, theft is a job skill. Shouldn't be like that, but it is.

Yep. I don't think we're that far apart.

[Diamondback]

And unfortunately there is WAAAYYY too much truth in what you posted. I agree wholeheartedly.

Indeed. If this were a nation of serious, thinking people we'd have had eight years of President Fred Thompson instead of Nero the Zero.

[ABNAK]

Indeed. If this were a nation of serious, thinking people we'd have had eight years of President Fred Thompson instead of Nero the Zero.

From your lips to God's ears!

[Diamondback]

From your lips to God's ears!

I suspect this is why things keep getting ever worse, God sheltering us from ever less of the consequences of our collective mistakes trying to shock His rebellious children to see the light. I'm SURE somewhere beyond the Pearly Gates He is facepalming every five minutes in exasperation about "what's it gonna take for you idiots to learn the lesson down there?!"

This seems relevant from our "weekly devotionals" thread on an old-time AF vets-and-families board...
Psalm 43:1 Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation.

[SteyrAUG]

Indeed. If this were a nation of serious, thinking people we'd have had eight years of President Fred Thompson instead of Nero the Zero.

No kidding.

[SteyrAUG]

I think people need to settle in for the fact that the Roe v Wade reversal will be one of the defining issues of the 2024 election.

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans...dterms-1719179

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-...1ef86bdfaf0860

For me it's frustrating because it ranks almost at the bottom of my list with gay marriage as something I feel strongly about and I think it could easily hand the Dems a win.

[Diamondback]

I think people need to settle in for the fact that the Roe v Wade reversal will be one of the defining issues of the 2024 election.

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans...dterms-1719179

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-...1ef86bdfaf0860

For me it's frustrating because it ranks almost at the bottom of my list with gay marriage as something I feel strongly about and I think it could easily hand the Dems a win.

Cynically, this is why I suspect some Leftist (and I include their cockswallowers like Roberts in that group too) leaked the opinion, trying to force SCOTUS to go hard Right so they could gin up the Outrage Machine and cancel the Red Tide with a combo of driven core Blue constituency GOTV and simultaneously freak out the so-stupid-I-wonder-how-they-BREATHE-without-help normies, while at the same time killing one of the Republicans' most vocal and energetic issue-constituencies.


And lemme be quite blunt here to ALL sides (and let me be even more explicit about this side-note, Steyr, that I'm not calling you out personally just a general rant to the "oh I don't like cleaning up my mess DADDY GOV SAVE ME!" crowd who don't understand the concept of "limitations of powers")--abortion, whether forcing legalization or forcing prohibition nationwide, is NOT an area where the States delegated their powers to the Federal Government and therefore is a butt-the-f***-out State matter. If you want to change that, pass a damn Constitutional amendment just like the Karens and the Fun Gestapo did for Prohibition. Yes, it's a hard process. Tough f***ing shit, bitches--letting any part of the FeralGov exceed its authorized powers is how delusions-of-godhood Usurper Earl Warren got us into this mess on this issue, and how Wilson, FDR and LBJ (piss be eternally upon them) dug this Deep State abyss we're suck trying to figure out how to climb out of, and now that the chains of the Constitution have been weakened... well, think on this.

"And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!" If Sir Thomas More is too Dead Old Guy for you, perhaps a nice conversation about "rules" with Winston at the New York Continental Hotel would be more your speed.

[hotbiggun42]

Indeed. If this were a nation of serious, thinking people we'd have had eight years of President Fred Thompson instead of Nero the Zero.

Lol, no. I remember Fred Thompson investigating china giving campaign contributions to the demacrats. Fred found evidence of of democrats taking money but he decided it was not illegal. I lost all faith in the man after that fiasco.