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He is not a good man. He is an entitled child who has never held a real job in his entire. His ONLY experience in public life has been a disaster.

You would allow a blind man to pilot a commercial jet? You would allow someone with Downs Syndrome to perform open heart surgery? FDR was one of the worst presidents in history. He inherited a recession and his policies turned it into the worst economic downturn. And when his policies made things worse, he LIED the United States into a bloody War to take the voters minds off the misery. https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro/videos/447023207287418/ As far as Fetterman goes, (and that stroke messed up his brain), he was a list of miserable failures long before the stroke. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-john-fetterman-long-list-documented-failures Do you want to compare this record of entitled FAILURE with the amazing career of Oz? Seriously? Fetterman is a child. He belongs in public office like a hospital janitor belongs in an operating room performing a heart transplant.

No intelligent person should be ashamed to vote Trump. He is the greatest, most honest president in American history. He has done more good for this country than ALL Democrat presidents combined.

According to your narrow criteria, Fetterman wouldn't belong here. He can barely communicate in complete sentences, due to his stroke. And only a total effing idiot would vote for this entitled trust fund baby to the office of Senate. If a Republican had suffered a stroke and couldn't communicate without a computer screen, (kinda like Obama being unable to give a speech without a teleprompter) you liberals would be screaming like stuck pigs. Get over yourself.

People don't understand just how valuable Trump was during his legally elected presidency. While the headlines were all featuring the COVID hoax, (and democrat attempts to use that hoax as a campaign tool), President Trump was very quietly settling an oil war between OPEC and the Russians. His superior business experience got both sides to the table and settled them down. It was a great gift to American oil companies. Without this action, they would have gone out of business. It took an unelected senile racist pedophile named Joe to completely undo all that with his war on domestic energy production, basically to assuage the hysteria of the far left and their idiotic climate change fairy tale. https://www.gop.gov/biden-kept-his-promise-to-wage-a-war-on-american-energy/ For the liberals here about to erupt in whining and crying, never forget that Joe CAMPAIGNED on doing this. https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/biden-praises-gas-prices-as-part-of-incredible-transition/

Nope. Demand has outstripped supply because Joe declared war on American domestic energy production. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-war-american-energy-makes-carter-years-look-good-comparison He did it. He stupidly signed what THE SQUAD stuck in front of him (because the Alzheimer's old fart doesn't know where he is half the time.)

Most people do not understand this. There are several elements to influence gas prices. One is the integrity of the American dollar (which is the reserve currency of the world and is what oil is traded on.) You might look into the Canadian dollar market to see if this is a monetary problem. In the oil market are speculators. If they see ANY hiccup in supply, both today and in the future, they bid up the price of oil. It's one of the reasons the United States is still vested in the peace of the Middle East. A ship hits a mine in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz and gets destroyed and oil prices will go up. Oil platforms in the Gulf Of Mexico were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina and speculators were all set to bid up the price of oil. (It took President Bush releasing a few barrels from the Strategic Reserve to calm that hysteria.) Biden created a threat to domestic supply with his assault of domestic oil production https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-hampered-domestic-energy-industry-despite-pleas-foreign-oil https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-administration-handicapped-domestic-energy-production-on-first-day-in-office-memos-reveal/ https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/biden-begs-opec-for-oil-for-political-preservation-after-kneecapping-americas-energy-industry/ https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-war-american-energy-makes-carter-years-look-good-comparison

It was President George W. Bush who showed the right way to use the National Strategic Reserve. (I'm surprised more people don't know this.) Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, those damaged oil platforms in the Gulf had oil speculators on the verge of bidding up the price of a barrel of oil. Bush very quietly and carefully released some oil into that market to quiet those speculators. That oil was replaced later on. Bush was at times an ineffective president (probably because he was the most centrist president in history.) But he came from an oil family and understood oil markets. I'll give him that.

2000 Mules. I rest my case. If you don't like the fact that my FREE SPEECH offends your tender Woke genes, ignore me. Only an idiot suggests that Alzheimer Joe (who campaigned from a basement, lost every debate with President Trump and couldn't draw a crowd of over 100 people even at gunpoint) somehow got more votes than Barak Obama in 2020. A fraud was certified, for whatever reason. And remember, YOUR side of the aisle actually hired a special prosecutor to look into your RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA nonsense, because you butt hurt liberals could not stop crying about the fact that Hillary lost the office she though she was entitled to. Your side whines more than anyone.

1. When I use the term Nazi, it describes both ideology and tactics. The Hitler Nazi model is practically a mirror image of the Biden/Pelosi/Schumer ploy. Our Constitution is the only barrier to having people who disagree with you put into camps, although FDR came pretty close with those internment camps. National Socialism, whether it has a Charlie Chaplin mustache or kneels during the National Anthem at football games is still National Socialism. 2. I agree with free speech and reject anti First Amendment legislation such as the Fairness Doctrine and suddenly I'm against the FCC? That's very extreme. I never suggested getting rid of ANY government bureau (although, and this is fodder for a thread of its own, I would dump the Department of Education and the Department of Energy in a New York minute, since they both are useless wastes of taxpayer dollars.) Your extremism is starting to make me look like a moderate, and I'm not really used to how that feels. I have certain strong views about free market capitalism, liberty and the rule of law and your extremism is making me look like a centrist. That's really strange. 3. Certainly will save a lot of time. I'm not saying that I'll never provide a link, if I think it will help. (usually at the beginning of a thread.) But I'm not going to wag my finger at you and demand a link if you disagree with my argument. 4. Your graph (and anyone can create a graph) suggests the economy is larger today than 1929. Not a hard case to make. The American population is larger than 1929, and Roosevelts war succeeded in lowering that population. What the graph doesn't show is the damage Democrat (and NIxon) policies have done to the country's economy. 5. I don't think you know what Nixon did to the country. Most people don't know. When we were dealing with the gas lines back in the early Seventies, and later on the runaway inflation that eroded the value of the American dollar, the ONLY source which correctly linked Nixon to all that misery was "The Seven Fat Years, And How To Do It Again" by Robert Bartley. (a Wall Street Journal editor). Nixon took the world off the Bretton Woods standard. OPEC nations warned him not to do that. Why? Because ALL oil is traded in American dollars. (The American dollar is the reserve currency of the world, and that's the reason why from the 80s to day Americans weren't paying $5 a gallon for gasoline, unlike European countries.) NIxon's ONE action eroded the value of the America dollar. Then he signed the Budget And Impoundment Act, which created baseline budgeting for federal transfer payments (they are called Entitlements today). Because of that, the two elements of inflation (too many dollars....chasing too few goods) were turned loose on an unsuspecting society. And I can remember when BOTH political parties were campaigning against inflation without ANY idea what it was and what caused it. I remember the Gerald Ford WIN buttons (Whip Inflation Now). Of course, it was President Reagan who rolled back discretionary spending and allowed his Fed Chairman to wring inflation out of our lives. Today, entitlements make up around 75 percent of the federal budget. I don't blame Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, or Barak Obama for that. I blame the original architect Richard Nixon, as does "The Seven Fat Years." And Joe has succeeded in bringing back all the elements of Nixonflation. (His trillion dollar "stimulus" spending, the supply chain crisis, the war on domestic energy.) Joe has just about outdone Nixon when it comes to destroying a national economy.

This is constructive. Numbered points. 2. The economy is not discussed enough? Excuse me? We are in the worst economy of all time ONLY because of the Executive orders of an unelected racist pedophile named Joe. We are experiencing misery not seen since World War II. It's all anyone is talking about. Not discussing the environment? The most liberal president in history (Richard Nixon) signed the EPA act in to law. Since then, air and water have been noticeably cleaner, at least in the United States. 3. I agree as far as network TV not being free speech. ABC, CBS, NBC, are all left wing shills with ZERO consideration for any points of view that counter their woke nonsense. But for now there is a free market in news. There is a marketplace of ideas. Albeit it had been operating with the far left controlling it before the late 80s when Rush Limbaugh burst upon the scene and single handedly ended the monopoly. Thing is, free speech is different from getting your opinions across. You can say whatever you want in the privacy of your own home (for today). But you have to pay to sell your hard left Woke agenda. Today, CNN is paying a lot of money and losing a lot of money trying to move a hard left Woke agenda that most of America doesn't want. 4. You asked earlier why I don't suggest making the Democrat Party illegal. That's like asking why not make herpes, AIDS, venereal disease, mugging, car jacking, war, illegal. Making something legal or illegal is just a matter of passing a law and creating paper that suggest illegality. Murder is illegal and yet blue states have the highest murder rates in the world. Certain controlled substances are illegal, and yet they can be obtained in PRISON. At some point, you are going to have to turn your extremist vision to a more moderate approach to life. I can disagree with a person and not wish him/her dead. Disagreeing with the views and the history of the Democrat party does not automatically translate into wishing for its legal dissolution. I disagree with most of your views but I don't want you dead, kicked out of the country, etc. That's just childish in nature. 5. This question indeed suggests you are lucky enough to be very young. (or at least have a young, immature brain.) The fact that I am here at this forum giving my opinion is proof that I follow what YOU PEOPLE would consider serious (if not intelligent at times) political discussion. By the same token, life is too short to spend your whole days goose stepping without having a laugh. The thing that triggered you left wingers into murderous rage, beginning in the late 80s was people like Rush Limbaugh leading the country in laughing at you. Don't like it? Think back to those left wing SNL videos that trashed Republican figures. Relax. Life is too short to take yourself too seriously, especially when no one else is.

Basically, Trump had the best record of any president in the history of America. He was reelected in a landslide and it took voter fraud to overturn that landslide. (For a cite, watch 2000 Mules.) Some are saying that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would make a good president. Those of us in Florida say NOT SO DAMNED FAST. We need him for his second term before he can win the presidency in a landslide. He WOULD be a better president than any Democrat living today. Kirk is right. The rest of the presidents were part of the problem. Trump was the solution.

Not necessarily the wording I would use. Maybe not "nationalize" the media. The Fairness Doctrine came probably closest enough to that goal. Left wingers hate FoxNews, for sure. Whenever a left winger loses an argument, it's always ("Quit watching Fox news, or Quit watching Faux News") I noticed left wingers do not say quit watching Breitbart, or OneAmerica, or Newsmax. (True conservative biased networks. ) For some reason, the war is on FoxNews, which gives equal time to both sides of the aisle. Frankly, I find the knock down drag out ideological fights liberals and conservatives engage in to be very healthy for a culture. The cure for speech you don't like is MORE free speech. The only problem is when liberals get anywhere near decision making power in government. They do nothing but damage when that happens. Rush Limbaugh used to say that liberals were hilarious and a riot when they are out of power. They are truly dangerous when they are in power.

It is still $2 a gallon higher than when we had a legally elected president. (Trump)

It's possible to get cites to prove the morality of child rape, if you search the Internet long enough. I'm still trying to figure out why cites even matter. On the right, we'll look at a left wing cite as left wing biased. On the left, they'll look at a right wing cite as right wing biased. The person I'm discussing and debating the issue is right in front of me. I'm ready to trust that source as far as his/her opinion is concerned. I have some sources and I'll share them when they are needed to clarify things.

I'll try to respond to the points where I can, where it will be relevant. 2. I see no cracked lens, either today or in the last century. The Fairness Doctrine was an assault on the First Amendment. One of the many great things President Reagan did for America was to veto that Nazi bill when it came up through Congress. We either have a Constitution or we don't. And the Fairness Doctrine was Affirmative Action quotas for the left. It has no place in a free society. 4. If at all possible, I'd just as soon not have to spend discussion time looking for cites. They are (most of the time) no more reliable than our actual opinions. There are plenty of hard left communists sites who will justify even child rape. Basically, looking to cite an opinion to me is less valuable than the opinions of the person I'm communicating with. 5. I actually NO Democrat president ever expanded the economy. I'll temper that remark with the ONE who did:John F. Kennedy, whose supply side TAX CUTS caused the Sixties economy to skyrocket. The policies of all the other Democrats (and a couple of liberal Republicans) did the very opposite to the economy. 6. I'm thinking (and this is really off the beaten path) that Eisenhower's greatest contribution to the economy was his winning World War Two. All those soldiers came home, all wanting jobs, all wanting homes, all wanting to consume. Yes, he expanded government, gave us an interstate highway system. (I was born two years before he was reelected.) It might surprise you to know that the truly most LIBERAL president of all time, the one who truly did the most damage to our economy (and that includes Clinton, Obama and Biden) was a RINO named Richard Nixon. He had a liberal record that even THE SQUAD would envy. And that record probably is worth a thread of its own.

I refer to this as a tax on the poor.

Obama put those illegals in cages. DeSantis sent them to a luxury resort island.

It's okay. So far it appears the members here are free to speak their mind. It appears that debate is considered healthy here. I may have been mistaken about thinking he was very young, mostly because his views do not necessarily show a wealth of life experience. (It'd be nice if someone mistook me for a younger person.) Liberals and conservatives make for interesting discussions. And I try really hard to keep them as cordial as possible.

I'll try going according to the numbers. 1. There is the alt right and there is the mainstream conservative. The two are as far apart as conservative from liberal. Alt right folk approach their views the same way liberals do, by identity politics. To an Alt Righter, America was made great only by European males with white skin. To a liberal everything that is wrong with America is due to European males with white skin. 3. I guessed you were young because your remarks led me to believe you had not experienced the things I've seen over 68 years on the earth. If I was mistaken, my apologies. (Then again, I'll NEVER ask someone to apologize for thinking I'm young.) 4. I saw Cronkite cry on the air. It's called eyewitness testimony. I remember the broadcast. Mom and dad brought it to my attention. And that was back when I was in my teens and may have faced the military draft. Sadly, Algore hadn't invented the Internet so there's no way I can produce a film of me watching that broadcast. Cronkite was a left winger, for sure. 5. During the monopoly period of the media (pre Foxnews), it was pretty much on the left wing, and at times the extreme left wing. Cronkite was a vitriolic left winger. https://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-terrible-truth-about-walter-cronkite/ I mentioned a liberal friend complaining to me about the lack of journalism. He was lamenting the fact that his left wing point of view was no longer the ONLY view in the marketplace of ideas. (These aren't in any real order. I don't want this post to wind up too large.) I didn't pick a single crime to indict the concept of gender less school bathrooms. The father of the rape victim did that. He was right in blaming the bathroom policy for that. But I suppose I should ask you a simple question: How many rapes of children have to happen before it becomes important? What if you had a daughter who was raped in such a fashion? How would you react? (apologies for getting too personal, if it sounds too personal.) At times, I look at the alleged culture war the way AMERICA'S ANCHORMAN Rush Limbaugh did. He laughed at it. He led the country at laughing at it, especially the idiot liberals who were coming so unglued because they no longer had a monopoly in the marketplace of ideas. Liberals do not like losing arguments or being laughed at. They are particularly funny in those regards. As far as you suggesting that a mainstream conservative believes the Democrat Party is criminal and should be banned, I'll wait patiently while you find exact quotes from me suggesting that. As a matter of opinion, it's obvious that I have a dim view of the Democrat Party both in history and ideology. The Democrat party was the party of SLAVERY, of fighting a civil war to maintain those slaves; of Jim Crow laws; of the KKK; of the crippling welfare state that practically destroyed the black nuclear family unit; of sheer racism today; of sheer ignorance and dishonesty today; and of sheer incompetence in elected office. The American economy was NEVER expanded by a Democrat president. The greatest economies in America took place as a result of Republicans like Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush43 and Trump. Those are opinions and you'll have to learn to deal with the fact that they differ from your opinions. Then again, that's what this place is, an opinion forum.

Nope. That entire post is false. People are not moving from Blue states to Florida just because they love the smell of suntan lotion and mosquito repellent. Our schools here are the best in the country. Our economy is the best economy in the country. Our streets are safer here than pretty much ANY blue state. Maybe it's because our Republican leadership believes in education, believes in the Constitution and believes in freedom. Florida has a budget surplus with no state income tax. (Our legislatures understand the concept of not spending what you do not have.) Pretty much every blue state has inflated welfare rolls and huge budget deficits. Florida is a right to work state, which means unions can exist but state law cannot create closed shops. (Probably that explains why our schools are the best in the country.) Florida enforces its borders. And when an unelected senile racist pedophile named Joe tries to send busloads of illegal aliens here, our brilliant governor shipped them to Martha's Vineyard. Of course the racist bigots in Martha's Vineyard looked at those illegals the way Democrats in the fifties used to look at a black family wanting to swim in the country club pool. I always crack up watching the hypocrisy of the left. We in Florida would prefer blue state folk stop moving here. We have enough people. You are moving away from the screwed up state that got screwed up because of your votes. Stay in your wonderful blue state and fix it. We don't need you here in Florida. Liberalism is a form of mental illness. We don't need any more of it in Florida.

I was subbing at a middle school where one of the music teachers (and the guy definitely had a lilting homosexual style) was pretty close to ranting and raving about this bill. He kept throwing out the term "groom." He even said that he likely would not only have to leave the state of Florida, he would probably have to leave the United States because it looked like Governor DeSantis would be a shoo in for the presidency. I saw this during a meeting I accidentally walked in on during a planning period. (Understand, this teacher was very cordial to me, probably because I was a rare sub who knew how to play several instruments and could read a middle school band score. I remember his coming and yelling at my class because they were talking too much. I remember him saying "I've been called several names off hand at this school, some of which could even be labled a slur, and I'm able to handle that. But don't you DARE even think about mouthing off to this sub..." Stuff like that.) The argument against the Parental Rights In Education Act come from idiots who haven't read the bill. Apparently, the left has now decided that public schools were the place where LGBT material would be presented to all the students in lieu of actual academic items, (stuff they would need in the real world). These low information left wingers are in the minority in the State of Florida, (thank God for that), and they are pretty much making up stuff that doesn't appear in the bill. Truthfully, from my experience as a substitute teacher, it is NEVER appropriate to discuss ANY personal sexual items. A kid might ask me if I'm married. I would respond that it is irrelevant and that we need to focus on the work. My personal life is irrelevant to them. I believe all teachers should have the same attitude because (a) there just isn't any time to focus on anything other than the academic subjects and (b) a classroom is NOT a cocktail lounge where a teacher can let his/her hair down and discuss boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife issues. Those students are NOT the teacher's friends. They are students. They are there to learn, not to do anything else.

I know. And I'm still getting the hang of these buttons. I was responding to another poster. My apologies for the misunderstanding.

You don't think a child rape (which occurred in a public school) is relevant to a discussion about that very public school and it's tranny policies that led to the rape of that child? Seriously? You don't think a rape victim is relevant? Seriously?

Cite about left wingers not liking the idea of having to sell the news? I'm now starting to think that you may be in your late teens or early twenties and never experienced the total monopoly on public opinion the big three enjoyed back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and most of the 80s. (It's okay if you're young. It's an advantage in some quarters.) Walter Cronkite was considered the ONLY source, and we were supposed to just suck it up when he actually cried on the air because of a decision in the Vietnam War. Maybe it's because I'm old enough to have watched the evolution of actually selling the news and the left losing their monopoly on public opinion. I remembered the rantings and ravings of the left when Rush Limbaugh actually rescued AM radio and created the most listened to radio talk show on the planet, and helped pave the way for other conservative talk show hosts like Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, Mark Levin, et al. The left HOWLED at this success, this increased First Amendment activity. Actually, 2 and 3 are correct, whether you like it or not. Most of America does not support runaway welfare rolls, defunding police, open borders, raising taxes on the poor and middle class, fighting wars overseas for political purposes, etc. Most of America want safe streets, safe schools for our children. Most of America wants to EARN its way and not have everything given to it. Most of America looks down on the lazy, the loud mouthed, the entitled, the easily triggered. Most of America just wants to thrive.