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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #500 on: August 22, 2016, 12:59:45 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 22, 2016, 12:49:04 am
I drew unemployment many many years ago during a downturn, but learned then that those are part of the industry. This last time the flags went up when oil dropped below 100, when it broke support at 80, I really started putting money away (self-employed don't get unemployment). By the time my rig was laid down, Everything was paid off and I had enough to get by for a year. Of course, a lot of pending purchases and upgrades were put on hold, but everything is livable and functional, and paid off.
Funny how you go from paying 100K in taxes one year to making less than 20K the next.
I had a friend who applied for food stamps in '82 (which looked like the oil patch in '86 elsewhere), and the woman (who literally hung over the sides of her chair seat) told him he could have eight dollars the first month and maybe ten dollars the second. He shredded the application booklet over her desk and told her to gather it up and use it for a suppository.
I never bothered to apply. A country boy can survive...

It was never about helping people when they need help! It was, and is, about keeping certain voting blocks voting for Democrats no matter what!
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #501 on: August 22, 2016, 01:05:40 am »
Quote from: Bigun on August 22, 2016, 12:59:45 am
It was never about helping people when they need help! It was, and is, about keeping certain voting blocks voting for Democrats no matter what!
Exactly right. Recall LBJ's comments about how that would have a specific bloc voting Democrat for the next 50 years.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #502 on: August 22, 2016, 01:13:10 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 22, 2016, 01:05:40 am
Exactly right. Recall LBJ's comments about how that would have a specific bloc voting Democrat for the next 50 years.

 :thumbsup:  :beer:

But most have no idea about that unfortunately.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #503 on: August 22, 2016, 02:27:35 am »
His 50 years are up. And so is theirs.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #504 on: August 22, 2016, 02:30:05 am »
Quote from: bigheadfred on August 22, 2016, 02:27:35 am
His 50 years are up. And so is theirs.
It's beginning to look that way. Silly liberals, they always overreach. They went a Fergusson too far.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #505 on: August 22, 2016, 02:37:58 am »
I'm pretty cynical. Hillary is the great powers' darling. Gonna be interesting times when she can't make it. What is plan b? What yuge crisis will they create?

Maybe they'll look around and say, "What this place needs is a big fat hairy war".
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #506 on: August 22, 2016, 05:29:34 am »
Quote from: bigheadfred on August 21, 2016, 02:03:28 pm
I see hillary met with her true masters--the Rothchilds. Her victory assured. The die is cast. The dye is cast. So I abstain. I cannot give tacit approval to a system I believe to be defunct.

"Hillary has taken her role as a fricatrice so seriously she makes the Whore of Babylon look like a virgin."

Interesting that you see the Rothchilds as the power behind the throne.  Classic anti-semtic trope, the Z.O.G. (Zionist Occupied Government).
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #507 on: August 22, 2016, 09:21:23 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 22, 2016, 01:05:40 am
Exactly right. Recall LBJ's comments about how that would have a specific bloc voting Democrat for the next 50 years.
@Bigun @Smokin Joe exactly what I thought when I read bigun's comment. I drew unemployment back in my 20's. Since then IO have been unemployed twice. I took any job I could just to carry myself through.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #508 on: October 01, 2019, 02:24:48 pm »
For various reasons, I have been inactive here for quite a time. The current political scene has, perhaps, brought me back. And I thought back to this thread which we had in 2016. It was the best discussion I ever participated in.

My "misgivings" about HRC are confirmed 100% in light of what is being revealed about Democrat criminality in their 2016 power grab in a failed attempt to win a third and fourth Obama term. It, of course, failed. But, it looked like they had gotten away with it.

Last night, Rudy made me cheer out loud on Hannity. When asked if he would testify if subpoenaed, his words were sharp enough, but the look of his face was pure B'rer Rabbit..... "PLEASE, Don't throw me in that briar  ptch."

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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #509 on: October 01, 2019, 02:46:17 pm »
Glad you’re back, @don-o

These certainly are troubling times. We’ll need every republican, conservative, Independent and disaffected democrat of conscience on board. We can’t let the Comeys, Pelosis, Schiffs and Tlaibs get away with this.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #510 on: October 01, 2019, 02:53:35 pm »
Quote from: don-o on October 01, 2019, 02:24:48 pm
For various reasons, I have been inactive here for quite a time. The current political scene has, perhaps, brought me back. And I thought back to this thread which we had in 2016. It was the best discussion I ever participated in.

My "misgivings" about HRC are confirmed 100% in light of what is being revealed about Democrat criminality in their 2016 power grab in a failed attempt to win a third and fourth Obama term. It, of course, failed. But, it looked like they had gotten away with it.

Last night, Rudy made me cheer out loud on Hannity. When asked if he would testify if subpoenaed, his words were sharp enough, but the look of his face was pure B'rer Rabbit..... "PLEASE, Don't throw me in that briar  ptch."

The rats realize that and so of course are subpoena-ing documents only. Giuliani needs to refuse and loudly demand to appear before the committee in person. I'd pay-per-view that one.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #511 on: October 01, 2019, 03:00:36 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on October 01, 2019, 02:53:35 pm
The rats realize that and so of course are subpoena-ing documents only. Giuliani needs to refuse and loudly demand to appear before the committee in person. I'd pay-per-view that one.
Say he refuses to supply documents and they issue contempt of Congress? Does that allow him to  demand a hearing? I would pay as well!!
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #512 on: October 01, 2019, 07:24:38 pm »
Good to see you @don-o.  Very troubling times indeed.
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Re: Odyssey of a NeverTrumper
« Reply #513 on: October 01, 2019, 07:29:31 pm »
   Welcome back @don-o
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