Castro Insinuates Gun Owners Are Paranoid Believing The Government Can Become Tyrannical

[Cyber Liberty]

All true.  But with Trump as the opponent,  the election becomes a referendum on him, not this socialist nuttiness.

That's true of every President who has ever run for reelection, so I find that argument rather silly.

[txradioguy]

All true.  But with Trump as the opponent,  the election becomes a referendum on him, not this socialist nuttiness.

The Left has been making elections about identity politics and smearing their opponent for a few decades now...they haven't had a real policy platform to run on for about 40 years.

[Jazzhead]

That's true of every President who has ever run for reelection, so I find that argument rather silly.

Fine. Consider it silly.  If you can't see the unique circumstances and dynamics of this election,  then you decide if your blindness is willful or not.     

[GrouchoTex]

Call me skeptical, but this is the guy who had his campaign dox people in the San Antonio area who donated to Trump, but now I am supposed to think he is rational, sane, and wouldn't use firearm ownership against me someday?

Sorry, I won't do it.

Not gonna happen.

 

[txradioguy]

Call me skeptical, but this is the guy who had his campaign dox people in the San Antonio area who donated to Trump, but now I am supposed to think he is rational, sane, and wouldn't use firearm ownership against me someday?

Sorry, I won't do it.

Not gonna happen.

 

Excellent point.

[Cyber Liberty]

Call me skeptical, but this is the guy who had his campaign dox people in the San Antonio area who donated to Trump, but now I am supposed to think he is rational, sane, and wouldn't use firearm ownership against me someday?

Sorry, I won't do it.

Not gonna happen.

 

That was his brother.

[XenaLee]

That was his brother.

True.   But nothing gives me reason to think they are not in lock-step re: that same thinking.  In fact....

I'd bet money on it.

[GrouchoTex]

That was his brother.

Yes, it was, and he was working for him.

[Smokin Joe]

It's not what I want to happen,  but that doesn't mean I live in a dream world like you.    The reality is that the most likely outcome is the President's defeat, and the loss of the Senate.   Don't forget to remember why Trump won in 2016.   It wasn't because he did better than the average GOP nominee but because Clinton did significantly worse.   And a lot of folks voted for third party candidates last time around - 5.7% of votes cast for President, up from 1.7% in 2012.   

Trump won as a reaction against the fear of a President Hillary.   In 2020,  the reaction will be against Trump.   And all the Dems have to do to ensure victory is to pick off an Ohio, a Florida or a Texas.   If you don't think that can happen,  then enjoy your complacency up until the time you lose your 2A rights.

I was following you right up until the last part. I will never lose my Rights, the Government will only overstep its Constitutional boundaries (like it has with so much else) and attempt to infringe them.
Considering the unaccountable numbers of people who already defy the law to be armed (and who theoretically shouldn't be), it would only add millions more to the list, but the government can't take away a Right it did not and could not grant, it can only infringe on it by ignoring that prohibition.

[libertybele]

bele wrote:
"The 2020 vote in TX will be interesting.  Two years before the '16 election shows a Hispanic population in TX at 39% of the population majority with the average age being 28.  The Hispanic population of TX is projected to increase by over 2,000,000 by 2020. I don't live and TX and don't know the counties but here are the projected stats:"

A Fishrrman fearless prediction:
Texas will become a white-minority state by 2060, perhaps even sooner.

As such, it will "topple to the left" as have California and New Mexico before it.

Remember when folks thought this was fantasy?

??? 2060?  Not worried about it, I certainly won't be around.  I'm concerned with the upcoming 2020 election and even more so with the 2024 election.  With the smear tactics of the left, it's going to take an incredibly strong person with an impeccably clean record to run. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Yes, it was, and he was working for him.

Maybe, maybe not, but it doesn't matter because it can be reasonably surmised he did it at his brother's direction.   

[Cyber Liberty]

I was following you right up until the last part. I will never lose my Rights, the Government will only overstep its Constitutional boundaries (like it has with so much else) and attempt to infringe them.
Considering the unaccountable numbers of people who already defy the law to be armed (and who theoretically shouldn't be), it would only add millions more to the list, but the government can't take away a Right it did not and could not grant, it can only infringe on it by ignoring that prohibition.

Yer wasting your pixels.  Rights aren't granted by God, they flow from the gavel of a Judge, dontchaknow.

[GrouchoTex]

Maybe, maybe not, but it doesn't matter because it can be reasonably surmised he did it at his brother's direction.   

Agreed.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Yer wasting your pixels.  Rights aren't granted by God, they flow from the gavel of a Judge, dontchaknow.

When the last gavel falls, It will be God who is the (ultimate) Judge.

[jafo2010]

For the folks that think that Trump falls in 2020, think again.  Polls mean nothing today.  His election in 2016 proved that completely.  HRC was supposed to win by 7-8%.

And who exactly is going to beat him?  I will assure all here that none of the top four on the Democommie side will beat Trump.  Not a one!  It will be no contest.

Every demographic will increase their percentages for Trump, giving him a victory similar to what Reagan had 2nd time.  Not as good, but a huge victory.  And Castro would not benefit the Dem candidate.  He has only a 22% favorability rating in his own state.  That sucks!

It will be an African American as VP for the Dems.  They will need something to motivate the black demographic to vote.  Biden, Warren and Sanders, the Senility Stooges just don't jazz minorities.  I fully expect them to select a LOSER like Stacey Abrams, who lost in the Georgia Governor run in 2018.

It will NEVER be Spartacus Booker, or No Personality Harris.  Ugggh!

[Smokin Joe]

For the folks that think that Trump falls in 2020, think again.  Polls mean nothing today.  His election in 2016 proved that completely.  HRC was supposed to win by 7-8%.

And who exactly is going to beat him?  I will assure all here that none of the top four on the Democommie side will beat Trump.  Not a one!  It will be no contest.

Every demographic will increase their percentages for Trump, giving him a victory similar to what Reagan had 2nd time.  Not as good, but a huge victory.  And Castro would not benefit the Dem candidate.  He has only a 22% favorability rating in his own state.  That sucks!

It will be an African American as VP for the Dems.  They will need something to motivate the black demographic to vote.  Biden, Warren and Sanders, the Senility Stooges just don't jazz minorities.  I fully expect them to select a LOSER like Stacey Abrams, who lost in the Georgia Governor run in 2018.

It will NEVER be Spartacus Booker, or No Personality Harris.  Ugggh!

To cover all the bases, they need a transgendered Spanish-speaking African American Lesbian with a history of substance abuse or some such to make sure they can pull all the splinter groups together.

Unfortunately, no matter what or who runs against Trump, the hate week love machine has been spinning at 11 on your dial against Trump with all the mantras the propagandists can cobble together since he was elected. The one uniting facet of the Left is that no matter what or whom, they are steeped in hatred, disguising it as being pro whatever they choose not to publicly hate (often hypocrisy), a means of trumpeting their virtue to all the people they would not want anywhere near their lawn. As such, they need only to direct the hatred of the leftist masses toward a target, and Alinsky kicks in....

Trump won't make you safe by ignoring the Constitution (and real common sense) and do something!!! about "gun crime" (nevermind the crazies, blame the tool).

Trump hates _____________(fill in the blank), so he's evil incarnate.

Trump wants to be mean to those poor people who just happened to all show up at the border from hundreds of miles away in waves better coordinated than any invasion during WWII.

Whatever excuse they find, they'll all get behind it and parade it, sans reason, as the reason to vote for whoever they put up as a candidate, and you know what? Even with the likes of Hillary, with questionable health, a felonious background, and obvious hypocrisy, they damnear elected her.

What would they do with someone who even seemed a little bit likeable?

Factor in identity politics, generations of socialist indoctrination, and the drumbeat of the MSM, and this might not be so cut and dried.

[Jazzhead]

Lots of ostriches with their heads in the sand here.    The Dems are simply taking advantage of the situation Trump has presented to them.   To paraphrase Max Boot, to a significant slice of the electorate, it will matter more to save the Republic from a mad king than to worry about the specific policies of his successor.

   

[txradioguy]

Lots of ostriches with their heads in the sand here.    The Dems are simply taking advantage of the situation Trump has presented to them.   To paraphrase Max Boot, to a significant slice of the electorate, it will matter more to save the Republic from a mad king than to worry about the specific policies of his successor.

 

Not surprising you cite someone who claims to be conservative yet has stated he’ll vote for any Democrat that runs against Trump.

He’s like you. He claims one thing and totally acts and talks the polar opposite.

[Cyber Liberty]

@Jazzhead, I really feel for your concern about Ostriches.   

[Jazzhead]

Not surprising you cite someone who claims to be conservative yet has stated he’ll vote for any Democrat that runs against Trump.

He’s like you. He claims one thing and totally acts and talks the polar opposite.

He's not "like me".   You always resort to labeling.   That's intellectual laziness.

What I am doing by paraphrasing Max Boot is to describe the mindset of many voters,  sick and tired of the reality show.   These are dangerous times,  because the conditions are being created for the Dems to exploit the public's weariness and install their pernicious radicalism.

Trump needs to be replaced as the nominee.   

[skeeter]

Lots of ostriches with their heads in the sand here.    The Dems are simply taking advantage of the situation Trump has presented to them.   To paraphrase Max Boot, to a significant slice of the electorate, it will matter more to save the Republic from a mad king than to worry about the specific policies of his successor.

 

Why is it your POV always aligns perfectly with the legacy media narrative? Why would you so willingly accept their self serving characterization of political conditions in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, and recommend action in exact accordance with what they so obviously want to happen?

[txradioguy]

He's not "like me".   You always resort to labeling.   That's intellectual laziness.

Says the the guy who labels anyone who doesn't agree with him...extremists...paranoid and worse.

Physician heal thyself.

What I am doing by paraphrasing Max Boot is to describe the mindset of many voters,  sick and tired of the reality show.   These are dangerous times,  because the conditions are being created for the Dems to exploit the public's weariness and install their pernicious radicalism.

Max Boot represents a small little angry group of squishy moderates that would be perfectly happy if the Dems were the majority for the rest of eternity as long as he and other keep getting invited to all the dinner parties in DC.

Trump needs to be replaced as the nominee.

I honestly think Cruz or Mike Lee or Mark Meadows would be a much better candidate to uphold what America Stands for and advance the Conservative principals and ideal that have made this country what it is.

However

Trump wasn't the best choice in 2016.  But he's in office right now for the GOP.  And he's a damn sight better than Joe Walsh or Bill Weld.

[Cyber Liberty]

Says the the guy who labels anyone who doesn't agree with him...extremists...paranoid and worse.

Physician heal thyself.

Max Boot represents a small little angry group of squishy moderates that would be perfectly happy if the Dems were the majority for the rest of eternity as long as he and other keep getting invited to all the dinner parties in DC.

I honestly think Cruz or Mike Lee or Mark Meadows would be a much better candidate to uphold what America Stands for and advance the Conservative principals and ideal that have made this country what it is.

However

Trump wasn't the best choice in 2016.  But he's in office right now for the GOP.  And he's a damn sight better than Joe Walsh or Bill Weld.

"You don't go to war with the Army you want, you go to war with the Army you have."

Today, the Army we have is Trump. 

[XenaLee]

Says the the guy who labels anyone who doesn't agree with him...extremists...paranoid and worse.

Physician heal thyself.

Max Boot represents a small little angry group of squishy moderates that would be perfectly happy if the Dems were the majority for the rest of eternity as long as he and other keep getting invited to all the dinner parties in DC.

I honestly think Cruz or Mike Lee or Mark Meadows would be a much better candidate to uphold what America Stands for and advance the Conservative principals and ideal that have made this country what it is.

However

Trump wasn't the best choice in 2016.  But he's in office right now for the GOP.  And he's a damn sight better than Joe Walsh or Bill Weld.

Sadly, I think we need to face the reality that Cruz is not up to the job of President... especially not in this vitriolic, toxic environment.  He's not that good at campaigning (convincing the public) and he's not aggressive enough to withstand the onslaught, IMO.  I still like him and would vote for him as a rep, though.

[txradioguy]

Sadly, I think we need to face the reality that Cruz is not up to the job of President... especially not in this vitriolic, toxic environment.  He's not that good at campaigning (convincing the public) and he's not aggressive enough to withstand the onslaught, IMO.  I still like him and would vote for him as a rep, though.

I've seen him in Texas beat back the GOP establishment their candidate and a hostile Liberal media in the Austin...Houston...RGV area and win.

He's up tot he task...the problem in 2016 was Fox and other Conservative sites went all in on Trump and some of the BS he was spewing and did their version of an MSM hit job on Cruz.

He'd stand up to everything thrown at him and handle it with the wit and intelligence of Reagan.