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I'll go with Pogo on this one. You are determined to blame the president because that suits you.

Oh hell no - I am not merely blaming the president. But neither will I hold him innocent. His people were in session in committee with house and senate. And he signed the damn bills.

And the greater Republican Party just as much. They ALL are supposed to be defending conservatism, and they flatly are not...

GUILTY. All of em, and every one just as much.

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But the collective WE, the American voters, are the ones at fault. And we're getting everything we deserve.

Certainly true - Y'all keep voting them in there. And you get more of what you vote *FOR*.


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Certainly true - Y'all keep voting them in there. And you get more of what you vote *FOR*.
Oh I think you voted for your share of em in your time.

And you'll get it too, right along with me.

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Oh I think you voted for your share of em in your time.

Not in a very long damn time.

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And you'll get it too, right along with me.

But I wont have made it happen. And no, I won't get it half as much as you. Another couple years and I won't 'get it' at all.

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And lets be honest. Trump had a lot to do with this. He spent more printed money in four years than any president prior by a significant amount. Obama set the record prior and Trump crushed it.

You can't print massive amounts of money without devaluing it in the future. We are destroying ourselves.
Exactly how did Trump spend money when only Congress can approve spending bills?

Let's be honest.
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Trump gave congress whatever they wanted from day one. And they spent, spent, spent...

And a good chunk of that Covid spending was due to government destroying peoples businesses by force. Trump could have demanded that states back off destroying peoples lives. Instead he went along.
stupid and inaccurate.

Congress gives Potus money, not vice versa.
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Exactly how did Trump spend money when only Congress can approve spending bills?

Let's be honest.

LOL...

Really...

I guess the President is just a figurehead then... Why does it matter who's elected then...

Vetoed zip spending...

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Reality is a Bitch.
Sometimes we have to settle
for the less worse of the worse

If you cannot accept this...then that is where we are now.
You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists.

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Reality is a Bitch.
Sometimes we have to settle
for the less worse of the worse

If you cannot accept this...then that is where we are now.

YES. 'Lesser Evil' thinking gets us where we are now.

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Sign up to go stand in line at the goobermint food banks,of course. Just answer a short list of questions and promise to vote Dim,and you will get the food for free.
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Did you know that the price of corn has risen 142 percent in the last 12 months? 

Easy to change that one:

Stop making ethanol out of our food.

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SACRILEGE!

Yue must be wunna dem anti-environmental Nazi's weeze bin warind about.

Weeze a-watchin yew,boy!
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More people will be forced to go on to food stamps as they continue to march us towards socialism!

 

@libertybele

Which is the official Dim Party goal.

Make everybody dependent on the goobermint for food,clothing,and shelter,and you OWN them outright.
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He most certainly does.  All government checks originate with the Executive Branch.


The President is not Constitutionally obligated to spend a dime.  The Legislature can appropriate all the money it wants, but only the Executive Branch has the power to spend that appropriation.


It isn't political suicide.  It just requires courage and conviction.  And it would be a winning strategy in the end.

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What color is the sky on your home planet?
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I most definitely disagree. One hundred percent.

Take a good look at the American electorate and its priorities.

Were a president to refuse to sign the budget chaos would ensue, follow by a candidate who would promise to restore spending. And IMO they would win in a landslide.

The American people are the only ones who can restore fiscal sanity and they will not appreciate the danger they are in until all hell breaks loose.

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Can you even begin to image that editorials if Trump had done ANY of that? Not to mention the teebee talk shows. The news ,and the broadcast channels would become saturated with anti-Trump/anti-Republican rhetoric/ 24/7,with them blaming him for causing it all. The only opposing voices heard or seen in the media would be an argument about if he should be hanged or shot.

Some people seem to live in a fantasy world,where fairness counts more than propaganda.
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@skeeter

Can you even begin to image that editorials if Trump had done ANY of that? Not to mention the teebee talk shows. The news ,and the broadcast channels would become saturated with anti-Trump/anti-Republican rhetoric/ 24/7,with them blaming him for causing it all. The only opposing voices heard or seen in the media would be an argument about if he should be hanged or shot.

Some people seem to live in a fantasy world,where fairness counts more than propaganda.

So the alternative is to quail and do nothing - Go along gets along - To the tune of twenty friggin trillion dollars. No fault no foul...

Yeah right.  *****rollingeyes***** **nononono*

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Point made and I absolutely agree.

DB wrote "    No. He has the bully pulpit to sway people like no other. In addition what states do has to be constitutional and the federal government can enforce that. I don't believe what the states did was constitutional."



@libertybele @DB

Then you are both fools. NOBODY has a bigger voice in the America of today than the teebee news broadcasters and the newspaper/news magazine editors.

Care to name a few who are conservative and would publicly support your stand?
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So the alternative is to quail and do nothing - Go along gets along - To the tune of twenty friggin trillion dollars. No fault no foul...

Yeah right.  *****rollingeyes***** **nononono*

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No,the alternative is to put on your big-boy pants and act like an adult instead of a child having hissy-fits like a 3 year old denied a candy bar.

ADULTS deal with reality and live in the real world.
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No,the alternative is to put on your big-boy pants and act like an adult instead of a child having hissy-fits like a 3 year old denied a candy bar.

ADULTS deal with reality and live in the real world.

Yeah @sneakypete ... In the REAL world, if no one is defending fiscal conservatism, then no one is defending fiscal conservatism. Simple as that.

And I will not vote for big government, i don't give a single damn who's name is on it.

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Yeah @sneakypete ... In the REAL world, if no one is defending fiscal conservatism, then no one is defending fiscal conservatism. Simple as that.

 

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I get it,never let reality interfere with a comfortable theory,right?
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I get it,never let reality interfere with a comfortable theory,right?

Quite the other way around. 

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LOL...

Really...

I guess the President is just a figurehead then... Why does it matter who's elected then...

Vetoed zip spending...
You do not understand federal spending then.

There would NEVER be any spending if Congress did not originate it. 
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...and an automatic plucker is around 500 bucks - and you need that plucker. The first time you sit down to pluck 50 chickens, you'll know....

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@skeeter

Can you even begin to image that editorials if Trump had done ANY of that? Not to mention the teebee talk shows. The news ,and the broadcast channels would become saturated with anti-Trump/anti-Republican rhetoric/ 24/7,with them blaming him for causing it all. The only opposing voices heard or seen in the media would be an argument about if he should be hanged or shot.

Some people seem to live in a fantasy world,where fairness counts more than propaganda.
People forget the longest budget shutdown on record occurred under Trump. I remember how well that one was met.