Mid-term Election 2022 Live Thread – Welcome to the Party Pal!

[Bigun]

God bless you and your family @Bigun , you are a good man.

Good for what? My country has died before my eyes and there is not a thing I can do about it!

[Idiot]

https://youtu.be/3h5_EOwH8-Y

That was really good @corbe

[Idiot]

Good for what? My country has died before my eyes and there is not a thing I can do about it!

You are to be admired for going out to remember friends and family on Veterans Day.  I should have taken the day off to do the same.

[roamer_1]

Good for what? My country has died before my eyes and there is not a thing I can do about it!

Not yet it ain't. We are a long way off from writing an epitaph.

[Hoodat]

In the Alaska House race, if all the Begich (R) voters chose Palin as their second choice, she wins.

In the Alaska Senate race, if all the Chesbro (D) voters chose Murkowski as their second choice, she wins.

[catfish1957]

Not yet it ain't. We are a long way off from writing an epitaph.

I see it as on life support.  Too many entitlement junkies sucking on the left hind teat of the Fedzilla Hog.  That faction is rapidly approaching 50% of the electorate.  Something drastic or revolutionary must happen, or we are doomed.

[Bigun]

Not yet it ain't. We are a long way off from writing an epitaph.

I'm sorry @roamer_1 but I respectfully disagree. There will always be something called The United States of America, but it will bear no relation to the country its founders intended.

[Hoodat]

I see it as on life support.  Too many entitlement junkies sucking on the left hind teat of the Fedzilla Hog.  That faction is rapidly approaching 50% of the electorate.  Something drastic or revolutionary must happen, or we are doomed.

That faction passed beyond 50% several years ago.  We are already doomed.  Every single dollar paid in federal income taxes goes towards a direct cash payment to another individual.  And that still doesn't cover it.

[DB]

Not yet it ain't. We are a long way off from writing an epitaph.

Are we? We are way past critical mass in the populous. Once the chain reaction starts of big government dependency there's no going back. It is a positive feedback system that grows on itself until there's no fuel left to consume. Essentially all the opportunities to restrain it before critical mass was reached were squandered chasing shiny things.

[roamer_1]

I see it as on life support.  Too many entitlement junkies sucking on the left hind teat of the Fedzilla Hog.  That faction is rapidly approaching 50% of the electorate.  Something drastic or revolutionary must happen, or we are doomed.

I'm sorry @roamer_1 but I respectfully disagree. There will always be something called The United States of America, but it will bear no relation to the country its founders intended.

@catfish1957 @Bigun

Half the states are red. Nullification can do wonders. Remember, we are not just stuck with Democrats - They are stuck with us. The problem, as I have said all along is NOT the Democrats - It is that they have no opposition.

The problem is Republicans in disarray behind a colluding and traitorous leadership. When real and principled opposition is begun, the result may surprise you.

But that requires Republicans to actually vote FOR their beliefs and nothing else - Something they have been trained to avoid with Pavlovian surety.

[catfish1957]

That faction passed beyond 50% several years ago.  We are already doomed.  Every single dollar paid in federal income taxes goes towards a direct cash payment to another individual.  And that still doesn't cover it.

True, if you include SS#.  I am going with all the rest of the entitlements and aid.

[roamer_1]

Are we? We are way past critical mass in the populous.

We are a Republic. That's why.

[roamer_1]

And besides, y'all... The bill is about to come due. While the fiscal ramifications are predictable, the social ramifications are not. A qualified disaster on a national scale just might change the equation entirely.

Don't be saying it's over till the fat lady sings.

[catfish1957]

And besides, y'all... The bill is about to come due. While the fiscal ramifications are predictable, the social ramifications are not. A qualified disaster on a national scale just might change the equation entirely.

Don't be saying it's over till the fat lady sings.

Total societal break down is inevitable after the house of financial cards crumbles.

Trigger?  Soon or not long after we lose reference currency status.

[DB]

We are a Republic. That's why.

Not when a majority think we are a democracy and vote for people that will enforce that view. The courts won't stop them.

[Bigun]

https://youtu.be/3h5_EOwH8-Y

Welcome to the choir, Mam! I've been singing off that sheet of music for a LONG time!

[roamer_1]

Total societal break down is inevitable after the house of financial cards crumbles.

YES. And that society is liberal. What will get pounded hard is liberals.
Conservatives tend to be rural, used to hardship, self contained, and structured to help each other. Which societal norm will survive the collapse and which will perish?

Hard to say... But I know where my bets are placed.

Anyway, that's what I mean about the results when the bill comes due. What will matter then is how strong the root. And I continue to have faith in that.

[roamer_1]

Not when a majority think we are a democracy and vote for people that will enforce that view. The courts won't stop them.

But the States can - and hopefully will. The sovereignty is in the states.

[Bigun]

Not when a majority think we are a democracy and vote for people that will enforce that view. The courts won't stop them.

B I N G O ! ! !

SCOTUS has ONE job and thus far have flatly refused to do it when the chips were down! I see no reason to believe that will change.

[catfish1957]

YES. And that society is liberal. What will get pounded hard is liberals.
Conservatives tend to be rural, used to hardship, self contained, and structured to help each other. Which societal norm will survive the collapse and which will perish?

Hard to say... But I know where my bets are placed.

Anyway, that's what I mean about the results when the bill comes due. What will matter then is how strong the root. And I continue to have faith in that.

The laws of natural selection will apply.  Very sad to think about, but the cold hard facts.

[roamer_1]

The laws of natural selection will apply.  Very sad to think about, but the cold hard facts.

That's right - And make no mistake, I do not wish for it.
But I am saying that this ain't the end yet.
It may have to come down to the blood of tyrants and patriots - But even that time is not yet.

[Bigun]

The laws of natural selection will apply.  Very sad to think about, but the cold hard facts.

Many things will occur before we get to that point, and I won't survive those things.

[catfish1957]

Many things will occur before we get to that point, and I won't survive those things.

Got to kind of disagree.  Once the economic collapse commences, things will domino quickly into Dystopia.  The entitlement junkies will lose their source of substitence, and their will be tribal open warfare, death, and destruction, much in the Mad Max mode.

[Hoodat]

there will be tribal open warfare, death, and destruction, much in the Mad Max mode.

That would actually be kind of cool.  Can we move to Australia?  And no more of that green energy crap.

[roamer_1]

Got to kind of disagree.  Once the economic collapse commences, things will domino quickly into Dystopia.  The entitlement junkies will lose their source of substitence, and their will be tribal open warfare, death, and destruction, much in the Mad Max mode.

Yeah. Except without the gasoline and diesel.