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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #475 on: March 24, 2024, 06:39:04 pm »
I don't picture that at all @DCPatriot I picture Patrick respectfully but forcefully disagreeing with @roamer_1 just as he did the folks he was dealing with in 1775.

Patrick Henry's enemy was without the gate. Across the way.

Mine is trying to move the Republicans even further LEFT.
I will never support that.

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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #476 on: March 24, 2024, 06:54:12 pm »
I picture Patrick Henry grabbing @roamer_1 by the neck and slapping the sh*t out of him.   :laugh:

Patrick Henry and @roamer_1 are on the same side.  Both choose freedom over slavery.

I don't see Patrick Henry cowering from opposing big government with massive deficits and overt socialism because he's afraid it might cost him votes.

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Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

Contrast that with the Trump zealots who can't even bring themselves to support a Conservative House Speaker or Senate Majority Leader because their king doesn't want it.  Zealots who ridicule the concept of a balanced budget because people might get offended.  Zealots who champion the slavery of massive debt with its obligatory interest extortion from future generations.

Patrick Henry slap Roamer?  On the contrary, Henry would extend his hand and congratulate him on his refusal to compromise with evil.
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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #477 on: March 24, 2024, 07:01:43 pm »
Yes, very relevant, the only difference is that they escaped to a new land.  We have no land to escape to.

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They didn't escape to a "new land"...they protected the new land from a world power that wanted it returned under their domain.

BTW...am awestruck by his talent for oratory back in his day.

All we were taught by the Sisters of Mercy and the Jesuits was the last few words of it. "Give me Liberty or Give me Death".

Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg was a piker comparatively.  :laugh:
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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #478 on: March 24, 2024, 07:03:59 pm »
@libertybele    :beer:

They didn't escape to a "new land"...they protected the new land from a world power that wanted it returned under their domain.

BTW...am awestruck by his talent for oratory back in his day.

All we were taught by the Sisters of Mercy and the Jesuits was the last few words of it. "Give me Liberty or Give me Death".

Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg was a piker comparatively.  :laugh:

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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #479 on: March 24, 2024, 07:07:09 pm »

Patrick Henry slap Roamer?  On the contrary, Henry would extend his hand and congratulate him on his refusal to compromise with evil.


Uh...listen up.

Saying you refuse to partake in voting for the candidate put forth in opposition to tyranny...is the epitome of "Tyranny".

You're all whiny little piss-pots.  ...on wheels. 
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« Reply #480 on: March 24, 2024, 07:08:10 pm »
Abraham Lincoln was a railroad mogul toadie.

LOL!   :beer:
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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #481 on: March 24, 2024, 07:10:28 pm »
Uh...listen up.

Saying you refuse to partake in voting for the candidate put forth in opposition to tyranny...is the epitome of "Tyranny".

You're all whiny little piss-pots.  ...on wheels.

Except you are not opposing tyranny.
You're supporting a different tyrant.

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« Reply #482 on: March 24, 2024, 07:22:08 pm »
Except you are not opposing tyranny.
You're supporting a different tyrant.

No...you're a spoiled brat running home to mommy throwing a tantrum because you aren't getting your way
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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #483 on: March 24, 2024, 07:36:26 pm »
You're all whiny little piss-pots.  ...on wheels.

All because we dare oppose liberal policies.  All because we recognize the one issue that is destroying America - the one issue that is the root to every other issue - and because we stand firmly against that issue.  Guilty as charged.

Meanwhile, look at our federal debt, and then consider how much it will take to make the interest payment on it each year at 2½%.

(For the mathematically challenged, $38 trillion at 2½% = $950 million per year.  And that's only if we stop adding to it.)

THAT is slavery.  And I can guarantee you that Patrick Henry would take up arms against any tyrant supporting a continuation of that.
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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #484 on: March 24, 2024, 07:39:29 pm »
No...you're a spoiled brat running home to mommy throwing a tantrum because you aren't getting your way

Tantrum?  You have done nothing but pollute this thread with your tantrums since your return.  You are the one unable to accept the fact that there are posters here who won't vote for Democrat-lite.  The rest of us here really don't give a damn that you're voting for Trump.
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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #485 on: March 24, 2024, 07:51:43 pm »
From @Bigun ’s post:

… different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.

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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #486 on: March 24, 2024, 08:01:37 pm »
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

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All of these sound like things @roamer_1 would say.  Patrick Henry and Roamer are one.  If anyone was to get slapped by Patrick Henry, it would be those who say we must concede liberty out of political expedience.
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« Reply #487 on: March 24, 2024, 08:28:13 pm »
Most excellent post, @Bigun

Very pertinent to our discussion.

I picture Patrick Henry grabbing @roamer_1 by the neck and slapping the sh*t out of him.   :laugh:

Sometimes you say the silliest shit. Orange man is not popular with Conservatives...  Get over it.
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« Reply #488 on: March 24, 2024, 08:30:09 pm »
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

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The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

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All of these sound like things @roamer_1 would say.  Patrick Henry and Roamer are one.  If anyone was to get slapped by Patrick Henry, it would be those who say we must concede liberty out of political expedience.

Nailed it.  Roamer's every bit if not more of a patriot than 99+% of the fans of Orange Crush.
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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #489 on: March 24, 2024, 08:54:45 pm »
No...you're a spoiled brat running home to mommy throwing a tantrum because you aren't getting your way

No. It is quite a matter of principle. I experienced Tumpy's tyranny under lockdown. I will not reward that behavior with my endorsement. Among other things, of course... But you can't begin to tell me you are standing against tyranny when my very eyes have seen the work of your tyrant.

HELL NO.

See, this is the bumper sticker bullshit I'm talking about. You have the balls to try to say y'all are standing with Patrick Henry - 'Murica - and cuss me, after every single damn one of us experienced the evil wrought during covid lockdowns. And your boy pulled that trigger.

You don't have a leg to stand on.

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« Reply #490 on: March 24, 2024, 09:05:17 pm »
All of these sound like things @roamer_1 would say.  Patrick Henry and Roamer are one.  If anyone was to get slapped by Patrick Henry, it would be those who say we must concede liberty out of political expedience.

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« Reply #491 on: March 24, 2024, 10:35:49 pm »
Nailed it.  Roamer's every bit if not more of a patriot than 99+% of the fans of Orange Crush.

Here's an excellent lesson in how to win people over. It's from the chapter titled "What Not to Do."  :whistle: Apparently y'all just can't help yourselves.  :shrug:


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« Reply #492 on: March 24, 2024, 11:07:31 pm »
From @Bigun ’s post:

… different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.

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From American history books:

Only one-third of Colonists ACTIVELY supported the American Revolution.  One third didn't want to lose British 'protection'...one third simply STFU and went about their lives as nothing was happening.

In which group would YOU be?
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« Reply #493 on: March 24, 2024, 11:15:41 pm »
No. It is quite a matter of principle. I experienced Tumpy's tyranny under lockdown. I will not reward that behavior with my endorsement. Among other things, of course... But you can't begin to tell me you are standing against tyranny when my very eyes have seen the work of your tyrant.

HELL NO.

See, this is the bumper sticker bullshit I'm talking about. You have the balls to try to say y'all are standing with Patrick Henry - 'Murica - and cuss me, after every single damn one of us experienced the evil wrought during covid lockdowns. And your boy pulled that trigger.

You don't have a leg to stand on.

You and your bullsh*t "principle card".  You sit on your high horse...nose in the air.

Take your principle and shove it.

It's Donald J. Trump this cycle or it's a knock on your outhouse door at 6AM by DHS.  Anything else is cowardly and treasonous.

Furthermore my friend... if Donald Trump went the way of Sweden during Covid, you'd be claiming him to be a mass murderer, ala 4 Democrat governors.
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« Reply #494 on: March 24, 2024, 11:26:55 pm »
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Although we could not explore every possible impact of the various lockdown measures, our conclusions were straightforward: countries that imposed more lockdown measures did not experience lower excess death rates. In fact, Sweden had one of the lowest excess death rates towards the end of the pandemic, with fewer people dying compared with a normal pre-pandemic year.





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« Reply #495 on: March 24, 2024, 11:32:12 pm »

All of these sound like things @roamer_1 would say.  Patrick Henry and Roamer are one.  If anyone was to get slapped by Patrick Henry, it would be those who say we must concede liberty out of political expedience.


Awww geez....you both should get a room!   :laugh:
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« Reply #496 on: March 24, 2024, 11:33:42 pm »
You and your bullsh*t "principle card".  You sit on your high horse...nose in the air.

Take your principle and shove it.


... And there it is. See? You don't give a shit about Conservatism. Never have never will. That's why it s so easy for you (y'all) to slip that phony 'conservative mantle' on your boy... you know, the one y'all bought downtown off that little Vietnamese dude selling purses on the street corner, and figger that's all you need. Spout some 'Murica' platitudes, call on the ghost of Patrick Henry, and figger everybody's just gonna fall right in line and come on along.

Well, bullshit.

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It's Donald J. Trump this cycle or it's a knock on your outhouse door at 6AM by DHS.  Anything else is cowardly and treasonous.


Bullshit. I fear Tumpy's jack-booted thugs just as much as I fear any . It was HE that shut down the country. HE shut my bank off. I had *NO MONEY* for three damn months, and you expect me to vote for MORE OF THAT? You must be smokin crack.

It really is funny. You come storming on here - Both of you... All three of you, and offer absolutely nothing in argument. Not  single one. You KNOW what we're saying is true. You have no defense against it.

So instead of offering reason you come bringing epithets and accusations. *NOTHING MORE*
You have already lost the argument, because you offer nothing. You cannot defend your position on Conservative grounds so you may as well just walk off. You've already shown, over and over, you've got nothin.

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Furthermore my friend... if Donald Trump went the way of Sweden during Covid, you'd be claiming him to be a mass murderer, ala 4 Democrat governors.

Bullcrap. I have even DEFENDED him on occasion - I DEFENDED his initial position on covid, till he folded like a 2 dollar lawn chair... And YES, BTW, I would have him answer for the millions of deaths caused by outlawing antivirals. That was an evil as grim as any ever conceived. And he went along with it.

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Re: Pulse of Briefers- Election Sentiment 8 Months Out
« Reply #497 on: March 24, 2024, 11:49:38 pm »
From American history books:

Only one-third of Colonists ACTIVELY supported the American Revolution.  One third didn't want to lose British 'protection'...one third simply STFU and went about their lives as nothing was happening.

In which group would YOU be?

Well, let's see.  There are a group of us who want a government shutdown each time there is a budget crisis.  Those would be the same ones who wanted the British Government shut down regarding the free commerce of the colonies.  People such as myself are in that group.

Then there's the group that is afraid to go against the status quo.  They cower from cutting off the funding of government and all the socialism that it supports.  They cry that they might not win the next election if they dare make a stand and oppose the British rule.  People such as you, @DCPatriot .

So the next time you wish to offer up one of these asinine analogies, you might want to think it through first.  Because when you make comments about @roamer_1 getting slapped by Patrick Henry even though they share the exact same position, you only reveal to the world what a completely blind and ignorant fool you really are.
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« Reply #498 on: March 25, 2024, 12:52:19 am »
Tantrum?  You have done nothing but pollute this thread with your tantrums since your return.   You are the one unable to accept the fact that there are posters here who won't vote for Democrat-lite.   The rest of us here really don't give a damn that you're voting for Trump.

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So do your little "superiority dances" in you home in front of your mothers,because they will be the only ones that will appreciate it if the left continues to hold the WH come the next election.

You might want to try holding your breath until you turn blue and stamping your little feets in anger,while you are at it.
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« Reply #499 on: March 25, 2024, 12:54:53 am »
Nailed it.  Roamer's every bit if not more of a patriot than 99+% of the fans of Orange Crush.

@catfish1957

A blatant lie!

If you believe that,you believe that I am not a patriot,not to mention many others who post on this board as well as the lurkers.
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