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Midland ISD Votes to Revert Legacy High School Back to Lee!
CardinalBacker replied to Reagan's topic in Political Forum
Let’s dig a little deeper. if you’re basing your opposition based purely on the time passed since “honoree” passed, do you have a problem with the “Gulf of America?” My guess is “no,” because it’s what your Daddy Trump wants. Is this going to be the new norm? A school board vote swings one way, so a name is changed, then it gets changed back after the next election? Y’all are all applauding our army bases being re-re-named to honor Confederate heroes, but how will you feel when the next admin names them something else? People who are bothered by names are weak. And supporting a racist makes you a racist. Now go cheer on an admin that supports deporting people who are brown and speak Spanish, whether they’re here legally or not. -
Midland ISD Votes to Revert Legacy High School Back to Lee!
CardinalBacker replied to Reagan's topic in Political Forum
Let’s see… both institutions were named after men who were considered to be honored at the time of naming. The passage of time and evolution of community sentiment meant that the institutions no longer considered the name to be appropriate, so it was changed. Subsequent administrations saw fit to change the name BACK to the previous name… The process was identical. You just like one guy and dislike the other. The fact that one fought to preserve slavery and the other one is a black man has nothing to do with your preferences, right? -
Midland ISD Votes to Revert Legacy High School Back to Lee!
CardinalBacker replied to Reagan's topic in Political Forum
Y’all are no different than the ones that want the name of BISD’s stadium returned to the Butch. Poo comes in all hues. -
Republicans literally ransacked the Capitol the last time they lost. Rs are no better, and possibly even worse than, the Ds.
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Double.
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Just don’t be mad when the next Dem president sends troops into a Republican controlled area to “restore order in the time of emergency.”
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It’s just funny to me how the group party that was supposed to be against big government, massive spending, uncontrolled borrowing, and for states’ rights, individuals’ rights, freedom of speech, etc… will turn their back on their beliefs because of their devotion to a would-be autocrat. Our forefathers fought the American Revolution to escape being under the thumb of England. Y’all are literally welcoming the feds to take control of any area that’s governed by politicians elected by people from another party. Wrong doesn’t become right just because you admire the guy who’s doing it.
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The most violent day in recent DC history was January 6th, 2021
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This…. The wild deficit spending that Trump put in motion with reckless tax cuts and subsequent borrowing put inflation in motion. It took months for it to take hold. And for what it’s worth, you can’t credit Biden for fixing it. All it took was somebody that doesn’t espouse Trump’s philosophy of “tax less, spend more, and let the grandkids figure it out” and it fixes itself.
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And who was the president who guided us back out of that period of high inflation? I’ll give you a hint- it’s not the one who’s currently trying to figure out how to fire the Fed Chief for not slashing interest rates to generate another round of 9% inflation.
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Trump just fired the commissioner of labor statistics for truthing.
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The 14th Amendment & Birthright Citizenship
CardinalBacker replied to OlDawg's topic in Political Forum
I don’t know of any other country that has a policy like ours…. “If you’re born here, you and your family can stay.” To understand the 14th, you have to remember that the US had a labor shortage based on the end of slavery. We encouraged people to come here and fill our demand for cheap labor. A simple promise of “come here… you’ll have a chance to carve out a good life for yourself-the possibilities are endless” was all that was promised. In 2025, the promise is free housing, free food, a free education, free health care. It’s a “free ride” for immigrants that is hardly free for the American taxpayers. If your wife drops a kid while you’re taking a late-gestation vacation in Mexico, guess what? You’d better get your yankee butts back to America, because you can’t stay there, and you dang sure don’t get benefits. -
The 14th Amendment & Birthright Citizenship
CardinalBacker replied to OlDawg's topic in Political Forum
But those 19 were here (or at least came here) legally. -
I don’t agree with you. Most voters oppose the school voucher program here in Texas, but the local leadership of the Republican Party made sure that any candidate who opposed the vouchers got an opponent, and the local party leadership rallied around the candidate who supported vouchers… we’ve never seen local party leadership at sitting local rep like this area went after Dade Phelan last fall. The local party went as far as censuring him. How does that even happen? They’re out of control ideologues. They literally pick the most extreme candidate other because he/she most closely aligns with their own radical beliefs. To put it frankly, moderates don’t feel strongly enough about moderate stands on issues to devote their lives to fighting for the middle. Extremists do. Most of us here are more interested politically than 97% of the population. And we’re not interested enough to get involved locally. Those people who DO care enough to attend meetings, etc… are just mean, hateful people who devote their lives to fighting “the other guys,” whether they be of the the same party or not. And they’re the ones who pick the candidates we vote for. You seem level headed. Go down to your local Republican Party meeting and tell them how you feel… you’ll be a dirty RINO in minutes.
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The problem is that the most hardcore extremists are who populate the local party machines. The masses don’t pick the candidates that we vote on in the fall…. The whackjobs who actually vote in the primaries keep selecting the most extreme candidates on both sides of the aisle. Normal people don’t spend time on message boards engaging in political discourse… but with the exception of Reagan, I don’t sense the type of dedication from any of yall that would indicate a willingness to participate in the local party from either side. The truth is that most people don’t vote general elections. And only a fraction of that fraction also vote in the primaries where general elections candidates are chosen. The candidates are handpicked by the most fervent ideologues among us, and it shows by the way we keep getting dog crap candidates like Trump. And it was worse than that when the Ds circumvented their primary voters to pick VP Harris to run against Trump in 24. We need to wrestle control of the parties from the whackos or the American Experiment is over. Who am I kidding? It’s already over. We’re just waiting on the credits to roll.
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From a 2002 article about Epstein that quoted Trump himself. “Epstein likes to tell people that he’s a loner, a man who’s never touched alcohol or drugs, and one whose nightlife is far from energetic. And yet if you talk to Donald Trump, a different Epstein emerges. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” [Hidden Content] Isn’t ironic that Epstein’s buddy who mentioned Epstein’s love for young women 20 years ago is the same exact guy who’s telling us “there’s nothing to see here?”
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I just think it’s comical that yall support the candidate that most closely aligns with your personal beliefs. I guess yall believe in the protecting pedophiles from being exposed. Not shocking since yall already overlooked philandering and sexual assaults. It’s the next logical step. “We don’t want them trans people in our schools! We must protect the kids!” Closely followed by: ”We don’t want those pedophiles exposed!! It could harm their reputations and chances of re-election!”