CardinalBacker

Yeah... I read the other day that 57% of all US households paid NOTHING in income taxes in 2021. That's going to be really hard to overcome. [Hidden Content] A pretty boy candidate that will swoon folks in the debates and promise free stuff is what wins these days. I wouldn't call Biden a pretty boy or think he was a strong debater... It was just that Trump was absolutely horrible in that first debate. But if you know that charisma and charm, etc increase a candidates likelihood of winning, then why nominate a guy who's bread and butter is being unlikable, then complain about the people who you should have already known weren't going to vote for him? It wasn't about promising people anything. Trump was promising lower taxes. The guy is just unlikable, and goes out of his way to alienate people. My Mother in Law might cook a mean spaghetti, but I still don't want to go to her house because she's such a cow.... nothing is going to change that opinion. I'll happy heat up a can of spam if it keeps me away from her place. Dick Cheney would probably have made the greatest President of our lifetimes, if not history. His knowledge of the federal government, experience, and decision making ability would have been hard to beat. But the guy couldn't win an election to save his life. What's interesting about Trump is that his hardcore voters are so vocal and visible, but they're a minority. You have this core group of largely under-educated Trump voters (the guys with the flags in the back of their trucks), some die hard loyalists who DO understand the benefits that Trumps policies bring to the table, and a bunch of guy like me who held their nose and voted Trump because he was the best candidate when compared to Hillary/Biden. But those three groups that I mentioned aren't enough to win an election. A political candidate has two jobs: 1. Make it easy to vote for me. 2. Make it hard to vote for the other guy. Trump failed miserably as a candidate by not appealing to anyone other than his core. When a conservative like myself has to do some genuine soul-searching after the debates about whether or not to even bother voting for Trump after his childish behavior, it's no surprise that most of the country decided to vote for Biden instead. The fact that your instinct is to say "oh, yeah? Well it just shows that you (Cardinalbacker) are a snowflake/crybaby/whatever" instead of recognizing that Trump was a disaster of a politician only underscores how little you understand about politics. Trump illustrates what a pro-business President without even a little bit of executive or diplomatic experience can do for the economy. Can you imagine what a qualified candidate with pro-business, America-first principals could do with a Republican Congress?

The fact is this... most people hated Trump-that's why Biden is our President. But gas prices and borders aren't going to change the fact that they aren't going to vote for Trump this time, either. They didn't "learn their lesson." But neither did the people who believe that Trump can be re-elected in 2024. The man got his tail whipped by a geriatric fool. If Trump runs again in 2024, we'll have some other Democrat elected. Anybody who can't see that is blinded by their love affair with Trump.

But I feel like ALL of y'all weren't smart enough to see the actual train wreck coming was Trump losing to a clown because Trump wouldn't stop alienating moderate voters. There's no difference between an uninformed voter choosing an inferior candidate because he/she is more "likable" than an informed voter choosing a candidate who is unelectable. Both voters are stupid. And I didn't vote for Trump in the '16 primary and didn't have the option to vote against him in the 20 primary.

I believe that we’ll see the UIL forbid teams with “offensive” mascots from play within the next two years.

THIS. You can count on every year when the WRS nominations come out you’ll see Silsbee show up and argue that at least two more Silsbee kids were more deserving than the kids who actually got nominated. I remember 4 years or so ago when Silsbee fan was arguing that their duo of rbs BOTH deserved to be finalists. Then there was the year that Silsbee fan felt like Adonis Thomas deserved somebody else’s nomination on offense, then the Silsbee coach moved the kid to linebacker the next year. I guess he was so good on offense his own coach decided to switch him over to D. Silsbee fan literally believes that if he’s heard a Silsbee kid’s name on the PA, he’s more deserving than any kid from another school who actually got nominated.

Whatever you say, Chicken Little.

Right... I'll even go so far as to say that most of the posters here are more intelligent than the average voter. Or at least more interested. At the end of the day the "great unwashed" are who must be won by either side to emerge as the winner. It makes no sense to set out to offend those votes that you HAVE to have by being a boor, or by championing unpopular ideas because they're "right" in our own way of evaluating the issues. The masses didn't love Trump... they disliked Hillary. The masses didn't love Biden... they HATED Trump. Nobody is going to be like "Oh, I learned my lesson! Give us those mean tweets!" They still rightfully can't stand the guy. Grabbing an unpopular, polarizing issue that is guaranteed to be a non-starter for half of the electorate as your hill to die on is just stupid. Want to win the general in 2024? Don't even MENTION the word abortion. Focus on getting our nation back on track. Promise to pardon Hunter Biden. Promise to focus on the fact that the average American is spending $350/month more for the basics than they were a year ago.... Not betting that a strong stand over trans athletes being banished from sport or corralling CRT as the basis for what you're trying to accomplish.

They play a weak schedule in a weak district and got smacked in the first round. And if you could point out his all-state accolade, I'd appreciate it. I literally can't find it. [Hidden Content] Every year you can count on Silsbee fans showing up and crapping on the kids who did get selected because "whoever the 8 best kids on Silsbee's trash squad" didn't sweep the nomination spots for the WRS.

Oh, boy! I remember a few years ago when a particular long-haired white coach's kid (Junior) from Silsbee was hailed as "one of the best receivers to ever come out of Southeast Texas." I wont say his name because Aggie will instantly delete the post, but the named rhymed with "Bolton Lackey." You sound exactly the same. The fact that most of us have no idea who you're even talking about means that "Miller & Smith" aren't all that you think that they are.

The thing about it is this... we're seeing the results of following extremist principles on the left right now. The wanton spending, "woke" narratives being forced on everybody, and general decline of our society. There are two things that can happen. 1. Equally repugnant extremists on the Right can say "Oh, Boy! Now EVERYBODY sees that extreme leftism isn't the answer... extreme right wing views are the answer" and run out a bunch of freaking wingnuts and destroy whatever momentum that is heading our way. 2. The common sense conservatives can make a stand on their own, dragging the party back to center right where we can actually win a persistent majority from the middle, even if the hardcore coolaid drinkers on the right don't think we're doing enough.

Buddy, I've been saying this for over a year now. Trump literally gave the white house to a imbecile and another imbecile, and the Trumpers are all like "Oh, Boy! Trump's gonna run again!"

We are sad, particularly if the miscarried one was wanted... But do you really think that a lot of young expectant unwed mothers don't breathe a sigh of relief when an unplanned/unwanted pregnancy ends spontaneously? And as far as sad, every single person's life is a tragedy if you make it to the end. "He died alone." "He died next to his wife of 53 years." "He passed in his sleep." "He died in a car wreck." All tragedies. It's this simple. I find abortion to be morally objectionable. I wish that it weren't legal.... but it is. And I'm unwilling to lose election after election going forward by hanging up on the religious beliefs of a very vocal minority of the public. The same people who say "if you don't want a gun, don't buy one" don't want to hear "if you don't want an abortion, don't get one." It's literally a bunch of old sexually repressed white people raising hell about the fun that everybody else is having in the eyes of most voters.

The first established use of the term in a political context originated in 1818 with François-René de Chateaubriand From Wiki. I have no clue what you're getting at.

Great Examples. With the exception of the fact that Casey actually strengthened Roe, not diminished it. And I'll be honest, I'm not the one defining anything. This entire post is in relation to an Oklahoma law that will criminalize the performing an abortion. If that's not overturning the Roe v Wade, I don't know what is. It's just one politician after another, going out and making these outlandish new rules (like no abortion after a heartbeat).

I’m just saying. “Thou shalt not kill” is pretty specific. Not “Thou shalt not kill (unless the person is guilty of some heinous crime). If you don’t have a problem with murder, you don’t have a problem with murder. Kinda like people who are on their second or third marriage are in no position to criticize gay marriage because God would frown upon it. God wasn’t happy with your divorce, either.

These posts are literally back to back and expose the typical hypocrisy on the Right. If the right ever got back to conservatism and away from trying force their morals, racism and phobias on everybody they'd be unbeatable.

Can you think of a time where the SC has reversed its own self? I can’t. That’s an honest question. And do we really want to live in a country where the law of the land changed course 180 degrees every time the balance of power on the SC shifts to one side or the other. People talk about activist courts and I wouldn’t blame an administration from stacking the court to achieve their means if precedent means nothing because of partisan/activist justices. Denying a woman the right to an abortion was deemed unconstitutional in 1973. Nothing has changed since, other than the balance of power on the Supreme Court. The right way to handle the matter is to amend the constitution… not continuing to take bites at the same old apple. It’s crazy how righties blood runs cold when they think of the Supreme Court re-hearing cases on gun control, etc…. But they’re all for it on this issue. Here’s another question… what happens if the SC hears arguments and decides not to overturn Roe v Wade? Are y’all all gonna take your fetus posters home and get on with your life or continue to “fight the good fight” while completely avoiding the correct solution because you know that it’ll never fly?

I’ll be honest… I doubt that he feels any differently about those unborn children than He does every time we execute a murderer here in Texas. Kinda like I doubt He’s more bothered by homosexual acts than he is bothered by my sleeping around with loose women. Or that He’s offended because two gays want to get married, but doesn’t mind all of us going down to the courthouse to tear asunder what Gawd Himself had joined together. Nothing says “marriage is between one man and one woman” quite like a third marriage. i personally find abortion to be immoral. Luckily I’ll never have to make that choice. But I’m also smart enough to understand that well over half of our population has never lived in a period where abortion wasn’t allowed. It’s what we know, and it’s what we’re used to. And now most of us don’t even bother going to church. But somehow we collectively have some new moral objection to abortion and we’re finally ready to outlaw it as a group? You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to believe that. What’s next? Wait 40 years and then try to get the Supreme Court to ban gay marriage?

No, I don’t really have a voice on the other side. But the right IS the side which I support, and I’m very comfortable calling out behavior that will lead to positions which will lead to our defeat… like nominating trump again.

Enjoy losing.

So you're arguing that slavery and women's rights should be re-examined?

The people on the extreme left AND the extreme right both fail to realize that their views aren't guiding the party, they're driving the moderates away. It's the reason that Trump got stomped in 2020 and will also get stomped again if he wins the nomination in 2024. The public literally elected a buffoon and a black woman (because face it... that's the only reason she even got on the ticket) because they hated Trump.... nothing has changed.... they still hate him. Want to lose in 2024? Keep yelling about abortion, building walls ("send 'em back") and any other platform drives the moderates away. It amazes me how the extremists on both sides believe that they can cram their garbage down everybody's throats because THEIR flavor of crazy is "right" and the other guys' is "wrong." We've literally got rampant inflation, a possible global conflict, supply chain issues, the ongoing pandemic, a crime wave, and all Republicans want to talk about is stripping a young woman's right to an abortion. Makes perfect sense. But the babies!! Face it.... nobody cares about those unborn children. And they danged sure don't care about those children who actually survive childbirth to mothers who didn't want them. What they really want is for THEIR version of morality to be enforced on everybody. How many of y'all make annual donations for poor/needy kids? Anybody here ever adopt a stranger's kid? I didn't think so.

No, sir…. If pro lifers had the support of the states, we’d have already had the amendment ratified. But pro lifers won’t even put up a bill in the house or senate because they are well aware that they can’t even get 2/3 of legislators to agree, much less 3/4 of the states to ratify. Isn’t it crazy that those “I know my rights!” voters on the right are the ones out here trying to eliminate a right that has been legal in the us for 49 years? When you sound off about taking away someone’s right to have an abortion, you sound like those yahoos that talk about repealing the second amendment. “If you don’t like guns (abortions) don’t get one!” Isn’t that what they always say?

This is one of my big fears. I can't wait to see which jerk from the Republican side starts calling for Biden to be impeached immediately after the mid-terms based not on "high crimes and misdemeanors," but rather on " because they did it to Trump two times."

And your argument means nothing to the 50% of Americans who believe it's their God-given right to do whatever they want with their own body. Has the Supreme Court ever reversed a key decision like Roe v. Wade? I can't think of a single time, so there's that. The correct way to resolve this dilemma is with a Constitutional Amendment that would ban the practice. But neither side has the voting power to do so, so the new plan will be to create new laws at the state level that will be challenged every single time there's a switch in the balance of power on the Supreme Court? That's not how this is supposed to work. We've had 49 years to legislatively correct the decision in Roe v. Wade if we felt like the decision was wrong... but the pro lifers don't (and never have had) the votes to get it done. The Supreme Court has ruled... it is what it is. There's a way to fix it, and it's not by making a run at having the Supreme Court re-hear the same old issue. I'm certain that the same people who oppose abortion are also the same ones raising hell about passing out rubbers at school, too.