CardinalBacker

Y'all are well aware that I can't stand Trump, and believe that IF he tries to run again in 2024 he will lose.... and likely get another democrat elected. But having said all of that, isn't it crazy how we made it through four years of Trump without an international incident, yet here we are in August having just suffered a complete embarrassment in Afghanistan. I can't help but believe that the weakness we've displayed in the last few weeks will embolden our enemies. The people who attacked our troops during the evacuation? They're gonna go unpunished, and even if we DID try to avenge our fallen, we'd be going up against a much better armed enemy than we had two weeks ago. This wouldn't have happened if Trump had been re-elected. That's a lot coming from me. Once again, I wish he could have shut his mouth and won an easy re-election.

I worked as a claim adjuster for a while after college.... I dealt with a couple of families who had lost loved ones and I ended up selling my old scooter. I just needed to be around to raise the kids and stuff. I always thought I'd get another one, but now that my parental obligations are pretty much fulfilled I just don't really have the urge to ride anymore. The ground is just too hard.

I wish the Democrats would make condoms a political issue.

That one time that our kids drew a gigantic twig and berries with gasoline on the field at LiCk'eM. Lol.

My opinion? She was drunk. Or at least belligerent as she could possibly be. I'm fairly informed on political matters and I wouldn't recognize his wife if she was in a lineup. I highly doubt that the police office we're talking about had any idea that she was THE Mrs. Allen West. That doesn't mean that the media is being biased by not reporting on it like they do every OTHER time an AA in a position of power gets pulled over.

That's all you need to understand.

The fact that you can't get kids/parents/teachers in those districts to do ANYTHING to conform with society, but yet the whole community will wear a mask like they're scared of getting the whip is comical. It ain't the 1860s, either, Buddy Garrity.

My thing is this.... when a black person gets preference in the hiring process because of Affirmative Action, white people are getting passed over because of their skin color. ANY TIME A PERSON'S SKIN COLOR IS CONSIDERED IN THE HIRING PROCESS, A WRONG HAS BEEN DONE. You can't get much simpler than that.

I don't know where we go from here when both sides see things from such polar opposite positions.

Have y’all seen the improvements to our baseball fields?

There was some discussion a few weeks ago that it looked like vaccinated people might be MORE effective at spreading the disease based on viral loads. I haven't heard anything about that recently.

We've been guarding South Korea since the mid 1950s.... and it's kept those guys in North Korea off of our friends in South Korea. It wasn't our 3000 or so troops on the ground there in Afghanistan that kept the Muslim Extremists in their caves. It was the assurance that IF they tried anything, we'd put Mother Green (The Killing Machine) on 'em. Once that assurance was gone because of our "exit the theater at any cost" strategy was apparent, the Taliban just moved into the power vacuum left by our departure. You might be too young to remember, but in the 2016 election everybody on the left was screaming that Trump was going to have us in wars all over the globe in a matter of days. It never happened, and it was because the rest of the planet was convinced that Trump wouldn't hesitate unleash the hounds on anyone who threatened us or ours. What I think you're seeing now is the manifestation of the belief that the US (under Biden) doesn't have the stomach for conflict... that we truly believe that "climate change" is the real enemy.... that and oppression of our own minorities. The fear is that the Taliban aren't the only one of our enemies that will recognize and exploit the soft underbelly that Biden has exposed to the world. It'll be interesting to see what this means for our friends in Taiwan, Israel, South Korea, etc.... The EU is concerned that Muslim Extremists outside of Afghanistan will be encouraged by the relative ease with which they were able to take over Afghanistan and continue their obligation under the Koran to kill or subjugate every non-Muslim on the planet. Because that is what they are obligated to do, regardless of what the media would have you believe about the "religion of peace." You might have forgotten the "Summer of Isis" from a couple of years ago. A lot of people are expecting something similar to occur after this debacle in Afghanistan.

When you realize that those guys have been at each others' throats since the time of Alexander the Great it adds a little perspective. I definitely can't claim to have the answers, but I'm certain that a nuclear device is NOT a good idea. I CAN state with almost certainty that we haven't lost a single troop in Afghanistan in over 18 months. It wasn't much of a war, if you catch my drift. Our presence in Korea, Japan, and even Afghanistan has kept the "bad guys" in check. But once we pull out, there isn't anybody left to keep the "bad guys" (in this case, the TaliBiden) from overrunning the country. While I place a TON of the blame on Afghans who were unwilling to fight the Taliban, I also recognize that without our support, they wouldn't be able to win against the TaliBiden. I disagreed with Trump's push to leave the Afghanistan just for the sake of leaving, and I totally disagreed with Biden's abandonment of our allies, many of whom now face certain, horrific death.

Yeah.... at this point my retirement accounts are at all time highs. Good thing, because I'm pretty sure we're gonna need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread before this is all over with.

China's state media mocked the US withdrawal in Afghanistan, saying the Taliban takeover was 'more smooth than the presidential transition in the US'

Open your eyes.... we went from "our diversity is our strength" in the early 2000s to "how DARE you appropriate our culture!" Those Indian community is too busy complaining about perceived slights and imagined insults instead of fixing the real problems in their own communities. The Chief COULD be worried about rampant drug use, alcoholism, poverty, violence against women, poor educations, etc... but he's offended that some community a thousand miles away honors his tribe's history. Makes perfect sense to me.

Did you see the video of them sitting on the jet engine like a hobos on a train as it taxied down the runway? I'll be the first to admit that I don't have the answer to "how to fix the problems in Afghanistan." But I know that what we've done in the last month is the wrong answer. Heck, I'm not sure that ANYBODY has the answers... but you can wait a couple of days and you'll see them executing our "friends" in soccer stadiums. It's coming.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson, 1787

The Delta Variant isn't behaving the same.... over 60% of the hospitalized in the SETX region are under 40 years old, or at least that's my understanding. Every time that a kid tests positive at the daycare, the whole class gets sent home for a day. Any other kids at the same daycare (siblings of kids in the affected kid's class) get sent home, too. We've lost my coworker for something like 8 weeks this year because kids keep getting infected down at the daycare. I know a guy at a local refinery... the whole control room won't be taking the vaccine because they don't trust science (despite making a living in a gigantic chemistry set). Two weeks ago two entire operations shifts were sent home because of positive tests. The "geniuses" started wondering if made better sense to just have the infected work the shifts instead of getting weeks off at a time while the guys who aren't sick cant get a day off because they're covering shifts for the vageens who won't take the approximately 65th vaccination of their adult lives. Any grown man that won't take the vaccine isn't a man. I'm sorry if that hurts your girlie feelings.

I guess the irony is that the people who THOUGHT they were being responsible by avoiding the vaccine are now almost 100x more likely to end up hospitalized than someone who isn't vaccinated...

My problem is that the whole thing has gotten so politicized... There should be no need for a mandated vaccine... there are so many "smart" people walking around refusing to vaccinate that it'll never get curbed. It's just gonna keep mutating and spreading. It's pretty funny that 95%+ of the people being hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated but people still won't go get the shot. I know tons of guys who were vaccinated for everything under the sun back in the military but won't go near this vaccine because a certain somebody in red ball cap didn't get re-elected. All of the people here refusing to take the vaccine are the same ones that were praising operation Warp Speed late last year. Literally.... the same people.

Go jump the fence, Hippy... it's only a misdemeanor.

I've explained it too many times to count. It's a matter of opinion. You say that Trump did nothing wrong, and other people recognize rightly that he did. The fact is that you would have been trying to elbow your way through the doors to the capitol on 1/6 if you'd have been able to afford the bus fare to DC to see your fallen Messiah. Actually it's not a matter of opinion. Trump has been impeached for his actions. Hundreds have been charged and arrested. Countless civil lawsuits are pending against Trump. The fact that you haven't woken from your brainwashing/hypnosis is really sad.

[Hidden Content] Here's where 600+ people have already been charged. God, this is too easy.

And the fact that it happened about ten minutes after Don Jr, Rudolph, and the Don himself encouraged them to do so is just ironic, too? And the fact that it JUST SO HAPPENED to occur at the exact moment that the VP was to certify the votes was just dumb luck, too, huh? You guys would argue that the fellas that flew planes into the world trade centers were just out for a aerial tour and got a little too close... if Trump said so. You're not as smart as I thought.... and that's saying something.