CardinalBacker

[Hidden Content] A collection of clips of BLM assaulting members (and pastors) and disrupting church services. The media won't tell the truth about what's happening, and good people are supporting these thugs believing that they have good intentions for the black community. If you support BLM, you might as well be in the crowd punching kids and stuff. Period. You don't get to choose which parts of the terrorists' platforms for which you approve or disapprove.

I read through it and both sides drew guns, then de-escalated and separated. Apparently the "other" side wasn't over their grievances. Who knows what all really happened, but it's not as cut and dried as "somebody said all lives matter and got shot in the head."

Can you believe it's already been 4 years since Kap started kneeling? It all started in 2016. Got kinda quiet in the meantime.

Good to know.... what was Cartwright making false statements about?

I think the President should. It's what Ford did when Nixon resigned. People didn't like Nixon getting off, but it was for the good of the country. I wasn't kidding when I said that I felt like Trump should have pardoned Hillary just to keep us all moving forward. We're all gonna wish that somebody had pardoned Trump before it's all over with, too, IMO. Also, the governor a state can't pardon a federal crime... those have to go through the President.

You and I agree that he didn't deserve the way he was treated. You and I disagree on whether or not the knee caused his death... that's okay, and I'm kinda tired of talking about it. If Robert E. Lee was such a traitor, then why was he offered command of the Union Armies before they were given to Grant? This was from a letter written from REL to his sister upon resigning his commission in the Army and agreeing to help his family fight off the invasion of Northerners. "Now we are in a state of war, which will yield to nothing. The whole South is in a state of revolution…and though I recognize no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed…I had to meet the question whether I should take part against my native state. With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army, and, save in defense of my native state, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword." A man who served 36 years in the military but refused to take up arms against his own family... a traitor? Gimme a break. What the South did was no different than what the 13 Colonies had done barely 80 years earlier. You seem to forget that the Colonies formed a Union of States... it wasn't until after the Civil War that we began to see ourselves as a country instead of a confederation of states. I guess you'd be the kind of sorry person that would fight his own family if it came down to it, huh?

Every video shot during the unrest has somebody screaming "WHAT'S YOUR BADGE NUMBER?!!!!" at the cops. That's step one of the "Every one around me was speeding, too" crowd's handbook.... file a complaint. "Let me talk to your sergeant." Trust me... 1 complaint per year is probably below average. I don't remember the numbers, but all but something like 2 were considered without merit. People filing false complaints has made the existence of prior complaints against an officer a non-issue. And that's unfortunate, but false complaints are not the fault of the falsely accused.

No.... if a person is headed to federal prison for "helping" the President's campaign and then the same President pardons him, it's unethical by any objective standard. Most of the time the President will pardon someone after they've served an amount of time. Kinda like Blagojevich, Scooter Libby, etc... I can't think of another instance where a person was pardoned before even making to prison. Much less a person whose crimes involved the person (Trump) granting the pardon. If you think there's nothing wrong with the scenario, you're not being objective.

I would, but I can't. I can afford the house, I just can't afford the junked cars and used appliances I'd need to put in the yard to fit in over there.

My response to you was more harsh than it needed to be. I’m going to keep expressing my ideas, but I’m going to TRY to do so without insulting people. Or at least without insulting people as often. It’s the same attitude that we always hear. Everybody wants to excuse and ignore the behaviors that created the situation, and place all blame solely on the police. When some redneck in Kentucky gets methed up and is beating his ol’ lady when the cops show up and he ends up dead... white people really don’t care. We’re like “yeah... he kinda had that one coming.” George Floyd literally did time for pressing a pistol against a pregnant woman’s belly during and armed robbery, and they paint murals of him with a halo... no joke. He was high on fentanyl, passing funny money, and mildly resisting arrest when all of this kicked off, and people say “well, he would have been alive if the cops hadn’t made bad decisions.” It’s all about accountability... I won’t start to lose weight until I admit that I’m fat. Saying “well, everybody could stand to lose a few pounds“ isn’t going to fix my hypertension. If your community has high crime and tons of people get arrested, the solution isn’t “abolish the police and dismantle the justice system.” The solution is to address the amount of crimes that occur.

Of course they’ve all granted pardons, clemency, and sentence commutations. I just can’t recall an instance where the pardon was for an individual (Stone) who was so closely aligned with the person granting it. It seems like Trump is thanking Stone for keeping his mouth shut.

I guess if you were unfortunate enough to be born down in a jungle and never even heard His name, you never even had a chance, and God’s plan wasn’t meant for you. I wonder if God will at least apologize to them before banishing them to hell? You won’t convince me that God sent his Son to die for just the ones of us who heard the right message, knowing that all those who never heard it would be lost anyways.

He wasn’t that good of a friend, lol. More of a guy that I knew. And nobody was charged with manslaughter, either. What you’re saying is very possible. It’s also possible that if Mr Floyd had been peacefully placed into the back of that squad car, he’d have died there. And it’s entirely possible that without the stress of the difficult arrest, Floyd would still be alive. We just don’t know. But he definitely didn’t deserve to die while some cop ground his head into the concrete. We can all agree on that, anyways.

“ Everything made in opposition against a movement against oppression supports oppression in my opinion. All those other phrases you listed areexamples “ That’s what you said. Maybe that’s not literally what you meant. It goes without saying that 99%+ of White people are opposed to innocent black people being killed by cops. In fact the same 99%+ of us are opposed to innocent people of any hue being killed by cops. The point is that by your definition, if I don’t support kneeling during the anthem, I support oppression. If I think it’s a bad idea to abolish the police departments and give those funds to fund minority outreach groups, I support oppression. You’re a smart dude. I don’t think that’s what you mean, is it? The broad brush with which we (myself included) paint everybody with needs to be cleaned and put away... if not thrown away.

No, I disagree. It seems that you believe that words have different meanings. A person who believes that a word’s offensiveness can be determined by the shade of the speaker’s skin is a textbook racist. There’s no better definition. It’s like you’re standing around screaming “i have two hands,” and anybody that says “ummmmm, most of us have two hands” is wrong for pointing out that fact. The bottom line is that you refuse to look at things objectively and literally. You’d rather analyze it to death and try to point out perceived slights and imagined insults. But that’s just the nature of the left.

I do not know him, and I don’t recognize the name. I was fooling with cars from the late 80s to mid 90s. I knew a ton of guys from over there, but his name doesn’t strike me as familiar.

And that’s why relations are the worst they’ve been in my lifetime. Any opinion other than yours is racist. So, when black lives matters supporters burn police cars and I think “jeez, not only is arson and probably a felony, but we’re also gonna have to buy them new cop cars at our expense,” I support oppression? Because I’m definitely opposed to Black Lives Matters burning police cars and looting in the name of justice.

They. Are. The. Same. Black Pride. Brown Pride. White Pride. A color or race, followed by the exact same noun, “pride.” Nothing more, nothing less. Unless your theory is that I’m supposed to be ashamed of my race... because I’m not. Or somehow my pride in my race somehow offends you.... because I don’t give a. Then you direct me to explore origins to determine whatever it is you suppose. I have two quarters on my nightstand. One has the state of Kentucky and one has the state of Illinios. They’re both quarters. You think I should examine the histories, virtues, and shortcomings of both states to determine if one coin is somehow “right” and the other somehow “wrong.” They’re both worth 25 cents and commemorate a state. If you think any differently, that’s okay. You just see problems where there aren’t any. How is it not oppresive when you can say “I’m proud of my race” and I’m a racist for saying “I’m proud of mine, too?” That’s completely oppressive by any subjective evaluation.

Like I said.... you’d better hope that your church is the only one that got it right, then. Or you’re gonna be really, really disappointed.

You’re looking for those answers to prove your assertion... that one is bad and one is good. They’re the same. It’s people being proud of who they are. I don’t have a problem with black pride, white pride, brown pride, or Pride Week for that matter. Years ago people tried to argue that it was okay for this group to vote and not the other group. We are literally having those same arguments today over word usage. Black Lives Matter is a fine saying. But if you get offended by “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter” you’re kind of being hypocritical.

There’s your first problem. You’ve already been convinced. If I had to guess, you were probably convinced before toxicology reports came in. I’m basically George Floyd’s age. He was more athletic than me, but I don’t have his hypertension and artery disease. The point I’m making is this... if somebody kneels on my neck just like that cop did to him for 8 minutes, I’m not gonna die. I’m not gonna like it, but I’ll live. You would, too. Don’t get me wrong... I’m not offering to let any of you clowns prove my theory, but it’s my theory nonetheless. I had a friend who died during a stress test, and “no,”’ his cardiologist wasn’t charged with murder, and neither his nurses nor his billing clerks were charged as accessories.

I’m telling you.... that’s the problem with everything that’s going on today. People claim to want equality while simultaneously trying to create double standards. It’s schizophrenic.

That’s just how I feel. I can’t imagine God saying “oh, wow... you tried to be Christlike, you paid your tithes, repented of your sins, tried to help others and believed..... but I see here that you were baptized in the “name of Jesus” instead of “the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” It’s off to the Fiery Lake with you!”

I like to know what I’m talking about before I wade in, and I have really not paid attention to this story. But you and I agree... it sounds fishy on the surface.

First... I agree with your first paragraph. Second.... if you think “black power=good and white power=racist” you’re a fool. I’ll never apologize who I am or what I accomplish. If former ufc heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez walks around with “brown pride” tattooed on his belly and that’s okay, you are a clown if you think that somebody with a “white pride” tattoo is bad person. And just like you feel the responsibility to call others out, I will call also hypocrisy and flawed thinking where I see it. Lastly, if you want to make a real difference, you should sign up for the police academy. You have all of the answers they need. You’ll change your tune shortly, I promise you.