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No, they should not.

Trying to have it both ways is killing everything. Pick one and only one.

If someone says universities indoctrinate then they simply have no business attending one. If they attend one, then they get what they deserve, good and hard. After all they did pay for it.

Every Establishment Republican I know fumes about the SALT tax exemption being removed.

Removing this exemption did cost Trump some votes.

Normally, republicans cut taxes, in their view. But as far as SALT goes, these Establishment republicans will never blame the tax and spenders in their own state. They already hate Trump to begin with, so Trump raised their taxes. That makes Trump non-republican and it makes Trump a tax increaser.

It’s twisted logic, but they swear by it.

I suspect this explains how they can justify at least considering a vote for Biden.

Trump = tax increaser
Biden = tax cutter. It’s all about the SALT.

Couple of questions, most stand alone and are not follow-ups to one another.

* Oh, Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly awarded to progressive students for tenth year in row?

Good! That’s because conservatives are not willingly surrendering their children to the indoctrination camps anymore, right? Go woke go broke right?

* Oh, Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly awarded to progressive students for tenth year in row?

This is a good thing in general as any conservative parent should view this as nothing more than a form of bribery. What is the price you would sell your child to the indoctrinators?

* So the Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly awarded to progressive students for tenth year in row?

How do they know in advance the students are ideologically progressive?

* The Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly awarded to progressive students for tenth year in row.

Good. If you want to turn your child into Karl Marx and you’re a conservative? You deserve to pay every single penny for it you fool! Just give them a copy of the Communist Manifesto and you can do it for free. What are you paying 100,000 dollars for a free job for?

They are maleducated with disinformation. Check some of the prominent online dictionaries.

The word “democracy” was hijacked many years ago so that the U.S. can fit into the definition of a democracy.

Compare them:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic

They are classified practically the same way.

Other than one or two senators, this article highlights the problem with the GOP.

They’re all go-along-to-get-along do-nothings.

They call Cruz a “rabble-rouser”(or the journalist does - whatever)

Why aren’t there 40 GOP rabble-rousers? Why aren’t there 45 GOP rabble-rousers? They’re all worthless. Except for two or three of them.

Why isn’t every GOP senator trying to out-rabble-rouse the last rabble-rouser, get a leg up on the last rabble-rouse and one-up on the next rabble-rouse? Why are they all trying to appease Biden?

Appeasement doesn’t work. They are all weak! That’s what the article shows, they are all weak.

There’s a certain amount of reasonableness that comes into play.

These people are told to come to the U.S., told they’ll get amnesty, just apply for asylum.(nevermind how the asylum system is being massively abused, that is its own huge topic)

They come here, under asylum, they get all sorts of free goodies and most importantly, they get a driver’s license. (Enter Motor Voter)

Come election season, someone who is here as a migrant under asylum, ostensibly they’re still an illegal alien, now receives a voting ballot by mail.

Reasonably, this person has a reason to believe in good faith mind you, that they are a citizen. Why would any government send an election ballot to an illegal alien??? No other government does this. So I must be a citizen now.

Any poorly executed defense in court could get this guy off of all charges. He would vote, and he would walk free of all charges out of the courtroom based on this U.S. Code. And nevermind poorly executed defenses, those fighting to bring in illegals are heavily bankrolled and employ very good/slick lawyers.

This is a no brainer.

Also if:

“the alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States.”

I presented the actual U.S. code. It really says this.

Note the underlined, directly from U.S. code.

The point is, yes, illegals can vote by law.

"Mr. Govr. MORRIS. The lesson we are taught is that we should be governed as much by our reason, and as little by our feelings as possible. What is the language of Reason on this subject? That we should not be polite at the expence of prudence. There was a moderation in all things. It is said that some tribes of Indians, carried their hospitality so far as to offer to strangers their wives & daughters. Was this a proper model for us? He would admit them to his house, he would invite them to his table, would provide for them confortable lodgings; but would not carry the complaisance so far as, to bed them with his wife. He would let them worship at the same altar, but did not choose to make Priests of them. He ran over the privileges which emigrants would enjoy among us, though they should be deprived of that of being eligible to the great offices of Government; observing that they exceeded the privileges allowed to foreigners in any part of the world; and that as every Society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted, there could be no room for complaint. As to those philosophical gentlemen, those Citizens of the World as they call themselves, He owned he did not wish to see any of them in our public Councils. He would not trust them. The men who can shake off their attachments to their own Country can never love any other. These attachments are the wholesome prejudices which uphold all Governments, Admit a Frenchman into your Senate, and he will study to increase the commerce of France: an Englishman, he will feel an equal biass in favor of that of England."

Madison Debates - August 9 (1787)

Full disclosure: I have been to a March for Life in Washington D.C.

I know what people mean by the phrase. It doesn’t materialize in the real world though.

There isn’t any value in the fact that you won the election when you spend the next 729 days losing and losing and losing, over and over and over again.

Between each election there are 730 days.

The reality is (to keep this with the original post in regard to pro-life issues) that the only reason Roe ended up being overturned at all was not really because of Trump. It was because of the annual March for Life. They kept the issue in people’s minds. They did the hard work. They did not stop for 50 years. The March for Life is the unsilent majority, and they won because they kicked silence onto the ash heap of history where it belongs.

To borrow from my earlier analogy: The March for Lifers were not up in the bleachers. Sitting. Watching. Pointing. Complaining. Perhaps holding a bag of popcorn.

They got down into the field. In participation, they won the championship that year.

The “silent majority” is a myth, perhaps one of the worst myths ever perpetrated in U.S. history.

People who are silent are uninvolved. They are spectators and are irrelevant.

Fill a stadium up jam packed full of spectators, and put one team and one team only on the field, any one you want.

Who wins? The spectators or the team? Obviously the team wins, because the team is actually participating.

The team may have only been 30 or 40 or 50 people. But they are participating. THEY are the majority. Not the 50,000 spectators. The spectators are irrelevant.

Republicans never stop their war against conservatives, so Jeffries has a point.

Virtue and Morality.

To only go after the “Three R’s” is a bit of an exercise in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

The Founding Fathers held it very dearly that schools should be teaching Virtue and Morality. That’s what makes for a free people.

People who can only read + can do math + and can write but nothing else while they are corrupted are fit candidates for serfdom under an authoritarian state.

I got to thinking about it earlier in the week, one of the things about the audio books that we create about the Founding Fathers does is that it humanizes them.

I should try to make it a point to rant about that more often.

The Universities have only spent over a century de-humanizing and gutting them. I am sure I’ve probably made the point before but it really struck me this week, I have been re-listening to several sections of Frothingham.

Old historians didn’t just want to memorize stats and facts and figures and dates and numbers. They truly wanted to tell the story and memorialize the events in the proper order. Tell the STORY, a narrative, but not something fictionally made up.

^^^ This. ^^^

Also this:

This is happening in West Virginia.

The scariest part is those five girls are being more active than anybody else. The AG, when you get right to it, is just doing his job.

The only people active on this are 5 people. That’s it.

Count them. 5. It only requires one hand.

People refuse to stand up and defend their own children. I just don’t understand. And even moreso to stand up and defend other people’s children all the same. I just don’t understand.

Those 5 girls going basically solo is such a condemnation of every last parent within eye sight of that school.

Horowitz is dead on the money with this.

There has been a huge sea-change since the Tea Party era that I am incapable of explaining and incapable of understanding, and nobody will explain it to me. Everything is just so quiet. There are instances where I think the pre-Tea Party Bush Era actually had more healthy conservative activism than what we have today. In general, I'm apoplectic about it.

The only way, - the only way - , to get things done, is for all of us to stand up, do the hard work, and get things done. What we have arrived at though is a post-hard-working-conservatism era. It's Maximum Uninvolvement. I have no other words to explain it.

Yeah, conservatives will work hard at their jobs, yeah, they'll work hard in regard to their families. But the amount of disconnect that there is now in regards to our constitutional freedoms would make all of our Founding Fathers sick to their stomachs. The Founders were not just farmers, they didn't just go to work, then ahh well time to call it a day! Oh some stuff is going on? Well I'm just gonna go to work, don't talk to me about all that! I'm just gonna farm.

No!!! The Founders said "Somebody ought to do something!" then turned right around and planted their fat fingers right in their own chests. "I'm going to do something. I will do it." That's what we had in the Tea Party era, Tea Partiers said "I will do it, I am going to do something", but we sure as heck don't have anything like that now. That's what was given up, and its probably the most valuable thing we ever had.

And we can't call it apathy, because everybody sees whats going on. We know they see it because the complaints are through the roof. That is the one thing where there isn't any quiet. But the only thing reaching higher heights than the complaining is the infinite stubbornness with refusal to ever get involved.

I cannot understand why. How do people think this is working? This is where I get stuck.

Everybody can see that Maximum Uninvolvement doesn't work. Nobody on the planet will ever attest to it's success. Everybody can also compare Maximum Uninvolvement to the Tea Party Era and see that this was way more successful than Maximum Uninvolvement.

SO WHY THEN IS EVERYBODY STILL ACTIVELY CHOOSING MAXIMUM UNINVOLVEMENT OVER THE SUCCESSFUL MODEL??????

I cannot understand why. I'm incapable of getting it. I just start rubbing my head and rubbing my face saying "I don't, I don't, I don't" It makes me stupid. I don't understand. I don't understand! Please. Please. I don't understand. I can't make this math work, I'm stuck. How is everybody doing this all at once, all at the same time, and forever.

Maximum Uninvolvement in our post-hard-working-conservatism era is leading to a terrible ruination.

It's exactly what Lord Acton said. Evil doesn't necessarily have to succeed. The good people just have to do nothing. Maximum Uninvolvement.

Call me when she leaves universal healthcare behind and all that other whackjob stuff.

I felt the same but I am not the one to say.

He is moving in what appears to be the correct direction so he deserves a benefit of the doubt. He’s earned it. Let’s see if in 5 years or if it stuck and is genuine, if it was a ruse/scam all along, or if its some weird thing in the middle like he has been hooked by one of these prosperity gospel crooks.

“Trust but verify” - you know

If in some years a good solid tree does grow and the fruit is good it would be a big shame to only have condemnation at a time like this.