Posted on 09/06/2021 12:11:57 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
It's the unofficial end of summer.
Let's have a bit of fun in the midst of all the turmoil we have had this year and the turmoil upcoming with kids returning to school in masks or whatever other bizarre whatnot comes up.
Give a shout out to fellow Freepers whose screennames, taglines, and/or "About" pages you have enjoyed, laughed at, drawn inspiration from, or found thought-provoking.
I’ll keep it hush hush!
lol — okay
Now I’m just a crotchety grump, huh? Great to “see” you Allegra!
We had an interesting run pushing for Duncan Hunter on this site. Things around here sure have changed.
Well hey, Stranger! Good to see you again!
Didn’t know either of you were still around.
We fixed the flux capacitor. 😁
Boy, good times back when.
So, all in all, are we gaining ground, losing ground or holding our position? Two years ago I would have said we are advancing. Now I feel like we are being over run.
Yep. For one, I don’t have the energy or desire to argue with fellow conservatives as much as I used to. It was the Wild Wild West every primary season! Fun, but mostly futile.
Yeah, it’s been a minute, huh?
Hope everything in your life is going well - family, fame fortune, etc.
Things up here in Washington State might not be as bad as California or NY, but we aren’t far behind.
Yes. I’m mostly a lurker these days, but I’m always glad to see familiar faces from way back when still active here
indeed, it freed us from the time warp!
Trump was a steering the ship back to common sense and confidence. That was too much for the globalist commies who control the deep state and 90% of all institutions.
So they pulled off a fraudulent election and have their foot on the accelerator to drive the nation past the point of recovery. McCarthy and McConnell are barely even speed bumps.
That's it. They speechify and then cave, every friggin time.
My current tagline: Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.
There aren’t that many fellow conservatives. In those days, I posted up how I’m a ‘big tent republican’. From my home page:
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I’m a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1821435/posts?page=18455
Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Folks such as Rudy or Romney flunk some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy or romney from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot and romneybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter or Palin, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy or romney. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.
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“Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” ~Benito Mussolini
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4001719/posts?page=3#3
Very good Kevmo. And it takes a very good leader to move the tent posts to the right, while keeping (most) everyone still in the tent.
Coolidge, Reagan and then Trump, IMO, are the only three in the last 100 years to do so. Between Coolidge and Reagan, we had a 50 year gap. Between Reagan and Trump, 28 years. At best they were able to halt the march leftward while in office.
But as soon as they were out, that march immediately resumed and usually accelerated. We can’t afford these types of gaps anymore. Time is running out on the Republic; the patient is in critical condition.
bumping good work.
5.56mm
i thank you Sir.
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