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Posted on 06/08/2024 2:35:05 PM PDT by LukeL

In the past couple of years I have noticed there is a complete lake of regard for other posters on this site. Not only that but swearing seems to be tolerated. In the past day I have been called gay, a lair, that I am talking out of my *** and I am full of ****. Do we even have to go into the fighting on any thread about Ukraine or Russia. Even hard facts from multiple sources no longer seem to matter. Instead it is whoever can come up with the snarkiest reply.


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To: CFW

The problem has always been that the GOP is a split Party. Some people are still with the Bushie neocons, some are conservatives that are strict to the point they would rather lose, some are populists and we are all under the GOP banner.

This has never been more prevalent than it is now.

This type of division is ripe for heated arguments.

Primary times here have always been a hullabaloo around here as far back as I can remember though. lol


281 posted on 06/08/2024 7:06:08 PM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: SE Mom

After years of being lied to by everyone in the medical profession, people arrive at a hospital and are greeted by threatening signs posted by the hospital.

I see your point, sick people suck.


282 posted on 06/08/2024 7:06:41 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Seems to me that small-government Reaganism has been displaced by big-spending populism.

Was the War in Iraq/Afghanistan an example of that small government Reaganism your nostalgic for? 🧐

Asking for a former President you can't abide...

283 posted on 06/08/2024 7:08:20 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Buttons12

The only ones in Congress who were ever civil are the Repubes and look where that has taken us. Any Repube who shows any fire takes all kinds of heat from their own party and full on lies and abuse from the RAT party.

Politics has been described as bloodsport and it is never actually civil. If a person can’t handle that, find a different interest.


284 posted on 06/08/2024 7:12:42 PM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: Reno89519

Your the perfect example of what has gone wrong with this site.


285 posted on 06/08/2024 7:13:10 PM PDT by Revel
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To: mac_truck

There are still those who just can’t understand that in order to get the government these people demand, they have to win elections. To do that they have to sell and convince the overwhelming population that their way of doing things is going to be great. Or else do like Joe Biden does. Cheat.

Unfortunately, staunch conservatives have never really been able to do that.

And nobody can tell me either Bush was a conservative.


286 posted on 06/08/2024 7:24:22 PM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: LukeL

There are hostile forces out there against conservatives. One of their methods is to use every trick in the book to mess up conservative forums. If there is a concerning topic then the discussion can be sidetracked using various posting schemes to mess with people psychologically. There are mass numbers of people sitting in rooms getting paid to disrupt forums like this. They are funded by dark money. Ultimately some are probably even paid by the US taxpayer. These are the same kinds of operators who have used every trick in the book to get Trump. They want everyone divided.

One example I saw multiple times on this thread are those who keep shouting about Q people. We all know that Q is no issue these days. You rarely hear anything about it accept those who use every opportunity to bash and insult a segment of trump loving patriotic people on this forum who see minor details in a different light and keep mainly to themselves on such topics. Those who won’t let it go have a purpose that cannot be trusted. They want people to hate one another thereby dividing the forum. And steering away from the real issues.

The same tactics are used on other topics as well.


287 posted on 06/08/2024 7:32:42 PM PDT by Revel
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To: RaceBannon
Sodomy and all its boyfriends is the law of the land.. President Trump nor his wife had one single thing to do with giving sodomy legal protection. The holy people of South Carolina keep sending Linda Graham back to rule over US…. He was in office long before President Trump entered the political arena..

I think Meliana is Catholic.. perhaps you might be better served telling the talking donkey Francis about judgment …. He made his entrance on the ‘holy father’ gig with the admonition…’who are you to judge’ over the sodomy practice.

288 posted on 06/08/2024 7:35:57 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: GBA
It’s his war. His casualties. And his eternal consequences, too, unless he repents and starts loving his neighbors instead of trying to kill and subjugate them.

The 2019 Rand Corporation report on Russia recommended the US provoke a war using Ukraine. This is after the Color Revolution on Russia’s border fomented by the same parties. How is fomenting violent unconstitutional revolutions, provoking wars, then funding wars , “loving your neighbor?”
289 posted on 06/08/2024 7:36:03 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: wildcard_redneck

I hope you donate a lot of money to this site. Because your 2nd grade bullying tactics are sure causing folks to go elsewhere. You will find yourself alone. But I imagine that is not a new feeling.


290 posted on 06/08/2024 7:45:14 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: LukeL
Do we even have to go into the fighting on any thread about Ukraine or Russia.

No...If the Zeepers are prevent from posting Biden regime and Deep State propaganda about the war.

I'd love nothing more than than to see topics about Russia and the war in Ukraine banned unless there is direct tie to legislation in this country.

Most Zeepers are likely paid propagandists or foreigners trying to influence American public opinion.

291 posted on 06/08/2024 7:51:56 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Ukraine’s problems with Putin and Russia go back a ways before 2019.

If you want to blame all of our and the world’s problems on obama and those who brought that Trojan horse inside our gates to then do all he has and they have done, well, I’ll nod my head along with you while listening to you.

But, it’s still Putin’s war. And I believe he would find, make up or create a reason to do what he’s doing now … and … f someone gives him an excuse to do this, like Vicky Nuland or anyone else you want to blame, so much the better for him.

Human natures says we humans can find a way to justify anything we do, any want or desire or action, no matter how heinous or evil it might be, we can justify doing it, but I don’t think anyone makes Putin do anything. Well, okay, other than maybe Xi.

And maybe his losses there will make him quit, too, but that remains to be seen. If not for help from Korea and China, he would have to quit. Otoh, if the Russians keep losing men and equipment at the current rate, their help won’t be enough anyway.

292 posted on 06/08/2024 7:53:03 PM PDT by GBA (Endeavor to persevere. Onward through the fog …)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; GBA
The 2019 Rand Corporation report on Russia recommended the US provoke a war using Ukraine. This is after the Color Revolution on Russia’s border fomented by the same parties. How is fomenting violent unconstitutional revolutions, provoking wars, then funding wars , “loving your neighbor?”

It did not such thing, but I would fathom that reading comprehension is hard for people whose first language is other than English.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html

The most promising option then Rand Corporation provided was basically increase US domestic energy production, while Ukraine was mentioned in the report and supplying Ukraine was a possibility the end recommendations had nothing about Ukraine.

And someone forgot that the Color Revolutions occurred not because the US wanted them to happen, but were instead due to Diplomatic Cable leaks which showed just how corrupt many nation states were and caused their populaces to rise up. But "oooooooh color revolution" bogeyman.

While you're not the dumbest person on the internet, you better sure as hope they don't die.

293 posted on 06/08/2024 7:54:04 PM PDT by Brellium (The environment is of upmost importance, without trees where will we hang Moscovites?)
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To: Kazan

People who disagree with me must be paid to do so because my opinions are obviously the correct ones.


294 posted on 06/08/2024 7:56:00 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Revel

How so? Look at my comments over the years, they are polite and respectful. I do not make a habit of insulting people, namecalling, or bullying. I respect and follow Jim’s rules.


295 posted on 06/08/2024 8:00:56 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: rlmorel
Are you on his ping list? He sends out PM's now after he got tired of being harassed by Humblegunner.

-PJ

296 posted on 06/08/2024 8:03:08 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: hole_n_one

The gracious A+Bert called me a communist.


297 posted on 06/08/2024 8:03:57 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: crusty old prospector

You’re NOT on my a-holes list, crusty!


298 posted on 06/08/2024 8:06:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: mass55th

You and I signed up on the first day of registration: 11-28-1997. FR is not like the FR of old. Too many trolls. But it is still a good place to get information and news.


299 posted on 06/08/2024 8:07:00 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: PJ-Comix

I’m glad to hear that was a hoax. The church is in enough trouble without HG.


300 posted on 06/08/2024 8:08:06 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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