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What are you patriotic to, then? People like Johnson and Jackson, a flag, a military, a congress? None of those things benefit from your patriotism unless they support the individual rights they are put in place to defend.

If you've read the whole thing, then you know just how cast adrift we have been. The smirking, smiling faces who claim to have our backs - don't.

1 posted on 12/14/2023 7:49:55 PM PST by Noumenon
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To: Noumenon

It’s all gonna blow soon, I think.


2 posted on 12/14/2023 7:54:14 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Noumenon

To the Nation, not the Government.


3 posted on 12/14/2023 7:58:03 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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Bookmark


9 posted on 12/14/2023 8:40:17 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Noumenon

My patriotism left with Carter, somewhat returned with Regan and Trump, but has otherwise departed.


11 posted on 12/14/2023 8:56:58 PM PST by Mogger
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12 posted on 12/14/2023 9:01:44 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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What you said... Outstanding!

One minor point:
"It makes me sick to think of the freedoms we once had. Only a few years ago 90% of everything the government is doing would not have been tolerated. "

I would modify "few years ago 90%..."
to: "six decades ago 90%..."

At least, as a 90-year old, that's my humble opinion...

13 posted on 12/14/2023 9:15:55 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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Patriotism to the idea of America, the same idea America was conceived in, built upon, hoped, dreamed and fought for and the same idea that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

America has always been an idea and we Americans have been living in a dream world because we knew it was the best ideas to ever come along.

.... so someone says, "No, you need reality . . . yeah, that's the ticket"

No we don't, we need the idea of America to believe in and fight for.

14 posted on 12/14/2023 9:30:09 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . . . I have no proof, but they're true !)
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If the Rapture doesn’t happen soon, one might want to have Plan B (imho).


18 posted on 12/15/2023 3:49:56 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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Truth is ….. there’s nowhere to run to to hide ……


19 posted on 12/15/2023 3:53:02 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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I haven’t recited the “pledge” since the fraud.
Makes me wonder why people still do.


20 posted on 12/15/2023 4:15:31 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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Excellent post thank you.


22 posted on 12/15/2023 6:17:34 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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This guy just made Trump’s case. If everyone in the country believed what is in this article we could have avoided the 4 year pause and all the deprivation and stress attached to it.

Back in about 2012 Trey Gowdy stepped in to intervene on our behalf against discrimination by the Obama bureaucracy regarding the sale of one of Mr. GG2’s mining patents. He finally got it resolved in our favor but we were then subjected to two long years of govt gang stalking for being so impertinent to object to tyranny.

Long story short at that time Trey Gowdy told Mr. GG2 on the phone that every agency of the US government from top to bottom was totally corrupt and that the oversight committees would have to start with the letter A and move to Z in order to expose it all.

So when Trump said “we’ve decided on a full 4 year pause so people can see how bad things can be and so they will be agreeable to the things we are going to do” he realized most Americans didn’t know or believe things were so corrupted that the system is incapable of fixing itself. An intervention is going to be necessary but they don’t want to do it until the average American is ready to accept it.


25 posted on 12/15/2023 9:39:15 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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