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Why could this be the last election?
x.com ^ | 10.31.2024 | America

Posted on 10/31/2024 5:26:41 PM PDT by rxsid

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To: Leaning Right
If they are born here, they are all automatically citizens - and most probably future D voters.

Many Hispanics are voting for Trump. So if they have the time to settle in the U.S., they will actually Americanize. Obviously, the Democrats are not in favor of that. So they're flooding our borders with illegal immigration.

Florida and Texas are both heavily Hispanic. Yet they are reliably Republican.

21 posted on 10/31/2024 7:20:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Ezekiel

Thank you very much for the link.


22 posted on 10/31/2024 9:07:15 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
Too much has been thrown away by two generations and taken for granted.

Which two generations?

I say the boomers are the main culprits. They offshored our manufacturing, technology, tax base, and money, and imported cheap labor, so they could get their tech toys for less.

23 posted on 11/01/2024 3:51:32 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: rlmorel; Leaning Right
I didn't want to merely post an excerpt from the letter , because the totality of his thought process is key to the sense and vision of the word. That said,

To descend to lesser things: I knew I had written a story of worth in ‘The Hobbit’ when reading it (after it was old enough to be detached from me) I had suddenly in a fairly strong measure the ‘eucatastrophic’ emotion at Bilbo’s exclamation: ‘The Eagles! The Eagles are coming!’. . . .

The Eagles Are Coming | Compilation of Scenes from TLOTR&Hobbit

From the comments:

I love the eagles. Whenever they showed up, you knew things were gonna be alright...

-- yessir, it's like the ancestors are coming to your aid

More than a passing similarity to:

Matthew 24

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Lore, or LOTR?

"Son of the Republic, look and learn"

24 posted on 11/01/2024 3:55:32 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: rxsid

John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

The further we remove ourselves from the creator the less likely we will survive as a democratic Republic form of government...

My guess is we will evolve into a purely democratic state dominated and controlled by one party... assuming the constitution is changed to remove the electoral college...

Even today the ability of independents winning elections is tough... it likely will never happen in the future as the central government becomes even more powerful...

An increasingly far left SCOTUS, whether packed or not, will only feed the growing central government...

Only a revival of the church and conservative values will stem this tide... I pray such happens... but I am not confident in such...


25 posted on 11/01/2024 4:26:04 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: Ezekiel

Dagney Taggert is the main female character in “Atlas Shrugged”...........


26 posted on 11/01/2024 5:05:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Ezekiel

Thank you-when I was going through high school, I stopped reading for pleasure, and didn’t start up again until I was a few years in the Navy...

One of the first books I read when I started back up was “Lord Of The Rings”.

From the very first time I read that book, that scene “The Eagles are coming!” it felt very different to me than the rest of the book.

Rescuers when all hope is lost.


27 posted on 11/01/2024 5:43:38 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
Long term, I'm pessimistic. The United States will see its 250th birthday. It may or may not observe its 275th birthday (50/50 chance). The country won't make it to its 300th birthday. Too much has been thrown away by two generations and taken for granted.

I agree. Thankfully I'm on the downhill side of life, but something could rise from the ashes of the USA. No nation lasts forever.

28 posted on 11/01/2024 5:48:15 AM PDT by Darth Gill
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To: Paal Gulli

I think you need to look up the definitions.


29 posted on 11/01/2024 6:41:27 AM PDT by Reily
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To: rlmorel

Your lil bit of history sure has a good vibe.

See, and for some odd reason I thought to ping you.

That must have been it. 🙂

*Rescuers when all hope is lost.*

What an election we have looming!


30 posted on 11/01/2024 2:24:31 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: rxsid

🚨 PENNSYLVANIA UPDATE:

🔵Democrats - 947,214
🔴Republicans - 553,158
🟡Others - 188,179

Democrats lead by 394,057

In 2020, Democrats led early vote by 1.1 Million Votes going into Election Day.

5 million votes to go in PA!

Data: @MichaelPruser— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) November 1, 2024


31 posted on 11/01/2024 3:21:43 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Red Badger

Yeah but she didn’t have the Omega 13.

It makes all the difference,

leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. The army which carries the Omega 13 before it is invincible.

🤫


32 posted on 11/01/2024 3:29:31 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel
Indeed. It is true I don't have an ounce of expectation that the Left won't steal this. But at least more people are watching this time. And I have two videos I watched that just made me feel extremely upbeat: Just finished watching both of these links the other night:

Jordan Peterson gesticulates madly while explaining-I found this HIGHLY entertaining from a brilliant man.
LINK: These are Trump's X-Men (Jordan Peterson)

I admire Dinesh D'Souza, who made this available to watch for free, putting his own skin in the game:
LINK: Vindicating Trump. (Full movie)

If you need something to make you smile, both of these will do so.

33 posted on 11/01/2024 6:48:52 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Leaning Right
While I agree to a point that it seems like only the National Gauard could be mobilized to remove the TENS of MILLIONS of foreign nationals in our country here unlawfully...I believe that congress plays an essential role in this and here's why.

If the freebees are taken away from those illegal aliens: The free food, free housing, free medical, free dental, free legal and on and on and on...

The majority will self deport. And, if they need a "helping hand" to get back to their home countries (after, say X number of months), I'm ok with paying for their one-way ticket back.

There has to be congressional buy-in to the cutting of funds. As in, just cut off the funds, totally.

Many of the illegal aliens would go back home if they have no job, no free housing, no free food, etc.

That has to be part of it.

And, that only has a possibility of happening if (R)'s turn out to vote in (R) control of the congress.

If the (D)'s win, it's the exact opposite and there undoubtedly will not be a "we'll get em next time" for several generations at the earliest.

34 posted on 11/01/2024 9:45:18 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Sarcazmo
And he was 1000% right.

(not a typo)

35 posted on 11/01/2024 9:48:35 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: PigRigger

Agree...completely.


36 posted on 11/01/2024 9:50:22 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rlmorel
Thanks much.

I watched the J.P. vid so far.

You're right. That certainly was fun and uplifting.

The other day I posted this observation (fairly brief, not a usual TL DR posting, heh) about the timing of ellipse vs. ellipsis re the "garbage" story line . You might enjoy the humor in the peculiar integration of the words and events.

What I didn't include was that The Ellipse is a pretty symbolic place -- there's the Meridian Stone and Zero Milestone, but also it's the place of the National Christmas Tree and the National Menorah, and of their illumination of course.

And besides, the ellipsis/ellipse etym trail(s) is a fun ride as well:

ellipsis

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.

>>>

ἔλλειψις

Etymology

ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, omit”) +‎ -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix), the former from ἐν- (en-) +‎ λείπω (leípō, “to leave behind”).

***

Sins of oh mission! 😉

Finally, I had to laugh because "South Park":

The Ellipse, sometimes referred to as President's Park South...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellipse

😁

37 posted on 11/02/2024 5:26:15 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: rxsid

We are currently living in occupied territory. The democraps overthrew the US government.


38 posted on 11/02/2024 5:28:58 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Ezekiel

Etymology is a fascinating subject, especially in the English language which has taken so much from many other languages.


39 posted on 11/02/2024 5:40:49 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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