Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread XCV

Free Republic ^ | 22 April 2016 | Windflier

[Lonely Bull]

DO NOT VOTE ON THIS THREAD.

This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.

If you'd like to vote in the caucus, please look in the sidebar for the link, or check downthread here.

Thanks, and let 'er rip!

Windy

Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/23 (5 more days) (The final thread will be the one labeled "04/28.")

[Lonely Bull]

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Today's voting thread: Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/23 (5 more days)

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[Uncle Miltie]

I hate liver.

[Lonely Bull]

Table 1: Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads, most recent 15 days

Date	Voting thread	Discussion thread	Results [on www.hotr.us]	Sequence no.
4/23	[link]	[link]	[available later]	95
4/22	[link]	[link]	[link]	94
4/21	[link]	[link]	[link]	93
4/20	[link]	[link]	[link]	92
4/19	[link]	[link]	[link]	91
4/18	[link]	[link]	[link]	90
4/17	[link]	[link]	[link]	89
4/16	[link]	[link]	[link]	88
4/15	[link]	[link]	[link]	87
4/14	[link]	[link]	[link]	86
4/13	[link]	[link]	[link]	85
4/12	[link]	[link]	[link]	84
4/11	[link]	[link]	[link]	83
4/10	[link]	[link]	[link]	82
4/09	[link]	[link]	[link]	81

Table 2: tables with older threads

Dates	Table	Sequence nos.
4/06 - 4/20	[link]	78-92
3/30 - 4/13	[link]	71-85
3/23 - 4/06	[link]	64-78
3/16 - 3/30	[link]	57-71
3/09 - 3/23	[link]	50-64
3/02 - 3/16	[link]	43-57
2/24 - 3/09	[link]	36-50
2/17 - 3/02	[link]	29-43
2/10 - 2/24	[link]	22-36
2/03 - 2/17	[link]	15-29
1/27 - 2/10	[link]	8-22
1/20 - 2/03	[link]	1-15

[Bobalu]

[DoughtyOne]

Good evening...

Results: 2016 04/22 on the forum

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you very much Lonely Bull.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Depending on the freshness of the meat, I can see your point.

I’m really spoiled in that regard, living where we are...winters may be tough sometimes, the 100 mile roundtrips to get groceries or have your teeth cleaned gets to be a pain and we hear so often that Yellowstone is going to erupt at any second and blow us all to ****, it’s almost a local sick joke....

HOWEVER.

Grandma’s Liver with onions is some outstanding chow.

If you happen by, we’ll invite you in for some and spoil you on that big city grocery store mystery meat for all time.

[3D-JOY]

I have differed with Mark on the Natural Born Citizen argument and now on Trump...he seems totally unable to see both sides of the race this time...his screaming and yelling is offensive just like Becks snide remarks and outright hatred for Trump. Neither of them will do well with all the people who disagree and will no longer add to their ratings and Business ventures.

[MtnClimber]

I KNOW that bernie and hillary are Marxist totalitarians. I worry that Trump, with his previous leftist positions is another Bloomberg.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Great pic and your moniker is great.

[Bobalu]

[Kenny]

But its not just Mark Levin, its Rush, and so many others who I thought were on the side of a revolution. Yet when it really happens, when the people are able to ignore the mainstream media and defy the establishment, they bail. Blows my mind.

[Windflier]

Thanks, Bull.

[Windflier]

“I hate liver.”

That’s just weird. Un-American, even. You oughta be investigated.

[RedWulf]

I hate liver too. Hides in my anti-liver fort.

[Windflier]

Little 3.5% rally for Ted since yesterday. Looks like he’s back to his normal 13.5%.

[Windflier]

“I worry that Trump, with his previous leftist positions is another Bloomberg.”

Folks who are worried about Trump would do well to read his books. He’s held a great many positions that are in foursquare alignment with conservative ideals, for decades. It’s all documented, but few on either side seem willing to dig even a little bit to uncover his long-held views.

Instead, all we hear about are his ‘recent’ conversion to conservatism, and his long-term liberal views, both of which are mostly media created attack memes.

I grant that he’s not what most of us consider a ‘movement conservative’. He’s also not a hard boiled liberal. What he IS, is something very different, and very refreshing, which is a pragmatic populist with overtly pro-American approaches to the existential treats we face.

Trump wants to “make America great again”. Well isn’t that the entire underlying purpose and goal of movement conservatism? The only way to achieve Trump’s central aim, is to return the country to those ways of doing things that made us great to begin with, which is precisely what we conservatives are pushing for.

In the grand scheme of things, there’s no daylight between Trump’s key prescriptions for the country, and the deeply held desires of most conservatives.

[Nacho Bidnith]

Now that the caucus and discussion thread are winding down, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the three of you for your dedication to making sure the vote and discussion threads got posted every day.

I’ve enjoyed it.