"Hey, I’m just going by what the press indicated. I know about Keyes ran for office before Obama, not to mention there were plans for Colin Powell to run as a Republican as well. And don’t remind me of Jesse Jackson, who sold out the pro-life groups."
We should be grateful we dodged that Powell bullet, what a scumbag backstabbing weasel he turned out to be. He'd have inflicted maximum damage to the GOP had he run and won in 1996 (and probably would've handed off the office right back to the Dems in 2000). As for Je$$e, an example of dragging a dollar bill through a trailer park. Sadly, had MLK lived, I think he would've been scarcely different. One reason I deplore his canonization (same with the Kennedys).
"I’m pretty sure if he actually did hate our country, he would not have bothered trying to fight against the Communists at all, seriously or unseriously, and if anything threw the gates wide open to the Communists and invite them over to invade us."
Given his actions in Bay of Pigs and the immigration law changes to allow for hordes of third-worlders, it's not possible for him to have been much worse. Even Khrushchev was gobsmacked at how much he gave away, essentially guaranteeing protection for Castro's gulag state for perpetuity. He would've been equally disastrous on Vietnam had he lived. None of that would've happened under a President Nixon in the '60s.
"Heck, Obama openly rooted for the terrorists to take control and bomb American soldiers even while he was President, not to mention openly told various motley mobs to basically kill anyone they found like some Purge movie. I’m pretty sure JFK would have done that, even go so far as to ship Cuban Communists to America and bomb the heck out of everyone while telling everyone they’re screwed, or heck, releasing criminals and telling them to murder fellow Americans and cut loose. That’s certainly what I would have done if I were president and hated my country. Not that I actually hate my country, of course (in fact, I’m disgusted that Lucas actually rooted for the Vietcong and tricked a lot of Americans into doing the same.)."
Zero was raised by Communists and sponsored by domestic terrorists. Had the media done their job in exposing him, this trash would never have been elected dogcatcher.
"Yeah, I’m far too familiar with the Democrat “fixes” with votes, especially LBJ (heck, I even suspect that one of the reasons Obama won reelection was due to Obama’s group stuffing the ballot box in various states. It seems suspicious that most if not all of the states that went for Romney just so happened to be Voter ID states, while most if not all of the states that went for Obama lacked Voter ID.)."
Willard was never going to win the Presidency. It was a joke. Zero didn't have to do anything illegal in 2012. Had a nominee been a non-leftist and actually willing to run a campaign, they'd have won.
"And I wasn’t saying that Illinois somehow exonerated JFK (actually, if anything, I didn’t even KNOW that Illinois apparently had voter fraud on Nixon’s side until someone on TVTropes noted it. My original edit if anything simply mentioned Nixon being honorable enough to not contest the vote even when he had every right to do so, putting country over himself)."
It would've ripped the country apart had Nixon contested that fraudulent election. Frankly, given everything that happened, I wish he had. After all, the Democrats haven't hesitated to do so in 2000, 2004 and 2016.
"Yeah, there definitely was bad he did. Still, he had to do something right in order to be elected twice, and not via ballot stuffing, either. And to be fair, we did have to worry about the Communists first and foremost (though I kinda wish, even if it meant Soviet-orchestrated protests, that we launched the spy satellite first instead of the Soviets.)."
Any Republican with a pulse would've won in 1952. Ike lucked out by having an uninspiring "intellectual pointy-head" in Adlai Stevenson as an opponent not once, but twice.
"Maybe, but on the other hand, being for no government doesn’t exactly make one conservative either. Just look at the Weathermen, or the Marxists, heck, just look at Michel Foucault especially (who was so dead-set against authority and government that he actually stated there shouldn’t be any court systems at all, not even socialist “people’s courts”, and instead just do mob vigilante violence like the September Massacres): Those guys advocated complete destruction of government and leaving no government in place, and they obviously aren’t conservative by ANY stretch. Heck, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the guy who found the anarchist movement, practically advocated for the same stuff Karl Marx did, and Rousseau and the Jacobins for that matter (it’s a very big misconception that anarchists are right-wing while totalitarians are left wing, just as it is a misconception that Nazis/fascists are right wing while communists are left-wing. Actually, if anything, totalitarian and anarchistic views fall under the same place on the political scale, the far left)."
The ideal is small, Constitutional and moral government that respects the rights of its citizens. One might say that (on paper) Marxism appears to be "no government" with all-citizen participation. Of course, in practice, it leads to oppression and mass-murder to enact it. I personally do not view pure democracy as a good thing, because that is best described as two wolves and a sheep deciding on what's for dinner. I think we have too much democracy in our nation right now. Anyone working for the federal government should not have a vote. It was one reason why DC was never intended to have the vote, because the presumption would be they would be voting on their own livelihoods at the expense of the taxpayers. It's no wonder the entire DC area is filthy rich now and votes heavily Democrat. It's a chronic problem even in state capitols and those with taxpayer-funded universities. That all will have to be changed or this nation will go bankrupt before long.
"And believe me, compared to Obama and Clinton, JFK is conservative by comparison. Even my dad says that, and he’s as conservative as one can get."
Though he never really was. You can make that claim about almost any pol 6 decades ago compared to today if only because our nation and culture has been pushed so dramatically leftward, and JFK was one of those responsible for making that happen.
"Well, at least he didn’t vote to remove him. I know if I were JFK and a full-on leftist, I’d actually vote him out with zeal, basking in his horror that I betrayed him in pure sociopathic relish. And I’d know this because that’s EXACTLY how most other Democrats acted, up to and even including Obama, to people who placed trust in them."
If he was principled and courageous, he'd have cast a vote one way or the other. JFK's arranging to be in a hospital conveniently on the day of the vote was the epitome of cowardice.
"Quite frankly, I’m pretty sure if he sold out his constituencies, he would have done it openly, sort of like how Obama openly backstabbed his constituencies, or the Congressional Black Caucus, or heck, Jesse Jackson with his switching from pro-life to pro-abortion at the drop of a hat. I’ll give you his selling out Catholic voters, though: His statement about not serving the word of the Pope and having Diem assassinated certainly would not have reflected well on pro-Catholic elements (certainly didn’t with me). And quite frankly, I’m not too fond of JFK myself (that said, he was STILL more respectable and still came across as being closer to conservative than Robert or ESPECIALLY Ted)."
I lament that the Kennedys ever were in politics. The mess that family made on the nation is incalculable.
"Yeah, I also wasn’t fond of that either from Hoover (though to be fair, a lot of the problems were caused by the Bonus Army causing a riot, and many of them being explicit Communists in all but name, and how FDR apparently engineered that little riot behind the scenes.). There were probably far better ways to do it, but then again, it’s all guess work at this point. We definitely shouldn’t have trusted Keyes, which they obviously did."
If Mellon wasn't up for it, Coolidge should've run for another term. He would've held firm in letting the economy work itself out and he certainly didn't tolerate threats.
"He was by 1952, and besides, there’s still Whittaker Chambers, and ESPECIALLY MacArthur, firing them would have ruined his reputation, yet he didn’t care. I know if I were in his position, I’d be genuinely terrified of doing anything bad to them because if I did, that would destroy a reputation I’ve cultivated about being anti-Communist, and thus wouldn’t DARE try to lay a finger on them, let alone demonize or even fire them unless I can find an excuse to do so."
We simply had the wrong people in charge of this country at the wrong time. Sadly, having decent Presidents is too rare a thing now, partly as a result of too much democracy. We're fortunate to have President Trump, a great man at the right time.
"Yes, which will be in a week. Let’s hope for the best. America needs fixing, badly, especially after far too many leftist crap. Of course, I’m not even sure if it CAN be fixed, not after reading Liberty, the God that Failed, anyways (not without REALLY redoing the whole thing, which is its own problem.)."
The country badly needs an exorcism, that's for sure.
"Yeah, I’m far too familiar with that rhetoric (not that the J-Street Jews were much better, and they’re Hasidic, meaning pretty religious, and some of them STILL vote Democrat even after being backstabbed multiple times). Doesn’t help that at Bob Iger (yes, the same guy who runs Walt Disney right now) IS a religious jew who is also a big enough Clintonite Democrat that he sabotaged any chance at Path to 9/11 seeing a DVD release solely to allow Hillary Clinton to run in 2008. At least, his being religious is what some web pages like Jesus Is Savior claimed. Socialism/Communism is certainly their belief worldview, though I wouldn’t call it a religion (in my mind, a religion requires a deity, supernatural elements, and an afterlife. Socialism/Communism has none, at least, not the latter two.). As far as Israeli Jews, I hope you’re right, but I’m a bit cynical on that front, since I heard that a lot of Israel’s elected officials and judges are pro-Palestinian right now, meaning it’s probably not going to be much better if we swapped them out."
It should be much easier to remove problem judges, both here and abroad, especially when they represent an existential threat to their countries. The Constitution never deemed these people to be dictators.
"Yeah, especially when Vietnamese-Americans most likely remember what happened in Vietnam when the Vietcong/NVA took over. And don’t get me started on Japanese people who AREN’T even American citizens. Hideo Kojima, the guy who does Metal Gear, for example, actually was a huge Obama supporter and basically used his games since at least Metal Gear Solid 2 to demonize America as a horrible nation that doesn’t even deserve to exist (even going so far as to call it the “biggest evil”), one game even being devoted to worshipping Che Guevara, and that was DESPITE his nearly causing nuclear war, which naturally would have affected Japan as Peace Walker (the game that lionized that monster) ironically pointed out, to occur during the Cuban Missile Crisis (and would have succeeded had Khrushchev not put a muzzle on him)."
That we let the left get away with this indoctrination and anti-American hate in so many facets of our government, education, cultural, and entertainment industries is appalling. This must change, too.
"Yeah, and let’s hope the Venezuelans don’t make the same mistake the Cubans made regarding becoming leftist later on. Heck, I had an Education professor who actually descended from Cubans who was at the very least left-of-center, if not full on leftist, so I know exactly what you’re talking about regarding Cubans going leftist despite fleeing from the result of leftwing policies."
It takes only one generation to reject all the values of the prior generation that protected and preserved a nation and its rights. It requires eternal vigilance to protect our guaranteed God-given rights. Unfortunately, we've seen countless groups follow down the path to evil. As long as there is always an instinct and desire to control others, it will always be a threat. The left is always about controlling others.
"No kidding about Asner. Definitely learned that about him after his little role as narrator of that awful Tax the Rich cartoon. Sheesh, what’s his issue with free markets, anyway?"
It's hard to deprogram people once they've been brainwashed. Of course, I don't see all these rich elitist Hollyweird idiots rushing to give 99% of their fortunes to the poor and living on minimum wage. If they did, they'd at least have something they don't have now... credibility.
"I don’t know about self-educated, but I did have a lot of help from my parents being engaged in critical thinking. And I know I’ve at times been framed for saying stuff on campus at least once during my time at Oglethorpe."
I went to public school, and I credit it with teaching me that virtually everything they do and stand for is wrong (and in the decades since, how much worse it is now). I got the early Democrat indoctrination and rejected it by the time I entered junior high school and became even more outspoken politically. It was not well received.
"I’ll admit I was nervous when Trump implied he would consider not repealing Roe v. Wade in a stump speech in New York during the 2016 election (that basically acts as my smell test, especially considering I’m obligated as a Catholic to end it). Fortunately, his pick of Mike Pence eliminated those doubts."
It would've been disingenuous, since a President doesn't have the power to repeal a court decision unilaterally, only the court (and Congress) does. Chipping away at it seems to be working to a degree. It was an egregious ruling, to be sure. The issue should never have gone beyond the basics under the purview of a doctor, that being rape/incest, severe fetal health issues or life of the mother.
"As far as who Brooke Anne Smith is, well, this is her twitter account: https://twitter.com/Brookeannesmith also her Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/brookeannesmith/ Had she been a leftist, I’m pretty sure her posts would have called for gun control, claiming freedom is free, and or demonized the military, like how Sarah Silvermann or several other Hollywood leftists such as Michael Moore or George Lucas have done all of that and more. And I’m pretty sure people would be somewhat familiar with Jodi Benson, since she voiced Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, aka the movie that saved Disney from bankruptcy. On that note, Kelsey Grammar came out as a Republican back in 2003 and even mocked Michael Moore, also founded the RightNetwork (of course, I’m not fond of the fact that he is pro-choice, which is the main reason I don’t fully support him, but still...). And Clint Eastwood is one of the few open conservatives in Hollywood, played Dirty Harry."
A few out there, just not enough. You should read James Woods' Twitter. He takes no prisoners.
"And shame on Schwartzenegger, he should have known better especially considering how his dad was a Nazi and clearly wasn’t fond of that fact (and Nazis were on the left)."
His actions were deliberate. He wanted to obliterate the CA Republican Party as a viable opposition to the Stalinistic and corrupt Democrat party. I warned folks here he needed to be defeated. He turned out to be even more left-wing than the Democrat he recalled from office, Gov. Gray Davis.
“We should be grateful we dodged that Powell bullet, what a scumbag backstabbing weasel he turned out to be. He’d have inflicted maximum damage to the GOP had he run and won in 1996 (and probably would’ve handed off the office right back to the Dems in 2000). As for Je$$e, an example of dragging a dollar bill through a trailer park. Sadly, had MLK lived, I think he would’ve been scarcely different. One reason I deplore his canonization (same with the Kennedys).”
Eh, to be fair, MLK at least knew enough about Communism to denounce it as anti-Christian, so he definitely was far better than Jesse by any day of the week (especially when he if anything outright loved Communism, especially hailing Castro).
“Given his actions in Bay of Pigs and the immigration law changes to allow for hordes of third-worlders, it’s not possible for him to have been much worse. Even Khrushchev was gobsmacked at how much he gave away, essentially guaranteeing protection for Castro’s gulag state for perpetuity. He would’ve been equally disastrous on Vietnam had he lived. None of that would’ve happened under a President Nixon in the ‘60s.”
Yeah, Nixon probably wouldn’t have made the same mistakes JFK did. Though then again, apparently he also lied about the Missile Gap when Ike told BOTH of them it was false via U2 data if the Politically Incorrect Guide to the 1960s is to be believed, so who knows? As far as JFK and whether he could do much worse, I’d beg to differ, even though I’d like to believe you that he couldn’t afford to do so. Aside from how the Democrats acted later on (including Maxine Waters among others), various left-wingers can and HAVE acted worse around that time, like for example, Jean-Paul Sartre, the May 1968 rioters, Michel Foucault, and the like (and I’m not even taking into account people of the distant past such as Sacco and Vanzetti, Emma Goldman, the Jacobins and other French Revolutionaries, and Russian Nihilists, among others). Heck, the Weathermen Bombers and George Lucas automatically proved themselves to be FAR worse than JFK on his worst days, actively rooting for the enemy and actively, deliberately trying to blow up their own fellow American citizens in the case of the Weathermen Underground, and George Lucas, if his interview with TIME is to be believed, is no fan of the Kennedys either (apparently he implied that the formation of the Empire had some basis on the Kennedy clan as well as Nixon. It can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20020423000824/http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,232440,00.html and here’s the specific line paragraph: “”I’m more on the liberal side of things,” [George Lucas] says. “I grew up in San Francisco in the ‘60s, and my positions are sort of shaped by that ... If you look back 30 years ago, there were certain issues with the Kennedys, with Richard Nixon, that focused my interest.” Lucas’ own geopolitics can sound pretty bleak: “All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it’s Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ... What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction?””). Heck, Lucas alongside Bill Ayers is arguably one of the people responsible for ensuring Obama not only got elected, but also did a massive tax hike to ensure that “the rich don’t own government” or some garbage like that. Besides, I’m not entirely sure whether Khrushchev was satisfied with Cuba or not. Yes, his memoirs definitely indicated he was, but on the other hand, Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former DIE agent, relayed how his boss witnessed Khrushchev basically screaming they should kill the Viper in reference to JFK after Cuba, which implies he may have felt JFK did in fact humiliate him. You can find it here and at similar places like WND: https://www.scientiapress.com/kgb-kennedy
“Zero was raised by Communists and sponsored by domestic terrorists. Had the media done their job in exposing him, this trash would never have been elected dogcatcher.”
Fully agreed with you there.
“Willard was never going to win the Presidency. It was a joke. Zero didn’t have to do anything illegal in 2012. Had a nominee been a non-leftist and actually willing to run a campaign, they’d have won.”
Eh, I don’t know about that. Some footage of Obama’s speeches during that time seemed to show very minimal people attending his speeches (though then again, they never bothered to pan up, so who knows). And besides, you have to admit, having nearly all of Obama’s winning states happen to be states that have no Voter ID laws comes across as suspect, and having no states with Voter ID laws that he won. That would point to voter fraud. That’s not even getting into how some places such as Philadelphia had far higher turnout for Obama than there were actual citizenry of that community. I’m assuming you mean Romney, because I definitely don’t recall him being called “Willard.” Plus, I’m pretty sure Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum were actual conservatives and not RINOs/leftists, if that’s what you’re implying.
“It would’ve ripped the country apart had Nixon contested that fraudulent election. Frankly, given everything that happened, I wish he had. After all, the Democrats haven’t hesitated to do so in 2000, 2004 and 2016.”
True, but then again, back then we had the issue of potentially going into nuclear Armageddon.
“Any Republican with a pulse would’ve won in 1952. Ike lucked out by having an uninspiring “intellectual pointy-head” in Adlai Stevenson as an opponent not once, but twice.”
Perhaps. I do know this much, though, Conservapedia and the Politically Incorrect Guide to the 1960s seemed fond of him, the latter far more fond of him than JFK by any stretch.
“The ideal is small, Constitutional and moral government that respects the rights of its citizens. One might say that (on paper) Marxism appears to be “no government” with all-citizen participation. Of course, in practice, it leads to oppression and mass-murder to enact it. I personally do not view pure democracy as a good thing, because that is best described as two wolves and a sheep deciding on what’s for dinner. I think we have too much democracy in our nation right now. Anyone working for the federal government should not have a vote. It was one reason why DC was never intended to have the vote, because the presumption would be they would be voting on their own livelihoods at the expense of the taxpayers. It’s no wonder the entire DC area is filthy rich now and votes heavily Democrat. It’s a chronic problem even in state capitols and those with taxpayer-funded universities. That all will have to be changed or this nation will go bankrupt before long.”
Oh, I fully agree with you there. Heck, if anything, I actually think we should have absolutely NO democracy at all, as when I think of democracy, I think of the French Revolution and its excesses, having anarchy and utter lawlessness as the closest thing to an order of the day, killing neighbors for a sheer laugh, and all of that. Or, to use a more contemporary reference, the episode of SEAL Team’s first season where Bravo Team has to evacuate an American embassy due to an uptick in riots in a Somalian region over election results. I believe the name of the episode was “Collapse.”
“Though he never really was. You can make that claim about almost any pol 6 decades ago compared to today if only because our nation and culture has been pushed so dramatically leftward, and JFK was one of those responsible for making that happen.”
Even still, he definitely still came across as conservative, certainly a lot moreso than FDR ever did, and bear in mind, I’m no fan of JFK either. Besides, I can and have named plenty of people from around that time, including Americans, who were even FURTHER to the Left than JFK ever was, like for example Jean Paul Sartre (basically praised Che Guevara as the “most complete human being of the century”, not to mention had a hand in May 1968 and even got arrested and pardoned simply because, and I quote, “one does not arrest Voltaire.”), Michel Foucault (basically same deal as Sartre, only he basically advocated lynch mobs being the standard practice, and practically denounced any governmental systems, oh, and also never found a radical group he didn’t like), the Weathermen Underground, Malcolm X (heck, that guy outright celebrated JFK’s death), among others. Probably also George Lucas, as well.
“If he was principled and courageous, he’d have cast a vote one way or the other. JFK’s arranging to be in a hospital conveniently on the day of the vote was the epitome of cowardice.”
Well, technically, if he were truly principled and courageous, he would have actually voted WITH Joe McCarthy, as siding against him and with the Democrat Party isn’t even close to courageous, let alone principled. And besides, by that logic, Che Guevara was “courageous and principled” for gunning down defenseless boys with a smile on his face, even when it’s very obvious that he was, aside from being sadistic, also a massive coward via his last moments in life where he pathetically begged for his life. Not voting is still ultimately more courageous than outright voting against Joe McCarthy and siding with the Democrat mob out of sheer peer pressure.
“I lament that the Kennedys ever were in politics. The mess that family made on the nation is incalculable.”
You and me both. Though JFK probably was the least bad of them, certainly he was a better man than Ted Kennedy at least. Had Ted Kennedy been there, he probably would have voted with the Democrats with a smile on his face as he watched McCarthy squirm at the betrayal.
“If Mellon wasn’t up for it, Coolidge should’ve run for another term. He would’ve held firm in letting the economy work itself out and he certainly didn’t tolerate threats.”
Let’s hope so regarding that.
“We simply had the wrong people in charge of this country at the wrong time. Sadly, having decent Presidents is too rare a thing now, partly as a result of too much democracy. We’re fortunate to have President Trump, a great man at the right time.”
Yes, it is indeed very fortunate that we got Trump at a time like this. Though I’m not entirely sure if it’s a result of too much democracy or that we even have democracy to begin with (like I said, the only thing I can think of with democracy is the excesses of the French Revolution, as well as similar events).
“The country badly needs an exorcism, that’s for sure.”
That, I agree with.
“It should be much easier to remove problem judges, both here and abroad, especially when they represent an existential threat to their countries. The Constitution never deemed these people to be dictators.”
Yeah, that’s one flaw with the Constitution (the other of course being that there was never an explicit accreditation to God himself). Good thing we have an amendment process, though.
“That we let the left get away with this indoctrination and anti-American hate in so many facets of our government, education, cultural, and entertainment industries is appalling. This must change, too.”
Agreed, we shouldn’t have let the left access those organs at all. Unfortunately, if we try to do anything about it, we’d get accused of destroying the Constitution. Besides, I personally blame Thomas Jefferson and his throwing his lot with the Jacobins, even when he obviously would have been aware of their more inhumane actions due to personally witnessing them during his time in France, and basically crafting that Adam and Eve letter voicing solidarity for those jerks. And he advocated for education, which is a large part of the reason we have this mess.
“It takes only one generation to reject all the values of the prior generation that protected and preserved a nation and its rights. It requires eternal vigilance to protect our guaranteed God-given rights. Unfortunately, we’ve seen countless groups follow down the path to evil. As long as there is always an instinct and desire to control others, it will always be a threat. The left is always about controlling others.”
Either that, or having everyone behave chaotically and without ANY standards, kill their own friends for a sheer laugh, like the Jacobins or anarchists. Besides, I view God to be a massive control-freak and even a bit of a megalomaniac, and that’s mainly why I serve him, mostly due to outright fear and terror of him.
“It’s hard to deprogram people once they’ve been brainwashed. Of course, I don’t see all these rich elitist Hollyweird idiots rushing to give 99% of their fortunes to the poor and living on minimum wage. If they did, they’d at least have something they don’t have now... credibility.”
No kidding, on both counts.
“It would’ve been disingenuous, since a President doesn’t have the power to repeal a court decision unilaterally, only the court (and Congress) does. Chipping away at it seems to be working to a degree. It was an egregious ruling, to be sure. The issue should never have gone beyond the basics under the purview of a doctor, that being rape/incest, severe fetal health issues or life of the mother.”
Maybe he doesn’t have that power, but did he really have to imply he was going to keep Roe v. Wade as law of the land in that speech at New York? He could have at least mentioned trying to get some Justices included on the Supreme Court who are Originalists and also try to remove Roe v. Wade.
“A few out there, just not enough. You should read James Woods’ Twitter. He takes no prisoners.”
Well, I know there’s Right Network, but yeah, you’re right, there’s too much to risk openly admitting to Conservative principles. And I’ll see what I can do (shame he’s effectively blacklisted. He did make a good Hades in Hercules).
“His actions were deliberate. He wanted to obliterate the CA Republican Party as a viable opposition to the Stalinistic and corrupt Democrat party. I warned folks here he needed to be defeated. He turned out to be even more left-wing than the Democrat he recalled from office, Gov. Gray Davis.”
Yeah, which makes his complaints about his father being a Nazi even more of a problem, since he hated that bit about him. If I were him, I’d go very far to avoid being a Nazi like my father, to the extent that if anything I’d be closer to a libertarian if not a far-right Conservative, precisely BECAUSE I’d realize the Nazis and the Communists are the same thing.