Posted on 10/18/2022 11:50:46 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
First time I was eligible to vote at the age of 21, I voted for Hubert Humphrey because my father told me who to vote for. I was politically naive. I would never vote for another Democrat. I would rather not vote at all, then be a compromising hypocrite and hold my nose to vote for any Democrat or Republican I didn't care for. I won't vote for any Republican POS just to keep the seat. Because so many people are willing do just that, the GOP will never be reformed.
I am no longer a registered Republican, as I changed my 40+ year party affiliation to No Party after January 6th. Republicans stabbed President Trump and every faithful Republican voter in the back that day when they sanctioned unlimited voter fraud. Until voter fraud is totally eliminated, I will not compromise my values to vote for any candidate of the GOP, when that party doesn't even respect you or me enough to want to protect our ballots from being disenfranchised. The only Republican I would ever vote for again is Donald Trump, and at 75, there is no guarantee that I will even be around in 2024 to do that. The GOP doesn't care, doesn't want to help itself, or the people they beg for money every election cycle. That's the only time they know constituents like you and me. Once they get your vote, you spend the next 2 to 6 years being ignored by the same people who begged you for your money, and your vote.
One less place for Dem and Republican criminals to launder money through.
Actually having a debate and not just sending a blank check is “withholding funds”? No wonder we’re in debt!
The Biden gang has shown no sign that they will do so. Their actions seem to be intended do achieve the opposite, although such lunatics may actually believe that they are justified because "green energy will make us stronger."
Why is it we refuse to regulate the influx at our borders and insist on almost nothing from our euro partners in Ukraine? I do not know what the agenda is but seems little more than the complete economic and social destruction of a nation. Is there more?
He’s a weasel. Just wants to be Speaker.
Ukraine has probably received more money than most states.
CORRECTION: Ukraine, Hunter and "The Big Guy" (aka the Biden Crime Syndicate) have received more money than most states.
100%
We could have built the border wall twice as high with all the money we have sent to the Ukraine.
“You implied you might vote for a Democrat in the future if the Republicans don’t fund the Ukrainians. How did I misinterpret that?”
Is there a choice beside voting R vs D?
Is voting L or not voting a choice?
Amazing.
The war that became WWI had been planned for years before its late July, 1914 kick-off. The three main players — Britain, France, and Germany — had it all planned out before Archduke Franz Ferdinand ever thought about paying Sarajevo a visit. Hapless and conflicted Russia was a “fourth” for bridge, but was never taken seriously.
Austria-Hungary — with prodding and encouragement from Germany — presented Serbia with an impossible ultimatum, which guaranteed war; which is what Germany had wanted all along. Sarajevo was just the “trigger” that was used as an excuse; if it hadn’t been that, it would have been something else. But the three major European powers were going to go to war, and all three knew it.
The main culprit? Germany.
Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II thought Germany was not afforded the respect and recognition it felt it deserved. It is one of the reasons Wilhelm began a crash program in naval development, with the goal to eventually rival Britain on the seas, or at least keep the vaunted British fleet occupied. Germany felt it could dominate any land war in Europe, and Wilhelm reasoned that with a stalemate at sea there would be nothing to stop Germany from emerging as the absolute power in Europe; and, really, the world. Wilhelm saw it as Germany’s destiny. He believed Germany was ordained to fill this role.
Then, in 1910 with the death of Britain’s Edward VII, Wilhelm saw his chance, and himself as the undisputed European monarch; and he was going to take that and run with it. Dusting off the Schlieffen Plan — drafted a half dozen years earlier — which set out in detail Germany’s plan for conquest, it took only some tweaking by Moltke the Younger to get the ball rolling.
The plan called for the invasion of France from the north via neutral Belgium, with a subordinate move by a smaller force across Alsace-Lorrain against France’s eastern border. The main thrust, through Belgium would move south and invest Paris, while the smaller force kept French forces tied up in the east, preventing them from moving west to support Paris.
The plan was to keep Britain’s fleet busy with the German fleet, especially in the Chennel, and thus prevent or retard the delivery of British ground forces to the continent.
However, both Britain and France had concluded years before that such a plan would be exactly what Germany would embark on. Thus, the three major powers planned accordingly. And the plans of all three called for using neutral Belgium as the playing field, at least initially.
Russia? No one thought it would play any greater role than a nuisance on Germany’s eastern front. And they were pretty much spot on with that conclusion.
And so it came to pass.
“Ukraine” may not make it another 18 days....
Wow. Tell me you have no idea what’s going on and are suicidal without saying as much.
Yep. A neighbor just returned from Poland told me at the border there is almost solid traffic coming from Ukraine but hardly any going in. I want an audit.
Found another non real American.
Signed, disgusted in Alberta.
Even better if mad dog killer Putin had not invaded.
Yes, these “Americans” are beyond idiots.
Constitution and freedom be damned! We’ll support Nazis even if it means we get nuked!
Every vet is spinning in their graves.
We can fill the US with good energy jobs by kicking Russian corruption and energy out of Ukraine and the rest of Europe. Do we want to make that investment? Or would we rather Make Russia Great Again?
LOL. The warmongering nazis who are threatening to nuke us are in the Kremlin.
I think the plan all along has been to weaken this country economically and militarily. The first step was getting rid of Trump. I don't give a shit about Russia or Ukraine, or their future. Both countries made the Clintons, the Bidens, along with Congressional DemonRats and Repukes wealthy. I want nothing to do with any of them. I grew up in the 50's with nuclear threat a part of life every day, so what is going on now, I've already lived through, and at 75, I don't really give a shit about any of it. The pendulum has swung too far left to the point that it will never swing back the other way. We have no Republic anymore. I don't consider myself a doomsdayer, I consider myself a realist.
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