And I like Ted Cruz, he is most useful right where he is as a Senator.

“it is broken”.

“IT”, has always been broken and there is no pristine state that politics has ever and will ever exist in. Delusion.

You go back into the BTB archives and read what I said then, I stand by it now.

Trump and the young bloods are the solution here and not your flavor of political logic.

I don’t know what you were doing, but I was paying attention to the primaries. I would bet everything I’ve got that Trump had ugly compromising blackmail film on pundits who otherwise would have stood strong in opposition to Hillary’s former great and enthusiastic supporter.

Support that at your own risk, Cotour, for for the love of all that is right, STOP being angry with those who understand that a lying cheating bully as a leader is a bad choice every time.

Trump understands what it takes to win in politics. If McCain understood that and took Obama out as he should have he would have been the president. But he did not.

Who was “Better” than Trump?

In the knock down drag out contest Trump won, who is better than he? Romney? Jeb Bush?, Chris Cristy?

You need to rethink yourself.

There were none standing that were worthy.

Folks who pretend it is an eagle with sharp talons and beak and an incredible eye for spotting prey from a distance, get angry at those who sadly, patiently, diligently, point out that their “eagle” has webbed feet, a rounded beak, and an eye for managing little ducklings until they get picked off by predators following Mama Duck across the pond or the pasture.

A man who bullies, cheats, and strong-arms his way into office over better men, deserves my contempt and yours, Cotour.

Good grief. You deserve BETTER than Trump, Cotour. I wish you knew it.

That being said you can not always take him literally but you can take him serious. He is a serious man, a man of consequence and his actions regarding how he interprets his fiduciary responsibilities concerning his position as the president as a function of the Constitution is apparent to me. Just tell me what he has done, and not necessarily what he has said. There is a difference, see if you can detect it.

You would be more comfortable with a more “perfect” human being as president. Well you do not have that, and you never will. So you go to battle with the army that you have and not the one you wish you had.

Trump IMO, and I have stated this from pretty near the beginning of this political juggernaut, and the documentation is contained right here on the BTB web site, is in line with the Founders and certainly will be considered in line right after Lincoln. Not Reagan, not Clinton, not either Bush, certainly not Obama. Trump stands head and shoulders over them all.

Trump is what you have got, get comfortable with him he will be around for a long time both in person and in his inspiration and example for those who will come after him and mirror his accomplishments in preserving the country as formulated.

If not him, then who? The Conservative young bloods will be inspired by him and there in is the only salvation for the country as you know and love it.

Trump caved. Just like Cruz and every other Republican and conservative. And you want me to take him seriously?

If I cannot take a man literally, then I sure as heck am not going to take him seriously.

Wow. It’s a bit like my own slip … saying that something certainly probable in an up post.

Even under Trump, we are being told how to live our lives, even though it comes from people like Fauci, who Gruber us in order to get our cooperation.

Screw Fauci. Screw his wife. Screw his children. Screw his dog. Screw the horse he rode in on and the fleas from that horse.

These days I know that at least a large plurality of people reject both parties/movements because arithmetic says so. I don’t care what media project or what pundits say, if it disputes the arithmetic, I’ll go with the latter.

It is really getting spooky. When it fully dawns that we are at this moment in a state of lawlessness, all bets are off. I have a pretty good knowledge of what it was like once upon a time here in California and how it happened “legally” ……. and how it was resolved. I wonder if those bad times will revisit these peaceful scenic places? Oh well. Here’s lookin’ at you … just read news of a local State Polytechnic University senior who died over Christmas, on campus. No other details. Hmmmmmm …. gosh ….. gee, we know newspapers have a longstanding (and honorable) policy of laying low on suicides especially young ones, in how they are reported. So as far as our news media goes, we may not know the impact until it touches us.

My observation is that as the Democrats moved farther to the left the Republican Party, as well as its voters, moved left as well, running fast as though to catch up. This is how we got Trump, who is far more like the Bill Clinton administration than the Reagan administration.

As long as there is no strong political party to the right of center, this country is going to end up as a tyranny. Since the government already can direct us as to how to spend our own money (by Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare) and is now forbidding us from leaving our houses except to gather food or for emergencies (e.g. house is on fire, or to screen for cancer — oops, can’t even leave the house for cancer, because that might take up a Wuhan flu bed) and directing us as to what we must wear (e.g. face diapers).

Some people say that at this rate we will soon lose our country, but I say that we lost it in 2014, when the Supreme Court ruled that government can direct us to buy, do, say, or be anything that they choose, so long as a tax (Sixteenth Amendment) is associated with that edict. This most definitely is not the country that we grew up in.

Welcome to Obama’s America, land of the formerly free.

And I do not like your analogy.

And the metric that must be seen are the actions of Trump and his administration. Trump buries all other modern presidents in this regard. And that is the only thing that matters to me.

Have you ever wondered why nothing really made sense to you in politics in the past? Trump makes sense for the first time in your life.

Don’t take Trump literally, take him seriously.

Do you fear enslavement, or do you love liberty? WHICH is going to lead true?

Here’s the thing. When a railroad bridge is made of balsawood, no matter how real it looks, when an actual steam locomotive (that would be reality) tries to cross it, it is going to collapse.

What popular free-chosen media has projected as the political divide in America, is about as accurate as the picture it has projected of C19 illness and death — wildly distorted. Government regulations and market interference have made it impossible for free market media to fill the demand, government fire out of control. Arithmetic tells the truth, and anecdotal evidence well discerned also tells much truth. Politicians, media (and marketing, hand in hand, the art of projecting a compelling “reality”), doctors, science, either guess with good intent or self-interested, lie, or entertain. Arithmetic leads true.

Trump and Hillary were loathed. I stopped monitoring election arithmetic in 2016 because I saw that today’s new age dark age rejects arithmetic as political black magic of the far far right.

Trump is the founder of what is coming in the Conservative future of America and the only thing that stands between you and this:

https://youtu.be/WijoL3Hy_Bw

(Watch 5 minutes and you will watch 10, and that is about all you will be able to take. This Leftist / Marxist brand of destruction is what is underway courtesy of the Democrat political machine that has been taken over by the young blood Leftists in their party and who’s older white cracker political dinosaurs are pandering to. This too must change.)

You don’t personally like Trump? No one cares.

And it will the the young bloods like Hawley, who himself despises Trump, and the many others that will be the beneficiaries of Trump’s abilities in being an American nationalist catalyst and adherent to the Constitution. The Democrats want to abandon the Constitution for some perverted form of hollowed out America.

Don’t personally like Trump? Think Trump is offensive?

Get over it, he is it, like it or not.

Don’t choose to be a political dinosaur.

Anyway, thank you so much for the supreme compliment. Press on, patriot.

In a perfect world, yes. But in this world for the past 20 years, Republicans and conservatives, not just elected but among voters, have become something very different than portrayed. They are functional Democrats and liberals, loving to have government “shepherd” us poor stupid citizens, and for decades now they have been celebrated as “Republicans” and “conservatives.”

I have FACED IT. Many, many older and many younger than me and just as politically passionate about liberty, have DENIED that truth and they continue losing because they are using a wrong tool to “win.”

ALL of the long lectures I see penned about the evils of Democrats and leftists and communism, I have been hearing and reading literally since the late 1960s, as a 6th grader I identified as a Republican and conservative and was politically passionate because of where I come from. UNDERSTAND that what you write most of the time is only repeating what I have heard for decades, about the evils of Democrats versus the virtues of Republicans, and about how communism/socialism creeps in.

Forest and trees …. caught up in the trees, of language (like leaves they change seasonally), the details of the dif between a socialist and a communist and how Democrats lie, etc etc etc, … trees, all of them. How to get out of the FOREST though is what to remember and pay attention to.

The Democrats are passionate in different ways. On the political side its all about the acquisition of and the retention of power, PERIOD, plain and simple and the Socialist model of the populous being dependent on government serves them best. And that is by any means necessary.

And then there are the true believers, the every day minions that see, or have been trained to see through their indoctrination the empowerment of the individual as an offence to the collective model. And that IMO is because they are in fact inadequate humans who are of a dependent nature and see the independence and success of others as an offence and direct threat to them. An unspoken jealousy of sorts.

And then there are the Democrat Americans who exist more in the middle between the two who are good, hard working, tax paying, house buying and building, TV watching every day Americans who are just half educated on all of this who just want to pay their bills and live in peace who see the other side as being the tools of corrupt and immoral corporations. And they have to choose a side or they choose the side that their mother and father chose for them, and they stay there. (And to be clear, both sides are corrupt and immoral in their own special ways).

I think what this all demonstrates is that the Left, the Democrats, the Communist Chinese, Soros, Stacey Abrams, Hillary, John Podesta, Democrat governors and mayors, prosecutors, attorney generals etc, those in media and the corporations that own them are more passionate and committed to their cause and they will literally do anything to fulfill their agenda.

The Republicans? Not so committed. They talk a lot of bovine effluent, but are just not as committed and organized and they do not have those who are committed to their cause, if you can define exactly what their cause is that is.

The only one on our side who IMO see things correctly and have the vision and the passion are few, lead by Trump at this moment in time and several others in government, and about 80 million people who are happy to back them up. But we are right now playing several men down.

The powers that be in politics/business (pharmaceuticals?) are the only culprits. In a free market, consumers are responsible for how they consume a product. This must be accepted in order to progress toward a solution. As long as people buy into the myth that “the media lied!,” then they will continue swirling downward.

The media did ZIP but tell its consumers what certain people said, and ignored what others said. The media did zip but report numbers of deaths, hospitalizations, ICU visits, and “cases.” The media did ZIP but take billions of dollars in advertising from the medical industry, an aggressive 20-year outreach of fear marketing from every angle, on every medium, every hour, from sides of busses to elaborate television and radio commercials. Billions of dollars for the media, were they supposed to turn it down?

When I showed my husband the breakdown of the arithmetic, on paper, that more than 99.97 percent of us in our so-called “at risk” county (thanks to I think Max or someone here correcting my off factor of 10, I mostly only ballpark!) are fine after a year of this, isn’t that good enough for the love of Mary — his response was an indignant: “Well, why didn’t the media tell people? How are they supposed to know?”

Of course I snarled back, “Nobody told me! I figured it out myself, for crying out loud!” He’s a patient man (though I notice that the tick above his left eye is getting worse lately … *ducking*) and saw my point. He’d better, anyway.

But truly, it is plain that anything to do with an actual virus or the efficacy of social distancing or masks and how they are reducing “cases” are ALL DIVERSIONS at this point. And it is by design that it coincides with an election in dispute between two powers-that-be in politics whom most Americans hold in contempt but media and marketing, again, sway consumers into seeing a certain reality that is only partly there …

A line from the movie Tombstone comes to mind, in the bar, Marshal Fred White: “It’s gettin’ kinda spooky around here.”
The Wild West is back right now, actually …!

David Telford noted: “Recall MIT professor Jonathan Gruber explaining, a decade before, why they had to lie to get Obamacare imposed. Because the American people are stupid, I think he said.”

He relied upon the stupidity of the American voter, but since he did not have Republicans or conservatives on his side, he meant the stupidity of the Democrat voter or the leftist voter.

I do not do any of those things, people are genuinely scared and they are doing what it is that they feel makes them proactive in dealing with the situation and keeping themselves healthy. I spoke in a strong manner to my employee because she need a symbolic slap in the face because she was taking too far. And she admitted to me that she indeed was making herself crazy with this stuff.

The powers that be in politics and in media are the culprits here, each for their own purposes.

Xopher:

Is that Biden to China info stream your assumption? Which I do not think is unreasonable. Or is it based on information that you can have seen and can share?

This was a Chinese attack, the election fraud had Chinese assistance. And the reason President Trump has suspended military intelligence briefings with Biden was because:
Trump’s military intelligence gave the Biden team, and only the Biden team, some fake intel. And within 24hrs, that same fake intel showed up in CCP intelligence traffic.

If I am walking along and see a person wearing a mask while driving, I point at them and laugh; if I walk near someone wearing a mask, I catch their eye if possible, and smirk at them. If I am driving and see someone walking or jogging outdoors while wearing a mask, I slow down and gape at them, and show how amused I am at their silliness.

I believe it is my duty to make folks who support this societal homicide, feel stupid and embarrassed about it. I do it to gratify my own feelings but more than that, I do it for children because Covid Believers are setting up to destroy those kids’ liberty and they must at least be discouraged or more like warned that people will step in and stop them unless they get the hint and back off. I’m doing my part.

Found a short interview where he tells what he really thinks and it’s virtually preaching to the choir on this website. He reaffirms everything said here, even Janyuary’s separation between “medicine and state” 3:47min
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=+dr.+Ron+Paul+on+masks+&t=h_&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D26pLFGcDRbM

I have to share this as an example of just how insane this entire episode in America is making people. And the likes of Dr. Fauci are contributing to it by his movable goals in his attempt to manage the public.

Just today, the woman that works for me is telling me how she is going to once again get tested for the virus. She has already been tested I think 4 times, complains that it is very uncomfortable. All negative. She is perfectly fine, no symptoms, no cough, no head ache, no fever……….NOTHING that would indicate that she should be tested for anything other than by a psychiatrist for a mental disorder.

She stays away from people, she wears her mask more or less religiously, and she is making herself crazy. (Full blown confused Liberal)

She has watched me deal every day of the virus event with the public, no mask, taking my precautions, 10K transactions plus, but she is isolated and she is the one who is getting herself tested constantly. I had to tell her today in strong terms to: “Stop, you are making yourself crazy with this stuff, you do not have the virus and it is unlikely that you will get the virus”.

My neighbors, both wear their masks religiously, have stayed away from most people, recite all of the CDC / Dr. Fauci rhetoric, they visited a friends house, they both got the virus. They really are not certain where they got it from. 10 days later after sleeping it off they are fine. Although they are reporting heart palpitations as several other have reported the same to me. (Again, confused full blown Liberals)

They all ask:

Why are you not getting tested? Why are you not wearing your mask? When are you going to get tested?

Im not going to get tested, I have no reason to get tested, and I have taken measures to prevent me from getting the virus.

People are taking the information that they are presented by the likes of Dr. Fauci and others, misinterpreting it, listening to the MSM, misinterpreting it, and making themselves literally NUTS!