With 52% of the US population on some sort of government dole, the Democratic party could use a blowup doll as their candidate and that 52% would vote for the blowup doll. It's not about what the candidate stands for anymore but what they, and the party, can do for the leeches of our society.
Kamala's chief qualification is that she is readily manipulated. Better to continue string pulling by Obama, Soros and the gang. Not to mention the Blob.
Hence the $35 trillion debt that increases $100K every 3 seconds. Dems ran out of constructive ideas decades ago. Plus they are lazy. Simple way out is to give away other peoples money. Been working for them for 80 years.
They're giving away money that doesn't even exist yet; our grandchildren's future earnings. But they don't care, since most of them are childless, self-centered perverts.
And Dear Momela has her very own new social welfare proposal regarding the new small business giveaway that she just put on the table. They're very good at spending "other people's money"
In my state, it is called MEDICAID. The goal is now to earn under $850. per month, to be eligible for 5 days every Week, of FREE housekeeping and Elder Care Services, lawn care, and repairs paid. Also Free Medical, probably food, and other perks. People who bring new communists to the State Medicaid Program are paid an ongoing fee for all who sign up. These people go to great lengths to solicit a signer.
Medicaid is just the warmup for socialized medicine. After the healthcare problem is out of control long enough it will be on the table again. The ACA was approved to get rid of healthcare insurers and it worked. Now hospitals and the insurers that are left control our healthcare. Your doctor is just an employee with little say in your health now.
I heard a caller on a radio show who works in the medical field (think it was a VA hospital) say that he is being pressured to sign up anybody and everybody for Medicaid in his state. He said that veterans and retired citizens are receiving half as much in benefits that they worked for all their lives as the illegal border crossers are getting from the government immediately after entering the country and they want him to sign up those folks, too. Said he doesn’t like it and thinks it unjust but wants to put food on the table for his family….
Kamala is scary but Walz frightens me more. He presents as a rather benign politician but his long relationship with China is very telling. How many 60 year olds have no savings or financial plans?
I agree. The lack of savings at 60 implies either a lack of discipline or total reliance on an outside support, such as a rich relative, the government or a foreign government.
Catherine, do you mean OTHER THAN his wife throwing open the windows of the Governor's Mansion so she could smell the aroma of burning rubber tires during the George Floyd riots?
There is far more to this guy than we have been told. The most radical leftist candidate of our lifetime did not pick him on a whim. Even his own family knows the score.
They say on the Dave Ramsey show all the time that research shows that teachers are in the top three professions of millionaires. If he has no savings, he is not responsible enough to manage OPM in government.
Yes. He may have no savings in an American bank; but he may have gold bars under the bed (like Menendez) or untraceable foreign bank accounts with all his Red China payoffs.
He has an Army retirement and healthcare, teacher retirement, whatever government retirement he qualified for, and SSI. He isn't destitute by any means and that doesn't include his wife's wealth or retirements.
Yes. Walz needs to be stopped. He fooled everyone, including myself, in 2018. I didn't vote for him of course, but he was well hidden by the local media. MN, in the metro areas, people are personally fiscally responsible, but social idiots. Citiots.
Why does it matter unless one is thinking of voting for him? Seriously, he's a dud with secrets from his past. There are millions of them out there. Their choice. But he absolutely doesn't belong running the federal government. That is what matters. Harris was not going to choose a freedom loving Constitutional scholar for a VP.
William Coulter, you are absolutely correct! He quietly re-wrote h is State Constitution, leaving a sentence in it so he can have Total Control of all Florida citizens' "health issues" including permission of a mandate on inoculations, if he deems that necessary. The devil in in the details... in our 'instant lives' who has time to go over the 'details'?
And he has never held a real job with financial risk. I like what he has done in Florida even though he has neglected local economic issues like a good globalist.
Either did Ike or Reagan to my knowledge. But you think running a state government does not require financial risk? I want governors to follow their oath of office, manage the state workforce, and stay out of the private sector and its business.
Oh, good grief! Millions don't own a home. Are they all bad too? Keep your eye on the goal and let's stop this McCarthyism of the GOP. We are flawed humans but it doesn't make us all bad because we have different ways to look at life. Look for trends in people's actions, not one-offs. Sorry but you touched on a raw nerve here with this constant bashing of DeSantis. We could do a whole lot worse than DeSantis as president.
The answer to your last sentence is "a lot". Not by their own choices in many cases but because the American dream requires hard work and determination and no interference from government. We are a country of entitlements, credit cards, and empty bank accounts.
And yet 40 some % of the country is voting for this vacuous bag of nothing! What does that tell you about our fellow citizens?
I want a divorce. I want to be separated from these morons. I’m not a lemming. I should not be forced to die because some purple haired freak thinks he’s a woman. Or a crazy cat lady screaming about abortion even though she can’t have children IF a man would lay with her.
So did most the passengers on the Titanic. Look what good that did. Sometimes, perhaps most times, the innocent suffer with, and on account of the guilty. So it is with the (formerly) United States of America. Nearly half of the states, some of the most highly populated, have elected some form of socialist/communist government. These states wield undue amounts of influence. It was the incredible foresight of The Founders, largely in the form of the Electoral College, to which we owe the possibility of continued existence as a constitutionally-based, representative republic. But just barely. Meanwhile, all I can do is recommend avoidance of crowds and people with oddly colored hair.
Time for a Constitutional Convention. There are more red states than blue. Congress and the Presidency are broken institutions now. We need to amend the Constitution and right the ship.
Careful what you wish for. A new Constitution will likely result in one wherein civil rights are granted by government, and therefore subject to political whims. Free speech and gun ownership are already hanging by a thread. The left would welcome the prospect of creating a new Constitution that renders both meaningless. With the country so historically polarized, a new Constitution is unlikely to be a unifying document, and would probably be the exact opposite.
NO TO A NEW CONSTITUTION. USE OUR ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION TO TIGHTEN THE RULES AND HOLD CONAGRESS AND SENATE TO THOSE RULES. NO IFs. ANDs or BUTs. OUR LAWS WORK, WHEN THEY ARE ENFORCED!!!!
Democrat presidents work at not enforcing laws passed that they don’t like, ie Obama and DOMA, and ignoring court rulings, ie Biden and mandatory vaccines and college loan payments.
I was a bit perturbed at DJT when he followed court rulings that overturned his Executive Order to halt entry into the US from certain ME countries — just as Obama had done before, but Dems suddenly didn’t like it and used it against Trump — because I was tired of the other side doing exactly what they want and yelling when the other side does something similar and within the established bounds of fair play, but I admired him for respecting the rule of law and not acting like a Democrat. A great example to give when you hear the tired old “both sides” argument.
speaking of gun ownership, I saw a headline on CFP this morning that the father of the GA school shooter had given that kid an AR-15. for his 13th birthday gift and that the kid had been obsessed with the details of previous school shootings - umm - what could possibly go wrong with this picture? No wonder that deal old dad has been arrested and charged with multiple counts along with the kid
I had a 12 ga. shotgun and went pheasant hunting with friends when in grade school. I was taught good firearm safety by my dad and we never had a problem. I had a shotgun in my car in high school as many did so we could hunt after school. The shooters dad gave him a firearm and apparently failed to teach him right and wrong and firearm safety, as well as ignored his warped attitude and past actions. He as much as anyone caused those murders simply out of neglect and indifference.
Bingo.............you win the prize for comment of the day. As you know, there are no easy fixes for this mess. The fix requires enough people to get up and get their lazy butts to the polls and vote for their futures. Changing the constitution is not a fix. It isn't broken, we the people are.
That is not the role or goal of the Convention of States. Force the federal government back into its box as designed. Not to mention, the most radical ideas would not pass. need to garner 38 states approval for a change.
But this won’t work either. The looters are not going to willing give up their free chicken. It’s secession and most likely civil conflict to gain our independence from the tyranny.
Putting term limits in would create term limits, not something politicians could obey or disobey. They’d be out. Might be the only way to get term limits.
But they don't follow it. So we have a Mexican Standoff. Now what? Vote harder? For people that ignore the document? I would posit that in having a CC, Amendments or repeals should be proposed prior to calling for one so that We the People can decide whether or not those are valid. Heaven forbid we get any transparency EVER.
The IRS can conduct a poll using taxpayer ID to monitor the results. NO media allowed nor election officials. Private firms monitor from all political persuasions. Oops sorry, didn't mean to be logical and reasonable or have answers.
INSTEAD OF AMENDING OUR CONSTITUTION, I BELIEVE WE NEED TO AMEND OUR LEADER LIST. BRING THE US CONSTITUTION BACK INTO CONGRESS EVERY DAY, THE SENATE, EVERY SINGLE DAY. MAKE THE LOSES GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, ENDING DEI AND BLATANT IGNORANCE. FOREIGNERS HAVE NO PLACE IN THE CONGRESS OR SENATE. WE MUST TIGHTEN UP THE RULES, REMAINING CONSTITUTIONAL.
The one good idea is that we can claim its a relic so lets change it...set a trap and get them to actually come up with amendments to fix the "racism" then the citizenry could maybe vote for some good ideas from the right, because obviously the Left are void of anything good except charity with other peoples money.
I voted for Trump twice, but he's on his own now. He didn't drain the swamp nor indict Hillary or any of the Democrats that broke laws and abused their power. He fast tracked a bogus gene therapy to "fight" a cold. He wasn't smart enough to do the math available to prove the plandemic was a scam. Nad jsut state the facts and the science with skillful language. He is an awful debater. He can't put together a cogent sentence without being a caricature of himself. But I hope he wins because he pisses off all of the people that deserve jail and get none because GOPe is the Uniparty. You haven't figured it out yet, even if Trump wins, things are getting worse before they get better. There is too much waste in the system right now that is costing time money and progress because everyone(80%) went along to get along and wore masks over their noses to protect granny while governors put sick people in nursing homes and the TASS agencies in corporate America looked the other way and called me a racist for doing math. Nothing like trial by fire to harden the spines of good people whilst the Left eats its own. SO be it.
Mike, no one person is going to fix this mess. Give Trump credit for bringing the whole deep state issue to the public's eye...........no small accomplishment. Unless we can change the congress and install constitutionalists in office, nothing will change. We are a country based on law and order and we need to return to that ideal. A government that can, with a wave of the hand, wipe away college loans to buy votes is a dangerous government indeed.
smart men (with the fortitude and means) are leaving america for a small hanfull of nations that aren't dying quite as fast. at 76 i'm not up to that but if i was 20 years younger i would be considering hungary, the philipines, guam or perhaps sint maarten.
We all Do, but opting OUT means VOTING THEM OUT. Stay strong in FAITH that GOD IS HELPING US TO CHANGE THE LEADERSHIP BOARD, AND BY ALL MEANS, VOTE FOR OUR ORIGINAL USA, SO PRESIDENT TRUMP CAN BEGIN ANEW.
You can't get out, there is nowhere better to go. Stay and fight for what you want. In life, you fight for what you want, or you take what someone lese gives you. Far too many countries have found that out the hard way.
Since the media, both left and right, has been saturated with columns on ComAllah and Timpon for weeks now, the one thing that jumped out at me was the statement about Warnock’s work in faith-based politics. Warnock is the devil’s spawn. What true man of faith would support the issues that he supports? And what happened to the left’s obsession with the separation of church and state?
Only when it helps the Dem's cause (to keep politics out of conservative churches). Black churches serve as political rallying points for liberals, and don't you dare try to stop them! They're busy buying pastors and votes.
Vincent Everett Ellison has written a book about this very thing. The Iron Triangle. The triangle is made up of pastors/priests, politicians, and activists.
THANK YOU, REV! 100% CORRECT. The more things 'change', with newer louder voices, the more they STAY THE SAME. NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND STANCE, IN MANY MANY DECADES.... ONLY THE DECIBEL LEVEL.
The 1992 Eddie Murphy movie, THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, says it all:
"My friends, I want to tell you about a town where the streets are paved with gold. This is a town where the marks give you money before you ask. A town where they take you to dinner after you fuck 'em. A town where when they need money, they just print more. This is a town where a guy bounced nine hundred checks and he didn't even have to skip town!!! … [It’s] Washington, D.C. I'm going to run for Congress. … I tell you, people -- Washington. That's where the money is."
Thanks for the link - sure sounds like a familiar scam! Wonder exactly how many times it has worked - getting elected sure seems to be a direct pathway to retiring wealthy!
The contrast between the offerings of each party is stark - black or white (no pun intended).
It is frustrating that logic, facts, and undeniable proof can't break the tie that remains within the margin of error in polling, even in "good" polls by Baris and Rasmussen.
Is it time to start blaming the voters for being clueless, selfish, and out of touch with the values of freedom and liberty? Has our public education dumbed-down enough of the populace to create zombie voters? I can accept that 10 - 20 percent of the population is clueless enough to want Harris/Walz but not 47%. I am getting angrier with what our stupid/lazy society has become than at candidates who are taking advantage of these zombie voters.
Harris/Walz epitomize the term "empty suits". Almost 50% of our society thinks that qualifies them to occupy the Whitehouse. This election is scary.
Blame the media Shrugged. Imagine them telling Americans the truth. Think of the exploding heads. DC would build chain-link fences in a hurry to keep the populace out. There is probably a meme somewhere that details the lies since 2016. Everything we have lived through for 8 years would have not even been possible 50 years ago bc the media functioned as a watch dog. Now they are lap dogs.
The TAMPON IDEA of WALZ should be enough for ANY AMERICAN to VOTE THIS FREAK OUT OF OUR EXISTENCE. HE DOES NOT QUALIFY AS AN ADULT, MUCH LESS A CANDIDATE FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN CHIEF PERVERT FOR PEDO DEMS AND BRAIN-DEAD FREAKS.
The fact that there are enough morons willing to vote for these morons to register on any poll is a sign of the direction this country is headed. And the sign reads “THE END IS NEAR.”
The Peter Principle is no way to select the leader of the free (?) world. These two post turtles need to be returned to their respective ponds post haste.
BTW That was one very difficult poll today. All good selections. Give the cat an extra ration of Friskies.
Government by the least qualified is the definition of the word kakistocracy. It makes sense that following the clown car masquerading as a government that is the Biden/Harris administration the only way to continue having an incompetent government is a Harris/Walz kakistocracy. All predicated on an ignorant electorate, a corrupted election process, a Pravda like media, and the slogan: what about a woman’s right to choose?
I hate to be the one who points out that the Leftists on either side of the UNI-party blob don't want a meritocracy. They want mediocrity, its a feature to them, not a bug. If they have critical thinking and functionally independent citizens self governing themselves, they are out of lame jobs that over pay. The saddest part is 45% of the country is completely fine with that arrangement because they ARE mediocre themselves. They like when they get a trophy too for being second to last...or bravely in the middle standing for nothing. They aren't readers, thinkers nor risk takers, they want a scape goat to defend their lack of ambition. You can't convince them otherwise, because they like calling out racism without knowing the definitions of words. They falsely feel virtue by following a pack of Marxists decrying those evil capitalist that only do things for money- ew...the nerve.
Mad TV spawned Mad Government where anything goes. The weakest go to the head of the class because they are pliable, unable to think for themselves, and serve as public shields for the mad maniacs behind the scenes who run the show. The group who pulled this off is faceless, unreachable, and immune to public outrage. I've been around since 1935, served in the military and, for the most part kept my nose clean. So I approach the situation by asking one question of anybody who cares to discuss where America stands these days, "What have you done for your country?" No followup questions are necessary. Let them reply...assuming they actually can. That's a good way to take America's temperature. Try it with people who act like know-it-alls. If it makes them think, even for a fleeting second, you put them in front of a mirror image that is more than skin deep. Hopefully, it gives them food for thought. By the way, I have posed the same question to my own children. The reaction it triggers is quite often, life changing.
THANKYOU, DEFIANT! I well understand the 'question' you have posed to your children. I am flabbergasted and often heartbroken at the response. How did this happen? Where was I?
Doesn't cowardly and putting tampon dispensers in boys' rooms kind of go hand in hand? What a pathetic person. (He most likely has testicles but can we really call him a man?)
I just got out of MN last week; retired to a nice small community in IA where one of my daughters, her hubby and four (soon to be five) of my grandchildren live. So sad to see a beautiful state like MN destroyed by incompetent boobs.
Our hell hole is on a near half acre of beautiful woods. We regularly have deer and wild turkeys in the yard, and eagles swooping overhead are a common sight. I can wear a gun on my hip in public and ride my motorcycle without a helmet (though I don't). Try as they might, the single party rulers of MN haven't yet managed to make anything outside of Minneapolis resemble the dystopias that major US cities have become.
The hinterlands are mostly ok. It's Minneapolis and St Paul. Rural states with big Urban centers have the same problem. Small town people know who the school board members are. they know the mayors. They won't put up with that bullshit. There are no tampons in the boys rooms in rural Minnesota.
It’s like a football team that is not very good and their first string qb is removed for being very ineffective. And now the wonder back up arrives, drives the team down the field and scores a touchdown. Things are lookup.
But then the backup fumbles, misses a wide open receiver and then throws an interception.
People then realize why that person was the backup and had never played a down in competition.
A teacher gets elected to Congress with no real experience. How did a do nothing nobody from Mankato Minnesota get his start? Did China fund his campaign? He is the definition of "Elite Capture". Something is fishy about his career in politics.
With 52% of the US population on some sort of government dole, the Democratic party could use a blowup doll as their candidate and that 52% would vote for the blowup doll. It's not about what the candidate stands for anymore but what they, and the party, can do for the leeches of our society.
Blowup doll? They don't want someone that intelligent
Kamala comes pretty close to being a blow up doll. Only she does the blowing up.
I wouldn't call her a doll though.
Yes!
Kamala's chief qualification is that she is readily manipulated. Better to continue string pulling by Obama, Soros and the gang. Not to mention the Blob.
Lol
Hence the $35 trillion debt that increases $100K every 3 seconds. Dems ran out of constructive ideas decades ago. Plus they are lazy. Simple way out is to give away other peoples money. Been working for them for 80 years.
They're giving away money that doesn't even exist yet; our grandchildren's future earnings. But they don't care, since most of them are childless, self-centered perverts.
Not to worry. If they succeedn there will be no future earnings for our children and grandchildren to steal. It will all be slave labor.
Thank you, Rev. This is true, and will be the end of us, if we do not act this year with a Great Makeover VOTE.
And Dear Momela has her very own new social welfare proposal regarding the new small business giveaway that she just put on the table. They're very good at spending "other people's money"
In my state, it is called MEDICAID. The goal is now to earn under $850. per month, to be eligible for 5 days every Week, of FREE housekeeping and Elder Care Services, lawn care, and repairs paid. Also Free Medical, probably food, and other perks. People who bring new communists to the State Medicaid Program are paid an ongoing fee for all who sign up. These people go to great lengths to solicit a signer.
Medicaid is just the warmup for socialized medicine. After the healthcare problem is out of control long enough it will be on the table again. The ACA was approved to get rid of healthcare insurers and it worked. Now hospitals and the insurers that are left control our healthcare. Your doctor is just an employee with little say in your health now.
I heard a caller on a radio show who works in the medical field (think it was a VA hospital) say that he is being pressured to sign up anybody and everybody for Medicaid in his state. He said that veterans and retired citizens are receiving half as much in benefits that they worked for all their lives as the illegal border crossers are getting from the government immediately after entering the country and they want him to sign up those folks, too. Said he doesn’t like it and thinks it unjust but wants to put food on the table for his family….
Happily, most of the people who live off of others are lazy and won't bother to vote.
Yay for sloth.
You’re half right. The slothful won’t vote but dem operatives will vote in their name. A ballot is a terrible thing to waste, doncha know.
Bamm Girl !!!
That zing I heard this morning must have been you hitting that one out of the park.
Good news!! We’ve imported 10 million new leeches!! Yay Team Leech!
Like all parasites, they only thrive till they kill the host.
Kamala is scary but Walz frightens me more. He presents as a rather benign politician but his long relationship with China is very telling. How many 60 year olds have no savings or financial plans?
I agree. The lack of savings at 60 implies either a lack of discipline or total reliance on an outside support, such as a rich relative, the government or a foreign government.
Exactly- and his wife is a Radical as well
I'd like to know more about the wife. We didn't know much about Dr Jill either until it was too late.
She worked in Wlaz’s government with an office and full staff right down the hall from him.
Someone should check out her finances, too.
Thank You, Suzie! You are so right on target, SHE must be checked out, soon and thoroughly.
Catherine, do you mean OTHER THAN his wife throwing open the windows of the Governor's Mansion so she could smell the aroma of burning rubber tires during the George Floyd riots?
Yes, she is a Liz/Kamala wannabe and didn’t the daughter let rioters know NG movements during rioting?
Well, I wondered!
There is far more to this guy than we have been told. The most radical leftist candidate of our lifetime did not pick him on a whim. Even his own family knows the score.
They say on the Dave Ramsey show all the time that research shows that teachers are in the top three professions of millionaires. If he has no savings, he is not responsible enough to manage OPM in government.
Or he has off-shore accounts, which is most likely given his history. Although, he does have teacher's retirement.
Off shore like maybe China?
Perhaps. Any off-shore with Chinese funded deposits.
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Maybe that's why he went into politics. Is there a faster way of accumulating financial wealth?
...or more seedy?
I don't believe it even if Walz said that there's no savings or financial plans. Lazy oafs are sometimes the craftiest at acquiring wherewithal.
Yes. He may have no savings in an American bank; but he may have gold bars under the bed (like Menendez) or untraceable foreign bank accounts with all his Red China payoffs.
LawsyO, I agree! WALZ is absolutely "connected". HE and KMALA are matching bookends.
Maybe those trips to China were more lucrative than they appeared.
How many pensions is he entitled to? Army. Teacher. Governor. Add them up. That’s a pretty good plan.
He has an Army retirement and healthcare, teacher retirement, whatever government retirement he qualified for, and SSI. He isn't destitute by any means and that doesn't include his wife's wealth or retirements.
Yes. Walz needs to be stopped. He fooled everyone, including myself, in 2018. I didn't vote for him of course, but he was well hidden by the local media. MN, in the metro areas, people are personally fiscally responsible, but social idiots. Citiots.
love to learn a new term - Citiots! Very descriptive and appropriate - precisely what some entities want to herd us all into becoming
Color me skeptical that he’s penny less. Stupid yes but also venial.
We would need proof that he is 'penniless'.... not likely at all.
Why does it matter unless one is thinking of voting for him? Seriously, he's a dud with secrets from his past. There are millions of them out there. Their choice. But he absolutely doesn't belong running the federal government. That is what matters. Harris was not going to choose a freedom loving Constitutional scholar for a VP.
Well put Reddog !
Walz being in bed with the Chinese can't be anymore disastrous than Biden in bed with the Chinese
I don't know, Xiden could screw up the recipe for ice and China still gave him millions. Tampon Timmy might retain more of their instructions.
I didn’t know about the lack of savings.
Another one to keep an eye on is DeSantis. He doesn’t even own a house.
William Coulter, you are absolutely correct! He quietly re-wrote h is State Constitution, leaving a sentence in it so he can have Total Control of all Florida citizens' "health issues" including permission of a mandate on inoculations, if he deems that necessary. The devil in in the details... in our 'instant lives' who has time to go over the 'details'?
And he has never held a real job with financial risk. I like what he has done in Florida even though he has neglected local economic issues like a good globalist.
Either did Ike or Reagan to my knowledge. But you think running a state government does not require financial risk? I want governors to follow their oath of office, manage the state workforce, and stay out of the private sector and its business.
Oh, good grief! Millions don't own a home. Are they all bad too? Keep your eye on the goal and let's stop this McCarthyism of the GOP. We are flawed humans but it doesn't make us all bad because we have different ways to look at life. Look for trends in people's actions, not one-offs. Sorry but you touched on a raw nerve here with this constant bashing of DeSantis. We could do a whole lot worse than DeSantis as president.
The answer to your last sentence is "a lot". Not by their own choices in many cases but because the American dream requires hard work and determination and no interference from government. We are a country of entitlements, credit cards, and empty bank accounts.
Is it possible Walz has his money/funds stashed away someplace in China?
And yet 40 some % of the country is voting for this vacuous bag of nothing! What does that tell you about our fellow citizens?
I want a divorce. I want to be separated from these morons. I’m not a lemming. I should not be forced to die because some purple haired freak thinks he’s a woman. Or a crazy cat lady screaming about abortion even though she can’t have children IF a man would lay with her.
I WANT OUT!
So did most the passengers on the Titanic. Look what good that did. Sometimes, perhaps most times, the innocent suffer with, and on account of the guilty. So it is with the (formerly) United States of America. Nearly half of the states, some of the most highly populated, have elected some form of socialist/communist government. These states wield undue amounts of influence. It was the incredible foresight of The Founders, largely in the form of the Electoral College, to which we owe the possibility of continued existence as a constitutionally-based, representative republic. But just barely. Meanwhile, all I can do is recommend avoidance of crowds and people with oddly colored hair.
Time for a Constitutional Convention. There are more red states than blue. Congress and the Presidency are broken institutions now. We need to amend the Constitution and right the ship.
Careful what you wish for. A new Constitution will likely result in one wherein civil rights are granted by government, and therefore subject to political whims. Free speech and gun ownership are already hanging by a thread. The left would welcome the prospect of creating a new Constitution that renders both meaningless. With the country so historically polarized, a new Constitution is unlikely to be a unifying document, and would probably be the exact opposite.
NO TO A NEW CONSTITUTION. USE OUR ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION TO TIGHTEN THE RULES AND HOLD CONAGRESS AND SENATE TO THOSE RULES. NO IFs. ANDs or BUTs. OUR LAWS WORK, WHEN THEY ARE ENFORCED!!!!
Democrat presidents work at not enforcing laws passed that they don’t like, ie Obama and DOMA, and ignoring court rulings, ie Biden and mandatory vaccines and college loan payments.
I was a bit perturbed at DJT when he followed court rulings that overturned his Executive Order to halt entry into the US from certain ME countries — just as Obama had done before, but Dems suddenly didn’t like it and used it against Trump — because I was tired of the other side doing exactly what they want and yelling when the other side does something similar and within the established bounds of fair play, but I admired him for respecting the rule of law and not acting like a Democrat. A great example to give when you hear the tired old “both sides” argument.
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speaking of gun ownership, I saw a headline on CFP this morning that the father of the GA school shooter had given that kid an AR-15. for his 13th birthday gift and that the kid had been obsessed with the details of previous school shootings - umm - what could possibly go wrong with this picture? No wonder that deal old dad has been arrested and charged with multiple counts along with the kid
I had a 12 ga. shotgun and went pheasant hunting with friends when in grade school. I was taught good firearm safety by my dad and we never had a problem. I had a shotgun in my car in high school as many did so we could hunt after school. The shooters dad gave him a firearm and apparently failed to teach him right and wrong and firearm safety, as well as ignored his warped attitude and past actions. He as much as anyone caused those murders simply out of neglect and indifference.
Bingo.............you win the prize for comment of the day. As you know, there are no easy fixes for this mess. The fix requires enough people to get up and get their lazy butts to the polls and vote for their futures. Changing the constitution is not a fix. It isn't broken, we the people are.
That is not the role or goal of the Convention of States. Force the federal government back into its box as designed. Not to mention, the most radical ideas would not pass. need to garner 38 states approval for a change.
But this won’t work either. The looters are not going to willing give up their free chicken. It’s secession and most likely civil conflict to gain our independence from the tyranny.
We don’t need to amend the Constitution.
We just need to abide by it - something our government has spent the last 240+ years skirting, ignoring and defying.
The Constitution is not the problem. It is in reality the ONLY thing that prevented us from becoming a total dictatorship for the last two centuries.
That’s why they hate it, and want to destroy it.
It is literally the one thing that’s been holding this whole United States experiment together by a thread.
No, we don't need to change a document that isn't broken. We need to change the people who are not following the document.
A constitutional convention would be opening Pandora ’s Box. ALL that needs to be done is follow the Constitution as written.
True statement. If we are not following the constitution now what makes anyone believe that we would after changing it?
True but a convention of states worth looking at
To do what? If we don't live by the document now or follow the law, why would we do so afterward?
Putting term limits in would create term limits, not something politicians could obey or disobey. They’d be out. Might be the only way to get term limits.
But they don't follow it. So we have a Mexican Standoff. Now what? Vote harder? For people that ignore the document? I would posit that in having a CC, Amendments or repeals should be proposed prior to calling for one so that We the People can decide whether or not those are valid. Heaven forbid we get any transparency EVER.
The IRS can conduct a poll using taxpayer ID to monitor the results. NO media allowed nor election officials. Private firms monitor from all political persuasions. Oops sorry, didn't mean to be logical and reasonable or have answers.
INSTEAD OF AMENDING OUR CONSTITUTION, I BELIEVE WE NEED TO AMEND OUR LEADER LIST. BRING THE US CONSTITUTION BACK INTO CONGRESS EVERY DAY, THE SENATE, EVERY SINGLE DAY. MAKE THE LOSES GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, ENDING DEI AND BLATANT IGNORANCE. FOREIGNERS HAVE NO PLACE IN THE CONGRESS OR SENATE. WE MUST TIGHTEN UP THE RULES, REMAINING CONSTITUTIONAL.
The one good idea is that we can claim its a relic so lets change it...set a trap and get them to actually come up with amendments to fix the "racism" then the citizenry could maybe vote for some good ideas from the right, because obviously the Left are void of anything good except charity with other peoples money.
"RACISM" is a catch-word used by the LEFT. INSTANTLY STIRS UP TROUBLE, NOTHING MORE.
You will vote when you hear some good ideas?
Look up Trump's accomplishments.
I voted for Trump twice, but he's on his own now. He didn't drain the swamp nor indict Hillary or any of the Democrats that broke laws and abused their power. He fast tracked a bogus gene therapy to "fight" a cold. He wasn't smart enough to do the math available to prove the plandemic was a scam. Nad jsut state the facts and the science with skillful language. He is an awful debater. He can't put together a cogent sentence without being a caricature of himself. But I hope he wins because he pisses off all of the people that deserve jail and get none because GOPe is the Uniparty. You haven't figured it out yet, even if Trump wins, things are getting worse before they get better. There is too much waste in the system right now that is costing time money and progress because everyone(80%) went along to get along and wore masks over their noses to protect granny while governors put sick people in nursing homes and the TASS agencies in corporate America looked the other way and called me a racist for doing math. Nothing like trial by fire to harden the spines of good people whilst the Left eats its own. SO be it.
Mike, no one person is going to fix this mess. Give Trump credit for bringing the whole deep state issue to the public's eye...........no small accomplishment. Unless we can change the congress and install constitutionalists in office, nothing will change. We are a country based on law and order and we need to return to that ideal. A government that can, with a wave of the hand, wipe away college loans to buy votes is a dangerous government indeed.
I don't read long comments.
Got to get to the shots line
Convention of the States. Less dangerous.
Let's just make Congress enforce the existing one.
THANK YOU, STEVE, I AGREE! IT IS DEVASTATING TO SEE HOW IGNORANT PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO BE.
smart men (with the fortitude and means) are leaving america for a small hanfull of nations that aren't dying quite as fast. at 76 i'm not up to that but if i was 20 years younger i would be considering hungary, the philipines, guam or perhaps sint maarten.
No, they are the cowards who just run away when their lifestyle is threatened. No fight in them. Worthless people with no desire to fix anything.
men who try to fix things now put their lives in danger (think trump). america is quickly becoming a nation not worth saving.
We all Do, but opting OUT means VOTING THEM OUT. Stay strong in FAITH that GOD IS HELPING US TO CHANGE THE LEADERSHIP BOARD, AND BY ALL MEANS, VOTE FOR OUR ORIGINAL USA, SO PRESIDENT TRUMP CAN BEGIN ANEW.
You can't get out, there is nowhere better to go. Stay and fight for what you want. In life, you fight for what you want, or you take what someone lese gives you. Far too many countries have found that out the hard way.
Since the media, both left and right, has been saturated with columns on ComAllah and Timpon for weeks now, the one thing that jumped out at me was the statement about Warnock’s work in faith-based politics. Warnock is the devil’s spawn. What true man of faith would support the issues that he supports? And what happened to the left’s obsession with the separation of church and state?
Only when it helps the Dem's cause (to keep politics out of conservative churches). Black churches serve as political rallying points for liberals, and don't you dare try to stop them! They're busy buying pastors and votes.
I’ve witnessed it. Many of their churches are madrasas indoctrinating their followers with hate for white people
Hah! Madrasas! Excellent!
Vincent Everett Ellison has written a book about this very thing. The Iron Triangle. The triangle is made up of pastors/priests, politicians, and activists.
THANK YOU, REV! 100% CORRECT. The more things 'change', with newer louder voices, the more they STAY THE SAME. NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND STANCE, IN MANY MANY DECADES.... ONLY THE DECIBEL LEVEL.
THANK YOU, NEEDLES! WARNOCK IS NOT A MAN OF FAITH-BASED POLITICS. NOT AT ALL. VOTE HIM OUT!
"Jay Caspian Kang ... is a staff writer at ... the opinion section of The New York Times " (WP 09/06/24).
"... the opinion section of The New York Times" is a redundancy.
The 1992 Eddie Murphy movie, THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, says it all:
"My friends, I want to tell you about a town where the streets are paved with gold. This is a town where the marks give you money before you ask. A town where they take you to dinner after you fuck 'em. A town where when they need money, they just print more. This is a town where a guy bounced nine hundred checks and he didn't even have to skip town!!! … [It’s] Washington, D.C. I'm going to run for Congress. … I tell you, people -- Washington. That's where the money is."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIf7e427Yj0
Thanks for the link - sure sounds like a familiar scam! Wonder exactly how many times it has worked - getting elected sure seems to be a direct pathway to retiring wealthy!
My wife and I think about this movie all the time.
"I cannot call them mediocre because they have not risen to that level yet." as my dad would say 'they'd have to jump to reach bottom'
They are youngest of the boomers though, still walking around with turds in their red diapers. Great essay Don.
The contrast between the offerings of each party is stark - black or white (no pun intended).
It is frustrating that logic, facts, and undeniable proof can't break the tie that remains within the margin of error in polling, even in "good" polls by Baris and Rasmussen.
Is it time to start blaming the voters for being clueless, selfish, and out of touch with the values of freedom and liberty? Has our public education dumbed-down enough of the populace to create zombie voters? I can accept that 10 - 20 percent of the population is clueless enough to want Harris/Walz but not 47%. I am getting angrier with what our stupid/lazy society has become than at candidates who are taking advantage of these zombie voters.
Harris/Walz epitomize the term "empty suits". Almost 50% of our society thinks that qualifies them to occupy the Whitehouse. This election is scary.
Blame the media Shrugged. Imagine them telling Americans the truth. Think of the exploding heads. DC would build chain-link fences in a hurry to keep the populace out. There is probably a meme somewhere that details the lies since 2016. Everything we have lived through for 8 years would have not even been possible 50 years ago bc the media functioned as a watch dog. Now they are lap dogs.
Read VDHs new op-ed and smile Alice.
Will do, thx for the tip!
The TAMPON IDEA of WALZ should be enough for ANY AMERICAN to VOTE THIS FREAK OUT OF OUR EXISTENCE. HE DOES NOT QUALIFY AS AN ADULT, MUCH LESS A CANDIDATE FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN CHIEF PERVERT FOR PEDO DEMS AND BRAIN-DEAD FREAKS.
The fact that there are enough morons willing to vote for these morons to register on any poll is a sign of the direction this country is headed. And the sign reads “THE END IS NEAR.”
Once again, a great column. My guess is that there are or were qualified liberals, but they have gone the way of the dinosaurs. Go Trump/Vance!
The Dem bench is pretty thin. It's so thin that they've decided to run the most pliable candidates possible. The less you've actually done the better.
THANK YOU, RICHARD LOWE. Just purchased more 'TRUMP & VANCE , OBVIOUSLY' SIGNS
The Peter Principle is no way to select the leader of the free (?) world. These two post turtles need to be returned to their respective ponds post haste.
BTW That was one very difficult poll today. All good selections. Give the cat an extra ration of Friskies.
Government by the least qualified is the definition of the word kakistocracy. It makes sense that following the clown car masquerading as a government that is the Biden/Harris administration the only way to continue having an incompetent government is a Harris/Walz kakistocracy. All predicated on an ignorant electorate, a corrupted election process, a Pravda like media, and the slogan: what about a woman’s right to choose?
GREAT COMMENT! GREAT SIGN!
HARRIS/WALZ KAKISTOCRACY= GOVERNMENT BY THE LEAST QUALIFIED.
I hate to be the one who points out that the Leftists on either side of the UNI-party blob don't want a meritocracy. They want mediocrity, its a feature to them, not a bug. If they have critical thinking and functionally independent citizens self governing themselves, they are out of lame jobs that over pay. The saddest part is 45% of the country is completely fine with that arrangement because they ARE mediocre themselves. They like when they get a trophy too for being second to last...or bravely in the middle standing for nothing. They aren't readers, thinkers nor risk takers, they want a scape goat to defend their lack of ambition. You can't convince them otherwise, because they like calling out racism without knowing the definitions of words. They falsely feel virtue by following a pack of Marxists decrying those evil capitalist that only do things for money- ew...the nerve.
EXCELLENT COMMENT! ZOMBIES ARE EVERYWHERE NOW. They just want us to Be Quiet and Wait. Lambs to the Slaughter.
But they vote
And who counts the votes? got your shots?
Mad TV spawned Mad Government where anything goes. The weakest go to the head of the class because they are pliable, unable to think for themselves, and serve as public shields for the mad maniacs behind the scenes who run the show. The group who pulled this off is faceless, unreachable, and immune to public outrage. I've been around since 1935, served in the military and, for the most part kept my nose clean. So I approach the situation by asking one question of anybody who cares to discuss where America stands these days, "What have you done for your country?" No followup questions are necessary. Let them reply...assuming they actually can. That's a good way to take America's temperature. Try it with people who act like know-it-alls. If it makes them think, even for a fleeting second, you put them in front of a mirror image that is more than skin deep. Hopefully, it gives them food for thought. By the way, I have posed the same question to my own children. The reaction it triggers is quite often, life changing.
"Jay Caspian Kang ... is a staff writer at ... the opinion section of The New York Times " (WP 09/06/24).
"... the opinion section of The New York Times" is a redundancy.
THANKYOU, DEFIANT! I well understand the 'question' you have posed to your children. I am flabbergasted and often heartbroken at the response. How did this happen? Where was I?
Doesn't cowardly and putting tampon dispensers in boys' rooms kind of go hand in hand? What a pathetic person. (He most likely has testicles but can we really call him a man?)
his track record in minnisota is a sick mess. i wouldn't spend one day or one dollar in that communist hell hole.
I just got out of MN last week; retired to a nice small community in IA where one of my daughters, her hubby and four (soon to be five) of my grandchildren live. So sad to see a beautiful state like MN destroyed by incompetent boobs.
good for you and good hunting.
Our hell hole is on a near half acre of beautiful woods. We regularly have deer and wild turkeys in the yard, and eagles swooping overhead are a common sight. I can wear a gun on my hip in public and ride my motorcycle without a helmet (though I don't). Try as they might, the single party rulers of MN haven't yet managed to make anything outside of Minneapolis resemble the dystopias that major US cities have become.
The hinterlands are mostly ok. It's Minneapolis and St Paul. Rural states with big Urban centers have the same problem. Small town people know who the school board members are. they know the mayors. They won't put up with that bullshit. There are no tampons in the boys rooms in rural Minnesota.
And don’t forget the Grooming Club he ran while he was employed in a school setting. Nothing to see here.
FREAK is my word of choice.
tmi
I was thinking about this very topic last night.
It’s like a football team that is not very good and their first string qb is removed for being very ineffective. And now the wonder back up arrives, drives the team down the field and scores a touchdown. Things are lookup.
But then the backup fumbles, misses a wide open receiver and then throws an interception.
People then realize why that person was the backup and had never played a down in competition.
Kamala is that person.
Yeah, I don't remember the one good play Kamala made.
The convention “bounce” was what I was thinking.
Obviously it didn’t last.
You are being very generous.
Kamala couldn't make that team in your analogy but she was the coach's daughter so she didn't have to try out.
"Jay Caspian Kang ... is a staff writer at ... the opinion section of The New York Times " (WP 09/06/24).
"... the opinion section of The New York Times" is a redundancy.
Hey Don! Walz did more than that: he turned one of the nicest cities into a burning hellscape.
OK. He accomplished ONE thing
A teacher gets elected to Congress with no real experience. How did a do nothing nobody from Mankato Minnesota get his start? Did China fund his campaign? He is the definition of "Elite Capture". Something is fishy about his career in politics.
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY CAN SMELL THE FISH IN THE WALZ CAREER. THE CAPTION 'FREAK ON FIRE' COMES TO MIND.