Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:05 pm
Young man you are missing the point. You are again assuming even after I explained. The vast majority of anything I've shared has been without comment from me unless commented about from another. I understand what you are saying but I have also explained why I posted the majority of these items. To create conversation...the whole point of the forum. Several of the things you mention I posted I find very interesting to myself and in general on how polarizing politics can be. Personally, I like reading different views...I know that's not popular with you but that does not kill democracy. I or any other reasonable person in this country would not like to see democracy unraveled as you speculate. I have stated for the record on many occasions that I don't care for either the far left/far right tactics. What I have gone on the record for is that I like a more moderate approach and as of now both Haley and Kennedy are appealing to me in any upcoming election.
No, I don't think I did. You are yet another fairly new posting personality that wants to present himself as above the fray. It's not new, you're just someone doing it this year. And like the vast majority of those presenting as such, the presentation falls away as the layers are peeked behind. In other words, you may want to pretend you're a conservative moderate, but you're posting in support of the extreme. Go on though, let's see what else you got to say.
Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:05 pm
So lets proceed...
I believe that we have a major issue, but it lies on both sides. Both families, (Trump and Biden), it would seem have monetized the office to some extent. Business dealings with foreign companies, shell companies, fraud, etc... the evidence and common sense shows both sides have most likely taken advantage of the system in different ways...not just one. The Trumps through overstating income and net worth to obtain loans, and the Bidens with the 20-shell company fiasco that creates no products, no jobs.... basically, nothing that makes any sense other than strip club write offs and questionable e-mails and text.
The issue though would be if Joe Biden himself has done so, and there's no evidence of that. Said it before, I'll say it again, nail his son to the wall if you got proof he broke the law but it's a far cry from a civilian doing what he did to a government official and his family also in government monetizing the office for personal gain. Right now, Trump is being held accountable for his actions. The right and the lynch mob would have you hold Joe Biden accountable for Hunter's actions. Big difference.
Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:05 pm
As elections go...it seems like every election since 2000 has been challenged and the Democrats even challenged Trumps election in 2016 asking for recount ...the difference here in 2020 is that a group of citizens, (call them what you will but they are citizens), legally assembled to protest.
Nope, wrong. Violation, false equivalency. Both parties are fully within their rights to request recounts, pursue legal avenues to challenge an election. The difference in 2020 was a multi pronged plot with many operatives and layers to pull off reversing a valid election result. You did not see Hillary Clinton calling secretaries of state in states she lost asking them to find her votes she did not get. You did not see Al Gore assembling alternate / illegitimate slates of electors to sneak in and cast their votes for him when he did not win a state. And what's more, you did not see any Democrat or Republican until Trump incite an insurrection on our nation's capitol in order to cause enough chaos that he remains in power. Just because he riled up his civilian base to attack the capitol does not excuse his traitorous behavior and as a self declared veteran, you should be appalled at such an action.
Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:05 pm
What happened after that has been documented by both sides. It should not have happened and could have been more peaceful and avoidable. If it's ultimately decided Trump did incite civil insurrection then yes, he should be punished but along with the leaders who did not let the capital police and National Guard get a handle on this sooner than they did. There is responsibility to go all around here.
If? It unfolded in front of your eyes, in front of all of us. See, this is why we're here, and this is the presentation slipping away as predicted.
Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:05 pm
As to the Indisputable facts of overturning the election, I think you are being a little premature on that front...that is currently being tried in Georgia with a few more venues to follow. See what the proof is from both sides before you say its indisputable. He had the right to question the returns and request recounts just like Clinton in 2016 with Russian Collusion. You have opinions and that's great...they are not shared by everyone.
Again, unfolded in front of our eyes, or in the case of Georgia, ears. There will be far more details to come as the trials commence but there's a vast chasm of difference between questioning the results and enacting a plot to steal the election from the Georgia voters who voted against him.
Ricrude wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:05 pm
Again...check my first paragraph in response.
The thing about Hunter is that there is so much out there already that he has already become a caricature of himself. I can't decide if he is actually an incompetent addict, aloof to what's around him a/k/a feels privileged, or a complete dumbass. Some of this stuff you cannot make up. The reality is that he brought this down on himself and implicated his family members in an investigation...much like you post about Trump. Anything the Biden's have done much like the Trumps are of their own volition and it doesn't take a political affiliation to see that.
As for the black people remark...that's an interesting issue as more and more are saying publicly that they either like Trump or are voting against the democrat party. That is interesting and could become a big issue in 2024 regardless of Trump or Biden are on the ticket...my best guess is neither of them will be but isn't that worthy of discussion?
If there are videos out there that appear to counter the narrative that everyone on January 6 is a domestic terrorist, would that also be worthy of discussion as someone could be wrongfully accused? That would be a terrible thing...don't you agree?
The posting habits you keep bringing up are pretty much tied to the subjects on the board and there just seems to be so much more material that would appear to be against your beliefs and for that I do apologize...but sometimes those of us in the middle are really interested in what you on the far left and far right think. You could have a take on something that we may have not considered.
Which brings me to the last line about Nazi's and liberals. I do not think all liberals are Nazi's...I think most people have good common sense and don't rely on or need literal facts and figures to guide their every decision in life. I know some very fine people who are conservative leaning and liberal democrats...but some of the stuff that comes out of the ultra left mouths sure sound like them. As I said before if they feel guilty then so be it.
Sorry bud, but you're not a middle of the road guy. Neither am I, and it's fine. We've had very few of those come through here, I can literally only think of one that genuinely was right down the middle and no longer remember if he's gone from this world or just the forum. But regardless, we're here because you proclaimed you don't do certain things you never fully detailed, which got me to wondering as to how someone such as yourself comes to find himself aligned with people who actively work against what you fought for.
So yeah, Hunter has made his bed and has to lie in it, but he did so as a civilian and multiple people have gone on the record saying his father had nothing to do with what his son was doing, including Cheezy's star witness business partner of Hunter. Trump and his family got into government and enriched themselves blatantly off of that, the only equivalent we could draw from Joe to Hunter on the Trump side is from Donald to Jr or Eric or the daughter he doesn't acknowledge. I don't think anyone is insane enough to defend those two wastes of DNA in his sons, and to her credit, I don't think anyone has much of a problem with the daughter or Melania's anchor baby.
More black people are gonna remember the sides he took in his racebaiting than are gonna think he's one of them because he got caught and held accountable for his crimes.
You're going to believe a production from the network shill who promoted so much false information that he had to get fired after a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the network was settled? From the guy who was granted access no one else had of the riot and doctored it to present a much more rosy picture? To each their own, but this is the opportunity I wanted to avail to you. This was your chance to stand on the side of reality or choose to stick with traitorous fantasy. You chose.
Which brings me to the final point, what you post and what you believe. I gave you the opportunity to disavow that which you are standing with when you post in support of "conservatives" in the modern age. Normally, I wouldn't care, as I'd already written you off as delusional and Trumpy, easily duped. You added the wrinkle of being a vet, which means if you're being honest with us, you took an oath and fought to defend our country in some shape or form. And because of what the rightwing population in this country now represents, it's becoming more and more clear that runs up against what members of the military fight for in principle if not in practice. Had Trump gotten his way regarding 2020, the majority of people in this country would've had their votes discarded and rendered void. Setting aside every other corrupt thing he's done, and boy is that a list, his plot to usurp power in this country when he lost the election should offend each and every one of us. But it doesn't, and as January 6 proved, there's far too many who will turn to violence and throw away the country they supposedly love in favor of one selfish self-absorbed narcissist criminal asshole.