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2019-12-21 -Land of the Free
Reason (Ugh, Yeah, I Know) McCain Conservatives Are Rallying Behind Justin Amash
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Posted by charger 2019-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Thoughts about this as well as the impeachment limbo.

The US is of 330 million people. Enough people to easily support a small number (227) members of DC house dims comfortably. If 47 percent of the pop are pro Dem, that is 155 million people who support what the 200 or so House Dems do. With that many happy campers, the Dems know they can live in comfort.

We are no longer "One Nation Under God" because God is no longer in the picture. This country is ready to be divided and conquered by godless politicians.

And that is exactly what the Dems are doing.
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2019-12-21 02:04||   2019-12-21 02:04|| Front Page Top

#2 By the way, the Dems knew if they could get articles of impeachment it would get now where. All they are trying to accomplish is one anti-Trump skirmish after another until a miracle comes there way. In 2020 their resistance will continue, it will not diminish.

The House of Reps is a lost cause unless Nov 2020 brings it back Republican. Until then, the Dems will use the impeachment to rally their base.
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2019-12-21 02:15||   2019-12-21 02:15|| Front Page Top

#3 They still haven't come to accept that Dorthy Trump has pulled the curtain on their game. Being the Washington Generals was a good paying gig, damn him!
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-21 07:29||   2019-12-21 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 "McCain conservatives" is a non-sequitur.
Posted by b 2019-12-21 08:30||   2019-12-21 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 McCain conservatives AKA NeverTrump AKA Democrats
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-12-21 09:14||   2019-12-21 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 "McCain conservatives" -- a toxic blend of Hamiltonian and Wilsonian thought, but mostly elitist.
Posted by magpie 2019-12-21 10:21||   2019-12-21 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 "Conservatives"

No. More like neo-imperialist globalists.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-21 10:29||   2019-12-21 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Conservatives - conserving their status
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-21 10:32||   2019-12-21 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-21 11:11||   2019-12-21 11:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Soon we'll have to scrap these labels, as they designate more or less the opposite of what the words really mean.

US "liberals" are reactionary thugs who seek to replace due process and other liberties with sham proceedings that yield politically-correct outcomes.

US "conservatives" are elitist radicals whose extreme market mania and anti-US worker globalism don't conserve American communities and families but undermine them instead.

A proposal: call the above Uniparty the "globalists" and Trunp and his supporters the "nationalists." That's the division that matters now.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 11:14||   2019-12-21 11:14|| Front Page Top

#11 ..how about, Constitutionalists and the Anti-Constitutionalists?
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-21 12:25||   2019-12-21 12:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Global Grifters vs Citizen-Patriots
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 12:30||   2019-12-21 12:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Hope they donate lots of their own money to the losers campaign, that will really show Trump.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-12-21 12:45||   2019-12-21 12:45|| Front Page Top

#14 If I'm never ruled over by anyone Rick Wilson worked for I will die knowing God loves me...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-21 15:40||   2019-12-21 15:40|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Absolutely. He's a piece of shit
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-21 17:11||   2019-12-21 17:11|| Front Page Top

#16 What Lex said. Evidence suggests it's all really between Nationalism and Globalism.

The plodding efforts of anti-nationalists to subvert, deny and neutralize their own countries' sovereignties and have their people surrender to a global order. This collective assaults the established conservative idea of self-contained Republics in myriad ways. What stands in the way is people like us. We appear to the globalists as radicals and idiots trying to hold on to an outdated concept because 'we are afraid of change'.

Many conservatives will fall away to the reasoning and false evidence the globalist can provide. They will make the excuse of making the republic more progressive and adapting to global realities, but really they'll be giving up, selling out.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 17:28||   2019-12-21 17:28|| Front Page Top

#17 Globalism refutes the natural instincts of humankind.

Place matters.

People who do not live in a world of abstractions - ie everyone except intellectuals and Woke Warrior maroons - are attached to a place, a thing called home, and the people who make that place welcoming. Even if they are uprooted by their profession, they still consider themselves part of the soil from which they originated. The trendy BS concept of a "global citizen" is literally unthinkable to them: What would be your home? You can't say your home is the globe. Ridiculous. It's the town you grew up in, which is part of a region or state, which is part of a nation.

There is no such thing as loyalty to a trans-national "home." That's nothing more than dedication to a gravy train-- which is a lite version of prostitution.

From this comes a moral sense that's embodied by the old, simple wisdom that one's first obligation is to one's own: to the people you brought into the world.

The global citizen nonsense becomes downright terrifying in this, the moral realm. Dickens nailed it in Bleak House, in his foolish gentry character Mrs. Jellyby, who was constantly seeking to raise funds to support her charity project of a piano-leg factory (!) in Africa-- even as Mrs. Jellyby's children were going hungry.

An apt metaphor for this insane-- and morally indefensible-- trillion-dollar transfer of jobs, manufacturing capacity, supply chains and wealth from the US to China lo these past 30 years.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 19:04||   2019-12-21 19:04|| Front Page Top

#18 One possible exception to the above is loyalty to the Church, or the faith. Perhaps globalism is just a substitute for the one true holy and apostolic Faith.

But the Church put any social or religious obligation above the family, which is ultimately the source of what makes a home and a place meaningful.

Christianity long ago made its peace with local and national sovereignty. Westphalian doctrine refined and solidified it.

Christ said to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. He didn't say, "All your wealth are belong to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 19:13||   2019-12-21 19:13|| Front Page Top

#19 * But the Church did not put any social or religious obligation above the family, which is ultimately the source of what makes a home and a place meaningful.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 19:14||   2019-12-21 19:14|| Front Page Top

#20 Tucker quotes a brilliant op-ed piece that sums it up - it was written by an anti-Corbyn, Labourite union leader in London, Paul Embery, who neatly spells out the anti-Globalist case. Watch the whole thing.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 19:52||   2019-12-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

#21 Paul Embery's Op-Ed
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 19:56||   2019-12-21 19:56|| Front Page Top

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