On Going to War

[Ken Anderson]

Everyone who ever disagrees with Trump on anything is a traitor to his country. If you don't like his tie, you're a traitor. If you disagree with anything, you're a RINO. That's not how it would be in a country whose citizenry were truly free. Some of his closest supporters are against him now, but he's the one who changed, not them, and it's kind of hard to maintain support for someone who labels you a traitor because you dared maintain a position that he once claimed to hold himself.

If he has a reason to change his position on something, he should be man enough to admit that he's changing his position, rather than trying to gaslight everyone into thinking that he's continuing along the same path while doing something very different. Calling someone a traitor or a RINO because they still like what he used to claim to be for is disingenuous and petty.

 

[Marie Miller]

Everyone who ever disagrees with Trump on anything is a traitor to his country. If you don't like his tie, you're a traitor. That's not how it would be in a country whose citizenry were truly free. Some of his closest supporters are against him now, but he's the one who changed, not them, and it's kind of hard to maintain support for someone who labels you a traitor because you dared maintain a position that he once claimed to hold.

If he has a reason to change his position on something, he should be man enough to admit that he's changing his position, rather than trying to gaslight everyone into thinking that he's continuing along the same path while doing something very different. Calling someone a traitor or a RINO because they still like what he used to claim to be for is disingenuous and petty.

Honestly - let him know.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I know people here don't like videos, but I'm not sure where else we can find brief and concise discussions rather than unchallenged fragmented opinion pieces in "print" media.

This one is pretty good:

I tell [Americans] this is what it'd be like if you had elected Kamal Harris.

She also covers how Starmer has to appeal to his "Islamic base" in order to remain in power.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Everyone who ever disagrees with Trump on anything is a traitor to his country.

It is far less about disagreeing than opposing.

None of us is perfect, and none of us will ever see everything go our way all the time. In this case though, it isn't about TRump. Instead it's about getting the country back on track toward restoration of normality.

I think we can all name many policies and actions taken by Trump this time around and last time that we disagree with. But letting the perfect be the enemy of the good can lead to "black pilling" and opting out. That's exactly what the opposition who want to make America into a Canada or Europe or Venezuela hope you will do: stand down, demoralized, and let them retake control.

So the risk isn't turning traitor, but becoming an unwitting tool of stuff like purple-haired socialism, mass immigration, DEI, wealth redistribution, etc. Classic Animal Farm.

I think what worries some people is that Trump isn't and never was a Republican. He's more of a Ross Perot figure who worked out that the game is rigged against 3rd party candidacies.

 

[Shirley Martin]

Estimates are that up to 70,000 American colonists were killed fighting for their freedom from Britain. It the Iranian people are unwilling to put themselves at risk, then they have made a choice.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine

25,534 American combatants lost their lives in the eight-year armed conflict, according to historian Howard H. Peckham’s 1974 book The Toll of Independence, widely regarded as the most accurate accounting of the death toll. But surprisingly, only about 27 percent of Americans actually died in battle, as Simpson did.

Musket, cannon balls and sabers weren’t as big of a threat to survival as diseases that spread through Continental Army camps and the prison ships that British forces used to confine American POWs.

Peckham, who meticulously gathered data on reports on 1,331 land engagements and 215 naval engagements, found that 8,624 American fighters were killed in battle. He also estimated that another 10,000 died in camp, and 8,500 perished while being held in captivity.

Military technology at the time of the Revolution was much more primitive than it is today, and the war was fought at a slower pace.

“Firearms were a lot less accurate and the artillery was nowhere near as powerful,” explains Andrew Schocket, a professor in the history department at Bowling Green State University.

Iranian civilians armed with sticks and stones would have a hard time defeating an army armed with weapons. To try to do so would be insane.

 

[Don Alaska]

It is far less about disagreeing than opposing.

None of us is perfect, and none of us will ever see everything go our way all the time. In this case though, it isn't about TRump. Instead it's about getting the country back on track toward restoration of normality.

I think we can all name many policies and actions taken by Trump this time around and last time that we disagree with. But letting the perfect be the enemy of the good can lead to "black pilling" and opting out. That's exactly what the opposition who want to make America into a Canada or Europe or Venezuela hope you will do: stand down, demoralized, and let them retake control.

So the risk isn't turning traitor, but becoming an unwitting tool of stuff like purple-haired socialism, mass immigration, DEI, wealth redistribution, etc. Classic Animal Farm.

I think what worries some people is that Trump isn't and never was a Republican. He's more of a Ross Perot figure who worked out that the game is rigged against 3rd party candidacies.

He became a Republican to run for President, but was a Democrat, and a big donor, for most of his adult life. He is anti-establishment politically now, and I think that is largely why the "Deep State" politicians on both sides of the aisle oppose him. He seems to want to go back towards the "old America", which would make him a very Metternich-like political figure., although he is fully aware that that is not really possible.

 

[Ken Anderson]

Trump briefly considered running under a third-party banner, the Reform Party, in 2000, but aborted his run because he felt the Reform Party was too dysfunctional. I think he has said that one factor contributing to his dissatisfaction was David Duke's involvement in the Reform Party.

 

[Tom Galty]

Thanks to the open borders of the last administration, China, Russia, Iran and others have active cells in the U.S. living off the welfare system here just as the cells of the IRA did in Britain during long periods of conflict there.

As in the UK with the muslims.

1 in ever 100 is on the terriost watch list.

MI5's terror watchlist doubles to 43,000 in just one year

Britain's top anti-terror cop Neil Basu says right-wing extremism poses the fastest growing terror threat to the UK, but new estimates and figures show the problem is still dwarfed by jihadis

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[John Brunner]

As in the UK with the muslims.

1 in ever 100 is on the terriost watch list.

MI5's terror watchlist doubles to 43,000 in just one year

Britain's top anti-terror cop Neil Basu says right-wing extremism poses the fastest growing terror threat to the UK, but new estimates and figures show the problem is still dwarfed by jihadis

www.dailymail.co.uk

It seems that being on a terrorist watch list (and being charged with sex crimes) is a plus when campaigning for office, huh?