I don't like saying an old friend is full of shit, but you're full of shit. I've not abandoned my principles and ideology even a little bit. I believe you've abandoned much of yours because of your strong urge to defend everything your President, a man you'd never support if he was still a D as he was twice before, and your party. You support MAGA culture even though you'd never have done so before Trump/MAGA. If you paid attention, you'd know I still oppose socialism and communism (they aren't the same) and progressive/liberal policies. I haven't changed one iota on any of that. You've just adapted the MAGA ideology that anyone that sees Trump as unfit for the office is a RINO or worse. You should do better.
this is why @aloha-hoosier is lost. His party is dead and buried. The entire country has moved way left
There is that. But on the love/ hate axis, the country has moved to hate. Most politics these days is measured by how much one hates Trump; TDS. Hate-driven politics is a disease that threatens democracy in ways election denials can never match. @aloha-hoosier is lost not because his party is gone, ( it’s alive and well) but because he has abandoned healthy ideology.
I'm not sure why you are tagging me in this post. I had nothing to do with it.@big-ryan because his policies were centrist. He actually increased the number of cops etc. I don’t care what club they belong to I care about their policies. I graduated college in 93. We studied nyc and San Fran extensively. DSA today would absolutely hate him. There has never been anything remotely like mamdani in nyc. And dinkins was a terrible mayor but he was not pushing socialist policies
stop trying to pretend your party today isn’t what it is. It’s a gross way to be. Grow some balls
This is Exhibit A for why attempting a substantive, civil discussion with you is a huge waste of time. And spare us the recurring argument that you don't go after people personally unless you're first attacked.
If you, or anyone, wants to address me about a problem you have with a post, please send me a message behind the scenes. Let's not hash it out on the board. Thanks.
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I do not feel bad about calling you full of shit, but you're absolutely 100 percent full of shit. Before 2016 I argued with the leftist all the time. I was routinely called a right-winger. The thing is that I haven't changed at all in my core positions, but now I argue with MAGAs who are by and large ignorant or morons - like you. Weren't you 12 or something back then? Whatever the situation was your take is bullshit, as usual.@jdb this is why @aloha-hoosier is lost. His party is dead and buried. The entire country has moved way left
No. No, no, no. Aloha is lost for a much weirder reason. If you remember this board pre-2016 it was a bunch of faux intellectual leftists smelling their own farts. Once in a while Aloha would chime in with some banal, Conservatism 101 talking point and the leftists would pat him on the head “you’re one of the good ones Aloha”. Effectively he acted as controlled opposition.
Something happened to this board in the succeeding years. The Conservative posters, new and old, became much more pugilistic, clever and intelligent. Aloha didn’t have much of a place in this group…… for obvious reasons. He’s become more pugilistic, but the other two….. not his strengths.
Not wanting to just come out as a leftist we are now faced with the bizarre circumstance of Aloha continually voting for Democrat Presidents, Governors and legislators while insisting upon his Conservative credentials to anyone who will listen.
A man without a home or the tools to navigate this new political landscape.
Secondly, you got one right - the place has gone more pugilistic. But you're dead wrong on the other two things, the board is far less clever and intelligent. Also, the idea that you consider yourself among the clever and/or intelligent is LOL funny.
Finally, I voted for one fricking Democrat for President since I've been registered as a Republican long before you were born. Biden in 2020. I've not yet voted for a Democrat for Governor or Senator in my lifetime. You're 100 percent wrong, as usual. I will vote for Hobbs over Biggs. I'll gladly report that vote - I don't need you to make shit up about them.
Now STFU again. I really have no respect for you. I see you've also returned to referring to me in other posts like the cowardly ankle-biter you've always been. All the above are among the many reasons I don't respect you at all, along with the fact you've been a disrespectful ignorant and arrogant little shit to other posters from the time you started posting.
@big-ryan they’ve taken over the biggest city in America. They’re leading the party. No matter how desperate you are to pretend otherwise. The candidate will be aoc and the platform for 28 will be socialism. Think otherwise let’s bet. Ten grand. Make it fun. We’ll both be around.
Could be Harris with Clyburn making his moves to put SC as the Dems first primary. She'll have the first points on the board for sure. Will be Harris or AOC.
@aloha-hoosier “Hey Gemini, what does it mean if some excessively uses the word “I” when writing.”
Excessively using "I" in writing usually shows that the writer is focused on themselves, lacks distance from the topic, or feels a strong need to prove their point. This habit often points to self-absorption, insecurity, or a casual, diary-like style. [1, 2, 3]
@aloha-hoosier “Hey Gemini, what does it mean if some excessively uses the word “I” when writing.”
Excessively using "I" in writing usually shows that the writer is focused on themselves, lacks distance from the topic, or feels a strong need to prove their point. This habit often points to self-absorption, insecurity, or a casual, diary-like style. [1, 2, 3]
That you posted something dumb like that rather than acknowledge you were dead wrong is no surprise at all. Now STFU. No response from you is needed or desired.
@carramrod I’ll tell you exactly what happened. It was like the big bang. The board coasted along as a lefty echo chamber for years. Sglowrider posting meme after meme attacking conservatives. The right largely quite. The left loud and arrogant and piling on thread after thread until one lefty who I won’t name, bowlmania, made a fatal mistake.
see he was a frequent poster on the football board and he made the fatal error of telling DANC if he posted like he did on the fball board on the wc he’d get shredded. Mental.
DANC being DANC immediately accepted the challenge. The left had defunded the police and DANC walked into town with a Gatling gun and methodically, thread by thread, silenced the left with a fierce combination of education intellect experience and wit.
that was the moment the board changed
mods
goat and uncle mark vs npt iubigjim Cajun and Stollcpa.
I've not abandoned my principles and ideology even a little bit.
You freely admit having done this and even brag about it. MAGA is about secure borders, safe cities, free markets, entrepreneurial economics, and American priorities in foreign affairs; now and in the future. You toss all of this in the dumpster if a candidate said or believes the wrong thing about a 6-year-old election.
BTW, you should do Wordle today.
One bedrock principle also matters. That’s character and intelligence. If a politician is peddling the lie that the 2020 election was stolen he’s a blatant liar telling a lie that has deeply harmed the country or he’s a fricking moron. You used to care about character too, but you ease your mind now by claiming this lie is harmless. It’s plainly not harmless, just admit it and say it no longer matters to you.I've not abandoned my principles and ideology even a little bit.
You freely admit having done this and even brag about it. MAGA is about secure borders, safe cities, free markets, entrepreneurial economics, and American priorities in foreign affairs; now and in the future. You toss all of this in the dumpster if a candidate said or believes the wrong thing about a 6-year-old election.
BTW, you should do Wordle today.
Of course my opinion and support for the things you listed haven’t changed. We don’t need deeply flawed politicians to support those things. Politicians of good character do. Also Trump’s approach to foreign affairs is neither conservative from tariffs, to his conduct of the war with Iran, to alienating allies and glad handing despots, nor has it been effective. He has little to pint to as successes - without lying.
Most MAGAs are total hypocrites about law and order too. After years of minimizing J6 violence and cheering the perpetrators’ pardons (including more than 200 guilty of violent assaults of police officers, to unquestionably supporting lawfare against perceived political enemies, they’ve proven law and order only occasionally matters to them. If they are part of what those described above, they’re liars if they claim to support law and order. At least ignorant of reality.
I don’t do Wordle any day.
Arguably the most "moderate" Democrat running this cycle.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2081060390679543924
Too bad Republicans (mostly the MAGA ones) chose Paxton to run against him rather than Cornyn. He has a better chance of winning against Paxton. He’d have no chance against Cornyn.Arguably the most "moderate" Democrat running this cycle.
@dbmhoosier man the blacks here are so Fing out of control. They’re just absolutely destroying everywhere they go. Downtown. The malls. And the people they are elect are the dumbest dems you could ever find. People who should be in social work but are instead politicians.
Blacks are a real problem. We’d basically have zero violent crime without them. Almost one third of black men are convicted felons. So if you put 100,000 of them together what’s that look like. They’re six times more likely to end up in prison than white men. If you go to Walmart down the street the Legos are all locked up. You have to get someone to help. Then you can’t carry the Legos with you. You have to immediately check the Legos out. Cashier said they’ll just walk right out with them if you let them carry them. I mean what are we doing. Let’s fix this.
no woke. No pc. No bs. Many of us in actual cities are tired of it. I am all ears on reparations. Elevate them. Let them sink or swim for their good and ours. I want to hear about what reparations might look like. It’s 75 years since all the civ laws were passed and things really are no different. Same cycle of crime poverty shit learning. Let’s try something new
One bedrock principle also matters. That’s character and intelligence. If a politician is peddling the lie that the 2020 election was stolen he’s a blatant liar telling a lie that has deeply harmed the country or he’s a fricking moron. You used to care about character too, but you ease your mind now by claiming this lie is harmless. It’s plainly not harmless, just admit it and say it no longer matters to you.
Then there's the attempt to overturn the election by inciting a mob to assault Congress, along with absconding with thousands of state secrets.
A principled person would be repulsed, no matter how much he agreed with Trump's policy positions (such as they are).
greater good. Not mutually exclusive. You can recognize he’s a dogshit crooked con man but will do less harm than defunding and opening the border etc. aloha is wrong. His election is personal to him. He’s thinking about himself. Motivated by animus. Whether can recognize same or not who knows. But what he’s doing is hardly principled
I’ll add that I’m encouraged in that I believe most people still recognize this and that’s why we didn’t end up with the nightmare that would have been Harris