What must be done to Unite the Country

[headhunter15]

It’s turned into “think like us or else.”

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

It would send a tremendous messages to people who claim to be republicans that the party is much bigger than trump and his actions and rhetoric are (and have been) unacceptable

You have got to be joking.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Trump responsible for PDX. Connect those dots.

Six degrees to Kevin Bacon

 

[C-south]

I never said that only black people were less fortunate as there are people of all races who fall into this category. The problem is that a lot of people in this country never even get a real opportunity, which a lot of other people refuse or fail to realize.

As far as I know people are entitled to a free education (at least through high school). Unless things have changed it isn’t voluntary for most of those years. The choices made in those years matter. Bad choices are often made and nobody is held accountable. I’m sure things will get better though as we push to legalize more and more drugs, tell blacks people their skin color is more important than merit, and laws do not apply to them. The slew of programs over the past 30+ years haven’t worked so let’s move straight to real discrimination.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Ask yourself if someone born blind can fly for the military or airlines ... even drive a bus or truck - not even a car. So was that person "created equal"? Would you say mentally that most of the people are the equal of Einstein, for example? Nothing bigoted about it - saying all men are created equal is plain dumb.

We are 'created' equal. We do not remain equal though.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Your analogy would be more accurate if it said that someone could not fly for the military or airlines because of their race or gender because there are A LOT of people on the Right who may not admit it (although more aren't scared to now), but are completely intimidated and opposed to anyone having an opportunity who doesn't look exactly like them. Just look at the makeup of Trump rallies, if you think I'm wrong.

LOL... no. sorry. it's not funny. It's really pathetic that you see everyone that differs from your POV in this way.

Who's the bigot again?

 

[hUTch2002]

BS. I listen to what Trump says and draw my own opinions from that. You people blame the "MSM" for everything and act like Trump never says or does anything offensive and that it's all the media's fault. I suppose that is the only way a lot of you can justify voting and supporting someone as despicable and reprehensible as Trump.

No you don’t. You literally posted the MSM lies here a couple days ago from a Vox article. You take whatever they say as gospel. Trump does say stupid things, he aims to divide, and seeks to offend at times. That doesn’t mean he said the thing MSM claims. Show me a statement where he said white supremacists are fine people. Not the MSM lie, an actual transcript of what Trump said. You can’t. That Charlottesville discussion he very specifically said there are fine people on both sides and then specifically said he wasn’t talking about the Neo Nazis or alt left. But here you were posting it as proof that Trump is racist and this morning have the gall to lie and say you take him at his word. You have zero credibility because your lie has been exposed. Don’t worry though, there are others spreading the same false information on here.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

I never said that only black people were less fortunate as there are people of all races who fall into this category. The problem is that a lot of people in this country never even get a real opportunity, which a lot of other people refuse or fail to realize.

Yet your side vilifies people like Ben Carson who became a chief of pediatric neurosurgery at one of the most prestigious hospitals in America while extolling men like Lebron James (high school graduate) and Colin Kaeperdick who grew up in a middle class white family. Which of those three overcame the higher odds against them, and by how much?


You are a racist.

 

[82_VOL_83]

It's not if you take a second to actually think about it instead of just spouting off. Everyone being equal would assume equal outcomes. We should realize that's a ridiculous goal and stop trying to obtain it. Trying to take from some to give to others is considered wrong in every other setting except for govt. Why do you want to give them such power over your life?

Because he benefits. Only reason to be that selfish and short sighted.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Hold on?
Are you a man?
If you’re a dude then I apologize for all the lady comments. I actually thought you were a female or at least identify as one.

You certainly act like one (sorry again, I could not help myself on that obvious shot).

I'm not sorry, he reacts like a female. It has long been assumed that he was female and I believe somewhere back in the weeds he actually agreed with a statement that he was. Either way, his reactions are akin to those of a menopausal female. Curse you first and foremost, talk about how stupid you are and then maybe try to make a point.

 

[Volgolfer1618]

So, you asked for it...

The "how" isn't important for this, just that eventually the Democrats make Conservatives snap and it all comes to a head. It'll probably start in Texas because, why not? Don't all Texans think the world revolves around them?

- So, something happens to someone, Texas declares their intent to secede.
- Biden says "You can't stand up to us!"
- Abbott cackles, raises bottle of tequila and a middle finger and does it anyway
- Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin revolt and stay with the American Empire
- Dan Crenshaw sent in to negotiate
- San Antonio falls back in line since Crenshaw promises them a new whale at Sea World and to repave the 410 loop
- Houston reenters the State after it's promised to keep cameras a minimum of 500 yards from Shelia Jackson-Lee
- Austin is next, remains defiant, Texas shuts off the power all Starbucks franchises
- Austin surrenders 37 minutes later
- Dallas rolls their eyes, sighs deeply and comes back without negotiating
- Oklahoma asks if they can come play too
- Texas chuckles and says no
- Oklahoma offers to settle the matter at the Cotton Bowl
- Oklahoma demands the new Union be named Oklahoma after the game ends in yet another rout
- Oklahoma settles for an In-and-Out Burger franchise as a consolation
- Pelosi votes to impeach Texas
- Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Missouri, Montana and Wyoming all ask to join new Union
- "Why the hell not?!" declares Oklahoma Texas. Congress and Harris Biden outraged
- Big party for the new nation held at the BSR Cable Park and Royal Flush Slide. Most attendees anxiously awaiting arrival of Kristi Noem
- California angry that Texas has open attractions, secedes from the Union and disowns Pelosi
- Oregon and Washington follow California
- Nobody cares
- Pelosi now UN Ambassador, demands assistance from UN members
- Matthew McConaughey appointed as UN Ambassador for Texas, bribes members with bootleg videos from BSR Cable Park celebration and dates with Dallas Cowgirls
- UN decides to remain neutral in "that thing down south."
- Pelosi impeaches the UN
- Tennessee, Florida, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana secede, form new nation
- CNN nationalized by new nation, holds online auction for Jim Acosta "Pie in the face" contest
- Approximately $1.3 trillion raised as capitol for new nation
- Biden steps down due to "cognitive decline"
- Nobody's surprised
- Virginia tells revolting neighbors to "settle down!"
- New nation pats Virginia on its head and sends him home
- New states join: Southwest Virginia, Central Virginia, Southeast Virginia. Sue West Virginia for making their names difficult
- Florida Man steals Pelosi's wine collection, replaces wine with clam juice in bottles
- Pelosi declares war on Florida
- Harris asks for help from China
- Chinese "too busy making bootleg copies of BSR Cable Park videos to distribute in Europe, call back in a while."
- Putin chuckles at Harris
- Louisiana asked to join either new southern nation or Texas
- Negotiations stall
- Negotiations back on after translator is found
- Louisiana joins Texas after they win the jumbo cookoff
- Harris defects to Canada
- Canada politely declines her request, tells her "doesn't work that way..."
- Rest of Virginia joins Washington DC. Can't decide a name for the new city
- Write in campaign from Oklahoma suggests "Redskins."
- Utah joins Texas, Romney defects to Massachusetts
- Massachusetts declines, tells Romney to GTFO
- Romney and Mitch McConnell men without a country, set up nice retreat in Guatemala, become coffee import kings
- Wisconsin defects, joins Texas
- Madison revolts
- Madison rejoins the state after rest of state threatens to cut off cheese
- Chicago revolts, claims to be part of France
- France sticks nose in air and declines
- Maine and Upper Michigan revolt, join Canada
- Bernie Sanders flees to Cuba, given a 1956 Chevy and a chicken to start out
- Bernie sells chicken to Venezuela, becomes first millionaire in Cuba since the revolution
- Texas invades Colorado and New Mexico
- Attack fails, Colorado tough nut to crack
- Coloradans momentarily distracted by appearance of Peyton Manning
- Colorado falls
- New Mexico gives up
- Arizona comes to its senses and joins Texas
- Nevada joins Texas
- Tensions rise between Texas and new nation in south
- Uneasy truce called as south promises to keep Saban in Alabama as long as Texas keeps Californians out west
- UN threatens to move headquarters to Beijing
- Americans offer to help them pack
- Alaska becomes independent, residents officially notified of move over next three months
- Hawaii joins Australia
- Obama tells them how proud he was to be the first Australian President of United States
- Washington DC surrenders to Texas, renamed "State of Dumbass" as punishment
- Dumbass introduced in new Texas Congress
- Harris defects to China, given middle management job with Lebron James making Nike apparel in Wuhan
- Peace comes over the world

Sign me up. Ill succeed.

 

[Volgolfer1618]

BS. I listen to what Trump says and draw my own opinions from that. You people blame the "MSM" for everything and act like Trump never says or does anything offensive and that it's all the media's fault. I suppose that is the only way a lot of you can justify voting and supporting someone as despicable and reprehensible as Trump.

Lol, you're a fool if you kamala will be better.

 

[82_VOL_83]

The cognitive dissonance is real, very stupid, and not an act.

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..."

Some people don't understand equality versus equity. Equality means equal opportunity. Equity means equal outcome. Neither is perfect but only one of them takes away an individual's liberty & freedom.

Pursuit means equal opportunity not equal outcome.

Reason #243,678 why critical theory is a steaming pile of bovine feces.

Please dear lord use that word correctly. There are two entire generations that do not know the meaning of the abbreviation vs. when used in conjunction with something vs. something else.

 

[USAFgolferVol]

Because he benefits. Only reason to be that selfish and short sighted.

There are a number of reasons he could be that short sighted. He could just be a brainwashed ideologue

 

[82_VOL_83]

Doesn't matter. We're equal, right? Where's my NBA contract? For that matter, why isn't he sitting in a hotel room in Cancun right now waiting to go to work this afternoon taking a 200,000 pound airplane with a hundred people to New York and then putting that airplane gently on the ground at 200 knots?

Equal.

Guys like Monty and bn that spout this 'we're all equal' gar-bage are usually ones that have never made it past minimum wage. In some ways we are equal. In MANY ways we are not.

Regardless of political party (for the most part), there are makers and there are takers. I very rarely hear the makers complaining about equality. You generally only hear takers whining about it. I'm talking about people that pay net zero taxes. These people are generally screaming the loudest for income redistribution.......something without having to earn it.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Wow.

Well this explains alot.

Per our Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Wipe your ass with this piece of trash, huh? That nearly 20 people liked your anti-American post is truly disheartening.

Republicans under Trump have become the Radical Right - embracing ideals that are the very antithesis of our national values as established by our Founding Fathers.

The Republican party is truly dead.

There are two beliefs systems here. 1) Everyone should ALWAYS be equal. The homeless man on the street should receive a style of life equal to that of the richest man. The 2nd is the belief that yes, we are born into this world with equal rights, rights to life (i.e. don't kill children after they are born), Liberty (stop being oppressive and fostering a tyrannical belief system like the left is beginning to push today) and the PURSUIT of Happiness (i.e. you can chase your dreams and you have a right to do so). That statement says nothing more than you have rights as soon as you are born and you should have equal representation under our Constitution. Nothing more, nothing less. NOWHERE in the Constitution does it guarantee health care, basic income, government assistance or free anything.

Your reply had absolutely NOTHING to do with the post you quoted.

 

[MontyPython]

There are two beliefs systems here. 1) Everyone should ALWAYS be equal. The homeless man on the street should receive a style of life equal to that of the richest man. The 2nd is the belief that yes, we are born into this world with equal rights, rights to life (i.e. don't kill children after they are born), Liberty (stop being oppressive and fostering a tyrannical belief system like the left is beginning to push today) and the PURSUIT of Happiness (i.e. you can chase your dreams and you have a right to do so). That statement says nothing more than you have rights as soon as you are born and you should have equal representation under our Constitution. Nothing more, nothing less. NOWHERE in the Constitution does it guarantee health care, basic income, government assistance or free anything.

Your reply had absolutely NOTHING to do with the post you quoted.

Ahhh. So you're going to refuse Medicare, Medicaid and your Social Security benefits when you're of age. Good to know.

Our society is filled with basic socialist machinations. They are good things, and benefit our society as a whole.

It's not communism, it's social programs (Read: Socialism). If you think they're a bad idea, I'll gladly receive your benefits that you've actually paid into over the years.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Ahhh. So you're going to refuse Medicare, Medicaid and your Social Security benefits when you're of age. Good to know.

Our society is filled with basic socialist machinations. They are good things, and benefit our society as a whole.

It's not communism, it's social programs (Read: Socialism). If you think they're a bad idea, I'll gladly receive your benefits that you've actually paid into over the years.

Wow. You are some kind of special

 

[hog88]

Ahhh. So you're going to refuse Medicare, Medicaid and your Social Security benefits when you're of age. Good to know.

Our society is filled with basic socialist machinations. They are good things, and benefit our society as a whole.

It's not communism, it's social programs (Read: Socialism). If you think they're a bad idea, I'll gladly receive your benefits that you've actually paid into over the years.

Give me all of my money back that I've paid in for those and yes, I'll gladly refuse them.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Give me all of my money back that I've paid in for those and yes, I'll gladly refuse them.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[utvolpj]

Who is "them" exactly? Also, all this crap you are spewing is pretty easy to say when you are a privileged white person who has never had to worry about these things. When you are a minority or poor in this country, then perspectives may be a little different. Your post is exactly why I will never be a Republican. Not everyone looking for assistance is a "free-loader" or lazy.

you're just looking to be outraged. Where have I ever denied some are born more fortunate than others (unequal). Some are blessed with more intelligence (unequal), more athletic (unequal), better looking (unequal), etc. Acknowledging that didn't make me wrong. I've also been pretty consistent with my views on the gop so your silly labels site a complete lack of understanding of the subject matter.

So we should just ignore less fortunate people? Got it.

I work with them and their children weekly. But please, continue your outrage and trying to pigeon hole me

 

[Ashevolle]

Unifying the whole country is impossible. I'm ok with fracturing the Republican party and unifying with the the traditional element to get past this. The fringe element can rot.

 

[hog88]

Unifying the whole country is impossible. I'm ok with fracturing the Republican party and unifying with the the traditional element to get past this. The fringe element can rot.

There are fringe elements on both sides and unity is impossible with the current size of our federal government.

 

[UT_VOLS13]

Unifying the whole country is impossible. I'm ok with fracturing the Republican party and unifying with the the traditional element to get past this. The fringe element can rot.

Does that include the "fringe" left?

 

[LouderVol]

So we should just ignore less fortunate people? Got it.

No. We just shouldnt cripple the "fortunate" to "even" the playing field.

Give the poor a million bucks and within two years 99% are right back where they were.

A million bucks is a lot more help than most push for, but the lottery has given a pretty good example size that it doesnt work.