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this does not bode well for the republican party...

when the D's clearly have an uphill battle to fight regarding corruption.. and that could have been a very strong argument/debate point for the R's across the country at all levels (from POTUS all the way down the ticket)..

this sorta negates that.. now the R's are clearly going to be in question regarding integrity, honestly, corruption, etc (not like all politicians shouldnt be in question regarding integrity to one degree or another)..


the Chair of the R party in AZ has already resigned..

Guaranteed this will be a huge discussion for the next several weeks across all of the MSM... the left will latch on and demonize the entirety of the right.. and the more right wing groups will latch on and demonize the members of the R party that are involved (or even just potentially involved).. and the R party will be even more fractured and divided than it was before..

Not good in any way...
 
the UAW always endorses the D candidate.. no impact at all.. it is/was 100% expected..

the D party is the party of unions..
 
Sorry for the negativity that follows but I am somewhat baffled how you all talk like this nation still has honest elections. Despite the weaponizing of multiple government agencies against anyone not part of the corrupt establishment. Despite the national media playing the role of propaganda ministry.
Due to this, a corrupt career politician and dementia ridden pedophile received 16 million more votes than Obama by campaigning from his basement…?! Beating anyone is no problem for whichever candidate they choose. If Trump isn’t imprisoned or assassinated he will be beaten in a purposely nail biting close election. That part is for the ratings to give their slaves in the media their gruel and to entertain the gullible masses. Trump’s future is as bleak as the nation’s future in my opinion.
The puppet masters will have their candidate and that candidate can easily come from either party, democrats or republicans.
I told my wife in 2016 that Trump was a surprise who they did not take seriously and they will not let that happen again.
Trump never drained the swamp but they exposed themselves out of their hatred for him and “they” are numerous and clearly in control.
Your post is a too common opinion on the right that reflects the great damage done by both the Democrat Party in creating and taking advantage of new Covid voting rules, and Donald Trump and much of the nonsense he and his legal team spewed about the "stolen" election.

In many states, ballots were indeed mailed out and most importantly collected without adequate controls. In major blue cities like Detroit, Atlanta, and even Houston, existing community organizer groups were able to insure large numbers of those ballots were returned marked for the democrat presidential candidate. I have no doubt that many of the voters would never have created a ballot in person or through normal absentee voting.

The Republican Party had, and the best I can tell, still has no similar ground game to insure every likely Republican vote is submitted for the November election. If you leave the door wide open to your house, put a sign out front that says we aren't home, you aren't being robbed - you are being stupid. Looks like we are determined to be stupid once again.

There is no evidence that any electronic shenanigans went on. I am sure you remember Sydney Powell's promise to "release the Kraken." She and several of her fellow travelers in conspiracy world have pled in the Atlanta case (6 counts in her instance) and she is trying to survive what appears to be a very strong 1.2 billion civil suit from Dominion Voting.

In fact, I lay the loss of the senate directly at the feet of Trump and his merry band of lawyers. He was so successful in convincing his most loyal Georgia supporters that their vote wouldn't count that almost half a million who voted for him in the general that they didn't vote in the two senate runoff races. The two democrats won by a total of just over 100,000. The trajectory of this country would have been far different the last four years had the Republican party controlled the senate. Trump and his claims about the election, are a direct cause of much of the success of the Biden agenda. None of his followers reflect on that.

Finally, I agree with @Tundra Tiger. I live in the Austin area and my younger brother is a trial lawyer and his daughter is also an attorney. I have no doubt that a liberal base significantly larger than the 34% of Trump true believers would vote for a corpse, much less a senile old man, rather than Trump. Like @freefall I too enjoy some of Cromwell's quotes (a man, I should remind, who was an unapologetic dictator). I wish Trump would simply heed the rest of Cromwell's admonishment - "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God go!"
 
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the UAW always endorses the D candidate.. no impact at all.. it is/was 100% expected..

the D party is the party of unions..
And I will be dipped in shit and deep fried if I can understand why. Public Employee unions, you betcha, but flat out labor unions that do actual work? How many union jobs did Biden kill his first day in office by choking the Keystone XL pipeline? How many UMW guys has he put out of work?
This has to be flat-out paying the union bosses for endorsements. The working men I know are mostly NOT in favor of Democrat policies.
 
And I will be dipped in shit and deep fried if I can understand why. Public Employee unions, you betcha, but flat out labor unions that do actual work? How many union jobs did Biden kill his first day in office by choking the Keystone XL pipeline? How many UMW guys has he put out of work?
This has to be flat-out paying the union bosses for endorsements. The working men I know are mostly NOT in favor of Democrat policies.


Its something I havent been understand.. and I have sincerely tried for years..

If I were a pipefitter.. or a welder.. or an electrician.. and belonged to a union.. I'd be among the "reddest" voters in the country..
 
questions that deserve reasonable answers, particularly when the statistical probabilities of all of this happening all over, all at once, outside of normal predicted patterns:

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Vote stuffing video montage: https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1706075669329513.webm

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the UAW always endorses the D candidate.. no impact at all.. it is/was 100% expected..

the D party is the party of unions..
And yet the unions are the most unified in opposition to illegal immigration! Cheap labor threatens their livelihood.
 
And yet the unions are the most unified in opposition to illegal immigration! Cheap labor threatens their livelihood.

all part of the equation that just doesnt add up...

in the 2022 mid term elections (the open border was already raging out of control).. the UAW contributed $2.1M to major democrat campaigns.. and a total of $15K to major republican campaigns..
 
Well, I dropped into viewership of Bill Maher's talk show yesterday. The main thrust was that "by refusing to certify the election, Trump was automatically guilty of current charges of insurrection." Wait, what? The first thing out of the mouths of Hillary and all the leftists as soon as Trump was elected was that the election was bogus and "he was not their president." Is it hypocritical for them not to say that Hillary and others were insurrectionists, by their own current metric? And yet they believe Bill Maher on the matter against Trump.
 
Don’t mistake the fact that just because the union leadership backs Democrats and Biden

That the members do also And all vote that way. Many are Trump supporters at least in the Detroit area

No doubt..

but MILLIONS of the dollars they are feeding their unions in dues.. are going toward making sure that democrats get into key elected offices..

you'd think the membership would be a little pissed about that..
 
It is not surprising that the UAW supports the D candidate, unions are socialist organizations, the most for the least, protect the lazy slugs, etc. Our kids are indoctrinated to want the free stuff by unionized teacher federations.
 
Well crap… just about when I got my wife onboard for a five year plan that would culminate in a (permanent?) move to the USA, I get to read all these latest posts about how it’s all going to hell in a handbasket…
 
Well crap… just about when I got my wife onboard for a five year plan that would culminate in a (permanent?) move to the USA, I get to read all these latest posts about how it’s all going to hell in a handbasket…

You didn't ask us for an honest grade compared to global peers on a bellcurve.

The USA is the worst country on earth, except for the other 167 of them. (potential tie for first place with New Zealand and Switzerland if economic and freedom index factors mean anything)

As bad as urban America is, and as totalitarian the regimes are in places like California and NYC, rural America is a solid choice. You've got to live in a place where you 100% trust your neighbors and your local sheriff.
 
Well crap… just about when I got my wife onboard for a five year plan that would culminate in a (permanent?) move to the USA, I get to read all these latest posts about how it’s all going to hell in a handbasket…
If it makes you feel any better, I've never spent time in any country where the locals don't think that the end is nigh...
 
Well crap… just about when I got my wife onboard for a five year plan that would culminate in a (permanent?) move to the USA, I get to read all these latest posts about how it’s all going to hell in a handbasket…
the republic is definitely on a downward slide..

but.. Ive had the blessing and privilege to travel a huge amount of God's green planet (nudging up on 120 countries visited in one capacity or another at this point)..

and while there are places I certainly prefer to be for short periods of time (a few days to a few weeks depending on where we are talking about).. there is nowhere I would rather live than the USA..

we arent perfect.. hell.. in many ways we are totally fooked lol.. and we are in a somewhat precarious time right now..

but I wouldnt trade it (and Im the guy that has on many occasions actually considered very deeply purchasing property and "retiring" elsewhere... Ive looked into a few central and south american options.. a few african options.. and a couple of options in asia... and have numerous "expat" friends that live abroad... but when it comes down to putting the + and the - for each country on the table and really evaluating whats best for me and my family in retirement we end up with "50-150 acres in a rural area in the SE or SW US thats far enough out that if we dont want to see other humans we never have to.. but close enough to an urban area that if we need a quality doctor, or good shopping, or just want to have a really nice meal, its not a 2+ hour drive each direction..."
 
And yet the unions are the most unified in opposition to illegal immigration! Cheap labor threatens their livelihood.
all part of the equation that just doesnt add up...

in the 2022 mid term elections (the open border was already raging out of control).. the UAW contributed $2.1M to major democrat campaigns.. and a total of $15K to major republican campaigns..
Don’t mistake the fact that just because the union leadership backs Democrats and Biden

That the members do also And all vote that way. Many are Trump supporters at least in the Detroit area
you'd think the membership would be a little pissed about that..
It is not surprising that the UAW supports the D candidate, unions are socialist organizations, the most for the least, protect the lazy slugs, etc. Our kids are indoctrinated to want the free stuff by unionized teacher federations.

Not all unions can be lumped into one demographic of voters, and union executive endorsements of candidates do not accurately reflect the voting tendencies of their memberships. Membership voting tendencies can vary widely depending on both the region and demographics of the membership as well as the type of trade they represent.

As a lifelong member of the largest professional association of law enforcement officers in Florida, I can promise you that the vote from our rank & file membership has been overwhelmingly republican for both state, local, and national elections for the last 2 cycles. Same for the IAFF, and most of the other skilled labor unions... Whereas the teacher's union in Florida voted nearly 2/3 for democrats. You can draw your own conclusions as to why that occurred...

As far as labor unions being socialist organizations, I guess that is true by definition to some extent. I have come to view organized labor is a double-edged sword, and a lot of good has been established from the existence of labor unions for both organized and unrepresented workers. But that's a different discussion we can have for another time...

However, I do take exception to anyone accusing us of protecting "lazy slugs" amidst our ranks. Without naming specific labor organizations, there are some national unions that have unfortunately given unions in general a bad name, especially during covid... All I can say is that while some unions were fighting to keep their members isolated, we were running calls and working our asses off during a time when anti-police sentiment in this country was at an all-time high... Thankfully, we only have a few large dem controlled cities in Florida spewing their venom, and support for police in Florida was in general very good especially compared to some of what our fraternal members around the country had to endure. Suffice to say that lazy slugs are not tolerated or protected in our organization. That's how members get hurt or killed.

Each organization has the ability to decide who represents them and what level of integrity they choose to uphold within their own profession. Police, firemen, and skilled tradesmen in Florida are not in the same universe as a teacher in California, or New York....
 
Our hugely wonderful presumptive nominee is his own worst enemy. This was a highlight of his victory speech last night. To hope to win the general he needs every single Haley vote. He also needs to pull a significant percentage of independents and those pesky suburban women.

The Trump way to accomplish that. :A Bang Head:

Does Vivek look like he may have thrown up in the back of his throat? :unsure:

Yeah, that will win over the middle class women! What an imbecile!

I hope Haley stays in. Trump could get dethroned if he is convicted of a crime and then she would be there to pick up the pieces. She would have a much better chance of beating Michelle O or Gavin N than Trump.
 

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