POLITICAL THREAD

[Sawnee Cat]

This is the ultimate arbiter of the truth. Unless you can convince yourself that all of those people are racists. I’m sure our resident non-thinkers believe this to be the case.

If residents were not leaving these states because of the political climate you would not see all of the growing states Red and the declining states Blue. So why are they moving?

If you actually talk to people who have moved you understand why. I have the opportunity to talk to them as some move in my neighborhood and go to my church. Some have horror stories to share.

Not a single one I have talked to who moved from California are retirees. For the most part them have children at home and want better schools and less restrictions in their work. Some sold their small business and reopened shops in their new home.

 

[dbmhoosier]

This is where we're at now.

 

[Freetaxreturn]

Santos wasting no time stealing that Schlapp sexual assault headline. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

George Santos accused of sexual harassment by congressional aide

Derek Myers alleges he was put to work as a volunteer before controversial Republican touched him and asked him over

www.theguardian.com

Weren’t you accused of sexually assaulting Dioness ? 🍺

 

[TheFrontRunner]

hahahaha

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[Dionysus444]

If residents were not leaving these states because of the political climate you would not see all of the growing states Red and the declining states Blue. So why are they moving?

If you actually talk to people who have moved you understand why. I have the opportunity to talk to them as some move in my neighborhood and go to my church. Some have horror stories to share.

Not a single one I have talked to who moved from California are retirees. For the most part them have children at home and want better schools and less restrictions in their work. Some sold their small business and reopened shops in their new home.

Politics has become a top driver of internal migration as remote workers flee expensive cities. Both the pandemic and the Dobbs decision exacerbated that. Both 'blue' and 'red' states used to be much more purple. Lots of conservative business people leaving their blue states they did business in for Florida these days.

 

[TopCatCal]

Biden said that he didn't want the wreckage falling onto peoples homes if they shot it down over land. What a joke. It was over Montana one of the least densely populated states in the country. It would have been so simple to fly a helicopter up to it & put 1 hole in the balloon with a .22 caliber rifle. It would have slowly sunk to the ground & the U.S. could have recovered everything in it. But Biden didn't want to make his bosses in China mad, so he let it cross the U.S. from West coast to east coast spying all along the way. Then shoots it down over water where what was inside will never be recovered. Wonder how much money the Biden crime family will get from China for the information that China got from this

 

[BarnabusStinson]

Biden Regime Quietly Frees One of 9/11 Terrorist Planners from Gitmo as the Whole Country Watches the Chinese Spy Balloon

As the whole country was preoccupied with the Chinese spy balloon last week, one of the 9/11 terrorist planners was quietly released from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba by the Biden regime. On Thursday, Majid Khan, now 42, was moved to Belize, his legal team announced. “Today, more than 16 years after...

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Anti-American Marxists democrats set free a convicted terrorist after 10 years.
Block an entrance to an abortion clinic, democrats want you in prison for 11 years.

 

[Marleydogg]

Politics has become a top driver of internal migration as remote workers flee expensive cities. Both the pandemic and the Dobbs decision exacerbated that. Both 'blue' and 'red' states used to be much more purple. Lots of conservative business people leaving their blue states they did business in for Florida these days.

Dobbs decision? Wut?

If that was the case, wouldn't the abortion nuts be moving into blue states? Why would a pro life person flee a blue state for a red one? Horribly stupid take.

 

[gollumcat]

He's a genius you guys...there will be 200 plus articles and cable news segments this week saying so...

How is it more likely to be recovered in the freaking ocean than on dry land ?

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

I dont even know if they were collecting anything important. It was probably just a psychological flex to show how weak this admin is

 

[Sawnee Cat]

So now the Biden's administration is claiming China was flying these balloons over America when Trump was President. Sure. And they are just now saying this? Really? Another day and another lie from Biden. SOP

 

[Sawnee Cat]

How is it more likely to be recovered in the freaking ocean than on dry land ?

Joe Scarborough. What an idiot fool he plays his followers for. They slurp it up.

 

[Wildcats1st]

You do know about the open skies treaty right? We let dozens of countries openly send spy planes into the US for 30 years. In exchange we got to do the same. It was a way to end the chaos of cold war cat and mouse game of building crazier planes to outrun AA missiles. It also let the whole world keep tabs on each others military movement so there was never surprises that could lead to stupid reactions. It's not about the balloon. It's about the chaos the balloon created beause some idiots freaked the **** out over totally normal shit. China has low orbit spy satelites. There is nothing they can't already see better than with those. All the relevant militaries knew about the Ballon a week ago and didn't give a shit about it because it wasn't a big deal. Then it went ****ing crazy on social media and forced them to pretend to care. Multiple former trump administrators are on record that they tracked balloons as well and it just never was a big deal. We like super high altitude super sonic spy jets, China likes balloons.

Libs love them some China is what I learned from this. And the idiots freaking out are the mainstream media and the administration who shot the balloon down. It’s a false flag to make biden look tough on China. You fly anything over a countries airspace without permission it’s fair game to get shot down.

 

[55wildcat]

spot on...

 

[55wildcat]

 

[55wildcat]

Now it's the germans turn....

 

[55wildcat]

Hmmm..

 

[Dionysus444]

Dobbs decision? Wut?

If that was the case, wouldn't the abortion nuts be moving into blue states? Why would a pro life person flee a blue state for a red one? Horribly stupid take.

Ok so abortion, being the unique issue it is, doesn't have an equal distribution along the political spectrum. While the overall numbers of 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice' aren't too lopsided, the enthusiasm with which they maintain those positions is. It makes sense when you think about it, most pro-choicers are of the Clinton variety, they think abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. Elective abortions are bad. Meanwhile many pro-lifers just take the moral position that abortion is baby murder and hence evil. So far more conservatives are going to care about moving to a pro-life state than pro-choicers are to move to a pro-choice state because their feelings on the issue are inherently more vehement. As always it's more complicated than a surface-level analysis would indicate.

 

[WTF Cat]

Don't know if this has been posted...

 

[55wildcat]

 

[55wildcat]

Don't know if this has been posted...

Won't be long until their liberal bullshit infiltrates those states into the same states they left.

 

[55wildcat]

 

[Marleydogg]

Ok so abortion, being the unique issue it is, doesn't have an equal distribution along the political spectrum. While the overall numbers of 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice' aren't too lopsided, the enthusiasm with which they maintain those positions is. It makes sense when you think about it, most pro-choicers are of the Clinton variety, they think abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. Elective abortions are bad. Meanwhile many pro-lifers just take the moral position that abortion is baby murder and hence evil. So far more conservatives are going to care about moving to a pro-life state than pro-choicers are to move to a pro-choice state because they're feelings on the issue are inherently more vehement. As always it's more complicated than a surface-level analysis would indicate.

Balderdash.

 

[Marleydogg]

Don't know if this has been posted...

The idiot Dion thinks it is related to the Dobbs decision! See above, for full on idiocy.

 

[55wildcat]

 

[Marleydogg]

Of course, now Dion will spend a week and 300 posts explaining exactly what that foolishness really means, if only we rubes could understand the many peals* of the onion, and truly look below the surface, and blah blah blah.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

@AustinTXCat

 

[SDC888]

Of course, now Dion will spend a week and 300 posts explaining exactly what that foolishness really means, if only we rubes could understand the many peals* of the onion, and truly look below the surface, and blah blah blah.

Joke's on him(them).

 

[SDC888]

@AustinTXCat

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That happened Lufthansa/KLM somehting in europe once, thin the plane was taxiing though crossing the runway to get to another one during the fog, landing plane clipped it and hundreds died. :/

 

[trueblujr2]

How is it more likely to be recovered in the freaking ocean than on dry land ?

First, it wasn’t that damn far out to sea where they shot it down. It was visible from shore. It’s not like it’s a bottomless abyss just off the coast of myrtle beach. Second, I’m sure the Coast Guard likely sent boats out to retrieve whatever fell. The balloon, even though deflated would have drastically slowed it’s decent to the bottom giving time for it to be retrieved.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[azurricat2010]

Think we found another energy vampire.

If you got that off of a chat about social security then idk what to tell ya.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Almost everything true conservatives predicted in 2020 has come true...Covid was not dangerous to kids and teenagers, they should have been allowed to carry on as normal...masking them, isolating them, scaring them, injecting them with a vaccine more dangerous to their age group than Covid itself...Fauci, the CDC, the teachers unions trying to keep schools closed as long as possible...I would get banned if I said what I think should happen to those people.

 

[VaxxedObamaCat]

I think every politician’s wealth should be confiscated and given back to the taxpayers. Then the politicians have the option of solitary confinement or the death penalty.

I don’t think any politician should make a dime.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Miami Black leaders apologize to Gov. Ron DeSantis after a member called him racist

Black leaders in Miami apologized to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after one of their board members called him a racist in response to his actions related to content in schools.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Marleydogg]

Almost everything true conservatives predicted in 2020 has come true...Covid was not dangerous to kids and teenagers, they should have been allowed to carry on as normal...masking them, isolating them, scaring them, injecting them with a vaccine more dangerous to their age group than Covid itself...Fauci, the CDC, the teachers unions trying to keep schools closed as long as possible...I would get banned if I said what I think should happen to those people.

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Never forget. Never forgive.

 

[Dionysus444]

I think every politician’s wealth should be confiscated and given back to the taxpayers. Then the politicians have the option of solitary confinement or the death penalty.

I don’t think any politician should make a dime.

Does that include Trump? Regardless, we should be focused on those paying the politicians that money. Follow the money.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Does that include Trump? Regardless, we should be focused on those paying the politicians that money. Follow the money.

The one politician that wealth decreased while in office.

 

[azurricat2010]

Obviously your post was (poorly made) satire, but would you agree or disagree that we as a nation have an overspending problem as opposed to a revenue shortfall problem? We keep kicking the can down the road but eventually tough choices will have to be made - Raise taxes, cut benefits, or a combination of the two. Our current modus operandi is simply not sustainable.

I agree that it can be both. But the onus would be on those in D.C. to stop kicking that can down the road.

Cutting can only do so much though and once there's nothing left to cut the money has to be found elsewhere.

Flipside, you could raise taxes as high as you want but it wouldn't matter if those in D.C. ended up using that influx of cash on frivolous expenditures.

Our national debt was essentially flat from post WW2 to the early 80s. Since then it's jumped from 1 trillion to 31.5 trillion. Interest alone is half a trillion.

Something has to be done and all that bickering in Washington isn't gonna solve shit for average American.