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  1. A small handful of weirdos, Cain. Not the typical Trump supporter, and not the Republican Party. There are nut cases in every group.

    The things I cited above are being done by members of the Democratic Party and their powerful allies.  They need to walk the talk if anyone is to believe them. So far, it feels like they want to start a war. If hey want to make peace, they must do more than just talk it. A good start would be to cease their attacks on Trump and his supporters.

  2. 6 hours ago, gpatt0n said:

    You wrote:  "God help us!"

    My post just suggested that he did and is. 

    The entire problem with Trump was that he wanted us to live in an alternate reality where there is only one arbiter of 'truth' ... which was what Donald Trump said it was. 

    His coup, executed by a mob he gathered and sicked on the Article 1 power (Congress) in an effort to enforce an 'untruth' is just evidence of your, and his, attack on the truth. 

    Bottom line you can't have unity based on lies. I reject your assertion I was attacking Republicans.  I was just celebrating the continuation of a constitutional system which has rebuffed one of the most serious  challenges to our democratic order in 230 years.  I say this because the only other time an enemy of our country and Constitution occupied by force our Capitol, it was the Red Coats of the Royal Navy that burned the building. 

    Frankly, I don't see many local Republicans, and I can begin with Governor Kemp and Secy. of State Brian Raffensberger, willing to sacrifice their careers, much less their lives in defense of the lies that lay at the heart of the sedition at the Capitol on 1/6/21. (Hell, even Mitch McConnell is indicting Trump for inciting  the riot on that sad, sad day.

    But as to the intersession of God; I called it a miracle as he protected Mike Pence and other congressional leaders on 1/6/2021 and preserved our democratic system of government. As conservatives had said in regard the consequences of elections, if you don't like and can't stand it ... leave.  You have the choice. 

     

    I think for either party to claim God is on their side would be pretty arrogant. Neither party is worthy of Him.

    I think we would all like to see unity, but an empty plea from one man is not enough, his people and his party must back it up. Impeaching a president a week before he leaves office, and vowing to convict him AFTER he leaves office does not encourage unity.

    Targeting 74 million Trump supporters and threatening to "cleanse" them does not decry unity.

    The Democrat's allies in big tech censoring anyone who even loosely supported Trump does not say unity.

    Suggesting that our National Guard would attack Biden does is not unifying

    Shutting down Keystone and probably fracking, which will likely drive oil prices sky high, will not spell unity in American's check book.

    The Democrats inability to discuss rubber dog turds without playing the race card or calling someone a white supremacist does not foster unity

    Often, actions mean more than empty words, pubby.


    BTW...if Curtis is your friend, you really shouldn't suggest that members leave here. The site needs activity that isn't hate filled.

    Tucker Carson said it well...you guys won, you should be celebrating. Be happy! But no, the hate goes on, and I suspect the worst from you guys is yet to come, even with Trump gone.
     

  3. Say what you will about President Trump, but he's been the most Christian friendly, and really most religion friendly in general,  president this country has had in many years. We could discuss his own beliefs and moralities all day, but his actions said he supported religious liberty 100%. And in spite of his statements from years ago, he's been staunchly pro-life.

    JMO, but I fear that the incoming administration will be more hostile to religion. Time will tell.

  4. On 5/1/2020 at 2:41 AM, gpatt0n said:

    Today, the AJC also reported that 80 percent of those hospitalized in Georgia were black.  This may be largely because race, poverty and access to good health care run hand in hand but for those ill and dying, why should they be the one's to sacrifice. 

     

     

     

    I don't think we know the reasons yet, but certainly need to find out. It could simply be that something unique to black people's genetic make-up makes then more susceptible.  We already know that people with blood type A are more susceptible, while people with blood type O are less so. The vast majority of deaths from COVID-19 were people in their 70s and older with health issues.  For whatever reason, it doesn't bother smokers as much. We still have lots to learn about this demon.

    Regarding reopening the state...we need to, and as quickly as is safe. In my opinion, we could reopen even more aggressively, but the governor would surely be criticized if he did so.

    At this point, the damage to our economy and the extreme cabin fever sitting is are likely more of a threat than COVID-19 is. Add to that...when people start losing their homes and businesses, the suicide and mental illness rates could certainly be worse than the virus.

    Especially given the revised number of deaths due to COVID-19, we got off very easy, considering. And ironically, the total death rates as compared to the same period last year are way down.  Also contrary to what the media has told us, most of the hospitals are ghost towns, and they are laying off or furloughing staff.

    I don't have all the answers, but this has been a crazy time for us. Lots of  things that don't make sense, but the numbers help to explain at least part of it.  True that the virus isn't gone, but antibody testing is indicating that far more people have had it than medical science expected. Many people get it asymptotically, and the theories that some of us had it in December or January are looking much more possible all the time. The possibilities of a safe vaccine anytime soon are not good, so the best defense we have against the virus is herd immunity.  And quarantining or any semblance of it only slows that down.

    It's time to start returning to normal, or at least as close to normal as we can.  The best thing we can do is to try and protect our elderly and health compromised. The rest of us need to move beyond fear and live life.

  5. 9 hours ago, Caped Crusader said:

    WOW... I'm TRULY disappointed in the DEEP animosity towards OUR fellow Human BEING from ALL parties posting

    in this THREAD! :cray:

     

    With that being SAID.... I do BELIEVE we will have a NEW Rule for the POLTICS portion that NOT 1 of you

    will be able to ABIDE by, by the stroke of MIDNIGHT!

    ⏰

     

    let's Play NICE or let's ALL go to 🕰️ OUT! :give_rose:

     

    Caped :hi:

    I truly believe you mean well, but I have to ask some questions:

    Are we to actually believe that the founder of this forum who is still an owner with admin access will go to time out?  Respectfully, sir, I doubt it.

    As long as he posts his hatred here and slanders members and posts his ad hominem attacks on us, it will be extremely difficult to have civil discussion. Many of us want to, but the hate in his heart makes him incapable of playing nice.

    You have decisions to make, my friend, if you are to protect your investment.


     

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  6. 40 minutes ago, gpatt0n said:

    Awww come on, GD. I don't hate the guy and I don't even think Bloomberg hates the guy despite his willingness to spend billions to defeat him.  Some of us just reject the idea of president as king and an absolute ruler making self-serving decisions from the gut. Put a bit differently, we just don't put much value on personal 24k gold toilets that waste 60 gallons of water with each flush.

    As far as rights, you need to revisit history. When the new world was discovered there were no democracies and Kings were apt to have people's heads on a pike for petty disagreements. Oh, and the world was flat and the universe revolved around the earth and if you didn't buy that malarkey the preachers would dunk you in a pond, draw and quarter you or put you on a rack. 

    So, where did those rights we have now come from?

    I would suggest they come from the hopes, dreams, wants and needs of mankind and those hopes, dreams, wants and needs change over time.  I mean I doubt if George Washington had any notion of a man living on a space station and feeding the hope of at least some men to make humanity a cosmic being.

    And let me assure you that even on earth, with 7+ billion people and the advent of new viruses like the  coronavirus and the chance of a pandemic, we might all hope that health care might become a right.  (BTW, a simulation of a coronavirus run before the discovery of the one in China, gamed itself into a pandemic that resulted in the 'gaming' death of 65 million. Link)

    What is critical to the establishment of rights, frankly, are changes in circumstance. One thing we know is whenever you have a concentration of animals - take chickens -  epidemics happen.  Unlike a chicken farm, which when a bird flu or other disease 'happens' results in the extermination and burial of every chicken often counted in the millions. Common sense says you can't do that with people as they object. That is a key argument for universal health care and at least one of the arguments for health care as a right.

    You are welcome to disagree but then the consequences of valuing gold toilets will eventually be measured in millions more deaths from a pandemic.

    Bottom line, IMHO, what you may call conservatism - which is nickel and dime-ing public health and depriving vulnerable groups of healthcare - is failing to accept the collective responsibility mankind should take over the human circumstance in an increasingly complex world.

     

    Well, you just typed a whole lot of words with virtually no value, just petty insults. Not to mention a lot of envy.

    What business is it of yours what he does with his money?

    I didn't mention conservatism above, and as usual, you made plenty of ad hominem attacks. II could respect you a lot more if you would discuss actual issues and maybe asking me what my position is on certain topics instead of just ASSuming what I believe and attacking me on it.

    This kind of crap from you is EXACTLY what killed your site and a lot of the reason why no one wants to post here now...because you;re still here and still being rude and insulting.

    Really, I don't care. But I do feel bad for the people who actually paid you money for what you destroyed.

    I'm reminded of why I don't like posting here. Time to go back to where intelligent people have civil discussion.

    Ciao

  7. 7 hours ago, gpatt0n said:

    Let's consider for a moment what you said, GD, about rights.

    Are you really ready to argue that your rights change based on where you are?  So where you are determines your right to life, liberty and property and it ends at the border of the town, county, state and nation.  So, do you might have a right to a jury trial in Georgia but not Alabama ... or to go  back to the 1950s, you might have the right to marry the person you love in California or New York but not Georgia or Alabama?

    Rights, if you bother to spend just a few moments exploring the logic, tend to exist independent of where you are. That was the problem with Jim Crow is that when you crossed the mason-dixon line and you were of a specific color, your rights changed.

    And rights are really independent of other things like money or even education.

    Understanding the universality of human rights doesn't mean a rich person stuck on a isolated island doesn't have a right to health care, for instance. Indeed, that person, also regardless of how much wealth or how impoverished, would have the 'same health care access' on that deserted island with no doctors and hospitals. (Kind of like southwest Georgia these days)

    The only point is that just because you are local you are not stripped of your rights and, notably, denying the things that you have a right to have by local authorities is wrong. 

    So the question revolves around to what one's right's are ... and the understanding is they are, or should be universally protected and available.

    The only thing I can surmise is that you confuse rights with responsibilities and performance with prerogatives.

    PS: Bloomberg will not be the democratic nominee. Regardless, he sees the unstudied, gut-feeling approach of DJT as stupid and dangerous and given he has the cash to change it, he has stated his willingness to spend what it takes to assure the defeat of DJT.

    PPS: Bloomberg in an interview, talked about his conversation with donny right after his election. Bloomberg said he advised #OURcurrentPRESIDENT to hire a bunch of people where were smarter than he was and take their advice noting that is what he did when he was first elected mayor of NYC and enjoyed basically two very successful terms of office.

    Of course #OURcurrentPRESIDENT replied, "I can't do that because there is no one smarter than me."  That is the last time the two men talked.

     

    I believe in the Constitution, and it does not claim healthcare or many other things that candidates are pushing are rights.

    I also believe that the federal government has grown WAAAAAAY beyond the scope of their constitutional authority, and I can trace almost every problem we face back to this happening.

    P.S. You really need to do something about your hatred for our president.  It's not healthy.

  8. 7 hours ago, Caped Crusader said:

     

    Yes Sir, I agree! With my WHOLE HEART....

    Thankful you brought that up because to be a

    HEALTHY LOCAL WEB PRESENCE

    **** Here is what I would like YOUR suggestion

    on... What is a HEALTHY Ratio of posts from an individual

    here on p.com  on LOCAL VS NATIONAL....?????? :hi::wub:B):80

     

    I Believe it should be a 1 to 1 ratio as that would indicate they are a PRODUCTIVE  poster in OUR Community?

     

    Your TURN... we are VOTING on this SET RULE in the NEAR FUTURE amongst the OWNERS of Paulding.com

     

    IMHO we have a FEW on HERE that have a difficult time balancing between the TWO! :drinks:

    I don't believe in imposing quotas on forum members.

    I am active in local politics, but under the radar. There's been too much dirty retribution from elected officials.

    Not to mention a certain 527 group owned by someone who has access to my information here who mails out dirty fliers.

  9. 4 hours ago, Caped Crusader said:

     

     

    I wish more REAL AMERICANS/ Paulding Countians that is... would/could see the VALUE in LOCALism and that other sites that claim to love this

    county are NOT driven out of LOVE for the county, rather they are either driven by GOVT or BIG Business! (or BOTH)

    54 more hours till the EPIC Bacon Wrapped Steak Drawing! :good:

    Local is extremely important, no doubt about it.

    But so is national politics. Especially when the federal government has expanded far beyond it's constitutional scope and is taking away LOCAL rights and meddling in our business. If the trend continues, we LOCAL people won't have much say as to what happens here because everything will be decided on a Socialist national level.

  10. 11 hours ago, gpatt0n said:

    I should add that the wall to wall negative ads against #OURcurrentPRESIDENT are already being booked by the Bloomberg campaign for September and October and he's smarter than the 'genius' in the white house whose main claim to fame is he is a great - really - one of the greatest CHEATERS to have ever lived.  His personal motto is "winners cheat and cheaters win."

    As I gather, Bloomberg is going to roll DJT like a dandy in central park with billions and billions more than Donny boy.

    I'm glad you can still dream, pubby. No one likes Bloomberg exept the party bosses, he's a joke. He'll only get the nomination because the DNC knows how dumb their voters are and will override them with the superdelagates.  That is how little the party bosses think of the rank and file Democratic voter.

    That's all you will have in the next election.  Your party will get an epic beating because real Americans are tired of the lies and corruption from the Democratic Party.

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  11. 7 hours ago, gpatt0n said:

    First, it has been illegal from as long as I've been alive for a candidate to accept aid from a foreign entity - person, state, company, etc. ... period.

    That is what was so disturbing about the 2016  election ... Putin heaped massive aid on #OURcurrentPRESIDENT presumably independent of the campaign and #OURcurrentPRESIDENT as Mueller could document no specific conspiracy.

    I was about six paragraphs into a long explanation when I realized that it is a complex case, like most important cases; and your broad question on which there have been books written.

    Let it suffice to say that inviting foreigners into your campaign (remember the interview with Stephanopolus where the "Don" said he'd take dirt from any foreigner and might tell the FBI?) it is kind of like when your daddy said if you're out running around after midnight, you're automatically in trouble. 

    Bottom line, #OURcurrentPRESIDENT cheats to win and I don't want him anywhere around government. In my opinion his efforts at cheating have lost him the privilege.
     

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    Okay, here he is with 391 million dollars of military aid that has gone through all the checks and investigations that bad-ass woman ambassador made them before she was fired and it is, as the GAO (Government Accountability Office) says, illegal to withhold them. (There is an actual law, passed back in the 1970s that makes it illegal for the president to withhold funds properly appropriated by congress.  Seems some of the stuff that didn't come out about Nixon was that he would twist congressmen and senators' arms by threatening to withhold funds from their districts.  It is also what would make it illegal for any president to withhold social security to all people in Minnesota or Georgia because he was pissed at a senator or congressman and go on TV and say, vote against David Perdue and I'll pay your social security.... which I'm afraid may be the next thing this not all of #OURcurrentPRESIDENT (tr ump) might do cause 'he can do what ever he wants' _)

    Anyway - I know this is getting long -  the general understanding (Ask Judge Napolitano) is he got caught trying to cheat on the 2020 election.

    Think of this as a high-stakes card game and #OURcurrentPRESIDENT is the dealer and we catch him dealing off the bottom of the deck.

    Are we to say, Oh, you're our current president and you can lie (16,000 times and counting), cheat (the Ukrainian scandal) and steal (violation of the emoluments clause etc.) the coming election and will cheer when you get 96 percent of the vote giving you bragging rights over  your bud Vlad!

    And our reaction is supposed to be "Oh wonderful, you deal off the bottom so well we will make you 'dealer for life' and let Don jr. take your place when that horrible day comes and you're no longer with us?

    Personally, I think the patriotic thing - and my family has roots that go back to those days of the original revolution - is to say, "We don't need no trucking King with his gold plated pisser."

    Bottom line, #OURcurrentPRESIDENT cheats to win and I don't want him anywhere around government. In my opinion his efforts at cheating have lost him the privilege.
     

     

    Nope. Even i he did what they say, it was well within the authority of the President of the United States.

    The Democrats have made up a fairy tail and their allies in the corrupt media is supporting them. What the Dems are trying to do is to overturn an election.

    That, is treason, and the Dems are guilty of it. Shame on them!! They will pay a heavy price in the next election.

  12. Unless you call a pea shooter taking on an F-16, war; there won't be any war. Iran's military capabilities are quite limited and archaic in comparison to ours, and their personnel are not in the same league as our troops.

    Not to say there aren't concerns, but this will only go so far.  Any terror attacks from them would be handled very differently from most because in this case they would be state sponsored and Iran would be held directly accountable.


     

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