SoCal Deek

The entire point of being a fan is to root for your team to do well. If this turns out to be THE year and you sit there with folded arms until February…you’re going to be really sad you missed the ride. And if you join in the fun, what’s the worst that can happen? Wide right? Music City Miracle? Thirteen Seconds? For me and my household we’re going to be cheering from the season opener.

The root cause of gun violence is not guns. (And I always mention when I post in these threads that I’m not a gun owner.)

I’m not claiming the election was stolen. I’m just not falling for this politically motivated sideshow. There’s a difference. (And for what it’s worth…it doesn’t matter whether everyone around the President was giving him different advice. He is/was the President. Not following the advice of your staff is neither a crime nor the sign of a bad leader.)

Trust me sir….EVERYONE understands what’s going on here….but unlike the other 350 million Americans we aren’t hanging on every word of this farce as you appear to be with your color coded detailed rundown of the ‘fact finding’. You honestly don’t know that in every single criminal and civil trial the prosecution tells the jury ‘these are the facts’…honestly? I’m not trying to be mean but let’s not be silly.

You have got to be kidding me. Your partisan colors are turning deeper blue every day. This is not the fault of a single person or party.

Do you know ANYTHING about the American judicial system? Yes…most times when the defense doesn’t put on a defense, and isn’t allowed to question witnesses, and where the prosecution is allowed to splice together deposition segments…it makes the defendant look pretty ridiculous and generally pretty guilty. Luckily that’s NOT the system we have. Now it doesn’t always mean that the defense’s case would convince/sway the jury….but for heaven’s sake…calm down.

I don’t want to get into a back and forth here….but Congress has two really important jobs to do: author legislation and allocate funds to carry it out. Unfortunately, they’ve decided instead to spend almost all of their time these days being the police department for the other two coequal branches. It’s one of the main reasons we have the structural problems we do. If Congress would get together and do their job there’d be a whole lot less policing required. (And I’m pointing the finger at both parties here!)

Why are you so fixated on what I pay in taxes? You don’t see me complaining that you don’t pay anything. Shouldn’t it be the other way around ?

You pass all the legislation you want but until you attack the root cause of the gun violence you’re only swatting at flies.

Fascist, racist, white supremacist….the name calling list goes on and on.

Right? It’s incredible what some players will do just to get a ring! 😉

Exactly….after finally lifting the trophy, we go into full rebuilding mode. 😂

I couldn’t agree more. Just raise the age to 21…no exceptions. It takes virtually no government oversight. We already did that for purchasing alcohol in my lifetime and WAY MORE people drink alcohol than own a gun. (And no exception for the military. Heck they’ll generally be 21 within a few weeks of getting out anyway.)

At some point the talking points get a little kooky. These guys are trying to take over the government of a nuclear super power…and they’re worried about DC’s severe fire arms laws? 😂😂😂😂😂 To quote The Big Guy: “Come On Man!”

Again we agree. The optics were horrible. With everything else the Dems tried to remove a sitting President from office, are you really surprised that anyone thought this was yet just another ‘trick’? You can love or hate Trump all you want, but what he endured from the establishment for four straight years was nothing short of appalling….and while there’s no way to know for sure, I’d take his Team back in the White House tomorrow morning over the current band of completely incompetent nitwits. As others have said: What a Mess!

Sounds exactly like the mostly peaceful protestors who gathered to demonstrate in the preceding summer….no? There are forces at work at both ends of the political spectrum trying to tear this country apart from the inside. I’m not much into conspiracy theories but this looks and smells a lot like an ‘outside’ job.

Putin’s Recession!

We disagree a bit here. I watched the results that night and there was clearly something amiss. Trump was ahead in a few key states and then the vote tally didn’t move for hours. We finally went to bed. I told the family…watch, and see if it doesn’t switch by morning…and sure enough it did. Now, that doesn’t prove anything but it sure as heck looked like those precincts were waiting to see how many votes they needed to sway the results. Biden supporters can tout some 80 million votes but we all know it comes down to only a few thousand in some cherry picked precincts. Stolen, rigged, or not….the election night optics are what fueled the fire! There’s no argument there.

Exactly….but the difference is that the Trump campaign/Republicans hasn’t boycotted the inauguration, created a fake narrative impeachment, torn up the State of the Union, etc. ….to date they’ve just allowed the Biden Administration fall all over themselves unimpeded.

I don’t disagree. All the more reason to make a final stink on January 6th. I have never agreed with those that entered the Capitol but I’m pretty sure the actual Trump administration was beyond frustrated with how the election ‘went down’…and I don’t blame them.

The reason's obvious. If you only just want to make a point, you want the rally to be as close as possible to the day that action is being taken (it makes for really bad optics for those under the big dome). The 24 hour news cycle moves fast. If you wait too long afterwards or precede it by too many days....the media circus will have already moved on. And likewise...if you really want to 'overturn an election', you do NOT do this on the day of the recognition of electors.

Hey internet tough guy! My comment was a valid one as part of a discussion Bob from Michigan and I were having...like two adults. No reason to call anyone a douche. Geez! Grow up.

Are we done crushing Putin yet?

Welcome back! Did you get a timeout?

And there in lies the difference. Under Pelosi the Democrats have turned politics into a true blood sport. I fear the Republicans are going to be forced to do the same. It’s not good.