B-Man Posted October 10, 2021 Posted October 10, 2021 YES, AMERICA IS STILL THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD by ALEJANDRO AVILA America continues to be one of the greatest stories ever told. Praised for its strength and admired for an unbreakable spirit, the American Dream has inspired generations of patriots and Americans to believe in a fight for freedom, equality and happiness. In 2021, America continues to be the freest civilization in human history courtesy of stalwart founders and people that endured sacrifice for these principles. A nation brave enough to put its past sins on display across museums and media, a valuable quality to being an American has stemmed from an ability to move forward. Despite its unique offering of opportunity, community and belonging, a nation revered by its people has now witnessed a backlash negligent of all the good that came before it. A nation built on purpose, large numbers of citizens felt out of place, or out of love, with America in 2020. As angry mobs overran cities, and the media turned its back on telling the truth, America lived through grueling seasons of doubt and despair; now determined to be rebuilt by the patriots that stood firm for the nation’s ideals. That same spirit of independence that created the nation continues to be at the core of.... More at the link:https://www.outkick.com/yes-america-is-still-the-best-country-in-the-world/
Irv Posted October 11, 2021 Posted October 11, 2021 23 hours ago, BillStime said: Yet here you are lmao For a female, you’re very dumb. Did you see the jobs report last week? What a mess. 2
BillStime Posted October 12, 2021 Posted October 12, 2021 9 hours ago, Irv said: For a female, you’re very dumb. Did you see the jobs report last week? What a mess. You’re a mess
B-Man Posted October 12, 2021 Posted October 12, 2021 Back to the thread. MICHAEL WALSH: A Specter Is Haunting America — The Specter of Freedom. A specter is haunting America—the specter of freedom. How else to explain the weekly chants from hundreds of thousands of sports fans, packing into football stadiums and other large venues the way real American used to do in the days Before Fauci, chanting an obscene suggestion to the current resident of the White House. Eleven months ago, gas prices were low, and the United States was energy independent. Unemployment was also low, and minorities had never fared better in the job market. The southern border was relatively secure, the useless war in Afghanistan was bumping along, enriching the Pentagon but not troubling anybody overmuch, and the future looked bright. Then came the highly questionable election of 2020, one rendered nearly meaningless by last-minute, COVID-driven, illegal changes in state election laws that made a mockery of our democratic traditions and procedures in the name of a chimerical “safety” from a form of the flu. And presto—Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who’d been in Washington for more than half a century, was suddenly president of the United States. Today, the economy is in chaos, supply chains have been disrupted, inflation is soaring, race relations are poisonous, crime including murder is way up, the energy business is assaulted on all fronts even as the industrialized nations face the prospect of a winter without reliable power, and China is rattling its plastic sabers. And yet the befuddled Biden’s principal concern is forcing a thoroughly anti-American, unconstitutional series of vaccination “mandates” on the American work force that has—thankfully—finally brought the country to its boiling point. Let’s go, Brandon! In Florida, Southwest Airlines has had to cancel hundreds of flights, ostensibly because of the weather (in mild October?) but more than likely because its pilots are staging a sickout in defiance of their company’s buckling to administration pressure. The pilot’s union has already gone to court to block the mandate, which applies to private companies doing business with the feds, and there have also been reports of a slowdown by FAA air-traffic controllers in Jacksonville as well. Biden’s misbegotten mandate also applies to American troops, who must be inoculated against the Chinese-manufactured, Fauci-funded virus in stages over the next month or so—but so far hundreds of thousands of servicemen, including members of elite units, have refused. Meanwhile, states like New York are firing hospital workers who decline to submit to replacement governor Kathy Hochul’s September vaccination order, further disrupting an already overstressed medical system. Other resistance has developed among Amtrak workers, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which will refuse to enforce the mandate, and even some NBA stars. This week, a federal appeals court agreed with 16 student athletes at Western Michigan University who’ve challenged the school’s vaccine mandate on religious grounds, and upheld a lower court ruling than enjoined the university. The power of noncompliance is beginning to be appreciated. https://www.theepochtimes.com/vaccine-mandates-awaken-calls-for-freedom_4043990.html?utm_source=partner 1
Backintheday544 Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 3 hours ago, B-Man said: To share again what your right wing friends feel about your spam: Why, so you can continue to flood this message board with every nonsensical piece of garbage you harvest out of the Twitter sphere? You don’t think people can go on Twitter and read this crap for themselves? Copying and pasting is NOT the purpose of a message board. Try offering something of value, or a slightly well reasoned adult worthy opinion once in a while and you’ll watch my standard bored to death response change. Ready, set, go! “ 1
B-Man Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 22 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said: If you are incapable of seeing how that story relates to Oldman's America no longer exists thread, I feel bad for you. Sorry to bore the rest of the board with this response, I know that you are resigned to reading it around every 3 months, when a "new expert" tries to instruct me how to post. I have posted this way for over a decade here. No, most of the liberals here do NOT go and seek out other viewpoints (as you so wrongly suggest) So I will continue to post conservative articles (and yes, political cartoons) on a large variety of subjects, not just Trump and Covid, to give all the opportunity to read contrary viewpoints. That is why it seems that I am on much of the board, because I choose to post on many things, not just the cause celebre. Added: I note of late that you are mimicking billstime and trying to respond to each of my posts, you can do better. 1
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 On 8/19/2021 at 9:25 AM, oldmanfan said: America no longer exists I'm still a big believer in the stars and stripes: 2
aristocrat Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 On 9/26/2021 at 12:31 PM, BillStime said: Center of my life? He is the undisputed LEADER of your party and is the leading 2024 GQP Presidential candidate. I care about the future of our country and republic. Unfortunate you don't have the same concerns given all we know about the most corrupt POTUS in our lifetime. The closest Trump should be to public housing is jail; not the White House.
Albwan Posted January 1, 2023 Posted January 1, 2023 On 10/11/2021 at 12:03 PM, Irv said: For a female, you’re very dumb. Did you see the jobs report last week? What a mess. If he/she/it is female I bet she has blue hair and is fat. Just a hunch. 2
B-Man Posted January 2, 2023 Posted January 2, 2023 Two Great Americans Left Benny Golson and Sonny Rollins are two living legends from the famous 1958 "Great Day in Harlem" photo. https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/31/two-great-americans-left/
Homelander Posted March 12 Posted March 12 On 8/19/2021 at 12:39 PM, oldmanfan said: The America of the 50's cared about things. They cared about their children, they put their children's well being above politics. There are literally politicians and just regular folk, some on this very board, who would rather see children die if it means they can cling to their political stance. Think about that - there are folks who would be OK watching their own child die if it means their political side claim claim some sort of bizarre victory. The 2025 Republican Party
Homelander Posted 49 minutes ago Posted 49 minutes ago On 8/19/2021 at 10:25 AM, oldmanfan said: This will probably get lengthy, so my apologies up front. But the events of this past week, coupled with the events surrounding Covid and a host of other issues, have led to me to a stunning and difficult conclusion: America no longer exists I love my country, as do many on this board. But the America I love is gone. It has been replaced by a spineless, weakened shell of a nation, a nation that no longer stands as a beacon of liberty in the world, a nation that has abdicated its role as a superpower, a nation that used to stand together in times of struggle but now does its utmost to tear itself apart. The proximate cause of my statement was the announcement of the Secretary of Defense yesterday that our military cannot guarantee the safe passage of our own citizens to be evacuated. The finest fighting force that has ever been assembled in the world, and we cannot summon the courage and strength to remove our own citizens from a battle field. There are so many in our country that express jingoistic patriotism, that claim they stand for the military because they express out rage when an athlete decides to kneel during an anthem and such. But when push comes to shove, and we are challenged with a crisis such as we see today in Afghanistan, where did these people go? Oh no, we can't go in, it would be a blood bath, and so on. Now, this is the proximate cause, but to be honest our gutlessness as a nation began in 2001. Bush and Cheney went into the country they shouldn't have, and left the country that should have been destroyed (Afghanistan) intact. Obama drew his supposed red line in Syria, and when it was crossed shrank away like a coward. Trump Claimed he could negotiate with the Taliban and North Korea, while they sat and laughed at our ineptitude as did Russia. And now here we are. Instead of acknowledging our role as the world's superpower, instead of using our military might, the combined efforts of 4 administrations at least (and Clinton was no joy either) has left us in the eyes of the world as a paper tiger. Oh sure, we let out a mighty roar, but we do nothing. Make no mistake, our enemies laugh at us today, and our allies know we can no longer be counted on. We might as well disband our fighting forces because the world knows we won't use them anymore. American used to stand for good in the world, we used to stand against tyranny, against evil. We fought world wars for these beliefs. But we don't anymore. We can use diplomacy all we want, and we should exhaust diplomacy before using force, but we have fallen into this mistaken notion that you can use rational thought processes like diplomacy with irrational actors. You don't negotiate with the Taliban. You don't negotiate with Kim Jong Un. You destroy them. You destroy them before they destroy you. But we have abdicated our role as a power, and we can never get it back now. One of the reasons we have reached this point, of course, is because the people of this country no longer understand what America is supposed to be. America is an ideal. we started as a nation of disbanded citizens, spread across the 13 colonies with different political and other beliefs, But we were held together by concepts outlined in the two most important documents ever written, the Declaration and the Constitution. The country born under those remarkable documents grew into the finest country in the world, guided by those principals. We have led in so many areas. We were the leader in science and medicine, in brining economic growth to the world, leaders in innovation of so many kinds. and we did so because, despite our differences, despite our arguments, the American people understood we were in it together. We understood that in time of trouble, in times of crisis, what brought us together as a people was far more than what separated us. But no more. The response to a global pandemic in this country has shown that, as a people, we no longer can be counted on to put America first, to put our fellow man first above our own petty and self-absorbed interests. We literally would rather watch our fellow men, women and children die instead of banding together to help. We would rather adhere to some bizarre political fantasies than help the guy next to us. I am so goddam tired of reading about how masks are unconstitutional. The same people who claim you have to be originalists with respect to gun rights somehow think the Constitution mentions masks. People have willfully ignored actual scientific facts, they have ignored science and medicine, to believe in crackpot fantasies dreamed up on some Facebook page. And yesterday is yet another example of why the America I know is gone; governors of states who because of cheap political views are saying that, rather than have people wear masks, their citizens should get sick and then take treatments that costs thousands of dollars to hopefully cure them because they view it as a better political move. When the political leaders in the country would rather have you get sick than not in order to garner another vote, and we simply sit back and accept that, we are no longer America. When our politics are that warped, that repulsive, we can no longer effectively govern this country. I want the America back that I know and love. I want the America back of my youth, the America that was strong, that stood for good. The America where its citizens disagreed and debated, sometimes vigorously and violently, but inn the end knew we were all on the same side. I was a teenager during the Vietnam years, I drove by UB when it was burning, I watched the assassinations of King and Bobby K,. Those were dark days, the darkest in my life time other than 9/11 and the present day. But what I also remember was that night in July 1969 when our entire country, regardless of politics and such, watched as one as a brave astronaut named Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. We were all Americans that knight, and we were all proud. Some will no doubt read this and say I am being idealistic. To that I say, why not? Why not hold up the ideals of this country? Instead, the people of this country don't care about the ideals anymore. They only care about themselves. And that selfish instinct, and how it has affected our daily lives, our government, and our standing in the world, has led to an inevitable consequence. America is gone. We have let it slip away. The only question now is whether we can ever get it back.
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