Republicans are turning themselves into the enemies of republicanism
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berg80
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You could have left it right there as an incredibly damning indictment of how trumpery has coopted a once proud, patriotic party and transformed it in to an entity enabling the orange piece of shit's greed, his desire for vengeance against personal enemies, and his insatiable lust for power.
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That's alright, there's a few of you that utilize AI to create an OP. Perhaps it's because the word "intelligence" is in AI and you feel intelligence is implied in the post. In reality it just looks weak and unintelligent. But hey, don't let me stop you.
BluesLegend
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Look the moment Democrats INVADED the USA with an army of 15 million foreign illegals and began killing over 200,000 Americans, RAPING and MURDERING countless more, Democrats became the mortal enemy of the USA.
ThunderKiss1965
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There are things mandated to the federal Government by the Constitution everything else falls to the States. Every program you loons champion are not mentioned in the Constitution. 10th Amendment.
Civics 101
LordBrownTrout
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AI definition is always skewed towards liberal. Same as media. No thanks.
Dante
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a sort of ad hominem fallacy? O'tay
What AI is or isn't is not an issue here. The use of an AI search is not relevant to the content or argument made. Your inability to refute anything in the OP let alone what the AI example is leaves you to be nothing but yet another lame-assed troll.
Dante
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TAKE OUT THE AI EXAMPLE: Now try and address the OP. Come on try. We're cheering you on.
America’s obsession with wealth risks hollowing out the foundation of its republic.
Republicans are turning themselves into the enemies of republicanism
Mike Johnson Snaps When Shutdown Comments Thrown Back in His Face How can you say, ‘They take no pleasure in this,’ and then the next minute say, ‘Oh, they’re just having fun and trolling people?
By Edith Olmsted
Republicans are scrambling to downplay just how much enjoyment President Donald Trump is evidently extracting from preparations to fire federal workers by the thousands amid the government shutdown.
Speaking at a press conference Friday about Trump’s plans to make massive cuts to essential programs amid the government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted that the president was "trolling" Democrats. But at the same time, Johnson claimed that Trump and White House Budget Director Russell Vought took "no pleasure" in making the cuts.
"Now, are they taking great pleasure in that? No. Is [Trump] trolling the Democrats? Yes. I mean, yes! Because that’s what President Trump does, and people are having fun with this," Johnson said, likely referring to the trough of (often racist) AI slop the president has offered up to mock Democrats in the wake of the government shutdown.
Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram pressed the speaker on his claim. "Square something for me. How can you say, ‘They take no pleasure in this,’ and then the next minute say, ‘Oh, they’re just having fun and trolling people?’" he asked.
“So, the effects are very serious on real people, real Americans. We support federal employees who do a great job in all these different areas. But what they’re trying to have fun with, trying to make light of, is to point out the absurdity of the Democrats’ position,” Johnson said. “And they’re using memes and all the, you know, tools of social media to do that. Some people find that entertaining. But at the end of the day the decisions are hard ones, and I tell you they’re not taking any pleasure in that.”
US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson(R):
Mike Johnson Caught on Mic Accidentally Admitting Trump Is “Unhinged”
The damning hot mic audio revealed Johnson refusing to deny Donald Trump is “unwell.”
Being a "Yuge" fan of many of John Adams' ideas, thoughts, writings I have to say I was seriously appalled back in 2016 when the GOP selected djt to be it's standard bearer -- even after the Billy Bush tape and more.
John Adams understood a truth that feels even sharper today: a republic cannot endure without virtue. Writing to Mercy Otis Warren in April 1776, he warned that “public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without [private virtue], and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.” For Adams, liberty would not be preserved by clever constitutions alone. It depended on citizens who could restrain their selfish impulses for the sake of the common good.
To our Founding Fathers, it was obvious, or “self-evident,” that self-government, or a democratic republic, could only be perpetuated by the self-governed. Reflecting these precepts, a contemporary German writer to the Founders, J. W. von Goethe, stated: “What is the best government? — That which teaches us to govern ourselves.”[1] And, a later, prominent 19th Century minister, Henry Ward Beecher, simply said: “There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.”[2] Self-governance consists of self-regulation of our behavior, ambitions and passions. To this end, the Founders fundamentally believed that the ability to govern ourselves rests with our individual and collective virtue (or moral character).
John Adams stated it this way, “Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private Virtue, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.”[3] In this regard, the revolutionary war was as much a battle against “the corruption of 18th century British high society,”[4] as it was against financial oppression. While the Founders and American colonists were very concerned with their civil liberty and economic freedom, demanding “no taxation without representation,” they were equally concerned with their religious liberty, particularly in preserving their rights of individual conscience and public morality.[5] With respect to the vital need for virtue in order to establish and maintain a republic, the Founders were in complete harmony:
Without Virtue There Can Be No Liberty - John Adams College
By: J. David Gowdy
mountlibertycollege.org
John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 16 April 1776
yep
LordBrownTrout
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TAKE OUT THE AI EXAMPLE: Now try and address the OP. Come on try. We're cheering you on.
America’s obsession with wealth risks hollowing out the foundation of its republic.
Republicans are turning themselves into the enemies of republicanism
Mike Johnson Snaps When Shutdown Comments Thrown Back in His Face How can you say, ‘They take no pleasure in this,’ and then the next minute say, ‘Oh, they’re just having fun and trolling people?
By Edith Olmsted
Republicans are scrambling to downplay just how much enjoyment President Donald Trump is evidently extracting from preparations to fire federal workers by the thousands amid the government shutdown.
Speaking at a press conference Friday about Trump’s plans to make massive cuts to essential programs amid the government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted that the president was "trolling" Democrats. But at the same time, Johnson claimed that Trump and White House Budget Director Russell Vought took "no pleasure" in making the cuts.
"Now, are they taking great pleasure in that? No. Is [Trump] trolling the Democrats? Yes. I mean, yes! Because that’s what President Trump does, and people are having fun with this," Johnson said, likely referring to the trough of (often racist) AI slop the president has offered up to mock Democrats in the wake of the government shutdown.
Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram pressed the speaker on his claim. "Square something for me. How can you say, ‘They take no pleasure in this,’ and then the next minute say, ‘Oh, they’re just having fun and trolling people?’" he asked.
“So, the effects are very serious on real people, real Americans. We support federal employees who do a great job in all these different areas. But what they’re trying to have fun with, trying to make light of, is to point out the absurdity of the Democrats’ position,” Johnson said. “And they’re using memes and all the, you know, tools of social media to do that. Some people find that entertaining. But at the end of the day the decisions are hard ones, and I tell you they’re not taking any pleasure in that.”
US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson(R):
Mike Johnson Caught on Mic Accidentally Admitting Trump Is “Unhinged”
The damning hot mic audio revealed Johnson refusing to deny Donald Trump is “unwell.”
Being a "Yuge" fan of many of John Adams' ideas, thoughts, writings I have to say I was seriously appalled back in 2016 when the GOP selected djt to be it's standard bearer -- even after the Billy Bush tape and more.
John Adams understood a truth that feels even sharper today: a republic cannot endure without virtue. Writing to Mercy Otis Warren in April 1776, he warned that “public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without [private virtue], and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.” For Adams, liberty would not be preserved by clever constitutions alone. It depended on citizens who could restrain their selfish impulses for the sake of the common good.
To our Founding Fathers, it was obvious, or “self-evident,” that self-government, or a democratic republic, could only be perpetuated by the self-governed. Reflecting these precepts, a contemporary German writer to the Founders, J. W. von Goethe, stated: “What is the best government? — That which teaches us to govern ourselves.”[1] And, a later, prominent 19th Century minister, Henry Ward Beecher, simply said: “There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.”[2] Self-governance consists of self-regulation of our behavior, ambitions and passions. To this end, the Founders fundamentally believed that the ability to govern ourselves rests with our individual and collective virtue (or moral character).
John Adams stated it this way, “Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private Virtue, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.”[3] In this regard, the revolutionary war was as much a battle against “the corruption of 18th century British high society,”[4] as it was against financial oppression. While the Founders and American colonists were very concerned with their civil liberty and economic freedom, demanding “no taxation without representation,” they were equally concerned with their religious liberty, particularly in preserving their rights of individual conscience and public morality.[5] With respect to the vital need for virtue in order to establish and maintain a republic, the Founders were in complete harmony:
Without Virtue There Can Be No Liberty - John Adams College
By: J. David Gowdy
John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 16 April 1776
yep
Most are rino libs so I don't really care for any of them. I seriously doubt there are more than five that know anything about what a republican or conservative is.
LordBrownTrout
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Far out there! Haha. Well they are about the same.
In the last election the race appeared to be between someone who would be my king and someone who would be my mommy.
Neither candidate seemed much interested in running as the temporary head of one of three co-equal branches of government with limited and enumerated powers, let alone showing any desire whatsoever to reach across the aisle and build a governing coalition based on consensus and finding middle ground.
So I went with the guy who's policies aligned most closely with my own.
Neither candidate seemed much interested in running as the temporary head of one of three co-equal branches of government with limited and enumerated powers, let alone showing any desire whatsoever to reach across the aisle and build a governing coalition based on consensus and finding middle ground.
So I went with the guy who's policies aligned most closely with my own.
ThunderKiss1965
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The rights are spelled out very well in The Bill of Rights. Nowhere in those rights is the multitude of bullshit you loons think are rights. Such things as the right to murder fetuses or some weirdo swinging his junk around in the females bathroom because he is under the delusion that he is a women, free housing, healthcare or anything free provided at the expense of the tax payer
Those things you nutbags think are rights are covered under the 10th Amendment. If you want those things not mentioned in the Constitution you can vote for your State to tax the shit out of you to provide them.
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The Republican party aligns with all of that. Tell us which part does not.
Leo123
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That's not even worth 2 cents.
Leo123
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Trump got elected POTUS. How is that co-opting the Republican party? He campaigned on issues most Americans agreed upon. Just because you seem to have a raging case of TDS and 'Orange Man Bad' doesn't mean that the majority are on your side. Try growing up.
whitehall
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Do democrats really have the balls to lecture republicans about "virtue" when they supported the insanity of the Biden/Fauci regime for four years?
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