The government is not an insurance company ...

[g5000]

The genius Founding Fathers listed the duties of the federal government in two sentences..."to provide for the common defense and support the general welfare. They didn't say "support the common defense and provide for the general welfare.

It was one sentence.

And they listed far more duties than that. See Section 8.

You should read the Constitution some time. Beyond the first sentence, that is.

 

[ThisIsMe]

It's what I've been saying since coming to this forum.

And some idiot dipshits assume I'm a Democrat who loves him some Obamacare.

No, we only question you being a democrat because you almost exclusively argue for their side. Anyone who were to arrive new at this forum would never know you were not a democrat by the things you post.

 

[BackAgain]

... and we need to stop pretending it should function as one.

For years socialists like Paul Krugman have been trying to sell the notion that government is "an insurance company with an army". He proclaims this as though it's a good thing. It's not.

So. You disapprove of Obumblercare.

Good to know.

 

[g5000]

No, we only question you being a democrat because you almost exclusively argue for their side. Anyone who were to arrive new at this forum would never know you were not a democrat by the things you post.

No, the fact is fools like you suffer from willful blindness when I post things which go against your preconceived notions, biases, and delusions.

FMI about my beliefs, read post 102 in the below topic. I apologize ahead of time that it is longer than a Truth Social post and your bumper sticker intellectual bandwidth:

Thread 'If you are right wing what do you believe in'

Sep 27, 2025

What do you believe in
And how would you like America or your country (if you are from another country) to be like?

Just curious what to expect

Thanks

• Mortimer
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[g5000]

No, we only question you being a democrat because you almost exclusively argue for their side.

I argue for the truth. If you don't like that, stop lying so much. And pass that on to Trump. The man can't tell the truth to save his life.

It's not my fault you confuse the truth with being a Democrat.

TRUMP: Biden shot the moon out of the sky!

TARD HERD: Biden shot the moon out of the sky!

RATIONAL PERSON: Um...retards? Look out the window.

TARD HERD: You commie bastard! Biden shot the moon out of the sky!

 

[schmidlap]

... and we need to stop pretending it should function as one.

For years socialists like Paul Krugman have been trying to sell the notion that government is "an insurance company with an army". He proclaims this as though it's a good thing. It's not.

All advanced democracies combine capitalistic and socialistic aspects, the proper balance of which is determined by the electorate.

Neither extreme has proved viable.

 

[ThisIsMe]

No, the fact is fools like you suffer from willful blindness when I post things which go against your preconceived notions, biases, and delusions.

No, I cannot recall, since ive been here, evee seeing you make a pro republican post. EVERY post i see of yours is trashing republicans...but I never see you trashing democrats. Makes one think...

FMI about my beliefs, read post 102 in the below topic. I apologize ahead of time that it is longer than a Truth Social post and your bumper sticker intellectual bandwidth:

Lol, talk about pre-conceived notions. If you've read any of my posts, then you'd know I'm not a fan of trump, and I criticize him and other republicans often, and ive also taken stances that align with the democrats here.

And for what its worth, I do not have a truth social account, I MAY have been to that site one time. I also dont use Facebook, X, Instagram or any of the other social media platforms. This forum is about it.

 

[g5000]

All advanced democracies combine capitalistic and socialistic aspects, the proper balance of which is determined by the electorate.

Neither extreme has proved viable.

We have not been capitalistic in decades.

We are a plutocracy.

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[BrokeLoser]

LOL - funny. "Courage" isn't what comes to mind when reading your posts. Mostly I sort of imagine Golem, sitting at his keyboard, muttering to himself about all the brown people.

Imagine someone sitting at their keyboard and posting repetitively about their disdain for culture wars and fiscal responsibility while they champion and embrace the importation of tens of millions of illiterate government dependent parasites that cause both culture wars and obscene government spending. Pretty ******* retarded huh?

 

[g5000]

No, I cannot recall, since ive been here, evee seeing you make a pro republican post. EVERY post i see of yours is trashing republicans...but I never see you trashing democrats. Makes one think...




Lol, talk about pre-conceived notions. If you've read any of my posts, then you'd know I'm not a fan of trump, and I criticize him and other republicans often, and ive also taken stances that align with the democrats here.

And for what its worth, I do not have a truth social account, I MAY have been to that site one time. I also dont use Facebook, X, Instagram or any of the other social media platforms. This forum is about it.

I have zero social media accounts. Nor do I have cable, so I don't watch any of the 24 hour proganda channels, right or left.

The only time I see social media or the propaganda channels is when someone posts something here.

Social media and the propaganda channels have dumbed everyone down to the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper sticker.

Trump is the same. He's stupid and incapable of coherence, which makes him the perfect fool for this media environment.


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Anyway. Did you read my post? Still think I'm a Democrat and/or liberal?


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I'm one of the most conservative people on this forum. Trump has succeeded in leading his MAGA herd far, far off the reservation to the point they have no clue what conservatism is.

MAGAs are cool with adultery.

MAGAs are cool with fraud.

MAGAs are especially cool with pathological lying and bearing false witness.

MAGAs are cool with leftist protectionism, just like Biden and Pelosi and Schumer!

MAGAs are cool with a pro-abortionist, radical climate change activist who wants to legalize all drugs.

MAGAs are cool with a socialist being placed in charge of our national security who has backed Assad and Putin.

MAGAs are totally cool with mass-murdering war criminal Stalinist KGB Putin. The Trump cult parrots ALL of Putin's propaganda talking points. It's amazing.

MAGAs all sat with their thumbs up their asses and were completely mute as Trump ran up $8 trillion of debt in his first term. Trump doubled the deficit and submitted the largest budget in American history BEFORE Covid.

And there they sat. Mute and willfully blind.

MAGAs are cool with alienating our allies.

MAGAs believe you can stab, electrocute, chemically spray, batter and wound scores upon scores of police in one go, but don't you dare throw a sandwich at one!

MAGA is cool with dismantling the FBI. If a terror attack occurs, they will find a way to blame anyone but Trump. Count on it.

MAGAs are cool with an attempted coup.

MAGAs are cool with Trump not only ******* a porn star, they are cool with another porn star endorsing him at the Republican National Convention on coast-to-coast television in prime time!

MAGAs believe the word of one of the worst pedophiles in history should be taken as gospel truth.

MAGAs are cool with one of the worst pedophiles in history then being placed in one of the most lax and least secure prisons with the likes of Elizabeth Holmes.

MAGAs are completely unconcerned about the Epstein client list disappearing from our nation's top law enforcement officer's desk.

MAGAs are cool with Trump's socialist interference in several companies' business, believing that since Obama did it that Two Socialists Make A Right.


There is no conservative movement in America any more. Not for a long time. Bill Buckley and Milton Friedman are literally and figuratively dead.

What we have are the Socialist and More Socialist parties now, and it is getting more and more difficult to tell which is which.

 

[whitehall]

It was one sentence.

And they listed far more duties than that. See Section 8.

You should read the Constitution some time. Beyond the first sentence, that is.

A lecture on Constitutional values from the crazy TDS left that supported a mentally impaired president? No thanks.

 

[g5000]

A lecture on Constitutional values from the crazy TDS left that supported a mentally impaired president? No thanks.

ThisIsMe, seeeee? What did I tell you?


.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It is if you are wealthy or connected.

S&L bailouts
Bank bailouts
GM bailout
Chrsyler bailout
Hedge fund bailouts right now for Argentina

That's a loan.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Easy. Veterans Administration. If you want to see how fucked up Government ran healthcare can get ask a Vet.

My kids and I are all on VA healthcare, 6 of us, and we have no complaints.

 

[g5000]

That's a loan.

It's a bailout. All of them would have collapsed if they had not been bailed out.

If you mismanage a business and run it into the ground, you don't get a "loan" from the government.

It's a bailout. Period.

 

[g5000]

Easy. Veterans Administration. If you want to see how fucked up Government ran healthcare can get ask a Vet.

I'm a veteran. My local VA is outstanding. I have zero complaints.

I deeply regret not using their services sooner.

.

 

[BrokeLoser]

I'm a veteran. My local VA is outstanding. I have zero complaints.

I deeply regret not using their services sooner.

.

I call BULLSHIT
Veterans aren’t TDS’ing libs like you are…NONE

 

[ThisIsMe]

I have zero social media accounts. Nor do I have cable, so I don't watch any of the 24 hour proganda channels, right or left.

The only time I see social media or the propaganda channels is when someone posts something here.

Same here, on the social media accounts.

I never watch network TV, fox, CBS, cnn, newsmax, any of it. I listen to radio shows on XM and I view some political content on youtube. To be honest, I actually comfortable some MORE left wing cintent than I do right wing, mainly because I want to hear their arguments.

Social media and the propaganda channels have dumbed everyone down to the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper sticker.

Well, ive always said media is the greatest divider of persons in america.

Trump is the same. He's stupid and incapable of coherence, which makes him the perfect fool for this media environment.

And I have my issues with trump as well.

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Anyway. Did you read my post? Still think I'm a Democrat and/or liberal?

Yeah, I read it and all that is great...and then I see you come here and post tge following:

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I'm one of the most conservative people on this forum. Trump has succeeded in leading his MAGA herd far, far off the reservation to the point they have no clue what conservatism is.

MAGAs are cool with adultery.

MAGAs are cool with fraud.

MAGAs are especially cool with pathological lying and bearing false witness.

MAGAs are cool with leftist protectionism, just like Biden and Pelosi and Schumer!

MAGAs are cool with a pro-abortionist, radical climate change activist who wants to legalize all drugs.

MAGAs are cool with a socialist being placed in charge of our national security who has backed Assad and Putin.

MAGAs are totally cool with mass-murdering war criminal Stalinist KGB Putin. The Trump cult parrots ALL of Putin's propaganda talking points. It's amazing.

MAGAs all sat with their thumbs up their asses and were completely mute as Trump ran up $8 trillion of debt in his first term. Trump doubled the deficit and submitted the largest budget in American history BEFORE Covid.

And there they sat. Mute and willfully blind.

MAGAs are cool with alienating our allies.

MAGAs believe you can stab, electrocute, chemically spray, batter and wound scores upon scores of police in one go, but don't you dare throw a sandwich at one!

MAGA is cool with dismantling the FBI. If a terror attack occurs, they will find a way to blame anyone but Trump. Count on it.

MAGAs are cool with an attempted coup.

MAGAs are cool with Trump not only ******* a porn star, they are cool with another porn star endorsing him at the Republican National Convention on coast-to-coast television in prime time!

MAGAs believe the word of one of the worst pedophiles in history should be taken as gospel truth.

MAGAs are cool with one of the worst pedophiles in history then being placed in one of the most lax and least secure prisons with the likes of Elizabeth Holmes.

MAGAs are completely unconcerned about the Epstein client list disappearing from our nation's top law enforcement officer's desk.

MAGAs are cool with Trump's socialist interference in several companies' business, believing that since Obama did it that Two Socialists Make A Right.

A whole lot of criticizing one side. Thats my whole point. I dont care that you dont like maga, I really have no preference for them or against them myself. What gets me is that I never see you criticize the left wing like that...which is why, when I read that you are a classic liberal...it makes me doubt because you seem to never have a bad word to say about the left.

Look, I fully admit that maybe im not seeing you like you see yourself and thats fine, all I can go on are the words that I see you post, which is largely critical of the republican party, even when its not about trump.

That is why, to me, you appear more aligned with the left. Its not about what you say, it's about what you dont say.

 

[dblack]

So. You disapprove of Obumblercare.

Good to know.

Lol ...
You've clearly never read my posts on ACA..

 

[BackAgain]

Lol ...
You've clearly never read my posts on ACA..

Even if I had, I doubt I’d commit anything you post to memory.