What is a Patriot?

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Change your sig Jake. I really doubt anyone cares. I never understood why people whine about others in their sigs.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Tough that, Gramps. Toddle off. But you are right about one thing of it.

 

[L.K.Eder]

Patriot. You hear this word spoken all the time in American politics. Yet there seems to be so many definitions attributed to it. On one hand, you have Conservatives/Republicans/Libertarians defining a patriot who extols the will of our Constitution. Or a soldier on the battlefield defending our freedom. On the other, you have Liberals/Democrats/Progressives defining patriotism as helping the poor, educating our children and offering change to the country that would better suit the collective. An activist standing up for the rights of others. You hear the word bandied about and abused as a weapon or a tool for the disparagement of others in the political arena. But does anyone know what a real patriot is?

I was taught that patriotism was something resulting in love of country over self. I still believe that. I love my country, even in the sordid state of affairs it's in right now. But there are so many ways people define a Patriot. Many people when they hear the term, conjure up images of George Washington crossing the Delaware River or the First Continental Congress signing the Declaration of Independence. But nobody knows what a real patriot is, neither side has it right. To be a patriot is to be devoted to your country and her citizens, through thick and thin, to love her and cherish her like the finest cut diamond.

Patriotism isn't something which can be linked to political viewpoints. It is blasphemous to suggest such. If one questions anothers patriotism, is it for disagreement in politics? If it is, the one is a fool, for he knows not the true meaning of patriotism. If one questions anothers patriotism, is it for gauging their love of country? If it is, then the one is enlightened, knowing full well the meaning of what it takes to be a patriot.

My question to you:

Do you know what makes a patriot?

You ought to submit that for publication. Here is the address:

Mrs. Magilicuty's Fourth Grade Essay Contest
Our Lady of Stupid Elementary
Dumbfuck, GA. 00000

how dare you impugn yourself on our most prodigious english language maven?

DO YOU THINK THIS IS A M******F***ING GAME?

 

[JoeB131]

My question to you:

Do you know what makes a patriot?

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to arm himself like the Zombie Apocolypse is coming because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues...

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to crawl on the floor like a common roach , and respond to government bureaucratic commands with a yassa massa , and who believes he is special because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues..

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Sorry, if the government is providing me a good or service, they are the ones responding to me, not the other way around.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to arm himself like the Zombie Apocolypse is coming because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues...

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to crawl on the floor like a common roach , and respond to government bureaucratic commands with a yassa massa , and who believes he is special because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues..

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Sorry, if the government is providing me a good or service, they are the ones responding to me, not the other way around.

Really? I would think the government has you under their boot while they give you that good or service. Such benefits are not free... and they don't make one free. Such an otherwise asymbiotic relationship.

 

[Billo_Really]

So what? You can't redefine matters to your own satisfaction using your own opinion based proofs. Doesn't work that way.

What you have said is just your opinion. No one cares.

I didn't redefine anything, I explained their relevence.

Why don't you explain why it isn't?

 

[Billo_Really]

Change your sig Jake. I really doubt anyone cares. I never understood why people whine about others in their sigs.

He's got a right to his own opinion.

 

[Billo_Really]

Really? I would think the government has you under their boot while they give you that good or service. Such an otherwise asymbiotic relationship.

This is a pretty good thread you started here TK. With a hot-button topic like this one and not in the clean zone, usually a thread like this is a vitriol magnet. But so far, people have been rather respectful, when you consider how things could really get.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Really? I would think the government has you under their boot while they give you that good or service. Such an otherwise asymbiotic relationship.

This is a pretty good thread you started here TK. With a hot-button topic like this one and not in the clean zone, usually a thread like this is a vitriol magnet. But so far, people have been rather respectful, when you consider how things could really get.

Yes, yes indeed. But now that you mention it, they will come.

 

[Billo_Really]

Yes, yes indeed. But now that you mention it, they will come.

I like all that foul-mouthed shit. It shows people are passionate about their beliefs and think they have something to say other people want to hear. I don't think anyone wants to hear the shit I say, not even me. That's why 90% of my posts are usually the first thing that pops into my head when responding to someones post.

I don't care about winning arguments or losing them. This blogging shit is fun!

 

[JoeB131]

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to crawl on the floor like a common roach , and respond to government bureaucratic commands with a yassa massa , and who believes he is special because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues..

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Sorry, if the government is providing me a good or service, they are the ones responding to me, not the other way around.

Really? I would think the government has you under their boot while they give you that good or service. Such benefits are not free... and they don't make one free. Such an otherwise asymbiotic relationship.

They're free to me. The rich douchebag paying higher taxes might have a problem, but seriously, **** rich people.

 

[rightwinger]

My question to you:

Do you know what makes a patriot?

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to arm himself like the Zombie Apocolypse is coming because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues...

Exactly

And don't forget the three pointed hat

 

[Billo_Really]

**** rich people.

I tried. They won't let me in their bars.

 

[Toro]

Sarah Palin is a nationalist. Maybe not even that..since she flirted with the Alaska Secessionist Movement.

So you don't think nationalists can be patriots? I think being a nationalist makes it easier to be a patriot because you automatically want what's best for your country and put it above you.

While I think liberals, the left, or whatever you want to call them can certainly be patriotic, I think their constant attacks on the military and veterans negates their patriotism. To me there are many patriots but our military is filled with them and to attack those individuals the way the Democrats/left/liberals do, in my opinion, ensures that the attacker is not a patriot.

Which President fought the Nazis?

Reagan?

 

[PrometheusBound]

It was a spy ship feeding information to the Arabs in order to prevent Israel from winning too much. Why did Eisenhower earlier let the desert savages take the Suez Canal, which never would have been built except for European intellectual superiority? The West has always been playing Half and Half in the Middle East, half for people just like us and half for our natural enemies.

We're not allowed to spy?

Israel is not allowed to retaliate against this betrayal? Israel is supposed to be prevented from humiliating the Arabs in order to appease American collaborators with OPEC, our mortal enemy and the cause of our economic decay?

I wonder how Dhimmis feel about the Irgun's 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel, which killed 91 people. Does that mean that the Israelis were enemies of the West from the very beginning? Or does it mean that the formerly Great Britain had been re-occupied by the Appeasement Generation, this time collaborating with the Nazislamis?

 

[PrometheusBound]

I think he re-hired the same Commander-in-Chief too.

Yeah, but this ones not an AWOL.

Our foreign policy is the neocon agenda.

AWOL? The whole National Guard had its mission perverted by the 1% in order to make it look like their gutless unpatriotic brats legally served. Dubya's hungover Heirguard joyrides playing Snoopy and the Red Baron were no more military than Dukakis in his tank.

 

[Toro]

The AUMF is not Bush's baby?

That is. Using drones isn't.

Bush used drones too.

And killed many more kids.

Like thousands of them, in Iraq.

Drone strikes have gone up something like 10x under Obama compared to Bush.

 

[Contumacious]

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to arm himself like the Zombie Apocolypse is coming because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues...

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to crawl on the floor like a common roach , and respond to government bureaucratic commands with a yassa massa , and who believes he is special because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues..

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Sorry, if the government is providing me a good or service, they are the ones responding to me, not the other way around.

If health care is REALLY important to you what the **** prevented you from contacting Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, etc on your own?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?


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[Katzndogz]

Love of country over worship of the governmental diety.

 

[JoeB131]

Um, errr, a patriot is someone who thinks he needs to crawl on the floor like a common roach , and respond to government bureaucratic commands with a yassa massa , and who believes he is special because the Gummit might offer him health coverage for his mental health issues..

.

Sorry, if the government is providing me a good or service, they are the ones responding to me, not the other way around.

If health care is REALLY important to you what the **** prevented you from contacting Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, etc on your own?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?


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Well, that's the thing. I did contact Cigna. Paid them a lot of money for coverage or worked for that coverage.

And then when the doctors said I needed an operation, Cigna fought me for a year getting me to go to specialists to prove it was necessary.

When they finally gave in and let me have the operation, the next task was to get me off the payroll at my job. Except they didn't have cause, so they kept reorganizing the company until they could eliminate my position.

And at the end of the day, I'll still be getting my insurance from a greedy corporation.

They just aren't allowed to cheat me anymore.