The Republican Utopia

[NM11046]

On 8/27/2018 at 10:59 AM, HuskerNBigD said:

 

Even though I am republican by trade, I'm voting Beto over Cruz. It is quite impressive to see the flip of the script and Beto's closing in quickly. Just last week, he was within 4% points of Cruz.

A big thank you from Massachusetts.  We've been phone banking and doing other things here to support him (as well as others) from afar.  You've got a very bright star there - one to watch for sure. GO BETO!

[BigRedBuster]

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[hskerprid]

20 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Viva la Raza!!

[commando]

1 hour ago, hskerprid said:

Viva la Raza!!

i have no idea what you are saying here.  can you explain it to me?

[knapplc]

Anyone who still self-identifies as Republican - why?

 

 

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Wife of Former N.R.A. President Tapped Accused Russian Agent in Pursuit of Jet Fuel Payday

 

For the young Russian gun rights activist studying in the United States, it would have been an unimaginably rich payday: $1 million to help broker the sale of Russian jet fuel to an American middleman. All she had to do was secure the fuel.

 

So the activist, Maria Butina, whom American prosecutors now accuse of being a covert Russian agent, reached out to contacts in her homeland — and turned on the charm. In a July 2017 email, she told one man that his passport photo was “a handsome one.”

 

The following month, she told another Russian contact that she had labeled him in her phone as “the lovely Shakhov.” Every time he called, she was notified that “‘the lovely Shakov is calling you,’” Ms. Butina wrote. “Good feelings.”

 

A year later, Ms. Butina, 29, is in a jail cell outside Washington, awaiting trial. Federal prosecutors have depicted her as a character out of “Red Sparrow,” the spy thriller about a Russian femme fatale. Ms. Butina, supported by Russian intelligence, managed to infiltrate conservative groups and advance Moscow’s interests in the United States, prosecutors say.

 

In their telling, she used gun rights — Ms. Butina had started a pro-gun group in Russia — to gain a toehold in American conservative circles, and then struck up a romance with a far older Republican operative to open doors further. She has denied the allegations.

 

Ms. Butina’s efforts to deal in Russian jet fuel, detailed in hundreds of pages of previously unreported emails, were notable not just for their whiff of foreign intrigue but for whom they involved: David Keene, a former president of the National Rifle Association and a prominent leader of the conservative movement, who has advised Republican candidates from Ronald Reagan to Mitt Romney. They also involved Mr. Keene’s wife, Donna, a well-connected Washington lobbyist, and Ms. Butina’s boyfriend, Paul Erickson, who ran Patrick J. Buchanan’s 1992 presidential campaign and who moved in rarefied conservative circles despite allegations of fraud in three states.

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

This is just an idiotic tweet by Chuck with how the Republican Congress has acted and trump picking two justices. 

 

 

[Ric Flair]

On 9/2/2018 at 12:50 PM, BigRedBuster said:

 

 

Krugman is an idiot. We don’t owe illegals anything. When someone breaks into your home, you don’t assume some legal or moral obligation to feed, house, and clothe him.

[knapplc]

They're only "breaking into your home" because this nation's elites, who have forgotten all about their ancestors' immigrant past, have pulled the ladder up behind themselves and made what was an easy immigration process nearly impossible. Of course, they're only doing that because immigration sources have changed over time.

 

Take a guess when American immigration policies changed.

 

[ZRod]

47 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

 

Krugman is an idiot. We don’t owe illegals anything. When someone breaks into your home, you don’t assume some legal or moral obligation to feed, house, and clothe him.

Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?  When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?

[TheSker]

On 9/2/2018 at 11:50 AM, BigRedBuster said:

 

Is he getting depressed reading the NY Times?

 

That would be ironic......

[BigRedBuster]

11 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

 

Krugman is an idiot. We don’t owe illegals anything. When someone breaks into your home, you don’t assume some legal or moral obligation to feed, house, and clothe him.

 

 

Yeah....we should just take the quote off the statue of liberty.

[schriznoeder]

 

 

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

Honestly...I'll give the guy a pass on that one.

 

The hearing had been interrupted by protesters constantly without him even looking back to see who they were.  So, he stands up, and a person comes up and appears to be there to advocate for one opinion or another.  Security steps in between and he turns and walks away.

 

This clip doesn't prove anything to me one way or the other as to if this man should be on the court or not. BUT, it will be used politically.  I have supported Gothenburg in his efforts to bring awareness to a very bad problem with guns in this country and support him in his loss.  But, again, this clip doesn't mean anything as far as this judge goes.

[Ric Flair]

3 hours ago, schriznoeder said:

 

 

 

 

 

Non-story. Buster nailed it. But at least Cindy Sheehan...er... Fred Guttenberg got to extend his 15 minutes of Twitter fame. I feel bad for the guy's loss, but shamelessly attention whoring like that is downright pathetic.