Posts by redvip2000

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Poll/ So Who Do You Think Will Win The Presidency?

by minimus in

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i have always felt trump will win again.

i just don’t see biden winning.. what’s your prediction?.

redvip2000

I haven't been on this site in a long time. I am sorry to see so many ex Jw's as Trumptards.

To the extent that someone supports Trump because of a cult-like adherence to a political ideology and party, I would agree. But there are also many of us, who are at this point carefully considering that it means for either side to win. I voted for Hillary in 2016 even if holding my nose.

Things are different now. If Trump wins, in 4 years, we'll likely be ok. The economy will be strong, jobs will be plenty, law enforcement won't be defunded, communists won't get both feet in the door of government (they already have one), taxes won't be raised across the board for everybody (look at Biden's tax plan). Yes, we'll have to put up with the tweets, and the buffoonery of Trump, and how he says the wrong things all the time, and the lies about trivial things. But clearly, that cannot be the only criteria by which we vote.

You really want to base your vote on personality traits? I'm focused on things that REALLY affect me: Safety and security, taxes I pay, investment returns, the idea of taking care of our problems first, having a measure of control on immigration, etc etc.

Each voter should he asking himself a few questions:

- Do you want to pay more taxes across the board, including double taxes on your investment returns?

- Do you want a POTUS that supports defunding the police and is surrounded by radicals who insist this must be done?

- Do you want to reward a political party that is trying to coerce voters into voting for them under penalty of mob violence in the streets?

- Do you want to encourage illegal immigration vs actual legal immigration? And on this note, do you want to pay more taxes to give people who have just crossed a border to have free healthcare and education?

- Do you want a POTUS that rubs elbow with people that think America is evil and needs to be destroyed?

- Do you want a POTUS that coddles communists and gives them a platform?

Food for thought.

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Received a letter from a JW today.

by smiddy3 in

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it started off as "dear friend ,as one of your neighbours" , however the postmark on the letter was from 2 townships away ?

a good twenty minute car drive away .a minor point i know.

it goes on about how she is concerned about the effects that current events are having on the welfare of the community and the corona-virus has prevented her from discussing the issues personally with me.. she then goes on to state and quote jeremiah 29:11 and then goes on to say "for more information about this promise and other questions like :.

redvip2000

Well, curiously I just received one yesterday. Was surprised, and was actually simmering on the idea of sending the pamphlet back to this person with a letter of my own. Very odd to receive personal letters from strangers.

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Hillary is telling all Americans to NOT CONCEDE IF TRUMP WINS----FIGHT! What will you do if you are put in a corner.

by pistolpete in

hillary clinton is telling all democratic supporters to be ready to fight if trump wins.

other democratic leaders are telling the masses to destroy everything in their cities and cripple the economy if trump is elected president.

other democratic leaders are appealing to the military who support the democratic agenda to step in and stop any arm citizens on the side of trump if he is elected, and remove the president by force if he wins the election.. hillary clinton is making it clear to the democratic supporters, that joe biden will become president -after president trump becomes elected.. looks like a dictator coup d'état,to overthrow the usa government by non-democratic means is now in the making.

redvip2000

To be fair, she is not telling supporters to not concede. She is saying BIDEN shouldn't concede, which is curious because that is what they say about Trump -- that he will not concede if he loses. I suspect that if Trump loses, he will concede without much fuss, and I actually think it will be a lot more problematic if Biden wins. Not so much because of Biden -- I doubt he'll even understand what's going on, but I think the level of unrest from the radical leftists will increase right after. What that means for our cities, I'm not really sure yet.

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California passes bill lessening penalty for pedophiles having sex with willing kids.

by mickbobcat in

i was wondering about this.

if california or other far left groups in charge would push for making pedophiles quote normal unquote.

so it passed but has yet to be signed by newsom.

redvip2000

I think that 10 years is too large of a gap, both for the existing law and the new law. A 24 year old having sex with a 14 year old is categorically wrong, and same for 25/15. If you reduce that gap, then you can stop giving judges so much discretion in these cases.

If it was instead 5 years 14/19, or 15/20, then it seems reasonable enough that a judge could have discretion as it might be a case where 2 people close in age are involved. You cannot convince me that a 24 year old having sex with a 14 year old is something other than an adult having a true pathology.

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Poll/ So Who Do You Think Will Win The Presidency?

by minimus in

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i have always felt trump will win again.

i just don’t see biden winning.. what’s your prediction?.

redvip2000

It seems to me there are a lot of (moderate) people who don't necessarily like Trumps image but are put off by the obvious bias in the media toward him and are leaning in favor him more and more. They're becoming more willing to consider him as a possibility.

To me, this pretty much captures what is about the happen. It's not that Trump is great, we can all see his many flaws. The issue here is to decide which side seems as if they will defend our way of life, our principles, our republic and our constitution.

Now, Biden is not a radical. However he is surrounded by many radicals. How much mental fortitude does he have to keep their insane policies at bay? I suspect not much, and this is what makes electing Biden dangerous.

For as many flaws as Trump has (and there are many), the man is really not a pushover. Look at how Bolton and others tried so hard to get Trump to go to war to suit their interests and Trump stood his ground and kept us out of another war. There is something to be said about that.

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Poll/ So Who Do You Think Will Win The Presidency?

by minimus in

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friends

i have always felt trump will win again.

i just don’t see biden winning.. what’s your prediction?.

redvip2000

If you had asked me this question in March, I would have said Trump will almost certainly lose. Even with the economy doing well, there was enough shrugging of the shoulders among some of his base, disillusion by others in how he under delivered on things like the wall, and then finally the Covid virus and the mixed opinions on his handling.

However, the Left yet again shoots itself in the foot. They can't help themselves. The Floyd incident and the spiraling out of the control resulting from it, along with the Left's idiotic coddling of the radicals that make their base, have given Trump new life.

I would say the numbers are not great, but if we learn a lesson about 2016, polls cannot be trusted.

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Sports Games Postponed Because of Police Shootings

by minimus in

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what’s your opinion of sports teams postponing games either to recognize or protest a social issue cause?

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redvip2000

Absolutely ridiculous. This is how you know these overpaid crybabies have lost the plot to this story. So when multiple children are killed in drive-by shootings in Chicago on any given weekend, there is nothing said. Game on as usual. But if a criminal is killed by the police, then it deserves the world to stop. What nonsense. I'm happy that all the ratings are down.

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Why Does It Seem That Black People Are Always Being Shot By The Police?

by minimus in

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there is either a conspiracy against blacks in this country and police are out to get them or it’s that they are getting caught breaking the law and often times refuse to obey police authority.

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redvip2000

Why don't white people care when some white criminal is shot?

It's a good point, and and that goes for basically every other minority as well. If anything, most groups will probably congratulate the police under their breath, even if it's a case where a criminal was killed in dubious circumstances.

And why not? Why should anybody in their right mind be rooting for criminals and people who don't seem deserving of living amongst us? Even if a thug, robber, sexual predator, drug dealer or other scum get's killed by the police due to malpractice, you are now suddenly safer in your community.

The mentality displayed by many in the black community is backwards. It promotes insecurity, it reinforces stereotypes, and it damages their reputation.

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Why Does It Seem That Black People Are Always Being Shot By The Police?

by minimus in

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there is either a conspiracy against blacks in this country and police are out to get them or it’s that they are getting caught breaking the law and often times refuse to obey police authority.

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redvip2000

I think it would interesting to compare the number of black men shot by police to the number of black men shot by other black men.

Well the number of unarmed black men killed by police last year was 9. Some accounts put the number at 14. Let's just say it's 14.... You can easily get that number in a weekend in a major US city, so it's not even a comparison.

The reality is that our society needs to be able to absorb that number. That number will NEVER be zero. It can't be. There are 50 million interaction between police and civilians a years. A small percentage will go very bad and that's just part of normal chaos. We absorb a small number of deaths on everything else that can go wrong, and we need to do the same here.

The media is making this impossible. Imagine for example that Anderson Cooper got on TV every night and reported names and numbers of people that are killed each day due to screw ups by doctors (100,000 + annually). Imagine that, names, personal stories, picture of the doctor that messed up, total count of people dead up to that point. It would be declared a national emergency, there would protests, hospitals burned, doctor hunted down, etc.

The media sets the temperature of the country and they are doing a terrible thing here.

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Does Anybody Here Sympathize With The Looters That Cause Destruction?

by minimus in

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i realize some here are diehard democrats.

whether you are democrat, republican or independent, do you support any of these looters that cause mayhem and destruction for their cause?

i have heard some people sympathize with these law breakers saying they understand why they do what they do and leave it at that.. of course i wonder how they would feel if their own property was burnt or stolen or destroyed..

redvip2000

I can't begin to imagine how a feeling of cultural second class citizenry would make me perceive the world and feel towards it. Perhaps I would be compelled to cause property destruction to express my frustration and to have my voice heard.

So if there is stereotype towards black people and their association with crime, and the resulting increased interactions with police, and the resulting disproportional incarceration rate, it's logical to reinforce that stereotype by further committing criminal acts against completely innocent people?

Hardly seems logical. How is that perceived by the rest of the population and what does it do to the reputation of black folks?

Also considering that a large portion of those destroying is white, what does it say about the real motivation behind this?

Curiously, many of the black folks who are exhibiting token rage in support of black lives in their communities, will look the other way as their brothers and sisters get slaughtered by street crime. Children routinely get killed as a byproduct of street crime, yet no outrage. Where is the consistency? and again how is that interpreted by the rest of population as they see this duality of criteria (hipocrisy)?