Low blow but

I actually read quite a lot.

As do I. Liberals, otoh, are big into labeling people and trying to put them into identity boxes so they can try to control them by telling them what they're allowed to think and do.

So much for judging people on their character. Hell, I wonder if modern liberals would even tolerate someone like Dr. King?

Ever read The Economist by Thomas Sowell?

No, but it's on my list to read. I love Sowell!

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I've been wanting to read it, I didn't know about him until he passed away this spring.

I hadn't heard that he passed. I'm going to have to look into that. I certainly do not have my finger on the pulse of any mainstream media, so it could have gone under my radar. Although, I thought he is still with us!

What's a troll manual?

There is real conservative wisdom:

"Don't spend money you haven't got."
"Manners make the man."
"You shall not pollute the land in which you live"

It's just not what the GOP is currently endorsing.

Yeah, I’m first in line to endorse true American patriots like this fellow who represented the GOP as their standard-bearer as recently as 12 years ago (and whom I voted for in my first election) — but who is now regarded as John McStain by the rabble that runs the Party now only because he failed to get on his knees and suck Trump’s cock.

That man embodied the best of what was once known as conservatism, but if the Trumptarded modern-day Republican Party wants to act like fringe-right nonsense is what really counts as “conservative,” then I guess they don’t get to claim that label anymore.

Tbh I was still hopeful that the “true” conservatives embodied by the Lincoln Project could make a showing in this election and reclaim that title by dealing a massive blow to Trump, but Trump just got too many votes. Biden’s win was decisive enough but not the landslide that he deserved.

Trumpism is here to stay even if Trump goes.

I bet if Trump hadn't verbally assaulted him, you wouldn't give a damn about him, KF.

Hell, when he ran for president, the nut job media compared him to Hitler, like they do all non-democrat candidates. I don't see you straying too far from party/media dogma.

I don’t know what universe you lived in, but when I lived through the ‘08 Election McCain got the most criticism for:

1. Supporting the Iraq War; 2. Suggesting our commitment to maintaining troops in Iraq should be essentially limitless like for Korea; 3. Doing a Barbara Ann rendition as “bomb Iran.”; 4. Picking a flamingly unqualified VP; 5. Being totally unprepared to speak intelligently about the ongoing ‘08 financial crisis.

And guess what? He actually deserved all of those criticisms.

In other words he was a bit of a warmongerer, a bit unprepared on some subjects, a bit eager to placate the far-right here and there, but he was a fundamentally decent guy with genuine patriotism. Not so different from W. Bush.

I still voted for him anyway because I saw Obama as a kind of all things to all people, all hat and no cattle kind of candidate.

Nor did I vote for Obama in ‘12. I was pretty lukewarm on Obama throughout his term. He didn’t f**k the pooch like Bush but he was overly cautious in some ways when it came to reversing bad policy.

Nor did I vote for HRC in ‘16 for many of the same reasons.

As for Trump: well, I’ve made my feelings about him evident.

Biden never overly excited me but he will return us to the Obama/HRC tradition of basic boring but competent governance, and at this point, having seen the damage the Republican Party can really inflict in the hands of McConnell and a Trump-like figure, I’m not looking that gift horse in the mouth anymore.

Too dogmatic for you or nah

Nah. But, sometimes your lengthier replies remind me of myself... which makes it abundantly clear to me why some people find me annoying (but only when I'm long-winded, of course! 👀)

So, in addition to your somewhat mildly unexpected comment about voting for McCain, would I be wrong to infer you may have voted for Mitt in 2012? Pure speculation on my part, but that's only because he's also viewed as a moderate republican.

Of course the media loves him now that he's perceived as anti-Trump. That doesn't change the fact that both he and McCain were painted by the same media as neo-nazis when they each ran against Obama. Biden even lied to a mostly Black audience when he said republicans want to put them back in chains. That was a shameful lie.

You certainly rattled off more criticisms of McCain than reasons why you voted for him. Although those reasons are representative, imo, of why most people vote for who they vote for, meaning the candidate they disagree with less.

If I were the type of person who viewed the world in a more ones and zeroes manner, I might not be able to understand why you can now call McCain a 'true American patriot', while criticizing him as you did. Still, that doesn't change my opinion that your view of him now is far more favorable because Trump trashed him. That criticism in light of your comment, might even be viewed as supporting my contention.

I watched the same election in 2008 that you did. What I find interesting is your apparent memory gap about the media and the weaker minded liberals trashing McCain as a neo-nazi. These are the same types we have now, who need to lick their finger and stick it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing before they decide where they stand on an issue.

"Biden never overly excited me..." said almost all of the less than 74 million people who actually voted for him. (well, legally voted for him... hehehe...)

I've made my feelings about Sundowner Joe evident. The only thing new in a Harris-Biden administration will be an utter lack of availability to the media, and zero transparency. And when he does engage the media, it will be in entirely controlled situations. The vast majority in the media won't complain, since they're his toadies anyway. Although imo, it should give *all* Americans cause for concern about who is calling the shots.

There are some GOP going against the attempted slow coup.

thats true but whats ironic in the rule dont polute the land that you live in is it means its totaly ok to polute some middle eastern country XD

well, that was written by someone living in a middle eastern country. I hope it counts for something.

mmkay

And don't do drugs.

Nobody should believe, imo, that the GOP represents, nor even cares about conservatives, or anyone else for that matter. Same for the Democrat party and liberals. No political party really cares about the people. They care about one thing. Power (often in the form of money.)

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Not really a low blow. Just weak. Plain weak.

So much for you being better than that, KF!

You're slipping, imo. You're lowering yourself to the level of the average dimwitted liberal on imgflip.

Sorry for the tough love.