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This is, in a sense, pro-gun related news. Despite what the media claims about their all time low approval rating, and general dislike by the masses....the wins just keep coming for the Republicans :lol:
The special congressional election in Georgia on Tuesday that was supposed to be tight wasn’t. And as the results rolled in, Team Trump seized the moment to celebrate the victory, poke Democrats and throw a little snark at the news media as Republican Karen Handel soundly defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff to fill the seat Tom Price vacated to become Trump’s secretary of health and human services.“Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and 0! All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0,” the president tweeted just before midnight.
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You might suspect that by now, the Democrat Party leadership would begin to believe that racial separatism, anti-Semitism and political violence weren't a winning combination for them.

You'd probably be wrong.

They're just returning to their longstanding traditions dating to before the Civil War, when they'd cross over from Kentucky into Ohio to commit acts of terrorism against abolitionists.

Hodgkinson wasn't an aberration. He IS today's Democrat Party personified.
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What amazes me is how much money is spent on these elections. 23 Mill by the dems alone in one race. Similar to the ballot initiatives out west for universal background checks. they feel they can get what they want (elections, legislation) by buying into it with tons of marketing and hollyweird backers.
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Bruenor wrote:What amazes me is how much money is spent on these elections. 23 Mill by the dems alone in one race. Similar to the ballot initiatives out west for universal background checks. they feel they can get what they want (elections, legislation) by buying into it with tons of marketing and hollyweird backers.
That's what bothers me. Money being pumped in from groups (and individuals) well outside the State of Georgia...perhaps even some $$ from overseas. IMHO, a state election should be just that...and should not be subject to outside influence.
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glocksmith wrote:
Bruenor wrote:What amazes me is how much money is spent on these elections. 23 Mill by the dems alone in one race. Similar to the ballot initiatives out west for universal background checks. they feel they can get what they want (elections, legislation) by buying into it with tons of marketing and hollyweird backers.
That's what bothers me. Money being pumped in from groups (and individuals) well outside the State of Georgia...perhaps even some $$ from overseas. IMHO, a state election should be just that...and should not be subject to outside influence.
Even their candidate was from out of the district. Talk about carpetbagging.
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Bruenor wrote:What amazes me is how much money is spent on these elections. 23 Mill by the dems alone in one race. Similar to the ballot initiatives out west for universal background checks. they feel they can get what they want (elections, legislation) by buying into it with tons of marketing and hollyweird backers.


Don't forget - The War of Northern Aggression is only on extended hiatus to many Georgians ---- they didn't take kindly to Pajama Boy coming in trying to take over, much less all the "celebrities" sending their Benjamins over to tell the Southerners what's best for them.
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glocksmith wrote:That's what bothers me. Money being pumped in from groups (and individuals) well outside the State of Georgia...perhaps even some $$ from overseas. IMHO, a state election should be just that...and should not be subject to outside influence.
I agree - fundamentally, what's the difference between residents of California (thanks, Hollywood!) trying to sway a Georgia election, and Russia trying to sway a US election?
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147Doc wrote:
glocksmith wrote:That's what bothers me. Money being pumped in from groups (and individuals) well outside the State of Georgia...perhaps even some $$ from overseas. IMHO, a state election should be just that...and should not be subject to outside influence.
I agree - fundamentally, what's the difference between residents of California (thanks, Hollywood!) trying to sway a Georgia election, and Russia trying to sway a US election?
The difference is that the Russians chose the right candidate. :mrgreen:
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glocksmith wrote:
147Doc wrote:
glo cksmith wrote:That's what bothers me. Money being pumped in from groups (and individuals) well outside the State of Georgia...perhaps even some $$ from overseas. IMHO, a state election should be just that...and should not be subject to outside influence.
I agree - fundamentally, what's the difference between residents of California (thanks, Hollywood!) trying to sway a Georgia election, and Russia trying to sway a US election?
The difference is that the Russians chose the right candidate. :mrgreen:
From the Russians point of view, they probably don't feel like they chose the right candidate. :lol: Trump hasn't done hardly any of the things Putin wanted him to do or not do. If he's supposedly Putin's puppet, that puppet probably needs a new set of strings. Putin would've probably have had better luck with Obama 2.0, provided he paid her and Bill enough. Also like with Obama, if Hillary were to accidentally get caught on a recording telling a Russian official that she would be more flexible to do Russia's bidding after the election, the MSM and the Democrats wouldn't be demanding an investigation or calling for her impeachment.
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Trump is hamstrung by all the Russian Collusion crap which poisons the well for working with Russia where we can and backroom deal making to handle the other stuff. Democrats are putting their party before the country and enough people are seeing it for what it is.

As to the Republican winning, there was a time from a 2A perspective that there were Dems who were pro-gun and you had to judge the candidate, now if there is any pro-gun talk by a Dem it is taken with a grain of salt (I own a gun too...I have black friends...you get the picture). While the "racial separatism, anti-Semitism and political violence" deanimator talked about are true, he forgot to add gun control to that mix along with a host of other things.

At the end of the day, the Constitution is showing how well designed it really is...otherwise California and New York would rule us all.
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Should read "Hologram of Liberty" by Kenneth Royce. Very interesting take on the US Constitution.
catfish86 wrote:At the end of the day, the Constitution is showing how well designed it really is...otherwise California and New York would rule us all.
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deanimator wrote:You might suspect that by now, the Democrat Party leadership would begin to believe that racial separatism, anti-Semitism and political violence weren't a winning combination for them.

You'd probably be wrong.
I heard El-Rushbo yesterday talk about how the Dems hold so few elected offices, that you have to go back to the 1920s to see this number....and that their prospects are declining further...he predicted more RINO/GOPe/Non-Dem in name at least victories over the next decade (when will he hang it up?)...

Now...imagine that this mattered.

Imagine a group of men and women with the spine to strip the collusion/graft/corruption/lies out of the system and actually fight for a principle that would bring freedom back to our lands and our families. McConnell/Ryan et al aren't the ones to take us there...
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catfish86 wrote:Trump is hamstrung by all the Russian Collusion crap which poisons the well for working with Russia where we can and backroom deal making to handle the other stuff. Democrats are putting their party before the country and enough people are seeing it for what it is.

As to the Republican winning, there was a time from a 2A perspective that there were Dems who were pro-gun and you had to judge the candidate, now if there is any pro-gun talk by a Dem it is taken with a grain of salt (I own a gun too...I have black friends...you get the picture). While the "racial separatism, anti-Semitism and political violence" deanimator talked about are true, he forgot to add gun control to that mix along with a host of other things.

At the end of the day, the Constitution is showing how well designed it really is...otherwise California and New York would rule us all.
I have a Libertarian friend whose fiance is a long time registered Democrat, but he and she agree on some things, one of them being pro gun. It's very frustrating to her, because the only people that seem to get nominated by the party are the ones that pass a certain checklist of advocacy groups, like a litmus test. True moderates need not apply it seems anymore. When there is a candidate that's not overtly anti gun, they try to straddle the fence right after getting the nomination, by using terms like "Common sense gun safety measures" which turn out to be the same old anti gun stuff they've always been pushing that will do nothing to reduce gun crime. They won't even consider supporting measures that have made a difference in the past in some areas, and might do so again, because it might affect some of their base.
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