auburnatl1

IMO potentially todays most important and effective voice of reason.

Understand. I’m a firm believer of the 2nd amendment for most types of gun. But beyond feeing “dodge city” empowered, I wonder what the stats say about if you carry a gun - are you and family truly safer from intruders or threats vs accidental tragedies.

Who the hell goes to their front holding a gun? Yes I guess it’s your right but if you’re feeling that threatened - don’t open the door and … call the cops. The bottom line is presenting a gun in any unknown situation introduces a no margin for error scenario, and demands instant judgement that candidly most people don’t have.

Blessed are the peacemakers. We don’t appreciate that sentiment enough.

Sorry. When I read the word scam I went into pure muscle memory.

Good, it’s finally scam time for the thread!

I’ll leave it at this - in a polarized environment - carrots work much better than sticks. Incentives and rewards to industry and people over regulations, penalties, and big budget gov programs. Dont look deep state’ish. Ultimately there’s 2 parts to being right in a democracy; 1) being right 2) convincing other people youre right. Otherwise it’s pointless mental maturation. When you’ve got a significant portion of people and politicians denying there’s even a problem - and don’t trust gov - you can either just call them stupid and paralyze, or maybe it’s time to try another approach.

The gov wasn’t massive - it lead and coordinated. The military and industry won ww2. This is an area where you and I will ideologically disagree - imo the gov is a monopoly, the least efficient, slowest business model ever created by man. Establish goals, sell the electorate and industry, incentivize, and unleash. Gov needs to be less draconian and spend its energy leading. Biden has the bully pulpit - use it. Educate. Every day if necessary.

Personally, on this topic I struggle with both sides. The right has their chronic Jan 6 syndrome on this topic - deny, minimize, and deflect. Which just isn’t useful and chews up a ridiculous amount of time. Candidly - this is a waters wet kind of problem. It’s painful to read or listen to. The left, per usual, wants epic government regulations, solutions, and spending on the problem - it’s their go to solution for solving any problem. However, We just need to accelerate the trend. Generally if you educate, encourage, and trust the American people and challenge US industry and technology - good things will happen. Ie Musk (hate him or love him) and Tesla quietly changed/lead/challenged … everything. And if denialists would just stop friggin whining and contribute - big brother stuff becomes almost irrelevant. Bottom line - instead of massive government - further educate and challenge. Press people and technology companies to do more. Make it national and personal - not political. Getting to the moon spanned both parties. It was global competition - we won.

Again, did anyone take a basic macro economics class and understand virtually everything is impacted by global inflation? That almost all goods are made or impacted by global issues (ie the Ukraine war greatly impacts grain prices - ie Cheerios)). Even 100 years ago the Great Depression was global - not one country didn’t go into it. Some comments are just so naive I’m embarrassed for them.

One of the challenges of people combined with guns is there’s no ability to make one mistake in judgement. Often in a split sec. With no air bags.

Huh?

I’ve alway felt liberals serve a critical purpose in any society - to challenge the status quo. From climate, to transgender, to gun control, to the regulation of business. Same for conservatives to resist change - it was good enough for my parents. Imo the challenge (again) is with the slow extinction of moderates to manage the extremes to move forward, our political system has a historic dilemma. A marriage with 2 opposites and no marriage counselor. There is no climate problem vs we’ll all be under water by Halloween. Climate is the ultimate challenge. Liberals wanting us to ride bikes to work built by DEI/green compliant factories, and maga wanting heterosexual white-only mechanics to rip out our catalytic converters so we can haul butt in leaded gas v-10s to the office. Nobody is wiling to lose to win.

Because I’m not qualified. Look, I hate this crap - it’s a pain in rear and what could be easier than just dismissing it.Who wants to deal with any long term problems? From glaciers to tooth aches to termite prevention. Maybe it’s not real? Maybe they’re wrong? Maybe it’ll go away. I’ll find an article on the internet to dismiss it and make me feel better and prove “the experts” wrong. Here’s a blog - see, my tooth pain will be gone in a month. As I’ve said before, I also oppose many of the hysterical measures out there to resolve it. And your earlier points about China are valid. There simply has to be something between panic driven naive measures and total la la land denial.

These 2 have been waging this same fight for over 20 years (trump hired them during his term). I won’t dismiss or debunk them - but obviously they’re in the less than 4% of all scientists category. However, if youre a denialist - those 2 are definitely your guys. Ps Happer is almost 85 yrs old … (I know how much age means to you)

In one thread you’re saying Biden’s is 1) feeble, in deep dementia, and/or will probably be dead by next tues 2) in another he’s a ruthless self serving politician with some diabolical evil plan. My 2 cents - just pick one or the other. Both kinda doesn’t work.

Then the loud voices should consider revisiting the New Testament. It’s pretty … definitive. Which ultimately is the bigger issue beyond just theTrump creepy stuff.

I think trump creates a crisis for thoughtful evangelicals (I don’t question anyone’s faith). But more importantly, do evangelical political activists feel that that was even Christs intent? To drive politics, to wade into politics? To be - political? If so… (you know where I’m going)

https://newrepublic.com/article/178892/trump-white-evangelical-army-destroying-nikki-haley Same for Desantis.

It’s more than the DOJ. Hell it’s everything from every state’s election system or any judge to Stormy Daniel’s. The entire universe is out to get the poor guy.😉 Ah, the good ol days. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/fbi-leaks-hillary-clinton-james-comey-donald-trump

I can’t keep up with the number of things that are rigged against Trump. It’s literally never ending.

This is the paradox that hurts my head. Could someone, anyone please explain the rationale for this to be possible. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/07/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-evangelical-appeal-00156488

Thanks. I’m fine with moron. Neither side seems to be in short supply. Theres a lot of very agitated people with seemingly infinite free time who need to either get a job, or pick up golf or a hobby.