TGO David

Going to close this down for a bit and let tensions die down.

Oh now... no one is immune. We've booted moderators before, even. I really hope there isn't a TGO circle jerk. Yuck. But if there is, can we all agree to unite against them from a safe distance?

TGO ought to flood the media websites and social media with criticism. Just saying.

What are the metrics being used to determine if a person is an extreme conservative or extremely right wing and where does the tipping point lie between conservative / extreme-conservative, and right-wing / extreme-right-wing? There have to be metrics and guidelines for this, otherwise the decisions to classify a person as one or the other is completely arbitrary.

Folks, I probably set a really bad precedent for this particular request by initiating the thread in the manner that I did, but it is entirely possible for us to attack the issues and the ideologies without attacking each other. Let's try to do that. Obnoxiously large font and colors used to grab your attention since this is an otherwise short statement in a giant body of posts and replies. I don't want it to be overlooked. Mea culpa.

I've got good news and bad news: The good news is, we're not of this dying world and it's not meant to be our home. We're just passing through. The bad news is that we're still called to be salt and light to it so we have to make a go of it while we're here. Any time some Leftist tells the world how much they hate me and my Christian brothers and sisters, I just smile and remember that Jesus said that they would and that they hated Him first. That tells me we're on the right path even if it's getting darker around us and the path sometimes harder to see.

For the sake of expediency, let's just agree to substitute the word Reforms with the word Mitigations any time that Leftists promote something as a good idea. Supreme Court Reforms? Negative, Ghostrider. Those are Supreme Court mitigations. I sure am glad that Uncle Joe saved us all from COVID-19, though. Without him we'd probably be in... well... exactly the same place we are right now. Hey, work with me, folks. I'm trying to support the Party the best I can. They just aren't giving me much to work with.

Is it really going off the rails or do you just not like what's being said? So far it seems that people are being polite and [mostly] not attacking each other but rather attacking ideas and ideologies.

Anyone in a position of leadership knows that it's a good idea to float a balloon every now and again to gauge the mindset of people under their command. While I am glad to hear that a long time ago Marines were willing to shoot the officer who gave such a command, I suspect that the data collected was eventually fed back into the overall program to make adjustments and ensure that future generations of Marines would answer the question "correctly". I'm not as much of a skeptic as I am just a realist. I know how we use employee satisfaction surveys at work. Same idea, sadly.

Actually, I am remiss in my statements. It didn't even take 100-years for the US Government to decide that it wouldn't tolerate any talk of rebellion from the people whom had recently rebelled to establish it in the first place. The Whiskey Rebellion occurred in 1791, not even 20-years after the Declaration of Independence was signed. President George Washington sent troops to Pennsylvania to crush that one. @Daniel maybe you could help settle the question so many people have asked in America over the course of the past several decades: Would American solders side with th

That's a pretty interesting thing, that the government quickly evolved itself in the course of history, to make sedition illegal when the country itself was born from sedition. Don't you think? I've always thought it was pretty hypocritical that our nation's very cornerstone document begins as such... "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal st

You ain't lying.

General politics, yes. 2A Politics, no. The 2A and Politics are inseparable, but we focus on those issues only. THIS is a 2A issue.

Yep, my call for people to end the practice of Slacktivism and put their own skin in the game. It was a great idea and maybe some folks did it, but the sad fact you are a rare bird if you do. I have very little faith in any political party. I identify as a Constitutional, Christian Conservative. There isn't a party that represents me anymore.

That's called a "Soft Tyranny" and there is little you can do to stop it. Consider that Google, Microsoft, Amazon and quite a few other multi-national companies have more money in their bank accounts than most countries' governments do. Consider that those companies are succumbing to the pressures of "Wokeism" or are helmed by people who are true believers of it. Consider too that, unlike a government where the people have a say in who is elected to represent them and pass laws on their behalf, these corporations have no such mechanisms of accountability to the people other than p