We can’t go back in time and vote differently (or vote at all if we were among the plurality of voters who stayed home).
But REMEMBER who it was who convinced you to make that decision in 2024. And stop listening to them now! There are other areas of your life which heeding their advice can ruin.
Farmers aren't rabid fox news consumers. They work daylight to dark. Their "redness" is due to their comminuity contexts
They've already assumed by now (Mar 6) that Dems at best will pontificate from afar and tell them what's best for them
But you'll need at least some of them to win in November
Tariffs hurt them, but also hurt everyone and Biden kept them in place.
The ACA has been a literal lifesaver for farmers, but Dems want to replace it with a bloated certain failure called "Medicare for all"
The ACA, not medicare, is what they value
"Too few of them to matter?"
Not so.
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Congratulations on the win. I hope you win also in November.
However, what hurts Dems far more than they realize is lack of an answer to the following question:
"Why would a farmer vote for a Democrat?"
The BBB is horrific - but farmers got something. They at least get lip service from GOP
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There's a plan now! Once started, the conflict itself dictates the plan.
Civil War supposed to last a week. Didn't end until South devastated and 1 in 40 Americans dead.
Vietnam was "Assist the French in Indochina" that still haunts us
Iran vengeance on Israel once USA gone - so USA can't leave
If we don't go in, they lick their wounds and come back with a vengeance in a year.
If we do go in, Vietnam redux.
Sure, nobody liked the guy except his followers.
But those followers won't "go away" because we took them out. So now must attack them.
Mission Creep already.
Apocalypse again.
We don't get to "assassinate and run!"
There are 91M in Iran. About 1/3 fiercely anti-gov. Other 2/3 are not.
American, Allies, Iranian schoolchildren's sacrificed to take out an 86 year old man with health issues.
Now 40M angrily re-devoted to the destruction of Israel, USA, Allies.
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McNamara then: "In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil."
Vietnam began successfully.
Just a "Police Action."
Followed by a decade of death & destruction while the USA kept asking "Why are we in Vietnam?"
McNamara later:
"I was wrong! My God, I was wrong." — Reflecting on Vietnam
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@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social
GOP Sec Def R McNamara started, then escalated Vietnam with Hegseth Style Rhetoric.
Then Later:
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why. The reward of suffering is experience. Let this be the lasting legacy of Vietnam."
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If we do go in, then Vietnam redux
McNamara years later on Vietnam:
"I was wrong! My God, I was wrong."
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why."
"The reward of suffering is experience. Let this be the lasting legacy of Vietnam"
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We don't get to "assassinate and run!"
There are 91M in Iran. Twice the population of Canada. About 1/3 fiercely anti-gov. Other 2/3 are not.
Now 50M angrily re-devoted to destruction of Israel, USA, Allies.
If we don't go in, they lick their wounds and return with a vengeance in a year /2
We've heard this before
R McNamara, "In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil."
1960 election close. JFK chose Republican McNamara as Sec Def
McNamara et al managed Vietnam with Hegseth Style Rhetoric
And years of death & destruction while USA kept asking "Why are we in Vietnam?" /1
We don't get to "assassinate and run!"
There are 91M in Iran. Twice the population of Canada. About 1/3 fiercely anti-gov. Other 2/3 are not.
Now 50M angrily re-devoted to destruction of Israel, USA, Allies.
If we don't go in, they lick their wounds and come back with a vengeance in a year.
McNamara, "In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil."
1960 election close. JFK chose Republican McNamara as Sec Def.
McNamara launched engagement in Vietnam with Hegseth Style Rhetoric.
And first 6 years of a decade of death & destruction while USA kept asking "Why are we in Vietnam?"
McNamara, "In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil."
1960 election close. JFK chose Republican McNamara as Sec Def. McNamara launched engagement in Vietnam with Hegseth Style Rhetoric.
And first 6 years of a decade of death & destruction while USA kept asking "Why are we in Vietnam?"
Americans, Allies, Iranian schoolchildren sacrificed, all to remove an 86 year old man with health issues
Not Iraq. Not Afghanistan.
Closest analogy is Vietnam. Few casualties initially.
And then a decade of death and destruction while waiting for any answer to the question, "Why are we here?"
Not Iraq. Not Afghanistan.
The closest analogy is Vietnam.
Surprised Graham didn't say "Not a war - just a Police Action."
Draft reinstated by end of Trump's term?
Regardless, once again a decade of death and destruction while waiting for any answer to the obvious question, "Why are we here?"
Well, this is at odds with his answer in which he says Trump doesn’t need to consult Congress.
The CONSTITUTION (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11) says that CONGRESS has the power to declare war.
Why not just admit that you no longer care what the Constitution says?
Graham all but said it.
Not Iraq. Not Afghanistan.
The closest analogy is Vietnam.
A decade of death and destruction while waiting for any answer to the obvious question, "Why are we here?"
Bottom line: We sacrificed American lives, Allies' lives, hundreds of school children in Iran, and thousands others to take out an 86 year old man with health issues.
Already reminds me of Vietnam!
Trump: "This is the Golden Age of America."
This matters to red... and blue
Just this year's INCREASE in funding for new ice detention centers could with a single vote via an existing program lower childcare costs to below 5% of household income.
That's the kind of info that gets lost in the Dems' relentless ranting about how bad trump is
What matters to red: kids, grandkids, schools, parents, house, car, job, tv, local retail, HS/college sports, ...
MAGA MSG: above under attack by "them"
Show red direct impacts on above from Trump & WH actions and you'll destroy MAGA MSG
And sweep the midterms
But "Trump bad" won't cut it.
Wow! A carefully coded cry for help. He wants out!
Even sounds like Moses telling God he didn't want to do it anymore.
The entire GOP seems to be saying "Trump" after a quiet "rescue me from". I think they secretly want a blue wave!
Definitely, we should oblige them!
Amen!
3/ Your book is excellent, but none of us can ever use the wrongness of others as evidence of the righteousness of ourselves
We don't celebrate the lifelong smoker having a heart attack.
Nor does their consequence elevate the non-smoker's status
We're not MAGA's judges
We're only their neighbors
2/Political always hijacking religion or whatever belief system dominates their people.
Caesars as Gods. Divine right of kings.
Trump and the wealthy have hijacked christianity and made themselves its central object
Must separate the political from the sincere.
The only thing that works
1/ When Christianity becomes political, it changes (and has changed) to accommodate wealthy allies and a secular agenda. Great Commission replaced by Partisan Priorities, eg.
Not unique to Christianity. Sometimes with Islam and even with atheism.
Devotion to a flawed faith, not a corrupt leader
Trump admin is most LGB friendly in history. Highest ranking cabinet member - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, married John in 2011. But hate trans.
TN GOP = same hypocrisy game. Self righteous cruel rhetoric for "them" but fawning acceptance of wealthy allies.
Political Christianity is phony.
"People have to give birth in their homes in secret, because if they were to go to a hospital to have their baby, masked agents of the state would abduct them....This is lived reality right now."
@jvl.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social on what they saw in Minneapolis.
