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So much so that a reviewer once commented about Nine Inch Nails performing a cover of Cash’s Hurt.
It was amazing to watch the video. What touched me was June Carter watching Johnny sing, as they were both approaching the ends of their lives. Very moving and sobering.
Indeed. We switched to a conservative-owned hosting company last summer.
Also this hatred of human beings and fellow Americans is generally not something that conservatives usually do.
I can’t ever remember wishing that Obama, Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, or any politician was buried and dead.
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I don’t even know what it is exactly that Trump said that was so terrible. Did he say to storm the Capitol or something? Then all the Lefty news media accused him of advocating violence or something? This is only my guess.
If so, how is this different from Gary desiring that the President of the United States be dead and buried.
Although there are still 11 days left, the fact that Trump survived the term should be seen as a real accomplishment.
The last time the Democrats declared a “Resistance” and started continually spouting Virginia’s motto Sic semper tyrannis — “thus always to tyrants”, the first Republican president ended up dead at Ford’s Theatre.
Gary is perfectly fine with all of the deep state resources thrown at trump. The steel dossier.
Everybody hates free speech.
Did the Ricochet phone app disappear too?
VDH’s The Classicist is now officially a Ricochet Audio Network podcast. (It was previously a Hoover Institution podcast.) I have been trying to to convince the Blue Yeti to change the show’s artwork to this:
Except, of course, we need to swap out Leonidas’ face with Victor’s, and Queen Gorgo’s with Troy’s face.
Is the United States or the Republican Party or the conservative movement falling apart?
I was just listening to Michael Malice’s podcast with Arthur Herman which I guess is from June 2020.
They were talking about how St. Augustine had to try to calm everyone down when the Roman Empire collapsed, assure everyone that something better would appear, remind everyone that there has been a lot of evil with the Roman Empire, and that a better world built on love can emerge.
How’d that work out?
I could quit smoking too.
I’m thinking of skipping it too. Any nuggets that are worth listening to?
This is more blood lust. If the President gets assassinated, you and Rob have incited it. You should both be ashamed.
I will. Gary is disgusting. I hope he spends time in contemplation over what he has allowed himself to become. A vindictive, bloodthirsty monster.
I take him at his word. And yours.
This lust for vengeance is awful, and Ricochet should stay far away from it. Alas, it’s got approval at the highest ranks.
It was Johnny Cash’s last album. He knew his days were numbered. Cash always had a gloomy outlook on the world (“The Man in Black”) and the sins of man.
Not so hot for Rome, but the British Empire rose from its ashes.
Not that I think much of how that place is being run these days.
Nobody owes Trump anything.
What thinking man doesn’t have a gloomy outlook?
They are already lost. They were always a poor substitute for the suburbs.
Aug was thinking long term. Big picture guy.
I voted for him because he was all we had to fight off the Democrats. Then he handed the Democrats everything they ever wanted. I agree with Rob. He needs to be gone and forgotten and the Democrats won’t let him because they need him. So we need to get him cancelled.
On Rob’s rant on Trump, I don’t quite a agree, and am more in Peter’s camp.
Rob’s analysis, that the Democrats will be running against Trump forever might be true, but I’m not sure how effective it will be. They ran forever against Joe McCarthy, but McCarthy’s shenanigans occurred after World War II during a time of confident peace and prosperity, when the country was more unified.
And Republicans do have a counter narrative regarding Trump that they did not against McCarthy, and it’s the BLM/Antifa riots. During the McCarthy era, the Democrats weren’t doing anything overt – there were no riots. Their Communists were mostly hidden, in a way that Antifa is not.
James pointed out that the Democrats will likely overreach, there are signs of it already. They just couldn’t stop themselves from playing the racist card.
I guess I’m not going to entirely bury Trump for one big reason, and that’s intellectual honesty. My view is he did more good than harm, while acknowledging the harm. But he did something important. He caused the Antifa crowd, and the intellectuals that support them to show their hand in a way the 1950’s American Communists did not.
Remember how Hubert Humphry worked to expel the Communists from the Democrat party. There is no such equivalent Democrat today.
So no, Trump is no Joe McCarthy and Republicans shouldn’t react the same way they did post-McCarthy as post-Trump.
Trump has disgraced himself, and we should treat him that way. But we should still acknowledge the good he did.
Running the gamut from Pelosi and Kerosene Maxine down to Rob and Gary, no one ever accuses any of them of incitement. Maybe it’s because no one takes them seriously even though they mean it.
In the election post-mortem Ben Shapiro said that Trump gained with minorities and women, doing better with minorities than any Republican candidate in the last 60 years. He lost support significantly with white soy-boys and old farts. My guess is that he was the last GOP president I’ll see.
I don’t think that could happen, and do think that would make things a lot worse. Rob said that James’ idea that things might be better if we stopped talking about Trump was naive. If I amend it to: if we did less talking about Trump, I think it’s as common sensical as it gets.
The GOP could take advantage of the strides Trump made with minorities, . . . but they won’t. Not now that they’ve spent the last couple days bending over for Democrats.
The GOP is worthless. Trump is the first GOP candidate I’ve voted for since Bush I — voted Constitution Party or just left it blank the rest of the time — and I rectified that mistake in 1992. Trump will be the last GOP candidate I vote for.
I’d guess there were some small gains with young people too – my experience is that there is no going back once one has crossed that line, regardless of whether their antipathy for the GOP grows. There could be some new stars in the future.
Tom Cotton isn’t bending over for Democrats. Neither is Pence, McConnell or Desantis. There is a way to go forward with the good Trump policies without stupid Trump stepping all over them with dumb remarks.
Yeah well. I was NeverTrump until the Democrats showed me that they were completely insane. I am not going to say now what I will do in 4 years. In my opinion, Trump is worse than worthless. The policies were good but Trump did his inane thinking out loud too many times.
The press went after DeSantis after his exchange with that CNN
reportermedia personality. That is what is in the future for any GOP politician who doesn’t bend over. Cotton and DeSantis won’t fold. That’s my guess anyway. I have no faith in the rest of them.