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I remember the show a little. The interceptors with the nose-mounted missiles, the purple-haired crew on Moonbase, and the opening theme, mainly. The plots of the episodes completely escape me.
Normans of the period wore nasal helmets. Just sayin’.
We need a sunny optimist that rolls over for the statist media and the Democrat party’s reflexive Alinsky tactics.
P.S. Every single day more and more labor gets replaced by desperate, hungry, poor people THAT LIVE ELSEWHERE and robots. Houses, rent, education, and medical are less affordable than ever.
What is to be done?
Viva la socialism!
By all means let’s talk about the Senate Elections of 2018. The Republicans lost 2 of only 9 seats, while the Democrats lost only 4 of an incredible 26 seats they were defending! In 2020, we will be defending 21 Senate seats, while the Democrats will be defending only 12. Trump has critically wounded Republican Senate candidates in AZ, CO, GA, IA, KY, ME, MT, and NC.
Voters want free stuff. Discuss.
Second longest peace time expansion or something like that. Why would the economy tank before or after the election? Does this affect voting? Discuss.
Why do people want socialism and populism? Discuss.
Three whole minutes.
Look at all of our government debt. Corporate debt is higher than ever. Home purchases require more debt than ever. Show me a debt metric that is any good. Auto loan defaults are skyrocketing. Student debt is notorious. Show me any debt to GDP metric that gives you hope.
And all of the globalized labor and robots are an unstoppable deflation, even though we obviously can’t survive without inflation.
Something will blow up, and it will get resolved politically.
Someone should have done something 20 years ago.
So let’s fight Trump.
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Is this guy wrong?
But then you couldn’t see their faces. If you look at some of the background knights, you will see that they are wearing them. Also, note the helmet of James.
It looks like James’ helmet had the noseguard clipped off. That would make inserting his face a lot easier.
But Rob is going to ride into combat wearing just a coif? That’s a good way to get your egg scrambled.
Maybe he lost it in the first charge. Besides, it’s Rob. He’s just there to watch and write about it later.
Kasich is a human toothache, pescetarianism need not be involved.
Nah. Reagan was The Great Communicator.
President Trump is The Great Clarifier.
Those aren’t opposites.
You say this like it is a bad thing.
That’s what I think.
Actually I’d put McCain in that position. Or if not #1, at least ahead of Trump.
Just in the most basic terms, Nancy Reagan was not (ever?) Hot.
Because he’s not Trump?
You guys should ease up on Gary; you don’t recognize how far he’s reaching out here. Kasich is far to the right of our Gary.
P.B., I love the idea Trump ran as a conservative Republican for all the “flattery”.
A more plausible psychological theory would be that Trump is a masochist who enjoys the torrent of abuse conservative Republicans get.
If he actually wanted flattery, he would present himself as pro-abortion and anti-gun. And just imagine the love fest if he had nominated Merrick Garland!
Kasich is Cincinnatus compared to Trump.
I agree with you to the extent that Trump is the Great Clarifier. I am on the Reagan side, and you are on the Trump side.
Biden had it right when he said that if Trump is defeated after 4 years, he will forever be considered a strange aberration in American history, and will be seen as a one term exception, but if Trump is re-elected, he will irrevocably alter the country. To that I would add that Trump will also irrevocably alter the Republican Party. But if Trump is defeated, the stain of Trump will recede in years not decades.
Not what I want to see in Presidents or First Ladies.
I’ll certainly agree that I wouldn’t want to see President Trump naked anywhere. 😜
McCain would have stood up to Trump. Lindsey Graham has folded like a cheap suit.
Speaking for myself, Nancy Reagan adoring of Ron was lovely and sweet.
To paraphrase Kahless, “Great rhetoric in service of lefism is no victory, and… whatever you want to say Trump does… in service of conservatism, is no defeat.”
(Some people would say he was copying Barry Goldwater, but since Kahless was centuries ago, obviously Goldwater copied HIM.)
If Trump loses, the Political class will go right back to their corrupt old ways, secure and confident in their ability to curbstomp any attempt to defeat it.
That is the primary reason. And he could carry Ohio and the Upper Midwest.
The image of a naked Trump has now been imprinted on my brain. I may not sleep tonight.
Or ever again. But you’re the one who added Presidents to the mix. You just couldn’t leave it at First Ladies. 😜
Two political highlights of my life were to shake the hands of my Senators, Barry Goldwater, and the man who saved Iraq in the surge (only to have Obama throw it away), John S. McCain, III.
You are right. My bad.