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Mar 20, 2018 21:03:53   #
Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
 
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The Social Left, The Freeloaders, And The Mentally Ill, And Old Line Patriotic Democrats... The Right Is Mostly Made Up of Those of Us Who Want a Free America, Not Run By Insurance Companies, Banks, Cesspool Dwellers: City, County, State & Federal... The New Leadership Is Making An Effort To Return America To The Honesty of Yesteryear And Is Being Fought At Every Opportunity... The 1950's Were Far From Perfect, But Compared To Today It Is/Was Utopia... Don D.

THE DIVIDED STATES

WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!

Many Americans Hate President Trump More Than They Love Americans

Barry Farber ~ Mar 20, 2018 ~ WND

God can’t hate revenge that much, or he wouldn’t have made it so sweet!

In 1947, we thought we had the best college football team in America. I was just a senior in high school, headed the next year to the University of North Carolina. I wince every time I recall how openly and shamelessly we selected our colleges solely on the strength of their football teams. The University of North Carolina had the unbelievable Charlie Justice, arguably the best running back in college or the pros. His favorite pass receiver was big Art Weiner, who could catch anything thrown his way.

And in 1947 Texas beat Carolina 35-0!

We felt like we’d lost a war, and it ate away at us for a solid year. Then I was a freshman at UNC, and the first game of the season was a home game against Texas right there in Chapel Hill. At the end of the first quarter, Carolina was ahead 20-0. And we went on to win 35-7! Admittedly, it wasn’t yesterday. It was 1948. But if you don’t feel what I feel in my kneecaps right now, what the hell’s wrong with you?

As I walked triumphantly out of Kenan Stadium through the woods toward the campus, the carillon in the Bell Tower was clinking out the melody of “Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices.” And I clearly remember saying to myself, “Life can’t possibly get any better. We beat Germany. We beat Japan. And we beat Texas!”

I had to go to one of our classrooms to retrieve a notebook left there the day before. As I walked down the deserted corridors, something resembling a piece of modern art attracted my attention to the blackboard of one of the classrooms. I opened the door to get a better look. It was a chart depicting the rise and fall of all the great civilizations, each one in a different color.

It displayed the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the ancient Greeks, the Persians, Carthaginians, Ottomans and so on. You could see their respective colors rising, rising, rising – and then falling and disappearing. I remember silently “scolding” that chart as if to say, “It can’t happen to our God-kissed America!” About 50 years after telling that chart it can’t happen to us, I began to imagine I was hearing the chart replying, “Oh yeah?”

Historians tell us that when the Nazi defenses against the forward-surging Red Army began to collapse, Adolf Hitler made his logistical priorities not the military reinforcement of the Eastern Front but rather the transporting of Jews in Nazi concentration camps to camps farther west, so they couldn’t be liberated by the victorious Soviets. What does that tell us?

That tells us Hitler hated Jews more than he loved Germans. And we see and hear evidence daily that too many Americans hate President Donald Trump more than they love Americans. We can’t go on like this.

I feel personal betrayal here. If I could keep my rage and disappointment under tight control through eight years of Obama, why can’t you Trump-haters curl up inside all the good things Trump has achieved and continues to achieve, and wait it out? That is, I’m afraid, by now an old-fashioned question that’s been lost in the current riptide of lies and intrigues. Big, damaging lies are no longer the lamentable exception. I have the terrible feeling we’ve become a mendocracy in which you’re deemed too sissy to appear on the playing field unless you’re willing to lie and lie big. Do you remember those horrid tales of “no family escaping untouched by the Plague”? That’s the way it is now when it comes to friends who won’t talk to you anymore once they learn you admire the president. Who’s your favorite player in this ongoing saga? Do you really think his or her contribution to the dialogue is limited to the truth?

Charlie Justice, the great running back from UNC, made every magazine’s All-American selection except one. Look magazine ignored him. North Carolina, of which Charlie Justice could have become governor, went wild with rage. A newsstand near the state Capitol in Raleigh hung out a homemade sign that told the world, “Opinions expressed in magazines sold here are not necessarily those of this newsstand!”

America is busy losing moral assets that can never be reclaimed. Will we ever look at our FBI the way we did when they seemed to have stained-glass windows? It’s like trying to regain sexual purity once it’s been handed out along the way.

A fellow once asked his friend if he knew an actress, an actress who was making an absurd effort to come across as untouchable despite many earlier years of sexual licentiousness. “Do I know her?” replied the friend. “I knew her before she was a virgin!“

http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/we-cant-go-on-like-this/

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Mar 20, 2018 21:15:58   #
Liberty Tree
 
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The Social Left, The Freeloaders, And The Mentally Ill, And Old Line Patriotic Democrats... The Right Is Mostly Made Up of Those of Us Who Want a Free America, Not Run By Insurance Companies, Banks, Cesspool Dwellers: City, County, State & Federal... The New Leadership Is Making An Effort To Return America To The Honesty of Yesteryear And Is Being Fought At Every Opportunity... The 1950's Were Far From Perfect, But Compared To Today It Is/Was Utopia... Don D.

THE DIVIDED STATES

WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!

Many Americans Hate President Trump More Than They Love Americans

Barry Farber ~ Mar 20, 2018 ~ WND

God can’t hate revenge that much, or he wouldn’t have made it so sweet!

In 1947, we thought we had the best college football team in America. I was just a senior in high school, headed the next year to the University of North Carolina. I wince every time I recall how openly and shamelessly we selected our colleges solely on the strength of their football teams. The University of North Carolina had the unbelievable Charlie Justice, arguably the best running back in college or the pros. His favorite pass receiver was big Art Weiner, who could catch anything thrown his way.

And in 1947 Texas beat Carolina 35-0!

We felt like we’d lost a war, and it ate away at us for a solid year. Then I was a freshman at UNC, and the first game of the season was a home game against Texas right there in Chapel Hill. At the end of the first quarter, Carolina was ahead 20-0. And we went on to win 35-7! Admittedly, it wasn’t yesterday. It was 1948. But if you don’t feel what I feel in my kneecaps right now, what the hell’s wrong with you?

As I walked triumphantly out of Kenan Stadium through the woods toward the campus, the carillon in the Bell Tower was clinking out the melody of “Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices.” And I clearly remember saying to myself, “Life can’t possibly get any better. We beat Germany. We beat Japan. And we beat Texas!”

I had to go to one of our classrooms to retrieve a notebook left there the day before. As I walked down the deserted corridors, something resembling a piece of modern art attracted my attention to the blackboard of one of the classrooms. I opened the door to get a better look. It was a chart depicting the rise and fall of all the great civilizations, each one in a different color.

It displayed the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the ancient Greeks, the Persians, Carthaginians, Ottomans and so on. You could see their respective colors rising, rising, rising – and then falling and disappearing. I remember silently “scolding” that chart as if to say, “It can’t happen to our God-kissed America!” About 50 years after telling that chart it can’t happen to us, I began to imagine I was hearing the chart replying, “Oh yeah?”

Historians tell us that when the Nazi defenses against the forward-surging Red Army began to collapse, Adolf Hitler made his logistical priorities not the military reinforcement of the Eastern Front but rather the transporting of Jews in Nazi concentration camps to camps farther west, so they couldn’t be liberated by the victorious Soviets. What does that tell us?

That tells us Hitler hated Jews more than he loved Germans. And we see and hear evidence daily that too many Americans hate President Donald Trump more than they love Americans. We can’t go on like this.

I feel personal betrayal here. If I could keep my rage and disappointment under tight control through eight years of Obama, why can’t you Trump-haters curl up inside all the good things Trump has achieved and continues to achieve, and wait it out? That is, I’m afraid, by now an old-fashioned question that’s been lost in the current riptide of lies and intrigues. Big, damaging lies are no longer the lamentable exception. I have the terrible feeling we’ve become a mendocracy in which you’re deemed too sissy to appear on the playing field unless you’re willing to lie and lie big. Do you remember those horrid tales of “no family escaping untouched by the Plague”? That’s the way it is now when it comes to friends who won’t talk to you anymore once they learn you admire the president. Who’s your favorite player in this ongoing saga? Do you really think his or her contribution to the dialogue is limited to the truth?

Charlie Justice, the great running back from UNC, made every magazine’s All-American selection except one. Look magazine ignored him. North Carolina, of which Charlie Justice could have become governor, went wild with rage. A newsstand near the state Capitol in Raleigh hung out a homemade sign that told the world, “Opinions expressed in magazines sold here are not necessarily those of this newsstand!”

America is busy losing moral assets that can never be reclaimed. Will we ever look at our FBI the way we did when they seemed to have stained-glass windows? It’s like trying to regain sexual purity once it’s been handed out along the way.

A fellow once asked his friend if he knew an actress, an actress who was making an absurd effort to come across as untouchable despite many earlier years of sexual licentiousness. “Do I know her?” replied the friend. “I knew her before she was a virgin!“

http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/we-cant-go-on-like-this/
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The ... (show quote)


Many do hate Trump more than they love America and that is very dangerous. Many love Trump more than they love America and that also is very dangerous.

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Mar 20, 2018 21:16:58   #
Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia
 
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The Social Left, The Freeloaders, And The Mentally Ill, And Old Line Patriotic Democrats... The Right Is Mostly Made Up of Those of Us Who Want a Free America, Not Run By Insurance Companies, Banks, Cesspool Dwellers: City, County, State & Federal... The New Leadership Is Making An Effort To Return America To The Honesty of Yesteryear And Is Being Fought At Every Opportunity... The 1950's Were Far From Perfect, But Compared To Today It Is/Was Utopia... Don D.

THE DIVIDED STATES

WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!

Many Americans Hate President Trump More Than They Love Americans

Barry Farber ~ Mar 20, 2018 ~ WND

God can’t hate revenge that much, or he wouldn’t have made it so sweet!

In 1947, we thought we had the best college football team in America. I was just a senior in high school, headed the next year to the University of North Carolina. I wince every time I recall how openly and shamelessly we selected our colleges solely on the strength of their football teams. The University of North Carolina had the unbelievable Charlie Justice, arguably the best running back in college or the pros. His favorite pass receiver was big Art Weiner, who could catch anything thrown his way.

And in 1947 Texas beat Carolina 35-0!

We felt like we’d lost a war, and it ate away at us for a solid year. Then I was a freshman at UNC, and the first game of the season was a home game against Texas right there in Chapel Hill. At the end of the first quarter, Carolina was ahead 20-0. And we went on to win 35-7! Admittedly, it wasn’t yesterday. It was 1948. But if you don’t feel what I feel in my kneecaps right now, what the hell’s wrong with you?

As I walked triumphantly out of Kenan Stadium through the woods toward the campus, the carillon in the Bell Tower was clinking out the melody of “Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices.” And I clearly remember saying to myself, “Life can’t possibly get any better. We beat Germany. We beat Japan. And we beat Texas!”

I had to go to one of our classrooms to retrieve a notebook left there the day before. As I walked down the deserted corridors, something resembling a piece of modern art attracted my attention to the blackboard of one of the classrooms. I opened the door to get a better look. It was a chart depicting the rise and fall of all the great civilizations, each one in a different color.

It displayed the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the ancient Greeks, the Persians, Carthaginians, Ottomans and so on. You could see their respective colors rising, rising, rising – and then falling and disappearing. I remember silently “scolding” that chart as if to say, “It can’t happen to our God-kissed America!” About 50 years after telling that chart it can’t happen to us, I began to imagine I was hearing the chart replying, “Oh yeah?”

Historians tell us that when the Nazi defenses against the forward-surging Red Army began to collapse, Adolf Hitler made his logistical priorities not the military reinforcement of the Eastern Front but rather the transporting of Jews in Nazi concentration camps to camps farther west, so they couldn’t be liberated by the victorious Soviets. What does that tell us?

That tells us Hitler hated Jews more than he loved Germans. And we see and hear evidence daily that too many Americans hate President Donald Trump more than they love Americans. We can’t go on like this.

I feel personal betrayal here. If I could keep my rage and disappointment under tight control through eight years of Obama, why can’t you Trump-haters curl up inside all the good things Trump has achieved and continues to achieve, and wait it out? That is, I’m afraid, by now an old-fashioned question that’s been lost in the current riptide of lies and intrigues. Big, damaging lies are no longer the lamentable exception. I have the terrible feeling we’ve become a mendocracy in which you’re deemed too sissy to appear on the playing field unless you’re willing to lie and lie big. Do you remember those horrid tales of “no family escaping untouched by the Plague”? That’s the way it is now when it comes to friends who won’t talk to you anymore once they learn you admire the president. Who’s your favorite player in this ongoing saga? Do you really think his or her contribution to the dialogue is limited to the truth?

Charlie Justice, the great running back from UNC, made every magazine’s All-American selection except one. Look magazine ignored him. North Carolina, of which Charlie Justice could have become governor, went wild with rage. A newsstand near the state Capitol in Raleigh hung out a homemade sign that told the world, “Opinions expressed in magazines sold here are not necessarily those of this newsstand!”

America is busy losing moral assets that can never be reclaimed. Will we ever look at our FBI the way we did when they seemed to have stained-glass windows? It’s like trying to regain sexual purity once it’s been handed out along the way.

A fellow once asked his friend if he knew an actress, an actress who was making an absurd effort to come across as untouchable despite many earlier years of sexual licentiousness. “Do I know her?” replied the friend. “I knew her before she was a virgin!“

http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/we-cant-go-on-like-this/
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The ... (show quote)


Great post! Wasn't it Cho Cho Charlie back then?

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Mar 20, 2018 21:21:19   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Liberty Tree wrote:
Many do hate Trump more than they love America and that is very dangerous. Many love Trump more than they love America and that also is very dangerous.

I agree. We live in turbulent times, for sure.

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Mar 20, 2018 21:23:18   #
PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama
 
I seem to remember it was.
Manning345 wrote:
Great post! Wasn't it Cho Cho Charlie back then?

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Mar 20, 2018 21:27:25   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Charlie “Choo-Choo” Justice
Birth 18 May 1924
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Death 17 Oct 2003 (aged 79)
Cherryville, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
Burial, Calvary Episcopal Church Cemetery
Fletcher, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA

He was twice the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy while piling up yardage as an elusive running back at North Carolina in the late 1940s. At the end of his four years of college football he had gained 4,883 yards running and passing, a record that stood for 45 years until 1994. He was twice named to the all-Southern Conference team and was the conference player of the year in 1948 and 1949. He went on to play in the NFL for the Washington Redskins. He was honored by the Redskins in 2002 as one of the team's 70 greatest players. He also was the first athlete inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. He is said to have been given his nickname during his stint in the Navy when a fellow sailor remarked that "He runs along just like a choo-choo train".

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Mar 20, 2018 21:35:02   #
PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama
 
Bottom line it's not about Trump either way. It's about preserving this Great Nation. Until We The People come together, regardless of party, get over all this Trump bullshit, America will cease as a Nation.
Liberty Tree wrote:
Many do hate Trump more than they love America and that is very dangerous. Many love Trump more than they love America and that also is very dangerous.

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Mar 20, 2018 21:44:36   #
Sicilianthing
 
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The Social Left, The Freeloaders, And The Mentally Ill, And Old Line Patriotic Democrats... The Right Is Mostly Made Up of Those of Us Who Want a Free America, Not Run By Insurance Companies, Banks, Cesspool Dwellers: City, County, State & Federal... The New Leadership Is Making An Effort To Return America To The Honesty of Yesteryear And Is Being Fought At Every Opportunity... The 1950's Were Far From Perfect, But Compared To Today It Is/Was Utopia... Don D.

THE DIVIDED STATES

WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!

Many Americans Hate President Trump More Than They Love Americans

Barry Farber ~ Mar 20, 2018 ~ WND

God can’t hate revenge that much, or he wouldn’t have made it so sweet!

In 1947, we thought we had the best college football team in America. I was just a senior in high school, headed the next year to the University of North Carolina. I wince every time I recall how openly and shamelessly we selected our colleges solely on the strength of their football teams. The University of North Carolina had the unbelievable Charlie Justice, arguably the best running back in college or the pros. His favorite pass receiver was big Art Weiner, who could catch anything thrown his way.

And in 1947 Texas beat Carolina 35-0!

We felt like we’d lost a war, and it ate away at us for a solid year. Then I was a freshman at UNC, and the first game of the season was a home game against Texas right there in Chapel Hill. At the end of the first quarter, Carolina was ahead 20-0. And we went on to win 35-7! Admittedly, it wasn’t yesterday. It was 1948. But if you don’t feel what I feel in my kneecaps right now, what the hell’s wrong with you?

As I walked triumphantly out of Kenan Stadium through the woods toward the campus, the carillon in the Bell Tower was clinking out the melody of “Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices.” And I clearly remember saying to myself, “Life can’t possibly get any better. We beat Germany. We beat Japan. And we beat Texas!”

I had to go to one of our classrooms to retrieve a notebook left there the day before. As I walked down the deserted corridors, something resembling a piece of modern art attracted my attention to the blackboard of one of the classrooms. I opened the door to get a better look. It was a chart depicting the rise and fall of all the great civilizations, each one in a different color.

It displayed the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the ancient Greeks, the Persians, Carthaginians, Ottomans and so on. You could see their respective colors rising, rising, rising – and then falling and disappearing. I remember silently “scolding” that chart as if to say, “It can’t happen to our God-kissed America!” About 50 years after telling that chart it can’t happen to us, I began to imagine I was hearing the chart replying, “Oh yeah?”

Historians tell us that when the Nazi defenses against the forward-surging Red Army began to collapse, Adolf Hitler made his logistical priorities not the military reinforcement of the Eastern Front but rather the transporting of Jews in Nazi concentration camps to camps farther west, so they couldn’t be liberated by the victorious Soviets. What does that tell us?

That tells us Hitler hated Jews more than he loved Germans. And we see and hear evidence daily that too many Americans hate President Donald Trump more than they love Americans. We can’t go on like this.

I feel personal betrayal here. If I could keep my rage and disappointment under tight control through eight years of Obama, why can’t you Trump-haters curl up inside all the good things Trump has achieved and continues to achieve, and wait it out? That is, I’m afraid, by now an old-fashioned question that’s been lost in the current riptide of lies and intrigues. Big, damaging lies are no longer the lamentable exception. I have the terrible feeling we’ve become a mendocracy in which you’re deemed too sissy to appear on the playing field unless you’re willing to lie and lie big. Do you remember those horrid tales of “no family escaping untouched by the Plague”? That’s the way it is now when it comes to friends who won’t talk to you anymore once they learn you admire the president. Who’s your favorite player in this ongoing saga? Do you really think his or her contribution to the dialogue is limited to the truth?

Charlie Justice, the great running back from UNC, made every magazine’s All-American selection except one. Look magazine ignored him. North Carolina, of which Charlie Justice could have become governor, went wild with rage. A newsstand near the state Capitol in Raleigh hung out a homemade sign that told the world, “Opinions expressed in magazines sold here are not necessarily those of this newsstand!”

America is busy losing moral assets that can never be reclaimed. Will we ever look at our FBI the way we did when they seemed to have stained-glass windows? It’s like trying to regain sexual purity once it’s been handed out along the way.

A fellow once asked his friend if he knew an actress, an actress who was making an absurd effort to come across as untouchable despite many earlier years of sexual licentiousness. “Do I know her?” replied the friend. “I knew her before she was a virgin!“

http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/we-cant-go-on-like-this/
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The ... (show quote)



>>>>>>

Right ON !

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Mar 20, 2018 23:14:25   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
PLT Sarge wrote:
Bottom line it's not about Trump either way. It's about preserving this Great Nation. Until We The People come together, regardless of party, get over all this Trump bullshit, America will cease as a Nation.


Unfortunately, you are absolutely right...our nation is a house divided...

The question is, who moved?..

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Mar 21, 2018 00:10:49   #
PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama
 
Don't where that question is coming from. But will addresses the question the way I read it. They, both Parties have moved to become one. There is no difference now between the parties. They are together concreting their power. WE THE PEOPLE have let this happen. We don't hold our elected officials accountable to their campaign promises. Just keep electing the same corrupt people over and over. We are the ones that write their checks. We must demand they understand they work for us. The reason this Great Nation is in the shape it's in, is because WE THE PEOPLE have grown lazy and have let it become what it is. Number one, stop expecting Government to provide us with everything. If Government provides everything then Government has control of our lives. I want control of my own life. I may fuck up sometimes and have to do a back step. But it's my life.
byronglimish wrote:
Unfortunately, you are absolutely right...our nation is a house divided...

The question is, who moved?..

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Mar 21, 2018 00:38:48   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
PLT Sarge wrote:
Don't where that question is coming from. But will addresses the question the way I read it. They, both Parties have moved to become one. There is no difference now between the parties. They are together concreting their power. WE THE PEOPLE have let this happen. We don't hold our elected officials accountable to their campaign promises. Just keep electing the same corrupt people over and over. We are the ones that write their checks. We must demand they understand they work for us. The reason this Great Nation is in the shape it's in, is because WE THE PEOPLE have grown lazy and have let it become what it is. Number one, stop expecting Government to provide us with everything. If Government provides everything then Government has control of our lives. I want control of my own life. I may fuck up sometimes and have to do a back step. But it's my life.
Don't where that question is coming from. But will... (show quote)





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Mar 21, 2018 06:35:17   #
glibona Loc: Nevada
 
PLT Sarge wrote:
Bottom line it's not about Trump either way. It's about preserving this Great Nation. Until We The People come together, regardless of party, get over all this Trump bullshit, America will cease as a Nation.


Can't be reminded too often...
United we stand, divided we fall.

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Mar 21, 2018 11:46:03   #
bahmer
 
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The Social Left, The Freeloaders, And The Mentally Ill, And Old Line Patriotic Democrats... The Right Is Mostly Made Up of Those of Us Who Want a Free America, Not Run By Insurance Companies, Banks, Cesspool Dwellers: City, County, State & Federal... The New Leadership Is Making An Effort To Return America To The Honesty of Yesteryear And Is Being Fought At Every Opportunity... The 1950's Were Far From Perfect, But Compared To Today It Is/Was Utopia... Don D.

THE DIVIDED STATES

WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!

Many Americans Hate President Trump More Than They Love Americans

Barry Farber ~ Mar 20, 2018 ~ WND

God can’t hate revenge that much, or he wouldn’t have made it so sweet!

In 1947, we thought we had the best college football team in America. I was just a senior in high school, headed the next year to the University of North Carolina. I wince every time I recall how openly and shamelessly we selected our colleges solely on the strength of their football teams. The University of North Carolina had the unbelievable Charlie Justice, arguably the best running back in college or the pros. His favorite pass receiver was big Art Weiner, who could catch anything thrown his way.

And in 1947 Texas beat Carolina 35-0!

We felt like we’d lost a war, and it ate away at us for a solid year. Then I was a freshman at UNC, and the first game of the season was a home game against Texas right there in Chapel Hill. At the end of the first quarter, Carolina was ahead 20-0. And we went on to win 35-7! Admittedly, it wasn’t yesterday. It was 1948. But if you don’t feel what I feel in my kneecaps right now, what the hell’s wrong with you?

As I walked triumphantly out of Kenan Stadium through the woods toward the campus, the carillon in the Bell Tower was clinking out the melody of “Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices.” And I clearly remember saying to myself, “Life can’t possibly get any better. We beat Germany. We beat Japan. And we beat Texas!”

I had to go to one of our classrooms to retrieve a notebook left there the day before. As I walked down the deserted corridors, something resembling a piece of modern art attracted my attention to the blackboard of one of the classrooms. I opened the door to get a better look. It was a chart depicting the rise and fall of all the great civilizations, each one in a different color.

It displayed the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the ancient Greeks, the Persians, Carthaginians, Ottomans and so on. You could see their respective colors rising, rising, rising – and then falling and disappearing. I remember silently “scolding” that chart as if to say, “It can’t happen to our God-kissed America!” About 50 years after telling that chart it can’t happen to us, I began to imagine I was hearing the chart replying, “Oh yeah?”

Historians tell us that when the Nazi defenses against the forward-surging Red Army began to collapse, Adolf Hitler made his logistical priorities not the military reinforcement of the Eastern Front but rather the transporting of Jews in Nazi concentration camps to camps farther west, so they couldn’t be liberated by the victorious Soviets. What does that tell us?

That tells us Hitler hated Jews more than he loved Germans. And we see and hear evidence daily that too many Americans hate President Donald Trump more than they love Americans. We can’t go on like this.

I feel personal betrayal here. If I could keep my rage and disappointment under tight control through eight years of Obama, why can’t you Trump-haters curl up inside all the good things Trump has achieved and continues to achieve, and wait it out? That is, I’m afraid, by now an old-fashioned question that’s been lost in the current riptide of lies and intrigues. Big, damaging lies are no longer the lamentable exception. I have the terrible feeling we’ve become a mendocracy in which you’re deemed too sissy to appear on the playing field unless you’re willing to lie and lie big. Do you remember those horrid tales of “no family escaping untouched by the Plague”? That’s the way it is now when it comes to friends who won’t talk to you anymore once they learn you admire the president. Who’s your favorite player in this ongoing saga? Do you really think his or her contribution to the dialogue is limited to the truth?

Charlie Justice, the great running back from UNC, made every magazine’s All-American selection except one. Look magazine ignored him. North Carolina, of which Charlie Justice could have become governor, went wild with rage. A newsstand near the state Capitol in Raleigh hung out a homemade sign that told the world, “Opinions expressed in magazines sold here are not necessarily those of this newsstand!”

America is busy losing moral assets that can never be reclaimed. Will we ever look at our FBI the way we did when they seemed to have stained-glass windows? It’s like trying to regain sexual purity once it’s been handed out along the way.

A fellow once asked his friend if he knew an actress, an actress who was making an absurd effort to come across as untouchable despite many earlier years of sexual licentiousness. “Do I know her?” replied the friend. “I knew her before she was a virgin!“

http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/we-cant-go-on-like-this/
The Democrats Are Made Up The Communist Left, The ... (show quote)


Amen and Amen

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Mar 21, 2018 12:05:54   #
Manning345 Loc: Richmond, Virginia
 
PLT Sarge wrote:
Don't where that question is coming from. But will addresses the question the way I read it. They, both Parties have moved to become one. There is no difference now between the parties. They are together concreting their power. WE THE PEOPLE have let this happen. We don't hold our elected officials accountable to their campaign promises. Just keep electing the same corrupt people over and over. We are the ones that write their checks. We must demand they understand they work for us. The reason this Great Nation is in the shape it's in, is because WE THE PEOPLE have grown lazy and have let it become what it is. Number one, stop expecting Government to provide us with everything. If Government provides everything then Government has control of our lives. I want control of my own life. I may fuck up sometimes and have to do a back step. But it's my life.
Don't where that question is coming from. But will... (show quote)


One aspect of our Congressional representatives seems to be that they campaign on being true to the people's needs, but once elected they fall under the control of the leadership and tend to forget their promises. This has several parts I think: 1) group think by the parties; 2) party control of the levers of legislation; 3) go along to get along; 4) one or more traps, such as money, or blackmail for deeds done; 5) cronyism; 6) the need to be reelected to stay on the take. (I can't think of a 7th.)

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Mar 21, 2018 12:52:32   #
bahmer
 
Manning345 wrote:
One aspect of our Congressional representatives seems to be that they campaign on being true to the people's needs, but once elected they fall under the control of the leadership and tend to forget their promises. This has several parts I think: 1) group think by the parties; 2) party control of the levers of legislation; 3) go along to get along; 4) one or more traps, such as money, or blackmail for deeds done; 5) cronyism; 6) the need to be reelected to stay on the take. (I can't think of a 7th.)
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You have it pretty well covered.

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