"She sure didn't seem concerned that someone may have sprayed a dangerous substance on her."

Did Trump seem concerned that somebody just took a shot at him? Or did he react defiantly and raise his fist in victory?

So you think that was staged, huh?

"That may be true however his actions in this video were not acts of bravery."

You don't think it's brave to stand up to fascism?
That tracks.

I looked up some rough numbers.
DHS reports 650,000 people deported in 2005.
ICE spending was $28,000,000,000.

Just on those numbers, we're spending $43k per person, to deport mostly non-violent non-criminal aliens.
And we're not even deporting any more people than Biden did.
And Biden did it for like $10K per deportee.

To Republicans, paying 4x more to do something less effectively is a good use of taxpayer dollars.

"And, agreed; I am underwhelmed with Jeffries."

Almost Fetterman levels of disappoint from that guy.

"Trump's Epstein Coverup is obviously designed to he.p someone or a collection of someones involved in sexually molesting young women and children."

Ten bucks says Robert Kraft is in there.
It was about a decade ago, the FBI or whoever was running a sting on a "massage parlor" that brought in illegals and turned them out.
Robert Kraft got caught on tape at this parlor after his Pats won a Super Bowl in Miami.
The whole sting got abandoned because Robert Kraft was not supposed to be caught up in it.
When the courts blocked that evidence, they blocked the entire case.

Why does the owner of this site even publish a plonk count? Is it to "shame" us?
#82 | Posted by visitor_

Damn.
You figured it out.
The Plonk Count was a deliberate action by Liberals, to make you a Victim.

Republicans are avoiding this thread like it's a girl over the age of fifteen.

"The lack of repercussions and consequences for confederates will always be reason why America still so deeply rooted in racism"

Racism was bipartisan back then.

Republicans merely opposed slavery. They didn't support equality.

The notion that blacks should have equal rights was extremely radical and unpopular even after the Civil War. It's like a Republican of today saying Trans people should be accepted as equals.

So you can't blame it all on the South.

The blame rests with Whites. On Both Sides, even.

"We should have burned the south to the ground"

We kinda did?

You can't say you're against big money at the same time as you are taking big money donations. Nobody is going to believe you if you do that.
#41 | Posted by LauraMohr

If Eberly can be a Republican and be against what Republicans are doing, I don't see the problem with Corky being a Democrat and being against what Democrats are doing.

"I live in a hard blue state, so I vote 3rd party in an effort to grow the % of people voting for neither."

So you're not voting for the member of the majority party that's closest to what you want in the primary, like Eberly does?

Hmmmm.

I don't like what my party is doing, so I'm dropping out.... there's a way to make change, smh.
#7 | Posted by kwrx25

it's a good chance it'll be a blue area.....I'll gladly register as a Democrat when we do that.
#78 | Posted by eberly

Anyone else seeing it?

I see what Eberly is doing.
It's the not ever walking away part where he loses me.

It's like a wife who keeps going back to the man who hits her.
It's dating a crazy hot chick and telling yourself "I Can Change Her."
You. Can't.

" then it is prudent to register in a party where your vote might make a difference."

If you do that, then you're a Republican, and you run the risk of people thinking you're actually a Republican, which would make you a White Nationalist in the year 2026. And it's hard to see what's wrong with that logic.

If there's no point where you say "I keep losing bets in this Casino, but I'm going to keep playing in this Casino even as they are denying entry to black people" well, you've kinda chosen your side.

I'm listed as that because when I joined the site those were the options, and I definitely don't identify as R or D.
#68 | Posted by kwrx25

That doesn't actually explain why you picked Libertarian...
But it does reinforce my belief that people who pick "Libertarian" actually picked "None Of The Above."

There's no ideology there. There's no messaging there. There's no belief system, no vision for the future.
All it is, is "We hate both sides but it's not like we actually have any ideas that are better!"
It's Virtue Signaling to the other crabs in the pot that you'll pull them down if they try to escape.
It's a Hurt Feelings Report, lodged by grown baby-men.

Don't be that man.

"I admire folks like Mamdani who can run an alternative platform but not even in NYC will there be another party of consequence."

Yes but there's no other alternative.
To get a Parliament would require a Constitutional Amendment.
For obvious reasons, neither party in a Duopoly has anything to gain by allowing other parties to join the fun.

Perot did pretty well in '92. Huey Long probably should have won in the 30s.
But there's no sustained third party in this country because there's no unmet need that would drive the moneyed interests to fund a third party.

I will always boil down to the 2 parties....and who shows up.
#25 | Posted by eberly

Well, we're getting to "who is allowed to show up" territory now.
But yes, in a functioning democracy, this is all that really matters. Turnout.

"folks are just too lazy and apathetic to actually get away from the 2 parties."

That's also pointedly missing the point of how change actually comes about. What you're doing, voting for the moderates, is how change is affected. From within. You're failing at it, but you've got the right idea.

MAGA got what they want not by starting a new party, but by completely taking over the Republican Party and turning it into the American Nazi Party. Change comes from within.

Reagan, as you know full well, did a massive amnesty for immigrants. If Reagan did that today, he'd get shot, and not by a crazy person trying to impress Jodie Foster, but by a Patriotic Republican trying to save America from an invasion of filthy disease carrying mud races Who admittedly would also be a crazy person, but his crazy is 100% aligned with today's Republican Party.

Because Republicans changed. That Republican party left you a long time ago, Eberly.

She's not coming back.

It's not the voters, Eberly.

It's the structure of society.

It's much bigger than the voters.

Republicans are in fact 100% bad, though.
Even Eberly won't vote for them for the past fifteen years.
And the ones he does vote for, the "good" ones, they always get the lowest votes in the primary.
Because Republicans prefer Bad to Good.

I'm not sure how exactly you planned on sharpening that to an edge, though, since KWRX25 is an "Independent" "Libertarian" whatever the ---- that means.

The Libertarian pages on Social Media are a hoot lately. Half are hardcore MAGA, the other half are kinda like KWRX25 here who thinks people should be able to protest without getting murdered by the State.

True identity crisis unfolding -- because Libertarians never actually had an identity in the first place! It's a catch-all for malcontents and misanthropes. And some I'm sure are good, but deeply misguided or confused, people.

Libertarians need to build success at the local level and demonstrate their ideas can work. Why anybody would take this "philosophy" seriously when it's never been implemented, is the reason it's dismissed out of hand. Libertarians, in practice, are no different than the kid in the Che T-shirt saying the USSR wasn't real Communism and if we tried it the right way it ought to work.

"The voters are hooked on the two parry system."

The Constitution is the hook.
People who seem like they can figure out water is wet don't seem to be able to make that connection, for whatever reason.

Our Constitution created a winner take all system.
That system might start out as one winner and ten losers, but not for long.
The ten losers are going to join forces to try to take on the one winner.

Why haven't both parties shoved laws we want through when they have it all?
Posted by Petrous at 2026-01-29 02:52 PM | Reply

Money is why.
Both parties are dependent on private money to fund their election campaigns.

While both parties are required to play by the same rules, only the Republican party fought and won for unlimited dark money in American politics.

As a result, for the past twenty years, Russia has been funneling money through the NRA to Republican candidates.
Republicans didn't set that in motion because it benefits We The People.

"We are a nation of laws."
--Republicans, once upon a time.

"To make the claim that I have my opinions fed to me is actually pretty insulting."

Good. Sounds like I'm getting through.
For you not to be able to say how you came up with your opinions is pretty insulting to your own mental capacity.

So let me try being Good Cop.
I wouldn't even bother to engage with you if I thought you were actually a fool like most "centrists" and "libertarians."
You can do better.

A President with his own unaccountable police force, going after his own Base?

Republicans are getting exactly what they voted for!