It's a definite concern, but take heart.
You've heard the saying, "be polite, and prepared to kill everyone you meet?" Our 2A is the most important Right we have. It's imperative that our youngsters are taught from an early age how to properly use firearms to protect themselves and others, and just how important their citizenship and Rights are.
They need to see mom & dad, grandpa & grandpa, uncles and cousins etc, outside on a firing range or in the back 40, firing and using weapons. When they're old enough to follow directions (ie, for some it's 7 or 8, others it may be 12 or 13) they need to start training. It's a useful skill to have, and is a fun hobby.
We don't hammer it into our kids heads - we just let them absorb it, and they do. Our 14 yr old is a Trump fan, and pays attention to the News about him. His Debate class is his platform lol - he chooses subjects that reflect his beliefs, and Trump policies are an endless subject for him, as well as the Bill of Rights, especially 1A & 2A. We didn't ever approach him with it but answered his questions when he heard us talking. From there, he started asking more Qs out of the blue, reading about everything, and he became a Trumper on his own. Now he's patriotic, whereas before, he always liked shooting & hunting etc but was never particularly patriotic.
We and the generations after us must be prepared to defend this country whether we're military or not. It's really just that simple.
Yes see my post above here - "Liberia was a good idea but they fucked that up, too."
Former slaves should have been rounded up & deported to Africa, whether they wanted to go or not, & dropped off with supplies to last 2 weeks as a humanitarian gesture. It would have saved them and us a lot of anxiety & trouble.
That, or NEVER have implemented welfare. Generational welfare is not only killing we who pay for their 'free' ride, it's ruined the Black subculture.
I'm not a Republican, but a conservative Independent. Not that it makes any difference I guess, since I generally am forced to vote Republican.
Maybe I'm just a Trumplican lol
For a long time, I was forced to vote against people more than for candidates. Trump's the first candidate I've wholeheartedly endorsed.
We definitely should have freed them - and shipped 'em right back to Africa like Lincoln 'the Hero' wanted to do.
It still would have accomplished the true aim of the Civil War, which was to destroy the wealth and industry of the South.
Yeah I let it run off my back when I hear 'reparations' are due to descendants of slaves. I've been paying for those leeches out of my paychecks for nearly 40 years, and for 20 of those years I struggled and lived in poverty because I chose to work and not be a welfare rat.
They've had their reparations, one of which is freedom and if they're so concerned about their ancestors, they should go back to their country of origin and make those dead people proud, baybay!
I'm glad some of my forebears were brought here, whether as slaves or indentured servants - and I have some of both in my family tree. I also have Native American blood from 2 different lines and White slave owners. The slave owners' wills are actually pretty cool to read imo.
I don't agree with slavery no matter who is enslaved, but I'm fine with knowing who my White ancestors were and what they did. I'm proud to come from a long line of innovative, tough, hard-working men and women with ideals, morals, and initiative.
Slavery was a worldwide, accepted practice back then. Now, it's only widespread in Africa, MidEast, & Asia. We have trafficking here because slavery is illegal - so they do it under the radar. If the 'reparations' crew were truly concerned with slavery, they'd be lobbying our Congress, UN, etc to step in and put it to an end everywhere but they don't care - they just see an opportunity to possibly get more gibs. Money won't change anything for those cretins - it'd be spent in a week by most of them, probably on wheels, guns, shoes, and drugs.
It's easy to see why they were captured & enslaved - they're fuckin' morons. Their dead slave ancestors would likely be ashamed of what they've become.
Bottom line is, here we are in the best country in the world and how we got here or what we did after we got off the boat is irrelevant. Just as I no longer own the land or slaves of my forebears, I also am not living enslaved or as a nomad.
Life's good here. I've seen (and lived in) several countries and cultures. This one is ours, and it's the best. Importing that culture was a bad idea, generational welfare was a bad idea, reparations is a bad idea. Liberia was a good idea but they fucked that up, too.
But please don't disparage my White ancestors for 'perpetrating evil against Blacks' because they didn't. Most slave owners didn't, actually - do you shoot holes in your vehicle, shoot your milk cow, beat your guard dog when it barks at sounds, bend the implements of your tractor so you can't plow, burn your own house down? No, because that would be stupid.
Mistreating your slaves is cutting your own nose off - they were enslaved to work and they couldn't do that effectively if they were starving, injured, sick & left untreated, etc. It's a fallacy that slaves were mere whipping boys. Please don't help spread the fallacy.
There are other things we should concentrate on that pertain to us, and - more importantly - to our future generations and the future of our country. Slavery is dead and has been for over 150 years. Stop blaming 'the White man' or the 'racist Southern Democrats' from whom I descend - along with many who fought and died for the cause on both sides.
We're here now.
Well, the term "whistleblower" has a specific legal meaning and application pertaining to the relationship between employer and employee, so it wouldn't apply to 'outing' the whistleblower.
Yep, their tactic is to - as usual - skew the meaning of words. Not surprising considering they don't know what genders they are today, and if they do figure it out it will likely change tomorrow or next week.
Your last sentence nailed it, imo. They're setting precedence bc all they want is power. Power = $$$ thru their back-door deals, bribes, freebies, etc. How many of them are multi-millionaires after 20, 30, 40, 50 years in our Congress? Not possible on their salaries but welp, there they are. Modern-day royalty under another name.
My God.
That's the first time I've read details of the rape and brutal murder of Mrs. Fuentes. To be perfectly honest, the headline alone upset me & pissed me right the fuck off so I purposely didn't read it.
Now I know Maria Fuentes' name & the extent of her injuries. I'd assumed he'd broken into her house, but now I learn that the animal did it on the street.
Animals, walking our streets and preying on 92 year old women - and God only knows what else. When President Trump talked about rapists coming over ("they're not sending their best") people freaked out when their SJW virtue-signaling sensibilities were offended.
Fuck them and fuck the sons of bitches that allow this to go on. I pray there'll be justice one way, or the other.
Same here - as a woman, believe me when I say there have been times I refrained from slapping the shit out of people.
I refrain from it because I don't want to be treated the same way in return, which is exactly what I'd deserve if I chose to slap the shit out of people.
That would simply drive them back underground from whence they've risen.
I don't associate with Demokrats anyway - there aren't many around here.
We're all working people in my area - ranchers, farmers, and landowners.
Dude. It was largely the Whites in the North who brought the slaves here after buying them from the winning African tribes who captured them for the traders. The slave ships docked in the North - a NY harbor? Can't remember exactly.
Blacks are still enslaved by Muslim Blacks & Arabs to this very day, btw.
Northern Whites certainly weren't opposed to making money by selling their Black cargo.
Even if he were a whistleblower, there's no guarantee of anonymity to whistleblowers.
Think about it - if there was a guarantee of anonymity, anyone in "power" ie, Congress, could say they'd been told anything about anybody and never have to provide proof.
IOW, what Schitt et al did re: Eric Ciaramella.
Talk about a "slippery slope" - the above scenario is probably exactly what the demokrats are trying to set up for future use. How else will they know who should go to the gulag, eh?
Right. On.
Underrated comment.