Have you seen what Ron Paul is saying?

Salinsky wrote:The sad thing is there are people eager to believe his nonsense.

It's about being so powerless and impotent in their own lives that they fill the void with this hogwash.

If you are a total loser in the game of life, but you have guns, ammo and your apocalyptic shelter in the backwoods filled with seeds, canned goods, gas masks, etc., you are hoping for Armageddon so that you will finally be a winner, the one everyone is envious of and whom everyone looks up to as being the smartest.

You'll go out and hunt for food, gun in hand, and the tables will be turned.

Maybe, you can even save a damsel in distress and finally get some.

The successful guy with the nice house, hot wife, good job, and nice car will have to beg you for food.

That's their fantasy, and the Ron Paul types are laughing all the way to the bank with it.

Bob wrote:you start to develop a sense of who are the con men and who are the true believers.  Trust me,  Ron Paul is one of the latter.

Bob wrote:

Salinsky wrote:The sad thing is there are people eager to believe his nonsense.

It's about being so powerless and impotent in their own lives that they fill the void with this hogwash.

If you are a total loser in the game of life, but you have guns, ammo and your apocalyptic shelter in the backwoods filled with seeds, canned goods, gas masks, etc., you are hoping for Armageddon so that you will finally be a winner, the one everyone is envious of and whom everyone looks up to as being the smartest.

You'll go out and hunt for food, gun in hand, and the tables will be turned.

Maybe, you can even save a damsel in distress and finally get some.

The successful guy with the nice house, hot wife, good job, and nice car will have to beg you for food.

That's their fantasy, and the Ron Paul types are laughing all the way to the bank with it.

You'll have to admit,  teo, that even if your politics is totally opposite from that of Sal,  he does have a way with words.  lol

But no,  I don't think Ron Paul is a con man,  Sal.  I've been studying con men all my life,  especially the radio and tv evangelists (both religious and political).  And from all that,  you start to develop a sense of who are the con men and who are the true believers.  Trust me,  Ron Paul is one of the latter.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:My oldest grandson had dinner with Ted Nugent a while back...LOL.

Bob wrote:I'm not a prepper like teo,  Sal.  But I'm not like you either.

I don't have this religious like faith that just because Obama or some other democrat politician is at the helm,  that everything is going to be sweetness and light and we'll all live happily ever after.

I see so many indications that this country is really in a weird state right now.   And to try to predict where it's all going is way too complex and confusing to reduce this down to being simply a matter of which of these two political parties is in charge.  But of course I realize people like you and markle will never accept that.

I use to think there were a lot fewer out here like me.   But this election is proving that I'm not alone.  

Bob wrote:Actually,  it's about his poppa Ron Paul.  Who is now predicting a coming financial armegeddon.  He's created this website and is promoting it with tv ads (I just watched one).
But Ron and Rand are joined at the hip and they're lockstep on everything.  So Rand would totally endorse this.  

http://ronpaulmessage.com/

Markle wrote:

Rand Paul has taken it down a couple notches from his dad, Ron Paul.  Ron was far more the confirmed Libertarian than his son APPEARS, but I don't know what is in his heart.

Salinsky wrote:

Bob wrote:I'm not a prepper like teo,  Sal.  But I'm not like you either.

I don't have this religious like faith that just because Obama or some other democrat politician is at the helm,  that everything is going to be sweetness and light and we'll all live happily ever after.

I see so many indications that this country is really in a weird state right now.   And to try to predict where it's all going is way too complex and confusing to reduce this down to being simply a matter of which of these two political parties is in charge.  But of course I realize people like you and markle will never accept that.

I use to think there were a lot fewer out here like me.   But this election is proving that I'm not alone.  

Equating me to Markle is really quite insulting and would be cutting if it were true, but it's not because of one word ...

... policy.

I support specific policy positions like pursuing diplomacy over invading and occupying other nations, like the expansion of equality to all over oppressing minorities, like addressing income inequality over endless tax cuts for those who need them least, like giving people access to the healthcare system over letting poor people languish in the ER waiting rooms, like valuing academia and science over using ignorance as a political cudgel, like reforming the criminal justice system so everyone gets a fair shake over the War on Drugs and broken window policing that preys on impoverished neighborhoods, like immigration reform that rewards hardworking people over making the Mexicans build a YOOOGE wall with a beautiful door in it, like structuring our elections so they reflect the will of the electorate over gerrymandering and suppressing the vote of specific demographics, like allowing women and their doctors to make medical decisions over valuing a clump of cells more than the woman carrying them.

I could go on, but you get the drift.

Markle can't really name any policies he supports other than the YOOOGE wall and anything the opposite of what Obama proposes.

I think the Democrats are a bunch of spineless reprobates in the pockets of Wall Street.

But, I think the modern conservative movement, fueled by willful ignorance and white privilege, is something much, much more sinister.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:Sal pracitices his namesakes rules very well....

radical rule..* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

PkrBum wrote:You have no read on Teo... you don't know him.