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Post by MDDad on Dec 17, 2022 10:08:04 GMT -8
Question, is that for lack of unifying leaders or simply a populous whom no longer wants to be unified? I think it's a combination of both.Who in your opinion the last unifying leader? You'd have to define "unifying". The last two presidents who won landslide elections were Ronald Reagan in 1984 and Richard Nixon in 1972, and I'd call them more polarizing than unifying.And better yet whom of any of the handful of real candidates at this point is a unifier? Nobody.We may be at the point of no return, it would seem to take at this point a catastrophic global event to bring this nation back together. I used to think the same thing. But we had a "catastrophic global event" in 2020 and 2021, and it only served to drive us farther apart. |
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Post by Bick on Dec 19, 2022 9:50:39 GMT -8
I thought Bill Clinton was not a polarizing president. In fact, the first POTUS I recall that was particularly divisive was Obama. The rest seemed to play nice with the other side, at least overtly.
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Post by Bick on Dec 19, 2022 9:52:17 GMT -8
I think Tulsi Gabbard is the closest to being at least tolerated by both sides, but I don't think she's running.
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Post by MDDad on Dec 19, 2022 10:11:36 GMT -8
I think Tulsi Gabbard is the closest to being at least tolerated by both sides, but I don't think she's running. Nobody's officially running yet, except Donald Trump...and he's running backwards. I can see the 2024 presidential debates now. Joe Biden in a wheelchair and attached to an oxygen tank, and Tulsi Gabbard in a string bikini. She would become the first candidate in history to sweep all 535 electoral votes. And then the left would scream she's illegitimate because she was born in Samoa and is a Hindu. |
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Post by Oakley on Dec 19, 2022 14:15:57 GMT -8
MDDad, what do have to say about Joe Biden?
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Post by MDDad on Dec 19, 2022 14:44:48 GMT -8
Joe Biden is a pathetic shell of a man. For 47 years, he's had no political convictions other than survival, and he certainly doesn't have any now that he's senile. His only value is that he is a willing, visible mouthpiece for those on the left who really determine policy and run the federal government, allowing them to remain safely behind the curtains and out of public scrutiny. It's a very sad and dangerous position we are finding ourselves in as a nation.
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Post by tarmac on Jan 4, 2023 8:02:19 GMT -8
McCarthy call Trump for help with the speaker vote. Will it work?
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Post by Bick on Jan 4, 2023 9:03:14 GMT -8
I don't think so. Seems there's an even greater divide away from Trump.
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Post by MDDad on Jan 4, 2023 9:47:50 GMT -8
McCarthy should call Dr. Oz to see what a Trump endorsement is worth.
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Post by Bick on Jan 4, 2023 10:24:36 GMT -8
Now THAT'S funny. He literally couldn't beat a turnip with his endorsement.
Really do need to move on from Trump.
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Post by MDDad on Jan 4, 2023 10:50:52 GMT -8
There's no need to insult turnips, Bick. Honestly, with all due respect to mushbrains like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and with apologies to all stroke victims, John Fetterman has no business getting elected and serving as a national legislator. He is so clearly brain-damaged that he should bow out.
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Post by SK80 on Jan 4, 2023 12:01:03 GMT -8
IF KEVIN IS SMART HE WOULD CALL FETTERMAN'S WIFE SHE WEARS THE PANTS!
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Post by MDDad on Jan 4, 2023 12:30:46 GMT -8
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Post by SK80 on Jan 4, 2023 15:15:53 GMT -8
Three Dogs???
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Post by duke on Jan 11, 2023 16:17:57 GMT -8
I thought Bill Clinton was not a polarizing president. In fact, the first POTUS I recall that was particularly divisive was Obama. The rest seemed to play nice with the other side, at least overtly. Many of my friends believe Obama and his wife were the ones who really were divisive. |
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