Coming Together...

[TerryRitchie]

I'm in. Lets form the Principled Pete Party. PPP has a ring to it. Not to be confused with the Peter Principle Party.

PPP - Point to Point Pete

TCP - Total Control Pete

IP - Interesting Pete

Change approved!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qatg0WjW_Mc

[Pete]

My first official act will be to allow numbers like 4, 6, and 8 to be included in Amazon Prime Day. Now that's the kind of DEI I'm talking about!

Pete

[dano]

@Dimster

Remember the many instances, in campaign 2020, when Biden claimed to be the candidate who would bring the American people together? He was sworn in as the 46th President and what did he accomplish? Further division. It was just a psychological ploy to appeal to Independent voters, sporting those lovely rose colored glasses. We also experienced this ploy in 2016 from Clinton with her 'Stronger Together' slogan. In reality, it just means we are in power now, so get in line or else. Don't believe the 'or else' part? Well, below are examples from both 'sides...' 

The Patriot Act was enacted to bring us together in the fight against terrorism. It turned out it didn't really help us find Bin Laden, but it did help provide some intel, albeit through some very nasty methods of 'enhanced interrogation.' 

Now let's look in the other direction back to that "Fundamentally transforming" spiel. That sure sounded rosy to our glasses of color folks, but in reality it was just code towards rewriting the Constitution. I switched to 'glasses of color' as a way to poke fun at some serious undermining of our independence that started during that movement. For instance, thought crimes are more likely to get you locked up today than stealing merchandise. Didn't get your classmates pronouns right? Expelled! 

Now let's marry these loss of freedom issues together and see what we got. We saw parents being labeled as 'domestic terrorists' all because they got vocal over the many ways progressive schools have taken control of their children. Ha ha, try to define who 'their' is these days. If that wasn't bad enough the Patriot Act, that never went away, made it such a 'domestic terrorist' charge could have deprived those concerned patriotic parents of their Constitutional rights, and worse. big government equals big control and big control sucks for us folks who love our freedoms.

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NATO: Trump didn't exit NATO in his first term, but he did successfully pressure them to follow the rules and use 2% of their respective GDP to build up their respective military forces. What I can't respect from the Left is the bullshit that Trump will dismantle NATO, Trump's Hitler, Trump will destroy democracy. You have to ask yourself is that just political lies to undermine him, or are they projecting! Maybe the Left has gotten so bad they need exaggerated lies to draw an equal contrast? I swear there should be plenty of Democrats realizing that party has left them. I didn't support that party in 1980, but at least then I had respect for it.

Climate Change: News flash, the climate's been changing, without humans, for billions of years and life still exists. I've seen so many conflicting reports on man made CO2 emissions that I now compare those to the bullshit we were fed by scientists during Covid. Science results bought and paid for to manipulate the public. They're trying to herd the sheep, but not for a good cause. I see The Green New Steal as a movement by rich power hungry globalists, hell bent on acquiring even more wealth and power. In America I see the open border policy as a repeat of the 1970s illegal immigration surge. Businesses routinely hired illegals, during that period,  and payed them less. Today I see us building all the bullshit we don't need because of this made up man made climate bullshit, and now we have the workforce to do it.

Pete

100% agree Pete...could not have said this better myself...(or when I am not being myself either)

[Kernelpanic]

Climate Change: News flash, the climate's been changing, without humans, for billions of years and life still exists. I've seen so many conflicting reports on man made CO2 emissions that I now compare those to the bullshit we were fed by scientists during Covid. Science results bought and paid for to manipulate the public. They're trying to herd the sheep, but not for a good cause. I see The Green New Steal as a movement by rich power hungry globalists, hell bent on acquiring even more wealth and power. In America I see the open border policy as a repeat of the 1970s illegal immigration surge. Businesses routinely hired illegals, during that period,  and payed them less. Today I see us building all the bullshit we don't need because of this made up man made climate bullshit, and now we have the workforce to do it.
Pete

That's true! The climate hysteria reminds me of the itinerant preachers in the Middle Ages who traveled across the land and prophesied the end of the world to people if they didn't stop their carnal sinfulness. It's almost unbelievable what you can read on the forums here about this topic.

Our political idiots and the local media court bards of these idiots are partly to blame for the whole unreal hysteria. Every wind fart is hyped up by the media hysterics as a sign of the end of the world. Hyteric idiots without end!

The climate on earth has never been stable and will never be stable. It was already fluctuating back and forth when no "Image of God" was crawling over it. Well described here, Spektrum der Wissenschaft:

The Sahara in transition
"Ultimately, the changes between the ice ages and warm phases of the past one to two million years can be traced back to small periodic fluctuations in the Earth's orbit around the sun (see "Earth's orbit and ice ages", Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 4/1984, p. 84). The Earth rotates like a top. The other planets and our moon exert forces on it that do not act at its center of gravity. This creates torques that make the Earth's top wobble. Because of this precession, the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit around the sun changes with a period of about 100,000 years. The inclination of the Earth's axis also fluctuates at a rhythm of 41,000 years. In addition, the perihelion, the point in the Earth's orbit closest to the sun, moves in the annual calendar with a double period of 23,000 and 19,000 years."

And: Die Sahara "Wüste" - vor 9000 bis 5000 Jahren

In this country, billions of euros are thrown away to reduce a few CO2 atoms, and then something like this happens  :