Danny Copus

Probably the only unwise thing he ever said … although, let’s be honest, it’s tough to really know exactly what he said, and what’s been simply attributed to his name. Marcus Aurelius was not a communist. This sounds more like Karl Marx. Money isn’t ours? Possessions aren’t ours? Yes, they absolutely are. And they can be passed on to future generations. So, yeah, people do have something to lose. Some of us more than others, but all of us in some way. Even the time that is given to us, is lost with every second that passes. And even though we do not possess our family and friends, when we lose them, we certainly lose something. Marcus Aurelius was a very wise man, perhaps the wisest of all of the ancient Romans, but there are better, smarter, more thoughtful, deeper quotes. I hope not too many walk away from this one believing it, because nothing could be further from the truth. We shouldn’t need to devalue such things in order to be fearless. There’s nothing brave about moving forward with something if you have nothing to lose. Bravery is moving forward with something when you know you have something to lose, but you do it anyway. Big difference.

It kinda feels like this election was all about proving that just because America is in many ways awesome, and just because everyone who came here from other countries for the World Cup absolutely loved it, we are still capable of total dumbassery. Look at and listen to some of these Democrat candidates who won tonight. Who is voting for these loons? It just goes to show you how bad Donald Trump’s character and policies are. The man gets some things right, but when he gets it wrong, it is always beyond idiotic. To no surprise, people voted against idiocy by voting in more idiots. Brilliant stuff, America. Our democratic republic has not given us good results for a very long time. That’s fall of empire vibes. Not good.

The left won today, because the President is a dumbass. But, make no mistake, the left is not the answer.

Well put. Unfortunately, Trump blew it for his Party with dumbassery in Iran and with ICE. Doing the right and smart thing was so easy, and that’s what makes it so pathetic that this Administration failed. They should have attacked Iran when the people of Iran were rising up a year and a half ago. Or, at least wait until after the midterms. There was no imminent threat. As for ICE, they should have gone only after people who’d committed crimes after immigrating here, not people who were simply here illegally. Our entire immigration process is idiotic, And yet we do this to the good people who are actually keeping our communities going? Most of the housekeepers in hotels, most of the cooks in restaurants, almost all of the people picking the food on your plate in the field before it ever arrived to the grocery store, are Latino, and most didn’t get here legally. Don’t tell me they’re taking “our” jobs either, because most reading this would never do those jobs, particularly the last one. They are literally what is keeping this place going, they are keeping the machine moving, and without them, we would be broke as an economy. Why would we want to interrupt that? Why would we want to burden businesses with having to worry about whether or not they’re going to have their employees taken from them, and then have to go out and get someone to fill jobs that nobody else wants? Why would we want to slow down an economy as we come out of a pandemic only to scare people again from going out and spending money at restaurants and malls, not for fear this time of catching a deadly virus, but instead for fear of being caught themselves and snatched up and sent a thousand miles or more from everyone they know and love? Absolutely moronic political policy. Yeah, they should have come legally, just like those who are waiting across the world for American visas, but don’t be so damn disconnected, use your head, put some thought into this, not everyone is an educated European in Rome or Singapore waiting because they know the process, and have a place to go to fill out the paperwork. Some of these people coming from Latin America are some of the least educated people in the world, and simply don’t know the process. And for those people who do know and who come anyway, out of desperation, you can’t expect these people to wait 5 years for a damn visa. Why are we doing this to people who want to come and make a positive difference in our communities? Keep out the Somalian fraudsters taking advantage of the system, but bring in the good ones who plan to open an awesome restaurant, or work at the dry cleaners, or be a nurse. Why are we not vetting people better? We are so damn lazy when it comes to immigration. That alone is reason enough for people to check themselves before they speak up on this topic. Most people have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to this issue. Nobody in Washington DC does, that’s for damn sure. Not even the people in the border states do. Everyone has been completely clueless on this. It is literally the most easily solvable issue that we face, and yet we can’t do it because everyone is either thinking like a jerk and not acknowledging how important these people are to our literal everyday lives, or the opposite side thinks everyone in the world has a right to live here. No they don’t. We must consider our own diverse citizenry and CULTURE first. Others might get the privilege to come, but our citizens are the only ones who have a right to be here. Trump’s Iran and ICE policies didn’t make sense for the economy, nor for political strategy. Just dumb stubborn disconnected men thinking with their guts and balls instead of their minds and souls. Sorry, but I think that’s accurately put. We need smarter people in government. Voting for Democrat isn’t going to do that. But recognizing a fool, even if he’s a Republican, is an important step towards getting better people in office next time.

If you vote for one, you empower them all. This is what all of the liberals in America are voting for. You might not be intending to vote to empower people like this and communists like AOC and Mamdani, but that’s exactly what you’re doing. A growing number of people are too thoughtless to be voting. When dumb people and bad people choose who our lawmakers will be, and those lawmakers are also dumb and bad, how does this make a better society? Hint: it doesn’t. Having said that, this all comes down to Trump. People who only criticize him are wrong. He does some things correctly. People who only praise him are also wrong. He definitely does some things incorrectly. However, when he does something incorrect, it’s generally a doozy, and that’s exactly what the war in Iran and the ICE policy has been. What a fool. He lost his Party’s control of Congress because he was too damn arrogant and dumb to realize the folly of his ways.

This might be an unpopular take, but damn. Americans - mostly Americans - are obsessed with this nonsense … pushing the body to extremes. And, for what? Who cares that you can run a marathon, or lift 300 pounds over your head, or can climb the side of a mountain? Work out, play tennis or golf, be healthy, eat right, and have a glass of wine at night and a croissant in the morning. Take it down a notch and do some tai chi. The human body wasn’t made to run 26 miles. Can certain people across the world do this? Yes, because their genetics allow them to. But, this is not a matter of mind over matter. Your body is what it is, and for 99% of people out there, you’re not made for this, and you’re certainly not supposed to be doing it even if you are. Not to say someone died in vain, but what is really the point of this American obsession with physical extremes, as if we’re the Spartans and don’t know the risks and are training for war. Sad that someone has lost a beautiful life for this. Such a shame.

This one’s to you, Spencer … I have always thought that everything should come down to one day, because people are voting and a month is going by and candidates can say and do things that would change minds, but you can’t take back your vote. I don’t know how we became do completely clueless with our voting process in America, but it is really, really bad. Having said that, Spencer, as bad as it is that El-Sayed avoided that question in the way that he did, the fact that you’re calling him “Elf” is exactly why you lost in LA, and exactly why Democrats are winning. You called Karen Bass, Karen Basura (the word for trash, in Spanish), taking inspiration from Trump and all of his immature name-calling, but people don’t want that obnoxious juvenile nonsense. People want someone serious and they want someone decent, otherwise they’re going to vote just how they’ve always voted. All you had to do was be the adult in the room, to convince a city of people who knew their city was in decline, to give you their vote to fix it. But, you created a character who was exactly opposite of what those people needed, and that’s why you lost. Yes, they cheated, but you gave them exactly the stereotype that they’ve been voting against for decades. You thought you were something new, but you weren’t, at least not to them. You were just a different version of the same thing. If you want to change MINDS, you’ve got to change THINGS.

This is so spot on, and exactly what I have said many many times. The difference between liberalism and conservatism is structure. A liberal, the word derived from the Latin word “liber”, meaning “free”, forms an ideology that sees social norms as unnecessary constraints, whereas the conservative, the word of which is derived from the Latin word “conservare”, meaning "to keep, guard, or preserve", values such norms as wisdom and guidance passed down from generations past, to guide new generations towards a better life and future. One sees themselves as tearing down walls, and the other sees themselves as building bridges. One is writing the book, and the other is ripping up the pages … and maybe writing their own, nevertheless, losing what came before them. Which one sounds more humble to you? Which one sounds wiser to you? We need a little bit of both, we can’t just do things because that’s how they were always done, nor can we dismiss all of the wisdom that has come before us. But, when people cancel one another just because they don’t think alike, or when people get out onto the streets and disrupt everyone else’s day because they think that they’re so right about something that they have to march and yell, or when they take a gun and think that they must use it to silence the voice of someone who simply opposes them, where is the freedom in that? Structure helps prevent this. Structure can also go too far, but real structure doesn’t allow itself to. Get it now?

Badass.

Vote Republican. 🇺🇸🐘

We are not a real democratic republic. Voting has been turned into total nonsense. Uninformed/misinformed people, who know nothing about the issues at hand are told to “rock the vote”. How are we supposed to build a better society when people who are ignorant or misinformed about the issues/candidate , are voting about those issues/candidates? People can just vouch for the legitimacy of other people (no verification of citizenship at all)? Establishing a photo ID is literally the simplest thing that this country could do just start to legitimize the voting process, and the only ones who don’t want to do it are the Democrats, so don’t you ask yourself why that might be? Are we really so stupid or dishonest as a society that we can’t answer that question sincerely? Obviously biased people are hand-counting ballots? And, ballots are mailed several weeks in advance, allowing just anyone to fill them out and forge a signature? What the actual hell are we doing???

Sadly, this is not a fringe example of the youth on the left. The Democrats and the media have radicalized half of an entire generation. Unfortunately, Trump hasn’t helped matters either. We are being completely failed by our politicians and the real “elites”, the ones who control and manipulate information.

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