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★ Will this country  "EVER"  come back to one country  ?  Or not.    JUNE 24, 2022.   The Atlantic. ★

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    W Westside Steve wrote on last edited by
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    But (back to the OP)no the country will probably not get much better. Mass media only exaggerates the same kind of s*** that's been going on since the revolution and before. And it's just the natural progression that no country stays on top forever. Sure the Democrats have greased the skids but a lot of people think history began 25 years ago. Hell probably even less.

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      @mjp28 said:

      The Facebook person that had this article posted is a Democrat and really dislikes Trump.....a lot.

      Always a good idea to consider the sources in judging anything. 

      LOL, you forget... If it's not from Red State or Patriot Alerts- it's "FAKE NEWS" here.....   

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      DieHardBrownsFan1D DieHardBrownsFan1 wrote on last edited by
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      @hoorta said:

      LOL, you forget... If it's not from Red State or Patriot Alerts- it's "FAKE NEWS" here.....   

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        @texasag1969 said:

        FIFY!

        Blow me Tex. The Atlantic the New York Times CNN on and on and on are absolutely no better than red state Ammoland and Fox. They just panned her to your stupid f****** hypocritical agenda. They just sell soap and patent medicine to a different demographic.

        WSS

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        @westside-steve said:

        Blow me Tex. The Atlantic the New York Times CNN on and on and on are absolutely no better than red state Ammoland and Fox. They just panned her to your stupid f****** hypocritical agenda. They just sell soap and patent medicine to a different demographic.

        WSS

        That's not true at all and thoughts like yours are very much party of the problem. I wouldn't put Fox as low as Ammooand either. 

        Seems many here not only have a poor perception of bias but also a poor perception of legitimacy. 

        Whether you want to admit it or not CNN (or Fox) has to operate at a higher standard than Ammoland.

        Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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          MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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          Yeah, political division is a problem in this country... And it started with Obamao!

          Yeah, racial tensions are an issue... And that's because of Obamao! (not so subtile)

          There's a lot of political hate in this country.... And the Demonratz started it!

          Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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            MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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            Fuck it. Split the country. Give Trump the south and give Bernie the north. Let Texas be its own country 

            Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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              Oct 27, 2012Racial prejudice in America is more widespread now than when President Barack Obama became the country's first black president in a historic 2008 vote, a new survey has shown. In a poll of racial ...
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              Most say race relations worsened under Obama, poll finds - CNN

              Oct 5, 2016Overall, 54% say relations between blacks and whites have gotten worse since Obama became president, including 57% of whites and 40% of blacks. That's up sharply compared with last June, when 43 ...
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              On Monday, President Barack Obama claimed that his presidency has been a boon for race relations in America, but our evidence suggests otherwise. Advertisement - story continues below. "One of the things that I've consistently said as president is that I'm the president of all people," Obama said during an interview with NBC News host ...
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                townhall.com.icohttps://townhall.com › columnists › johndempsey › 2018 › 11 › 01 › obama-created-the-political-division-not-trump-n2533740

                Obama Created the Political Division, Not Trump - Townhall

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                In his farewell speech-cum-lecture earlier this month, President Barack Obama proclaimed that he made America better by "almost every measure.". The statement goes far beyond optimism, and ...
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                How Obama Left Us More Racially Divided Than Ever

                This is due to his failure to understand two critical truths: 1) Unequal outcomes do not constitute proof of discrimination. Thus policies attempting to produce equal results between groups ...
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                Barack Obama: The Great Divider | The National Interest

                Barack Obama: The Great Divider. Even if Obama cannot solve America's race problem, the power of the presidency ensures that he can make it worse. So far, he has. Had the Obama years turned out ...
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                Deep Racial Divide Remains Under Obama - NBC News

                America's racial divide not only remains but has deepened in some ways over the last six years, despite hopes President Obama's election would usher in a "post-racial" America. IE 11 is ...
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                Most say race relations worsened under Obama, poll finds - CNN

                Oct 5, 2016Overall, 54% say relations between blacks and whites have gotten worse since Obama became president, including 57% of whites and 40% of blacks. That's up sharply compared with last June, when 43 ...
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                Sep 10, 2018Fox Business host Stuart Varney called it a "stretch" for Obama to take credit for the economy. "Today's stellar 4 percent growth is clearly the result of tax cuts and deregulation. That's Trump ...
                 
                 
                 
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                  Fuck it. Split the country. Give Trump the south and give Bernie the north. Let Texas be its own country 

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                  @mld-woody said:

                  Fuck it. Split the country. Give Trump the south and give Bernie the north. Let Texas be its own country 

                  no, that's stupid. Give him all the states he won outright, then give him all the states he would have won except for voter fraud.

                     He won't miss the other states, aren't that many.

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                    DieHardBrownsFan1D DieHardBrownsFan1 wrote on last edited by
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                    Ohio voted for trump.  We get about 80 percent of the country.  Better move!

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                      @westside-steve said:

                      Blow me Tex. The Atlantic the New York Times CNN on and on and on are absolutely no better than red state Ammoland and Fox. They just panned her to your stupid f****** hypocritical agenda. They just sell soap and patent medicine to a different demographic.

                      WSS

                      That's not true at all and thoughts like yours are very much party of the problem. I wouldn't put Fox as low as Ammooand either. 

                      Seems many here not only have a poor perception of bias but also a poor perception of legitimacy. 

                      Whether you want to admit it or not CNN (or Fox) has to operate at a higher standard than Ammoland.

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                      @mld-woody said:

                      That's not true at all and thoughts like yours are very much party of the problem. I wouldn't put Fox as low as Ammooand either. 

                      Seems many here not only have a poor perception of bias but also a poor perception of legitimacy. 

                      Whether you want to admit it or not CNN (or Fox) has to operate at a higher standard than Ammoland.

                      Which actually makes them more Despicable than Ammoland. At least with them you know it's a right wing yeehaw God Bless America site. Nyt pretends to be an impartial news Outlet.

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                          @westside-steve said:

                          Blow me Tex. The Atlantic the New York Times CNN on and on and on are absolutely no better than red state Ammoland and Fox. They just panned her to your stupid f****** hypocritical agenda. They just sell soap and patent medicine to a different demographic.

                          WSS

                          That's not true at all and thoughts like yours are very much party of the problem. I wouldn't put Fox as low as Ammooand either. 

                          Seems many here not only have a poor perception of bias but also a poor perception of legitimacy. 

                          Whether you want to admit it or not CNN (or Fox) has to operate at a higher standard than Ammoland.

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                          VaporTrailV VaporTrail wrote on last edited by VaporTrail
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                          @mld-woody said:

                          That's not true at all and thoughts like yours are very much party of the problem. I wouldn't put Fox as low as Ammooand either. 

                          Seems many here not only have a poor perception of bias but also a poor perception of legitimacy. 

                          Whether you want to admit it or not CNN (or Fox) has to operate at a higher standard than Ammoland.

                          I agree with Steve. The only real difference between those publications is the level of education they are targeting. Pretty much all legacy media is struggling because there has been increasing pressure to publish increasingly narrow, approved narratives. I personally first noticed it during Obama's presidency with the infamous "fist bump or terrorist fist-jab?" headline. Unfortunately, legacy media struggled with the spread of social media, and they followed the Fox News playbook to even greater success from 2016 on.

                          The author of the article brings up legitimate points, but it's annoying to try and find them when most of this excerpt is spent fearmongering about Trump and the people who support him. Independent media is the way to go. For example, this article Peter Zeihan wrote 4 years ago, comes to similar conclusions without having to blame the people who don't agree with him. 

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                            https://redstate.com/levon/2022/07/02/wwii-veteran-breaks-down-in-tears-the-things-we-fought-for-the-boys-that-died-for-it-its-all-gone-down-the-drain-n587731

                            WWII Veteran Breaks Down in Tears: 'The Things We Fought For, The Boys That Died for It, It's All Gone Down the Drain'

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                              @mld-woody said:

                              That's not true at all and thoughts like yours are very much party of the problem. I wouldn't put Fox as low as Ammooand either. 

                              Seems many here not only have a poor perception of bias but also a poor perception of legitimacy. 

                              Whether you want to admit it or not CNN (or Fox) has to operate at a higher standard than Ammoland.

                              I agree with Steve. The only real difference between those publications is the level of education they are targeting. Pretty much all legacy media is struggling because there has been increasing pressure to publish increasingly narrow, approved narratives. I personally first noticed it during Obama's presidency with the infamous "fist bump or terrorist fist-jab?" headline. Unfortunately, legacy media struggled with the spread of social media, and they followed the Fox News playbook to even greater success from 2016 on.

                              The author of the article brings up legitimate points, but it's annoying to try and find them when most of this excerpt is spent fearmongering about Trump and the people who support him. Independent media is the way to go. For example, this article Peter Zeihan wrote 4 years ago, comes to similar conclusions without having to blame the people who don't agree with him. 

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                              MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                              @vaportrail said:

                              I agree with Steve. The only real difference between those publications is the level of education they are targeting. Pretty much all legacy media is struggling because there has been increasing pressure to publish increasingly narrow, approved narratives. I personally first noticed it during Obama's presidency with the infamous "fist bump or terrorist fist-jab?" headline. Unfortunately, legacy media struggled with the spread of social media, and they followed the Fox News playbook to even greater success from 2016 on.

                              The author of the article brings up legitimate points, but it's annoying to try and find them when most of this excerpt is spent fearmongering about Trump and the people who support him. Independent media is the way to go. For example, this article Peter Zeihan wrote 4 years ago, comes to similar conclusions without having to blame the people who don't agree with him. 

                              I'm not disagreeing that they're struggling. I'm not disagreeing that they're going for more sensational headlines to draw viewers (which has happened for a very long time, but you can't say it's gotten worse). I'm not even saying they aren't biased (at whatever level that is). 

                              I'm saying the publications are held to a different standard. Fox isn't Ammoland. CNN isn't ... whatever left wing Ammoland is, Slate? Idk. 

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                                @vaportrail said:

                                I agree with Steve. The only real difference between those publications is the level of education they are targeting. Pretty much all legacy media is struggling because there has been increasing pressure to publish increasingly narrow, approved narratives. I personally first noticed it during Obama's presidency with the infamous "fist bump or terrorist fist-jab?" headline. Unfortunately, legacy media struggled with the spread of social media, and they followed the Fox News playbook to even greater success from 2016 on.

                                The author of the article brings up legitimate points, but it's annoying to try and find them when most of this excerpt is spent fearmongering about Trump and the people who support him. Independent media is the way to go. For example, this article Peter Zeihan wrote 4 years ago, comes to similar conclusions without having to blame the people who don't agree with him. 

                                I'm not disagreeing that they're struggling. I'm not disagreeing that they're going for more sensational headlines to draw viewers (which has happened for a very long time, but you can't say it's gotten worse). I'm not even saying they aren't biased (at whatever level that is). 

                                I'm saying the publications are held to a different standard. Fox isn't Ammoland. CNN isn't ... whatever left wing Ammoland is, Slate? Idk. 

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                                @mld-woody said:

                                I'm not disagreeing that they're struggling. I'm not disagreeing that they're going for more sensational headlines to draw viewers (which has happened for a very long time, but you can't say it's gotten worse). I'm not even saying they aren't biased (at whatever level that is). 

                                I'm saying the publications are held to a different standard. Fox isn't Ammoland. CNN isn't ... whatever left wing Ammoland is, Slate? Idk. 

                                Getting any pussy?  

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                                  @mld-woody said:

                                  I'm not disagreeing that they're struggling. I'm not disagreeing that they're going for more sensational headlines to draw viewers (which has happened for a very long time, but you can't say it's gotten worse). I'm not even saying they aren't biased (at whatever level that is). 

                                  I'm saying the publications are held to a different standard. Fox isn't Ammoland. CNN isn't ... whatever left wing Ammoland is, Slate? Idk. 

                                  Getting any pussy?  

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                                  @diehardbrownsfan1 said:

                                  Getting any pussy?  

                                  only when he changes costumes....

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                                    @mld-woody said:

                                    Fuck it. Split the country. Give Trump the south and give Bernie the north. Let Texas be its own country 

                                    no, that's stupid. Give him all the states he won outright, then give him all the states he would have won except for voter fraud.

                                       He won't miss the other states, aren't that many.

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                                    @calfoxwc said:

                                    no, that's stupid. Give him all the states he won outright, then give him all the states he would have won except for voter fraud.

                                       He won't miss the other states, aren't that many.

                                    And therein lies your whole problem. Neither courts nor DOJ nor even that crazy Sydney now ever found the voter fraud it would take to even make one of those states close to being won by Trump. Evidence never supported it and despite all your crazy posts, never will. You are now a part of his unconstitutional attempt to remain in power because he really is so nuts he can't face being a loser. Stop participating in that delusion and get yourself back to your oath to the Constitution, an oath he has never even attempted to uphold his entire life.

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                                      WWII vet breaks down, says America is no longer the ‘country we fought for'
                                      'DOWN THE DRAIN'

                                      WWII vet breaks down, says America is no longer the ‘country we fought for'

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                                        ★ Will this country   EVER   come back to one country  ?  Or not.    JUNE 24, 2022.   The Atlantic. ★

                                        An article that I saw on Facebook from  The Antlantic magazine  I think it might be at least be partly true.

                                        It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and the chair of the Analyst Institute, a collaborative of progressive groups that studies elections. In a private newsletter that he writes for a small group of activists, Podhorzer recently laid out a detailed case for thinking of the two blocs as fundamentally different nations uneasily sharing the same geographic space.

                                        “When we think about the United States, we make the essential error of imagining it as a single nation, a marbled mix of Red and Blue people,” Podhorzer writes. “But in truth, we have never been one nation. We are more like a federated republic of two nations: Blue Nation and Red Nation. This is not a metaphor; it is a geographic and historical reality.”

                                        To Podhorzer, the growing divisions between red and blue states represent a reversion to the lines of separation through much of the nation’s history. The differences among states in the Donald Trump era, he writes, are “very similar, both geographically and culturally, to the divides between the Union and the Confederacy. And those dividing lines were largely set at the nation’s founding, when slave states and free states forged an uneasy alliance to become ‘one nation.’”

                                        Podhorzer isn’t predicting another civil war, exactly. But he’s warning that the pressure on the country’s fundamental cohesion is likely to continue ratcheting up in the 2020s. Like other analysts who study democracy, he views the Trump faction that now dominates the Republican Party—what he terms the “MAGA movement”—as the U.S. equivalent to the authoritarian parties in places such as Hungary and Venezuela. It is a multipronged, fundamentally antidemocratic movement that has built a solidifying base of institutional support through conservative media networks, evangelical churches, wealthy Republican donors, GOP elected officials, paramilitary white-nationalist groups, and a mass public following. And it is determined to impose its policy and social vision on the entire country—with or without majority support. “The structural attacks on our institutions that paved the way for Trump’s candidacy will continue to progress,” Podhorzer argues, “with or without him at the helm.”

                                        Read: Beware prophecies of civil war

                                        All of this is fueling what I’ve called “the great divergence” now under way between red and blue states. This divergence itself creates enormous strain on the country’s cohesion, but more and more even that looks like only a way station. What’s becoming clearer over time is that the Trump-era GOP is hoping to use its electoral dominance of the red states, the small-state bias in the Electoral College and the Senate, and the GOP-appointed majority on the Supreme Court to impose its economic and social model on the entire nation—with or without majority public support. As measured on fronts including the January 6 insurrection, the procession of Republican 2020 election deniers running for offices that would provide them with control over the 2024 electoral machinery, and the systematic advance of a Republican agenda by the Supreme Court, the underlying political question of the 2020s remains whether majority rule—and democracy as we’ve known it—can survive this offensive.

                                        Podhorzer defines modern red and blue America as the states in which each party has usually held unified control of the governorship and state legislature in recent years. By that yardstick, there are 25 red states, 17 blue states, and eight purple states, where state-government control has typically been divided. ---------- continued ---------->

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                                        Will this country   EVER   come back to one country  ?  Or not.

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                                          https://redstate.com/levon/2022/07/02/wwii-veteran-breaks-down-in-tears-the-things-we-fought-for-the-boys-that-died-for-it-its-all-gone-down-the-drain-n587731

                                          WWII Veteran Breaks Down in Tears: 'The Things We Fought For, The Boys That Died for It, It's All Gone Down the Drain'

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                                          https://redstate.com/levon/2022/07/02/wwii-veteran-breaks-down-in-tears-the-things-we-fought-for-the-boys-that-died-for-it-its-all-gone-down-the-drain-n587731

                                          WWII Veteran Breaks Down in Tears: 'The Things We Fought For, The Boys That Died for It, It's All Gone Down the Drain'

                                          I've seen bits about him on the news and read this article about him here 100 my dad would have been 101 this year they were truly members of the Greatest Generation since our Founding Fathers.   The youngest of 11 children, stayed home to provide for his family. 

                                          Everything about him is just class at the highest level and a farmer from West Virginia where some of my mother's people came from and through. 

                                          I don't think that today's "average"  American could hold a candle from what he came through.   Even my decorated uncle Nick with two bronze stars in Europe from D-Day through the Remargin Bridge to VE Day who was my godfather  -or- my dad who got a bronze star in the Mediterranean had what this guy had devotion to his fellow solders and country.  

                                          To win WWII it took the right stuff by a lot of people.  I'd like to tell Mr. Williams just that a lot of us still remember and care about him.

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