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JV: I am not MAGA, but I know enough about the history of the world to know these are dangerous times, and we are extremely fortunate to have President Trump at the helm ... Best American president in my lifetime, and yes, I am a Boomer, who remembers the Vietnam War and the Cold War all too well.

Commented: Sunday, September 6th, 2026 @ 9:37 am By: Stan Deatherage

JV, I consider myself a Reagan Republican, not MAGA. I appreciate a lot of what Trump is doing, but I scratch my head at some things. His US senate endorsements in NC and SC are cases in point.

The Iran problem goes all the way back to Jimmy Carter, but during the Reagan era they were not in a position to be much of a threat to us, partly because of Iran and Iraq being at war during a good part of that time.

Here is the fundamental problem. Iran hates us. Its government has led "Death to America" rallies going back to the Carter days. They call us the "Great Satan" and Israel the "Little Satan". A country that is a theocratic dictatorship, calls us the "Great Satan" and constantly proclaims "Death to America" is not one that any sane American would want to have nuclear weapons. Yet Iran is way too close to developing nuclear weapons. Further, the Muslim clique that runs the country is from a cult that believes the world needs to be engulfed in fire in order to bring about the return of the Mahdi, a Muslim religious figure. How better to engulf the world in fire than with nuclear weapons?

Obama and Biden thought they could buy Iran off with lots and lots of cash, but all that did was give Iran resources to build weapons and advance their nuclear ambitions. Iran getting nuclear weapons is a huge danger to our country and to the world. Only those with their heads buried in the sand cannot comprehend that.

One remembers the great Imperial Austrian chancellor von Metternich, who observed a couple of centuries ago that a balance of power peace only worked between true nation-states but could not apply when dealing with a country that was, in his term, an "armed ideology". In his era that was revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. In todays world the Islamo-fascist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is an even better example of an "armed ideology".

It is a heck of a serious problem and not one easy to fix. I do give Trump credit for trying. It is something that is going to bite us in the ass if we don't fix it. The Democrats are just irresponsibly playing politics on this issue.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 8:34 pm By: Conservative Voter

SD: MAGA is now a full blown cult comprised of Boomers who refuse to both go against the script and question anything said by the President or those directly under him.

Anybody who sends Witkoff and Kushner, two MEGA ZIONISTS, to represent American interests is a friggin' idiot. People, such as those two clowns, have been banned from 109+ countries for a reason.

I'm for America First...not Israel First. I don't search under my bed at night for Commies or sleep in my Trump drawers that were made in China. Again, it's mind-blowing that you older cats, in general but not all of you, seem to ignore what's really going on.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 9:39 am By: John Valley

Mayorkas does need to be prosecuted, not only for making a mockery of our immigration laws but for the types of illegal aliens he allowed to pour across the border with his deliberate and intentional malfeasance.

The ultra-violent Venezuelan crime gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) was never present in the US until the traitor Mayorkas opened the border to them. Migrants openly displaying gang tattoos for TdA and the already present Salvadoran violent crime gang MS13 were just waived across the border under Mayorkas. Mayoraas even allowed them to use the "unaccompanied minor" subterfuge to get their gangsters into the US. Now, TdA has even moved its top headquarters from Venezuela to Juarez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from Texas.

then there are the Communist Chinese. Mayorkas allowed thousands of military aged men from our biggest geostrategic adversary into the US with no questions asked. Under their communist government, people are not freely allowed to travel without government permission. These Red Chinese interlopers were landed in Peru, put up in a camp ringed with barbed wire and guarded by gun toting sentries run by China in Panama, then sent north for Mayorkas to let them into the US.

This was all intentional. Mayorkas, a lawyer, could not just be stupid enough to not see what he was letting happen. He has committed high treason and needs to be prosecuted for it.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By: Rino Hunter

No about Iran; that is why they have gone to the streets to protest and many have died trying to deserve a modicum of freedom.

Yes, I would name name myself and Hood for being good, decent, honest, and very competent politicians, but we can NOT do it all by ourselves; nor can those other good politicians in local government, and don't you and others in the electorate ever stop to ask yourselves why we, and others have had so little help over the years in limiting the scope of government, and ending corruption.

Obviously, they like that form of government, or they would stop electing those politician who, conversely, are not good, decent, honest, and very competent politicians.

This is not only a problem on Beaufort County's Board of County Commissioners, but a problem with every governing body in Beaufort County ... So tell me where I am wrong to well understand that the electorate is responsible for their government.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 12:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

JV: I know a grand group of wise of military officers, all retired, that believe what is occurring now in the Persian sector of the Middle East is brilliant regarding the changing the paradigm of Foreign Affairs, ultimately making Americans far more safer at home and abroad.

I don't want my children or grandchildren living in a world where the world's greatest terrorists of our age possess nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 9:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Washingtonian: I have and will continue to do everything I can locally to make government more effective; even getting rid of Limited Voting, which is currently constitutional; however, I am just one Conservative always in search of 3 more ...

But Washingtonian, blaming all good elected leaders, along with the bad, will always help to promote an ignorant electorate, and we just cannot afford that in this Representative Republic, not in these desperate times, because ultimately: The People always get the government they deserve in this Constitutional Republic. It is that simple.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 9:29 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Okay, lets look at what the polls say voters are concerned about. One is crime, and here the GOP has a big advantage. Democrats, including Roy Cooper have a record of being soft on crime, while President Trump has delivered on reducing crime. Illegal immigration is also a big concern, and again Republicans have delivered while Democrats just make the situation worse. Illegal immigration also raises the cost of living in many areas including housing, health care, and insurance.

Inflation is a big issue, and this started galloping out of control under Biden. To really get a handle on this, we need to cut deficit spending, which is a major driver of inflation. A majority of Republicans favor such cuts while almost all Democrats oppose them.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 7:44 pm By: Rino Hunter

Bob is simply a supporter of the globalists. He touches all the globalist bases. He supports the globalist open borders agenda. He supports the globalist climate agenda. He supports the globalist "woke" agenda such as radical gender ideology. Globalism is at its heart a totalitarian ideology that advocates rule by the elite. But Bob is not one of those elite, as he does not get an invitation to Davos, just one of the useful idiots of that movement.

It is also curious that he follows the lead of the globalist media in throwing around the term "extremist". To the globalist media, there is no such thing as an extremist on the left, but if you are even slightly to the right, then in their spiel, you are one. A good example is to look at German politics. To the globalist media the Left Party, which is the old East German Communist Party with a new name, is never called "extreme". Neither are the far left nutters of the Green Party. on On the other hand they constant use that label for the Alternativ fur Deutschland, whose positions on issues are essentially the same as the pre-Merkel Christian Democrats. There is little difference between the policies of the founder of the Christian Democrats, the great postwar German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and those of current AfD leader Alice Weidel. The same is true in the UK, where they fail to call the nutters of the Green Party extreme but apply that label to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party, even though Farage has essentially the same positions on issues as Sir Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.

"Extremist" is a favorite buzzword of the globalists and Bob paints himself as one by throwing it around like he does.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 4:06 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Yeah, Bob, your point here is always that you are this site's resident extremist.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 3:37 pm By: Bubba

I think we have arrived at a "Wag The Dog" scenario here, involving Iran and Israel. President Trump and his administration are trying to sell this war to the public and folks ain't buying it. Taking a page out of Dubya's playbook, rattling on about "weapons of mass destruction", isn't a smart move.

I've often wondered if President Trump is actually playing games with Israel, over Iran, to show how NATO does nothing to Netanyahu but burns everyone else at the stake. Remember, many countries have called for Netanyahu and his minions to be tried in International court for crimes against humanity over several instances.

Israel was also one of the most heavily jabbed countries in the world during COVIDpalooza....biological/chemical warfare on the general public.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 1:32 pm By: John Valley

Voting by mail increases participation and is proven safe and secure.
Trump votes by mail.

Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 1:05 pm By: big Bob