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MAGA party and republicans are not the same thing.

Commented: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 @ 1:08 pm By: Big Bob

This reminds me of the analogy: When you find yourself in a hole, it might be wise to stop digging.

Understanding this bit of wisdom, it might be wise for an allegedly corrupt county prosecutor, drop the Racist blame game.

Commented: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 @ 8:09 am By: Stan Deatherage

All I know is I'm tired of the Republicans I vote for being crucified by the official party. It is widely known that local party officers publicly attack conservative Republican office holders all the time. It's incredible that they do that and then ask us to write THEM a check to fund the RINO party that is working against me and my family.

Commented: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 @ 6:41 am By: Van Zant

Hey not to worry. in Florida they are debating a bill that would allow the use of tax payer money to fund trumps legal bills. Tax money for a private citizens legal bills.

You guys are such chumps.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 8:57 pm By: Big Bob

Exactly Steve; however, "insider baseball or no," the term RINO (Republican In Name Only) is not as arcane of a reference any longer. Real people, Real Republicans are becoming well acquainted as to what a RINO has become to us all, and the real damage they are actually responsible for.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By: Stan Deatherage

German conservatives are simply not doing those things you mention, Bob, because the National Socialists (Nazis) and German conservatives have never been on the same page. They were at odds in the Weimar Republic and during the Hitler dictatorship, and modern German conservatives do not have any more use for Hitler or the National Socialists than they did when the National Socialists had a massive political presence in the country.

A good example is how the Nazis treated one of the leading symbols of traditional German conservatism, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was in exile in Holland at Doorn House when the Nazis invaded that country. While he had been at liberty under the Dutch to move around, the Nazis placed him under house arrest under armed guard, and the old kaiser died at Doorn House as a political prisoner of the Nazis during the war. He did not want the Nazis to be able to use him in death for any of their political purposes so he directed in his will that his body was not to be returned to Germany until the monarchy was restored and the Nazis gone. His body remains in the private chapel at Doorn House. House arrest in a nice mansion was better than some of the leaders of the conservative political parties got, as many of them ended up in concentration camps.

The modern far left has a lot more in common with the Nazis than conservatives did or do.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 4:41 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Mountain out of a mole hill.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 2:06 pm By: Big Bob

And yet:
The German penal code prohibits publicly denying the Holocaust and disseminating Nazi propaganda, both off- and online. This includes sharing images such as swastikas, wearing an SS uniform and making statements in support of Hitler.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 1:59 pm By: Big Bob

Don't forget that the things are dangerous. Lithium batteries can spontaneously combust, burn very hot, and spread fire very quickly. London just had two of its electric buses, one full electric and the other hybrid, spontaneously combust and burn up within a day of each other. Paris has also had several do that. They are a death trap.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 2:03 pm By: John Steed

John: It is my well considered opinion that the majority governing the school board is very similar in political /governing ambitions as the majority of the Commissioners ruling Beaufort County.

That is not a tenable condition with so many ten of millions of public dollars being tossed about on a per annum basis.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 10:02 am By: Stan Deatherage

Like most extreme leftists, you are ignorant of history, Bob. Traditional conservatives were at loggerheads with the National Socialist German Peoples Party, the formal name of the Nazis. The last effort to stop the Nazis that might have worked was in 1932 under Chancellor Brunning of the Catholic Center Party where a plan was worked out with the two conservative monarchist parties, the German National Peoples Party and the German Peoples Party to restore the Hohenzollern monarchy in order to stop Hitler. That plan fell apart when the German National Peoples Party insisted on bringing back Wilhelm II while the others wanted to restore the monarchy under his grandson. When the Nazis came to power, both of those two conservative parties were banned along with other traditional conservative parties like the Bavarian Peoples Party and the Peoples Conservative Reich Union. If the von Stauffenberg plot to blow up Hitler at the Wolf's Lair had succeeded, the plotters intended to restore the Hohenzollern monarchy under Prince Louis Ferdinand, the grandson of Wilhelm II. Fascism is more akin to socialism than it is to any true branch of conservatism which is why the Nazis had the term "socialist" in their party name.

In contemporary Germany, it is the parties of the left who are more prone to Nazi-like behavior like limiting free speech.

Commented: Monday, January 22nd, 2024 @ 9:09 am By: Steven P. Rader