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Heard there's still 800k votes out there

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Yeah and the candidates are only separated by 200,000 so hold on here there's still hope

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WTF - FOX is now getting ready to broadcast remarks from Joe Biden !! ??
 

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Az is back on track WTF????
 

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This just in:
Arizona Republican Governor and GOP Leadership Says It is Too Early to Call State After FOX News Calls It for Biden – Update: Fox debating retraction
 

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Az is back on track WTF????

Fox analyst that called it is on trying to explain why he called it so early. Lol

Thoigh his explanation is strong. Still doesn’t look good for az
 

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Fuck man. That's all I can say

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R’s have a very large registration advantage especially in Maricopa County the largest county.

R voters crossed over.

The issue is UNCOUNTED VOTES AND FOX NEWS CALLING AZ TOO SOON
 

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Newsmax just said there is still one million votes to be counted in Arizona!
 

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Biden is losing and they woke him up to tell his libtards they’re not giving up. They’re in trouble and are scrambling to keep people optimistic and

they need to keep the rioters energized
 

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At least we have better weather. 🤣
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Fox analyst that called it is on trying to explain why he called it so early. Lol

Thoigh his explanation is strong. Still doesn’t look good for az

I just hope it doesn't turn into a double jeopardy scenario.
Biden wins Arizona and that lights the match for the POTUS election win too.
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Governor Doug Ducey’s office is reporting at least 900,000 ballots - mostly from Maricopa county have yet to be counted and they’re breaking 2-to-1 in favor of Trump in AZ and across the US.
 

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Trump can absolutely still win Arizona and the election.

But it will unlikely change in Arizona the tax increase, the loss of another Senate seat to the D’s or the loss of at least one of the two chambers of the state legislature. ☹️
 

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Trump can absolutely still win Arizona and the election.

But it will unlikely change in Arizona the tax increase, the loss of another Senate seat to the D’s or the loss of at least one of the two chambers of the state legislature. ☹️
Waaa waaaaaaa. Maybe you should have spent the last 4 years with your energies directed toward Arizona instead of moving your businesses from China to Vietnam, and helping the right win your state.
 

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Rod, I am only going to play your game this one time. Once. There is no point in having this conversation with you because you are lost. You are a Believer. The answers will make not one iota of an impact on you. This is the last time I will waste my time with you. Nothing personal, I just don't have time for you.

Some of these things we need to do because parents are shirking their responsibility to lead. We are so far down the path that we have generations of citizens who don't know how to raise their kids any other way, I know, I have talked to them. They have been sucked into the maw of the system and want to get their kids out, but don't know how to do it.
Sad, disgusting, and infuriating.

-We should teach Citizenship again. Look it up.
-We should teach Civics again. Look it up.
-We need to teach the values of Personal Responsibility, Accountability, and the core value of truth, which is not the "truth" we see in the mainstream media today.
We need to make communism and socialism the dirty words they were (and that our military has died fighting against, all over the world )by teaching the repeated failures of places like Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, and all the other third world countries in the world.
-We need to teach the truth.
-We need a serious education program on critical thinking skills, one that teaches the concept, demonstrates the skills, and tests for results.
-We need teach the value of personal achievement, how to win with humility and how to lose with grace.
Much of the above can be done in civics classes.
We need to examine the cult of victim hood, the insanity that Americans have a right or expectation to go through life without being offended. Examine it and crush it for the socailst scam it is. Americans know when one of their own has been victimized, and we rally around them through family, friends, and local organizations. This needs to be exposed for the fraud it is.
This is critical. This began with the "Everyone gets a trophy no score will be kept" horse manure that arose in the 80's.
America likes winners. We celebrate winners. This is not a bad thing.
We need to lift kids up. Give them hope, show them the way. Help them find something they are good at and lift them into that place, give them something to strive for, not beat them down. Our youngest son was shuffled into the victim slot due to issues at birth. We refused it. We were told to be prepared to raise a severely disabled child, who would probably never tie his own shoes. My wife and I said no. There were kids and parents in that hospital who fit that criteria, and whose heartbreaking stories needed support. We did not.
He is now 32, has a great job and is raising 3 great kids. When he was two and was checked by the head doc at UCD the doc was gobsmacked. When he was 5 we released his records for teaching. "Your son is a miracle, sir. "
Yes.
(We prayed alot....and there is another thing. We need to stop the assault on religion.)
If we pare down the "victim" BS the funding can be sent to those who need it.
-We need to be bring the the US Constitution in the classroom, and teach it again. Really teach it. Celebrate it. Revere it. Strt teaching it in the 3rd grade, and continue throoughout the rest of the years to graduation. And then test it in the 8th grade, which was done here locally until about two years ago.
Test them again prior to graduation.
We don't need to have our children indoctrinated into a Marxist society. In fact, we need to point out, repeatedly, in these civics and history classes, that we are the country they all turn to for help when they can't buy food, or raise food, or their crops fail or their society fails.
We are not some evil empire.
We need to teach the values of hard work, of achievement. We need to teach American Exceptionalism again, not a pack of lies about how evil the country is. We do need to teach about our warts, we learn from mistakes. We have made a hell of a lot of mistakes, but no country on earth has sacrificed its blood and treasure for freedom and the destruction of tyranny in the history of mankind like the United states has.
We need to celebrate that fact, not hide it.
We need to teach and test for skills in basic arithmetic and reading and writing, and US History.
We need young people capable of functioning in a free society the skills to do so as they leave the public education system.
Teachers who do not teach their children these skills based on test scores should be fired. Teachers need to lead by example, and demonstrate the core values for their students. Lead by example. Be held to a standard.
A teacher standing in front of a classroom has tremendous authority and power. Teachers need to be held to a much higher standard in every way. A smirk here, a comment there, these can impact a young mind. Teachers need to keep their personal politics and beliefs OUT of the classroom, period. I wnet round and round on a regular basis with history and civics teachers from 9th grade into college. I called them on their BS and agendas. They did not like it. Tough.

We need to teach children in American schools in the English language, with a reasonable path to learn it, free of charge, for immigrants. Without incentive to learn the language they won't learn it.
We need to go back to what worked before you and your ilk infested the public education system with lies, damn lies, and propaganda.

As a cop, Rod, I have seen the results of the current education system, and the socialist programs you support, throughout my career. I saw the dismal failure it brought. The hopelessness, the lake of personal desire for success, the abject loss of human spirit your party feeds on.
I saw it the back seat of my cop car, in the morgue, and spent hours talking to inmates in the jails.
In other words, I know what the real world looks like after 40 years of this Socialist Marxist propaganda mess we have let damn near destroy the country.
I am one of those guys, Rod. One who has seen it for what it is. One of the guys who did the dirty work and the clean up in the aftermath.
I know what I speak is the truth, because I freaking lived it. I have taken incoming rounds from the failures your party has nurtured.
I have sat in the courtrooms as the real victims of crime turned and look at me and asked what happened when suspect, a crook multi convicted felon is made out to be a victim of something...anything...other than what they really are.
A criminal, raised in an infested shithole of a city, run by people you support, in a system you think needs more money to do the exact same thing, in an endless spiral down the drain to the Socialist Nirvana you and yours want. If anything, Rod, they are victims of the democrat rulers in most of the cities they live in.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
This is the definition of California's history over the last 40 years. People keep electing the Socialists, and expect them to fix things, to improve the quality of life as the slide down the drain to Progressive/Marxist Hell continues. They just cant grasp the concept that fixing things isn't what these people do...they are always just one tax, one power grab, one more liberty stolen from us away from that "fix".

I have complete sets of three of the major written encyclopedias. One from 1958, one from the mid 60's, and one from 1976 that includes year books from 76 through 1990. My granddaughter does not use the recommended "literature" the school suggests for her research, she seeks the truth. She is only in 6th grade and I am teaching her critical thinking skills. The truth, facts, the stuff the media avoids.
President Trump has been nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize. When was the last time you saw that fact mentioned in the mainstream media?
President Trump has brokered peace deals between countries that have not had normalized relations in over 100 years...in some cases, never.
Any media coverage?
Truth. Honesty. Traditional American values that served the nation for most of it's life. American exceptionalism.
It is real, or this world would be a much darker, more evil place.

We need to return to teaching these things.
That is all I can think of right now, and more energy than I wanted to expend on your question, because I know that it will change nothing. You are one of the True Believers. I will leave you with this.
You and I...we don't matter. We are older and have lived most of our lives. It is the country we leave our children and grandchildren that I worry about. It is where this land will be when we are gone that I lose sleep about. Where America goes so goes the world, without a free strong and solvent United States this world will quickly devolve further into chaos.
I plan to see to it that the youngsters in my family are at least able to identify the Progressive/Socialist/Marxists quickly, and be fully aware of the danger they represent to a free world in general and the United states in particular I want them to understand the a Commmunist is in many respects a Socialist who has simply run out of legal ways to get other peoples money to feed their machine. I want them to be able to defeat that failed system at every corner, to hold up the good that is America, and defend it from those people who would hurt her, and drive her towards disaster.
 

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Trump can absolutely still win Arizona and the election.

But it will unlikely change in Arizona the tax increase, the loss of another Senate seat to the D’s or the loss of at least one of the two chambers of the state legislature. ☹


You're right. But isn't this what you wanted?
 

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So whats the deal with Maricopa county? Way more D votes in 2020 then in 2016?
 

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I love Bullhead, AZ. Planned on retiring there and making AZ conservative and protecting our 2A and religious freedoms. If AZ turns on Trump, I will be making new plans and putting some property on the market. Good luck Patriots....praying for a red AZ.

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Rod, I am only going to play your game this one time. Once. There is no point in having this conversation with you because you are lost. You are a Believer. The answers will make not one iota of an impact on you. This is the last time I will waste my time with you. Nothing personal, I just don't have time for you.

Some of these things we need to do because parents are shirking their responsibility to lead. We are so far down the path that we have generations of citizens who don't know how to raise their kids any other way, I know, I have talked to them. They have been sucked into the maw of the system and want to get their kids out, but don't know how to do it.
Sad, disgusting, and infuriating.

-We should teach Citizenship again. Look it up.
-We should teach Civics again. Look it up.
-We need to teach the values of Personal Responsibility, Accountability, and the core value of truth, which is not the "truth" we see in the mainstream media today.
We need to make communism and socialism the dirty words they were (and that our military has died fighting against, all over the world )by teaching the repeated failures of places like Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, and all the other third world countries in the world.
-We need to teach the truth.
-We need a serious education program on critical thinking skills, one that teaches the concept, demonstrates the skills, and tests for results.
-We need teach the value of personal achievement, how to win with humility and how to lose with grace.
Much of the above can be done in civics classes.
We need to examine the cult of victim hood, the insanity that Americans have a right or expectation to go through life without being offended. Examine it and crush it for the socailst scam it is. Americans know when one of their own has been victimized, and we rally around them through family, friends, and local organizations. This needs to be exposed for the fraud it is.
This is critical. This began with the "Everyone gets a trophy no score will be kept" horse manure that arose in the 80's.
America likes winners. We celebrate winners. This is not a bad thing.
We need to lift kids up. Give them hope, show them the way. Help them find something they are good at and lift them into that place, give them something to strive for, not beat them down. Our youngest son was shuffled into the victim slot due to issues at birth. We refused it. We were told to be prepared to raise a severely disabled child, who would probably never tie his own shoes. My wife and I said no. There were kids and parents in that hospital who fit that criteria, and whose heartbreaking stories needed support. We did not.
He is now 32, has a great job and is raising 3 great kids. When he was two and was checked by the head doc at UCD the doc was gobsmacked. When he was 5 we released his records for teaching. "Your son is a miracle, sir. "
Yes.
(We prayed alot....and there is another thing. We need to stop the assault on religion.)
If we pare down the "victim" BS the funding can be sent to those who need it.
-We need to be bring the the US Constitution in the classroom, and teach it again. Really teach it. Celebrate it. Revere it. Strt teaching it in the 3rd grade, and continue throoughout the rest of the years to graduation. And then test it in the 8th grade, which was done here locally until about two years ago.
Test them again prior to graduation.
We don't need to have our children indoctrinated into a Marxist society. In fact, we need to point out, repeatedly, in these civics and history classes, that we are the country they all turn to for help when they can't buy food, or raise food, or their crops fail or their society fails.
We are not some evil empire.
We need to teach the values of hard work, of achievement. We need to teach American Exceptionalism again, not a pack of lies about how evil the country is. We do need to teach about our warts, we learn from mistakes. We have made a hell of a lot of mistakes, but no country on earth has sacrificed its blood and treasure for freedom and the destruction of tyranny in the history of mankind like the United states has.
We need to celebrate that fact, not hide it.
We need to teach and test for skills in basic arithmetic and reading and writing, and US History.
We need young people capable of functioning in a free society the skills to do so as they leave the public education system.
Teachers who do not teach their children these skills based on test scores should be fired. Teachers need to lead by example, and demonstrate the core values for their students. Lead by example. Be held to a standard.
A teacher standing in front of a classroom has tremendous authority and power. Teachers need to be held to a much higher standard in every way. A smirk here, a comment there, these can impact a young mind. Teachers need to keep their personal politics and beliefs OUT of the classroom, period. I wnet round and round on a regular basis with history and civics teachers from 9th grade into college. I called them on their BS and agendas. They did not like it. Tough.

We need to teach children in American schools in the English language, with a reasonable path to learn it, free of charge, for immigrants. Without incentive to learn the language they won't learn it.
We need to go back to what worked before you and your ilk infested the public education system with lies, damn lies, and propaganda.

As a cop, Rod, I have seen the results of the current education system, and the socialist programs you support, throughout my career. I saw the dismal failure it brought. The hopelessness, the lake of personal desire for success, the abject loss of human spirit your party feeds on.
I saw it the back seat of my cop car, in the morgue, and spent hours talking to inmates in the jails.
In other words, I know what the real world looks like after 40 years of this Socialist Marxist propaganda mess we have let damn near destroy the country.
I am one of those guys, Rod. One who has seen it for what it is. One of the guys who did the dirty work and the clean up in the aftermath.
I know what I speak is the truth, because I freaking lived it. I have taken incoming rounds from the failures your party has nurtured.
I have sat in the courtrooms as the real victims of crime turned and look at me and asked what happened when suspect, a crook multi convicted felon is made out to be a victim of something...anything...other than what they really are.
A criminal, raised in an infested shithole of a city, run by people you support, in a system you think needs more money to do the exact same thing, in an endless spiral down the drain to the Socialist Nirvana you and yours want. If anything, Rod, they are victims of the democrat rulers in most of the cities they live in.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
This is the definition of California's history over the last 40 years. People keep electing the Socialists, and expect them to fix things, to improve the quality of life as the slide down the drain to Progressive/Marxist Hell continues. They just cant grasp the concept that fixing things isn't what these people do...they are always just one tax, one power grab, one more liberty stolen from us away from that "fix".

I have complete sets of three of the major written encyclopedias. One from 1958, one from the mid 60's, and one from 1976 that includes year books from 76 through 1990. My granddaughter does not use the recommended "literature" the school suggests for her research, she seeks the truth. She is only in 6th grade and I am teaching her critical thinking skills. The truth, facts, the stuff the media avoids.
President Trump has been nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize. When was the last time you saw that fact mentioned in the mainstream media?
President Trump has brokered peace deals between countries that have not had normalized relations in over 100 years...in some cases, never.
Any media coverage?
Truth. Honesty. Traditional American values that served the nation for most of it's life. American exceptionalism.
It is real, or this world would be a much darker, more evil place.

We need to return to teaching these things.
That is all I can think of right now, and more energy than I wanted to expend on your question, because I know that it will change nothing. You are one of the True Believers. I will leave you with this.
You and I...we don't matter. We are older and have lived most of our lives. It is the country we leave our children and grandchildren that I worry about. It is where this land will be when we are gone that I lose sleep about. Where America goes so goes the world, without a free strong and solvent United States this world will quickly devolve further into chaos.
I plan to see to it that the youngsters in my family are at least able to identify the Progressive/Socialist/Marxists quickly, and be fully aware of the danger they represent to a free world in general and the United states in particular I want them to understand the a Commmunist is in many respects a Socialist who has simply run out of legal ways to get other peoples money to feed their machine. I want them to be able to defeat that failed system at every corner, to hold up the good that is America, and defend it from those people who would hurt her, and drive her towards disaster.
Flyinbowtie 2024!
I have 1 graduating this year, a freshman and a 7th grader. What they're learning in school about communism and socialism is truly disgusting. What they learn from me, and my books is much more involved. My daughter is trying hard to get into a service academy, to both gain education, and serve our country. My two boys want to do the same...my kids are far better humans than myself. Kids today have no "honor" in general, no pride. We need more that want to be better, not settle. A youth willing to give and not take.
 

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R’s have a very large registration advantage especially in Maricopa County the largest county.

R voters crossed over.
I call bullshit. I just don't think all of the R votes are counted yet because wr don't trust the USPS and we hand delivered them. Time will tell.
 

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I was surprised by AZ. Especially that fox called It first.

the election is not over. It could go either way. I’m a little surprised at the lack of optimism on RDP.

but I will say if trump loses its his own fault The majority of people don’t like bullies or assholes. He may have pushed people too far.

but still to early to call. But he just said he’s going to sue so he’s not that optimistic or is just prepping just in case. Time will tell. Crazy 2020.
 

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I call bullshit. I just don't think all of the R votes are counted yet because wr don't trust the USPS and we hand delivered them. Time will tell.

I heard on the news that Az counts it's votes as 1st in 1st out which means that early votes get counted first.


"The first release of unofficial election results at 8 p.m. on Election Night will only include early ballots, according to Maricopa County Recorder's Office spokesperson Megan Gilbertson. Election Day ballots are tabulated in each Vote Center and will be reported throughout the night. Starting on Nov. 4, the county will post updated unofficial results each day at 7 p.m. until all ballots are counted.
The first batch of results from early ballots will likely lean Democratic, with Election Day ballots leaning Republican. Expect changes in the race leader throughout the night.
If it's a tight race, we likely won't know the winner for a few days."
 
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You fags always talking shit about Cali....lol....get yer peeps together mutha fuckas!!😂😂😂

We have it together the incoming changed it, just like the pine beetle changed the forest.

Prop 208 passed doubling state income tax for 250/500k earners, start the wealth exodus.

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Rod, I am only going to play your game this one time. Once. There is no point in having this conversation with you because you are lost. You are a Believer. The answers will make not one iota of an impact on you. This is the last time I will waste my time with you. Nothing personal, I just don't have time for you.

Some of these things we need to do because parents are shirking their responsibility to lead. We are so far down the path that we have generations of citizens who don't know how to raise their kids any other way, I know, I have talked to them. They have been sucked into the maw of the system and want to get their kids out, but don't know how to do it.
Sad, disgusting, and infuriating.

-We should teach Citizenship again. Look it up.
-We should teach Civics again. Look it up.
-We need to teach the values of Personal Responsibility, Accountability, and the core value of truth, which is not the "truth" we see in the mainstream media today.
We need to make communism and socialism the dirty words they were (and that our military has died fighting against, all over the world )by teaching the repeated failures of places like Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, and all the other third world countries in the world.
-We need to teach the truth.
-We need a serious education program on critical thinking skills, one that teaches the concept, demonstrates the skills, and tests for results.
-We need teach the value of personal achievement, how to win with humility and how to lose with grace.
Much of the above can be done in civics classes.
We need to examine the cult of victim hood, the insanity that Americans have a right or expectation to go through life without being offended. Examine it and crush it for the socailst scam it is. Americans know when one of their own has been victimized, and we rally around them through family, friends, and local organizations. This needs to be exposed for the fraud it is.
This is critical. This began with the "Everyone gets a trophy no score will be kept" horse manure that arose in the 80's.
America likes winners. We celebrate winners. This is not a bad thing.
We need to lift kids up. Give them hope, show them the way. Help them find something they are good at and lift them into that place, give them something to strive for, not beat them down. Our youngest son was shuffled into the victim slot due to issues at birth. We refused it. We were told to be prepared to raise a severely disabled child, who would probably never tie his own shoes. My wife and I said no. There were kids and parents in that hospital who fit that criteria, and whose heartbreaking stories needed support. We did not.
He is now 32, has a great job and is raising 3 great kids. When he was two and was checked by the head doc at UCD the doc was gobsmacked. When he was 5 we released his records for teaching. "Your son is a miracle, sir. "
Yes.
(We prayed alot....and there is another thing. We need to stop the assault on religion.)
If we pare down the "victim" BS the funding can be sent to those who need it.
-We need to be bring the the US Constitution in the classroom, and teach it again. Really teach it. Celebrate it. Revere it. Strt teaching it in the 3rd grade, and continue throoughout the rest of the years to graduation. And then test it in the 8th grade, which was done here locally until about two years ago.
Test them again prior to graduation.
We don't need to have our children indoctrinated into a Marxist society. In fact, we need to point out, repeatedly, in these civics and history classes, that we are the country they all turn to for help when they can't buy food, or raise food, or their crops fail or their society fails.
We are not some evil empire.
We need to teach the values of hard work, of achievement. We need to teach American Exceptionalism again, not a pack of lies about how evil the country is. We do need to teach about our warts, we learn from mistakes. We have made a hell of a lot of mistakes, but no country on earth has sacrificed its blood and treasure for freedom and the destruction of tyranny in the history of mankind like the United states has.
We need to celebrate that fact, not hide it.
We need to teach and test for skills in basic arithmetic and reading and writing, and US History.
We need young people capable of functioning in a free society the skills to do so as they leave the public education system.
Teachers who do not teach their children these skills based on test scores should be fired. Teachers need to lead by example, and demonstrate the core values for their students. Lead by example. Be held to a standard.
A teacher standing in front of a classroom has tremendous authority and power. Teachers need to be held to a much higher standard in every way. A smirk here, a comment there, these can impact a young mind. Teachers need to keep their personal politics and beliefs OUT of the classroom, period. I wnet round and round on a regular basis with history and civics teachers from 9th grade into college. I called them on their BS and agendas. They did not like it. Tough.

We need to teach children in American schools in the English language, with a reasonable path to learn it, free of charge, for immigrants. Without incentive to learn the language they won't learn it.
We need to go back to what worked before you and your ilk infested the public education system with lies, damn lies, and propaganda.

As a cop, Rod, I have seen the results of the current education system, and the socialist programs you support, throughout my career. I saw the dismal failure it brought. The hopelessness, the lake of personal desire for success, the abject loss of human spirit your party feeds on.
I saw it the back seat of my cop car, in the morgue, and spent hours talking to inmates in the jails.
In other words, I know what the real world looks like after 40 years of this Socialist Marxist propaganda mess we have let damn near destroy the country.
I am one of those guys, Rod. One who has seen it for what it is. One of the guys who did the dirty work and the clean up in the aftermath.
I know what I speak is the truth, because I freaking lived it. I have taken incoming rounds from the failures your party has nurtured.
I have sat in the courtrooms as the real victims of crime turned and look at me and asked what happened when suspect, a crook multi convicted felon is made out to be a victim of something...anything...other than what they really are.
A criminal, raised in an infested shithole of a city, run by people you support, in a system you think needs more money to do the exact same thing, in an endless spiral down the drain to the Socialist Nirvana you and yours want. If anything, Rod, they are victims of the democrat rulers in most of the cities they live in.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
This is the definition of California's history over the last 40 years. People keep electing the Socialists, and expect them to fix things, to improve the quality of life as the slide down the drain to Progressive/Marxist Hell continues. They just cant grasp the concept that fixing things isn't what these people do...they are always just one tax, one power grab, one more liberty stolen from us away from that "fix".

I have complete sets of three of the major written encyclopedias. One from 1958, one from the mid 60's, and one from 1976 that includes year books from 76 through 1990. My granddaughter does not use the recommended "literature" the school suggests for her research, she seeks the truth. She is only in 6th grade and I am teaching her critical thinking skills. The truth, facts, the stuff the media avoids.
President Trump has been nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize. When was the last time you saw that fact mentioned in the mainstream media?
President Trump has brokered peace deals between countries that have not had normalized relations in over 100 years...in some cases, never.
Any media coverage?
Truth. Honesty. Traditional American values that served the nation for most of it's life. American exceptionalism.
It is real, or this world would be a much darker, more evil place.

We need to return to teaching these things.
That is all I can think of right now, and more energy than I wanted to expend on your question, because I know that it will change nothing. You are one of the True Believers. I will leave you with this.
You and I...we don't matter. We are older and have lived most of our lives. It is the country we leave our children and grandchildren that I worry about. It is where this land will be when we are gone that I lose sleep about. Where America goes so goes the world, without a free strong and solvent United States this world will quickly devolve further into chaos.
I plan to see to it that the youngsters in my family are at least able to identify the Progressive/Socialist/Marxists quickly, and be fully aware of the danger they represent to a free world in general and the United states in particular I want them to understand the a Commmunist is in many respects a Socialist who has simply run out of legal ways to get other peoples money to feed their machine. I want them to be able to defeat that failed system at every corner, to hold up the good that is America, and defend it from those people who would hurt her, and drive her towards disaster.

Can we post this post on the front page somewhere? It needs to be required reading for all time.

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RodnJen

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Rod, I am only going to play your game this one time. Once. There is no point in having this conversation with you because you are lost. You are a Believer. The answers will make not one iota of an impact on you. This is the last time I will waste my time with you. Nothing personal, I just don't have time for you.

Some of these things we need to do because parents are shirking their responsibility to lead. We are so far down the path that we have generations of citizens who don't know how to raise their kids any other way, I know, I have talked to them. They have been sucked into the maw of the system and want to get their kids out, but don't know how to do it.
Sad, disgusting, and infuriating.

-We should teach Citizenship again. Look it up.
-We should teach Civics again. Look it up.
-We need to teach the values of Personal Responsibility, Accountability, and the core value of truth, which is not the "truth" we see in the mainstream media today.
We need to make communism and socialism the dirty words they were (and that our military has died fighting against, all over the world )by teaching the repeated failures of places like Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, and all the other third world countries in the world.
-We need to teach the truth.
-We need a serious education program on critical thinking skills, one that teaches the concept, demonstrates the skills, and tests for results.
-We need teach the value of personal achievement, how to win with humility and how to lose with grace.
Much of the above can be done in civics classes.
We need to examine the cult of victim hood, the insanity that Americans have a right or expectation to go through life without being offended. Examine it and crush it for the socailst scam it is. Americans know when one of their own has been victimized, and we rally around them through family, friends, and local organizations. This needs to be exposed for the fraud it is.
This is critical. This began with the "Everyone gets a trophy no score will be kept" horse manure that arose in the 80's.
America likes winners. We celebrate winners. This is not a bad thing.
We need to lift kids up. Give them hope, show them the way. Help them find something they are good at and lift them into that place, give them something to strive for, not beat them down. Our youngest son was shuffled into the victim slot due to issues at birth. We refused it. We were told to be prepared to raise a severely disabled child, who would probably never tie his own shoes. My wife and I said no. There were kids and parents in that hospital who fit that criteria, and whose heartbreaking stories needed support. We did not.
He is now 32, has a great job and is raising 3 great kids. When he was two and was checked by the head doc at UCD the doc was gobsmacked. When he was 5 we released his records for teaching. "Your son is a miracle, sir. "
Yes.
(We prayed alot....and there is another thing. We need to stop the assault on religion.)
If we pare down the "victim" BS the funding can be sent to those who need it.
-We need to be bring the the US Constitution in the classroom, and teach it again. Really teach it. Celebrate it. Revere it. Strt teaching it in the 3rd grade, and continue throoughout the rest of the years to graduation. And then test it in the 8th grade, which was done here locally until about two years ago.
Test them again prior to graduation.
We don't need to have our children indoctrinated into a Marxist society. In fact, we need to point out, repeatedly, in these civics and history classes, that we are the country they all turn to for help when they can't buy food, or raise food, or their crops fail or their society fails.
We are not some evil empire.
We need to teach the values of hard work, of achievement. We need to teach American Exceptionalism again, not a pack of lies about how evil the country is. We do need to teach about our warts, we learn from mistakes. We have made a hell of a lot of mistakes, but no country on earth has sacrificed its blood and treasure for freedom and the destruction of tyranny in the history of mankind like the United states has.
We need to celebrate that fact, not hide it.
We need to teach and test for skills in basic arithmetic and reading and writing, and US History.
We need young people capable of functioning in a free society the skills to do so as they leave the public education system.
Teachers who do not teach their children these skills based on test scores should be fired. Teachers need to lead by example, and demonstrate the core values for their students. Lead by example. Be held to a standard.
A teacher standing in front of a classroom has tremendous authority and power. Teachers need to be held to a much higher standard in every way. A smirk here, a comment there, these can impact a young mind. Teachers need to keep their personal politics and beliefs OUT of the classroom, period. I wnet round and round on a regular basis with history and civics teachers from 9th grade into college. I called them on their BS and agendas. They did not like it. Tough.

We need to teach children in American schools in the English language, with a reasonable path to learn it, free of charge, for immigrants. Without incentive to learn the language they won't learn it.
We need to go back to what worked before you and your ilk infested the public education system with lies, damn lies, and propaganda.

As a cop, Rod, I have seen the results of the current education system, and the socialist programs you support, throughout my career. I saw the dismal failure it brought. The hopelessness, the lake of personal desire for success, the abject loss of human spirit your party feeds on.
I saw it the back seat of my cop car, in the morgue, and spent hours talking to inmates in the jails.
In other words, I know what the real world looks like after 40 years of this Socialist Marxist propaganda mess we have let damn near destroy the country.
I am one of those guys, Rod. One who has seen it for what it is. One of the guys who did the dirty work and the clean up in the aftermath.
I know what I speak is the truth, because I freaking lived it. I have taken incoming rounds from the failures your party has nurtured.
I have sat in the courtrooms as the real victims of crime turned and look at me and asked what happened when suspect, a crook multi convicted felon is made out to be a victim of something...anything...other than what they really are.
A criminal, raised in an infested shithole of a city, run by people you support, in a system you think needs more money to do the exact same thing, in an endless spiral down the drain to the Socialist Nirvana you and yours want. If anything, Rod, they are victims of the democrat rulers in most of the cities they live in.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
This is the definition of California's history over the last 40 years. People keep electing the Socialists, and expect them to fix things, to improve the quality of life as the slide down the drain to Progressive/Marxist Hell continues. They just cant grasp the concept that fixing things isn't what these people do...they are always just one tax, one power grab, one more liberty stolen from us away from that "fix".

I have complete sets of three of the major written encyclopedias. One from 1958, one from the mid 60's, and one from 1976 that includes year books from 76 through 1990. My granddaughter does not use the recommended "literature" the school suggests for her research, she seeks the truth. She is only in 6th grade and I am teaching her critical thinking skills. The truth, facts, the stuff the media avoids.
President Trump has been nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize. When was the last time you saw that fact mentioned in the mainstream media?
President Trump has brokered peace deals between countries that have not had normalized relations in over 100 years...in some cases, never.
Any media coverage?
Truth. Honesty. Traditional American values that served the nation for most of it's life. American exceptionalism.
It is real, or this world would be a much darker, more evil place.

We need to return to teaching these things.
That is all I can think of right now, and more energy than I wanted to expend on your question, because I know that it will change nothing. You are one of the True Believers. I will leave you with this.
You and I...we don't matter. We are older and have lived most of our lives. It is the country we leave our children and grandchildren that I worry about. It is where this land will be when we are gone that I lose sleep about. Where America goes so goes the world, without a free strong and solvent United States this world will quickly devolve further into chaos.
I plan to see to it that the youngsters in my family are at least able to identify the Progressive/Socialist/Marxists quickly, and be fully aware of the danger they represent to a free world in general and the United states in particular I want them to understand the a Commmunist is in many respects a Socialist who has simply run out of legal ways to get other peoples money to feed their machine. I want them to be able to defeat that failed system at every corner, to hold up the good that is America, and defend it from those people who would hurt her, and drive her towards disaster.

Thank your for the very well crafted and insightful response. With regard to the education system, I don't disagree with much of what you state in terms of curriculum. However, the notion that a teacher, let alone a school system, needs to pick up the slack for the failing American family is not only impractical, it is unrealistic. When I say "failing" I don't mean because they are divorced or perhaps a single parent household. I mean failing in terms of providing a safe, loving and nurturing environment at home that can then be taken into the classroom. There are lots of contributing factors to that degradation and headwinds to the success of those families. Those headwinds also lead to less parental support and interaction with the schools system.

Thank you for your time as a sworn officer. I hope you do run for school board, your experience will serve you well.

As for something being labeled as socialist/marxist or whatever, that's your right.

I've worked for elected officials for the last 23 years. Of the dozens of electeds I have worked for during the first 21 years, all but two were republican. One of the two democrats switched his party when it was "his turn" to be the Chair of the Board. A the time, Orange County would never agree to have a democrat as the chair. My point to this is that regardless of party, most of them were all alike in that they were in it for power, recognition and eventual wealth. They didn't necessarily all start out that way but the process has a way of changing people.

My regards to you and your family.
 

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Who the eff knows at this point.... figured I'd share anyway.
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How the F did AZ voter pass 208. That tax is going to limit CA businesses from relocating and increasing hard working successful family owned small businesses from being able to continue. AZ might of just passed TX for going to hell in 60 months.
 

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There was talk (talk radio) about what happens when states have marijuana issues on the ballot, and it looks like it may have played a part in what happened in AZ. Weed initiatives bring out more lib voters who also vote lib on everything on the ballot.
 

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Since 2016 Az has gone from 2 R senators and 5 R congressman versus 4 D congressman to 2 D senators and most likely 5 or maybe 6 D congressman.

On top of that Az would have gone from R majorities in State Senate and the State House to most likely losing their majority in one if not both chambers of the State Legislature.

And a likely tax increase (prop 208) that makes Az the 9th highest taxed state in the nation.

Now what could possibly be the reason? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
I dunno, traitorous RINO carpetbaggers like you?🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
Answer my questions son.
 
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