re: Is anyone here not happy that Maduro was removed?

JFC…

What occupying force?

Again, you are saying that we WILL have a full on invasion.

I don’t see it.

FWIW, I specifically mentioned Iran because we didn’t invade Iran, despite it being WWIII!

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Willingness and ability to conduct an objective analysis of each issue, uneffected by the prevailing narrative.

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Thanks. That's a good summation.

I wonder if it's the relative ability to postpone certitude. For instance, Bourre obviously isn't stupid. I think he just needs to be certain about things faster than warranted by reality. Genuine questions threaten his sense of safety.

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Ok? We are saying the same thing.

Except….. I wasn’t making it a Catholic vs Muslim argument like you tried to do or insinuate here

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You may not have been, but many others have been.

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Willingness and ability to conduct an objective analysis of each issue, unaffected by the prevailing narrative.

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Thanks. That's a good summation.

I wonder if it's the relative ability to postpone certitude. For instance, Bourre obviously isn't stupid. I think he just needs to be certain about things faster than warranted by reality. Genuine questions threaten his sense of safety.

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You are giving more credit than I think is due here, but I do agree that only a handful of posters here are actively and affirmatively STUPID.

Most just have a VERY narrow field-of-view and a complete unwillingness to try and widen it.

Your point about postponing certainty may well be valid. Probably a third or so of the attacks upon the perceived "libs" here arise from said "libs" saying ... basically ... "Hold on, we don't have enough info yet to do a realistic assessment of" whatever that particular issue may be.

Another third or so seem to arise when there are two or more possible interpretations of a given action, and the "lib" declines to immediately accept the most-conservative of the possible interpretations ... in favor or awaiting more information. (The Brown gunman "yelled something," so it could ONLY have been "Alahu Akbar!")

Because only a "lib" could fail to see the inerrant accuracy of the prevailing TDPT narrative ... never mind that such narrative proves to be wrong as often as it proves to be correct.

Once again there are no “libs” here

Since tSpleen and Rex stopped posting there are zero that admit it

If you go against 99% of conservative positions your either a lib or an anarchist

I rarely post on this board but it sickens me that none of yall will admit to being anything more left-leaning than a “moderate”

ETA: miraculously you didn’t misspell a single word in that diatribe with your “faulty keyboard”

No libs?

Tboy
Bo puke
Decatur
mwade whatever
VOR
56lsu


And many more n

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Zero of them will admit it

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This is correct.

Certainly not a one of those listed.

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If you go against 99% of conservative positions your either a lib or an anarchist

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And I don't.

Let's take one example. Second Amendment.

The history shows that it applies to ALL weapons of a type typically carried by an infantryman, so that those weapons would be available to any resident for POTENTIAL service in the militias. Thus, it clearly prevents the central government from infringing the ownership (etcetera) of ANY such weapons, including fully-automatic rifles, etcetera. I see that as a pretty "conservative" Constitutional position.

HOWEVER, like the entire Bill of Rights, the Second was written and ratified to limit the actions of the CENTRAL government, not the government of the States or their constituent local units. As such, the STATES can infringe in any way that they may wish. I see THAT as also being "conservative," because it is consistent with what the words meant WHEN THEY WERE WRITTEN. And it is the very heart of federalsim.

But our resident conservatives have convinced themselves that the Second also limits the State governments ... for no better reason (that I can see) than they love their guns. There is certainly no Textual support for that position.

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Is anyone here not happy that Maduro was removed?

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if being honest, the only people that have a problem with this is Trump gave the order to do it. The Biden-Harris "administration" had a $25,000,000 reward for Maduro. Trump shoud get that reward and give it to the guys and gals who contributed to this mission