Presidential Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy Let's Talk About The 2nd Amendment

[butlersrangers]

This is getting weird.

[Dick Hosmer]

Where did THAT come from? I'll refrain from further comment until I'm sure it's no one's parents . . . . Whoever they are they stole my cat, though.

[MooseNugget]

Hmmmm, So Trump received money from George Soros to build a Trump tower in Chicago back in 2004?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct- ... story.html

More on Vivek:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y9XBfJQWr ... luZA%3D%3D

[Whig]

Trump has proven his merit in making this country Great again and fighting the swamp. Vivek is an unknown. I am more interested in action than verbosity. Obama was a ghost who spoke well. No track record. Many of the republicans in congress say things that sound good but never do anything. We need a man or woman of action, not words to get elected.

[butlersrangers]

Well said, Whig!

I'm sorry Dick, is that your missing cat, on the wall?

[Dick Hosmer]

Well said, Whig!

I'm sorry Dick, is that your missing cat, on the wall?

Joking - all cats accounted for - but who are the couple?

[kab37]

Been following this with great interest. I would be thrilled if Nikki Haley was my choice. Seems to be the only candidate I can stomach. Donald Trump's arrogance and failure to listen to advice from any other than "THE Donald" has me completely turned off.

Any one who has any contact with George Soros is no fiend of mine, nor of the US.

Lastly, Culpepper, you scare me. Certainly you seem to have problems, perhaps legitimate ones, with authority, but a Civil War !? My Greatgrandfather lost a leg with the 1st. Mass Cavalry, two of my poorer relatives are buried in Va. Family could not afford to ship them back to NH.

-Kab37

[waterman]

Where did THAT come from? I'll refrain from further comment until I'm sure it's no one's parents . . . . Whoever they are they stole my cat, though.

And a tiger skin on the wall? Who are they? Story?

Not my cat. He's here sitting in the window.

[waterman]

He may talk a good game in the video with Noir but I adhere to Reagan's admonishment. Trust but verify. Anyone who has Soros in his wallet is suspect. You can bet he will have a globalist world view based on the schools he has attended. Ramaswamy says he is not a politician. I would have to disagree. Harvard, Yale, millionaire while in school, and running for president? Do not be fooled by this one. It take an "alpha male" who has refined political skills to make that happen.

And I will bring this up. He is one generation from the old country. His parents are Indians and he does not lose that influence just because he was born here. All things Indian will color his mindset and you can bet whatever favorable immigration that country has now will be ramped up a thousand fold should he get elected. If you want to see arrogance and condescension in action, work with an Indian. They bring their rotten caste mindset to America.

My daughter-in-law is a very dark woman from south India. She came here on a high tech visa, is now a citizen. Her comment on a border wall was "not cost effective. Three lines of razor wire and then land mines. The problem will become manageable." I haven't heard her opinion on R yet.

[Culpeper]

Been following this with great interest. I would be thrilled if Nikki Haley was my choice. Seems to be the only candidate I can stomach. Donald Trump's arrogance and failure to listen to advice from any other than "THE Donald" has me completely turned off.

Any one who has any contact with George Soros is no fiend of mine, nor of the US.

Lastly, Culpepper, you scare me. Certainly you seem to have problems, perhaps legitimate ones, with authority, but a Civil War !? My Greatgrandfather lost a leg with the 1st. Mass Cavalry, two of my poorer relatives are buried in Va. Family could not afford to ship them back to NH.

-Kab37

The constitutional authority of the president rests in the man. The man is the sole decision maker for the executive branch and can take advise from his cabinet or not. Wouldn't the best course of action by a/the president, in the absence of a declaration of war from the congress of the States, be to ignore the cabinet that is hell bent for war. Mr. Trump got us out of Afghanistan, Biden dinked it up and the perpetual war types didn't like that he ignored them. Like Mr. Truman said, "the buck stops here.".

Article II

Section 1

1. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. ...

The constitution says the executive power rests in a singluar position, not a committee.

Now to address my problems... I don't have a problem with authority. It is other people who ignore authority. Like spending hundreds of billions of dollars in a twenty years war without a Declaration of War from the congress of the States. Like a declaration of war on December 8, 1941? It was in all the papers so I've heard.

I also do have not knee jerk reactions to allusions to the "War for the Union". I have done much research and if I had lived back in the day I believe I would have shouldered arms for the Confederacy. That argue was about States rights. yes slavery was a large part of it but it always goes back to the revolution for its genisis.

People in the present day are beginning to speak more openly about civil war and from what I read it is coming from the pearl clutchers on socialist side of the political spectrum.

Here is a present day example of people with a problem with authority.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden ... d/1132583/

Here we have a department of the executive branch telling the congress of the States, the board of directors in a sense, what is constitutional and not. Meanwhile a quick read of the Constitution says

Article I

Section 5

2. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, ...

The House should send the Sergeant-at-Arms to retrieve those who have been subpoenaed and to bring them to Capitol Hill in irons if need be to to answer why they think they can dictate to the Congress.

But I have a problem with authority. - sarcasm -

Lastly, I am a product of the 1970s and by extension the turmoil of the late 1960s. Most guys don't give a thought about why they do things a certain way or have a particular mindset. I have. I grew up in the Strategic Air Command in my younger days. I was part of the nuke boys in the silos and we were constantly told that we must always be ready for war. I take defence of the Constitution very seriously and Nature's Creator, the Declaration, the Articles, and the Constitution are only authorities to which I bow. And socialism is not mentioned in any of those documents.