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The Flight 93 Election [must read]
The Claremont Institute ^ | 9/5/16 | Publius Decius Mus

Posted on 09/06/2016 11:42:57 AM PDT by rpierce

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To: rpierce

Bump.


81 posted on 09/14/2016 8:00:13 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: ctpsb
"I will never, never understand."

Please review the "megaphone" analogy provided by the author.

the Tidal Wave of disinfo is nearly unstoppable. Only those who consciously choose to disengage w/ the MSM will ever see the truth.

We conservatives are consistently portrayed as, well, "deplorables", and so who wants to identify as that?

Are you prepared to lose friends and strain familial relations? Welcome to my world.

82 posted on 09/14/2016 10:12:12 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: rpierce

+bn


83 posted on 09/14/2016 2:07:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: rpierce; onyx; JustAmy; trisham; RedMDer; musicman; MEG33; deoetdoctrinae; xzins; Lady Jag; ...

All in for stopping the leftist flood and third-world invasion! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Go, Trump!!


84 posted on 09/14/2016 2:12:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: M. Thatcher

I agree, many don’t see it I suppose, but Trump is the ideal candidate. Why? He is the antithesis of the massively corrupt government that being laid bare before us. We MUST have someone outside the government system - no connection to it whatsoever - no one on the inside could possibly understand the incredible nation-destroying effect of the way government does business today. We have a government that literally must be destroyed and remade again.

Trump is ideal for the unbelievably difficult job of changing the very nature of the corrupt, totalitarian system that our political class - ALL of them - created for their own personal benefit.


85 posted on 09/14/2016 2:29:54 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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To: Jim Robinson; rpierce; All; FReepers










86 posted on 09/14/2016 2:31:56 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Jim Robinson

Count me in! Please...


87 posted on 09/14/2016 2:33:35 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: Jim Robinson; rpierce; M. Thatcher; JustAmy; trisham; musicman; MEG33; deoetdoctrinae; xzins; ...
All in for stopping the leftist flood and third-world invasion! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Go, Trump!!

BTTT

TRUMP WAS MY FIRST CHOICE the MINUTE HE ANNOUNCED!





88 posted on 09/14/2016 3:07:46 PM PDT by onyx (YOU'RE POSTING HERE, SO DONATE MONTHLY! NOT NICE TO FREEPLOAD!)
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To: Jim Robinson
All in for stopping the leftist flood and third-world invasion! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Go, Trump!!

I'm in...full speed ahead!

89 posted on 09/14/2016 3:22:40 PM PDT by GOPJ (In war, victory. In peace, prosperity. In industry, ingenuity. In contention, character-D Greenfield)
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To: rpierce

I realized most of this the moment he spoke of a moratorium on Islamic immigrants and a wall. I also realized that Hillary is an even deadlier peril than Obama, simply because she comes after eight years of deadly peril from Obama and promises even more of the same. But he sure does use some purty words.

Bottom line. It’s a no brainer. Time to roll.


90 posted on 09/14/2016 3:32:46 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Jim Robinson; rpierce

Man ain’t that the truth?

That’s exactly the way it is.

Trump2016 or Hillary #ComplyOrDie


91 posted on 09/14/2016 3:38:09 PM PDT by Syncro (James 1:8- A double minded man is unstable in all his ways-- Holy Bible)
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To: 2banana; rpierce
The phone line from Flight 93 was still open when a GTE operator heard Todd Beamer say: 'Are you guys ready? Let's roll'

Sunday, September 16, 2001

By Jim McKinnon, Post-Gazette Staff Writer

"Are you guys ready? Let's roll!"

That's how Todd Beamer lived.

And that's how he died, helping to lead a takeover by passengers on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed Tuesday in Somerset County. It was the fourth plane to go down in last week's terrorist attacks.

Todd Beamer

Beamer, an Oracle Inc. executive from Hightstown, N.J., and others are being credited with foiling hijackers bent on crashing the Boeing 757 into what authorities say might have been a second target in Washington, D.C., possibly the Capitol or the White House.

Flight 93 had left Newark, N.J., at 8 a.m. Tuesday, bound for San Francisco.

"That's Todd," his wife, Lisa, said yesterday of the "Let's roll!" command, which he made over the plane's in-flight telephone. A GTE supervisor talked with him for about 13 minutes before the plane crashed.

"My boys even say that. When we're getting ready to go somewhere, we say, 'C'mon guys, let's roll.' My little one says, 'C'mon, Mom, let's roll.' That's something they picked up from Todd."

Beamer, 32, told the GTE supervisor, Lisa D. Jefferson, that he and others on the plane had decided they would not be pawns in the hijackers' suicidal plot.

Jefferson told him about the other hijackings and Beamer made her promise to call his wife and their two boys, David, 3, and Andrew, 1.

Beamer's call connected at 9:45 a.m. He told Jefferson there were three hijackers, armed with knives. He did not know their nationalities or their intentions.

One of the men had what appeared to be a bomb tied to his midsection with a red belt.

Beamer said he could account for 37 of the plane's 38 passengers. The hijackers had forced 27 of them into the first-class compartment near the front.

92 posted on 09/14/2016 3:56:22 PM PDT by Syncro (Let's Roll! -Todd Beamer, Hero)
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To: rpierce
That's Mark Steyn. Knew it even before the perfunctory "This is insane."
93 posted on 09/14/2016 4:13:25 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (PS - Vote Trump. Vote Coal.)
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To: sean327
I know Trump isn’t a Conservative

I get a kick out of people like you, who proclaim Trump is not a conservative.
So why have so called conservatives failed to elect a conservative president since Reagan?
Because they can not find a candidate who RESONATEs with people

What exactly have the conservatives in congress accomplished?

Obamacare scrapped?
Illegals deported?
Wall built?
Anchor babies outlawed?
National debt reduced?
Abortion restricted?
China trade deficit reduced?
Food stamp growth curbed?
Welfare growth reduced?
Fraud in Medicare & Social Security under control?

If Trump can deliver any 3 of above, he is more than enough
conservative for most rational people.

Trump is conservative on these issues:

Pro life since at least 2001,
Wanted to ban partial birth abortion as far back as 2000
Pro Traditional marriage. Gay rights is not his thing
Pro capital punishment
Hold Judges accountable
Common core is a disaster
Anti education unions (2000)
For school choice
Believes man made Climate Change is a hoax
No Cap-and-Tax
For drilling our own
Stressed importance of strong family & culture (2015)
Supports Israel
Opposes Iran deal and letting Iran obtain the bomb
Wants to crush ISIS quickly
Wants a military so strong no one will challenge us
Against unbalanced trade deals that kill American jobs
Against warrant-less government surveillance of citizens
Against having a high national debt
Warns that $24T is a point of no return
Against gun control
For assault weapon ban but says the AR-15 shouldn't
be considered an assault weapon
Wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with market driven
polices and increased competition among insurance companies
Wants to increase military spending
Top priority to build a REAL wall on the southern border,
and get Mexico to pay for it
Will deport all illegals but will let the hard working
ones go through the legal process to come back
Against Anchor babies
Will bring jobs back through better trade negotiation
Stood up for Birthers and challenged Obama on his fraud
Believes USA is the greatest force for freedom the world
has ever known
Wants to honor commitments on Social Security and Medicare,
which we can afford if he gets the economy going full steam.
Wants to reduce the fraud in disability and other programs
Against marriage penalties in tax code
Wants to simplify tax code with just 3 simple brackets
Wants to reduce income taxes and reduce corporate tax
Wants to rebuild our infrastructure
Wants to apply welfare-to-work to 76 other welfare programs (2011)
Does not have time for political correctness
Not afraid to call out either party or both when they are wrong
Not a puppet of mega-rich donors and Lobbyists
Go Trump 2016! Make America Great Again! It is almost too late, but only Donald Trump has the know-how, courage, name recognition, and freedom from rich donors to accomplish that gargantuan task.

94 posted on 09/14/2016 4:28:24 PM PDT by entropy12 (HilLIARy for Prison 2016)
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To: rpierce; stephenjohnbanker; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; ExTexasRedhead; Clintonfatigued; ...

Amazing article and spot on.
Thank you.


95 posted on 09/14/2016 4:32:08 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Arthur McGowan; rpierce; stephenjohnbanker; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; ExTexasRedhead; ...

RE “..Trump’s cry of “I want to live” defines who is a conservative now...”

More to the point, “I want MY COUNTRY to live.”

Because it’s pretty much that serious right now.


96 posted on 09/14/2016 4:34:44 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; rpierce

I haven’t read it yet, but I know where it would be headed with that title.

The concept is very sound.

I appreciate the posting of that here also.

I’ll be reading it later.


97 posted on 09/14/2016 4:38:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: DoughtyOne

It’s worth your time, my friend.


98 posted on 09/14/2016 4:46:58 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

I’m sure it is. I’ve got it bookmarked. I’ll copy it, create a pdf and send it to my iPad for review.


99 posted on 09/14/2016 4:57:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

“What worries me the most is the amount of support that Clinton has, in spite of her glaring and obvious shortcomings.”

That support comes from ALL of Trump’s opponents who refused to support the Republican nominee as they promised to do.


100 posted on 09/14/2016 4:58:55 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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