FROGMAN524
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Are America’s best times ahead of us or behind us?
Tell me, why is it people like you like to go camping?Not sure if I want to go back to covered wagons and taking a shit in a hole in the ground...
4th turning. It’ll get a lot worse before it gets better. Coming from a war torn country as a child, people will still make the best of it while missile strikes hit blocks away, we still celebrated our birthdays . Doesn’t necessarily mean better times, but we’ll make the best of it.
Isn't that what the gov. wants? so no one can standup for themselves against the gov.... I believe there is something in the food we eat, that lowers men's T so they are complacent.We are raising to many pussies for us to ever be a bunch of bad asses like the guys that built shit with their own hands back in the day.
Has your dad ever said he feels his era had the best childhood but he would never want to live it again?Being very close with my 92 year old Dad and all he's been through . . . I can say without a doubt the best times are 100% behind us and unlikely to return . . . at least in our lifetimes.
Overall 'modern technology', in my opinion, hasn't helped mankind vs what has been lost over the decades. (Values come to mind for starters).
Unless man learns to 'supplement' and balance life with technology, rather than depend and rely on it, I think we'll continue to see a downward degradation of society.
No he hasn’t. He had a very tough childhood. Last year of formal school was 7th grade …. Bounced around between divorced parents, and in & out of boys schools / military schools etc. He worked full time since he was that age. But , he became strong, resourceful and was able to provide with what he worked for, and w/o education or parents. Enlisted in the Army for Korea, came back, met my Mom, had 3 kids & was able to enjoy life by simply working hard.Has your dad ever said he feels his era had the best childhood but he would never want to live it again?
I've not answered the poll because I can't identify a benchmark. Each time I try, I can disprove my opinion about when times were/are the best. That song is one of my favorite, because if the listener pays attention Merle introduces the question at the end.Kind of makes you wonder when they were singing that way back when doesn’t it?
Hell with Mayor of Havasu, Riverdave for President.America took a left turn in 1913 with the creation of the fed, and from there forward the increased and unchecked powers of the federal government have run amuck..
There is no possible way to get out of the debt and even if we do our dollar is worth shit now so the only option is global conflict.
They should not be able to print money and spend money and tax us to fucking death for shit we don’t want or need. America was originally setup to be small individual countries (states) that were united under the common cause of basic principles and common defense.. not necessarily uniformity across the board.
The entirety of spending across the board needs to be audited.. welfare needs to be recalled entirely and revamped. If you want money you can do something for the community..
Politicians as a whole that are out performing even the best investment groups by a margins of 500%.. no investigation needed just hang them in the streets.
As much as I am for freedom I believe a mandatory 1-2 year in the service to build national
Pride and take useless people and make them useful would be warranted at this point.
For even one of those things to happen I believe we goto civil war.
RD
I've not answered the poll because I can't identify a benchmark. Each time I try, I can disprove my opinion about when times were/are the best. That song is one of my favorite, because if the listener pays attention Merle introduces the question at the end.
I have to wonder if times in the USA have not been the best they have ever been in the last decade? How do we measure? There seems a lot of different lenses in which we can view Good Times.
Ironically I laid in bed this morning asking myself, If I would rather be poor and young, or rich and old? By the time I finished my coffee I was asking myself if I was 10 years younger would that be better than living ten years longer?
We all want what we don't have, I'm trying to figure out how to make every day the Good Times, it is not an easy task.
Angie did a paper on this subject years ago when she was in the University. It was something to with the Movie PleasantVille. I don't recall the details, maybe because I was the subject. LOL
I hear that a lot, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why?i feel really bad for my kids and grandkids
So why do you feel bad for them?yah i get that...........
I'm not attempting to be disagreeable, but I want to explore this as a qualifier. Specifically Freedom as what determines the path as better or worse. I think partially because I need to convince myself of the direction.There is only one metric that matters.. Freedom.
Prosperity, technology, and any other metric is irrelevant if you don't have the first of Freedom.
RD
Speaking of the Mayor of Havasu, anyone know if the guy running for office in Montana is related to Mayor Sheehy. Not a very common name.
I.E....cellphones!Being very close with my 92 year old Dad and all he's been through . . . I can say without a doubt the best times are 100% behind us and unlikely to return . . . at least in our lifetimes.
Overall 'modern technology', in my opinion, hasn't helped mankind vs what has been lost over the decades. (Values come to mind for starters).
Unless man learns to 'supplement' and balance life with technology, rather than depend and rely on it, I think we'll continue to see a downward degradation of society.
It’s not that they don’t know our world, they do. They’re living in it.I hear that a lot, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why?
Honest question.
Why do people feel bad for their kids and grandkids?
Is it because they don’t know our world?
Not a single one of us grew up in our dads or grandads world…and I can state with absolute certainty that my dad did NOT feel sorry for me!
Well, besides maybe feeling bad for me because I was a “dumb shit” according to him!
(His way of saying “I love you son”)
But seriously, I don’t get that?
I have 4 adult children, 5 grandkids, 3 step grandkids.
None of them feel like they got a shitty deal not being me.
It’s not that they don’t know our world, they do. They’re living in it.
What the world has become is why I feel sorry for my kids, and others kids.
There’s simple freedom, politics, morals, the decline in the value of the dollar, rabid pedos stealing children, etc which have all digressed to pure shit.
Remember when kids played outside?
Why don’t they do that anymore?
Some would blame electronic devises but those have only added to to the problem.
Kids don’t go out anymore because
little Johnny down the street disappeared a couple years ago and little Sally was abducted a year later.
This was never a thing in the 70s that I recall? Not saying never happened back then but nothing like today.
A generation of pussies who were never told no and never got a spank when they deserved one have since raised another generation of pussies. Who are worse than their parents as far as morals, work ethic, no motivation to succeed, afraid of manual labor and feel someone owes them something.
Education, or the lack there of it seems. Young people today are morons, and have very little in their heads.
No need to learn, just ask Siri or Alexa.
Most think socialism is a good idea.
. The value of the dollar is in the toilet.
30 years ago 130k would buy you a decent house in a decent neighborhood.
Today that same house is going for 650.
25 years before that a decent house was 30-40k now it’s worth over a Mil.
My 24 year old is facing the reality she will probably have a very hard time buying a home.
In 85/86 my history teacher told us we were all middle class. And in our life time we would see a drastic decline of this class leaving only the rich, and the poor.
It seems he was right on as we are seeing it now.
I’m glad I lived when I did. On a bicycle all day long, drank from the hose, a thrifty ice cream cone was 15 cents, a revel model car was a couple dollars and they would sell me plastic model glue and testors paint without an adult being present.
You could sock a bully in the face for being a bully and not be in more trouble than the little shit bird that started it.
Thieves and crooks went to jail rather than being protected by some douchebag DA.
So yeah. I feel bad for kids today.
I'm going to give this a crack, knowing I'm not qualified to answer and emotion drives my response. But Phawk it.My question is this:
“what and whom is the primary influences ruining this republic in your opinion?”
Because if we can’t identify that, and agree on what a REALISTIC vision of the future United States looks like, well, we’re really just spinning our wheels.
That’s sort of my point.It’s not that they don’t know our world, they do. They’re living in it.
What the world has become is why I feel sorry for my kids, and others kids.
There’s simple freedom, politics, morals, the decline in the value of the dollar, rabid pedos stealing children, etc which have all digressed to pure shit.
Remember when kids played outside?
Why don’t they do that anymore?
Some would blame electronic devises but those have only added to to the problem.
Kids don’t go out anymore because
little Johnny down the street disappeared a couple years ago and little Sally was abducted a year later.
This was never a thing in the 70s that I recall? Not saying never happened back then but nothing like today.
A generation of pussies who were never told no and never got a spank when they deserved one have since raised another generation of pussies. Who are worse than their parents as far as morals, work ethic, no motivation to succeed, afraid of manual labor and feel someone owes them something.
Education, or the lack there of it seems. Young people today are morons, and have very little in their heads.
No need to learn, just ask Siri or Alexa.
Most think socialism is a good idea.
. The value of the dollar is in the toilet.
30 years ago 130k would buy you a decent house in a decent neighborhood.
Today that same house is going for 650.
25 years before that a decent house was 30-40k now it’s worth over a Mil.
My 24 year old is facing the reality she will probably have a very hard time buying a home.
In 85/86 my history teacher told us we were all middle class. And in our life time we would see a drastic decline of this class leaving only the rich, and the poor.
It seems he was right on as we are seeing it now.
I’m glad I lived when I did. On a bicycle all day long, drank from the hose, a thrifty ice cream cone was 15 cents, a revel model car was a couple dollars and they would sell me plastic model glue and testors paint without an adult being present.
You could sock a bully in the face for being a bully and not be in more trouble than the little shit bird that started it.
Thieves and crooks went to jail rather than being protected by some douchebag DA.
So yeah. I feel bad for kids today.
I suppose they don’t feel they lost something they never knew, I could agree there.That’s sort of my point.
They don’t know any different than what they’ve lived.
I did all those things too, just like you.
Today you can’t really even drink hose water, if you could even find a spigot that isn’t behind a privacy wall.
We’d spend all day on our bicycles. Seriously, Dawn to dusk.
We can lament all the changes in our lifetimes, but I contend that it bothers us more than it bothers the kids.
I have asked many friends " What would Civil War look like " today?America took a left turn in 1913 with the creation of the fed, and from there forward the increased and unchecked powers of the federal government have run amuck..
There is no possible way to get out of the debt and even if we do our dollar is worth shit now so the only option is global conflict.
They should not be able to print money and spend money and tax us to fucking death for shit we don’t want or need. America was originally setup to be small individual countries (states) that were united under the common cause of basic principles and common defense.. not necessarily uniformity across the board.
The entirety of spending across the board needs to be audited.. welfare needs to be recalled entirely and revamped. If you want money you can do something for the community..
Politicians as a whole that are out performing even the best investment groups by a margins of 500%.. no investigation needed just hang them in the streets.
As much as I am for freedom I believe a mandatory 1-2 year in the service to build national
Pride and take useless people and make them useful would be warranted at this point.
For even one of those things to happen I believe we goto civil war.
RD
All good points.I'm going to give this a crack, knowing I'm not qualified to answer and emotion drives my response. But Phawk it.
Corporations.
Not the plumber who has an S-corp and runs his small business on a cash basis. The Soulless publicly traded monsters we've given birth to over the last 248 years and their grandfathers like the Hudson Bay Company long before we were a twinkle in their royal eyes.
We Americans just happen to be lucky enough to be born in the right place or had enough ambition to find a way here. Be grateful.
The only solution wipes out the majority of the earths population. Then we start all over. Humans are an infection. The game is uglier than most want to accept, but you play it, or it plays you. Politicians are a tool; not the Craftsman. Cut off the head and three more grow to replace it.
We should stop for a second and appreciate that we live in America right now and not someplace like Somalia. Best case we keep spinning our wheels. Aspirations of fighting yourself is stupid. yes there are times I say fuck it, let's box, but I know I'm being dumb and emotional. I don't really care if a man wants to play woman, whatever, who cares. God will figure that out, not me. Seriously, half the shit on the news means nothing, it is complete Bull Shit. Most of it has nothing to do with me.
Civil war is the end of everything you know and love. We stepped in the way of the Plandemic. it was not effective enough in controlling the population. So War rode in. Hopefully that horsemen does not turn his eye our direction.
We don't get to go backward, only march on. We don't need or want a civil war, maybe just a guy who lives in a plywood shack.
Nice article. I scanned it. Sounds like a good guy. But, unless I missed it, I still don’t know if he’s related to Cal Sheehy of LHC.Who was Tim Sheehy before he started running for Senate?
Tim Sheehy’s youth, from a Minnesota lake house to the Navy SEALs.montanafreepress.org
Nice article. I scanned it. Sounds like a good guy. But, unless I missed it, I still don’t know if he’s related to Cal Sherry of LHCWho was Tim Sheehy before he started running for Senate?
Tim Sheehy’s youth, from a Minnesota lake house to the Navy SEALs.montanafreepress.org
When I was driving for car shows and for old car stuff, I drove a lot of 2 lane through towns with combination gas stations, diners and post offices. Fields as far as you could see, and occasional silos. Growing up in SoCal, it was a shock. People were nice, asked what I was hauling out of curiosity, not to mark the load. That's the America I wish everyone could see...not just the coasts and the people on the news.Some of you need to turn off all media and go explore the entire country. Actually meet locals in small town flyover USA, you know states that are seldom in the news.
When the Ruling Class Elite Progressive Commie Fucktards finally push far enough there will be hell to pay and there are plenty enough people willing to go collect.
Right now we don’t have an actual leader nor do we have an easily identifiable target. Most are still to fat and happy trying to live life.
Desperate people do unfathomable things. History can easily prove that.
I can’t believe what a false narrative some of the posts display.