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Instead of executing criminals, they could be forced to serve in, say, the American Imperial Legion and then serve as trip-wires in SoKo or Okinawa. The only units the Pentagon would be allowed to deploy abroad would be penal units.

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A wealthy society deludes itself into thinking that it can afford to be soft. These times will create the hard men who will fix it.

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I would love to see Americans have stiffer spines and tighter belts but the will won’t materialize until necessity becomes imperative .

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“Our leaders believe we can do everything.”

An indication of delusion, incompetence, and insanity.

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We have an infinite supply of deluded morons, who recklessly spend the blood and treasure of our nation, whose salaries are paid by you know who.

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Dear Josiah Lippincott

"there are no truly “third-rail” issues."

There is one, it began on November 22, 1963; Anything for Israel.

Mark R. Elsis

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War powers should begin with El Generalissimo Presidente lacing its boots and picking up its rifle on its way to the front.

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Now that where talking about tradeoffs

Let me talk to about a trade off that isn’t worth doing

This being arresting Leftists whether they are higher ups or random people who just posted about hating Trump.

Sure, you might finally get back at them for censoring and name calling.

But you will only validate their convictions. They will see that Trump really is a fascist out to get them because he hates women and colored people.

It’s not just them either, the average center right or left will see this and immediately view it as tyranny. The center right will stop supporting Trump and the center left will join their far left sisters. This will only create a united left and a fractured right, as constitutionalists will immediately condemn this action, libertarians will see this as state abuse, religious types (excluding groypers) will see this as indulging in the sin of wrath.

I am telling this isn’t worth it.

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Another way to read your conclusions is to say that instead of perhaps being mere nationalists, we ought to be internationalists, because in the end we're going to forced to be one way or the other.

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