If you tell me your name is Robert, your name is “Dammit Bobby!” or “Hey Bobert!” for the rest of my life. 
There is nothing pretend about it. Are corporations people, or not?
If corporations are people, don’t they have the same rights as people? And why should it be ok for the government to retaliate for opposing them? Would you be cool with California locking Rob Reiner up for advocating the governor be recalled?
This isn’t about homosexuality, this isn’t about parental rights, this is about free speech pure and simple. It either exists, or it don’t.
Every American should be for free speech.
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A boy claiming to be a girl is pretending. There’s no getting around that.
Some of these “conservatives” that do nothing but lib it up all day are playing the same game of pretend. 
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I guess what you are really asking is, is there any journal out there whose primary objective is to support and defend the text of our Constitution, and the documented intentions and beliefs under which it was adopted, which gives context to its text?
Good question!
JWK
“Liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, [but] it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view,” William F. Buckley
National Review is part of the swamp. They are the country club, MIC, permanent war bunch who detested Trump because he didn’t want to enlarge the war machine. Hillary, Obama, Biden are just fine with them as long as defense contractors are happy. The NR conservatives are the ones who begrudgingly accept blue collar Republicans into the fold.
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Leftists mole there way in and change things that don’t need fixing. Meanwhile they ignore the places they trash like cities and schools. Honest people don’t get it. It’s the left biggest weapon.
I think it would be productive to clearly define what members of the “swamp” have in common, i.e., do they, or do they not, as a primary objective, support and defend the text of our Constitution, and the documented intentions and beliefs under which it was adopted, which gives context to its text?
What is the yardstick used to, not only define a RINO, but enemies of our constitutionally limited “Republican Form of Government”?
JWK
Why have a written constitution approved by the people if those who it is designed to control are free to make it mean whatever they wish it to mean?
Seriously, you don’t see the difference between a someone putting up signs advocating Christianity around their church, and doing that in a commercial business?
By your argument no church anywhere would be allowed to put up signs advocating Christianity.
PhillyGuy
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So you would be OK with Chick-fil-A putting up signs in their stores saying, “Become Christian!”
PhillyGuy
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Against trump and his brand of nationalism. Darn tootin.
No need to put real in quotation marks.
Allan
His brand being democrats stole the election from him in 2020.
His lapdog Perdue is aping that saw in the Georgia governors race.
Kemp, the real conservative will win easy.
Allan
Several writers on National Review have come out for maintaining Disney’s independent tax status. Some newspapers have a policy for their journalists that if they own stock in a company they have to reveal that when they write articles on the company. Does National Review have that policy?
PhillyGuy
The analogy doesn’t really work but: yes.
Oryx
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Sure, why not? If you don’t like it, go to KFC. 
My criteria: takes payments from and supports corporations such as defense contractors, banks, pharmaceutical and media companies ahead of individual citizens and has no problem trampling on the Constitution to do it. RINOs talk about being pro-Constitution, but their actions show they are on the side of collectivism as well as the Democrats.
GWH
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Patriarchally speaking, of course.
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That feeling when the intellectual of your movement slides from National Review to 4Chan and GRU.
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The right here has this weird, disjointed relationship to its past—intellectual history, principles, institutions, political figures. The insights from the hannity forum have diminishing returns, but watching that process unfold in real time—it’s so illuminating. For anyone who came here during the Bush/Iraq war years—jeez . . .
So, I believe we are pretty much in agreement. An adherence to our Constitution is an essential ingredient in distinguishing swamp creatures from loyal, patriotic American citizens.
JWK
“If the Constitution was ratified under the belief, sedulously propagated on all sides that such protection was afforded, would it not now be a fraud upon the whole people to give a different construction to its powers?”___ Justice Story
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Actually, the analogy is perfectly representative because that is precisely the distinction between the Disney case and the prior Chick-fil-A case. You realize then of course that Chick-Fil-A would have no defense against the criticism they were getting from the Left then. Likely then they would be subject to sanctions in states like California.
PhillyGuy
