On a lighter note...

How about a DeSantis/Cruz ticket for the White House!! Won't be any BS taken there!

WELL...time for me to stick my nose into something that's quite entertaining from afar.....SO, in a conversation with one of my snowflake nieces....(have many) we're in a conversation, and somehow.....DeSantis name comes up...I have no idea how, as we typically banter about Trump.....she say's "God....I'd rather have Trump than DeSantis as president....I was blown away....we NEVER have talked about DeSantis....that came completely out of nowhere....I let it go....so, these snowflakes already have their preconceived notions about him...I guess from MSNBC, or something...I happen to think he is outstanding.....no matter where he spends money....he's always looking out for his folks(Floridians) THAT'S HIS JOB!!!
coach and I already have an understanding....

:-)Rocky

Re: Desantis etc.

The voting public is often not told the stark truth about candidates. (Of course, the media also invents stark “truths” about candidates they do not like.)

Floridians made a narrow choice for Governor in 2018.

Ignorant as they were, they dodged a bullet.

But…the Party knew. And fully backed DeSantis’ opponent.

I won’t post details here, but anybody who cares can find them online.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ale-escort.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...each-hotel.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...each-hotel.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...each-hotel.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...s-bisexual.html

Well, this is what we’ve come to. Not just here but everywhere.
Ya can’t discuss politics now a days, without people calling each other names and yelling and screaming because someone has a different opinion.
It’s the reason I rarely talk politics with family members and some friends anymore.

There is not ONE politician on this planet that is worth damaging a family relationship or a friendship over. NOT ONE!

How did we get to a point where people think its ok to put a sign on the lawn, a banner or a bumper sticker that says … F@*K Biden or F@*K Trump????
What do these people think the neighbors 6 year old child will do, say, think when they see that?
THIS is what it has come to and it’s terrible. And I’m no prude, but there is a time and place for everything. And this is a perfect example why a lot of us will not discuss politics anymore. Totally un-civil behavior on the part of most people these days.
Very unfortunate.

Tony
You hit the nail on the head. Both my parents were "yellow dog democrats", in other words, they would vote for a yellow dog rather than vote for any Republican. I was, and still am, in the opposite spectrum. My folks and I had some interesting conversations over the years while they were still living, but it was always civil and we still hugged and kissed goodnight.
When I was running large cross country pipeline projects, I had many employees with various political views, and we too, had some interesting encounters, but when we socialized most Friday or Saturday nights, we each respected each other, and worked together. I hope that can be the case for this group. Remember, that no matter how we try, none of us are perfect in any way, nor are we right 100% of the time. Be nice.

Pap

Absolutely Pap!

Kisses and hugs to you Coach!!

There are only two kinds of politicians, the ones that are stealing and the ones that are planning on stealing. old guy

welcome to my world....I'm quite used to keeping my "pie hole" shut, as are most of my kin....I, along with only one other sibling, are of the conservative side....the remainder are liberals....all good....we all know just do not talk about it. it only belittles you....you are not going to change me, and I am not going to change you.....that about covers it....unless you add liquor...then, the fireworks really get going!!!
however...as Scott reminded...this is the "open" area of the forum, and I suppose this is what is to be expected
P.S....I even removed my "lets go Brandon" yard sign last weekend when some of my kin came over for dinner....

:-)Rocky

Became a member of this on-line group, still the only non-professional, on-line group I interact with, several months after meeting and then hanging out many times with Rhett and Janie in their Meadows of Dan store and other places. Because I liked knives in general, Randalls in particular and then, the people I was meeting who had similar interests….Interacted by phone, internet and way too few eye-to-eye interactions with many folks, like D.W., Capt. Chris, some Randalls and shop folks, Perry Miller, Jim Behring, James, Tony, Pap, & several others; always around knives, hunting, veterans and supporting them, camping, fishing and life. ALWAYS pleasant, polite and NEVER derogatory,calling names & negative and NEVER about politics.
The positives I’ve enjoyed here so outweigh the negatives BUT the only reasons I’ve ever thought of not opening this site again have always been because of over the top, unnecessary rudeness and this behavior increasingly almost always about Trump era political rudeness. I try to NOT participate in this BUT sometimes have let myself jump in anyway.
I agree with Tony and Pappy’s words above, feel certain we don’t march in step always politically, but danged if I don’t respect each of them and their words. I plan today to NOT participate in any of the negative, political claptrap on here, even if it is under this “Bad, Ugly…..”, and not even if under another thread and several pages of the wacky, crazy comments that……..ooppps, ‘bout messed up.