Honest question to #MAGA minders. When was America at its greatest? Can you tell me an era that reflects the “Again” that you hope we return to?
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I guess when you have lots of money you cannot feel when America is in decline.
We’ve just emerged from an administration that
-told us we weren’t any more exceptional than any other country
-that despite whatever you have you didn’t do anything on your own, you didn’t build it
-that the constitution cannot be upheld without a wise Latino to give it a thorough going over with a new way of thinking
-that are manufacturing was done, over, never to return
-that America citizens would just have to accept the “fairness” of globalist scheme to profit off of cheap labor and transfer wealth to emerging countries
-that NASA’s nothing without Muslims in it
-that the most beautiful sound on earth is the Muslim call to prayer
-that we are a downright nasty country
-that the country wasn’t complete until you agreed that a gender queer with a penis should be in closed quarters with your daughter and wife in the bathroom
-that what the military needed were more Bradley Mannings and Bowe Bergdahls
There was a general feeling that our president wasn’t all much enthused with America as world leader and it sounded like Hillary was going to be an extension of Obama.
Enter Trump, to return us to the time when America was the world leader, when we were exceptional, when any person truly believing in that, no matter what their color was, was a patriot.
For me, I want to return to a time when someone grabbing their nuts and stepping on our flag while waving their shithole country’s flag was the very last time they would ever do that, because every proud American would see to it that that person got a wooden shampoo.
Too many people now agree with the nut grabber.
That does not make this country great.
I grew up with Mayberry & Leave it to Beaver.
Civilized times with simple decency & courtesy
and respect for private property where ladies did
not spit or use vulgar curse words.Where degenarate
sodomites KNEW to stay in the closet.Where women
did not have hideous tattoos all over their lady parts!???
Maybe we cannot ever go back there but can we at least get back to some civility,10 commands & Bill-O-Rights ???
In the 60’s and 70’s in rural America. Men were men and women were women ……. boys were boys and girls were girls. There was no nonsense about the infinite number of “genders” or that homosexuals deserved special “rights” above and beyond those of every American citizen.
Families could get by on the breadwinner’s salary (the father) if necessary and still not be dirt poor. That was before local, state and federal taxes were required to support foreign invaders that demanded that Americans pay for all their wants and needs (which required both parents to work and pay in more taxes).
That time when America was still great was when Americans still believed in the God of the Bible and that our ultimate destinies had something to do with our belief in Jesus Christ and how He would want us to live our lives.
It was when our politicians at least acted like they loved America and believed in America as a concept and they didn’t blatantly disrespect America’s citizens by trying to replace them with foreigners that had no loyalty to America as a country or a concept of freedom as envisioned by our founders.
It was when the supposed “law enforcement” agencies in our government actually enforced laws regardless of political affiliation or “minority status”. And a time when treasonous, lying scum that tried to abuse their power and authority to overturn the results of a valid election were hung by the neck until dead, just as they should be.
I used to like “Opie” when he was a kid on the TV, but he’s proven himself to be a subversive, moronic hack over the years from when he was a cute kid on The Andy Griffith Show. He and several others are irrefutable evidence that Hollywood ends up destroying everything it touches including “child stars” that live in the bubble of progressive bullshit.
When you were Opie, Ron.
That period of time between the pilot for the Andy Griffith Show and the successful return of Apollo 13.
Do those bookmarks make it any clearer? I tried to use touchstones you could identify with Mr. Howard.
There, that’s when we were at our peak.
We were great when Hollywood commie faggot shitbags were a rarity. When the country was filled with CITIZENS not foreigners, who LOVED this country and took pride in her.
Dopey Opie says it all with that question. His distain for this country is clearly in the question.
The United States as a nation is the sum of it’s people, if you don’t like americans then you don’t like the country.
What makes this country exceptional is a CONCEPT if you don’t understand that then you don’t understand the country.
This country has flaws but most of the biggest ones are created by people on the left with their warped ideas.
I am happy to admit that I have no idea what a “wooden shampoo” procedure is. And please don’t let me know!
shut up Opie
You grew up in it, jerk.
In Hollywood.
Ronnie Howard is a year younger than I am. I’m 65 he’s 64, having said that I’ve always thought he was overrated particularly as he became older. I never liked Happy Days, enjoyed American Graffiti though, mostly because of the music from that era. We were at our best as a nation right after World War 2 up until about 1968 when the shit hit the fan over Vietnam and the new left was formed. And I think we were still OK up until the mid 70’s after Nixon resigned and Jimma Carta became President with his lowered expectations for America and his embrace of the Ayatollah Khomenei and the forced removal of the Shah of Iran from power in the middle East. There was a resurgence of greatness under Reagan which was lost by the elder Bush and slick willie and even W who was nothing but a place holder and then we got the bamboozler who was the worst presidunce this country has ever seen. Trump may be the real deal and even better than Reagan at helping to restore us a nation with lots of help from God. The left and the aging dumbass baby boomers who got us into this mess back in the mid 60’s notwithstanding. I have more hope for my children and grandchildren now because I believe the tide is turning because the average American people AKA the Deplorables are fed up with the ashes of the failed policies of the past 50 years since LBJ and that includes a lot of blacks and other minorities who are wising up as well and realizing they’ve been sold a false bill of goods by the so called benevolent democrap party. I believe the best is still yet to come but it’s going to be rough getting there since the deep state is going to have a hard time relinquishing their power and authority over the American people and the rest of Western civilization as well.
@Geoff five thumbs up!
We’re likely never going back to the way we used to be, definitely not without a permanent national split that will have to make the Civil War look like a Sunday ballgame.
….maybe back to a wholesome time he portrayed on t.v.?
When?
When I and my family only lived 1/2 mile from where I do now and we only locked the front door when we left town for something.
I didn’t need a key to get in my home after school. So I never lost a house key or was locked out of my home because I lost it. Ever.
That’s when America was greater than it is now.
And yes, I agree that Carter was a signpost of going over the edge. Reagan was a reaction to that dropping, but the globalists wedged G.H.W. Bush in there and put us back on that path. Albeit slower than the globalists wanted.
Frustrated little bastards. Now they let it all hang out because so many of the Greatest generation has died off and they’ve indoctrinated so many of the youth.
Meerkat, no one needs to tell you. Just imagine some wood raining down on your head like a shampoo. Repeatedly. You’re fortunate if you can still rinse afterwards.
Excedrin, stitches, and the word concussion may apply.
“….maybe back to a wholesome time he portrayed on t.v.?”
It was a somewhat idealized, slightly glossed and fuzzed depiction of aspects of this nation’s true culture. But taking Andy Griffith’s lifelong support of Democrats as a clue, and the fact that the man was a brilliant actor (see his various villainous roles), it’s impossible to say how many people involved in producing the show actually honored it what they were depicting, they way (I think) we assume they did. Probably impossible to say.
But Griffith and Howard’s leftism (and who knows what views of the writers, etc) sometimes make me wonder if the show wasn’t really intended to be a very under the radar spoof, but was played straight enough that it was taken seriously and so was a hit. But I doubt it was a spoof, it plays too sincerely for that (at least that’s what I tell myself).
You’ve been in California too long when you ask questions like that.
We were great when Half the citizens of the country:
weren’t whiners
didn’t expect other to be responsible for their failures
didn’t shamelessly expect others to support them
wouldn’t take what didn’t belong to them
don’t know anything about our form of government
don’t feel any obligation to be good citizens
didn’t waste most of their day on pointless pursuits
would lend a helping hand to a stranger
did the right thing even if they thought no one was looking
had self-respect and respect for others
didn’t generally have shit for brains.
Nothing personal, Dopie.
What do you call mom’s basement where the snowflake lives? A whine cellar.
Hey Opie,
America was great before the entire FBI and DOJ
made it look like we’d be better off
with Barney Fife protecting the nation.
And they’d only have one bullet.
I can see someone who was born in the 80’s, or later, asking that question, but anyone Ron Howard’s age who has to ask a question like that should be f’ing deported.
How about back to a time when we sent our children to public school to learn how to read, write and figure. You know the way we did in the 30’s that gave us a generation capable of winning a World War. or those in the forties and fifties that allowed AMERICA to have a man standing on the MOON. Which, by the way no other civilization on earth has accomplished since then despite Mr.Opie’s insistence that America is the worst society this world has ever produced. Perhaps if our public schools once again instructed young Americans on reading, writing, figuring and morals and ethics rather than how evil America is and how much Global Warming has doomed the earth,maybe just maybe they could once again be the leaders of this nation and the world rather than medicated zombies intent upon shooting up their re-education centers. Also would it be too much to ask that our institutes of higher learning actually teach our young adults productive skills rather than the latest feminaziod clap trap about how dog parks perpetuate the “rape culture” of evil white men.
Rant over,
MSG Grumpy
@TP “When you were Opie, Ron.”
And that’s exactly the trap that jackwagons like little Opie Cunninham want us to fall into. It’s similar to how they willingly misinterpret when we say we want to “Take the country back.”
Back to when? See, there was still segregation back then. You racists! No, Opie. Back from people like YOU!!
For me when I think of ‘AGAIN’ it is when we go back to a time when the lunatics were mocked and laughed at instead of taken seriously. Like in the 80s, anyone suggesting ‘Father’s Day’ be changed to ‘Special Person’s Day’ would have been ridiculed, as they should be today. Instead we get assault after assault on traditional values, the courts being used to force people to do things they don’t morally want to do, our rights are being squelched, and our free speech is being stripped. What is so hard to understand? You are the one that changed, not us.
When Success was celebrated, and not Failure .
1955-1995. We had 40 years of our Golden Age before the rotting left
spread its disease enough to break
bring it to today’s bronze.
1955-1995. We had 40 years of our Golden Age before the rotting left
spread its disease enough to
bring us down to Obama’s bronze.
Trump may get us some of it back.
Anyone can take any point in the history of any country and turn it on its head.
Opie Cuntingham is just trolling.
Just because a country is not firing on all cylinders for 100% of the people within its borders does not mean that it is not a great time period to adopt the concepts, policies or values that made it great.
It is no surprise that the abortion party will point to the post-Ww2 era and lament womens rights or regional civil rights issues to throw the baby out with the bath water.
How about 1789 to 1859? The roaring 20s. The 80s to the early 90s and the spirit of innovation driven by rapid technological.
Oops. Nope. Poor people existed in all those times.
There is no right answer to a Leftist like Opie. But that’s where we are today. Opie Cunningham is a top 1% Communist and the actress that played Gidget and the Flying Nun is calling the president’s daughter a cunt and trying to hook her son up with Olympic no medalers for gay sex.
When aunt B’s apple pie on the window cell wouldn’t of been a gay wedding cake on the boob tube today.
I think a lot of the commenters skimmed the article. My initial impression was that he was coming from a leftward direction. But read a it a second time. I think he is actually conservative.
That said every overblown idiot on tv who has nothing but a big media created halo over their head can basically start keeping g their perfect ideas to themselves as far as I am concerned.
Heh Opie, you are white, male, and enjoyed the many luxuries of life when you were a kid and as an adult. Isn’t America great? Only place I know of where you can achieve prosperity, and live the life you choose to live. I’m happiest when a conservative is at the helm here in America. That was way back in Reagan’s day. I grew up in the 50’s. The shows like “Father Knows Best” and “Ozzie and Harriet” were not any where near reality. No matter how much I wished I lived in a family like that, it wasn’t going to happen. Even Opie grew up in a single parent household. Did he ever ask Andy where Mom was? So Opie, be happy that you’re still allowed to make movies here in America, because you wouldn’t of survived 1 day in Red China or Russia during the days of The Andy Griffith Show.
I think the ’50’s were great.
The 1850’s.
When star wars wasn’t about social justice.
Before you commies co-opted our government, asshole.
Why don’t you go back to making decent, wholesome movies and STFU about your twisted political ideology.
That would certainly help MAGA.
GREAT THREAD!
How about when “nihilistic” was only a word in the dictionary…
From an aging dinosaur born in the forties…
Howard has a long history of being a leftist.
His open query was just a tar baby for racists unaware of their historical white privilege to fling themselves against.
It’s the same troll about American Exceptionalism. It’s not about “We’re #1!!! USA, USA, USA!”
Which will inevitably come up by July 4th.
It is about, in the course of all human history, that people fought a war and won to form a representative government that enabled self-determination and that natural rights cannot be taken away from institutions of corrupt men or monarchs.
A struggle won where the victors did not appoint themselves kings for life and let you run your own life.
Not jingoism and ‘Murica.
I can tell you the start of what caused us not to be great. One key point in history that got all the dominoes falling. That’s when Bill Clinton did a favor for Wal Mart and granted China Most-Favored-Nation Trade Status. That was the birth of Globalism.
Were you fondled by Floyd the Barber? It would explain a lot.
When was America great? From July 4 1776 onward.
@TP June 15, 2018 at 4:05 am
What got into Opie Taylor and changed the young lad? Maybe Gomer Pyle did.
Gomer Pyle : Joe Biden
Compare and contrast. (essay or outline, 5 min. limit)
I’m glad I’m old enough to recall a time when everything wasn’t a political issue. Your neighbor may have belonged to a different party, but you both agreed there were fundamental traditions, institutions, and ideas that were necessary for the maintenance of society and freedom; church, family, patriotism, personal responsibility. Only a literal idiot would have disparaged these things. Now, they are mocked in the halls of academia.
Because we have strayed from our moorings, there is nothing left that transcends the “stuff of earth.” Politics, the “religion of man,” rules the day; everything is under its purview.
Yes, Ron Howard, there really was a greater time in America, where CEOs weren’t fired for supporting traditional marriage, didn’t have to apologize for eating a chicken sandwich, and it wasn’t an act of bigotry to say where babies come from.
It can be summed up simply, as Prager notes, the American Trinity – In God We Trust, Liberty, E Pluribus Unum – has been replaced by a Leftist Trinity – Secular Values, Equality, and Multiculturalism.
@BUTTHEADICUS alter ego of RADIOATIONMAN June 15, 2018 at 2:58 am
The house is fully engulfed in flame. Maybe we can’t rebuild. But maybe we can shovel up some of these ashes.
It’s a plan. I’m not saying it’s a good plan. But it is a plan.
@Anonymous June 15, 2018 at 8:28 am
> We were great when Half the citizens of the country:
> etc.
Do you ever even try to math, brah?
That never even could have ever been.
Ah, the frilliance of a putative republic with general suffrage.
When my wife was 8 years old (she wasn’t my wife, then – I’m not a raghead) and, when going to the Penn-Mar Shopping Center, alone, was admonished to “Be careful crossing the Highway.”
See how that worked, Opie? You were 8 years old at the time, too. Though, you were probably riding around in a limousine and being a butt-boy for the big-wigs in TV. “Just speak into the mike, l’il boy!” or, as Woody Allen’s alleged to have said: “Watch the train.” Maybe they used lots of lube and you just figured it was normal – I don’t know – but I DO know that that’s not how the rest of America was.
izlamo delenda est …
America was great when the Rosenberg’s where executed for treason against their country.
America will again be great when Hillary, Obama and the rest of the murderous progtards are occupying lamp post real estate by a taught rope.
When we were forced to elect a president because he was black.
Back when the climate was perfect. Check with Al Gore fore exact month and year.
Sit on it, Howard.