James Crockett

Husband, father, lifelong Catholic, retired USCG LCDR (prior enlisted), soon to retire for good

[James Crockett @jamcrock1964]

@GovernorVA Thank you, Governor Youngkin!

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@JoshShapiroPA Damned shame that you want to force union membership and corresponding dues on workers who don't want that. Pretty anti-liberty position, don't you think?

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@RepVindman Specifically what is your legislative solution?

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@GovernorVA Illegal immigrants are not Virginians.

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@vademocrats The people of Virginia really don't seem that interested in more rail. They'd rather have better designed and higher capacity roads.

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...but you have no issue sending hundreds of billions in weapons, munitions, etc. to Ukraine. The Gulf nations should have knocked Iran down years ago, but they didn't, and as Iran kept getting closer and closer to a nuclear weapon, nobody did anything until President Trump did. We can reasonably disagree as to whether he did the right thing in initially attacking Iran, but your position, as usual, is hypocritical and driven solely by allegiance to your party, not to our country. If Joe Biden or another Democratic president had done the exact same sequence of actions regarding Iran, you wouldn't be saying any of what you're saying. I guarantee that you'd be supporting Biden, Harris, or whomever. That's hypocrisy and shows a lack of fundamental principles on your part.

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@GuntherEagleman By his logic, why aren't blacks already "back in the cotton fields?" He is such an idiot.

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@MarkWarner You could do the bare minimum for the SAVE Act, which is arguably more essential to the nation. Why won't you?

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I don't think we should be selling F-35's or any other of our most advanced technologies to any other country, but if you're going to do it, don't sell them to Turkey.

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The United States began as a nation of settlers, people who deliberately left everything behind in their previous country and created something never done as well before or since, a constitutional republic with the citizens' rights enshrined as not stemming from government, but "endowed by their Creator" and "unalienable." Unfortunately, the expectation that immigrants would come legally and assimilate into our culture is not so much an expectation anymore and will inevitably divide this nation irreparably if we don't restore the rule of law to our immigration system and ensure those who come here will contribute to the good of our nation rather than take from it and potentially subvert its principles, laws, culture, and overall way of life. When people go through the process of becoming Catholic, they are instructed in our beliefs, the Bible, the sacraments, prayer life, etc. If people can't find it within themselves to assimilate into the Catholic belief system, they do not become Catholic. The same logic holds true for becoming an American. The processes for both assume eagerness, or at least willingness, to enculturate, respect for the process, and belief that what they're doing is good and right both for themselves and for the Church or the U.S as the case may be. There is supposed to be a mutual benefit to the person and to the Church or nation. If a person comes here illegally, that person should be deported and given the opportunity to enter the legal process. Further attempts to enter illegally should be punished as stipulated in our federal laws.

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@BillClinton I'm not sure why it took 27 years for him to become a citizen.

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@catturd2 I was thinking something similar just the other day. Such happy, uncomplicated, uncluttered lives. They just live and look after each other and it appeals to me more and more as I age.

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@ElaineLuria How about decisions on vaccines? Are you good with "my body, my choice" on that?

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@JustineBateman @the_jefferymead Agreed. He's one of my favorites, along with @CynicalPublius and @TheOfficerTatum.

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@RepVindman @ReproCaucus Roe vs. Wade was never "the law of the land" since it wasn't a law. It was a Supreme Court decision and, yes, sometimes those get overturned. In this case, that overturning was justified.

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@TheDemocrats You don't care about election integrity, reducing the debt, securing the border, babies in the womb, the Second Amendment, religious freedom, and many other high priorities for many Americans, all of which would make our lives better. All you care about is holding on to power.

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@RepVindman Pass the SAVE Act. You can do both that and housing.

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@SteveC209687230 @HouseDemocrats Plus, the cuts were ostensibly to keep those not qualified from getting the benefit, which is a more responsible use of taxpayer funds. You're right about that not being a federal responsibility.

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@SenateDems @PattyMurray Child care should not be a federal responsibility. State and local governments can shoulder that, if needed.

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@MarkWarner You're complaining about unrelated legislation when you and just about every other member of Congress do that ALL THE Time to pretty much every bill??!!