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#5601 Post by Boac » Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:36 pm

52% of people agree with you.

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#5602 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:24 pm

...and 58% don't agree with me
37% replied "No habla"
22% replied "Look, I'm late for my train, just get lost would you?"
17% replied "Don't give me that; you're trying to sell me a cruise, aren't you?" ddrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
1% replied "Take me to your leader"

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#5603 Post by llondel » Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:26 pm

boing wrote:
Sun Nov 03, 2019 4:07 pm
We have no effective replacement for the clown presently in charge in the party in power.
I believe this is the biggest problem, no obvious leader who'd be acceptable to a broad majority.

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#5604 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:33 pm

No, they were quite specific that the replacement had to be a clown, not a leader.
There's an obvious replacement clown, but he is nowhere to be seen.
And the CEO of Maccy D's has just been fired for having sex with an employee.
Co-incidence? I think not ;)))

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#5605 Post by OFSO » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:36 pm

Yes, against the house rules. No laying pipe into the juniors. Quite right too.

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#5606 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:45 pm

Quite; no clowning around.

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#5607 Post by Boac » Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:19 pm

"and 58% don't agree with me" - Hrmpff - we'll put it down to stress? =))

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#5608 Post by Boac » Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:44 pm

That 'BAD' MSM are saying there was a Democrat 'upset' in the US - shirely not? Hopefully Humpty will be along to correct the 'fake news' with 'REAL news'.

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#5609 Post by llondel » Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:46 pm

He'll be slagging off the GOP losers shortly, even though last week he was having rallies to support them and saying how great they all were. Clearly they weren't as good as he made out.

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#5610 Post by Boac » Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:56 pm

Yes, fall out of favour and you go from hero to zero just like that. 'Loser'/'failed'/'shifty'/'sad' - add as appropriate. That's loyalty.

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#5611 Post by OFSO » Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:52 pm

You missed out "He *** like a dog."

*** Could be "died" or "resigned" or "slunk away" as appropriate.

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#5612 Post by BenThere » Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:27 am

What I want is for the voters to decide in November 2020 who their president is going to be. That's how we always did it until now.

Since taking the House in 2018 Democrats have been singularly focused on removing the president from office but have yet to raise any legitimate charges of actual criminal conduct that even approach a credible impeachment case. I don't think they're going to either. President Trump is probably the most investigated public figure who ever lived and has withstood 3 years+ of scrutiny by an army of hostile actors embedded in government, Congress, Hollywood, the established press and television news machine, and the education apparatus. What have they come up with? Zilch, Bupkis, Nada!

Trump is still in place, his base is as solid as ever, he continues to draw large crowds of supporters wherever he goes, and the opposition candidates likely to win the Democrat nomination are pathetically inadequate for the job. Right now, I'm feeling pretty good, but if things change for the worse, there's always Mexico.

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#5613 Post by Boac » Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:31 pm

Not all agree, Ben

"Donald Trump is like an ‘elderly uncle running pantsless across the courtyard’ of a nursing home, a senior White House aide has claimed. The anonymous author of new tell-all ‘A Warning’ likened the President of the United States’ conduct to that to a senile senior ‘cursing loudly about the cafeteria food, as worried attendants tried to catch him.’ They continued: ‘You’re stunned, amused, and embarrassed all at the same time. ‘Only your uncle probably wouldn’t do it every single day, his words aren’t broadcast to the public, and he doesn’t have to lead the US government once he puts his pants on.’ The jaw-dropping claim was one of several shared with The Washington Post ahead of the book’s publication on November 19."

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#5614 Post by BenThere » Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:51 pm

What you have pasted, Boac, is just another breathless Trump-hater creatively conceiving yet another smear. On the ground, the economy is grinding out new gains and record highs in the markets, and employment spread around all groups and ethnicities reaches continual new highs. Such advances haven't occurred since the days of Raegan.

I actually can sympathize with my friends who don't like President Trump for various reasons. I like President Trump because I think he is patriotic, energetically doing what I think he has taken on as his mission to restore America, and bleeds red, white and blue, like me.

For those who attack the administration without basis, who constantly hurl the insults of racism, bigotry, Islamaphobia, sexism, whatever ism they can contrive - I've got nothing but utter contempt.

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#5615 Post by Slasher » Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:41 am

As I’ve mentioned earlier Ben I don’t like Trump the man, but as POTUS he’s been bloody outstanding. He’s certainly made a few screwups (the “shithole countries” for one) but faux pas mainly.

You, me, and others would’ve cracked under the ruthless nonstop pressure during the past 3 years from the Democrunts, socialists, marxists and the godawful media with its own agenda. Says a lot of his determination and tenacity. I would’ve quit, moved to a tax haven with my millions and told the lot of ‘em to stick it up their arse.

While my interest in America is financial really, nonetheless it’s a real damn shame to see once-esteemed colleges churning out pure fcukwits in line with socialist Corporate aims, the talk of Sanders and Pocahontas taxing billionaires so that the present socialist Corporate remain unchallenged by fresh blood, and that the likes of the Four Whores of the Apocalypse not only exist in Congress but are taken seriously by the idiocratic Unwashed of American society.

No one I know is against Capitalism that gives a sh!t (social democracy) but after 2020 the POTUS will have to seriously address the terrible problems described above before the worst happens.

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#5616 Post by BenThere » Sat Nov 09, 2019 6:41 pm

Thinking about your post, Slasher, and I always pay attention to your posts, what I like about President Trump most is his openness and clarity in delivering what he's thinking, constantly, through Tweets, rallies, press sessions, etc. He's the most open president we've had in generations. And as a man, I am no better as I have faults,

I have opinions, I've made mistakes, I've stood corrected, but I always defended my honor, and that was always the most important value to me. I'm proud to say as I enter my autumn years, my honor is intact and I'm so proud of it. We can define honor in different ways, but my definition is that you do what you think is right, every time, even though there may be negative consequences.

At its apogee, honor is sacrificing your life in combat to save the lives of your fellow soldiers, or the lives of innocents. In my mind you can't achieve a higher station than that.

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#5617 Post by Alisoncc » Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:21 pm

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At its apogee, honor is sacrificing your life in combat to save the lives of your fellow soldiers, or the lives of innocents. In my mind you can't achieve a higher station than that.
And it's nadir, is to use a doctors note to get out of doing so. Like Colonel Bonespurs.
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#5618 Post by Boac » Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:30 pm

President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." His style - "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis."

Humpty's foreign policy: "Bray like a demented donkey and carry a little one" His style - "the exercise of lack of intelligent forethought and of indecisive action well behind any likely crisis."

You, Ben, prefer Humpty?

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#5619 Post by BenThere » Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:28 pm

No. I think your premise is fraught with mischaracterization. "Bray like a demented donkey". Do you expect me to take you seriously?

And Alison, most everyone my age didn't want to be drafted during the Viet Nam war years. I evaded by going to college and making good enough grades to maintain my draft deferment. Was it honorable? Maybe not in your view. I did voluntarily join USAF upon graduation and served during the Vietnam era though I wasn't deployed there as the war was winding down when I got my USAF pilot wings.

If you want to go after every one my age who had a Viet Nam evasion strategy, not just those you politically oppose, go ahead, there were millions of us, including Donald Trump, and I suspect you would find more dishonor among those who you agree with today. Do you have the same disdain for those who spit it the faces of our soldiers, considered them disgraceful baby-killers, and rejected and discredited their service? I hold Viet Nam vets in especially high regard for reporting for duty, enduring their tours, and then facing a generally ungrateful nation on their return home. That was a much larger stain than 'Colonel Bonespurs', a categorically false characterization.

The only splash back I ever experienced was that when I reported to my first flying squadron in Northern California, near Sacramento, policy was that we couldn't commute to work in uniform as it was provocative and possibly dangerous in the political environment of the mid-1970s. So we changed clothes once safely on base, after proceeding through a line of protesters, Grandmothers for Peace, for example. Then we went about winning the Cold War.

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#5620 Post by John Hill » Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:40 pm

BenThere wrote:
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At its apogee, honor is sacrificing your life in combat to save the lives of your fellow soldiers, or the lives of innocents. In my mind you can't achieve a higher station than that.

Ben, you must know that adoration of the military is not a healthy characteristic of any society.

Have you ever thought of thanking the guy on the garbage truck for keeping your streets clean and disease free? He probably does more for your well being than most every single one of your military forces.
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