SoCal Deek

Speaking from California, I believe the nation would quickly discover that Newsome is no more than the west coast version of Beto, at best. Trust me.

I apologize if you took it the wrong way. I’m not calling you stupid. The problem with the way this entire farce of a committee is being handled is that there is only one side to any of this being presented. There isn’t any cross examination, let alone a defense. If every court case was handled this way everyone in America would be in prison! If I give the committee the benefit of the doubt at the very least this should not be playing out in public. Even at your local school board meeting these sort of issues are handled in what is called ‘closed session’.

Hard to believe those Super Bowls were thirty years ago. Geez, I’m old! Go Bills….please

The same thing applies. People delete emails and texts all the time. It doesn’t, on its own, mean or indicate anything. I’m not saying it’s substantial or isn’t but do NOT simply accept or believe the stories you’re reading in the media, or from this committee. They are advancing a narrative. It’s their job. What’s unfortunate/purposeful is that they’ve acting like a Grand Jury (to use Tibs analogy) but doing it in public; not in private.

It’s not that simple. Electronic communications have made it really challenging for anyone involved in a court proceeding. I dare you to go back through all of your texts and emails over the last two years and see if there aren’t a whole bunch you really wouldn’t want anyone else to see. Go ahead…I’ll wait. And I’m also betting that none of the ones you don’t want revealed have anything to do with the actual court proceeding. Do people go back and delete texts and emails…you bet they do! Does it make them guilty of anything related to the case…no it doesn’t.

So in your world view you believe that ‘trusting the process’ means you get exactly what YOU want? I’d call myself pro-life and I believe everyone should be, but ‘trusting the process’ to me means that the issue/policy now rests in the hands of the people (through their elected representatives) and knowing that I may not get the legislative outcome I hope for. So…I guess we differ there. By the way….ILL…INI!

It’s literally the central theme of the entire book! What the heck were you told it’s about?

I wasn’t respond to you….but I’ve seen more and more on here lately. Everyone jumping into their trenches and opening fire in true trench warfare. We bypass the forest altogether and get lost in the trees and weeds. It’s right where the media and political class want us to be.

That’s correct. We’ve gotten so used to First World convenience that people don’t realize that convenience comes at a huge cost.

I can assure it’s done all the time. It’s not supposed to be but it is. Now you can go back to screaming at each other.

I’ll refer you to the Old Testament and then you can catch up….we’ll wait.

OK…I’m calling it! Fake news. This guy doesn’t have a single Ukrainian flag in his Twitter banner.

Now do the “don’t say gay bill”….we’ll wait, counselor.

I’m actually a LEED accredited professional. (Look it up) There are any number of things we ‘should have’. The challenge is viability of these should have ideas.

You can roll your eyes all you want, but assuming the Chi stand for Chicago, then I'm also assuming you're involved in crafting legislation in Illinois, or lobbying your legislators? Not sure what all the rest of this Message Board chatter is about. Get to work!

Funny you mention recycling. The latest stories are that we've recycled TOO MUCH, not too little. Some waste management companies have nowhere to put the stuff, so they're just collecting it and then dumping it in with everything else.

Trust the process people! Breathe.

I stepped away to get some work done. What did I miss? Is the guy in the bear suit the new Speaker of the House? Is Trump running the country for a secret bunker at Mira Lago? Is the coup complete?

Nice narrative but it doesn’t change what I said.

You answered your own question but quite possibly don’t even realize it. This entire proceeding is about things they say COULD HAVE happened or that some Trump people WANTED/HOPED TO see happen. The problem with that logic is that those things didn’t actually happen. The government wasn’t overthrown. None of the ‘armed’ protestors killed anyone. And the nut jobs who were all worked up into a froth, left peacefully of pretty much their own accord. But the so called select committee doesn’t want anyone to know that we already saw the end of the movie and that it ended with a whimper, everyone went home, and Congress certified the election before nightfall. The End

So the latest story is they’re accusing Trump of attempting to call a potential witness, saying that it’s tampering or something. And yet this entire proceeding being done on national TV (not in private like Grand Jury does) is the poster child for tampering with the entire American jury pool. But….you know…Trump or something.

I didn’t say they would. I said they should. But then again there’s almost nothing that the current commissioner has done that I’ve agreed with. 😉

You’re right. The mistake that Nancy is making is thinking that the allegiance is to Trump, the man. It isn’t! It is to the idea of a Trump figure who’ll speak truth to power. The best analogy I can come up with is that Trump was John the Baptist. He is not the savior.

Hey! At least I got him to call me a bigot yesterday. I consider that a big win. 👍

Of course he is….but then again you were saying that for FOUR YEARS leading up to January 6th. So there’s that.