leh-nerd skin-erd

I said earlier that dealing with you is like playing Words with Monkeys. I apologize to the monkeys.

This is the second evolution of your original statement which read, profoundly: ********** Violently what? Please - elaborate “broken”’ one - source *********** 🤔🤡 BillSy says, and I quote: Please - elaborate - jenga, spelunking- source

I don’t think I’m an outlier on the whole “words” thing, but I suppose anything is possible. You started with this: Violently what? Please - elaborate “broken”’ one - source I politely clarified and asked for clarity from you. You proceeded to use phrases like “word porn”, “empty suit”, “f’n idiot” and claimed I was “full of schitt”, like you’re off rage-suppressing medication. Eventually though, with persistence and patience, I was able to empower you to provide clarity, and coax this out of you: You said VIOLENT ASSAULT What does that mean to you? Why all the hubbub and frostiness when you had to rework your thought process to undue the gibberish? Say what you mean, mean what you say. Here’s a link from CNN describing the events alleged to have occurred, which would constitute a violent assault to me: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/02/politics/tara-reade-allegation-joe-biden/index.html I think this is what Kamala was talking about when she said she believed his accusers. I think, too, that when Joe groped the women he ended up apologizing to, it would be up to each victim to say whether there was a violent “sexual assault” or simply that an assault occurred. You get into issues over forcible touching, the power dynamic etc. How would you characterize the allegations against Biden?

You’re going full Deprade these days. Stay out of the Home Depot brah. I’ll let the current VP address this. Is it really a stretch that a guy who fondled women professionally would have these issues? https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437107-harris-i-believe-biden-accusers/ https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-says-believe-181901449.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJh4iQ2sLLQ0cVv0IN4RamsbcpOL1E7BTa6B8BFkhE_wb0T5TvAogSg9KQnSpDofPDavnp_-82GKCztZR3-9OZ5SXEixrEiFXeUqQw26uuIu_KloX9bEzvbiMWUBCbaEodPnBUn66-0B0scSstmtcm2EsEZLCpcEeJBWL1SrlBeL https://nypost.com/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-believed-joe-bidens-accusers-until-she-didnt/

I hope one day the history books are rewritten so that our ancestors were clothed in strictly vegan outerwear. I’m not saying put them in wicking fabrics or Nikes, that’s a bridge too far, but those animal pelts were savage.

Ok, I see now that “source” is critical to my understanding here. Thank you. Please elaborate, broken one. Source! Please. Elaborate, broken. One source? Please elaborate, broken. One, source. Any way I try and rework these words it comes back gibberish. It’s like playing Words with Monkeys. If you remember what you actually meant, let me know. In the meantime, 👨🏻‍🦯.

Thanks, that was supposed to say “violently assaulting a woman”. I appreciate you pointing that out. “Please - elaborate “broken” one - source”….reads like a climactic scene in a Jason Bourne movie, but I don’t understand what it means here. Can you please elaborate?

Being a saint has nothing to do with it, but I did enjoy the chuckle and the CNN crawl about ::gasp:: vulgar comments. Biden was off groping women, is credibly accused of violent assaulting another, and Hillary is perhaps the greatest enabler of sexual predation in American politics. That’s what these people do. Fact is, vulgarity isn’t a crime, Trump’s womanizing ways have been well-established for decades and if Melania is cool with it, what’s the problem for you? It seems like it broke you.

My goodness dude, you’re a Neanderthal. Powerful men uses connections, innuendo and the threat of destruction to silence a victim. This is nothing new, and backwards thinking folk like you are complicit.

I didn’t realize you were holding back…🤣

That’s your standard? Why didn’t E J Crazy pursue criminal charges against DJT when the incident allegedly occurred? Here’s the fact— Biden has admitted inappropriately touching women, and his VP has stated she believes Tara Reid was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden. What that lead to was millions of people voting for him to be President, that is to say, people like you…and Frenx….and others made him the most powerful person in the world in essence saying certain women don’t matter. Trump has been the exception to the rule on govt tyranny—defending himself with a big FU with bogus claims of being a Russian plant, and being the target of political persecution. Most people would have cracked by now, and I’d think TR recognized her best course of action is to lay low and let this old man continue on his path to cognitive decline. It’s a story as old as time, really. Powerful people get away with things like this. Hell, Kamala sold out to be his VP, what chance would Tara Reade have?

Well, the compassion switch didn’t trip after he was down, perhaps overridden by the steady surge of adrenaline going through her system. She went from being worried about her own life to shooting him to wandering around apparently replaying it in her mind over and over. Seems like she was in shock tbh.

That was after you reimagined what I wrote, in response to my question seeking clarity, or words to that effect. ✌🏻

Which ones…the tax version or the part where you reimagined what I actually wrote?

Thank you, I thought you might be referring to these comments, but since you said “…to that effect” it pays to seek clarity. I believe you’re misinterpreting what I said. “Following the narrative…” was an important part of what I wrote, and I didn’t suggest anything about what people might/might not miss. If you’re earning $750k per year and in the highest tax bracket, contributing an extra 13-20% of your income may not impact your lifestyle, depending of course on your lifestyle. The same argument can be viewed at any income level when we’re speaking about the emotional appeal of ‘doing more’. Whether you would miss it is a separate issue altogether and best viewed through the prism of time. People who support the fair share argument can always do more, at least to the point that they have paid 100% of their income in tax.

Hmm. “…something to that effect” covers a lot of ground, some/much of it subjective. Can you be more clear?

You could be right—one got laughed out of a political bid for the WH for creative storytelling, on something demonstrably false, easily refutable and at that stage of his career completely unnecessary. To his credit though, it really seemed that he wanted those particular lies to be true. At some point, you have to appreciate his dedication to making things up.

There is that…and of course, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Joe Biden…..

Red, we don’t grow as a society worshiping false idols and honoring sacred cows. The next pandemic where we don’t get the opportunity to revisit mistakes made by leadership and science will likely be much more devastating if we don’t address the challenges and silliness of the last one. As a science guy, you seem unwilling to address the systemic challenges we faced as a nation as it came to messaging, consistency and delivery. To a certain extent, that makes sense because great technicians don’t always make great leaders. As for me being in charge, I’m not trained in crisis management on a large scale, though I try to be adaptable and forward-thinking where I can in my life. I’d suggest I’m moderately successful in that regard, and most importantly to me, I try to take ownership of things that go wrong in my plan. If your answer is to stomp your feet and pretend everything is fine, all I can say is between you running the show, and me running the show, I’d choose me.

We didn’t get science. We got an exceptionally strange brew of political malfeasance and locks downs for some, but not all….especially and notably the political class. That was layered with a heavy, heavy dose of citizens hysterically screaming at others about their choice to forgo the vax. I had a series of conversations with a poster professed to be a man of science, and he certainly seemed to be. At one point, he waxed philosophically about removing children from their parents, and at another sequestering the unvaxxed on an island with exposure to other virus/disease. At the same time, when asked about protestors lining the streets during the height of the pandemic, he acknowledged (ultimately as a result of my pestering, as I recall) that such activities would lead to death…but absent was the rage that promoted such talk about removing children and placing people on islands. In a nutshell, that was the biggest takeaway for me during the pandemic—-the overlay of science, anxiety, rage, emotion and ultimately politics. Looking back, some of the people who were demonized were on the right side of virus management at least from their personal perspective. Many of our politicians were on the wrong side and should be ashamed by their actions. Some of the leaders of the scientific community were impotent and weak.

That’s never going to happen and as such, I don’t spend much time thinking about it. Truth be told, I don’t have a major problem with a progressive tax. My issues tend to me more the audacity of Congress and people who support continuing to raise the tax rate. Based on a 37% federal income tax rate, a person works Jan 1 through May 15 for the government, and that assumes no state or other tax, of which there are many. It’s absurd. On the other hand, this notion is “fair share” spread by many, including Sanders, is just another bs political talking point. There’s no such thing in a progressive system, there are always people carrying a heavier burden to prop up the system. Thankfully, he’s an old timer and with luck, his time in office will draw to a close soon. Then he can be frank, ernest and gone.

Hmmm. I was thinking of Washingtonian’s higher up on the chain, senatorial/presidential level. That wasn’t meant to be a compliment to those other than Sanders, btw. Santos is pretty high up on the list just based on the limited amount of time he’s been in office, but he’s a minor leaguer at this point. In fact, if you spread his stories out over a few decades he’s basically Joe Biden—making up and embellishing on a regular basis, often leaving people scratching their head as to why a particular embellishment was even necessary. I think Santos will be one and done pretty quickly, if he makes it that far, so l’ll leave him off my list for now. No argument he is f-o-s. If earnest means he’s full of cr a p, then yes.

Oh, then you definitely didn’t cover your fair share, and you’re really comfortable being lied to about who is at a disadvantage, especially given the impetus of the article you enjoyed so much. I respect your right to your opinion, but for all the full of $&@@ people in Washington, he’s probably the most full of it.

Me too. I’m not opposed to paying taxes and think it’s a duty one has to the country and his/her fellow citizen. I don’t think that precludes me from having an opinion on how that system plays out though. As for you, again, following the narrative, the fact that you have paid plenty of taxes doesn’t mean you’ve paid a fair share relative to the less fortunate R voters living in squalor in Okeyhoma. Likely, you should have done much, much more and it probably would not have impacted your lifestyle to any great degree. Beside that, what you’re advocating for is for people to vote for politicians manufacturing a story about who the poor and victimized really are, at least according to the story you linked. I believe if someone will lie for you, they will lie to you. The picture you’re painting isn’t a positive one where trust has been earned.

But you’re obviously a rich dude, living your rich life, supporting a narrative that doesn’t make sense given the article you just linked to. It makes sense that you would support the dem platform, demonstrably false according to the writer, because it allows you to avoid paying your fair share while pointing a finger i. The direction of the other guy. You’re doubling down on out of touch, so I’m going to have to go with you Rip Van Winkled through the Trump presidency. That’s cool. Odd, but cool.