leh-nerd skin-erd

Oh my goodness, the takedown of the guy claiming an increase in hate speech on his twitter feed was absolutely brutal. Simple, elegant, direct, and passively confrontational. Reminds me of an @Irv post.

My goodness, the hubris of this lady. I especially love the family counseling angle and advice to go to a foreign country if children are in the plan. She may be Tibsy's sister.

Frank says he's a Bernie bro.

That makes sense, though Putin hijacking tractor-trailers and dumping ballots north of Des Moines is a lot better story.

Reasonable take, perhaps.

I understand what you're trying to say, but you're simply missing the much larger point.

Dear SectionC3, I think the intoxicating allure of counting your benjamins has you all hopped up like a meth head. Instead of slap fighting the air, consider sharing more of what you have with those less fortunate. 💝 Warm regards and fondly, Leh-nerd

We can come back to this at the appropriate time. In the meantime, I'm reminded of the song "Turn Turn Turn" and the thought-provoking lyrics: To everything turn, turn, turn There is a season turn, turn, turn And a time to every purpose under Heaven A time of love, a time of hate A time of war, a time of peace A time to dunk A time to re-frain from said duh-nking

I tagged you because you made the claim that no minds are changed or thoughtful dialogue occurs here. I didn’t mock you, wasn’t trying to enrage you and didn’t consider your comments in that regard in the same category as some of the other dopey stuff you post. I do have to laugh about the “dumb old fat ass” comment. As I’ve said previously, I’m an optimist generally, work to stay positive emotionally and physically. My old dumb ass found that’s the best thing to remain healthy, keep the excess pounds off, stay engaged and live a full life. I understand you’ve had challenges that I haven’t faced, but we’ve all faced challenges, trials and tribulations in life and I’d think it incumbent on each of us to manage our way through. Quite a few years ago, not long after I started a business, I was feeling the crushing weight of what I was up against, negative and worried about how I was going to provide for my young family. I reached out to a mentor to vent and get some validation for what I was feeling. His words, plus or minus, were “Respectfully, Leh-nerd, I’ve listened to you talk for 10 minutes about all the negative things going on, and I’m wondering if I’m hearing it, maybe your team is as well? How do you think that impacts them?”. * He is was right, and I’m telling you sure as the sun shines I’m correct now. Out of respect for your feelings, I’ll cease tagging you or replying to your posts. * After this conversation, I was driving and watching a hawk soar with a beautiful blue sky behind it. I felt….I don’t know…like a weight had been lifted and I was somehow…free, yes, free. Like a bird. I wrote down my thoughts…and…well, now you know the rest of the story….

Excellent, though I have to wonder how many party goers went straight to the voting booth for Trump/Vance after the political dissertation on the good old Chairman Mao days from a certain snake-haired lass with the cool eyes and smoky smile. @4th & long While she may have implied that I’m fat and smelly, Comrade Kay has provided some excellent feedback in the vast drudgery of her prose. I’ll check up on the Brigid Alliance a bit later, doing my best to avoid the bias stereotyping evident in CKA’s post.

I believe you should probably file this under “Elections”, a new subcategory of “Special Rule for Electeds”.

I believe @Andy1 is trying to say something, but it is hard to hear him down at the card table with all those children playing. It sounds like something about “blurder“ and “Fliz Flainey”? Could be my hearing.

So melodramatic. World traveler. Tilling Soil. No one understands problems like the world travelling soil tilles. You should consider a name change to BringMetheHeadofOneofTheKardashianSisters. I done my book'learnin too, Ron.

Oh...look...L has money. 🥱 Oh, look, L mentioned his money again. 🥱

Excellent product placement by Doritos, though. Top notch ad buy.

If you didn't know her platform targeted supporters of the other party as nazis, garbage, and fascists, or that she didn't eviscerate a SC nominee with claims of sexual assault, or participate in a pattern of political persecution over an 8 year period, and...wait, where was I? Not horrible, not particularly unifying or conciliatory, but on the bright side...her hubby didn't seem to be overcome with rage.

She should revisit criminal charges against Cuomo, Schneiderman, and Elio Spitzer. I think she should acquaint herself with an employer's right to deny employment to a person convicted of a felony in NY, and serious penalties for not complying.

There was complete clarity in 2016, the liberals just refused to adjust to accommodate said clarity. Fair enough in immigration reform. Dems pitch on highly educated whites contrasted sharply with the "It's not your fault you owe the college money", and people can identify a disconnect like that from a mile away. Ironically, Chuck Todd used that expression--"Highly Educated democrats" to point out the tone-deafedness of leadership of the party. Throw in some überwealthy democrats and fossilized rock stars living lives of excess and luxury, it's surprising at times they got as many votes as they did. In addition, imo, the dems vastly overplayed their hand on criminal charges and what has come to be called as "lawfare". Just read that Garland/Smith tapped out on their version of political charges. Admittedly, they had some steam when they initially kicked the doors in, but a hot second later JB is fessing up to pilfering all sorts of classified docs over the years. Again, the average American without major political affiliation smells hypocrisy from a mile away. Fair. Continued ugliness and a major cash cow for politicians. Again, Chuck Todd gave some extraordinary figure for marketing associated with abortion...in the multiple billions. I would write in for @muppy. Agreed--Wide open like a Clinton intern. I'll be interested in seeing Vance's development. I enjoyed his time on Rogan, and he seems like a pretty sharp guy. He's not a fundamentalist like Pence, is quite articulate and seems like he can handle himself in a scrum. She was queen for about an hour After that, ***** got sour She took all I ever had No sign of guilt No feeling of bad, no feeling of bad She ****ing hates me So far, so good.

Muppito! Welcome back--I nearly tagged you the other day but know you don't always like to be dragged in. Hope your wrist is healing well! I'll offer an opinion here--The theory of voting in lockstep is a myth. Certainly there can be tendencies, but individuals consider these issues individually, not collectively across the board. A family that came through the US through proper channels likely faced hardship, time, and expense to be welcomed in. It seems completely consistent that they may feel that a person/persons bypassing the system with tacit approval of government ae taking advantage of the system. Beyond that...it seems to me that while a person from, say the Dominican Republic may have one feeling about another Dominican, but a completely different thought about a Haitian or person from Ecuador. "Heartless and cruel" largely defines our system as it stands right now. People make their way up to the border, victimized by traffickers, victimized by cartels, victimized by governments. On this side of the border, the same pattern plays out at times, often with citizens being victimized. I get the emotional appeal of this, and would happily support some compromise that brings common sense and respect for the law together, but tbh, this is a massive problem anyway you slice it. Despite all that, Mupp, he was the consensus choice for getting things done that need to get done. Respectfully, people likely feel that way about people you would support, and that's a story as old as time. Ha--you need to turn in your lib card if you think this was a meltdown! You didn't even set fire to police car! See ya Mupp! Ps: @4th&long--Mupp is another poster with views different than mine who has given me pause to consider how I look at the world.

Good stuff, S3. Can't argue your perspective. @4th&long, we were discussing whether or not conversations lead to people changing their minds, or considering alternate opinions. I told you my experiences here--S3 is a poster who educated me on a particular topic a while back. Something like this post is easy--it's reasonable and while I think the topic of "morals" in politics generally is kind of funny given the last few dem nominees, I certainly can understand his view on things. I'm typing all this at the risk of summoning the ghost of L'Ron and his fireworks/a-bombs/sex toy/apples analogies--that's how much I want us all to heal.

I almost feel that he is....😉

You told me my end would come inside of 24 hours, and actually provided a 4th&countdown watch of sorts. Now my "day" has been temporarily rescheduled. With luck--you benefit in the form of lower taxation, stripped back regulation to get the assistance you need. I get you don't believe either party can help, but in fairness the one in the charge is 4 years deep. But yeah, you went all Mike McDaniel with a "I wish it were colder!" shirt and it ended the same way as that did. ☮️

Kudos on the call, B. One question that I'll direct to you as the Board's elder statesman and resident bon vivant. Does the 24 hours referenced by @4th&long commence with the victory speech, race called by media, when one wakes up the day after the night before, or inauguration day?

I'm a traditionalist, and try to use names as a term of respect in person. I think it's important, and do it here for the same reasons. It also helps me in recalling the positions people have taken, especially as I get older. I have called you Ja many times in the past, JaCrisp on occasion and always look forward to your thoughts. You provide a different perspective and I appreciate that. I didn't want to appear too formal, BringMETheHeadofLeonLett is bulky and I'm sure only his mother calls him that. "Bring" didn't do it..no to MeThe...Leon could have been confusing. Head seemed to make the most sense. 🫡

You're overreacting and probably sleep deprived, Head. You just chose the wrong camp this time, just speaking from the W/L perspective. Less people agreed with you, your thoughts and your candidate. If imagery provides any useful information, it seems fairly clear that you lost---now wait for this, it's important--the First Lady of your party and her husband. Obviously, there are times when members of an administration come out against their party choice (a member or two from Trump's team have defected, you may have heard), but the front runner from just a couple months back? Absolutely astounding, and indicative of complete and utter chaos in the party. For what it's worth, I thought Harris would prevail. But in the calm light of day, looking back, yowza. @thenorthremembers, I know you shared thoughts as well about liberal views that Harris didn't get a chance to tell her story. I wanted to consolidate here because it's pretty obvious that Harris--while playing the lay low game---had far too much exposure to the public.