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Biden simply outlasted the generations that correctly identified him as a dimwit and appealed to whatever it is their children and grandchildren yearn for. He’s lied repeatedly for nearly 5 decades, and paid the price for it when he was rejected at the polls; He’s combative and quick to anger when asked simple questions from voters, and his default seems to trend toward challenges for push up contests; He’s threatened violence against his adversaries, infamously offering to take Trump “behind the gym”, knowing of course his “behind the gym” days were over 50 years ago. He treated women and children as his personal property for decades, grabbing, groping, massaging and smelling, often in front of their husbands and fathers. It’s classic predatory behavior for a guy who thinks the rules don’t apply to him. He’s made derogatory comments about men, women, Black citizens, Indian citizens and others. Of course, there is a serious allegation of violent sexual assault against a woman during a time when Biden was firmly entrenched as a leader in the Wild Old Boys Day in the senate. He was a major player in what often sounds as much like “The Wolf of Wall Street” as it does the dignified US Senate”. You can chop it up however you like, but the truth is he’s displayed an almost unbelievable lack of leadership given how many shots he’s had at the crown. All it really took for him to be elected was a stunning collaboration between government, media, technology, pandemic, and tens of millions of voters who ran directly toward the type of silliness their parents and grandparents rejected. What’s even more fascinating is how you are stumping for Joe while acknowledging he’s lost several steps from when he offered what passed for character and intellect. Comparing Biden to Trump with respect to age is completely fair, but all you did was vote for the dem version of the worst characterization of Trump.

The bell at the end of the initial session was outstanding.

Bernie Sanders?

In fairness, the lefty’s like to suggest their Chosen “own it”. Ex: Biden may be an acknowledged serial abuser, but he “owned it” so it’s like it never happened. To the modern liberal, the women he groped are actually the villains. I think it’s similar to a carbon offset. It’s perfectly acceptable to pollute the crap out of Mother Earth if you contribute to the appropriate causes. In fact, it’s admirable.

I don’t know Andy Reid from Andy Griffith. I’d hazard a guess that most here don’t. He could be the best father in the history of the world, or an abusive drunk who gave his boys oxy to deal with a sprained ankle for a middle school football game. All I know is he’s a football coach with a penchant for creating dynamic offensive football teams. Assuming he’s a decent human being trying to make his way in life, perhaps he employed his son not in an attempt to cover for him, but in an attempt to save his life. That decision does not logically lead, IMO, to what happened last night and the serious injuries to the children involved. For all we know AR went from the victory over the Bills to a family intervention to get his son back in track. I’ve learned to deal with what’s in front of me. What I don’t know about someone else’s life far, far exceeds what I know about people I actually do know. Btw—one thought. Quite a few years ago, I was speaking a guy who flipped drugs back in the day from a local city school. Their primary target was the school districts where the kids with money went, it really boiled down to simple math. That doesn’t make those kids victims, but society shows us this is much more complicated than rich v middle class v poor. Finally, my son injured his back (herniated disc) in hs athletics back in the day. I was always, always in my children’s ear about drugs, opioids and the like. I believe @Hapless Bills Fanmentioned wisdom tooth surgery causing some of these problems (and I agree), but my one nagging fear was some dopey kid telling my son that some painkillers he grabbed from his dad’s medicine cabinet could take the edge off. As a result, I told my son as often as I could about the danger of the one dopey kid. This was a very legitimate concern where he attended school. He listened, and I’m grateful.

Bernolovich Sanderzhnev.

“This thread don’t end until I say it ends!” -Everyone 2021

Very interesting perspective, and I agree with your assessment on why this is playing out on the dem side of things. To take it just a bit further, I think dem leadership recognizes the emotional immaturity of its base and and is playing to that crowd. We have seen it here over the past few days--the old "If he refuses to testify it makes him look even more guilty". You can have a rational argument with some people about the way our justice system works, why the ability to decline to speak on your own behalf is so vitally important to the concept of personal freedom, but with others you simply cannot. There are precious few new ideas in political life, and we see the same cycles repeat over and over again because they work, and people fall for it. The subtle differences between "Trump and Russia" and "McCarthyism" are really just a matter of degree and methodology of pursuing the allegedly treasonous party. The exact same argument being pushed today--"Well, if he doesn't testify, it sure makes him appear guilty" was made during Mueller's attempted purge, and really isn't all that far removed from the course of action followed in the Salem Witch Trials. It doesn't matter that the dopes lead by their noses on Russia morphed quietly from treason to obstruction, the premise being that if you refuse to submit, you're hiding something, and if you try to defend yourself on something that you did not do, you're obstructing the inquisitors. Personally, I like the angle he's taking, best summarized by International Criminal Leslie Chow.

So far today, we've learned: You are 100% cool with segregation/discrimination by a private business so long as it's included in their policy; Conversations about testifying under oath caused you, quite unnaturally, to change the subject to your very unhealthy riot fetish and an obvious freudian obsession with certain anarchist groups.

More guilty of what? Having common sense?

DJT says...Pass. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/trump-senate-impeachment-trial-testify-house-democrats

I found the text of this letter of explanation absolutely telling. And, when viewed through the lens that these folks often represent the most highly educated (and often at an extremely high cost), it's really easy to understand why folks like these are at the front of the line to have their college debt cancelled: In speaking about this with Dr. Williams yesterday, he reminded me that, “The rationale behind offering identity-affirming groups is based on current research that finds affinity groupings provide psychological safety, which fosters candor around one’s experience. For this initiative to succeed, we need safe places for this level of vulnerability, so we can understand and formulate an effective and transformative plan moving forward.” I'm not certain there was any evidence, ever, that people gravitate toward "affinity groupings". They used to call it tribalism, and, duh, people tended to remain int heir own affinity grouping to avoid, you know, dying.

If only....a cursory review...of the exclusionary policies guiding a privately owned business...might reveal....that answers such as "If you don't like it, go somewhere else"...was actually THE problem. So tier. So woke. So naive.

I swear I read a thread with an argument about the Kama Sutra. One person was mad hypin the “Dimpled Dog”, the other was promoting the health benefits of “Gushing Waterfall”. It got pretty heated. Wonder if that was it?

I wish I had a clue as to what the plan is. See, I'm a simple guy, and I can't see where any dem leader would ever be concerned about sworn testimony from any FBI agent or personnel. In fact, I would think they would invite it. Likewise, I would think the Rs would be perfectly comfortable moving forward with the impeachment as is. If, as is speculated, impeachment is dead on arrival, it simply exposes the partisan nature of the hearing and Americans can glean from that what they will. No hearts and minds will be changed. so imo it's a giant circle jerk. Btw--I'm happy to answer questions you have, but please, personally spare me the Oliver Stone "inside the war room" fictionalized account of these last crazy days. In this case, direct quotes are attributed to individuals, replete with characterizations about the state of mind of the participants, and events happening sequentially as outlined. It's basically a trial run for a screen play. Of course, at the bottom of this short story, the 'get out of jail free card' is included: About this series: Our reporting is based on multiple interviews with current and former White House, campaign, government and congressional officials as well as direct eyewitnesses and people close to the president. Sources have been granted anonymity to share sensitive observations or details they would not be formally authorized to disclose. President Trump and other officials to whom quotes and actions have been attributed by others were provided the opportunity to confirm, deny or respond to reporting elements prior to publication. You might be quite comfortable with this sort of thing, but it bores the crap out of me. It also makes me wonder how people who buy into this sort of dramadey make it through everyday life. If they were being truthful, at the end of this paragraph they should include: Since we did not hear back from President Trump and other officials, this must be treated as gospel and we dare not be questioned.

100% agree. Let's get this all out in the open. Excellent. Let's follow the rules of political combat and see it through. The impeachment can proceed, then the Garland hearings can begin. We don't want the senate bogged down in the meantime. Garland will be fine until then.

What’s the “good” point? This article is a bunch of horsepucky. The entire thing, top to bottom, soup to nuts.

Word to the wise. Clean up is a biotch on a no carb diet.

Again, just change a word or two and you’re the lead speaker in a pointy hat scene from “Mississippi Burning”. 73 million with an ‘illion’ go in the Bill’s naughty pile!!! I don’t understand how you can’t see that. People aren’t bad because they’re different, Bill. Sheesh. Your eyes may be open but your heart is closed. Regardless, that chuckin emoji makes me laugh every time.

The trouble comes when you can’t see beyond your own emotional horizons, NB. In spite of the overwhelming evidence that hundreds of millions of Americans go about their daily lives peacefully interacting with an incredibly diverse population, if it suits your sensibilities to presume the 73,000,000 to be bigots, have at it. We can discuss the incredible historical irony of you and the rest of the Soldiers of the Woke Army lumping tens of millions of people not like you into one deplorable class of characters at another time.

I’m not going after anyone. MWs comments were incendiary and were intended to incite violence when she made them, but you folks are cool with that sort of thing until you’re outraged.

What’s the problem with that post? It points to the incredible hypocrisy of the American political system, and how people lose objectivity when emotion gets involved. Watching the Dems trip over themselves without an ounce of reflection is quite telling.

Speech impediment. Classic. 😂😂😂

But it's not the 9th day of his involvement in the crisis. He's been relentless on the Trump,plan/no plan, relentless on how Joe is going to fix it, and should be very well-versed on numbers, delivery of vaccines and the Joe Plan. He's been all about getting things done with some moxie and good old-fashioned elbow grease, but he botched the optics with his maskless family, he botched the optics of the inauguration with folks coming from near and far to party in the Capitol, and he seems to have a very flimsy grasp on the some of the numbers associated with vaccines, the virus and where it's all going. In short, he seems confused an awful lot of the time. Heavy lies the crown.

I've read my comments a couple times and don't see where I ever said "if only teachers were willing.". I'm not sure if someone else wrote that, or if you're summarizing my comments as you see fit, but you missed the point of my post. @Doc Brown had shared his perspective with another poster in stating "I'm don't really understand this fatalistic attitude you have..." as it related to @Big Blitz comments about schools, virtual classes and so on. My response dealt with the reasons that some people might well have just that attitude. For those of us that followed the recommendations, it simply seems like the science is arbitrarily enforced, that COVID hovers over some large gatherings of people in major cities while seeking out Thanksgiving dinner with Grandma like a scud missile, and that school closings/lockdowns/virtual classes are problematic even given the pandemic. Still, those of us questioning the rather odd application of science rules followed the guidelines and supported school closings and lockdowns. To put it simply, it was what it was. The world has shifted again. Dr. Faucci and the CDC are sending a different message, and the message is to follow CDC guidelines and get the children back in school. For those in the profession that feel it's not safe, or the guidelines are not stringent enough, well they have the right to decide not to return to the classroom. That's the type of difficult decision that people are confronted with everyday during non-pandemic times. There are options--sick time, vacation/personal time, working virtually if the employer allows it and can accommodate the request, retirement, or maybe they should seek out other employment. Thanks for sharing some of the details about the school where you work. What you've laid out is that 40% of the students are virtual, 60% attend live classes. I'm not sure that makes the point you're trying to make. It seems by extension that some of your peers are back at the school and working to serve the 1,200 students. My point to Doc was that it seems there are many teachers who want to be in the classroom, and I have friends in NY who feel that way. Did you feel that I was taking a shot at them? I wasn't, I think it's admirable--but not necessarily any more or less admirable than for everyone else who is at work. For those that choose to stay virtual--if the district can manage it, if the results meet or exceed expectations for a quality learning experience, great. If not, seems like science should prevail. As for parents wanting to keep their children at home, sure, some feel that way. Many do not, and the frustration is mounting. Here's an example: https://www.foxcarolina.com/dad-rants-about-school-shutdown-in-viral-video/video_e58e7c3f-61b1-5010-a6c0-f7ed2bc975e7.html Finally, I know you're a sensitive soul, but I don't see where I pinned anything on teachers. I suggested Joe Biden should lead on the CDC/Faucci guidelines, and speak against scenarios like the Chicago union situation where it goes against guidance. I'm not sure what's controversial about that. Anyway. Glad to hear things are good in Hawaii.