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I’m thinking the term is photographic memory. It’s very interesting to see someone who is incredibly talented handle the questions thrown at her. The sad fact is that the senators trying to take her out have a paid research team doing all the heavy lifting and outline the points of attack, while the sens want to give the appearance of knowing case law, precedent and the like. It happens when either party is the opposition of course, but it’s either the worst sort of political theater or a really cool David Copperfield illusion depending on how you look at it.

There were more cars in my office parking lot today, and many people thought we were closed for the holiday.

I hate when you write out a great sign but realize you’re letters are too big for the page. it happened to Shakespeare too. Fact.

Thanks for the reply. I read it, considered your thoughts and rejected most of it. 1. The disenfranchising doesn’t come from harsh attacks ads (old as time, predictable as the rain, existed long before Trump caused a bunch of knots in the backside portion of liberal underwear), it comes in this case from post election activity with the intent to unseat the president and nullify the vote. -My bottom line is simple—when you say the president is a lying treasonous scumbag, that’s one thing. When you say that, a panel of sharks is installed with virtually unlimited power and resources, that’s another. When you say, do that, and allow 3 years unrestricted access to just about everything, when all is said and done, you better knock him out and take him away in cuffs. John Brennan—keeper of secrets and burier of the suddenly dead—said they had the goods on Trump. Mueller report ends with barely a whimper from a doddering old fool with nothing. 0. Zilch. The finger flippers don’t give a crap. They keep saying I’m the deplorable. 2. Trump on taxes. The IRS figures that stuff out. Get back to me on the tax evasion charges. I’ll wait. Now, as far as complaints by nitwits about taxes, that’s fair game and in my opinion doesn’t go in the finger flipper category. 3. Trump on spending. Again, fair game. Say what you want, vote accordingly. There was a time that mattered to me but since no political party seems intent in reconciling that particular issue, I don’t worry about it anymore. 4. Global respect. 3 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize based on peace keeping efforts across the globe. Reorganization of priorities as it relates to NATO. Strengthens alliance with Israel. No new war efforts on a global level. I suppose if global respect is earned by screwing up Benghazi and leaving Americans to die, well, I’m not down with that. I’ve long believed amour respect internationally stretched as far as our dollars are lined up. Be that as it may, if global respect from manscaped Frenchmen is a hit button issue, fair game. 5. Sophomoric attacks. Fair game, but only insofar as it takes an awful lot of hubris to completely and flatly disregard decades of political mudslinging and pretend that’s new to a Trump. They called him all sorts of names and implied all sorts of things early on, he simply supersized in reply. Hillary Clinton tossed the word racism around like her husband tossed clumpy albino salsa on interns. This argument is weak. 6. “Any deeper connections to Russia...I don’t know...but...”. Look, we’re having a conversation and I appreciate the dialogue, but if you’ll permit me the following, said in the voice of an old friend you’ve got a great relationship with and who tells you the truth when you need it: “Get the 🤬 outta here with that BS”. There’s nothing there, there never was, and the reason you don’t know is because you’ve been bamboozled and your subconscious has not accepted it yet. This is finger flipping territory. 7. 30 years of service was not Trump, it was Brett Kavanaugh. If you believe the attempt to destroy him in front of the nation was fair and just, you’re a finger flipper. If you think lining up to vote for Harris and Gropey Joe is a vote for civility and unity, you’re kidding yourself. 8. I am a lifelong R but did not support the Clinton investigation. I was a young man, viewed it as you did but as I look back now, I think Clinton is a classic predator. He’s also one of the dumbest smart guys on the planet, and got himself into a pickle with his, uh, pickle. I will point out, too, that all the fainting libs who stridently scream #ibelieveher seems extraordinarily cozy with the likes of a Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. 9. Joe Biden has moved far left based on his rhetoric and platform positions. He’s not Venezuela left but he’s moving there. 10. As I said earlier, the civil discourse argument is weak, soft and would require me to ignore decades of political hectoring to spend much time answering. I think what people really want is to watch their guys pummel the other guy with racist.homophobic.xenophobic.bigoted characterizations and pretend to be offended when he replies thereafter like some societal norm has been violated. It hasn’t, it wasn’t and it will be that way forever. DJT is just spectacularly good at telling someone who trashed him to F off. You’ve been civil, you seem to be consistently and I appreciate that. I’d appreciate you and lib voters demanding accountability on the bogus Russia case that jammed up 3 years of my candidates time, but since that doesn’t happen, I just recognize that’s the way the game has to be played.

Is it your impression that his words were taken out of context? He says voters don’t deserve to know. He then says “I’m not gonna play Trumps game.” Had DJT suggested a game of “Voters deserve to know!”? Was DJT the interviewer, was that it? It seems clear that unless Trump suggested playing a game, or unless DJT was the interviewer and caused Biden to “assert” something, the entire quote and stream of consciousness reveals Biden is a cranky geez who’s mind wanders mid-topic.

That ship, the one where people of otherwise good will presume to tell me that they would never participate in efforts to disenfranchise me and my vote, that ship has sailed. I watched it leave the dock, the people on board seeming to wave goodbye as they left, animated, energetic, passionate. At some point it occurred to me—they weren’t waving—they were giving me the finger. They did it when they laughed at the mockery of the Clinton email scam, where a Secretary of State treated her confidential email like a cheerleader on an overnight trip with her besties. They did it when Clinton and her liberal pals in the media lead off the first debate with Trump by characterizing him as a racist/sexist/xenophobic all the while screaming at the horrible things then candidate Trump might say. They did it when they actively supported the notion I’m both deplorable and irredeemable, apparently because I work for a living, pay my taxes, volunteer in my community and try to honor my family in the best way I can. They did it by supporting what amounted to a Ted Clancy* novel about a famous real estate investor raised a Russian spy who hid in plain sight, waiting for a time when one of the most unlikable people on the planet was to ascend to the throne, only to be undone at the last minute by the most unlikely candidate in Presidential history. They did it when, at the end of the absurdly comical “Your guy is a treasonous piece of **** and you are too for voting for him!” gambit, when all the dopey russiamaniacs were left with their collective liberal pud in their collective liberal hands, they lacked the courtesy, decency and self-awareness to even mutter a “Wow, we were lied to.”. They did it when they sat by and grinned knowingly as the hangman for the resistance set about destroying a man with 30 years exemplary service to his fellow man by impugning his reputation with sordid tales of gang rape and adolescent groping, and when that Man refused to capitulate, slink off into the corner and die, they celebrated the politics of personal destruction by elevating the hangman to VP status. They didn’t stop to question the irony of it all, the hangman who believed Biden’s accuser promoted to VP for a gut with 30 years of documented groping of woman and child. You say it’s political theater that one of the most powerful people in the country, herself the architect of an impeachment gambit, would set the wheels in motion to remove a sitting president “just cause”? I’d have agreed 4 years ago. The way I see it, one of the main reasons the libs and msm despise DJT is because DJT beat them at their own game. He outlasted Russia, he outlasted the Kavanaugh lynch mob, he outlasted Pelosi and Shiff on impeachment, and he most recently out-Bidened Biden in the debate. Odd, really, that decorum and civility were suddenly the rule of the day when just a few short years ago, a much more vigorous Biden interrupted Paul “Eddie Haskell” Ryan, and so many of the finger flippers raged about his performance. Anyway, we’re in an era where civility and common ground are increasingly difficult to find. To be completely honest I don’t care to meet there anyway. I’ll hang out with the other 60,000,000 people lots of the finger flippers feel have no redeeming value.

You may be a great Chef, Jim, but you are a bad man. A very, very bad man.

Also not on my bucket list.

We agree in principle, though to be fair, I said it was odd to me, not odd in general. My general feeling is that when someone feels as passionately about something (in this case, politics and DJT), a shameless power grab if the sort Pelosi is about would be met with....well, passion, not “meh”. In this case, a play of this nature made by other Washington elites with R on their business card would be just as troubling to me.

I want to like salmon, but I just can’t wrap my head around it. And...lobster. All that cracking apart, it’s barbaric...I do like Swedish Fish though, delicious and I hear the schools are open.

It’s obviously an emotional issue for you, that much is clear. It strikes me as odd given your passion for the country that your feelings about Pelosi and her plans for partisan tribunals to bypass the will of the people is about the same as mine is toward salmon—I’m not a fan.

When you climb into a dumb waiter for a laugh, make sure you have an exit strategy.

It’s really fascinating to me that the leader of one of the largest cities in the world could so drastically and stunningly miss the mark on agreements set in place to pay educators. The math really seems pretty simple, but when you’re used to treating hard earned taxpayer dollars like Monopoly money, all it took was the train jumping the tracks and he’s billions short. What a moron. He’ll be a shoo-in next election.

Apologies, I meant turned you from a prudish and judgmental school marm disgusted with a candidate accused of abhorrent behavior, corruption and racial insensitivity to vocal cheerleader for a candidate who’s abhorrent behavior, corruption and racial insensitivity has been documented on fil-um for the past 45 years. I don’t believe Biden was your first choice, my assumption was you wanted someone relatively pure, but “turned” to Joe because his victims weren’t people who look or vote like you. You know, disposables, throwaways—ah, deplorables. One last thought—you opined somewhere along the way that you thought Supreme CourtJustice Brett Kavanaugh was treated quite badly. Of course, the architect of the plan to destroy BK was elevated to VP status and likely president within 4 years if Biden wins. It’s hard to envision a time when unity and cœxïßt return to this great land when your people attempt to eviscerate the opposition. Oh—and the presumptive VP thought that Biden is a predator and assaulted TR, and worked to the detriment of people of color throughout his career in office. I think you’re a good dude, I’ve told you that, but man you’re complicated.

I remember a time when you when you rode that horse, Moral Indignation I think you called it, before you realized that it wasn’t at all for you. It didn’t take long for you to turn, Transpy, and it’s funny as hell. He’s pretty far gone, our boy Transpy. It happens when you’re perpetually taken in by the same grift every time, the infamous “someone said that someone told me that he heard someone say”.

I’ll skip the OpEds and handwringing over the likes of Vindmann who suffered no greater indignation than getting bounced to the curb, the fact that DJT spearheaded efforts for the American people that offered greater opportunity for employment and money in their pocket, and the fact that BO famously lead an assault on independent news organization Fox News, and the like. I’ll leave you with: https://nypost.com/2020/10/09/pelosi-pushes-25th-amendment-bill-to-evaluate-trumps-health/ This will be the third time (Russia, Impeachment, 25th) in four short years the tolerant and independent left showed their version of what a free electorate might look like. Pelosi’s maskless visit time a closed hair salon was a humorous incident revealing the abject hypocrisy of the overlords of the tolerant and benevolent left, but certainly a sign of things to come when you’re boy Biden rules the land.

You’ll get no argument from me that it was dumb for a 17 year old to put himself in the middle of a group of scumbags intent on destroying what other people have sacrificed, sweated and toiled to build. Of course, the local trained authorities aren’t much help when ordered to stand down, and besides, they can’t be trusted I’m told. On a scale of 1-10, trying to assist hard working people in the midst of a scene of total societal breakdown is an 8. The best course of action was to avoid the areas of peaceful arson and righteous looting. A 9 out of 10 would be assaulting with an intent to cause extreme harm to the kid with the rifle in the midst of the turmoil. A 10 out of 10 would be chasing the kid with the rifle down after he’s already engaged with one peaceful assaulter and then trying to beat him to death with a skateboard. As for folks who shout “escalation” long after the buildings have been set ablaze by the angry mob with what would seem to be the approval of the tolerant and benevolent liberal ruling political class, I’d say “Whatevs”.

Your analysis of the Rittenhouse saga seems at odds with the videos of the incident. It seems to me that the expectation you have is similar to others we’ve seen in this board,: which can be summarized as “Mayhem and a good old fashioned beating can be really peaceful if you acquiesce.”. As for Elizabeth Neumann, she seems on board with peaceful rioting, destruction of private property, rage in the streets and beating a fellow citizen about the head and body—apparently until the one being beaten pushes back as some people ultimately do. THEN, and apparently only then, should a call be issued for calm and order. Sounds like a tragic loss for the team.

I’m not a draftnik, don’t dig too deeply about who might be right or wrong, and hope that whomever is selected pans out as a good pick. My initial observation was that JA seemed like a good kid, earnest and sincere. I read about his football smarts, work ethic, time at Wyoming and the like. After decades of futility and a lifetime of more solidly average Bills teams (or worse) and of course the Levy years, I never expect too much. The part above in bold print was where things began to change for me. JA has been so frigging exciting to watch it’s been a blast. I sorta gave up on any hope of SB greatness in my lifetime, and just settled into watching the guy play football. Obviously, I hope for more but damn he’s fun to watch.

I personally credit Katie Couric for cementing my cynicism with respect to trust in the media. She was the headliner on a news story about Zimmerman/Trayvon, and deceptively cut and edited the 911 call Zimmerman made. The edit changed the context of the call, and was unnecessary unless the intent was to create a better version of the story.

Its awesome when you see the FBI doing the type of work most all of would agree is right and just. That’s what makes it so incredibly frustrating when it used as a third arm of the Democrat party.

I was referencing outdoor dining, but the point remains the same. The mantra about outdoor protests being safe was silly. 25,000 people do not suddenly materialize at the site of a protest. They ride busses, cars, trains and airplanes to arrive at the protest site. They eat, sleep, and **** somewhere. They stop at rest areas, McDonalds, but and train stations, convenience stores, hardware stores and so on. On the other hand,for someone like Niagara Bill, the reality is that the increasing death toll is directly tied to the protests.

You had tens of thousands of people in the streets in cities across the country, scattershot mask discipline and virtually no social distancing, in cities across the country. It went on night after night after night. The protests were met with encouragement and approval of democrat leadership across the country, and quite frankly by many republicans. Yet, in NY for example, churches, restaurants, bars, and hair salons with a max capacity of 25 were closed for an extended period of time under threat of criminal and civil penalties. When reopened, max capacity was limited to 25% occupancy. The story you are selling may be one you believe, but it is a work of fiction. On the other hand, maybe you believe the death toll would be under 25,000 absent the massive and sustained protests.

Awwwww snap you went there. (and corrected the record)

I feel like you took my comments out of context. I completely agree that I originally hunkered down to protect those I love. My comment, however, was about the continuation of the bunker mindset that Biden and others propose. Biden sells fear. Cuomo sells fear. I would not want either at the helm during a Pearl Harbor type event: "The only thing we have to feah...is that forces of the Imperial Japanese Ahmy will overrun the country, enslave our people, destroy our way of life and conditions will be quite quite brutal.". Two last thoughts...I think the quotation you shared is appropriate and very fitting. It's the very essence of what DJT spoke about the other night with respect to COVID. As for those too ignorant and the like, I disagree. We can debate the extent to which we may/may not care about that sort of thing, but certainly I care about infections and deaths for those that become infected. Stepping away from COVID, I 'care' about the death of Eddie Van Halen for a variety of reasons though death from lung cancer seemed directly linked to a lifetime of heavy smoking. Since he was aged 65, I am confident in stating he heard the same general message points about the dangers of smoking as I did though I'm a few years younger. Am I sitting in the dark wondering about the meaning of life? No, but kinda sad nonetheless.