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Thank you. For what it's worth, I generally consider, but usually disregard, advice from the following parties. This is not a complete list: The guy running the 3 Card Monte game on the streets of NYC; A televangelist, especially those who's name end in a ''y", as in Jimmy; Anyone with the last name of Kardashian, or those otherwise advertising as a "social influencer"; Affable Internet posters who, while well-intentioned, seem emotionally overburdened and who display a consistent and stunning lack of self-awareness; I'll offer advice in kind, but mine will be something useful to you if you absorb it: When you advocate "independent thinking" and then point to the consumption of the 'mainstream media', by definition, you're following the herd. Additionally, please consider the relative independence of news organizations that pick up stories from a source such as the Associated Press or Reuters. In essence, your argument is "INDEPENDENT THINKERS MEETING AT 4PM, MEET AT THE BEIGE SIGN! WEAR CREAM COLORED SHIRTS AND KHAKIS SO WE CAN TELL EACH OTHER APART!" I agree with you whole heartedly that I am 'going to find legitimate reporting" in virtually every source I use...were you under the impression that I felt otherwise? Speaking candidly, that's on you, not me. You've indicated that I peruse "underground conspiratorial media". In our conversations, I have referenced the Washington Post, NYT, major news networks such as ABC, NBC, and CBS. The WaPo reference was in reply to your link. You also linked on two separate occasions the venerable Vox site, and I simply pointed out problems with the articles posted. One was due to obvious hypocrisy, the other due to a gross misrepresentation of DJTs stand on illegal immigration. So...do tell, what 'underground conspiratorial media" sources have I referenced in our conversation or for that matter, any posting I have made? I'm a mainstream guy. I get along with people. I engage with people. I read 85% of "The Creature From Jeckyl Island" and stopped because it was keeping me up at night. I value relationships, am willing to listen to the opinions of others and my most aggressive conspiracy theory is that the concept that the two party system is an illusion. If you have something else, please, feel free to share. What I have recounted regarding Joe Biden is a matter of public record. The reporting of your beloved and edgy mainstream media----just a second, gotta pay a bill here---Sponsored by Gillette Razors, the best a man can get!---is also a matter of public record. They missed on Russia, intentionally or not. There was no widespread consensus reporting on a major media figure as DJT being the man you have suggested he is over multiple decades. I've seen stories on banks, insurance companies, Johnson Baby Powder, Bernie Madoff, Lance Armstrong, the Police and so on---and again, you zip your coat up, pull the hood down over your ears and suggest I'm being too hard on them. You've made your peace with Joe Biden. He's your guy. Put the sign on the lawn. As I said, when January comes, all you really seem to care about his that Joe Biden will be the 46th Predator of the United States.

Interesting turn of the phrase...."The second Biden". The first Biden's rhetoric on the issues of our time varied between inspiring, hateful, divisive and moronic, his actual record pitiful. The first Biden was a gaffe machine, saying things that were widely mocked, laughed at and scorned, so much so that he was rejected on multiple occasions for consideration to the highest office in the land. The first Biden was, in fact, a running joke. The first Biden was confrontational, flexing his muscles and bragging thereafter about intervening in the affairs of foreign nations, a school yard bully of the type few respect. The second Biden, he's none of those things. He's a rapidly aging elderly man figuratively backing into fences in his 1992 Buick, getting lost in neighborhoods that were once very familiar to him, his mind jumping back and forth to years past and referencing world leaders long dead and gone....blissfully unaware that his old pals are not with us anymore. The average European is an awful lot like the average American. They would not know Elizabeth Warren from Nancy Pelosi, Susan Rice from Condoleezza Rice, or Bernie Sanders from Colonel Sanders. On the other hand, most everyone in the world knows the sad yet often very predictable decline of a once youthful mind. Then again, maybe I am wrong, maybe the second Biden can bring all the world leaders together and offer solutions. I personally cannot imagine Biden in a room with Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Golda Meir, and Leonid Brezhnev, all working on global issues but here's the good news---I bet the second Biden can, and likely has.

They should reach out to our boy @SoCal Deek if they want designs to build a wall that will stand the test of time and be architecturally compelling. This looks like a fort in the woods built by 12 year old children of liberal parents. These weren’t built by tradespeople.

The irony....a massage therapist with no happy ending to be found.

Oh, now I get it. You’re referring to the many, many many investigative reports conducted by ABC, NBC MSNBC and the like when DJT’s hit television show The Apprentice was on the air from 2004-2017. I had forgotten the hard-hitting expose on Trump, and of course all the stories the ran in the years leading up to the series premiere. All they talked about 24/7 was Trump being a racist, Trump being a sexual predator. You couldn’t get away from it. 60 minutes. Dateline. NBC News with Brian Williams. Remember when they brought him down? It was balls to walls coverage. Same when he was promoting Art of The Deal. When it hit the NYT bestseller list, remember how the entire staff walked out in protest? What about when Clinton’s watchdog, Mueller, when he had unlimited scope and power to investigateTrump for anything, and that scathing report of criminal racist behavior and the many crimes that he was charged with. Or not. If you believing I believe DJT is “squeaky clean” helps assuage a troubled conscience as you vote for Dirty Hands Joe, I’ll carry the burden, chuckling along the way. You crack me up!

It looks like Storytime for Simpletons. Is Biden even awake?

that's very interesting. excellent, thanks.

Actually, the true test comes when someone else violates his personal space and reaches toward his n*ts. It's easy to be judgemental when someone else's n*ts are in play.

I want to let you know I read up to the point where you said "...I didn't read the rest of that post.". Respect is like a delicate flower. Planting it is the east part, but from there it must be watered and tended to else it withers. I'm not certain why you sent me both an opinion and a propaganda piece from Vox if you were not willing to engage in subsequent dialogue, and felt it necessary to be disrespectful in your reply. It's ok to do so, it just gives the appearance of you being overly emotional in a dialogue where it serves no purpose that I can see. Hence, my read was "you appeared frustrated". We can both do better, but you need to be more better better.

I understand his perspective on Trump, and his reasons for despising the President. I really do. We all make our choices. What's fascinating to me is the reverence he has for Biden. To suggest it's only a blind spot would be akin to suggesting Helen Keller was only slightly visually impaired.

You seem frustrated. I simply pointed out what is painfully obvious to an objective individual---you have rationalized away all of Biden's faults to get to a place where you can set aside your moral indignation and pull the lever. Here's are two examples: 1970s Trump investigated by the DOJ. 2010 a lifetime relationship between the Old Boy insiders Joe Biden and a known segregationist and KKK grand palooka culminates in Joe eulogizing him. Modern day TBF lamenting the attack on OA* Joe, while trashing Trump's record on women. Joe was, at a minimum, chief towel snapper at the Old White Boys club in senate for decades. In an atmosphere where women (young and old) were afraid to get on the elevator with certain men for fear of being assaulted...Joe was one of the most powerful members of the club. While no allegations have been levied about Joe being an elevator perv, his good friend and mentor Ted Kennedy was. Why was Joe silent? Here's part of the Biden tribute to the Lion of the Senate, a lecherous drunkard who was known to drown a woman or two in his day: He was my tutor, introducing me, a young Irish Catholic kid from Scranton, to a world I had never seen. When I arrived in the Senate, he would stop by my office, would take me to the Senate gym to meet the other senators, and helped me get on important committees. I think of Teddy when I see women standing up in the workplace and demanding exactly what they’ve earned. I ask you TBF, did those women not earn respect? Did they not earn the right to hope and dream that a young "Irish Catholic kid from Scranton" would honor them by not treating them like playthings for the wealthy and powerful? And to be completely honest, I think Ted did indeed introduce him to a world he had never seen, and to excesses he probably never imagined. It sounds like Joe went full Ted Kennedy on Tara Reade. As I said, your vote for Joe is a vote for the status quo. It's unfortunate that I have to be the one to tell you that, but it is what it is.

I always appreciate it when someone takes the time to give me credit for some deep or complex thought, and tacit acknowlegement of doing what you and Tibsy are about to do. Thank you, but I need to let you know there is no intrigue in play here—as always I told you what I thought. I rejected the notion that DJT, media darling for 50 years or more, real estate mogul, NBC TV star, and well-known brand huckster flew under the radar all those years as a serial harasser and serial racist until, oddly, the time he jumped ship and ran for President of the wrong party. Though...wait a second: Is this another weatherman fallacy, is that what you see here??? Were WaPo, NYT, ABC/CBS/NBC and all the other players that benefited strategically from the media-Trump alliance just asleep at the wheel for the fitty year slug? Or, is it more ominous? Were all your faves complicit? Let me know your thoughts, I mean it could be as simple as calling for heavy rains for 20,000 +/- days and it was all sunshine? Anyway, this wasn’t about me—so I read your little Vox op-Ed as I usually do. I forgot to check if the author was the same one you promoted last time who had a little hypocrisy issue when I compared her #ibelieveher pieces on the woman she supported and the disposable ones with different ideologies. You never wanted to discuss that, so I just read the Vox op-Ed linked. I was 4 lines in when they went and did it again...they lied about Pres Trumps comments about illegal immigrants and crime. We both know he never vilified immigrants...and the fact is the number of people victimized by people here illegally is staggeringly high. I stopped there, because it seems a fool’s errand to try and divine some deep understanding of a writers perspective when they lie within the first 100 words. Where was I—right, it wasn’t about me. It took a while but you came around to my way of thinking. You have convinced me, truly, that the outrage and disgust you feel for the actions purported to be committed by DJT would be wholly and completely acceptable to you if he was the Democrat nominee for President. Your most recent revelation—if I may be bold—is the type of deeply ingrained truth that I was hoping to hear instead of getting back dopey Jim Carrey memes (Jim Carrey, it would seem, is a pretty horrible guy...passing around STDs and treating the women in his life like a true Hollywood lib), and I will take you at your word. My work with you is completed. If you’re right and Joe Biden wins the election, all I can do is laugh at the fake outrage and concerns about the future if the country. All you had to say was you wanted your own serial predator in the WH. Please get back to me on the MSMs hiatus/love affair with The Donald. This oughta be priceless—but remember, you already used “overly affectionate uncle”. ?

You think I was ridiculing you? Pray tell, how? I never mentioned violence or looters, I assumed people of good faith agreed on that. It was a law and order question, and a political question. I'll just mark you down for no citizen should be set upon by police or the military for moving on with life and ignoring lockdown rules. I applaud you. But thank you for the marriage counseling kind sir.

Good for you standing against the protestors. I stand with them, and think they should not be forced to stand down. So, no to troop involvement from NB. I'm assuming you're also a no to the police arresting protestors? Let them protest, but your outrage is noted. If I opened my business in violation of the orders of the state, any state, would you feel the same way? No troops to shut me down, no police to come and fine me or haul me off to the pokey? In other words, outrage aside, good old Niagara B wants a level playing field?

and without that pesky little under oath issue.

huh. i guessed wrong, it really is a thing. in related news, this serves as a reminder that i need to hit the gym.

well established bro-science, or well established (pregnant pause) bro (pregnant pause) science (pregnant pause) dude! I'm not sure if "bro-science" is a thing but if it is, I want no part of anything approximating sausage science. Much love to Toastmaster's International for the 'pregnant pause' and clarity all around.

In this way I am a lot like Acosta. If she flipped my binder I'd likely have chills running down my spine.

You're an emotional soul. That's touching. The virus is responsible for many, many deaths. We know that the folks in charge have estimated that political gerrymandeering of the numbers has them 25% high. I'd think the reality is likely higher, maybe 30-35% high. Still a very large number, still very sad....and still so confusing to me as to why you're not outraged by protestors exposing themselves and fellow citizens who continue to follow social distancing guidelines to this horrible virus that came from China. Given your perspective---Would you support the White House mobilizing the troops to squelch the protests to drive down the numbers? The governors clearly have no stomach for that sort of thing. Assume the president was someone you respected. Maybe as an alternative, force the protestors to disband but suggest as an alternative a virtual protest?

Seriously...I realize the clip was cut off as Acosta blathered on, but he's a dimwit. He starts in with ....those people are protesting...presumably implying that if tens of thousands of people are infected and die, it's acceptable to him personally. It is amazing that he can continue with a straight face.

I wonder if he feels blessed he wasn't raised a Bills fan. That experience can snuff the life right out postiivity. ?

Not surprisingly, I have a different take. I think Joe Biden is the perfect candidate for the dems and folks who see the world as you do. He's cut from the same cloth as HRC, the last heir apparent. Biden suggested recently that upwards of 50,000,000 Americans are bad people. You pegged the number at only slightly higher, around 61,000,000; Biden talks about Trump being divisive, then casts aspersions toward the 61,000,000. You're so turned around that that rhetoric appeals to you, and then spouting off absurdities such as the 60m+ who voted for him look at the world differently than you do, which makes them "ignorant, hateful scared" and not "normal". You're willing to ignore 40 years of visually documented perversion and inappropriate behavior and characterize that as what 'decent' people want from a president. In the same breath, you mention 2016 and by extension, then candidate and pop/vote winner Clinton who enabled her husband and the spouse of her most trusted aide (herself an enabler) as she attacked the women that dared to tell their story as 'bimbos". You and decent people like you agree, the victims are the bimbos when it comes to politics. Joe Biden's record on legislation directly aimed at decimating the minority community is atrocious, but you see it as what 'decent' people like you want. Joe Biden's readily available audio of nearly 5 decades of racist comments, including the unbelievably condescending comments during a national crisis that black voters are not black enough if they vote their conscience, and for people who think like that, it's what decent people think and say. Biden's support and respect for former Klansmen is well-documented, again---that reflects what "decent people" like Joe and Tibs think is reasonable. Biden's bizarre comments to a female voter about being a "lying dog-fced pony soldier", his bullying of voters who dare to question the very well-documented faux pas, legislative 'achievements" and stunning publicly documented lies and attempts to plagarize all represent the standard you and 'decent people" like you live by. Biden's backroom dealings to get his very troubled son a pay for play position in a Ukranian company, away from the prying eyes of the American public, his use of political thuggery to influence a foreign government to assist his son is Taminy Hall-type politics to a tee---just the sort of thing 'decent people' like you like to see. I could go on, after nearly 5 decades in the public eye, a laundry list of missteps and being caught stating emphatically what he truly believes, it occurs to me he's exactly the type of establishment politician that appeals to your narrow point of view. He's done virtually nothing to increase opportunities for people in poverty and/or people in color, but he's done an incredible job pandering to sensitive and decent folks like you. He's gone on a decades-long grope fest--all the while the liberal men who trot their women and children out to be fondled do so with joy in their heart ""Did you see Joe sniff my wife's hair! It was AWESOME!")---and that reflects the standard for you. At the same time, your fearless leaders have the perfect out if he fails. It won't be Joe's atrocious record, his list of accomplishments (which includes more trips to second base in front of a televised audience than Mookie Wilson), his drifting between 2020 & 1998, his dramatic statement that 45% of the population was killed in gun violence since 2008 but magically regenerated by 2020, or the fact that he often confuses Michigan with butterscotch candy...it'll be because of the ignorant and hateful folks like me. You're the road block to growth for your party Tibs...not Trump, not Mitch McConnell, not nobody but you. You're the status quo guy.

If Biden wins, it’s simply a reflection of some voters being comfortable rationalizing decades of sexual misconduct as “hyper-affectionate”, with decades of racially insensitive comments rationalized as “out of context”—including his most recent stunning claim about what constitutes a black voter, decades of Burisma-like corruption and pay-for-play, rationalizing FBI/DOJ/CIA misconduct as just politics. I just saw a story on NBC about concerns that the FBI slow-walked the initial investigation into the USA gymnastics sexual abuse claim ...and they questioned how that could happen. They didn’t mention that was under the O’Biden FBI/DOJ, and oddly, missed the connection between the FBI misconduct during Russia probe. The good news for you Transpy is that you’ll remain blissfully unaware of perpetuating this type of stupidity because all that sort of thing is understandable and acceptable as long as it’s your guy. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

She also used to say to me things like....”blah blah blah it was gross tech.”. She used it fairly often in a variety of contexts when I realized she was trying to say “grotesque”. She was 10 years or so younger than I, I really thought it was something all the cool kids were saying. It could be Pacino though, I hadn’t considered that.

I worked with a lady who, as it turns out, was a fundamentalist Christian. I was unaware and said to her one day "To play devil's advocate..." , she stopped, looked at me in horror and said "HE DOES NOT NEED AN ADVOCATE!". I wasn't even sure initially who she was talking about.