leh-nerd skin-erd

How many times have you been in a presser with the President? Any President will do, don’t feel like you have to limit it to DJT. Feel free to round up.

“Ya got Tibs saying he don’t want the money, Jrobes is complaing about complaining, ,and the guy in the middle saying “Whaddaya want from me?”

The challenge is they are so heavily vested in the “Trump is horrible” and “We are pure” that there is no place for them but to fall. I really do try to be reasonable, but seriously—-how can Joe Biden be the nominee for president and get the support of all the top brass when this much is known: 1. This allegation did not come out of the blue, and yet Joe is the guy; 2. If Joe is pure, why not address the scurrilous allegation by this money/fame/gop operative who’s been lying in wait for three decades. Call her out. Tell the true story. Heck fight like a Kavanaugh. Instead...crickets chirp. 3. Joe has issues long before this claim resurfaced, many other instances of groping that were written off as you suggested above. If they knew of the allegation, why ride with Joe. If they didn’t, how the &$$@ does that happen? Frankly, I think for all the supposed data suggesting dem voters are way smart, they are hoodwinked with alarming frequency.

I’m not a member of a tribe, and your characterization would be patently offensive if I were not so shallow. I’m just a guy trying to make it through life and today, laughing at all the people fooled by the democrat party generally, and Joe Biden specifically. It’s been 30 years this guy didn’t even answer to this allegation! You are correct, I have come to the conclusion that Trump did not do the things he was accused of. I came to that conclusion because he may well be the most hated man in political history, and he was subjected to major media scrutiny the likes of which is rarely seen. After that, the 12 angry prosecutors funded by the American taxpayer scrutinized every aspect of his public/private life just looking for a crime to hang on him. As of right now—-let me check—the Donald is at 0.00. In fact, there was so little to go on, folks of your persuasion ended up hanging your hat on remarks he made regarding consensual sexual encounters....and became filled with righteous indignation and have been yammering on over it since. Meanwhile, I’ve been saying all along that there aren’t any moral high grounds to be had in American politics, and those who think there are will look silly one day soon. It’s “one day soon”. I don’t know what you should do, that’s not my place in the world. My job is just to lob information your way. I would sit out the election, or vote for a third party candidate if I thought a candidate assaulted someone as Joe has been accused. That would be a line in the sand for me, I love and respect the incredible strong women in my life. The way I see it, if you supported the bloodletting of Brett Kavanaugh, and felt in your bones that he didn’t deserve to be on the SC as a result of the smear tactics used to disembowel him, well, It seems you would not want to support Joe Biden. Heck, even he #stoodwithher when he didn’t realize #shewastalkingabouthim!

I am but a humble reporter of the world as I see it. ?

This is a delightful day. Joe Biden, a man who has acknowledged making up the rules on who gets touched/smelled and when and where, written it off as just what guys from Scranton do and usually the ladies love it, he’s accused of penetrating a woman against her will, and there is purportedly a recorded phone call by her mother to a major TV show of the day. Troop Leader Biden clearly knew of these accusations, his friends in business and political leadership obviously knew and they all sat around commenting on how presidential Joe Biden was for standing up for women during #ibelieveher. The major media outlets (the ones I asked you about missing the glaring evidence of malfeasance over the 4 year Russia hoax) chose to #ignoreher until #theycouldnolongerignoreher, and your response is that you stand with Joe because he’s the less assaulty of the two???? Come to think of it, when Joey Fingers was vetted for VP, how arrogant was Obama and his leadership team to simply discard this lady and het complaints? She accuses the guy of violent sexual assault and they deep-six the story entirely? Wow. What a ride this election season is shaping up to be. I wonder how many more women are out there that Joe assaulted?.

Torn.

Fair enough. I guess we all see what we want or need to see. I thought at the time the Clinton issue was like Clinton himself: overblown. Still, his fetish was his weakness, he exposed his throat to his enemies and was willing to lie under oath. A Benghazi gets investigated every time, and when you factor in the manufactured story exposing some poor bastard in Nowhereville to a death sentence by blaming him for some dopey video, the evidence shows the Sec State knew and told her daughter immediately, I see that as more mainstream politicizing than anything else. Obama birther was Trump/Romney and no income tax paid. I’ll have to refresh my memory on McCain, but I agree wholeheartedly it’s a blood sport. Which brings me back full circle to the future. We might as well get to it. Thank you.

And yet, the cabal as a whole struggles more and more each year as people lose confidence in the product. Hang in there, though, you have your routine. Get up, check your mood ring to see how you’re feeling, slip your earth shoes on, stroll down to the news stand and pick up the the NYT to see what happened in Arkansas three days prior.

No different than a popular reality show at the end of a successful run. I wouldn’t advocate shuttering any institution, but continued acknowledgement of the generally false narrative is appropriate. Use of social media and alternative outlets to bypass the spinsters is appropriate. That will eventually lead to the worst offenders being marginalized and placed in the rack with the a national enquirer. As they dwindle and eventually fade away, a strong and honest media will ultimately take its place.

Here’s the thing from my perspective though. It’s not that it didn’t add up, the former head of the CIA accused him of treason, and pretty much across the board dem leadership did the same. We’re here discussing it and you, a reasonable poster in my humble opinion, opined it’s actually Trump’s fault he wasn’t treasonous because he was too dopey to pull it off. Not the danger of these games to our Republic, not the danger of accusing an individual (who is a natural target just because of his position) of treason, not the insanity of this particular fairy tale. The natural question in my mind is if this is acceptable to you, and this is the next evolution of political wrangling, what’s next? More troubling for me personally is if this is the new normal, what will I rationalize is acceptable for my candidates moving forward? What’s after “treason” when dem voters are so hyper focused on knocking out the candidate 60m of their fellow citizens voted for that they accept it as business as usual? I felt the same about the Kav hearings, and the reality is that nothing really is off limits moving forward. The stage is set, and with Chief Executioner and mudslinger Kamala Harris a potential VP candidate, the game has to be played as such. That’s horrible. Ukraine...politically acceptable to me for the dems to bring it up and push the envelope. The hypocrisy of the whole thing with presumptive nominee Biden shaking down the Ukrainians to do his bidding, the incestuous nature of politics/nepotism and entitlement is a non-issue because it seems everyone does it. I’d think that’s why the Rs brought it up originally, threw a little mud against the wall and nothing stuck. Impeachment...another bridge too far. I spend time here because it helps me has things out. I enjoy some of the humor, certainly enjoy some of the posts, and enjoy interacting with like-minded people. I wouldn’t waste my time going to a pro-dem board, it would be a waste of my time. Anyway, have a good day.

And yet another moral high ground is left saturated with the tears of broken-hearted leftists....

What’s the point of saying he said something stupid to a political adversary? Is there a halfway mark everyone is trying to meet at? The premise seems to be that everyone on the other side is honest, forthcoming and neutral. It’s like prior presidents and other politicians don’t say stupid things, don’t lie/cheat steal and we have to start today, today to have open and honest dialogue so we can meet at some happy place. i’ve inquired more than a few times to members of the board their thoughts on Trump-guilty-of-treason and Schiff-has-evidence-against-Trump-just-wait! and thoughts on how major media outlets so badly misread the story for 3 years. I usually add in that the end game was laid out here, on a message board, 3 years ago. See to me, if people are really having open dialogue, before I waste my time with “Trump said something stupid” I’m wondering how the heck someone could support an attempt to steal my vote and an effort to unseat the duly elected President. I ask the same questions to liberal friends. I still don’t have an answer, but in fairness I’m pretty certain it was an attempted coup, so there’s not much middle ground to be had. as far as I am concerned...that’s why you get Trump. ?

Ah, dead inside. Bills fan over 50?

100% in agreement. The MSM can’t be seen as covering positive news about expanded testing, cooperation from Trump admin in response to pleas from governors who were caught un and underprepared, numbers far below the millions of dead some projected unless they can manage the sound bites. They’ve unilaterally decided what you need to hear, like you’re 7. Why would you crave or support that? You’re clearly interested, you comment with regularity...what’s that all about?

And you were drawn to them like a simpleton to a bleach bottle! Such an excitable boy!

This morning, Today show correspondent Peter Alexanderstazan was doing an on-the-spot report from a street in Washington. Why he's not sheltering in place, why he's risking the health of those around him by being outside is beyond me, but it is what it is. He was reporting on the President's comments and stopped to read an index card he was holding in his hand so that he could be certain to deliver the information clearly. The 'don't drink bleach' message. Also, why do these nimrods have to report through a mask where there is no one within 6 feet of them? It's moronic.

I'm not sure I disagree with you, though I'd suggest the job of the media is to report facts in a consistent, unbiased and non-partisan fashion. On top of that, I believe the media reporting an issue as fact should refrain from characterizations, implications and opinions. I think the media as a whole fails, epically in many situations, conflates op-eds with fact-based reporting, and as a result, the credibility of the source comes into question. They should be held accountable as well.

If your cousin lives in the northeast, it sounds like he got into a particularly nasty mix called Procol Harum. It's comes out of Thailand, through Mexico and is distributed out of North Philly by the Corn Pop Kids.

Aww come on! You are acknowledging your love for the name of every Russian spy in every movie ever, and you still maintain you're not in the CIA??? In Hansel and Gretel, this would be a bread crumb! WE'RE NOT STUPID!

I wasn't crazy about the Cohen prosecution. I personally believe that if you allowed limitless powers of surveillance and investigation into all the creatures in Washington, 75-90% end up in cells. Manafort should be released as well. All I know is you're my contact if I end up in the slammer and need the hooch. You owe me that much.

Trump aside, based on the outbreak, failure to act, failure to contain and lack of preparedness over his tenure as governor---Cuomo has failed cataclysmically. You're limited in your vision, that's one of the reasons why you run toward a sexual predator like Biden while claiming to run away from Trump.

If you think he's in jail, you need to get out more.

Bobby--how are you doing in Michigan? Hope you're doing well and riding out the storm.

This is a waste of time but I'll share it anyways. I learned not to drink bleach well before 5th grade, and I learned the number of states stands at 50 by the time I was 4. How did Barrack Obama get through high school, and complete is education at Harvard thinking there were 57 states? I learned to look before I leap when I was 6, how on earth did Barrack Obama think it wise to rashly jump into the fray and accuse the Boston PD of overt racism, and suggest his buddy was targeted solely because of the color of his skin, and think some bs pr rolled up-sleeve beer summit would rebuild trust between the American people and the police? It made him look emotionally vapid. I learned around the age of 21 that virtually every large financial transaction was rightly subject to scrutiny and oversight and typically was accomplished electronically. The problem, I understood, was that cash was untraceable, subject to skim, and frowned upon by both the banking industry and the US Government. Yet...when Obama acted unilaterally to return money to Iran, he went out of his way to avoid traditional banking rules, US regulations and common sense and loaded a cargo plane full of nickles, dimes and quarters and shipped it off to individuals who are commonly heard muttering "DEATH TO AMERICA". I'm uncertain how he missed the whole requirement for financial transparency. Maybe he's fiscally challenged? The fact is that Donald Trump graduated from a prestigious business school, made a fortune working in a world of payola, crooked schemes, organized crime, onerous regulation and a corrupt NYC and NYS government. Thereafter, he shocked the world with a grass roots run at the presidency that was well run, technologically sound, and successful beyond his widest dreams. Thereafter, he beat entrenched career politicians, a corrupt former administration, the democrat leadership, the FBI, the DOJ, elements of the Central Intelligence Agency, a team of a dozen former prosecutors with an unlimited budget and a hostile at a game no one could ever imagine he could win. By contrast, Mitt Romney buckled because he used to drive his car with a dog on the roof, he kept resumes of potential recruits for key leadership rolls in his business, and because he correctly stated that 50% of the American electorate would never vote for him. Hillary Clinton was undone because she thought there were only 3 states that mattered, she deleted emails, and she thinks she's the only woman in America not bullied by her husband into voting for racists. I never underestimated Barrack Obama because he thought there were two extra Dakotas, that Washington DC was a state and California had broken off into three separate parts. I think it's silly to underestimate Donald Trump (again). Have at it all you want with this issue, but just remember when push came to shove, the experts predicted a massive number of dead and dying in the street, and in a time when unprecedented leadership by a strong hand was required, the Trump administration delivered and many, many thousands of lives were saved as a result. You can thank him later, at the ballot box. In contrast, we found that in a state like NY, with dem leadership across the board, we quickly discovered chaos, anarchy, a lack of preparedness, and no true plan to address the needs of the people of the state. Thank God for Trump, huh?