leh-nerd skin-erd

But--he did it all while fabricating conspiracy theories that lead his minions to believe that there is some sort of organized "cabal" out to get Trump. I think the mueller report proves this was all just a giant misunderstanding and a series of unfortunate events. I mean what world superpower with the ability to hit our enemies on the left testicle with a missle fired from a drone 17 miles overhead wouldn't launch a multi-year kaziilion dollar prosecutorial reign of terror after a guy had a meeting with a Russian ballerina in the banquet room at local IHOP? It's the next logical step. DR got lucky on this, obviously. ?

I think Alec Baldwin is unstable, a guy that is a drink, a cross word, or a missed med away from assaulting someone and doing them significant harm. So, that may color my opinion, but that music playing in the background has a definite 'soundtrack-from-The Exorcist' vibe to me. Creepy, and pretty funny in light of, well, you know.

The thing about the onside kick is that it's a play that can be used at any time, by either team during a game. The rule here is 4th q specific, one time only and while obviously potentially exciting, there is a downside. "Let 'em play.". "Good no call." "Wow, a lot of contact there.". It seems to me the NFL struggles with consistency on passing plays to begin with, and who what why they call form game to game. At a critical moment in the game, with the onside kick the judgement call is removed (mostly) and clarity is provided to the fan. If the improved onside kick rule results in less than a 10% conversion rate, that is the way the gods of football intended it to be.

I think this post is representative of what you do very well. Line by line, point by point, respectful of his position yet your perspective properly positioned. I understand your issues with BM, and your decision to respond aggressively to his posts as you do, but perhaps WiP will open his mind a bit and see what the country just went through was unnecessary and divisive. In fact, I've said it before, but let's assume j. Edgar Comey et al were truly convinced the Russians had hidden an earpiece in Trumps ear, and really felt the security of our nation was at risk and we all needed barrack and his crew to run a black op for the good of our way of life? How frigging bad are they that they could run a 2+ year sting with investigations, strong arm tactics, intimidation and come up with zeropointzerozero collusion/treason/spying indicments of the subjects targeted? How could honest and ethical members of our law enforcement agencies miss so badly that their supporters can crow about a few process crimes and some run of the mill tax cheat charges? For that crowd, if they are being honest, they were duped by the entire process, or duped into believing stories told to them by the keystone cops.

To me, it's personal. His thoughts can be best summarized, in my opinion, as the ends justify the means. He sees no reason to question why it's incredibly dangerous to a freedom-loving society to turn away when a sitting president weaponizes key pieces of the intelligence community to attack the political opposition, why it's dangerous to screw around with our political process by using foreign "intelligence" reports that are false and funded by political enemies, how dangerousness it is if the electorate cedes control to unelected high ranking operatives in the FBI and DOJ, and how incredibly dangerous it is to give a prosecutor a blank check and limitless power to go out and find crimes wherever he sees fit. The reason we get #### like this in our system is because in spite of mountains of evidence that one of a handful of individuals elected president in the history of the country cooked the books in attempt to force feed the American people HIS choice for president, is because people like WiP see a shiny penny like "The presidential fixer got arrested!" and rationalize "Man, this was so worth it!". The funny part for me is the use of the term "fixer". I wonder what shiny penny phrase the media would have force fed to it's easily outraged constituents had showtime never aired "Ray Donovan".

She's going with the people....people who need people...are the luckiest people in the world defense? What a dimwit.

I like your posts on the main board, I read through the responses here to avoid repeating what others may have already said. Good for you for getting involved. I won't rehash what many have said, and like you won't try to change your opinion. DR does a much better job of laying out the concerns I started to have about the two party system 10 or 15 years ago. I'm not so sure about everything he believes, but i decided long ago to cast my vote for those who will hurt the country and my family least. I believe Trump, for all his warts, is a national treasure. Before writing me off as just another crazy, i would describe myself as a centrist on many issues. I think reasonable taxation is reasonable, and the redistributive theory of our tax code is a reasonable way to approach the world. I support equality among people, struggle with abortion beyond a certain point in a pregnancy, think the march toward more socialistic policies is a mistake, abhor the ACA while recognizing what followed was predictable and likely cooked into the system. I feel quite strongly that our immigration system is a mess, that our current open borders policy is a recipe for disaster! and that our political leadership intentionally kicks the can down the road for fun and profit. I dig my hand into my pocket to assist friends and neighbors in need, and like most people who feel similarly think that's just kinda what decent people do. My problem is with excess, and govt excels at excess. Back to Trump being a treasure. To me, he's like the noble soul who is called to empty the septic tank when it is full. He's necessary, relevant and without him, a situation that has been occurring over time morphs from a situation to a challenge, to a problem, to a disaster with potentially far reaching impact. In a perfect world, the septic tank guy comes in and he's professional, well-mannered, thorough and gets the job done with a minimal amount of spillage. Trump isn't that guy, but for all his faults, this septic tank is pretty damn big, it doesn't want to be emptied and it fights back. As for presidential demeanor, it's overblown and oversold. I didn't see a reference from you re:BO, but acknowledging he was a much smoother liar/cheat/fraud than DT is something I am fine with doing. However, it is 100% clear, with no wiggle room to debate, that he oversaw the surveillance of the opposition candidate for president, that the election of 2016 was not based on anything resembling a "fair" election, and in most other times in our history the masses would be looking for him to answer for his actions. Another poster mentioned he's met him and he seems like a good guy--and while I respect his right to feel that way, on this basis alone he simply is not. As for your candidate, if she turns out to be a candidate that I can believe in with real ideas that match my views on many or most of the important issues of our time, I'll hold the door open for you so you can go in and cast your vote and cast mine shortly thereafter. However, when one is a low level player---none of the jackals have yet to attack, and that changes everything. btw, as a reasonable guy, I think it's acceptable to recognize McCain's service as a veteran and stand in awe of the brutality he endured and still be able to recognize he was a political gutter rat.

McCain, Trump, or both?

You handled this entire interaction badly, almost remarkably so. Like Ted Kennedy Chappaquidick bad, though not the "I somehow got out of the cah and dove repeatedly for several owahs to try and save hah...." bad. This bad was letting the girl die in the car, screwing around hitting the bars for 10-12 hours and then deciding it made sense to wear the clearly wrong-sized donut ring you borrowed from your dopey murdery cousin michaekl skakel to the courthouse bad. You're wearing a wrong-sized donut ring is what I'm trying to say, and everyone can see it. Sometimes it makes sense to simply take the hit, cut your losses and move on.

Swap out the name colum and replace with things like Accounting 101, Econ and Symphonic literature and you're looking at a partial transcript of my collegiate experience. I've been fabulously successful in spite of it, ergo by extrapolation the Bills will be as well.

I know in my business, I always make certain prospective employees know that it's not really their problem if they show up late for work frequently and it's perfectly fine if they want to just call out when they want to help their landlord out of a bind. In fact, I like to help the landlord by helping the employee by hurting myself, it's a real pay it forward proposition. I dont think anyone should should ever be fired, ever. I'm not even sure you should be able to require an employee to do the job they were hired for, it's onerous and likely cuts into the time at work when they could take care of personal stuff.

The problem I have with AOC is that everything I read about her goes into my head as legitimate news, and I'm concerned about all she represents. Somewhere in my head though, just behind the eyeballs, everything written about her takes on a whole different connotation. Like, I read what you wrote and my next thought was "Oh, I'd cover her Jack". I think there is something wrong with me.

"Textbook what not to do" if this crazy bastard does not denuclearize? I would suggest that textbook has been written by the world leaders of the past who allowed it to get this far. That would include American leadership as well. As for what to do now, well I guess we'll see how it goes.

Many people were bothered by the lies of past presidents, but absent the left-leaning media yammering incessantly on about it, those who trust the MSM don't hear about it. Its As for "your guy lies worse than my guy," it bores me. Anyone wanting to debate the relative morality of Trump after watching Obama, Bush, Clinton has no high moral high ground at all. Their standard respone is a lot of foot stomping and then "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT OBAMA..." which ends the conversation as far as I am concerned. I prefer to focus on the policies implememted that match my values and view of the world.

What I meant was if lying was the hot button issue that caused the media to tilt, every president lies, and often spectacularly so. I've long admitted Obama was a smoother liar than Trump, but if the benchmark was "the president lied, so we're leaning the opposite way" then the media should have moved to the right after 8 years of Obama lies. But you raise a good point, that the media already swings left, and seems 100% comfortable reporting to support the left--it offers me very little of value. In fact, the link you sent has the WaPo reporting on this major security issue with no evidence supporting their allegation other than a cite to a NYT report and another WaPo story. Wouldn't you like to see some evidence? A statement from Kelly, acknowledgement of the transaction, a leaked document or something? They report a memo exists, where is it? The NYT story is no better. Lots of unnamed sources but little else. As a woke person, I see no reason to trust without verifying. To answer your question on lying, I'm no more or less bothered by it than I ever was with any past president. It's part of the job, and I see no point in squabbling over who's candidate is a nicer, smoother liar than someone elses. Your thoughts on past lies and why they were better?

If your theory is correct, wouldn't the MSM have leaned right after the Obama years, or did were there no county-backsies in 2016?

Plenz, we have a guy who has acknowledged lying, cheating and stealing and hes facing a long stretch in the pokey. You follow the path to exposing him as a liar, cheater and thief with major financial incentive to gain by turning this $#@stain collusion "investigation" into even more of a circus. It's SOP, not unlike the line of questioning the other side follows while deeming a guy who got his doors kicked in by the FBI as "credible". If you're looking for honesty and fair play here you're looking in the wrong place.

100% accurate.

It was nice to see his acknowledgment of reaching a state of self-awareness, even though the irony of what he subsequently typed was lost on him. It's a step in the right direction, but he seems unable to get his emotions throttled back enough to apply logic to the equation.

The officer would be considered disposable to the Open Borders crowd. Just got lucky this time.

Rule of 3s. It's not a trend until the 4th disposable person dies under mysterious circumstances in the money man's home.

That makes more sense. I heard he was an Asian from the Soviet Union and it seemed odd, but I still told lots of people.

Damn, that was a good read until you went and tried to lock that daytime Emmy down with the heart and soul of America riff. There are many, many, maaaaaaaaannnnnnnnyyyyy people with differing opinions who maintain the heart, soul and trust that is so important to you. That is to say they would help a neighbor in a time of need, they would dig into their pocket to help a friend of a friend of a friend battling a serious illness, dealing with the loss of a home or loved one, or to provide financial relief for someone who their head stuck in a mechanical rice picker. Check your house of worships, your local businesses, the fire department and of course the Facebook. I'd grant you the extremes seem more extreme, but I think that's due in part to the extremes being normalized by design. It's really not that long ago the FOBs were firebombing police stations and corrupt authoritarians were targeting civil rights activist with violence and intimidation. Finally, I'd simply end by saying that folks wondering aloud about the loss of our center is a national past time. Personally, I could with a bit less of the over-the-top rhetoric, but find it incredibly refreshing when he hits the sweet spot. His "witch hunt" mantra, for example. For those who suggest he should simply stay quiet if he nothing to hide, I say "screw that.". Defend yourself, and in thought word and deed, respond. The alternative is death by a ten thousand paper cuts over a prolonged period of time. As for the media, I think as a profession, and at the risk of over generalizing, they've become pretty soft and need to toughen up a bit. I think DJT correctly calling out purveyors of manipulated news is a dog whistle for saying those folks are often full of baloney.

On the one hand, I think no one should ever sit in judgement of another. But on the other hand, I think, wait, something just feels wrong here.

Jussie has been kidnapped!!!