leh-nerd skin-erd

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!!!

I appreciate your concern, but I never felt like I was alone. When I get up each I'm usually recapping my plan for the day, thinking about obligations, responsibilities and people that count on me. I feel incredibly fortunate in many ways, so much so that when I encounter a well-minded soul like you seeking me out on a message board while poking fun about me being on that very message board, it makes me laugh. Sometimes I laugh with, sometimes at. Either way, it makes me happy I suppose. Now you keep on trucking, and thanks for visiting here, where, as you said, we are not alone, because at least I'm here, as were you.

Honestly Warcodered...think about this for a second. For 28 months the American public has been told that the President colluded with Russia to overthrow the heir apparent to the Democrat party (who, interestingly, manipulated the system on their side of the playground to ice out the hot new cool kid Bernie S), we've watched a Special Counsel tasked with a limitless mandate to investigate anything his team of political operatives decided to investigate, we're at the point where leaders of the opposition party have suggested Trump is a Russian asset, we've watched the upper echelon of the FBI be lopped off due to sex/lies/attempt to manipulate the election, watched a Supreme Court nominee with an impeccable record of service to the country be accused of being a gang rapist and serial groper by declared candidates for President, and watched the normalization of infanticide and celebration with the lighting of the Freedom Tower in blood red. Suddenly now there is something to be irritated about? To draw an analogy, you're like the last guy on the Titanic who overslept, woke up and was surprised to find all the lounge chairs sliding past him as he looked for a place to catch a few rays. Press conference shmess shonference.

that is fair imo. i made that same point in the post before the one you replied to. you just used less words. ?

A couple quick follow ups on you work story: 1. Was the same supervisor in place for the 30 years you've been there, thus presiding over the previous 4 portrait changes? 2. Did he state that he was changing the portrait because BO was the new Commander in Chief? 3. Is it possible he was a Trump so thoroughly disgusted with 8 years of Obama apology tours, tearing down the police force, playing racial politics, sending boatloads of cash to terrorists in foreign camps, leaving Americans to die in Libya among other things (the charicature of the average Trump supporter) and so on that once it was appropriate to flip the script, he simply flipped the script at the time the script should always be flipped 4. If not, how did you come to surmise it was a racial issue? Anyway, my point remains the same. Politics are politics, and someone always hates someone else. It's not subtle or hidden, or whatever, it just is. Speaking of that btw, you mentioned the birther issue. In the world of American politics, where pretty much anything you can say, do, or imply your opponent did--from mysogyny to homophobia to dogs on cars to not paying taxes to sitting in the church of an anti-American bigot and so on...is it fair to say that djt pulled off a master-stroke of ingenuity when asking if BO was actually born in this country? It's hard to argue it hurt him at the ballot box.

When someone disagrees with you, it doesn't necessarily mean they misunderstood. I'll summarize the situation the way I think it played out. No need for subtle introspection or conservative ot liberal think tanks. Some people likely hated Barrack Obama. For some it might have been because he's black/biracial, some because of his personality and style, some because of his religious beliefs, some because of his policies, some because he was a Democrat, some because he is male. And so on. Some people likely hated Donald Trump. For some it might be because he's white, some because he's wealthy, some because of his personality and style, aome because he ran as a Republican, some because he's male. And so on. As you move toward the center from the extremes, there likely was some crossover on all these points, but the end result as I see it is hanging some bs underlying animus toward one candidate without acknowledging the reality that someone always hates a president discredits what that president actually accomplished. Obama for all his faults navigated some incredibly difficult landscape in his ascension to the seat of power, but so did Trump. In fact it could be argued that the level of hatred and animosity toward Trump vastly exceeds the Obama presidency. And personally, if I was a Trump hater (and I thought i might be at least a Trump detestor), I'd at least acknowledge his ability to take body shot after body shot and shed 'em like it was water off a ducks back. As for dismantling Obama's legacy, Trump was pretty clear that was his goal and he won the election on that platform.

Thanks for the heads up. You'll be my first character witness.

Yeah, I felt badly about that and deleted it. Apparently not in time. I apologize for that.

I was thinking about that earlier today. If this all had happened exactly as he had said, he would have been 100% truthful about everything. We all need to think about the seriousness of what he might have gone through had it actually occurred.

Welcome back sunshine! First, keep the 500. I pay my own way and I am sure your mom and dad can use it more than I. Second, you seem awash in angst and hostility, 'addicted to outrage" as your boy Glenn Beck says. It can't be healthy to visit a place where people hold different opinions, throw a couple soft b#tch slaps from the 3rd row only to scurry away plotting your next great snapback. Engage if you like, but have some pride. Whomever did the number on you to bring you to this sad state is to blame, but you can choose strength and move on. Now, as for the border wall, my support for same, and Trump moving forward despite your fiscal expertise and online foot stomping, I want to be clear: You might be a wonderful person, but I don't care what you think. You seem broken to me, and from the sounds of it that happened long before Your President even considered dealing with this issue. With regard to the Covington crew, my fear for them is that in spite of all the good and decent people in the world, of all stripes and reglious persuasssions, the interaction with the media and political operatives who targeted them for nothing more than standing while white in America--that they might become hyperfocused on the people who tried to hurt them and end up hateful and bitter in the future. Next thing you know, somewhere in America they are signing on some message board as 34CovingintonFan or the like. As for damages and the like, you're probably correct that there has never ever been a situation ever ever in America where someone was awarded damages without obvious physical injury. Emotional distress...whaaaaaat? Be well.

See: March, Ides of;

This is really fascinating to watch. "I'll never be the man this did not happen to." The use of the word 'your' and 'you' when talking about the attack that happened to him. "...ties a noose around your neck and pours bleach on you?". The most interesting part to me is when he says "...And this is just a friendly fight?". Putting aside the 3 -5 different narratives he's provided to different people at different times, I haven't seen anyone suggest that he was involved in a "friendly fight". It is interesting that he apparently has a close relationship with at least one of the white Nigerians implicated in this whole mess. He should hope his attorney can get this whole misunderstanding resolved, lest his words become prophetic when he shares a cell for between 19-36 months with Illinois Bureau of Corrections inmate #265337-45.

Is that a Chicago PD flag right behind JS?

I think, in a world gone mad, its important to STOP. As humble citizens of this great blue marble that spins endlessly toward eternity, we must collectively LOOK within to confront the ugliness around us. I feel it's also important that we--the collective we, not the we that is us, but the "we"-we---LISTEN to our truths and find the compassion within to serve the greater good. I call it the "STOP, LOOK & LISTEN guide to the Survival of Human People on this great Blue Marble Spinning Endlessly Toward Eternity". I'm in talks with Amazon to go global but they want me to change the title and I dont see how that is possible. I validate you and how that photo of the known smirker makes you feel. Thank you.

I'm a 1%er liberal. Save your money and send it to the Pelosi family for skimming, I mean safekeeping.

The we-all-need-to-get-along-so-let-us-start-today logic he seems to be espousing is perfect for a 9th grade term paper. The sad history of addressing an issue that has gotten to the point where the argument in support of quasi-open borders is that "only several hundred thousand" people are circumventing our border crossings every year to add to the 12-20 million souls who have already done so. The Canadian govt got squeamish at about 50,000 people violating their laws. So the argument goes that while we used to impact our infrastructure each year by a city the size of San Francisco, or a Dallas, we're doing really well---like really really really well by only adding a Raleigh, Miami or Minneapolis each year. On the bright side I'm heading out of town in a few days, and I'm going to park whenever the heck I like--probably right near along the access road for departing flights, I plan on refusing to show my papers when requested and have no intention of waiting in lines for "screening". The reality is a very small percentage of people are looking to cause any trouble, so why all the fuss with walls and whatnot. I'll probably just tell anyone that pushes back "We all just need to work together here!". Walls are for suckers.

Assuming that WhiteyinPhilly and 34 are sharing their true feelings on all this, they represent the emotionally overwrought segment of the population that's easily manipulated. The recipe is: 1. Someone/some group identifies a boogeyman issue; 2. They sell the issue as such; 3. A whole lot of people gobble up the Intel, disregard the rational notion most of us are taught to "Wait....and see" and follow the base, primal instinct to jump to conclusions and punch someone, anyone that they disagree with; 4. When confronted with the evidence and knowledge that they have been manipulated, they dig their heels in and either move the target or move on. What they see as their strength of character is really just another form of weakness. There's that $#!ing smirk again! This kid will never learn.

this story is sad and pathetic, and seemed ready to unravel from basically when it started. HOWEVER: the delicious irony of Jussie Smollz acknowledging Michael Freaking Cohn with a sheepish "Hey girl heeeyyyeee!" as they pass in the hallway of their shared attorneys office is awesome. what a world.

Good Lord Bob, this reads like a script from Jussie Smolltte's One Man play. Toughen up, tuck your ***** back in and bide your time while your fave prez is not in office. Many Trump supporters did just that during the 8 long years of socialist stupidity and many folks of all stripes rode the wave during the Bush years before.

McCabe was an entrenched komrad who would have thrived in East Germany or any other totalitarian regime. He reminds me of that nazi in "Inglorious Basterds", the one who gets the swastika carved into his forehead at the end. That's not to say he was a brutal and ruthless in dispatching enemies (perceived or otherwise) as that character was, but in idealogical terms he's the same type of guy. He thrives on power, he will say or do anything necessary to advance his cause, so much so that while sent packing after being exposed as a liar and traitor, he simply changes the narrative. He is, in short, a virus.

As Barrack used to say "Nah ho-ho-hold on just a second...". The path is now clear. AOC is onto something. If I were Cuomo, I'd be inviting every large tech company in the world to set up shop in the city, have AOC do her AOC and have the company decide to move on. You're not going to score the $3b everytime, but if you could average a bill each time a company changed its plans after a while you have like $5b in found money for NYS. Put another way...sometimes pulling out is a good thing.

Trump could be the wild card you're looking for. Personally I think the tentacles of corruption cross party lines and there is plenty of skulduggery to go around. I don't see it playing out as you have laid out on your wish list, but maybe a few of the big players will get kicked in the nuts along the way. What's truly tragic is they all have so friggin much blood on their hands, and sell out your family, mine and everyone elses...liberals, conservatives, centrists and independents. It means nothing to them.

Sometimes Foxxy ya gotta sweep the leg.

I've learned not to view these types of issues based only on "this moment in time!". Over the past couple years people have crowed about how THIS time, they. got.him! only to have the current president continue to plow ahead. See for instance, today. The deal is what it is, and the parts on the board are constantly moving. He has set himself up to be the savior of the resistance if he follows through, uses the military ame other options at his disposal to continue to construct the barriers. In the interim, the dems cracked and if one chooses to look at that as a victory, it can be seen that way. However, virtually every high profile dem has been all over the page on supporting, not supporting, moral, immoral depending on who they were speaking to, whether running for office or sitting in opposition to the current president, and that makes them look weak politically and on the issue of border security. Snapshots of Master Beto at the border barricaded behind a 10 foot high chain link fence for protection only add to the challenges the dems face as the move farther to the left. Put another way, you're not going to find consensus between the extremes, but there are an awful lot of folks in the middle who recognize the security/economic challenges of just letting $#@@ go on the way the dems want it to be. Those are the difference makers who might not want to speak publically and be bullied by crazies for suggesting security at the border needs to be overhauled, but would apply some common sense to the problem of hundreds of thousands of people showing up for benefits that their tax dollars pay for. In other words....developing....