Rob, if you get to have your party and cook Haitian food for your neighbors, I will be there in spirit, celebrating with you!!!
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Rob, if you get to have your party and cook Haitian food for your neighbors, I will be there in spirit, celebrating with you!!!
Thank You! I very much appreciate this. RobQuote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
To give some clarification as it's been awhile - the cooking of Haitian food is a rebuke of DJT's comment regarding Haiti being an (expletive)hole country. Rob
Oh! I *DID* need that clarification! Like frugal-one says, I just do not keep up. I am hopeless!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by gimmethesimplelife
To actually say that to Rob is disgusting. Glad he took it in a positive light.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
what, commenting on Haitian food served as celebration? I didn’t say it was a bad thing. I implied it was an odd thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Rob speaks often about one’s “station” and class in life, and I remember it because I think it’s quite odd.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
here in post 56
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/sho...hlight=station
here in post 18
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/sho...hlight=station
here in post 17
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/sho...hlight=station Which also includes his often repeated thoughts about showing disrespect to the motherland by climbing out of his class. Or some such thing.. I don’t quite follow the logic. I’m sure it’s there though!
But especially here in posts 21 and 36 and the entire thread
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/sho...hlight=station
These are just a few instances of Rob’s peculiar take on “station” in life (apparently boat shoes figure prominently) and if I took my time I could find others.
In IL’s defense I find the talk about your station in life very odd and actually demeaning.
It’s slave talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Rob can say whatever he wants about himself... that does not mean you should. IMO you are disparaging him. As stated previously, glad he took it in a positive light.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
You know that was not the thing I thought disgusting. You are being obtuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Thank You. I really appreciate your stance. I'd prefer not to play the role of forum pinata - can we collectively get back to the topic?Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I did not mean to cause a diversion from the topic. Apparently I did. Once again can we collectively get back to the topic? Rob
Since threads tend to diverge from the original topic I went back and locked at what the ‘topic’ was for this thread. Judging from the first ten-twenty posts it seems to be democrats wondering why republican politicians aren’t interested in helping people and Republican voters trying to justify why Republican politicians are not supporting legislation that is strongly popular with voters. Most recently that would be things like veteran burn pit healthcare legislation, Medicare drug price negotiations. And also Republican voters trying to claim that severe abortion restrictions are popular. Admittedly that last one came before blood red Kansas voters resoundingly said ‘eff you politicians, we’re perfectly capable of figuring out when we need abortions’ so that one is already dated.Quote:
Originally Posted by gimmethesimplelife
Trump took Fifth Amendment more than 440 times in refusing to answer New York attorney general’s questions yesterday. trump previously stated the mob takes the fifth … And yet, some are telling him to get on the bandwagon for 2024 run for president???? Insanity!
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/trum...-business.html
It's interesting that Eric Trump admitted to the world that when Daddy was president he weaponized federal law enforcement against his enemies.
That combativeness/vindictiveness seems to be a hallmark of authoritarian types, like Ron DeSantis, Vladimir Putin, Richard Nixon, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I listened to Dana Millbank interviewed on NPR (natch) where he outlined Republican “combativeness “ as starting with Newt Gingrich in the mid-1990s when the Republicans swept Congress.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Mr. Millbank has a new book you all would love called “the deconstructionists: The 25 year crack up of the
Republican Party “
As for FBI/DOJ intimidation techniques used in banana republics, like others have stated I truly hope they have something on DJ Trump to make all this hullabaloo.
I see whoever is in the White House will be using this kind of strong arm tactics, regardless of the party.
remember when Obama‘s IRS troop targeted nonprofits who were on the political right? I do. Using the IRS has been a long time weapon of several administrations, And probably we don’t even know all the times it’s been used. so that’s another tactic that we can look forward to being used more often. Ugh.
Overreach of government is wrong no matter what side it’s on.
You’re right about that. I don’t think either party has terribly clean hands when it comes to weaponizing our security and revenue collection apparatus. Showy raids. Misused FISA warrants. All those “domestic terrorists” at PTA meetings. Strategic leaks and less than diligent efforts to find the leakers. The politicization of prosecutorial discretion.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
There’s a lot of room for pots to call kettles black.
I remember when negotiation and compromise were common in politics, but it's rather a distant memory.
Considering that the head of the fbi was appointed by trump it’s pretty laughable the republicans screeching that this was a political hit job. But republicans aren’t big on logic and rationality so I can see how they come to that stupid conclusion.
Law and order for the rabble, immunity for the elite.
Raiding a residence isn’t the FBI’s call. So logic and rationality would seem to indicate that who appointed the Director isn’t especially relevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Expecting loyalty from an upper level bureaucrat also strikes me as naive.
So the question is…. trump said his residence was illegally searched. Garland just came on tv stating the warrant would become public unless trump objects within 24 hours (3 pm tomorrow). Will trump object?
It is unprecedented according to an NPR interviewee that contents of a search warrant are revealed by DOJ law enforcement. They just do not do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Trump could have himself revealed its contents over the last few days.
DOJ had better have something solid and BIG here or else they are propelling Trump into a White
House run and victory given this high drama raid caper. Dangerous game they are playing.
And we are supposed to believe that Joe Biden did not know about this in advance? I don’t know what to think about that, but a front runner idea would be “who is running that place anyway? “
When would you issue a search warrant and when would you just subpoena the documents?
What kind of sentence did Sandy Berger get when they caught him with those documents down his pants? I’m pretty sure you lose your clearances after something like that. I would like Trump to be caught with something bad enough to torpedo any future candidacy and start purging the populists so the GOP can become conservative again.
With all the reports of Trump flushing documents down the toilet and actually eating part of one, they would have been remiss not to have looked into his hijinks.
Looks like the subpoena was this spring ....Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...cuments-source
Hopefully, trump will be eliminated in future bids for any public office.... and some semblance of both parties being able to work together again. This polarization is not to the benefit of the country. Hopefully, it is not too late.
Since when did Trump et al show any respect for subpoenas?
"I would like Trump to be caught with something bad enough to torpedo any future candidacy and start purging the populists so the GOP can become conservative again."
Oh, but haven't you heard? The MAGA crowd is now gearing up for a civil war. Sigh.
I heard about some important Kim Jung-un letters on eBay by some user name, Donnie45. Something about rocket technology (joking).
I sounds like Merrick Garland is taking "the buck stops here" sign off for the search warrant, so maybe it will take the heat off of Wray and the other FBI people who have had threats of violence from the extremists. One news report I saw said Garland would not reveal the warrant details if Trump would ask him not to. Interesting play.
I think that belief is limited to the biggest fringewits on the left and right.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Sounds like just the right.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
I guess one of those fringewits was in Cincinnati today. Weird how republicans are all ‘law and order! Law and order!’ Until suddenly they aren’t.
In all fairness, I don't think Republican is an accurate description. Maybe white nationalists who are inspired by Trump. Or just whackos. I seem to recall from some political philosophy that if you go far enough to the right and left, they tend to meet somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
or maga republicans?
I'm sure I'm biased, but where are the Violent Democratic fringewits in your scenario? I don't see any lefties shooting up supermarkets or FBI offices or threatening civil war.
It's probably a matter of semantics. The John Wayne conservatives like to label the rioters in Portland left or extreme left, but they were more accurately anti-fascists or something outside of the traditional definition of leftists. Whackos of various shades.
I joke that I'd join Antifa if I could find an application somewhere--who on earth wouldn't be anti-fascist?. Outside the Proud Boys and other right-wing provocateurs, there were a few brawlers at the demonstrations who were arrested--very few among thousands and thousands of people. And people who think they spotted an Antifa flag at those rallies were seeing the anarchist flag. Not the same thing at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
And remember, those demonstrators were protesting the wanton killing of minorities--which seems to me to be a valid reason to demonstrate--unlike the mob in Charlottesville chanting "Jews will not replace us."
Yes, I suspect there have a been a lot of republicans who are also antifascists, but don't know it. Or maybe not.
The people who were burning buildings and shooting cops dead in St. louis not long ago were not Trump supporters.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
They are thugs, but leftie thugs, regardless of what they are protesting.
yes, you are biased.