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    Quote Originally Posted by BorderBob View Post
    It’s not nonsense. It happened. Oh, and once again, he tried to have a signing ceremony without actually signing anything. The man is a dunce.


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    It is a gaff, a brain-fart similar to Obama’s 57 states, bowling indiscretion remark, etc. I considered these types of reported remarks given the ink importance they receive, then and now, as spiteful and ridiculous.

    But then you have to detract from the intent of the post and take another cheap shot about the signing.

    It’s all political posturing and BS from both sides but you only see and defend the one side regardless of outcomes and consequences.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    It is a gaff, a brain-fart similar to Obama’s 57 states, bowling indiscretion remark, etc. I considered these types of reported remarks given the ink importance they receive, then and now, as spiteful and ridiculous.

    But then you have to detract from the intent of the post and take another cheap shot about the signing.

    It’s all political posturing and BS from both sides but you only see and defend the one side regardless of outcomes and consequences.
    Some about "People in glass houses..." Listen to these brain-flatulence based remarks from "Crazy Uncle Joe:"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoJcie2hhZQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2w2JpBTHVc

    Ergo, Trump's remarks are just another "big fu***kin' deal."
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    Some about "People in glass houses..." Listen to these brain-flatulence based remarks from "Crazy Uncle Joe:"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoJcie2hhZQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2w2JpBTHVc

    Ergo, Trump's remarks are just another "big fu***kin' deal."
    He does the same thing.....over and over... it is a pattern of conduct.



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    Quote Originally Posted by BorderBob View Post
    He does the same thing.....over and over... it is a pattern of conduct.



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    Bob, let's be reasonable here, Rs, Ds, popes, saints and even martyrs, people screw-up.

    If I were unreasonable, I could criticized a brilliant man and a brilliant speech for two reasons:

    (1) Rather common, well-known whispers, suggest President Kennedy, his outstanding speech writer Ted Sorensen notwithstanding, is said to have made a gaffe in his June, 1963 "I am a Berliner" speech. We can all agree, that the speech was incredible, but if I am understanding the situation correctly, the gaffe was cause by the inappropriate use of the word "ein," changing the meaning of Berlin to "Jelly Doughnut." In support, found this on the History Channel website:

    https://www.history.com/news/hungry-...ughnut-or-am-i

    (2) Furthermore, the cadence and theme of the speech, seems to have been somewhat plagiarized from Franklin Roosevelt's "Let Them Look To Norway Speech." That is my own, personal, apparently original observation, which I have heard from no other critic or source, so check out that speech on YouTube and decide for yourself:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfnnK76nVt0


    The two examples I cite are petty reductions of a great inspirational speech, illustrative of Kennedy's commitment to, and advocacy for, freedom.

    I don't know of anyone, myself included, if followed around by a camera and sound crew 24-7, who are not going to screw-up unless the are reading a careful script from a teleprompter, cough, cough. And, as Lee observed with Obama, even then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BorderBob View Post
    He does the same thing.....over and over... it is a pattern of conduct.



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    Unfortunately, that is who he is. And as a pundit recently stated: “If Trump were to dummy up the media’s meal ticket would come to an end.

    But as some choose to exert their right to hate and admonish Trump openly, it boggles my mind why the left gets their panties in a wad when it comes to the right bringing up past and current transgressions of those in government on the left – and with a resistance agenda to what many see as Trump’s positive accomplishments? Do you favor open borders, Sanctuary Cities and illegal immigrants having equal rights?

    Move on, the left says, Hillary and Obama are no longer in office. Yet a biased media that 90% of the time reports negative news on Trump makes Hillary relevant by reporting everything she says – often time trying to spin into a relevant fact. Case in point is the following report:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

    She speaks here of possible chaos because the WH in her mind has no experienced staff to deal with North Korea's Un. Four years as Secretary of State at a time North Korea was advancing its policies and what was her contribution – or should I ask ours?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec;1788120

    Move on, the left says, Hillary and Obama are no longer in office. Yet a biased media that 90% of the time reports negative news on Trump makes Hillary relevant by reporting everything she says – often time trying to spin into a relevant fact. Case in point is the following report:

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    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-warns-of-diplomatic-danger-in-n-korea-talks/ar-BBK4ZzR?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp[/URL]

    She speaks here of possible chaos because the WH in her mind has no experienced staff to deal with North Korea's Un. Four years as Secretary of State at a time North Korea was advancing its policies and what was her contribution – or should I ask ours?
    The media, through it's hyper-critical reporting of Trump (in some ways supported by the Trump style), tees-up a controversy, so that Hillary can weigh-in. HRC's views, spoken purportedly "authoritatively" from the vantage point of her "experience" credential(s), represent her views as the brilliant, corrective alternative to the Trump policies.

    Simply put, the mainstream media, obsessed with Trump hatred, discredits Trump, and gleefully supports the Hillary position(s).

    HRC has no significant record of success. Her comments serve as a contrived compare and contrast; a choreographed performance, like the Town Council's ZBA fandango.
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    Yea, for a change the swamp was drained of an alligator from the left; and with more to follow.

    Investigate everyone in government as vigorously as Trump has been investigated and fire them all for cause.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Yea, for a change the swamp was drained of an alligator from the left; and with more to follow.

    Investigate everyone in government as vigorously as Trump has been investigated and fire them all for cause.
    What is this, the 50th Saturday Night Massacre of the Trump Presidency? So goes the canned Leftist mantra. It is more like the Friday Night Resurrection of FBI integrity.

    Mr. C., curious choice of words on McCabe's part. He blasted Trump, but added "I'm being singled out." Makes me wonder what he really meant by the phrase, from what group was he singled out, aka, and who were his "Deep State" accomplices? That comment seems to sound something like the "I'm just a patsy" line yelled to a reporter by a 24-year old "disgruntled" ex-Marine in the Dallas City Jail.

    But, I digress. To hear the mainstream media tell it, never mind that the IG report was a Democrat demand fulfilled, and FBI OPR is entirely non-partisan, the big story is not McCabe's potential criminality, but the consequence(s) of that possible criminality. Think of it: this poor unfortunate, so-called "Trump victim" has lost his pension.

    Seriously? Who among us has a golden parachute pension?

    No worries Lefties, the Big Swamp Snake can tap into the money that Terry McAuliffe gave his wife, or can go to work for the Clinton Foundation, the political equivalent of "Genco Olive Oil Importing."


    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/and...ns-im-singled/
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    Hilarious! **** like this only takes place in the public sector and especially in politics. Ethics, my ass! They know not the meaning of the word.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

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    The title of this thread is "Had Enough Yet?"

    After Trump signed the "Omnibus Budget Bill," full of out-of-control spending and programs which contradict the President's campaign positions, yea, I am getting close to having enough. To me, it is deja vu, complete with haunting, ire echoes of the "Read my lips, no new taxes" Bush '41 promise of 1988, juxtaposed with the 1990 budget deal.

    Rush Limbaugh put it succinctly: "I think Trump has just gone up the escalator."

    Sad, very sad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    The title of this thread is "Had Enough Yet?"

    After Trump signed the "Omnibus Budget Bill," full of out-of-control spending and programs which contradict the President's campaign positions, yea, I am getting close to having enough. To me, it is deja vu, complete with haunting, ire echoes of the "Read my lips, no new taxes" Bush '41 promise of 1988, juxtaposed with the 1990 budget deal.

    Rush Limbaugh put it succinctly: "I think Trump has just gone up the escalator."

    Sad, very sad.
    Sad Mark, but not unexpected. Washington in its entirety is the swamp. How pathetic that there are but a few members in Congress that are committed to the best interests of the country; rather practicing nihilism to embarrass the other side and further their own agendas.

    The passing of the Omnibus Budget Bill was a prime example of the two dysfunctional parties acting as one (for the most part) to get dibs on the American taxpayer pocketbook and leaving them with another $1.3 million debt load.

    And then the head honcho says never again and Pelosi cackles that her party put one over on the other side and Chucky gets his tunnel.

    My kingdom for a third party – an independent, centrist party where America’s best interests truly come first.

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    =Lee Chowaniec;1791260
    My kingdom for a third party – an independent, centrist party where America’s best interests truly come first.
    Lee, you and I are old enough to remember George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot.

    Wallace genuinely, IMHO was a bigot.

    Anderson was a "tantrumatic," spoiled-sport, establishment brat, whose true intention was to pull votes from movement-conservative Reagan, in what was thought at the time to be a close race.

    I did throw my dice on Perot in 1992, but knew I was throwing my vote away. (Never did like Bush '41, and to this day, I am still more pissed-off at Reagan for picking him in 1980, than I ever was for Bush picking Quayle in 1988.) In 1992, I felt that a message had to be sent, and what better place to send from than hapless, hopelessly "Blue," New York State, where my vote would not count in any event.

    Trump I thought, as I have posted here on Speak Up, was the closest that America, so far, has come to electing a third party candidate. I may have been wrong. Donald Trump is the closest that America has come to electing establishment, swamp-loving, John Anderson. (Although though not a mirror image of the blatantly liberal Anderson, Trump does superficially share some of his populist characteristics: a disgruntled Republican, with some liberal leanings, appealing to some confused Democrats and many disenfranchised, restless Republicans.)

    Although I have not totally given up on Trump, I am more that hedging my bets on him, and giving him the proverbial benefit of the doubt, is becoming increasingly difficult.

    I do agree, 100% with you Mr. C., that a real-values based third party may be needed. Or, may I suggest, at the very least, a 21st Century version of the Whig-Republican Parties competition of the 1850s, which resulted in the death of the Whig Party, which had refused to directly confront and remedy the issue of slavery.

    Lucky Whigs: they where only wobbly on slavery. The current establishment Republican Party seems wobbly on everything, except being wobbly. Such a third-party, or new major party, would well serve many, such as myself, on every level of government.

    After yesterday, I am suspicious that Trump did not come to Washington to drain the swamp, but to perhaps stock it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    Lee, you and I are old enough to remember George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot.

    Wallace genuinely, IMHO was a bigot.

    Anderson was a "tantrumatic," spoiled-sport, establishment brat, whose true intention was to pull votes from movement-conservative Reagan, in what was thought at the time to be a close race.

    I did throw my dice on Perot in 1992, but knew I was throwing my vote away. (Never did like Bush '41, and to this day, I am still more pissed-off at Reagan for picking him in 1980, than I ever was for Bush picking Quayle in 1988.) In 1992, I felt that a message had to be sent, and what better place to send from than hapless, hopelessly "Blue," New York State, where my vote would not count in any event.

    Trump I thought, as I have posted here on Speak Up, was the closest that America, so far, has come to electing a third party candidate. I may have been wrong. Donald Trump is the closest that America has come to electing establishment, swamp-loving, John Anderson. (Although though not a mirror image of the blatantly liberal Anderson, Trump does superficially share some of his populist characteristics: a disgruntled Republican, with some liberal leanings, appealing to some confused Democrats and many disenfranchised, restless Republicans.)

    Although I have not totally given up on Trump, I am more that hedging my bets on him, and giving him the proverbial benefit of the doubt, is becoming increasingly difficult.

    I do agree, 100% with you Mr. C., that a real-values based third party may be needed. Or, may I suggest, at the very least, a 21st Century version of the Whig-Republican Parties competition of the 1850s, which resulted in the death of the Whig Party, which had refused to directly confront and remedy the issue of slavery.

    Lucky Whigs: they where only wobbly on slavery. The current establishment Republican Party seems wobbly on everything, except being wobbly. Such a third-party, or new major party, would well serve many, such as myself, on every level of government.

    After yesterday, I am suspicious that Trump did not come to Washington to drain the swamp, but to perhaps stock it.
    Spot on!

    Nor should we ever consider the likes of socialist Bernie Sanders as a bona fide independent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Spot on!

    Nor should we ever consider the likes of socialist Bernie Sanders as a bona fide independent.
    I truly believe that a third party, or at least a new major party, is needed, but I am practically confronted with historical realities:

    (1) third parties, traditionally, have been the rather exclusive dumping grounds for candidates appealing to fringe groups, the intellectual elites, or regional prejudices.

    (2) Major parties are so embedded with special interests, that any new major party is unlikely.

    What is needed is a truly independent party with broad national and political appeal, populist yet principled, that not only can communicate to, but connect with, and convince, the American people of the virtues and necessities of its philosophies, programs, and priorities, and therefore, can actually steer the ship of state through the swamp's stormy sea. To rephrase Farragut, "Damn the swamp, full speed ahead!"

    Perhaps that third party need not quickly and dramatically drain the swamp, but to effectively bridge the swamp, in such a way as to diminish, and eventually evaporate it. I AM NOT HOLDING MY BREATH!
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    The title of this thread is "Had Enough Yet?"

    After Trump signed the "Omnibus Budget Bill," full of out-of-control spending and programs which contradict the President's campaign positions, yea, I am getting close to having enough. To me, it is deja vu, complete with haunting, ire echoes of the "Read my lips, no new taxes" Bush '41 promise of 1988, juxtaposed with the 1990 budget deal.

    Rush Limbaugh put it succinctly: "I think Trump has just gone up the escalator."

    Sad, very sad.
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