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Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

January 8, 2021 05:51 AM Forum: Politics

The Brits Respond!

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Lacey


Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnel's wife and the secretary of transportation has resigned. Reporting is there are more coming. If that happens, it's just a matter of time before all confidence in Trump is lost, and he has no choice but to resign.
For as much as I'd like to see it, I don't think he would ever resign. He has never, nor will he ever, put the country first.  

January 8, 2021 05:56 AM Forum: Politics

The Brits Respond!

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Brian, you mean that wasn't "reported", so it didn't occur? It seems right in line with leftists tactics.smile
So in others words, your belief is based on nothing. No evidence whatsoever. Well, everyone's entitled to their opinions!

January 8, 2021 06:32 AM Forum: Politics

January 8, 2021 12:11 PM Forum: Politics

WSJ Calls for trump's head

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll



Apparently, an impeached President isn't eligible to run again, which I didn't know, so that would put a wooden stake through trumpula's heart. Removing him in disgrace is appropriate, but more than that, getting the nuclear trigger out of his hand is a moral imperative. 
It would be nice to cut off his ability to pardon, too.

January 8, 2021 12:49 PM Forum: Politics

WSJ Calls for trump's head

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
You know, I have no idea what is going to happen. After the last four years nothing would surprise me.

Maybe the best thing they could do is put him on Air Force One and ship him down to his place in Florida and have him play golf until NY DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. comes calling.
Iraq issued an arrest warrant for him. Maybe we have an extradition treaty with them.

January 8, 2021 11:42 PM Forum: Politics

Epic TakeDown Of GOP Enablers

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Jim, this woman is nothing more than a leftist mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. I'll take her as seriously as you would Levin or Limbaugh.
Darian - do you take Limbaugh seriously?

In another thread you stated "I suspect that there was a great deal of leftist agitation involved in the situation" regarding the events in DC the other day. Is Limbaugh where you got that from? I ask because that's some of what he is claiming.

January 9, 2021 12:06 AM Forum: Politics

Epic TakeDown Of GOP Enablers

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Brian:

I never listen to Limbaugh any more, since I am working from home and am never in the car when he is on local radio.  Over the past decades, back when I used to visit clients and so on, I would listen to him if I was in the car during his time slot.  A couple of times a year at best.  I always thought he was pretty entertaining - I could never tell just how much of his outrage was real or an act.  And he always seemed to me to have a core of humor that is gone from his successors in the fringe media.  

I hear that he is dying of lung cancer.  That is too bad, but more than a little ironic.

Jim
Hi Jim,

Yeah, I think entertaining is the best description and I think that was his goal - it's just his schtick. He's certainly not a serious source of information (although a lot of people take him very seriously).

It is too bad - lung cancer is a terrible way to go.  I might want to give up that weekend cigar!

January 9, 2021 12:13 AM Forum: Politics

WSJ Calls for trump's head

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Brown

I didn't know that.  I would not be opposed to impeachment and removal as an act of self-preservation by the R's.  I seriously doubt that it could be completed by the 20th though.  

Jim

p.s. Russ is a careful reader and will be appalled that I am not worried about Trump having the nuke codes, since I phrased this as "self preservation by the Rs."  I am not worried about Trump launching the nukes though.  Doesn't Trump have to get a general or someone to co-execute a launch with him?  Also, I don't think he is any more of a threat to start a war than he was on day 1.  I sure will be glad to see him go.

JIm  
Fortunately having the codes is not the same as having a finger on the button.  Having the codes allows you to issue the order.  The actual "button pushing" is done by military officers in a silo or on a sub, and it takes two or more to verify the order and actually conduct a launch.

Whether or not he needs someone else to co-execute the order I don't know. That's a good question.

January 9, 2021 01:33 AM Forum: Politics

Okay, now the Capital is under siege.

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll


or

3. They never intended to make this a legal exercise but a propaganda exercise for the true purpose of continuing to blind trump's supporters with the steady diet of lies that trump has spewed.
And keep the cashflow to Trump's election defense fund flowing.

January 9, 2021 04:25 AM Forum: Politics

Epic TakeDown Of GOP Enablers

Posted By Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Brian, it's very reasonable to assume that there was leftist agitation. Do you honestly believe that it wasn't possible? Destruction and unlawful behavior is a trademark of the left, normally not Trump supporters
To me, it's not reasonable at all to assume anything I didn't see evidence of with my own two eyes.  There are countless images and videos from sources both left and right (and the FBI!) that show who did this.

When you see hundreds of maga-hat wearing, confederate-flag carrying Trump supporters breaking into the capitol building, it's reasonable to you to assume there's leftist agitation behind it?  Do you think the lunatic lady who was shot breaching the door into the chambers was a leftist?  Come on.

If you really think that, there's nothing I can say here that will make sense to you.