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August 1, 2022 10:40 PM Forum: Politics

Hmmm, not a word here about the missing texts messages

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

I agree with him sometimes, not all. All I know is what you comment on, usually agreeing with the far right and fox news. I swear, sometimes I can' decipher what you are trying to say.

BTW- were you upset about Hillary's deleted or missing emails? I seem to recollect you were and still are. Is it okay when your guy does it? I've asked that a couple of times, I could demand an answer like our resident "Richard", but I won't.
I'm upset about HRC's emails, although it is ancient history now.  I was upset at the time, and this was one reason I voted for Trump in the first go-round, even though I actively got involved in local politics for the first time, as a Rubio delegate.  Anyway, anyone who deletes emails from a government computer with criminal intent should do time.  This is what would happen to a private in the Air Force or a mid-level clerk.  It is a miscarriage of justice that DJT, or HRC, or anyone else well placed can avoid culpability for any crimes they committed.   I would demand a full prosecution and due process all the way of course, but I always thought HRC got an unfair pass and apparently DJT is just as bad.

August 1, 2022 10:43 PM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


Rich stated that the sun rising was a fact..... Lacey argued that it isnt a fact but a social construct. In other words Lacey wanted to turn the sun coming up into a semantic argument to avoid the fact that it just is a fact, same as a man cant give birth to a baby lol

(although it does occur to me that my time here in this group does at times confirm there is such a thing as an asshole baby so maybe there is wiggle room on whether men can have one) lol

I gave my opinion on the abortion issue a few days ago and you agreed with it......not interested in beating a dead horse smile
No problem at all.  Rich has continued to beat the abortion horse, even in this thread.  So I replied and James mocked him.  Then Rich went on to a multi-post rant about men having babies.  I wonder why?  Jim

August 1, 2022 11:18 PM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


This latest crap from the left about men can have babies is ridiculous and I get Rich wanting to point that fallacy out and get an admission from those on the left that it is ridiculous. Yet the left on here avoids it at all costs, even using semantics to argue about the sun rising smile 
For starters, no one here who is actually on the left (Rod) (Dave) has ever said that men could have babies.  Those on the center left (James, maybe Brian (actually a pure centrist) Jim M. etc.)  Have not made this claim either.  So, when Rich posts this as a question over and over and over again, it just looks like he is desperately trying to change the topic.  

I would be happy to participate in a thread about the politics of transgenderism.  As usual my position would be nuanced.  I have no problem with men or women identifying as the opposite and living their lives as such.  I'm a libertarian at heart.  I do have a problem with post-pubescent boys transitioning and then competing in women's sports.  I do not think that is fair to born women.   I think I understand some feminists who think trans-women are not the "same" as born women, because the transwomen did not share the same life experiences.  That said, I 100% try to treat the trans people I meet from time to time with respect, use the preferred pronouns and so on.   

We could have a discussion.  Instead, Rich loudly and immaturely demands "answers."  I think he is merely deflecting.  You think he is making a point.  We disagree, but that is OK too.

August 1, 2022 11:21 PM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Here's the question.  Its very difficult to answer.  

And apparently, asking for an answer to one of the most simple questions and obvious answers, is now  beating a dead horse?

Greg has figured out my motive and he explained it perfectly above.

I'm simply exposing the left for their bizarre thoughts, showing how their leadership and their candidates for positions in gov't are a scary thing to think about when they want to shove their psychotic views down the throats of all Americans.

Why is it that Greg was able to get my gist and you're still puzzled?  

My guess is that Greg is just a sharper cookie and has something that you seem to be lacking, common sense!   smile tongue

And BTW, I checked with Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionaries as well.  

The word "Semantics" and the phrase "Social Construct" don't seem to be interchangeable at all.

In fact "Semantics" is an adjective, while "social construct" is a noun.

Contextually they are totally different as well.  Just an FYI for your education counselor.  wink
You have carefully refused to discuss abortion beyond acknowledging that a fertilized egg, embryo, fetus and baby are all human and all alive.  I think that is not the end of the discussion.  Maybe you do.  We don't know what you think beyond acknowledging that a fertilized egg, embryo, fetus and baby are all human and all alive because you have never said.  

August 2, 2022 12:41 AM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Desperate?  Really I'm desperate?  LOL

I asked a question.  You and the rest are the ones hyperventilating over it.

Here's the question:

Can a man have a baby?  Wow, I must be SO desperate.   Emote and exaggerate much Jim?  wink
Start a thread, ask the question.  I'll answer it.  Even though I said I would not.  Until you start a thread and ask the question it looks to me and everyone except maybe Greg like you are simply trying to deflect, move the goal posts, change the subject to avoid admitting that you are wrong and so on.   I'm in meetings for next 2+ hour though, so no hurry.

August 2, 2022 03:38 AM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


And NO ONE claims they have said that.....just that they support those who are saying it and rather than admit the ones claiming it are full of shit they will argue all around it without addressing it. What part of that escapes you counselor? I explained why Rich keeps repeating the question and yet you still refuse to recognize it.... You seem reasonably conservative but you sure spend a lot of time here toting water for the other side smile

I am fine with whatever delusions people want to hide themselves in however this push to allow men to participate in women's sports is a few steps over the line into stupid so stupid its trans-stupid, meta-stupid.

I dont "think" Rich is making a point....I know he is and he did it quite well with this latest round.
I have supported politicians who have said nearly infinite amounts of stupid shit.  You too.  Most recently Donald Trump in your case.  Trump and Biden in mine.  If felt obligated to defend everything stupid said by a politician I supported, it would be a full time job.  I would have to post even more than Rich, if that is possible.  

August 2, 2022 03:43 AM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


And NO ONE claims they have said that.....just that they support those who are saying it and rather than admit the ones claiming it are full of shit they will argue all around it without addressing it. What part of that escapes you counselor? I explained why Rich keeps repeating the question and yet you still refuse to recognize it.... You seem reasonably conservative but you sure spend a lot of time here toting water for the other side smile

I am fine with whatever delusions people want to hide themselves in however this push to allow men to participate in women's sports is a few steps over the line into stupid so stupid its trans-stupid, meta-stupid.

I dont "think" Rich is making a point....I know he is and he did it quite well with this latest round.
Likewise, you are clearly intelligent, but you eat up the garbage laid down by Rich all the time.  Sometimes it puzzles me.  You have to know that Rich is full of it a lot of the time when you agree with him.  I suppose you are cheering for the "home team", and that is fine.  I can honestly say that for every 150 times Rich thinks he has scored a point on James, I disagree.  Not because I am carrying water for the other side, but because I think that James is articulate, careful with his words, and damned insightful.   I agree with Rich on a lot of stuff, but nearly always he obscures it with bluster, name calling, obfuscation, and other cheap rhetorical stunts.

August 2, 2022 06:24 AM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Here's a suggestion for you Jim, get over it.  

I don't sit here and shoot names at people at any rate even close to what you claim I do.  You say I "Nearly always" do that?  Hmm... that's another bit of complete exaggeration on your part as far as I can tell.  smile

In fact the only person I do that with it is really Rod K.  

That's because he refers to me as an asshole and a Trumptoid regularly.

But hey don't let the truth get in the way of your narrative where you claim I "Nearly always" name call.    wink.  

Just yesterday or today (can't remember for sure) Jim M. Called me a Dick,   once again.

And he didn't address me as "Dick" his remarks were personal and he even created a picture with a guitar pick.  

What was my response in return?  Gee, nothing.  I don't even think I mocked him back.  LOL!.

So then, I guess that was the ONE single time out of the last 20 responses I gave here where I didn't call someone a name in return, because we all know that the other 19 times, I called the person I was responding to, a vulgar name, correct?  

Oh wait.... You mean to say I did NOT do that as you claimed??  Gee, isn't that shocking.  shocked

However, if you want to continue being stuck on that broken record, just like the rest of the left here, whining and complaining about my persona, it doesn't really bother me, but I will take the opportunity to set the record straight. 

P.S.  I just revisited this very thread, and Jim M. posted on Page 9, response #86, and you tell me why he felt the need to call me a dick?

He even posted my response to James, which had no name calling or obnoxious remarks about James personally and yet one of his lines was to say "Insert any derogatory name you want to call Rich here". 

You know something Counselor, that is just another of the dozens of examples whereby you've shown completely biased selective outrage, so I think that makes my point for me.  Don't you?  

And my guess is that you'll completely ignore his posting #86, because...... well in your mind Jim M's response about me, and his nasty remark to me,  was a completely appropriate one, and within reason, right ?   tongue

And you wonder why I call you a fraud and a tool for the left??    Believe me, when I tell you that love you more than you could ever know, because as Greg pointed out earlier you tote their water for them.  cool
So sorry Rich.  Did not mean to trigger you.

August 2, 2022 09:34 PM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

What trigger?  I simply put up the facts, and you can't seem to deal with it.

Like I said, I'm happy to defend myself against all the false accusations that you make on a regular basis.  smile

Would you care to respond to my factual statement about Jim M. and posting #86,  or do you simply want to give your regular little fraudulent remark above?

Here's a challenge for you counselor, put your money where you false assertions are.  

Care to make a wager here and now that Jim M. has called me more names in his last 40 posts than I have him in the last 40 posts I've made?  

How 'bout we make it interesting?  Let's bet $1000.  How does that sound?  wink

Or are you too much of an intellectual coward and fraud to put your money where your mouth is? 

You let me know here in the next few minutes, Ok Jim.  
Wow, I obviously triggered you badly.  Sorry about that.  

p.s.  I was having dinner and then watching "Better Call Saul" with my wife.  You should try it some time, rather than being an angry on-line crank 24/7.  Oops, I did it again.

August 2, 2022 09:41 PM Forum: Politics

According To The People Who Make The Call, We're Not In A Recession

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

What trigger?  I simply put up the facts, and you can't seem to deal with it.

Like I said, I'm happy to defend myself against all the false accusations that you make on a regular basis.  smile

Would you care to respond to my factual statement about Jim M. and posting #86,  or do you simply want to give your regular little fraudulent remark above?

Here's a challenge for you counselor, put your money where you false assertions are.  

Care to make a wager here and now that Jim M. has called me more names in his last 40 posts than I have him in the last 40 posts I've made?  

How 'bout we make it interesting?  Let's bet $1000.  How does that sound?  wink

Or are you too much of an intellectual coward and fraud to put your money where your mouth is? 

You let me know here in the next few minutes, Ok Jim.  
p.s.s.  You should write more carefully.  Do you mean last your last 40 posts, period, or last 40 posts in response to each other?  If it is the latter, I would not take the bet.  Jim calls you a dick now and then.  I would be surprised if he called you more names than you called him, but it is not out of the question.  If it was the former, I think you'd be surprised. 

One thing is certain.  You have called me more names, questioned my character, questioned my skills, questioned my intelligence and so on far more than I ever do the same to you.  See the bits in red above, for example.  You are quite the name-caller actually, and when you complain about other people returning the favor, it is damned hilarious.  Jim