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November 8, 2024 06:12 PM Forum: Politics

Some random thoughts

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis



God Damn!!!!  

Don't tell me actually Have YOUR exalted approval!!! 

Wow, I'm so glad that YOU are OK with us voting for Trump.   I have been crying in my soup thinking how we might not win your approval, but God Damnit, I can sleep at night now!  

Thanks for letting us know!  I'll alert the rest of my toxic male friends.

Thanks again!   smile (insert a thumb up symbol here)
Seriously, I didn't think you were a Republican.  Don't you claim to be a registered independent?

November 8, 2024 06:25 PM Forum: Politics

Some random thoughts

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis


I'm a registered independent, I'm just not a sanctimonious, arrogant little fuck like yourself. 

Do you have your own political group these days? I'd call it pussies who can't handle losing and can't figure out why we lost. smile

Your head must be swelled so large that it can't fit through a doorway these days.  LOL!  

It is enjoyable to watch you f'in leftist losers out there scrambling to figure out what happened.
Friends, this is why I have tried to be careful when I make my posts.  Unlike most Republicans and independents whom I believe voted Trump for legit reasons, Richard is a virulent misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe (which is odd, given his orientation), and of course transphobe.  Richard seems to hate everyone, including like-minded hobbyists.  My guess is that Richard loves Trump not for his policies, but because Trump is an arrogant bully, and Rich has some issues there.  Don't worry, I will go back to ignoring him soon, election week is pretty much over.

November 8, 2024 06:27 PM Forum: Politics

not gloating here

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

God Damn, why don't you just get on all fours and give him a knobber.  Pathetic.  LOL!
Serious question Rich - why haven't you come out of the closet?   I had a closeted gay roommate in college and he was much happier when he came out.

November 8, 2024 07:33 PM Forum: Politics

not gloating here

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by James Lacey


I don't dismiss this idea as evil, but on the other hand, this viewpoint doesn't stand up to scrutiny either. Defining life or human rights this way leads to many contradictions and all kinds of unintended consequences that cause real harm. Just one example, but there are many. In IVF treatments, the technician culls through and discards zygotes that look damaged or otherwise unfavorable. Is that technician committing murder? Should all IVF treatments be halted?
I don't think so of course, but I think a very strict evangelical, or a very conservative Catholic, might say "yes."   Their point of view is in an extreme minority, but sincere.  Any political viable compromise is of course going to protect IVF and the like.  But the dialog can be such that impractical extreme minority positions are treated respectfully, even if they are overwhelmed in the compromise.

November 8, 2024 07:44 PM Forum: Politics

Some random thoughts

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

wringing their little hands trying to figure why other people would have the f'in temerity to NOT vote for the dumbest woman who ever ran for President.

You (unpersuasively) claimed earlier to have voted for Trump's policies.   I think you have outed your misogynistic true motivation here by loudly admitting instead that you voted against Harris because she is a woman.

November 8, 2024 07:54 PM Forum: Politics

Hey all you leftist pussies on this forum. You got your asses handed to you on a platter. Deal with it losers. Quit whining and get your act together.

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Good grief, I've never seen such a bunch of whining maggots as exist on this political forum.

Here's what happened to you collective DBs.  You got your asses beat like the losers your political party puts forth as candidates. 

Tim Walz had to be the biggest pussy that ever came on stage, acting like the mental case he is as the Comedian pegged his monkey ass on Saturday Night Live.

Your other complete loser candidate was apparently a dumbed down version of AOC or even dumber tree stump.

She couldn't answer one freakin' question..... EVER.

IF she was asked a question she had pre-rehearsed answers which are Even WORSE than just plain old rehearsed, regurgitated answers she used to give.  

If you asked her about the border problem, she immediately went into this weird response of "I grew up in a middle class family", and if you asked about the overspending of the gov't she would say "I remember in Canada everyone had green lawns".

Its easy for anyone with an IQ of more than 2 digits to figure out, but not one of you loser leftists get it.

Your candidates SUCKED.  They aren't leaders, they are hacks and the lowest of IQ dumbasses and the country is sick of your pansy assed leaders, morons, and punks like Joe Biden.

Get it morons?  We got sick and tired of your leaders' LIES and Bullshit, the same bullshit and lies that you leftist tools regurgitate here day after day.

Get this, we aren't dumbass morons like you are, ok?  

We want REAL leaders, not pussies like Tim Walz, dumb as a rock and a pussy to boot, who can't even load a damned gun.

Not a DEI hire like Kamala.  

We now will give you back a country that will kick ass and take names.  Our military will be rebuilt and we will boot all the dipshits like Milley out of there and get rid of Drag Queen hour on military bases.

Got that dipshits.  WE gave you back a country that isn't full of the girly men like the leftists on this forum.

Now rub on Your vagisil and suck it up.  You got your asses kicked both in the electoral college and the majority vote.  

Deal with it dickheads!  smile
Misogyny, racism, and homophobia on stilts.   It is amazing Richard paints himself this way.   Also, hundreds of words of rant, and not a single suggestion, not a single word, nothing, relevant to the actual reasons why the better part of 70 million people were legitimately and honestly motivated to vote for Trump.

November 8, 2024 08:00 PM Forum: Politics

not gloating here

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Chris Pagan
Allow me to clarify. In Florida I believe abortion and I refer to it as abortion is allowed for 1st 6 weeks of pregnancies.  We had a ballot initiative that would allow abortion up to birth which failed to garner the 60% required for passage.  If you don't believe an abortion at time of birth is not killing a baby then we will have to agree to disagree. Similar ballots did pass tough and that's why I made the claim.  I'm not against abortion, in fact I find it ironic that the left thinks it's a great idea to eliminate their base this way.

Chris
My wife and I have had a couple of kids.  I don't think we even went to the grocery store to get a pregnancy test until well after 6 weeks.  Skipping a period is not that uncommon.  So a 6 week ban is practically a total ban.

I did not read the FL ballot initiative, but if it allowed abortion "up to birth" I am not surprised that it did not pass a 60% margin.  The choice crowd would be better served to try to codify something like the Roe compromise at the state level.

Also, your statement of "I'm not against abortion" is kind of odd given the language you chose for your opening post.  And your last line is really weird.  How in the world would abortion eliminate the D base?

November 8, 2024 08:07 PM Forum: Politics

not gloating here

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Chris Pagan
Allow me to clarify. In Florida I believe abortion and I refer to it as abortion is allowed for 1st 6 weeks of pregnancies.  We had a ballot initiative that would allow abortion up to birth which failed to garner the 60% required for passage.  If you don't believe an abortion at time of birth is not killing a baby then we will have to agree to disagree. Similar ballots did pass tough and that's why I made the claim.  I'm not against abortion, in fact I find it ironic that the left thinks it's a great idea to eliminate their base this way.

Chris
Wow, James motivated me to look it up.  Did you really believe that Amendment 4 allowed abortion up to birth, or were you just exaggerating?  In case you did not know, viability occurs about 3 or 4 weeks after the halfway point of a normal pregnancy.  (viability at 23 or 24 weeks - full term 40 weeks).

https://initiativepetitions.elections.myflorida.com/InitiativeForms/Fulltext/Fulltext_2307_EN.pdf

November 8, 2024 08:28 PM Forum: Politics

not gloating here

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Chris Pagan



Did you see the mobile abortion clinic outside the Democrat convention? Pretty sure some future voters were eliminated.


Chris
Any abortion arguably eliminates a potential future voter.  That is obviously not what I am getting at.  What makes you think these "future voters" are part of the D base?  Jim

November 8, 2024 09:27 PM Forum: Politics

Some random thoughts

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

No kidding!  Exactly who has been whining?
I reckon he means me. 

I've been at the computer a lot because we are in the middle of a light, but really persistent 3+ day snow "event".  Hardly qualifies as a storm.   This has given me the opportunity to rail here against friends and pundits who are blaming the rank and file Trump voters and working men and women for this loss.  (No one here is blaming the voters)  Weird thing is, I doubt Richard even disagrees with any of the many pro-Republican and pro-swing voter points of view I have tried to articulate.   

Richard does make it hard to even try to convince skeptics like you guys that most Trump voters had legit and honorable reasons to vote for him, even though Trump's shortcomings as a human being are so  painfully obvious.  But you guys know Richard, and hopefully recognize that he is somewhat unique.

The slow-rolling snow storm has also given me the chance to finish up a long stalled woodworking/electronics project. This is a tube pre-amp I have encased in a slab of maple burl.  I love the way it turned out and it really sounds sweet.  The circuits were designed by John Broskie.  https://glass-ware.stores.turbify.net/  The soldering, woodworking and industrial design are all mine.  I have a smaller live edge burl slab for my phono preamplifier module, I hope to work on it this winter on snowy days.  Gotta love retirement!