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What Black Jack Pershing Can Teach Us About Fighting Terrorists

 

Amen! (both sides)

 

Bannon's quote about the Trump Presidency not becoming what it could have become intrigued me. 1. I don't know what the "goal" was and what (okay I know what/who) stopped them and why they didn't work harder to keep Trump from being an impediment to the agenda. 2. What now? Just take orders from Congress and sign everything they put in front of him and hope things will smooth out? 3. Do they really feel the media and the "globalist" were responsible for messing up the agenda? That if the media just played nice and took notes without question like the friends on Fox everything would have been cool? 4. If so - why all the leaking from the West Wing?

 

It's not constructive to generalize about "Democrats" and "Republicans" or "the left" and "the right." It's what blows up these discussions. You end up fencing phantoms and windmills.

 

One took up arms against the nation on the side of oppressors. The other took arms against the nation on the side of the oppressed.

 

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that argument is without merit. But I think the alternative is like a bizarro Mario Kart race where the winners always get kick-ass items and bitch because some of us think the guys in last place deserve more than green shells and banana peels (I might be reaching with that reference). At the risk of sounding like a college freshman who has totally figured the world out, the problem is pigeonholing all sorts of ideologies and philosophies into one of two parties. I gravitate to the party I believe to be best for society, just as I'm certain you do the same based on what you believe.

As it relates to this, I assume (and apologize if I'm mistaken) you think we're selling the disenfranchised short by holding their hands to their detriment, while I think it's the height of condescension to restrict voters because they don't know how to vote in their best interest, which is what voter suppression is to me.

 

I obviously don't think votes should be suppressed. My issue is that the Dems have worked the system to efficiently deliver dependence in exchange for votes. If the "help" is permanent, it's not help.

Democrats care very much about the vote. It's the voter they have significantly less interest in.

 

SHUT THE FUCK UP, DUDE. YOU ARE A FUCKING MENACE TO SOCIETY.

Is that the name of the new Batman movie?

 

I disagree!

A menace to sj.com, sure. But every minute spent on here is a minute spent out of society.

 

Those two off-topic comments in this post are good for society? You're funny.

 

I will raise you 0.1 percent. I guess I should have actually put it in blue.

Of course, lakefront could have looked at the link and seen that it was about a correction, which I think would've made the sarcasm pretty clear, before ripping the comment while proudly saying he didn't look at the link or care what it's about. Then again, these are odd times, so I won't judge too harshly.

[EDIT: My apologies, lakefront, I now see your gracious apology. I eagerly accept, and apologize myself for ladling out a bit more snark above before seeing it. Enjoy your Sunday, sir.]