Thanks, CC and Red. Yes, right and left are important in understanding elections, but as you both hint, it is much more nuanced. And it has to do with our circumstances. And is mostly local. As I tried to list in my blog.
Thanks, R. Interesting article. Yep, the Koch family certainly is in good company with K Street, and with members of other wealthy families, with names like Soros, Bloomberg and Steyr, among many others. It's important to keep all eyes on the ball, which to me, in this context, is the corrupting influences of the deep swamp/state, driven, on BOTH sides of US politics, by lobbiests, and their influence on funding of elections. And by aiding middle class legislators to become quite wealthy during and after their Servicing us all. And, by helping pols get pork in one way or another. And, and, and... But dismissing the importance of enormous national debt, somehow doesn't sit right with me. Having neither the training, nor the sophistication, to fully understand this issue, I rely rather on a folksy sense of how I run my own economic affairs, and the importance international funding, (read, loan bailout), agencies place on sovereign debtors' managing their own budgets---keeping national debt to income ratios low. Sometimes, it all makes a guy just want to give in, to ignore politics, and simply try to enjoy life.
Yep, proto saggy curves. If you, or anyone else, can honestly watch the three year multiple failed attempts to get our Brilliant President Trump, see the faces and body language on media and others after midnight when "shoe in" Hillary lost to an EC mandate, heard their nearly psychotic explanatory spin, read even ONE front page of almost all newspapers, and then saw the witch hunts in all their various morphed forms begin fortwith--well, sweetheart, do we ever have a diagnosis for you.
Hey, all. The list of clues to the diagnosis of severe Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes continues to grow. Evidence based health care, VERY evidence based. Anyone with eyes and ears can see the incredibly consistent anti Trump biases of the left stuck media, and the white guilt, self loathing Dem pols, and educators, similarly, at the secondary and post secondary levels. Student indoctrination. Not to forget are the many space occupying government employees, and retirees, all with lavish pay and with benefits and pensions, both long gone, for people who actually work, in the dreaded private sector. But now we see classical Freudian primitive ego defense mechanisms of reaction formation, and externalization, unknowingly used in pathetic support of their 3 year long, unsuccessful, Get Trump crusade. Their side acts criminally, often, and then spins it to accuse, falsely, the patriotic side, of the same. As the diagnostic clues accrue, sadly, the successful treatments of the syndromes become increasingly challenging. Prognosis guarded, VERY guarded.
Well, Chatman, of course you are correct. Well, almost so. Rumblings are beginning of her getting into the race for big loss number 3. Besides, as I've written here in my tedious TD-HDS posts, the Trump ueber haters were all certain of a Hilary landslide. When the E College Trump mandate became clear, after midnight, the disappointment was striking. On faces, body language, and statements galore. This may even be greater than the prospect of 8 years of our Brilliant President Trump, in terms of driving the obsessive "get him" compulsions over the past 3 years. I really think President Trump's many glaring warts drive many of these folks as well. So it's got many causes. So many failed repeated attempts must have strong forces driving them. And for the Dems and 2020, topping it all off with Impeachment, it could well be a circular firing squad.
All. It is a bit of a mess, but sadly, when the same sort of thing happens with a divorce and shared children, it can get even worse. Billable lawyer hours.
J. Yep. The latest evidence now includes Brainwashing in the picture of severe Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndrome. Each case is a litle different, but all are very sad.
S. Please reread the post. Read COMMUNITY as an important nurturing environment for kids. The children unlucky enough to experience untoward traumatizing experiences outside of the home have ranges of resilience. A large factor of such is parenting/home security. So please read more carefully. And examine your anger. I dare to think permission to have kids has a place, and is practiced in various environments. When uneducated folks disagree it is always taken in context.
Hey, FAE. They call themselves professionals, but many barely can write a coherent sentence. (Real)Estate agents. More than once, I tried to rely on these cretins for a real estate transaction. Here in the USA we have what is called a Purchase and Sale agreement, initially binding both interested parties, with various contingencies. Repeatedly, there were a number of important errors in the text of the document. So now I prefer to deal directly with the owner/buyer myself, using an attorney to handle the paperwork. Usually safer and much less costly and certainly less annoying.
Raph---Lots of valid points, certainly about fuller bellies, nationalistic self grandeur, and most of the pie being grabbed by connected ruthless oligarchs. Shows how life priorities on personal freedoms and intrusion by pesky nervous party elites are second banana to creature comforts. China?
Yep, all. Thanks. Well, can't (yet) see what's on the billions of texts being sent, often while trying to drive a car, or mind children, or sit at family breakfast. But having been within earshot of many cell phone chats, as vapid and inconsequential as chats get, I can only imagine. Some may remember the heydays of citizens' band radio, running from the late '50's to the early '80's. First mobile talk mode. Only entirely public, within range. The first blogosphere for po white trash. Ten four.
Well, S. Good points. Some weren't exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. So perhaps these enlisted men searched for and found false bargains. But I heard the complaints, and saw the household results for better clued officers, professionals and business types. Same push to populate the premises with immigrants, legal or mostly not. And while there may be some really hot Philippinas, the cheapness usually is very much on board, as with this bleach blonde "singer". VERY much. After a few years living with hubby in the real world, the midrib bulge, or worse get going, and whatever traces of beauty might have been there, are mostly gone. And listen to that language sometime. At higher decibels, it makes even German's guttural barking sound sweet. And I speak German. No, lots more to make oriental ladies, incredibly hot for some, much less so, with rare exceptions, for many Western men. But the food isn't bad.
OK, my friend, JN. ARCTIC. Getting caught in the act, fear of looking dumb, so before final admission of truth, several devious attempts at obfuscation. Being somewhat sociopathic meself, and being able to laugh at the human condition, I will defer. But have informed the research staff at the VIERK Institute, who are always on the search for new diagnostic criteria, for severe TD-HD Syndromes. We have posted plenty here, but doesn't hurt to have several more available. The art is long.
W. I like what you say about our Brilliant President Trump. You are a wise patriot. You are such a good one, that I have an idea for the Nobel Prize in medicine. How would you like to help to cure all the pathetic Liberals suffering from TD-HD Syndromes? Come here to the sprawling VIERK mansions research campus. We take a little blood. Extract serum. Get a few million cases of eggs. And develope a vaccine. A million large each, and all the hotties in Sweden two fellas can handle over a week.How about it?
RE: Adam Schiff Training for the Impeachment Sham
Stop, W, please stop. Belly aches, and there are tears in my eyes.