U.S. Politics

[Lance Payette]

Dear Lance,

Some people say you can judge a man's character (or lack thereof) by how honorably they play a game (or whether or not they pay the people who work for them the amount they owe them, etc), you know, playing by the rules, that sort of thing.

Evidently, you don't.

Which, if true, ironically reflects poorly on your self-professed "real-deal Christianity."

Makes you sound like a charlatan, actually.

Hmm. Nothing worse than a naive, incredibly ignorant charlatan, IMHO.

Three strikes against you, if you know what I mean.

But wait . . .  maybe you just don't believe in "judging" other people!!!

"Drop THE BIG ONE, and let God sort it out"?

-- Tom

Oh, poor humorless Tom.

Golf is known as "the only sport where, if you actually play by the rules, you will get a reputation for being a bad sport and no one will want to play with you." Virtually everyone, including me and my golf buddies, play by "the rules as we think they should be" as opposed to the Draconian nightmares they actually are. Did you know that it's far better to WHIFF THE BALL COMPLETELY than to hit it 347 yards but 2" out of bounds? Draconian, I tell you. Like much else about The Donald, I find his over-the-top cheating at golf really kind of endearing.

"Naive, incredibly ignorant charlatan"? Golly, Tom is getting kind of nasty, even by the standards of internet forums. However, I like it! I'm going to have some letterhead and calling cards printed up: Brother Lance, Real-Deal Christian but Naive and Incredibly Ignorant Charlatan.

[Tom Graves]

Oh, poor humorless Tom.

Golf is known as "the only sport where, if you actually play by the rules, you will get a reputation for being a bad sport and no one will want to play with you." Virtually everyone, including me and my golf buddies, play by "the rules as we think they should be" as opposed to the Draconian nightmares they actually are. Did you know that it's far better to WHIFF THE BALL COMPLETELY than to hit it 347 yards but 2" out of bounds? Draconian, I tell you. Like much else about The Donald, I find his over-the-top cheating at golf really kind of endearing.

"Naive, incredibly ignorant charlatan"? Golly, Tom is getting kind of nasty, even by the standards of internet forums. However, I like it! I'm going to have some letterhead and calling cards printed up: Brother Lance, Real-Deal Christian but Naive and Incredibly Ignorant Charlatan.

Dear Lance,

I didn't say "Real-Deal Christian," I said, "real-deal Christianity."

Regardless, you forgot to put the "scare quotes" around it.

I don't know for whom you're the better apologist -- mobbed-up "former" KGB* officer Vladimir Putin, or the Russian-mobbed-up-and-undoubtedly-compromised Traitorous Orange Bird*, but you're dang good at both assignments.

(*Rhymes with Xxxx)

You're such a "hoot" that I think you, Trump and Putin should get together and have a real hootenanny!

HOOT-en-anny.

Get it?

Hoot! Hoot!

-- Tom

PS I posted a new Substack article based on our earlier conversation here. I titled it "Dear Xxxxx . . ."

PPS Check it out!

PPPS *Today's SVR and FSB