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.

Although your "take" on the JFKA is pretty much spot-on, politically speaking I don't know for whom you're the better apologist -- "former" KGB* officer Vladimir Putin or the mobbed-up and undoubtedly compromised Traitorous Orange Bird* known as Donald J. Trump.

Bottom line, you're dang good at both endeavors.

(*Rhymes with Xxxx)

-- Tom

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

PPS Check it out!  It's a real hoot!

PPPS *Today's SVR and FSB

[Richard Smith]

A magnificent week for Trump.  The stock market is roaring, inflation is dropping, job numbers are good, progress on the wars and with Iran.   He was treated with the full respect deserving the President of the United States on his trip to the Middle East where he cut deal after deal.   What a contrast with how they treated Old Joe.  Things are coming together.  Once the China deal is signed, the sky is the limit.

[Tom Graves]

A magnificent week for Trump.  The stock market is roaring, inflation is dropping, job numbers are good, progress on the wars and with Iran.   He was treated with the full respect deserving the President of the United States on his trip to the Middle East where he cut deal after deal.   What a contrast with how they treated Old Joe.  Things are coming together.  Once the China deal is signed, the sky is the limit.

You're full of high-fructose beans.

[Royell Storing]

A magnificent week for Trump.  The stock market is roaring, inflation is dropping, job numbers are good, progress on the wars and with Iran.   He was treated with the full respect deserving the President of the United States on his trip to the Middle East where he cut deal after deal.   What a contrast with how they treated Old Joe.  Things are coming together.  Once the China deal is signed, the sky is the limit.

   I'm Not a stock market guy, but it has been UP 3 weeks running. Somehow the Fake News has missed this. And that audio recording of Biden being interviewed by the Feds concerning the Documents he had laying around his garage is HORRIFIC. That guy was running this country? Elmer Fudd comes off as Einstein compared to Biden.   

[Tom Graves]

I'm Not a stock market guy, but it has been UP 3 weeks running. Somehow the Fake News has missed this.

Storing,

You're okay with The Traitorous Orange Bird's (rhymes with Xxxx's) capriciousness on TARRIFS, etc, etc, etc, and the stock market's resultant volatility?

BTW, You never answered my question:

Does Vladimir Putin pay you, or do you do it for free?

[Richard Smith]

   I'm Not a stock market guy, but it has been UP 3 weeks running. Somehow the Fake News has missed this. And that audio recording of Biden being interviewed by the Feds concerning the Documents he had laying around his garage is HORRIFIC. That guy was running this country? Elmer Fudd comes off as Einstein compared to Biden.

The stock market back in positive territory for the year. The media wailed and cried and hoped the economy would fail when it was going down.  They so much hoped America would fail due their TDS.  Now that it is going up, there are crickets.  A deal with China and some other major players will send it to record highs.

[Richard Smith]

The cover up of Old Joe's physical and mental decline during his presidency is looking worse and worse.  In all likelihood, they have known that he had cancer for a long while.   The leftists don't want to talk about it. They suggested it was a conspiracy theory to claim Biden was not fit to be president.  Now crickets.