JFK Assassination Forum

Ms. Wheeler's contributions seem awfully (suspiciously?) harsh for someone with a mere handful of posts. Perhaps there is a history of which I am unaware. The fact is, Tom's participation in the JFKA goes w-a-y back, and he made some good contributions before he went completely off the KGB/TDS cliff. I have simply put him on Ignore, which is simpler than haranguing at him. Ben likewise goes way back and has raised some good points over the years. His G2 stuff flows from the work of Gus Russo, whose contributions to JFKA research I highly respect. While I enjoy verbal jousting and have a Ph.D in Snarkiness Studies, I don't see that anything is gained by just calling people stupid and delusional. An internet forum that limited itself to non-stupid, non-delusional contributors would be very thinly populated. I happen to think that both the KGB and G2 angles are misguided for the reasons I've set forth, but they aren't insane.

I came to this board in February of this year but that hardly makes me a newbie. I have argued online about the JFKA off and on for the past 35 years. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Veronica Jayne Wheeler has a similar past but based on what she has written, it seems she has developed some strong opinions about the JFKA. I have no idea whether she is an LN or a CT but I would bet heavily that this isn't her first rodeo regarding the JFKA.

I remember when I was a newbie when I first joined the online discourse 35 years ago on the old Prodigy service. If I saw somebody today writing crap like I was posting back then, I would smack them upside the head (figuratively speaking, of course). 

As for TG, his TDS and PDS seem to color just about everything he posts lately. These conditions seem to be chronic.

Two thumbs up!!!

Ms. Wheeler's contributions seem awfully (suspiciously?) harsh for someone with a mere handful of posts. Perhaps there is a history of which I am unaware. The fact is, Tom's participation in the JFKA goes w-a-y back, and he made some good contributions before he went completely off the KGB/TDS cliff. I have simply put him on Ignore, which is simpler than haranguing at him. Ben likewise goes way back and has raised some good points over the years. His G2 stuff flows from the work of Gus Russo, whose contributions to JFKA research I highly respect. While I enjoy verbal jousting and have a Ph.D in Snarkiness Studies, I don't see that anything is gained by just calling people stupid and delusional. An internet forum that limited itself to non-stupid, non-delusional contributors would be very thinly populated. I happen to think that both the KGB and G2 angles are misguided for the reasons I've set forth, but they aren't insane.

I would wager that most of us are better informed about the JFKA than LBJ simply because we didn't get the bulk of our information from Hoover.

A Trump hating poll.  Remember the pollsters that suggested Hillary would win in 2016 or the 2024 poll indicating that Trump was down double digits in Iowa?  Who cares? If his approval rating drops to zero, he is still the president and Kamala is not - and never will be.  That's what matters.  Cite all the polls that you want.  Trump will go down in history as a two-term president.   A transformational figure.

I think Kamala should have run for governor of California. That way she could have followed Richard Nixon's path to the White House.

Sitting Vice-President
Lose the presidential election
Two years later lose the governor's race in California ("You won't have Kamala to kick around anymore" speech would be optional)
Go into private practice (OK that's a tough one. What prestigious law firm would hire her?}
In 2030 midterms campaign for congressional candidates around the country, earning favors in return
In 2032 call in those favors and cruise to the nomination.
Win the 2032 general election.

There's one big problem with that scenario. In 1968, the majority of convention delegates were still chosen at state party conventions where Nixon used the creds he banked in 1966. He did well in the primaries but it was the unelected delegates that put him over the top. The decisive move was offering Spiro Agnew the Veep spot in exchange for Agnew delivering the Maryland delegation.

Now, most of the delegates are selected in primaries and caucuses. Kamala is such a bad candidate, there's almost no way she could win a majority through the primaries. I doubt she would still be viable after losing big in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Why does Thomas Graves and Ben Cole start all of these inane, non sequitur threads that invariably lead to nowhere, answers no questions, always touch on the "unknowable" and pretty much just fill up forum space with these profound inanities uttered by one, Thomas Graves?

Did you two ever think that the things you two think of, and then actually go so far as to actually make a thread about, are mere "inquiries" by yourselves and yourselves alone, made up in your own heads, to attempt to appear erudite in this case when all you really end up doing is making fools of yourselves.

Can either of you two post a topic that might actually lead somewhere instead of these brain farts that you receive from God only knows where?

You know, that thing they call "research"

Believe it or not, there are many other researchers out there, good ones too, that never and I mean NEVER, dream up the kind of inane questions and topics that you two do.

There is a reason for that.

Can you two brainstorm together and come up with the correct answer as to what that reason may be?

 

Two thumbs up!!!