Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Meanwhile, the screaming continues unabated. LOL

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

More likely Fani Willis' boyfriend. You know, his whole homophobia thing and all.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that"

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Why not, they make $10s of Millions off of his taxes, not to mention the 10s of thousands of employees he hires who pay taxes.

Just because NY is completely corrupt and going down the tubes, and will have to be bailed out by the Nations taxpayers, why wouldn't some other state want him to come there and set up shop.

In your words, its a "No brainer".   

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"Presidential historians in a new survey rank President Biden as the 14th best president in U.S. history — and put former President Trump last."

"The big picture: The tally came from 154 presidential specialists who are current and recent members of the American Political Science Association. They were asked to give every president a score, from 0 to 100."


https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/presidents-survey-trump-ranks-last-biden-14th

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

He doesn't defend a party, he defends Trump and the ilk that support him. The once proud GOP, which once stood for many things that even I agree with, is long gone with the RNC soon to be replaced by MAGA, including his daughter in law.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Loon in Texas:  he's (Trump) losing support among all of the classes of voters he needs to win.


LOL!!  

Trump is leading in every poll now against Joe Biden and 10% of Dems are saying they will vote for Trump. 

De-nial isn't just a river in Egypt. 

Loon in Texas:  The economy is excellent

The Economy is excellent??  By what econometrics?  The ones that ignore Housing prices, the cost of mortgage rates at over 7% on average, food prices up by nearly 50%, and energy costs through the roof?

The price of a new vehicle is now over $47,000 on Average!  

How much were they when Joe Biden took office?  New car costs have gone up by about 20% and they are going up every day with this highest inflation in 45 years.  

Under Trump inflation went up on average 1.5%.  

Now then, the one good thing is that remodeling costs now are SO insane that I'm getting every job I bid on, and I have people waiting, and I've increased my labor costs by 2-fold.  

Credit card debt is over $1,000,000,000,000 for consumers in the US, record levels because people are using their credit cards to survive, and morons like yourself think this is GREAT??????  

Are you an economic illiterate?   LOL  

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi David:

Ms. Brown and I toyed with the idea of Mazatlán, or the Texas hill country since that is the best chance for clear skies.   Still, the weather in April is pretty dicey everywhere in the states.  A consideration for us is that my mom is turning 90 within a couple weeks of the eclipse (tomorrow).  So, on eclipse day, we are visiting mom and dad in Southern Indiana.  They have 56 acres of forested land pretty close to the centerline (3 minutes and 57s totality), and the sun will be clearly visible over their pond at totality, weather permitting.  We checked the view lines out the last time we visited.  This is obviously the last (only) chance mom and dad will have to see a total eclipse and we wanted to visit for her 90th anyway, so hopefully the fates will smile on us with clear skies over the old homestead.

Also, that evening, with any luck at all, we will get to watch Purdue win the Men's NCAA basketball Championship.   That would really tickle dad and thrill me!   Should be a great day!  

Last, don't forget that you are all invited to my mountain observatory in Colorado for the total eclipse of August 12, 2045.  We are right off the centerline and have bedrooms and tons of camping space.  5 Minutes and 11 seconds of totality, and August has great clear skies most of the time!  As I mentioned a couple years ago, Richard's attendance is mandatory, assuming he mellows a bit with age!   Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi all:

Richard's most recent posts are rife with scatological slang and curse words.  I do not think that is OK.  I do not favor ignoring Richard altogether.  He does bring a different point of view to the forum, which is valuable.  He is (I think) the only Trump supporter who posts here anymore, and in my view any fan of political discussion owes it to themselves to try to understand all perspectives.

That said, I value civil dialog and intelligent conversation.  Life is too short to wallow through potty-mouthed screeds.  So from here on out I personally will not ever reply to a post by anyone that uses gutter language, overt swearing, over the top insults and the like.  For whatever reason, Herb has chosen not to enforce the TOS language and decorum rules in this forum.  So Richard keeps pushing his threads and posts across the line into uncharted regions of vileness and juvenility.

I'm happy to engage with Richard or anyone else if they post in a civil manner.  Otherwise, I'll ignore any and all vile and gratuitously insulting posts.  I encourage the rest of you to join me.  Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Since you asked nicely with adult language, I'll reply.   But please note I twice said political point of view and rhetorical style. 

I think your political point of view is extreme right wing-libertarian, to the point where both parties offer far more government that you would prefer.  You simply do not trust any aspect of the government.  You want far less regulation, far less taxation, strong national defense, and you demand an air-tight border to the extent possible.   You despise Republican spending policies, but you think the Rs are more aligned with your point of view than the Ds.  So you vote R even though you are not an R.

You know that Trump has significant character flaws, but since you believe Biden is an abject criminal profiting freely from his own graft and corruption you think Biden is orders of magnitude less fit than Trump to be president.

You despise DEI, wokeness, and the "smug bastards" in academia.  You know they despise you too.  Therefore you see Trump as a pugilist on "your side."   You see the world as a dichotomy where no one left of the far right has any legit policy positions whatsoever.   You personalize this to the extent that in your view every political figure left of the far right is objectively evil.  In addition, this causes you to view every action taken against Trump as a witch hunt.

Because of this, and because you are simply an unpleasant guy, your rhetorical style is extremely hostile and rife with cursing, name calling, mockery and the like.  You regularly deal in logical fallacies or outright deception.  You just ignore it when you are proven wrong.  You have no interest in dialog, or making friends with fellow hobbyists.  You have no interest in understanding the positions of those you disagree with.

Frankly, your political position is no problem.   Your rhetorical style is.   It is a total deal breaker for any reasonable discussion.   Reasonable discussion is not your thing though.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

I'm not defending you, but you should know you have kindred spirits here.