Your are quite correct, there,💡Lin. That metaphor was popular in banking twenty-five years ago.😉There I go dating myself again; hell, no one else will.😉Lin, I agree that Mr Phillips withdraw the comment or, at the very least, the third statement about an attempted assassination. ⚖️
Your are quite correct, there,💡Lin. That metaphor was popular in banking twenty-five years ago.😉There I go dating myself again; hell, no one else will.😉Lin, I agree that Mr Phillips withdraw the comment or, at the very least, the third statement about an attempted assassination. ⚖️
I understand what you are saying. And, so, I will exercise my right: the dark humor is often appealing but, for me, it crosses the line into poor taste when it mocks something like an attempted assassination of a national leader. For me, at least, shock value has its limits. Rights entail responsibilities.
I do not like the former President any more than you do. 🤢 Like it or not, he is a national leader. 😱 Assassinating him is not a solution any more than it would have been when Arthur Bremer tried to assassinate Governor Wallace in 1972. ⚖️ Like your sense of humor on your last line. 😊 The good news is that, after watching Governor Walz's speech in Nebraska this afternoon, the former President's time as a national leader may be coming to an end. 🙏 At least, I hope so. 🤞
I'm replying because you seem to be a reasonable person. We will have to agree to disagree on what qualifies one to be a "leader." Trump and his acolytes (some 47M, I'm told) certainly think he qualifies as one. He had 4 years to "lead" and we all know how that turned out. I will admit that he is a national figure, inasmuch as 34 felony convictions makes him so.
I am old enough to have lived through the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, Jr., as well as various attempts, including Squeaky Fromme's on poor old Gerald Ford. And not to mention those we sanctioned on others, world-wide. Hell, I even campaigned for Gene McCarthy on a write-in effort in California (I was still 5 years from being able to vote). And we see what that got us: Nixon (resigning in disgrace), Reagan (who as governor of California called in the National Guard to use tear gas at a rally I attended. It wasn't the last time Ronnie made me cry 😒.) And of course two Bushes and so forth.
The thing is we of the righteous liberal left are always crying "take the high road." So if the results of the 2020 election had gone the other way, instead of storming the Capitol we had repaired to the bar at the Willard Hotel and muttered over our martinis "Damn shame, that. Well, we'll get them in four years." Well, have we looked at the calendar lately?
The MAGAs are thugs, a street gang, armed with chains, knives, brass knuckles, etc. (Yes, those are metaphors.) We show up for their rumbles with a copy of the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Nice, polite, civil. Makes us look like chumps.
Before I retired I was employed by an Executive Branch agency across several administrations - deep state and proud of it. If Trump were to be elected Project 2025, there will be no Executive Branch as I and my fellow mid-level bureaucrats knew it.
I agree with most of what you say, though I am more conservative than you are. The former President is a national leader; but he is also a national disgrace and a traitor who has wrecked the Party I grew up in. One thing for sure: character trumps politics and Trump trumps anything decent. This afternoon, Governor Walz stated the threat of the Former President and his M.A.G.A. thugs to traditional Republicans very cogently in four sweet minutes.
I salute your service to my country, Sir. The only POSSIBLE deep-state I ever saw -- both in the State Department and in banking -- was the tendency of many to conflate their career interests with the interests of their organizations. I sure did it. If we did not have people like you manning the fort, we would be in BIG trouble.
Governor Walz is a credit to his long years of service, and a palpable asset to the Harris campaign.
I thank you for your thanks, but I just carried out the work that was appropriate to my position - I take some pride in knowing that what I and my colleagues did actually improved the lives of people who otherwise would not have had assistance.
I retired before the Trump regime took over. But I was not surprised when many of my colleagues chose to retire not longer after it became clear what the Trump administration was up to. I went to a lot of retirement parties in 2017 and 18! With that and the advent of the other pestilence (COVID), came a staffing shortage that still lingers. I have recently been asked to do some pro bono work strictly on an advisory basis, to assist. I'm glad to do what I can. The new fiscal year starts on October 1, and use it or lose it is an immutable fact of the business of governing. Cheers.
Your are quite correct, there,💡Lin. That metaphor was popular in banking twenty-five years ago.😉There I go dating myself again; hell, no one else will.😉Lin, I agree that Mr Phillips withdraw the comment or, at the very least, the third statement about an attempted assassination. ⚖️
COME ON, Y'ALL...1ST AMENDMENT...STOP TRIPPIN'! BOTH LIN AND ROBERT ARE COVERED BY IT.
I understand what you are saying. And, so, I will exercise my right: the dark humor is often appealing but, for me, it crosses the line into poor taste when it mocks something like an attempted assassination of a national leader. For me, at least, shock value has its limits. Rights entail responsibilities.
A "national leader"? Trump??
If so, we are in deep, deep s**t.
(See? I censored myself there!)
I do not like the former President any more than you do. 🤢 Like it or not, he is a national leader. 😱 Assassinating him is not a solution any more than it would have been when Arthur Bremer tried to assassinate Governor Wallace in 1972. ⚖️ Like your sense of humor on your last line. 😊 The good news is that, after watching Governor Walz's speech in Nebraska this afternoon, the former President's time as a national leader may be coming to an end. 🙏 At least, I hope so. 🤞
I'm replying because you seem to be a reasonable person. We will have to agree to disagree on what qualifies one to be a "leader." Trump and his acolytes (some 47M, I'm told) certainly think he qualifies as one. He had 4 years to "lead" and we all know how that turned out. I will admit that he is a national figure, inasmuch as 34 felony convictions makes him so.
I am old enough to have lived through the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, Jr., as well as various attempts, including Squeaky Fromme's on poor old Gerald Ford. And not to mention those we sanctioned on others, world-wide. Hell, I even campaigned for Gene McCarthy on a write-in effort in California (I was still 5 years from being able to vote). And we see what that got us: Nixon (resigning in disgrace), Reagan (who as governor of California called in the National Guard to use tear gas at a rally I attended. It wasn't the last time Ronnie made me cry 😒.) And of course two Bushes and so forth.
The thing is we of the righteous liberal left are always crying "take the high road." So if the results of the 2020 election had gone the other way, instead of storming the Capitol we had repaired to the bar at the Willard Hotel and muttered over our martinis "Damn shame, that. Well, we'll get them in four years." Well, have we looked at the calendar lately?
The MAGAs are thugs, a street gang, armed with chains, knives, brass knuckles, etc. (Yes, those are metaphors.) We show up for their rumbles with a copy of the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Nice, polite, civil. Makes us look like chumps.
Before I retired I was employed by an Executive Branch agency across several administrations - deep state and proud of it. If Trump were to be elected Project 2025, there will be no Executive Branch as I and my fellow mid-level bureaucrats knew it.
Can't let that happen.
I agree with most of what you say, though I am more conservative than you are. The former President is a national leader; but he is also a national disgrace and a traitor who has wrecked the Party I grew up in. One thing for sure: character trumps politics and Trump trumps anything decent. This afternoon, Governor Walz stated the threat of the Former President and his M.A.G.A. thugs to traditional Republicans very cogently in four sweet minutes.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5128585/user-clip-governor-walzs-plea-traditional-republicans
I salute your service to my country, Sir. The only POSSIBLE deep-state I ever saw -- both in the State Department and in banking -- was the tendency of many to conflate their career interests with the interests of their organizations. I sure did it. If we did not have people like you manning the fort, we would be in BIG trouble.
Governor Walz is a credit to his long years of service, and a palpable asset to the Harris campaign.
I thank you for your thanks, but I just carried out the work that was appropriate to my position - I take some pride in knowing that what I and my colleagues did actually improved the lives of people who otherwise would not have had assistance.
I retired before the Trump regime took over. But I was not surprised when many of my colleagues chose to retire not longer after it became clear what the Trump administration was up to. I went to a lot of retirement parties in 2017 and 18! With that and the advent of the other pestilence (COVID), came a staffing shortage that still lingers. I have recently been asked to do some pro bono work strictly on an advisory basis, to assist. I'm glad to do what I can. The new fiscal year starts on October 1, and use it or lose it is an immutable fact of the business of governing. Cheers.
Why the Former President and national disgrace frightened me so. A warning letter from me to me in May 2016.
https://nedmcdletters.blogspot.com/2016/05/letter-116-b-getting-historical.html
The former President and national disgrace has drumpfed our Republic enough. I am a fan of President Biden and Vice President Harris.