In today's Wall Street Journal;
"Ambassador Bill Taylor said that his work to release frozen security assistance to Ukraine was stymied because top-level cabinet officials were too busy dealing with President Trump's idea to purchase Greenland. "
Napa There are a few job openings at FOX News. Take one and make it your full time job. Then you will be able to kiss a$$ of the bone Spur guy.
Would love to hear of your justification as to why the bone spur guy was invited to marshall the Veteran Days event in NYC. He was a draft dodger, hated anyone that was captured in battle [McCain], cuts back the Veteran's Benefits, Cut services at the VA hospitals etc. A real T--d in my book. Has no knowledge of the US Constitution, and as a well known fact he does not like to read
From Maher's most recent show.
Lindsey Graham: "I once kissed tRump's ass so hard, I could taste Hannity."
PH
flwino posted:Would love to hear of your justification as to why the bone spur guy was invited to marshall the Veteran Days event in NYC.
Or anyone's opinion on Trump actually considering attending next year's May Day celebrations in Moscow. When I first saw this headline, I thought it had to be The Onion.
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wineocd posted:In today's Wall Street Journal;
"Ambassador Bill Taylor said that his work to release frozen security assistance to Ukraine was stymied because top-level cabinet officials were too busy dealing with President Trump's idea to purchase Greenland. "
The orange dump is obsessed with trying to forge a legacy. This said, he will be successful as he will be only the third president ever to be impeached. 😂
I haven’t been on the forum much lately. I see Napafluffer is no different than the man he fluffs... seems I recall he was finished with this site. Liar, which is the best of what can be said of him/her.
Now that Iran called the little bone spurs bluff and has positioned itself for a rapid nuclear breakout that none other than Mike Pompeo sounded the alarm on Thursday of this week. What a failure from the swaggering reply Orange Dump and Pompeo who both said that sanctions would force Iran to change their behavior.🤣. A willfully ignorant president surrounding himself with only old white yes men that has the intellectual depth of an amoeba and the temperament of a petulant child is simply dangerous. All this plus a clinically ill narcissistic coward that refuses to listen to the pentagon does not bode well.
purplehaze posted:From Maher's most recent show.
Lindsey Graham: "I once kissed tRump's ass so hard, I could taste Hannity."
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😂🤣😅. #truth.
bman posted:napacat posted:You also probably think Bruce Jenner is a woman.
And...…. we add transphobic to the list!
It’s not transphobic at all. I’d hang out with him...he’s a Republican!!
purplehaze posted:napacat posted:Oh God...another one who does not get any nuance or humor. It's a full time job putting up with you idiots.
There was nothing either nuanced or humorous about that post, Cat. But if you consider yourself so nuanced and humorous, perhaps you could get a booking on a conservative comedy channel. Oh... yeah, I don't think there are any. Wonder why?
And... calling people idiots and morons is no way to influence people. Typically, this is done with logic and facts. Still waiting for your treatise on the Electoral College, and your answer to my question about the phone call.
PH
People say the worst things and when someone else speaks like them they say “don’t call us names”. It’s just a bit of the same.
People say Trump is not civil...however he has been attacked every single day with some terrible things said about him...just more hypocrisy.
I’ll need to go back and read your two questions...missed them.
robsutherland posted:Napacat whether or not you have a homosexual bone in your body I'm not going to call you a f@g. In much the same way I'm not going to call bman a n!gger, Purplehaze a retard, or TheOldMan a wop. It doesn't really matter if one is black (he happens not to be), one is autistic or otherwise mentally challenged (he certainly isn't) and one is Italian (I don't believe he is). I just don't use those words for anyone. In my head or out of my mouth or with my fingers on a keyboard.
"Pocahontas" is no less a slur than any of those other ones I typed above (which you hopefully cringed while reading). It has no bearing on her ancestry, it's a slur.
All of us here need to be better than that, you included.
Fair post Rob...point taken.
Bytown Rick posted:
napacat posted:It’s not transphobic at all. I’d hang out with him...he’s a Republican!!
QED. Sad, but not surprising.
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Why do I suddenly want to bust my Belgian waffle maker out of the cupboard? Damn you, Bytown Rick!
In unrelated news I just found out after decades of mistaken good intentions, that #6 plastic Go-Cups are NOT recyclable.
I've likely put a few thousand of these puppies into the blue bin with good intentions. Not only are they not accepted where I live, my putting them into the bin has likely caused additional expense and aggravation to our municipal employees. It's hard to be good these days.
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purplehaze posted:napacat posted:It’s not transphobic at all. I’d hang out with him...he’s a Republican!!QED. Sad, but not surprising.
PH
True. And get over the recycling. It’s overrated!
Bloomberg vs. Trump: Two 74+ year old wealthy guys. One was a Democrat who became a Republican. One a Democrat who once was a Republican. Basically, both from NY.
Meanwhile, Trump said about Bloomberg a day or two ago, "He's got some personal problems." Trump, of course, is an expert on personal problems.
irwin posted:Bloomberg vs. Trump: Two 74+ year old wealthy guys. One was a Democrat who became a Republican. One a Democrat who once was a Republican. Basically, both from NY.
Meanwhile, Trump said about Bloomberg a day or two ago, "He's got some personal problems." Trump, of course, is an expert on personal problems.
The battle would be epic!
The Old Man posted:billhike posted:The Old Man posted:How sad that our self-confessed little bigot thinks that his responses address the obvious racism and bigotry of his hero. Your responses just reinforce them child.
However I will not take the time to respond to your responses because I think it's obvious to everybody you're just digging yourself in deeper. In addition when you do respond it's with logical fallacies, non sequiturs, strawman arguments and whataboutisms. You play right into the stereotype of stupid Trump supporters.
You misspelled DNA as “stereotype”.
You want proof of just how bad this presidency is? Bad enough that bill and I are backing each other up and enjoying a laugh together. It takes a special kind of bad to shake the world.
Something horrendous happened to friends of ours recently. I really need to get better at not getting too worked about disagreements, and being able to discuss/argue things in a less angry way. Goes for work as well as here. There are people dealing with things way worse than what I could imagine living with. I’ve always been reactionary to a fault; using the pause button would be good for me to remember to do. And yes, we agree on this subject for sure.
napacat posted:The Old Man posted:"As for Biden...yes I have heard the same defense. Odd how this quid pro quo is ok though."
God you're so ignorant and as I've said many times just such a poor debater. Funny about that word "though." Not only is it the proof of the demagogue in chief's anti-democratic act, but with it your use of it you are admitting that Trump did what he's accused of, offering a quid pro quo to it get a foreign country to give him dirt on a political opponent. Meanwhile there's no proof of anything in regard to Biden. But let's say there were, I'm going to make a shocking statement that it's not near the offense of blackmailing other countries to help you win a US election.
Also please read up on today's news from Great Britain that Trump was trying to squeeze information against his political "enemies."
"His job was to recommend charges or not."
I guess you didn't read my response, or are deliberately ignoring it as a good Fox State News viewer. He was constrained from recommending charges because of a DOJ rule. PS, not a law.
May I suggest you find some other thread to respond to because every time you do here you just dig yourself down deeper and deeper.
You are a bitter and rotten soul and I presume an overall jerk of a human. You, Old Man, think I implied that Trump had a quid pro quo ( I did not). I stated "odd how this quid pro quo was ok" (Biden). You interpret that to imply that I indicated that Trump made one as well...nice leap. Stick to the person I was speaking about.
If the rule is that a sitting president cannot be indicted...then what was the point of the entire investigation. You know they would have nailed them if they could. On one hand....Trump is a moron and the dumbest president ever. On the other hand, you also want us to believe he is brilliant and worked with Russia to get elected and was able to hide it from the special council. Man...You all are a tiring bunch.
And the Cellarnewbie who states: "Also, he lost the popular vote by 3 million, because is president because land gets more electoral credit than urban areas".
This is only due to Los Angels County / Southern CA and Manhattan. You think we want this group of out of touch people to sway the general elevation in their favor...not at all. Any talk of dissolving the Electoral College is nonsensical and just bitterness from the losing side.
Get over it...Trump will win again.
There are more people in Los Angeles than in Wyoming, North or South Dakota, Idaho, etc, yet each of those states gets far more representation in DC than just the people of Los Angeles. You don't think people in NYC or LA should get an equal say in the vote? Why shouldn't 1 person = 1 vote?
cellarnewbie posted:napacat posted:The Old Man posted:"As for Biden...yes I have heard the same defense. Odd how this quid pro quo is ok though."
God you're so ignorant and as I've said many times just such a poor debater. Funny about that word "though." Not only is it the proof of the demagogue in chief's anti-democratic act, but with it your use of it you are admitting that Trump did what he's accused of, offering a quid pro quo to it get a foreign country to give him dirt on a political opponent. Meanwhile there's no proof of anything in regard to Biden. But let's say there were, I'm going to make a shocking statement that it's not near the offense of blackmailing other countries to help you win a US election.
Also please read up on today's news from Great Britain that Trump was trying to squeeze information against his political "enemies."
"His job was to recommend charges or not."
I guess you didn't read my response, or are deliberately ignoring it as a good Fox State News viewer. He was constrained from recommending charges because of a DOJ rule. PS, not a law.
May I suggest you find some other thread to respond to because every time you do here you just dig yourself down deeper and deeper.
You are a bitter and rotten soul and I presume an overall jerk of a human. You, Old Man, think I implied that Trump had a quid pro quo ( I did not). I stated "odd how this quid pro quo was ok" (Biden). You interpret that to imply that I indicated that Trump made one as well...nice leap. Stick to the person I was speaking about.
If the rule is that a sitting president cannot be indicted...then what was the point of the entire investigation. You know they would have nailed them if they could. On one hand....Trump is a moron and the dumbest president ever. On the other hand, you also want us to believe he is brilliant and worked with Russia to get elected and was able to hide it from the special council. Man...You all are a tiring bunch.
And the Cellarnewbie who states: "Also, he lost the popular vote by 3 million, because is president because land gets more electoral credit than urban areas".
This is only due to Los Angels County / Southern CA and Manhattan. You think we want this group of out of touch people to sway the general elevation in their favor...not at all. Any talk of dissolving the Electoral College is nonsensical and just bitterness from the losing side.
Get over it...Trump will win again.
There are more people in Los Angeles than in Wyoming, North or South Dakota, Idaho, etc, yet each of those states gets far more representation in DC than just the people of Los Angeles. You don't think people in NYC or LA should get an equal say in the vote? Why shouldn't 1 person = 1 vote?
Vice versa...you think that a large concentration of liberal democrats in LA or NY should make a small state’s populations vote irrelevant?
As to the debates on the "one man, one vote" and number of representatives and weight, etc., as reflected in the above two posts: I wonder if the folks who drafted the Constitution in the 18th century had debates with as much vitriol.
Apparently our disease had crossed the border to the North. For the Canadians on the forum...is the below statement really deserving of losing your job over it?
The longtime broadcaster went on a rant about the lack of poppies he had seen leading up to Remembrance Day. In Canada, the flowers are traditionally worn in honor of veterans.
“I live in Mississauga,” Cherry said. “Nobody wears, very few people, wear a poppy. Downtown Toronto, forget it. Downtown Toronto nobody wears a poppy.
“Now you go to the small cities and you know, the rows on rows. You people love — you, that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey. At least you could pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that. These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada. These guys paid the biggest price.
Just amazing. All he is saying is wear a Poppy...it's about the least you can do.
Age removes filters and those things that you once said in your head eventually get said out loud and you are at a point where you don't realize or don't care when people hear it.
Don Cherry is a racist, xenophobe and isolationist. Now with the filter gone he's a raving one and doesn't realize that what he's saying goes against how the majority of Canadian's feel. Most of us are very turned off by it.
I agree that everyone should wear a poppy leading up to this day. The thing is that everyone watching that rant by Cherry understood that what he was saying was in effect "those foreign, brown people streaming into our country are not like us, don't care about us, will never be like us and shouldn't be here."
If the majority of Canadian's feel that way about him, imagine how we feel about Trump.
robsutherland posted:Age removes filters and those things that you once said in your head eventually get said out loud and you are at a point where you don't realize or don't care when people hear it.
Don Cherry is a racist, xenophobe and isolationist. Now with the filter gone he's a raving one and doesn't realize that what he's saying goes against how the majority of Canadian's feel. Most of us are very turned off by it.
I agree that everyone should wear a poppy leading up to this day. The thing is that everyone watching that rant by Cherry understood that what he was saying was in effect "those foreign, brown people streaming into our country are not like us, don't care about us, will never be like us and shouldn't be here."
If the majority of Canadian's feel that way about him, imagine how we feel about Trump.
I had / have no known history of this man or even who he is or his background. Just was noting the statement itself taken at face value did not seem that it warranted the firing.
Thanks,
napacat posted:robsutherland posted:Age removes filters and those things that you once said in your head eventually get said out loud and you are at a point where you don't realize or don't care when people hear it.
Don Cherry is a racist, xenophobe and isolationist. Now with the filter gone he's a raving one and doesn't realize that what he's saying goes against how the majority of Canadian's feel. Most of us are very turned off by it.
I agree that everyone should wear a poppy leading up to this day. The thing is that everyone watching that rant by Cherry understood that what he was saying was in effect "those foreign, brown people streaming into our country are not like us, don't care about us, will never be like us and shouldn't be here."
If the majority of Canadian's feel that way about him, imagine how we feel about Trump.
I had / have no known history of this man or even who he is or his background. Just was noting the statement itself taken at face value did not seem that it warranted the firing.
Thanks,
So you react in the moment, are too lazy to make any attempt at researching the “victim’s” background or perform even a small measure of due diligence, and come straight here to whine like a snowflake?
Thanks for confirming yet again you are dumber than you look........
napacat posted:Apparently our disease had crossed the border to the North. For the Canadians on the forum...is the below statement really deserving of losing your job over it?
The longtime broadcaster went on a rant about the lack of poppies he had seen leading up to Remembrance Day. In Canada, the flowers are traditionally worn in honor of veterans.
“I live in Mississauga,” Cherry said. “Nobody wears, very few people, wear a poppy. Downtown Toronto, forget it. Downtown Toronto nobody wears a poppy.
“Now you go to the small cities and you know, the rows on rows. You people love — you, that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey. At least you could pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that. These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada. These guys paid the biggest price.
Just amazing. All he is saying is wear a Poppy...it's about the least you can do.
Please refer to my signature.......
Snowflake...sounds a bit more like you Tinkerbell. But nice addition.
napacat posted:robsutherland posted:Age removes filters and those things that you once said in your head eventually get said out loud and you are at a point where you don't realize or don't care when people hear it.
Don Cherry is a racist, xenophobe and isolationist. Now with the filter gone he's a raving one and doesn't realize that what he's saying goes against how the majority of Canadian's feel. Most of us are very turned off by it.
I agree that everyone should wear a poppy leading up to this day. The thing is that everyone watching that rant by Cherry understood that what he was saying was in effect "those foreign, brown people streaming into our country are not like us, don't care about us, will never be like us and shouldn't be here."
If the majority of Canadian's feel that way about him, imagine how we feel about Trump.
I had / have no known history of this man or even who he is or his background. Just was noting the statement itself taken at face value did not seem that it warranted the firing.
Thanks,
Brilliant. Again.
billhike posted:napacat posted:robsutherland posted:Age removes filters and those things that you once said in your head eventually get said out loud and you are at a point where you don't realize or don't care when people hear it.
Don Cherry is a racist, xenophobe and isolationist. Now with the filter gone he's a raving one and doesn't realize that what he's saying goes against how the majority of Canadian's feel. Most of us are very turned off by it.
I agree that everyone should wear a poppy leading up to this day. The thing is that everyone watching that rant by Cherry understood that what he was saying was in effect "those foreign, brown people streaming into our country are not like us, don't care about us, will never be like us and shouldn't be here."
If the majority of Canadian's feel that way about him, imagine how we feel about Trump.
I had / have no known history of this man or even who he is or his background. Just was noting the statement itself taken at face value did not seem that it warranted the firing.
Thanks,
Brilliant. Again.
I think so as well. Glad you agree that the outcome does not make sense.
Nice (failed) deflection attempt. You must break out in a painful rash every time you are confronted with factual information.
Not really...just by the politically correct crowd and the crowd that has to label everyone. And then there are people like you...who just like to pounce on when they think they see easy prey and really have nothing to add.
I don't think I have ever read any post of interest you wrote or contributed to. Really a bunch of drivel. But carry on...
napacat posted:robsutherland posted:"Pocahontas" is no less a slur than any of those other ones I typed above (which you hopefully cringed while reading). It has no bearing on her ancestry, it's a slur.All of us here need to be better than that, you included.
Fair post Rob...point taken.
Point taken so fairly that after this admission:
Snowflake...
Tinkerbell...
Bunch of drivel...
PH
napacat posted:purplehaze posted:napacat posted:It’s not transphobic at all. I’d hang out with him...he’s a Republican!!QED. Sad, but not surprising.
PH
True.
So, does this mean that the accusation that you are transphobic is accurate?
PH
napacat posted:Not really...just by the politically correct crowd and the crowd that has to label everyone. And then there are people like you...who just like to pounce on when they think they see easy prey and really have nothing to add.
I don't think I have ever read any post of interest you wrote or contributed to. Really a bunch of drivel. But carry on...
You certainly have me figured out. I’ve never posted a tasting note, organized or attended an offline, mentioned wines purchased or consumed, shared info about deep discounts, sales or coupons, offered travel advice, invited fellow forumites into my home...
Congratulations, super sleuth. (Weren’t detective called Dicks at one time? Seems appropriate here.) If you ever read one of the wine-related threads you’d realize how embarrassingly asinine you are. Assuming you could set aside your pathological myopia. As for being “easy prey”, that’s on you for being unable to back up your comments with facts.
The scary part is napacat represents the above-average population of the Trumpers in the intelligence spectrum.
doubled posted:The scary part is napacat represents the above-average population of the Trumpers in the intelligence spectrum.
You think so? While English is clearly not his native tongue I’m not nearly as confident as you are, DD.
While this may have little to no impact, I'll toss this out for consideration. Given that we have 1st amendment protections for freedom of speech (within certain limits), Napa is free to say (type) what he has been. Those of us who disagree with these posts have a couple of choices as I see it (I'm disregarding reasoned discussion as another poster has suggested that would be ineffective and the evidence strongly suggests this to be the case).
Shout him down, and in so doing amplify his message.
Ignore him and leave his views in the margin (this is a wine board and I don't think there is any great danger in lending credence to his views by not responding to them). I would suggest that this course of (in)action would eventually eliminate his views from this forum as he becomes bored.
Probably a wise idea SDW to just ignore his comments. For some reason, I can’t find the Ignore button!
@ W+A, I was half-joking, but at the same time, I don’t think the intelligence bar of the Trumpers is a high one.
Of cours
billhike posted:napacat posted:Not really...just by the politically correct crowd and the crowd that has to label everyone. And then there are people like you...who just like to pounce on when they think they see easy prey and really have nothing to add.
I don't think I have ever read any post of interest you wrote or contributed to. Really a bunch of drivel. But carry on...
You certainly have me figured out. I’ve never posted a tasting note, organized or attended an offline, mentioned wines purchased or consumed, shared info about deep discounts, sales or coupons, offered travel advice, invited fellow forumites into my home...
Congratulations, super sleuth. (Weren’t detective called Dicks at one time? Seems appropriate here.) If you ever read one of the wine-related threads you’d realize how embarrassingly asinine you are. Assuming you could set aside your pathological myopia. As for being “easy prey”, that’s on you for being unable to back up your comments with facts.
Exactly, none of the Chicago crew or anyone who has ever been to a CDP has ever met billhike and shared a bottle or ten.
jcocktosten posted:
Exactly, none of the Chicago crew or anyone who has ever been to a CDP has ever met billhike and shared a bottle or ten.
I've met Bill? Possibly more than once?!!
sd-wineaux posted:While this may have little to no impact, I'll toss this out for consideration. Given that we have 1st amendment protections for freedom of speech (within certain limits), Napa is free to say (type) what he has been. Those of us who disagree with these posts have a couple of choices as I see it (I'm disregarding reasoned discussion as another poster has suggested that would be ineffective and the evidence strongly suggests this to be the case).
Shout him down, and in so doing amplify his message.
Ignore him and leave his views in the margin (this is a wine board and I don't think there is any great danger in lending credence to his views by not responding to them). I would suggest that this course of (in)action would eventually eliminate his views from this forum as he becomes bored.
"Shout him down, and in so doing amplify his message."
Two things wrong with this. First, for the most part, we don't "shout him down." We have laid out a pretty clear case on why this is the most racist, bigoted, sexist, know-nothing, who has ever been U.S president. In addition to these and other loathsome traits (born without a heart) he is a demagogue who plays on the ignorance of a certain resentful sector of our society. Among other things this has led to a documented increase in hate crimes. In response we have gotten obfuscation, deflection, whereaboutism (but, but, Hillary), strawman arguments and non sequiturs.
So, two, when he tries to shovel this shit he naturally gets called out on it. Eventually his muddled thinking, poor writing skills,and repeated nonsense makes it just natural to then "shout him down." However I don't see how this amplifies his message.
bman posted:jcocktosten posted:
Exactly, none of the Chicago crew or anyone who has ever been to a CDP has ever met billhike and shared a bottle or ten.
I've met Bill? Possibly more than once?!!
Once that I recall, 2011. A brief introduction in the backyard of Otis. My first CDP and only second time with a mass group from here. You were easy for me to remember - your ample, distinguished hair combined with how well you “ married up”.