Displaying 91 To 120 Of 3,237 Comments The Safe Bet Of An Old White Guy To Beat Trump in 2020 Exactly……. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 21, 2019 @ 6:17 pm Here’s the thing….I begin with a very simple statement. Whoever it is has to be able to slice and dice Trump. Frankly, I don’t think Biden is all that adept at verbal sparring and I do not know of a time when he was able to land a killing verbal blow. With a public that generally votes based on impressions….that look to one of the least reliable barometers of presidential timber, “debates” (which are in fact side by side Q and A’s with the occasional cross stage jab to drive enthusiasm…..I need someone who is going to engage him in such a way as to take control of the narrative and to put him into the hole from which he crawled. With a public that has such a low knowledge base matched by the belief that the public is in fact wise (ignorance and arrogance paired), the voters are easily misled by propaganda. Labeling is a key tool and the Dems cannot be successfully presented to the average voter as the Socialist Party, as the Radical Party, as the UnAmerican Party. Sad to say, but there are more than a few Dems who have played into that (not to say that any study of what they are actually saying makes such labels nonsense and not to say that what they are proposing is not worth serious consideration)….and in doing so they have made themselves an easy target for Trump Bombing runs. Again, I am being very concrete in all of this. Further….I think that the Democratic field understands this…..and those who are making the cut are wrestling with how they can frame themselves as The Trump Toppler….. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 21, 2019 @ 6:16 pm Weekend Music Thread – Woodstock As to the music….here is my loudest/wildest memory because I was close, real close, since I had a stage badge pass.
» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 17, 2019 @ 7:33 pm This is what hangs in my music space in my house. I was there. A friend who worked for Tiger Beat Magazine was working as the mags stringer for a long feature piece. We got there late on Aug 13 1969 and parked his VW Van at the crest of a hill. We left on the 19th. He took lots of photos and interviewed lots of people. I kept our van safe and did the housekeepingm which included guarding the supplies we brought (which were considerable…my friend was a pro). Loved it but good lord we were on the edge of chaos and mayhem almost from the first note. Amazing that the event is not remembered as a tragedy….lots of good people including the locals and the police and the medical services. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81ryzsl8ssL._SL1500_.jpg » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 17, 2019 @ 7:17 pm Trump Exploring U.S. Purchase of Wakanda Official Portrait » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 16, 2019 @ 6:01 pm The Sovereign Nation of Trumptariana, and its Emperor for Life His Boastfulness The Donaldimus Maximus are not amused by your mockery. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 16, 2019 @ 5:39 pm And there are court challenges right now re. businesses, schools, churches etc. post “no guns” rules for their establishments….the angle is that the suits claim that no individual can block the exercise of the a constitutional right. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 16, 2019 @ 9:32 am The law covers everyone no matter the race but, in reality, a black or hispanic man would have been perceived to be a threat more quickly and more readily. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 16, 2019 @ 8:48 am I too see them far too often. Of course from his point of view he will not be getting away with it…he will have exercised his “rights”. And, in truth, I only put some of the onus on him…I put most of it on those who have provided a milieu in which people with his mindset can be encouraged and allowed to do this. Those providers, those enablers are legislators who are beholding to the NRA and to the weapons industry. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 16, 2019 @ 8:46 am FOX News: Climate Change Is A Religion For Democrats You left this reply for me off site….so I am reposting it here with my reply. Sometimes I’m not really expressing my personal opinion. I agree with you totally, though; you’re exactly right. What I was really saying, but not expressing well enough, is that there are layers upon layers of disinformation coming to us from several directions; including foreign countries, and strangely, our own MSM. Mainly, MSM use selection, focus, and slant to attract our attention away from how important an issue really is. The dillute it. Issues like “global warming” are necessarily complex. But, my real point is this: “The issue called “global warming” is more complex than the vast majority of Americans, especially, understand. Basically, it is not simply an environmental issue, but that compunded with, and married to a global economic issue: local, or individual ownership of energy sources.” This has nothing to do with Socialism; I don’t want the government to own and control every sources – I, as an individual, want to own my own. OK….we are very much on the same page….very much so. Thanks for the clarification. I am a farmer…..part time now but still wedded to the land….and one of the aspects of crazy insane energy forms is that it actually damages the planet coming out, being processed and then being used….lose/lose/lose with only a marginal win for the user…… Whereas solar and wind…….!!!!! » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 10:44 am I agree that there is agenda after agenda, layer upon layer of motivation at work in the efforts to dissuade those who convinced that climate change is real, that it is largely the result of human activity and that there are responsble responses at hand. What puzzles me is that you seem to be saying that disinformation campaigns are largely, if not nearly exclusively, American. How can this be given that those who sell power in the form of fossil fuels, or other means requiring a complex infrastructure are global. Russia, China, the Oil States, are major players in all of this. Where do they fit into your schema? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 4:30 am Biden Takes on Trump: A Call to Integrity and Courage in The Wave of Two Mass Shootings I appreciate your efforts in all of this. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 22, 2019 @ 2:55 am I generally do not get into these rumbles. Closing down the thread is certainly a reasonable one since it has gotten so unwieldy, there is little indication that the discussion is advancing, and it does not to stop. So, I have no objection to doing just that. If I knew how to, and was permitted to I would just that. As to the TOU and Jake….I have been sparring with him for years. I wish he would “let things go” but he does not. I value his perspective and he has provide some very keen insights and led me to info sources that I was unaware of. I have edited comments he has made to remove personalisms. Stopping a thread is another useful action I think. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 22, 2019 @ 2:52 am While my friend Jake sometimes crosses the line – and I admonish him for it- he is a smart cookie who is widely read and puts together sound arguments. He has a very broad range of interests and has been a daunting crusader on a number critical issues. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 21, 2019 @ 7:28 pm I have been making this case: Here’s the thing….I begin with a very simple statement. Whoever it is has to be able to slice and dice Trump. Frankly, I don’t think Biden is all that adept at verbal sparring and I do not know of a time when he was able to land a killing verbal blow. With a public that generally votes based on impressions….that look to one of the least reliable barometers of presidential timber, “debates” (which are in fact side by side Q and A’s with the occasional cross stage jab to drive enthusiasm…..I need someone who is going to engage him in such a way as to take control of the narrative and to put him into the hole from which he crawled. With a public that has such a low knowledge base matched by the belief that the public is in fact wise (ignorance and arrogance paired), the voters are easily misled by propaganda. Labeling is a key tool and the Dems cannot be successfully presented to the average voter as the Socialist Party, as the Radical Party, as the UnAmerican Party. Sad to say, but there are more than a few Dems who have played into that (not to say that any study of what they are actually saying makes such labels nonsense and not to say that what they are proposing is not worth serious consideration)….and in doing so they have made themselves an easy target for Trump Bombing runs. Again, I am being very concrete in all of this. Further….I think that the Democratic field understands this…..and those who are making the cut are wrestling with how they can frame themselves as The Trump Toppler….. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 21, 2019 @ 7:21 pm I support you in this. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 21, 2019 @ 7:04 pm I meant to tell you that I have sent copies of your reply to three defenders of the “Mueller found nothing crowd” who I know…very well done. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 16, 2019 @ 9:51 am Bibi knows how valuable his alliance is with Trump and the U.S. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 6:53 pm I tend to think in strategic steps….what are the gaming options. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 6:51 pm Your reading on this is very definitely in line with my own. The right loves to launch “conspiracy gambits” to bat down the progressive agenda….and, what I believe is that the right might as well have a shop called “Conspiracies R Us” given lists like yours. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 6:49 pm We are in agreement re. this. “If someone disagrees with your opinion, they have as much right to feel that way as you have and it has nothing to do with mindset.” » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 6:46 pm All one need do is look at the origins and workings of UKIP, and then the Brexit Party to see how the Tories played into the hands of those you identify here….all part of the same leadership movement that is behind the curtain in country after country…as you also clearly identify. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 9:38 am It might be an issue of the field narrowing to where there is an acceptable 2nd who could endorse Biden (or vice versa) and then assist in the selection of a strong balancing VP. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 9:32 am To me the essential question….how to get everyone who has every reason not to want a second Trump term out to vote….. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 9:30 am Putin is high on my list too but so is Xi Jinping who, like Putin, has reworked the rules of the game in his country’s constitution such that he has a virtually unlimited tenure as head of state. “If every person who can vote, votes, …” that is the great challenge every election….why did so many “Dem voters” stay home when it was Clinton vs. Trump……answer that question and one begins to get at how to be sure it does not happen again. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 9:28 am Pence was unable to muster support from the crazy right for an agenda that they largely approved of because of his personality, or a lack of one. He is not so much milk toast as he is a failed rhetoritician. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 5:57 am I share a lot of your anger. I consider those who chose not to vote in the three states where a combined 80,000 votes gave that man the election in 2016 and I wonder: Did these peole fail to understand that no matter how much they did not want Clinton, Trump was a far, far worse alternative? Here we find, once more, that ignorance and arrogance are fatal to the body politic. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 5:54 am “I read and ask to whose benefit am I being told this?” an important question “So the term ‘ Free Press’ disguises the fact that those in control are likely to have agendas interests at odds with those of the general population.” a very important observation » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 5:49 am I fully concur…the man is sinister…I know this from friends in Indiana. He did not win a second term because he would have been trounced had he tried for one. Why? Take a gander at https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/mike-pence-donald-trump-vp/index.html which spells out why he was so unpopular as governor AND why he made a strong choice for Trump…..imagine him as President. If Trump were convicted in the Senate it would be Pres. Pence and unless the timing were perfect (i.e. close to the election) he would get a big boost from the “Dems pulled a coup” crowd. Another worry I have. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 5:45 am The mindset I refer is largely a matter of tone. There is a tendency, Kalima, on virtually every site I know including this one, to look down on those who disagree with the “predominant mindset” on that site….whether rooted in the politics, social structure, or economy endorsed by and supported from the left, center or right. Some do this with frontal assaults that are rude and full of angry personalisms. Others are far more civil and reasoned in tone. I tend to follow that route and I have to be on guard as a result. I actually think the Planet’s, and Yabberz before it, and other sites I know work hard to keep the dialogue respectful because that is what encourages dialogue, even when it comes from distantly opposed sides. The mindset here is generally further “left” of mine. I get a good bit of criticism for it. And that is ok….but I know when I post some things they will be critiqued sharply, although politely, beause their starting point is distant from that of others here. And that too is fine. As to your list: ….there is not a thing here that is not on my list as well. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On August 15, 2019 @ 4:59 amComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
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