Another letter promoting impeachment.
This statement interests me: “[Trump’s] behavior is erratic and cannot be excused as part of a broader strategy of distraction, or dismissed as Trump being Trump.”
My first reaction is to wonder, Why not?
There’s a conspiracy theory which holds that President Trump is just as much a deep-stater as the alligators he promised to drive out by draining the swamp. The point, according to adherents of the theory, is that Trump is a “white hat,” whereas the alligators are “black hats.”
Except for the haberdashery angle, which probably owes more to wishful thinking than to justifiable perception, I see no reason to think the conspiracy theory is false. We are talking, after all, about a global elite, especially including central bankers, that has the evident power to centrally plan all contemporary world events.
Why shouldn’t even President Trump be one of the cabal’s servants, just like the more mundane characters — Jeffery Epstein, Rupert Murdoch, and John Brennan, to name a few?
I’m not saying I believe it, but I can’t rule it out. Perhaps Trump is all an act, a pre-planned extravaganza leading, say, to shaving Vladimir Putin’s head on live TV over winning a Wrestlemania bet. Before its over, maybe we’ll hear President Trump singing “Green Acres” Gangnam Style with Kim Jung Un in Copenhagen.
But I digress.
These impeachment letters are boring.
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You seem to have entirely missed the main point of the letter which was clearly stated in the first sentence . . .
“Republicans can no longer kid themselves that President Donald Trump is a rational actor. ”
Your obtuse speculations about the existence or not of conspiracies does not refute the mountain of evidence that with Trump “his elevator isn’t reaching the top floor.” On top of all his deep failings of natural intelligence, education, curiosity, empathy and moral probity, we can now ALL see that he is in the grip of dementia.
BTW, “Draining the swamp” was not about the so-called “deep state” of bureaucrats. It was about the crony capitalism that was running DC which Trump has taken to a new and ugly level.
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RE: “You seem to have entirely missed the main point of the letter…”
Didn’t miss it. Willfully ignored it.
But I can’t help pointing out that you seem to have entirely missed an inference in my commentary: That the letter and now, by extension, your support of its thesis, is as looney as any other conspiracy theory.
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“Willfully ignored” ??
Probably the best approach to maintaining beliefs you already have (pesky facts are extremely inconvenient).
I’ve found that reading and considering what you’ve read, can be very enlightening if done consistently.
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RE: “I’ve found that reading and considering what you’ve read, can be very enlightening if done consistently.”
Care to elaborate?
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Really?
OK.
Read each word slowly and think about what they mean when put together.
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RE: “Read each word slowly and think about what they mean when put together.”
I read words just fine. I even write them good.
What I can’t do is read your mind.
So, unless you care to make your thinking explicit, I’ll just assume you have nothing useful, relevant or interesting to contribute in this forum.
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“I even write them good” Public Service.
A common English error is to misuse the words good and well. The rule of thumb is that good is an adjective and well is an adverb. Good modifies a noun; something can be or seem good. Well modifies a verb; an action can be done well.
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It is a very poor attempt at a response or a rebuttal when you “willfully ignore” the central point you are responding to.
Do you actually think that “willfully ignoring” it was somehow better than simply “missing” it? Curiouser and curiouser.
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By the way, whether or not Trump is in a degraded mental state has nothing to do with any conspiracy theory. It is a question of fact that should be weighed by evidence and, obviously, Trump provides plenty that he is demented. Hardly a day goes by without new evidence of just how sick he is. It is there for anybody other than the willfully blind to see.
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In reply to:RE: “I’ve found that reading and considering what you’ve read, can be very enlightening if done consistently.” Care to elaborate?
RE: “Do you actually think that ‘willfully ignoring’ it was somehow better than simply ‘missing’ it?”
Yes, actually, since it happens to be factually true, unlike your own assertions, which are not (factually true).
For example, you claim I made an error somehow in “missing the main point of the letter.” But since I chose the letter for posting and to comment on, and since I wrote the comment I intended to write, it is not factually true I made an error in topic selection.
Put another way, you may think President Trump’s alleged disabilities are the “main point” of the letter, but I was under no obligation to address them directly. I chose not to, though you might say I did in a roundabout way.
Similarly, you claim it is factually true that ” we can now ALL see that [President Trump] is in the grip of dementia.” But since you can’t speak for “all” and since there are no public medical records to support the diagnosis you alone imagine, your claim is not factually true. Sure, you are entitled to your opinion in the matter, even entitled to share it here, but your opinion is not fact and not superior to any other, not to even that of a rock.
Thanks for commenting on my post. Too bad you didn’t help yourself or the forum in the process.
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Sad.
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“Too bad you didn’t help yourself or the forum in the process.”
Condescending comments don’t help yourself either. You could have stopped with the thanks, but you had to take a shot because you didn’t agree with Paul’s comments. Your habit of condescension is as bad, or worse, as your constant accusations of my mind reading.
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