Rule change sharpens Dem investigations into Trump

[edpc]

Dude, you're an a-hole. You should go away and never come back...that was way beyond the pale.

Well, unfortunately for you, IDGAF what you think.

[Mesaclone]

Well, unfortunately for you, IDGAF what you think.

Shocker. Clearly, a person who would encourage another to commit suicide cares only for themselves. Which was precisely my point, so thanks for reinforcing that.

Again, you should be banned forever for what you said. I'm all for hot debate and even a few personal jobs...what you just did is quite nearly a criminal act (a young girl was just convicted of murder for encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide), and at a minimum demonstrates you are unworthy of engaging with the members of this board.

[Cyber Liberty]

I have some melatonin and an old lamp cord, if it’ll help.

That's tasteless.  Suicide is neither painless nor humorous.

EVERYBODY:  Drop the subject and get back to the Topic, please.

[Emjay]

Dude, you're an a-hole. You should go away and never come back...that was way beyond the pale.

Actually, @Mesaclone   I understand the concept of freedom of speech but there are a few members who abuse that daily with outrageous personal insults to people who disagree with them.

I know the mods have a hard job and this group constitutes about one-fourth of the active members, but really I think they should be given a time out until they can stick to facts and eschew insults.

I handle it myself by having 6 or 7 people on ignore.  I only see their posts when someone else quotes them.  I have not missed a single interesting or valid post by doing so and have spared myself the futile urge to argue with odd people.

[mystery-ak]

I have some melatonin and an old lamp cord, if it’ll help.

This was a reported post...I am sure he was just trying to be funny...lighten up a little

[Mesaclone]

This was a reported post...I am sure he was just trying to be funny...lighten up a little

How is it funny to encourage suicide?

I'm pretty laid back about all the banter that goes on...can dish it out AND take it. That one goes WAY too far and I don't think its right to pooh-pooh it as a "lighten up" situation. I'll leave it at that and just put the person involved on my ignore...that will be the first time I've done so in several years.

[edpc]

This was a reported post...I am sure he was just trying to be funny...lighten up a little

No kidding. My seriousness was on the same level as her intent to actually do it. Honestly, the handwringing only makes it funnier to me.

[Cyber Liberty]

How is it funny to encourage suicide?

I'm pretty laid back about all the banter that goes on...can dish it out AND take it. That one goes WAY too far and I don't think its right to pooh-pooh it as a "lighten up" situation. I'll leave it at that and just put the person involved on my ignore...that will be the first time I've done so in several years.

If you read the conversation up the thread, you can see he was responding to a post about suicide.  But for that, I'd have just blown it away.

[Emjay]

If you read the conversation up the thread, you can see he was responding to a post about suicide.  But for that, I'd have just blown it away.

@Cyber Liberty   I've told you before you are one of the nicest people in the forum.

But I have to protest the laughing off and lightening up we are supposed to do about really nasty posters.  They get their jollies out of annoying others, particularly Trump supporters.

Fortunately, I don't run this forum or some of them would be on a very long time out.

[Cyber Liberty]

@Cyber Liberty   I've told you before you are one of the nicest people in the forum.

But I have to protest the laughing off and lightening up we are supposed to do about really nasty posters.  They get their jollies out of annoying others, particularly Trump supporters.

Fortunately, I don't run this forum or some of them would be on a very long time out.

 

[corbe]

  Let he/she who hasn't said silly $hit that has been misinterpreted by someone cast the first stone.

[Emjay]

  Let he/she who hasn't said silly $hit that has been misinterpreted by someone cast the first stone.

I totally understand the problem of the mods, @corbe and I say silly stuff all the time.  That does not offend me although it can get boring and over the top.

I'm talking about nastiness to another poster which is not cool.

[txradioguy]

How is it funny to encourage suicide?

I'm pretty laid back about all the banter that goes on...can dish it out AND take it. That one goes WAY too far and I don't think its right to pooh-pooh it as a "lighten up" situation. I'll leave it at that and just put the person involved on my ignore...that will be the first time I've done so in several years.

Your selective outrage is noted.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

The rabid anti Trump people...with one glaring exception are gone from here. 

[sneakypete]

They're not interested in actually finding any crime...they just want to...mud sling through 2020 in hopes of making Trump look bad enough they have a shot at winning.

@txradioguy

There it is. They know that if they lose to him again,chances are the senior Dims who are in power now will never be in power again the rest of their lives. They will have lost their "edge" and their ability to punish people who don't bend to their will. Look for most of the senior alleged Republicans to be giving them all the help they can give them because this applies to them even more than it does the Dims.

It's going to get ugly.

[RetBobbyMI]

Maybe the Senate Republican can counter the House aggression a bit. Imagine Lindsay Graham issuing subpoenas for Adam Schiff to do some splainin about his meetings with Fusion GPS, if that’s possible.

[sneakypete]

Maybe the Senate Republican can counter the House aggression a bit. Imagine Lindsay Graham issuing subpoenas for Adam Schiff to do some splainin about his meetings with Fusion GPS, if that’s possible.

@RetBobbyMI

I like imagining it,and it MIGHT even happen. Lady Lindsey has shown some evidence lately of having remembered where he left h is stones,and strapping them on again.

[DCPatriot]

Dems play hardball for keeps always! Republicans play nerf ball for funsies!

....because "...we're supposed to be better than that"     /S       such BS...

[DCPatriot]

@Mesaclone   Wonderful essay.  Sometimes we're inclined to dismiss the weird stuff the leftists do as too ridiculous to take seriously.

But way too many people take this seriously.  We have to read about a guy who claims eating meat will destroy humanity, to a wild chick who wants to change the entire infrastructure in fear of green something.

In the meantime, some of us so-called conservatives are saving all our passion for criticizing either Trump or the people they refer to as do-nothing Republicans.  No sense of proportion at all.

Frankly, I'm scared.

IMO, this is exactly the DEM strategy for 2020.

Get all the Socialists running to appear insane.   In steps [fill-in-the-blank] to come across as a 'Centrist'.

I'm scared too. @Emjay 

Thank God that the last one standing over there has to face Donald J. Trump in 2020.

[DCPatriot]

You should more about what the Democrat Party is trying to do to the President and the country and less about some mythical group within the GOP that you've labeled as "NT" because they don't agree with Trump 110% of the time.

This circular firing squad mentality that has gripped the Uber Trump faithful is what will allow the Dems to make gains if not outright take over the WH in two years.

ROFL!   You really think you can blame staunch 'Trump fans' now if he goes down in 2020?

Your bullshit excuse for not owning the NT label around here is the laugh of the week.  You're a joke.  A sick joke.

[edpc]

If some in-depth research was done, why do I get the feeling a fair amount of those saying the emergency precedent danger is absurd would also include those who said they tried to warn us the Patriot Act would someday be used by Democrats to spy on Americans, when they held power?

[Emjay]

Maybe the Senate Republican can counter the House aggression a bit. Imagine Lindsay Graham issuing subpoenas for Adam Schiff to do some splainin about his meetings with Fusion GPS, if that’s possible.

That is Lindsey Graham 2.0 and I love it.

[txradioguy]

ROFL!   You really think you can blame staunch 'Trump fans' now if he goes down in 2020?

Your bullshit excuse for not owning the NT label around here is the laugh of the week.  You're a joke.  A sick joke.

The only joke around here...and a pathetic one at that...is you and your continued hatred towards anyone who doesn’t worship Trump like you do.

You’re still praying for that “retribution” you talked about a couple years ago against anyone who didn’t vote for Trump.

And you’re giving a textbook example of the point I was making about how the militants in the Trump base are alienating people from even considering voting for him in 2020.

Your anger is clearly directed at the wrong people.

But you obviously don’t care.

[Hoodat]

You should more about what the Democrat Party is trying to do to the President and the country and less about some mythical group within the GOP that you've labeled as "NT" because they don't agree with Trump 110% of the time.

This circular firing squad mentality that has gripped the Uber Trump faithful is what will allow the Dems to make gains if not outright take over the WH in two years.

Agree 100%. @txradioguy

I am so sick of these cowardly indirect NT labelings at people that loudly cheer Trump on each time he does something Conservative yet have the principle to call him out for abandoning Conservatism.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

  Let he/she who hasn't said silly $hit that has been misinterpreted by someone cast the first stone.

I can't believe we have no rock throwing emoji.