Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[sneakypete]

That's true. He shut it OFF. He did that. He shut down the ports, and restricted interstate shipping. Without that, parts systems ground to a dead stop. No one else did that. That was an administrative decision, entirely federal, using federal authority over ports and ports of entry.

Especially from China because of HIS exclusive foreign policy.

No two ways about it.

He did that, with Fauxi right by his side.

I am but one example among thousands that lost their livelihood, being 'nonessential'.
No way in hell that should be rewarded. Ever.

@roamer_1

Thank you for the explanation.

Your anger now makes sense,even if there was a reason or reasons behind it that you wern't/aren't aware  of at that time.

Nothing personal towards you,but I PERSONALLY  find it impossible to  have any sympathy for anyone who was doing business with China,and lost out.

Not only is the Chinese government probably THE most evil government in existence today,but they seem to think they SHOULD be controlling the world world by turning all the other nations into vassal nations of their slave state.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1

Thank you for the explanation.

Your anger now makes sense,even if there was a reason or reasons behind it that you wern't/aren't aware  of at that time.

@sneakypete

No, my anger is not limited to my own loss, and I have not made that the center of my argument, even though it is plain. It is the loss of liberty that is the root. and the destruction of Conservatism, with all you monkeys cheering it on. That's your guy.

Nothing personal towards you,but I PERSONALLY  find it impossible to  have any sympathy for anyone who was doing business with China,and lost out.

Not only is the Chinese government probably THE most evil government in existence today,but they seem to think they SHOULD be controlling the world world by turning all the other nations into vassal nations of their slave state.

Look, that has to be about the most moronic statement I have ever heard.
I'm a pooter tech. That's what I do. ALL chips are out of China or Taiwan. There is literally NO WAY to fix computers without doing business with China. I work with American companies, and American parts systems, but where do they have to buy from? From the only place to get chips and boards.

And it's the same damn thing for smalls parts and automotive.

So KMA, you and your ordainments. Different story if another option was provided first. Different story if you encourage chip manufacturing in the states first, get em up and running and THEN shut off China... But no, just shut it all OFF.

Dummass. Where do you think the parts are going to come from now?

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

No, my anger is not limited to my own loss, and I have not made that the center of my argument, even though it is plain. It is the loss of liberty that is the root. and the destruction of Conservatism, with all you monkeys cheering it on. That's your guy.

Look, that has to be about the most moronic statement I have ever heard.
I'm a pooter tech. That's what I do. ALL chips are out of China or Taiwan. There is literally NO WAY to fix computers without doing business with China. I work with American companies, and American parts systems, but where do they have to buy from? From the only place to get chips and boards.

And it's the same damn thing for smalls parts and automotive.

So KMA, you and your ordainments. Different story if another option was provided first. Different story if you encourage chip manufacturing in the states first, get em up and running and THEN shut off China... But no, just shut it all OFF.

Dummass. Where do you think the parts are going to come from now?

@roamer_1

Yeah,YOU were helping to enrich the most dangerous police state in the world,and it's the fault of people like me that YOU are out of work.

Did it ever occur to you to earn your living by working a trade that does NOT benefit the largest police state in the world?

One that is also THE most dangerous police state in the world?

And it's MY fault you are out of work,huh?

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1

Yeah,YOU were helping to enrich the most dangerous police state in the world,and it's the fault of people like me that YOU are out of work.

YOU are typing on a Chinese made computer or phone RIGHT NOW, Guaranteed, @sneakypete

Did it ever occur to you to earn your living by working a trade that does NOT benefit the largest police state in the world?

One that is also THE most dangerous police state in the world?

And it's MY fault you are out of work,huh?

And then who is going to fix your computer? or your phone? Or your car that you are so proud of? Hell even your pickup... I would not have to look very far to find chinesium on your truck.

So don't give me your bullshit. I ain't buying it. Not one bit. Your high horse is short as hell.

[sneakypete]

YOU are typing on a Chinese made computer or phone RIGHT NOW, Guaranteed, @sneakypete

@roamer_1

Maybe/probably. I honestly have no idea. It is a refurbished laptop I bought from Amazon for 100 bucks a few years ago.

I know that everybody has an opinion,but MINE is that if you buy something used from a re-sale sorce in the US,it is NOT the same as buying something new made in China.

That's really just splitting hairs to "score point" in an argument,though. Some people who use computers to earn their living maybe/probably have to buy brand new stuff for reasons I don't even suspect

And then who is going to fix your computer? or your phone? Or your car that you are so proud of? Hell even your pickup... I would not have to look very far to find chinesium on your truck.

I kinda doubt it. One is a 1937 IHC pu,and the other one is a 2008 GMC diesel 3/4 ton 4x4,that I also bought used.

I do confess to buying a new 4 cylinder Toyota Camry a couple of years ago because the price of gas and diesel fuel got so insanely high that I figured something that gets right at 40 MPG would be the way to go. Especially since I was making round trips of about 100 miles  3 times a week to attend a wound clinic and get my bandages changed. Only go once a week now,and my legs are MUCH better. One is 100 percent healed,and the other is almost healed. When you consider that everyone else,including the VA,wanted to amputate my left leg starting in the early 70's,it borders on amazing.

VERY comfortable and economical little car,even though it wasn't cheap to buy. NO automobile or truck is cheap to buy anymore that is new,or even close to new. The Toyota cost me right at 28 grand,which still almost puts me into shock when I think of it. My old 200,000+ mile 4cyl Ranger pu died,and a rebuilt long block would have cost me 2 grand +,with no accessories and I would still have to pay someone to do the work. Plus I needed to ride right "NOW".

Sure am looking forward to no more sponge baths,and soaking in a tub  of hot water for hours.

So don't give me your bullshit. I ain't buying it. Not one bit. Your high horse is short as hell.

Pretty much what I expected to read. It's  personal for you.

[roamer_1]

I kinda doubt it. One is a 1937 ICH pu,and the other one is a 2008 GMC diesel 3/4 ton 4x4,that I also bought used.

I do confess to buying a new 4 cylinder Toyota Camry a couple of years ago because the price of gas and diesel fuel got so insanely high that I figured something that gets right at 40 MPG would be the way to go. Especially since I was making round trips of about 100 miles  3 times a week to attend a wound clinic and get my bandages changed. Only go once a week now,and my legs are MUCH better. One is 100 percent healed,and the other is almost healed. When you consider that everyone else,including the VA,wanted to amputate my left leg starting in the early 70's,it borders on amazing.

Sure am looking forward to no more sponge baths,and soaking in a tub  of hot water for hours.

Pretty much what I expected to read. It's  personal for you.

Doesn't matter if you bought it used @sneakypete - If it's busted and needs a part, where the hell do you expect me to get that part? During covid and for 2 years after there just wasn't a part. You can throw the damn thing away for want of a ram chip.

And I am like the guy you bought it from. I refurbish old machines to resell, and fix broken ones. So don't be braggin on the used part - That was me, or someone like me.

And yes, that 08 diesel pickup is chocked full of chinesium. You have to go back to the eighties to find all American... And even if you do, if it breaks... again, where is the part going to come from? I can tell you - CHINA.

Of course it's personal to me... The biggest dumass move ever recorded in all of history effected everyone personally. Especially small businesses of every stripe that were not designated as 'essential'

And you want to do it again. *SMH*

[sneakypete]

Don't demean a person's profession, that's just cold dude.

@Jack Russell

I am NOT demeaning his profession.

He is NOT a slave,and  there was/is no one forcing him to have the Chinese as a daily business partner.

There was also no reason mentioned why he couldn't have made his living doing other things. He is obviously NOT stupid or lazy,so he DID have those options,and just made a choice to continue to do business with China on a daily basis. That is on HIM,not ME.

Yes,like everybody else in today's America,I am occasionally forced to buy slave labor crap from China,but IF I can find the same type of item at another store that WASN'T made in China,I will buy it even if it costs me twice as much.

BTW,I do NOT find fault with people who buy  the cheapest stuff they can find because it is all they can afford. NOBODY can buy anything if they don't have the money to buy it. I am just fortunate enough to be in a situation where pretty much anything I really want or need is affordable for me.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"There are various conventional explanations for this week's election results; but unmentioned has been the Democrats' failure to condemn loudly and publicly the ravings of the lunatic Left." – Victor Davis Hanson

[ChemEngrMBA]

We fight not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour, but only and alone for Freedom, which no good man lays down but with his life. --Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland, 1320

[ChemEngrMBA]

"After years of being exposed to the American media in all its forms, I've concluded that conservatives resent being lied to nearly as much as liberals hate being told the truth." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

[ChemEngrMBA]

Leftists and atheists choose to be neither right nor kind.

[sneakypete]

Leftists and atheists choose to be neither right nor kind.

@ChemEngrMBA

Are you EVER going to  get  tired of trolling for new groupies for your commune,comrade?

This  forum is about politics,NOT religion,so take your Jim Jones recruitment efforts somewhere else.

[Hoodat]

This  forum is about politics,NOT religion,

@sneakypete

His comment referenced atheists.  Are you saying that 'atheism' is a religion?  Just want to be clear on what the rules are.  Thanks.

[sneakypete]

I kind of liked it.  Maybe you are the one with the issue?

@Jack Russell

Cult members always make that claim.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

His comment referenced atheists.  Are you saying that 'atheism' is a religion?  Just want to be clear on what the rules are.  Thanks.

@Hoodat

Hard-core Atheism is the Ying to the Bible Thumpers Yang.

I don't give a rabid rats ass if someone wants to worship rabid rats asses. I just want you to take your beliefs to  a board dedicated to that  sort of thing. I got a lifetime supply of that crap when I was a child.

[sneakypete]

Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

@Jack Russell

An obvious lie,or people like me wouldn't exist.

So how about we just stop posting religious as well as anti-religious posts?

[DefiantMassRINO]

“Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink."

- former Boston political boss, Martin Lomasney

[ChemEngrMBA]

I kind of liked it.  Maybe you are the one with the issue?

Is he ever!

In the first place, religion has profound political implications.  Take Hamas Muslims as Exhibit #1.
Atheists are Exhibit #2. 
Topics in TBR include "Research, Science, Sports" and many other interests which have little or nothing to do with politics.


Little Pete is such a stalker, harasser and whiner that he has no business being a "moderator" here.
Now for my newest Thought For The Day by a friend of atheists everywhere, politics writ very, very large:


Socialism is precisely the religion which; must overwhelm Christianity.   … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society. – Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937, Marxist, founder of the Italian Communist Party)

[Cyber Liberty]

Little Pete is such a stalker, harasser and whiner that he has no business being a "moderator" here.

@ChemEngrMBA

There are no Moderators on TBR named "Pete."  j/s

[DefiantMassRINO]

Religion is man's attempt to re-appropriate God's Word to man's purpose.

 

I didn't want to have to do this, but ...

I have found a concise way to describe thousands of years of religious beliefs.

My Messiah can kick your Messiah's ass,
anywhere, anytime, infidels.

[mystery-ak]

This is why I don't have a Religious Cat...there will always be someone who is offended..either deal with it or stop posting on this thread.

[sneakypete]

Is he ever!

In the first place, religion has profound political implications.  Take Hamas Muslims as Exhibit #1.
Atheists are Exhibit #2. 
Topics in TBR include "Research, Science, Sports" and many other interests which have little or nothing to do with politics.


Little Pete is such a stalker, harasser and whiner that he has no business being a "moderator" here.
Now for my newest Thought For The Day by a friend of atheists everywhere, politics writ very, very large:


Socialism is precisely the religion which; must overwhelm Christianity.   … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society. – Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937, Marxist, founder of the Italian Communist Party)

@ChemEngrMBA


Blah,blah,meaningless blah.

Ok,Bubba,why are you so defensive? Do I detect a little doubt is powering that over-reaction?

[Cyber Liberty]

Please stop arguing about religion on Nancy's Forum.  She asked nicely up thread, but I am not as nice.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"(British psychologists did an experiment) where participants were given stories about cruelty or violence, which, not surprisingly dampened their moods... but those who read stories about acts of kindness reported a greater belief in the overall goodness of humanity.... hearing about the kindness of others makes you happier and protects you against what some researchers call mean world syndrome, an anxious outlook caused by an overestimation of the world's dangers." - Reader's Digest, Feb 2024, page 38

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Mean World Syndrome is a phrase I just read last night for the first time. 

It describes those in a dreadful panic over *climate change*, atheism, and man-hating *feminism*.

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Compare these state-of-the-art scientific findings with Philippians 4:8, from 2000 years ago:

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'...whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

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For several years, I have been passing out these slips I print out twenty at a time to store clerks helping me, and to occasional strangers I meet in public places:

[LMAO]

"After years of being exposed to the American media in all its forms, I've concluded that conservatives resent being lied to nearly as much as liberals hate being told the truth." --columnist Burt Prelutsky

Yup!!