Living up North in non-Trump territory even the fact that Rittenhouse was toting a gun, and wrongly accused of carrying it across state lines makes him sound very Trumpish, ergo guilty. My sister-in-law and brother loath Trump. From the beginning they believed Rittenhouse was guilty and they managed to come to this decision by using a…
Living up North in non-Trump territory even the fact that Rittenhouse was toting a gun, and wrongly accused of carrying it across state lines makes him sound very Trumpish, ergo guilty. My sister-in-law and brother loath Trump. From the beginning they believed Rittenhouse was guilty and they managed to come to this decision by using all the false information available before the trial. After the trial his innocent verdict meant nothing. The democrats instilled such severe division in this country when Trump won and their Hilary lost, and cultivated an elitism which disgusts me, as well as making them feel honorable in their highly prejudicial position.
An old friend (of 55+ years) stopped talking to me for 1 1/2 years because I supported Donald Trump. After a mutual friend died, he pulled in his horns and we re-connected at the funeral. That was 3 1/2 years ago.
Although we both committed to never speaking about politics when we communicate, he has not returned my calls since the Rittenhouse verdict. I suspect the Joy Reid's and Joy Behar's of the DNC propaganda squad have gotten to him again.
The same thing happened to me in 2016, and I didn't vote for Trump, but refused to vote for Clinton even though I was a registered democrat. Not an unusual thing for me to do. Hatred and abuse greeted me with a friend, my brother, and a cousin who died of cancer in 2018. He and I never spoke again since I dared institute my democratic right not to vote. He was a professor of law, but at one time a captain in the military. My dislike for Clinton was all about her love for war which he just couldn't accept, and continued to tell me my actions were putting a tyrant in the White House. Another cousin on Facebook was a registered republican most of her life, but was so repulsed by Trump and his "low life" base so her Facebook page became a hate Trump site. She managed to excuse the behavior of every republican president, but not Trump. Her fan base were all the same, well off, educated and mean. When I defended Trump while many thought he was suggesting that people drink bleach to deal with the corona virus, and my interpretation was that he was thinking of something comparable to Clorox, but a medicinal anti-viral treatment that could act in the same way to kill the Corona virus internally, one of her highly educated, rich friends told me to kill myself by drinking Clorox. I told her that I saw her statement as a threat against my life and would report her to Facebook if she made another. It worked and made her disappear. I was also called a racist in defending a policemen for stopping a young black woman for going too slow in a 60 mile an hour strip of highway. One of her friends who had many pictures on her site of her all white gated community called me a racist and gave me a list of books and videos to watch that would help me overcome. Interesting that these people always voted republican until Trump, whose base became defined by Clinton as a bunch of "deplorables." I always thought she referenced them that way to institute a divide in this country which they used to their political advantage, and that divide continues to be used by the democrats in the same prejudicial way.
Thanks for your reply, but it was more about people whom I have had relationships with for so long, really extended myself for, including a younger brother, to treat me in an abusive and dismissive manner. I have degrees, but those degrees don't mean they allow me to feel better then others because they have had less opportunities. All of these people have one thing in common besides an education, they're mentality has always been elitist. They act like they're not going to die, and although they pretend to care about the less fortunate among us, they are, and I always knew it, liars in that regard.
I meant "intelligence" in the widest sense possible. When you say "their mentality has always been elitist" that immediately puts them in the non-intelligent category. Being smug about anything tags one as being stupid right there.
And when times get tough everything comes out. All of a sudden you don't recognize your neighbor or your relation. In a situation like war, for example, that'll easily cost you your life, in a wink.
Wow, I had such hope. Maybe you can suggest he actually watch the entire trial as thinking heads can then do that for themselves. Regaining his independence might be quite refreshing for him.
My best friend since I was about 11 years old (we’re both 53) and who only watches MSNBC (literally that’s all he watches) refuses to talk to me anymore. This was a guy who 20 years ago I collected from a homeless shelter in Vallejo, CA addicted to meth and brought into my home with my new wife and 4 stepdaughters and helped him kick his addiction and get back into college to finish his degree. He’s now an accountant who brags to my family members how he’s ghosted me on social media.
Friendships, like marriage, flow with the Tao. My pal was my right-winger when I played defense on a hockey team 50 years ago. We shared a house, briefly, and dropped acid together probably 100 times. Oh well. Does ANYTHING really matter?
The double-meaning eluded me, bot! hahaha Actually, LaVeen's Golden Blades dominated the Fisher Body Hockey League from 1972 - 1975. Then, Tim Bradley had to hit some guy over the head with his hockey stick, got sued, had to sell his motorcycle, and LaVeen's Department Store got sued and dropped the sponsorship. Good times.
My sister-in-law claimed she watched the trial, but since I did, I knew she got her information second hand. By the way, their sole source of news is MSNBC, and Rachel Maddow is their darling. They live in Connecticut and although she has made similar statements before, her prejudice was now on full display. She said she dislikes her neighbors, and has nothing to do with them, all republicans she said, and Trump supporters, and maybe even gun totting which motivates her to want to move. She recognizes no degree of prejudice on her part, none. Those people are really all alike and no good. She is not the only one I know who adheres to this perception, and what they all have in common is not just that they are affiliated with the democratic party, but all are well off, highly educated and even before Trump you would define them as elitists. I know quite a few people like this, and all adhere to the same perception of Trump's base. One defined them as an uneducated lot, followers and totally amoral.
Projection is a defining characteristic of the woke leftists, both as an indoctrinated psychopathology in the brainwashed herds and a deliberate tactic by the architects of this sociopathic ideology
"Accuse your opponents of doing what you yourself are doing"
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinskey
Woke Ideology is an existential threat to Western Civilization
I absolutely agree and cannot stand this so called woke culture where they operate in extremes. I don't see it as an approach that will bring about change since it alienates so many. I always thought of myself as more liberal then any of those who proclaim complete loyalty to the democrats and this woke culture. I was always active politically while those who condemn me for my position sat on their asses for many a decade and did nothing. Hypocrites.
Seems to me highly unlikely her neighbors would be Trump supporters. Maybe she likes to imagine herself distinct from them when she’s exactly like them in every way.
They have lived there for about 7 years, and before Trump she referenced her neighbor's politics as republican, but didn't make such an issue of it, but didn't like it either. They have a beautiful home in Conn as do their neighbors. You can't use logic alone to understand the Trump years, and what continues to play out. Here is the last paragraph of a letter a friend picked up from the internet and sent me via email even though I did not vote for Trump and was a registered democrat. However I didn't vote for Clinton due to her very hawkish nature. I'm very anti-war.
" It wasn't your politics I found repulsive. No, it was your willingness to support someone who spouts racism, sexism and cruelty almost every time he opens his mouth. You side with a bully when it should have mattered most and that is something I will never be able to forget. So in response to your post-election expression of hope, no, you and I won't be coming together to move forward. Obviously, the president-elect disgusts me, but it is the fact the he doesn't disgust you that will stick with me long after the election." I ended that relationship even though I knew her since we were 12 because other condemnations of me preceded this one. This is someone who would define people as winners or losers while we were growing up and continued to do so as an adult. Trump became a good scapegoat for many people, as did his base. I'm surprised they didn't send Trump and his base off into the wilderness, or maybe they did.
"It wasn't your politics I found repulsive." - followed by explaining how exactly the politics of being reasonable and staying away when called for is what she found repulsive.
I can't figure out the basis for the trust in our government. A government that puts the mentally ill in prisons/cages, borrowed Trillions to spend on a 20 year boondogle in the Middle East, is run by politicians who spend the majority of their time begging for money, eleminated all good paying jobs by outsourcing to China, claims their voters are racist and blames everyone but themselves for their failures. I can seldom discuss these issues with anyone I know since none of them read or are informed enough to engage in a meaningful discussion. Refusal to comare viewpoints seems to have become endemic The reluctance to discuss solutions for our problems has become the biggest obsticle we must overcome.
The few who govern the many, who are the easily placated complacent. I rather think we've hippies, turned yuppies, turned corporate lobbyist, podium politician's or mass maniac media spokespersons. All well compensated echo chambers. They should have inhaled; recollect president Bill C. Whatever happen to that Winter Soldier Vietnam vet attraction? John Kerry?
Living up North in non-Trump territory even the fact that Rittenhouse was toting a gun, and wrongly accused of carrying it across state lines makes him sound very Trumpish, ergo guilty. My sister-in-law and brother loath Trump. From the beginning they believed Rittenhouse was guilty and they managed to come to this decision by using all the false information available before the trial. After the trial his innocent verdict meant nothing. The democrats instilled such severe division in this country when Trump won and their Hilary lost, and cultivated an elitism which disgusts me, as well as making them feel honorable in their highly prejudicial position.
An old friend (of 55+ years) stopped talking to me for 1 1/2 years because I supported Donald Trump. After a mutual friend died, he pulled in his horns and we re-connected at the funeral. That was 3 1/2 years ago.
Although we both committed to never speaking about politics when we communicate, he has not returned my calls since the Rittenhouse verdict. I suspect the Joy Reid's and Joy Behar's of the DNC propaganda squad have gotten to him again.
The power of the media is frightening.
The same thing happened to me in 2016, and I didn't vote for Trump, but refused to vote for Clinton even though I was a registered democrat. Not an unusual thing for me to do. Hatred and abuse greeted me with a friend, my brother, and a cousin who died of cancer in 2018. He and I never spoke again since I dared institute my democratic right not to vote. He was a professor of law, but at one time a captain in the military. My dislike for Clinton was all about her love for war which he just couldn't accept, and continued to tell me my actions were putting a tyrant in the White House. Another cousin on Facebook was a registered republican most of her life, but was so repulsed by Trump and his "low life" base so her Facebook page became a hate Trump site. She managed to excuse the behavior of every republican president, but not Trump. Her fan base were all the same, well off, educated and mean. When I defended Trump while many thought he was suggesting that people drink bleach to deal with the corona virus, and my interpretation was that he was thinking of something comparable to Clorox, but a medicinal anti-viral treatment that could act in the same way to kill the Corona virus internally, one of her highly educated, rich friends told me to kill myself by drinking Clorox. I told her that I saw her statement as a threat against my life and would report her to Facebook if she made another. It worked and made her disappear. I was also called a racist in defending a policemen for stopping a young black woman for going too slow in a 60 mile an hour strip of highway. One of her friends who had many pictures on her site of her all white gated community called me a racist and gave me a list of books and videos to watch that would help me overcome. Interesting that these people always voted republican until Trump, whose base became defined by Clinton as a bunch of "deplorables." I always thought she referenced them that way to institute a divide in this country which they used to their political advantage, and that divide continues to be used by the democrats in the same prejudicial way.
It's easier to bear once it's realized that education and/or expertise in a particular field does not equal intelligence.
Thanks for your reply, but it was more about people whom I have had relationships with for so long, really extended myself for, including a younger brother, to treat me in an abusive and dismissive manner. I have degrees, but those degrees don't mean they allow me to feel better then others because they have had less opportunities. All of these people have one thing in common besides an education, they're mentality has always been elitist. They act like they're not going to die, and although they pretend to care about the less fortunate among us, they are, and I always knew it, liars in that regard.
I meant "intelligence" in the widest sense possible. When you say "their mentality has always been elitist" that immediately puts them in the non-intelligent category. Being smug about anything tags one as being stupid right there.
And when times get tough everything comes out. All of a sudden you don't recognize your neighbor or your relation. In a situation like war, for example, that'll easily cost you your life, in a wink.
Wow, I had such hope. Maybe you can suggest he actually watch the entire trial as thinking heads can then do that for themselves. Regaining his independence might be quite refreshing for him.
My best friend since I was about 11 years old (we’re both 53) and who only watches MSNBC (literally that’s all he watches) refuses to talk to me anymore. This was a guy who 20 years ago I collected from a homeless shelter in Vallejo, CA addicted to meth and brought into my home with my new wife and 4 stepdaughters and helped him kick his addiction and get back into college to finish his degree. He’s now an accountant who brags to my family members how he’s ghosted me on social media.
No good deed goes unpunished. Let's hope MSNBC implodes and he comes out of the smoke.
Only to find some other "MSNBC".
Or is it the quality of the "friendship"?
Friendships, like marriage, flow with the Tao. My pal was my right-winger when I played defense on a hockey team 50 years ago. We shared a house, briefly, and dropped acid together probably 100 times. Oh well. Does ANYTHING really matter?
We are waves in the ocean.
"My pal was my right-winger" - apparently in the wrong position. Wonder how your team was doing back then.
The double-meaning eluded me, bot! hahaha Actually, LaVeen's Golden Blades dominated the Fisher Body Hockey League from 1972 - 1975. Then, Tim Bradley had to hit some guy over the head with his hockey stick, got sued, had to sell his motorcycle, and LaVeen's Department Store got sued and dropped the sponsorship. Good times.
See, bad luck. And all because of one wrong positioning. Which Donald Trump helped expose.
Unless “they” watch the trial, they are smothered inside the suffocating propaganda of the well groomed mass media & their shiny perfect white teeth.
My sister-in-law claimed she watched the trial, but since I did, I knew she got her information second hand. By the way, their sole source of news is MSNBC, and Rachel Maddow is their darling. They live in Connecticut and although she has made similar statements before, her prejudice was now on full display. She said she dislikes her neighbors, and has nothing to do with them, all republicans she said, and Trump supporters, and maybe even gun totting which motivates her to want to move. She recognizes no degree of prejudice on her part, none. Those people are really all alike and no good. She is not the only one I know who adheres to this perception, and what they all have in common is not just that they are affiliated with the democratic party, but all are well off, highly educated and even before Trump you would define them as elitists. I know quite a few people like this, and all adhere to the same perception of Trump's base. One defined them as an uneducated lot, followers and totally amoral.
Projection is a defining characteristic of the woke leftists, both as an indoctrinated psychopathology in the brainwashed herds and a deliberate tactic by the architects of this sociopathic ideology
"Accuse your opponents of doing what you yourself are doing"
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinskey
Woke Ideology is an existential threat to Western Civilization
It was designed to cause its collapse from within
Jim
I absolutely agree and cannot stand this so called woke culture where they operate in extremes. I don't see it as an approach that will bring about change since it alienates so many. I always thought of myself as more liberal then any of those who proclaim complete loyalty to the democrats and this woke culture. I was always active politically while those who condemn me for my position sat on their asses for many a decade and did nothing. Hypocrites.
The campaign to demoralize heritage America was wildly successful.
Seems to me highly unlikely her neighbors would be Trump supporters. Maybe she likes to imagine herself distinct from them when she’s exactly like them in every way.
They have lived there for about 7 years, and before Trump she referenced her neighbor's politics as republican, but didn't make such an issue of it, but didn't like it either. They have a beautiful home in Conn as do their neighbors. You can't use logic alone to understand the Trump years, and what continues to play out. Here is the last paragraph of a letter a friend picked up from the internet and sent me via email even though I did not vote for Trump and was a registered democrat. However I didn't vote for Clinton due to her very hawkish nature. I'm very anti-war.
" It wasn't your politics I found repulsive. No, it was your willingness to support someone who spouts racism, sexism and cruelty almost every time he opens his mouth. You side with a bully when it should have mattered most and that is something I will never be able to forget. So in response to your post-election expression of hope, no, you and I won't be coming together to move forward. Obviously, the president-elect disgusts me, but it is the fact the he doesn't disgust you that will stick with me long after the election." I ended that relationship even though I knew her since we were 12 because other condemnations of me preceded this one. This is someone who would define people as winners or losers while we were growing up and continued to do so as an adult. Trump became a good scapegoat for many people, as did his base. I'm surprised they didn't send Trump and his base off into the wilderness, or maybe they did.
"It wasn't your politics I found repulsive." - followed by explaining how exactly the politics of being reasonable and staying away when called for is what she found repulsive.
I know, and the whole four years was crazy and full of contradictions.
I can't figure out the basis for the trust in our government. A government that puts the mentally ill in prisons/cages, borrowed Trillions to spend on a 20 year boondogle in the Middle East, is run by politicians who spend the majority of their time begging for money, eleminated all good paying jobs by outsourcing to China, claims their voters are racist and blames everyone but themselves for their failures. I can seldom discuss these issues with anyone I know since none of them read or are informed enough to engage in a meaningful discussion. Refusal to comare viewpoints seems to have become endemic The reluctance to discuss solutions for our problems has become the biggest obsticle we must overcome.
The few who govern the many, who are the easily placated complacent. I rather think we've hippies, turned yuppies, turned corporate lobbyist, podium politician's or mass maniac media spokespersons. All well compensated echo chambers. They should have inhaled; recollect president Bill C. Whatever happen to that Winter Soldier Vietnam vet attraction? John Kerry?