Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!YJ4KnIs//jwJCQ6VS48zVg.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: rec.sport.golf Subject: Re: OT: Shameful Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 12:03:46 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <72e1b1bb-7859-42db-ac8b-4c0268e1df19n@googlegroups.com> <5de5729d-d53d-41eb-84dc-ee455e53bd17n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="30703"; posting-host="YJ4KnIs//jwJCQ6VS48zVg.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-CA Bytes: 5554 Lines: 99 On 2022-01-07 11:50 a.m., Irving S wrote: > On Friday, January 7, 2022 at 2:28:27 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote: >> On 2022-01-07 11:22 a.m., Irving S wrote: >>> On Friday, January 7, 2022 at 1:55:25 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote: >>>> They held a moment of silence in the Capitol yesterday for the >>>> police officers who died or were injured last January 6. >>>> >>>> Do you know how many Republican legislators were present? >>>> >>>> 2; and one of those was actually retired. >>>> >>>> Only Liz Cheney and her father were there. >>> >>> Alan, we will surely disagree, but I say that is great what >>> happened. I would not attended. I do not want to debate this, but >>> there was a lot of fishy stuff with that election. People were >>> angry , they acted out. Good to see this, I predict this is just >>> the beginning. I could not care whether you are to the left or >>> right. Most of these people in Wahington DC are crooks. They are >>> compromised. People have the power, keep on pissing them off, >>> they will speak and act out. There will come a time when people >>> across all political persuasions, races, sexual orientation, etc >>> will open their eyes and realize that we are all getting screwed. >>> With rising gas prices, failed Covid policies, inflation, abuses >>> by Justice Dept, FBI, and all branches, I really believe a great >>> awakening will happen. I refused to believe that this ship is >>> sunk. People see the fools we have in charge, and the fools that >>> work for them. They should be very worried. January 6 will seem >>> like a firecracker, compared to the bomb that is waiting to go >>> off. >> There was no "fishy stuff" with this election. >> >> If there was, why has no evidence of it ever been presented >> anywhere. >> >> If there was, why didn't they flip a few Senate races as well? >> >> Are a whole lot of politicians worse people than we should be >> allowed to expect? Yup. >> >> Are the Republicans mostly bought and paid for by big business and >> the very rich? Absolutely >> >> Are the Democrats immune from this? By no means. >> >> And NONE of that has anything at all to do with the fact that >> police officers put their lives on the line and were injured and >> killed in defense of ALL the lawmakers present on that day. > > Alan, I think over time things will come out. Just like it took so > much time to realize the Russian hoax, or the Epstein stuff, or > whatever. Things take time, there is very little transparency these > days. Somewhere out there, there is a journalist, an honest > politician, a whistleblower than will raise some doubt and present > some concrete evidence. You wait and see my friend. Time will tell, > we both know that. And if he tells you what you don't want to hear, you'll declare him to be dishonest. "No true scotsman": heard of it? > > You can call me callous and cold. I have better things to do > personally than storm any public building, but these people were > heroes. No. They were not. But they were really the villains, either. They were dupes, deliberately convinced by truly evil people that there was something going on that simply wasn't. > I am sad that anyone got hurt, but any noble cause means > collateral damage. There was no noble cause. Every time Trumpians have claimed that they had evidence and they would be presenting it... ....they bailed. > When Truman dropped those two bombs, there was > incredible collateral damage to innocents. He made a statement,, the > guy had ballls. He ended the war, and made a statement. This is > what happens when you screw around with a leader that has balls. > When napalm was dropped in the jungles of Viet Nam, there was > collateral damage. When bombs were dropped in Afghanitan, there was > collateral damage. This is reality my friend. Reality hurts, no one > likes suffering. But it is the greater good that we hope for in the > end. I am not pessimistic at all, I see a great awakening in 2022. > We have an imbecile as President, an imbecile for VP, an imbecile as > Speaker of the House, and many imbeciles on both sides of the aisle. > There will be change, hopefully peacefully, but push people hard > enough, and we will see uprisings that make Jan 6 look like a tea > party with a bunch of old ladies. You HAD an imbecile for a president... ....and he lost a fair election.