“So you think felons deserve to keep right to vote. Insurrection is a felony. Guess you believe they should vote. If criminal can vote, why not serve office too?”—-Yep. And I am guessing Trump’s party will agree with me soon. Again with you. All or none, huh? I guess if they are still allowed to vote, just eliminate jails now too, huh? Holding office is a privilege, not a right. Geeez. Do you lose your citizenship when you are a felon? That is a no, if you are unsure. Then why should you lose your “right” to vote? Banana Republics jail all their political opponents to stop them from interfering with the leader. Trump is already threatening to jail everyone who criticized him since he became President the first time. What if Trump decides to put every registered Democrat in jail if he ever gets elected again? Yes, I have always thought felons should never lose their right to vote. What happens if an authoritarian leader decides to make every opponent he has a felon? This eliminates that loophole. You do not lose rights because you did something wrong. You should only be able to lose a privilege for that reason.
“You said only took 125 years for wilder to be governor. Radical Republicans and carpetbagging, but aside from that I guess the Democrat party didn’t appear til then? Why wasn’t California the first, and why not 100 years or 60 years later?”—-Lets see if you can work this one out for yourself this time. What is the percentage of the Black population of the state of Virginia and California in the year the Black governor was elected in Virginia? Or 60 years or 100 years after the Civil War?
“Just because I don’t vote doesn’t mean it deprives me of speaking about what plucks my nerve, or suddenly keeps people from being a holes.”—-In your personal life, sure. Tell us all about how Joe such and such treated you badly. But only once or once in a while. Tell us more than once and we will know it really bothers you. Like Antonio mentioning his 1996-W dime with a fingerprint on it. Not daily or weekly like clockwork. But why here anyway, on a coin site? Nobody came here to hear you constantly complaining about anything, except maybe about the Mint. Politics? Hard no. You lost the “right” to complain about politics when you decided to forgo your “right” to vote the direction of said politics. Why are you still pushing back on this?
“But yet as voting shows, Dems have voted 100% along party lines the vast majority of the time. They did cross a few to get the speaker voted out, but on bills it is usually party line. Manchin and sinema maybe the exclusion. And Republicans are all over the place.”—So, Dems are bad because the party is not fighting amongst themselves like the Reps are and have been? There is no there, there, Dazed and Coinfused. What kind of argument is that? Because they are united they are bad? How about disagreement and chaos are bad? Manchin and Sinema are DINOs. They were only there to benefit themselves (the unofficial TRINO party platform today). Hasn’t that been obvious for a long time now? Sinema already left and Manchin will soon (as you mentioned).
“Donna Deegan is a D. She replaced an R. Already suggested she is corrupted based on her choice of city managers and representatives.”; “Politics is a game. And it is played for money. Do you think any rep gonna vote for term limit? They do become bipartisan when it comes to giving themselves pay raises.”—So how do you fix it? Not by picking on one side, or even both sides (which you rarely do despite saying so). How about not electing the same corrupt politicians every time? Oh yeah. You don’t vote.
“Guess it is easier to turn the mob to your side when the other side isn’t speaking. But let’s do the Palestine jew thing above. You got a couple folk trapped in library afraid for their life and a large mob of Palestinians burning flags, effigies, and wanting to wipe them out. I doubt if they went outside they would do well.” —-Do you expect instant success? You still do not understand and I have been talking to you for months now. Like your oh so empathetic BLM remark, and the next three after that. Still blaming groups when individuals are responsible. Remove the reason for anger, and remove the violence eventually. It might take multiple lifetimes. Looks like it will take you a lifetime to come to terms with your anger, if you ever do. Hold individuals accountable. Or we could let wealthy or White criminals go and show minorities the system is rigged against them. The way I witnessed repeatedly when I was young. Blacks have no reason to be angry, but yours is so justified you hate them all. When the people at the top are held accountable to the same rules as the people at the bottom, then progress will be made. Trump and his 91 Felonies are a good test. Lets see how that turns out, shall we?
“Ok ok. I got one. The middle east. Surely after thousands of years of fighting they are tired of it and have come to terms. Oh right. Scratch that.”—- Didn’t see you mention any talking in there? Could it possibly be that fighting leads to……..more fighting? Doh! Completely wiping out one side or the other can end it. Are you advocating for that? As both of these groups are scattered over wide geographic areas by now, wiping either side out is very unlikely ever. How many times has that happened in history? I only recall a few in ancient times or some small tribe(s?) in the Amazon recently. And when it did happen, it was always a cohesive group in a small area that got destroyed. You could give them a big enough beating that they settle down for days, years or centuries but it will pick back up again if you do not resolve the anger that started it all in the first place. How come you still cannot see this? You do understand until both sides are ready to seriously talk then the violence will not stop. Period. Israel can wipe out every living thing in Gaza and it will not bring peace for more than a temporary amount of time, whether it is a short amount or a long one, it will erupt again. Are you still so lacking in understanding that you do not see that the violence going on there today will lead only to more violence tomorrow? Destroy, jail, or neutralize the people in Hamas who can never forgive Israel (same as you can never forgive “Blacks”, apparently) and start treating the Palestinian people with respect and the area and both peoples can slowly heal. Destroy, jail or neutralize Israeli hardliners that can never forgive Palestinians and start treating the Israelis with respect as well. In both cases, hold individuals accountable for violence. Israel has not taken seriously any of the peace talks that have occurred over my lifetime. They never wanted to give the Palestinians their own country. Netanyahu even made Hamas more powerful for political reasons since his very first term in office. A big reason that more than 70% of Israelis now want him gone after this mess that he helped create.
“Seems like Bibi sees a chance to restore glory to jews, similar to someone else in history wanting to bring pride back. And don’t forget PT standards changed because the youth can’t make the minimum.”—-Yes, glory by oppressing someone else. Because they are angry, just like you are. Just like “someone else” is. Always angry, never respectful to “others”. Past wrongs never righted. Take it out on others. Rinse and repeat. PT standards change every time any government (not just ours) needs more bodies than they are getting. You sure do not know much about history. When our armies are completely filled with non-citizens then you have reason to be worried. See Rome, history of. In the past, the lower social classes here did not really know how good the wealthy had it. The internet and social media have changed that. Unless we start taking our founding documents principles seriously we will continue to have growing unrest here too. When the wealthy do wrongdoing today, it comes out, and pretty quickly. When I was young, 90%+ incidents were successfully buried. I am sure at least you will agree that some of your own anger is from you always struggling but seeing others have it so easy due to their wealth, luck, or position. Or do you literally never have real life or internet contact with the wealthy class? Wealthy drug dealers, at least? That is the tranquilizer our social betters have been injecting the masses with for decades now. You too can be rich. Work hard and you will be rewarded. The ignorant poor do not realize our system absolutely requires more people at the bottom than at the top. Any one can make it, somewhat true. But every one cannot.
“And tuberville. Ah yes. The main holding up 400 promotions and leaving 3 appointments open. That bothered you. But I have a serious question, and I don’t know, but uh.. who made up that rule?”—What a great opportunity to answer your own question about politics if you care so much. Maybe it will inspire you to start voting. Look it up. Shame you do not know history either. Why can one man hold up everything in our senate today? I already imagine your research will be sloppy. Lets see if your answer will prove me right or wrong. Look up Cato the Younger while you are at it, and ask yourself why our Senate has to even go through this now.
“So I can’t buy gold from China, but in a couple weeks America gonna go nuts on Amazon and set another sales record. With most of it made in China.”–So you are part of the problem too, huh? I look for American products wherever I can. I never use Amazon. I do not support China or Russia. No cell phone. My shoes are American made (Red Wing #2156). I bought American automobiles my whole life. Old ones. Too poor to own one now, but last one I scrapped in 2017 and it was a 1987 Chrysler. If I can afford another vehicle in the future it will be an old American one again. 70s if I can find one I like. The only thing I like about new cars is the better gas mileage. EVs are too expensive for someone with my income, though I would love the opportunity to buy an American made one someday. None of the people caused this, it was our so called political and business leaders that led us to this sorry state of manufacturing today. With internet and social media today we have power to force change if we stop fighting each other and start holding our political and business leaders accountable. If you do not even attempt to avoid buying Cninese goods you are part of the problem. Apathy. You just do not care enough. I know I am rare, but I never offer support to bad behavior now. Last time I did was in 2001, and I regretted it in 2019. I even switched beer brands recently for bad behavior. One of the few powers the poor has (other than voting) is to withhold the small amount of money we control.
“Out of curiosity, those people that voted for Bob Menendez, “—-Really curious about why people voted for someone, huh? Ask yourself why you vote for someone…..Oh, sorry. How about self interest, ignorance, party loyalty or mild apathy? Did I miss any that you can think of?
“and call me nuts, but I think Iran just might be the spark that draws us in as they probably will take on Isreal.”—-I am pretty sure you have it backwards. Iran does not want a wider war, but Israel does. Iran doesn’t want to tangle with America. Have you noticed Israel trying to de-escalate anything yet? They know if they force the issue, America will side with them over Iran. Why is Iran our enemy, I wonder? Do you have any idea?
“If ya ask me, an outside party, neutral party. Since jews Christians and Muslims all lay claim to the site, perhaps they should do like DC and divide into a square.”—-Ever see the movie “Kingdom of Heaven”? If so, tell me what you got out of it. If not, watch it and then get back to me. There are a lot of good lessons about empathy and the middle east (and religion) in that movie if you choose to listen. Sure would be great if something finally clicks concerning empathy inside of you while you are watching it.

Hi Dazed and Coinfused,
“Ok. Border wall part, build the wall in Mexico bordering Guatemala. That’s how the wall gets smaller.“—This one made me laugh, but now I understand what you meant. Thanks! Do you think your political allies would agree? Do you suppose after a hard no to paying for a wall on their northern border Mexico will be willing to pay for one on their southern border? I would say nope again, but I am sure they would willing to allow us to pay for it, and then divert much of the money elsewhere. Oh, the irony. Would we pay for it with pallets of cash, I wonder? Hahahaha. That was why I laughed. The image in my mind. Other than I already think continuous walls are a bad idea in the long run even if they appear to work in the short run, this was an interesting idea. Way to think outside the box!

“Both Biden and trump under the microscope for misdeeds.“—-Shame we can’t expect a bipartisan investigation into both of them at the same time. For anyone neutral, it is obvious the Biden investigations are just so the Republicans have a “both sides” argument to make going in 2024. I would be willing to bet on which one would come out looking more corrupt at the end if the investigations were not partisan. I wish Biden would have been investigated in the 1990s when he was deep in the pocket of credit card companies and businesses incorporating in Delaware for favorable tax treatment. Like many of the wealthy who made their early money less than ethically, after they are safely wealthy they tend to grow a conscience. That is why I doubt the investigations will turn up anything major on Biden today. No amount of money could ever be enough for Trump though, and I do not think he has much of a conscience anyway.
“And Maybe the wall doesn’t work (corrupt guards, tunnel, power outage, or fund another path) but like locking doors it gives peace of mind and even a false sense of security is still a sense of security.“—Do you know that almost 90% of the drugs seized trying to cross our border were seized at the checkpoints, not from over the wall or in the open isolated areas? Nearly all caught are authorized to cross the border and more than half of those caught are American citizens. A false sense of security is no security at all. It could help someone get elected though, which the cynic in me says why it is being offered as a solution. It is why all law abiding citizens should own a firearm and children should learn gun safety at a young age, in my opinion. I learned to shoot BB guns at age 6, and handled my first .22 at age 8. And always remember, when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
“Biden and the basement. I called him hiding Joe Biden well before it was popular. I think out of 3 debates he agreed to 1.“—-I see the third Republican debate is happening on Nov 8th. Trump did not attend the other two, I know. Do you think Trump will attend the third one? Do you have your nickname for him ready if he matches Biden’s record or somehow, someway, does not attend it at all? If 1 for 3 was so bad, 0 for 3 would be terrible, wouldn’t it?
“And both Obama runs I was deployed and isolated, unit didn’t bring any docs to register or vote absentee.“—-Your record here so far isn’t going to allow me to believe you outright now (perhaps there is missing context), but I also can’t say you are lying either. I will say that if it is true, that is terrible.
“Flies and honey. Heard that all my life. While may be true, I’ve noticed most flies I’ve seen are attracted to 5hiT and garbage. Maybe try do unto others, but as we’ve determined, often kindness is mistaken for weakness.“—-Did you ever offer them a choice and see which they preferred? (I know which one I would take). That saying is from the Bible so don’t blame me. Since they were closer to the natural world then than we are today, I tend to believe they knew what they were talking about on this one. My experiences have agreed with it. That happened to me when I was young too. Their mistake. Unfortunately because of my kindness that didn’t usually happen until near the end of the school year when I would finally lose my temper and give them a beating. I never let bullying go on that long before pushing back anymore.
“And I didn’t lie or contradict, maybe didn’t explain or properly finish thought (ptsd is hit and miss, so full thought isn’t always deployed or properly explained) , but I take people at face value. Trust is earned not given. And I treat everyone with equal respect until they give me a reason not to, even then I try to calm the waters. Due to the reverse racism experienced it may take slightly longer to give benefit of the doubt, but I don’t cross the street to avoid them either. I can watch lady at VA smile, laugh, and talk to the 4 black people in line in front of me, like they are best friends or family and when I get to window the whole demeanor changes. Frown, one word answer, or even less (humming), no eye contact and an obvious mission to not help me. Or they skip me.“—-I have no problem accepting that explanation. As long as you are willing to talk, we are good. I agree with the rest of your statement completely. My only difference is I get suspicious looks and cold treatment from both wealthy Whites and angry Blacks. Everyone else is generally good. I would like to point out though, it is possible she really did know the 4 people in front of you. You would have to actually know or be friendly enough with one or more of the people she talked with to ask them if she knew them already or not to be sure you are not jumping to false conclusions.
“I am not angry, mostly disappointed in fellow man.“—As someone who once was quite angry, I think you have more anger in you than you realize. Pre age 20, I took it out on a just a few people for some reason. Never really understood why until recently. I see now I took it out on a few to avoid taking it out on all. I tended to take it out on myself starting after high school because I could not bring myself to take it out on others anymore. This was low level anger and it involved getting blitzed on the every weekend. I did not realize the reason until I “retired” at age 50 and all my anger instantly went away. With all the thinking I do, I couldn’t see the reason before so I would not be surprised if you cannot see your reason yet either. I did not have enough money to retire at 50, which is why I am poor now, but it was better than literally killing myself to live. Last job I could get was in 2010 for $9/hour, owned by wealthy Chinese Nationals who supplied no safety equipment (even though I was working with a nasty chemical called VD Thinner and exposed to the dust from brake pads, which is not healthy either) because they saw me (and I am sure all Americans or poorer Chinese) as throwaway workers. I kept asking the temp company to find me another job. Three years later, I realized it was this job or no job. I took no job since my IRA was earning more than I was working. The VD Thinner did do some minor damage to my respiratory system, I could feel it adding some resistance to my breathing while I was working there (it feels like it is healing slowly over time). I tried to dilute my exposure with a fan blowing the crap away from me. It helped somewhat. Better than if I just stood in a static cloud of it all day. I have no reason to get blitzed anymore, the anger turned off instantly just like a light switch. I may be poor now, but I am finally also free.
Your wife sounds great, and I think you are a good guy too. I liked you when you first started posting here (or at least when I noticed your posts for the first time) and I still like you now. By the way, I noticed your posts I saw on the other threads yesterday reminded me of the first ones of yours I saw. No malicious humor and clever comments. I liked the one Kaiser Wilhelm replied to you by mimicking your style. It took a while to get there again, but thanks for putting in the effort to improve the tone.
“But news here shows lot of shooting and cops vs crooks. Protests and then after a week of flames being fanned, they release the tape showing dude suspected of drugs, looked to have a weapon in his pants by the way was hanging, evaded cops and tried to lose them in a neighborhood, then ran, got tazed, resisted, got tazed again, more resistance then finally arrested with handcuffs. Oddly enough the 3 others in the car arrested unharmed. They didn’t run. They didn’t resist. And of course the mother and the ambulance chaser throwing shade and doubt and blaming cops and the system and claiming on Georgia we would have done this and that. Well. This ain’t Georgia. And now about a month later, investigation shows nothing done wrong. But lawyer Still wants money (he gets paid win or lose, and the tv time is free advertising) and of course mother wants taxpayer money. That’s all you see these days. I think a couple cops involved were black.“—-I don’t think you needed to tell me this again. This is like all the other Black/Cop incidents you mentioned previously. Sometimes one side was wrong, sometimes the other. Other than those with a prejudice here, I think we all know this. It is why I dislike people laying blame before anyone knows what really happened. News media push negative types of stories because they draw more attention, which draws more money.
It seems to me releasing a news story first has become more important than getting the whole story accurate.
I feel state and local governments are all too ready to pay out taxpayer money to soothe wronged people when the only ones that should be paying is/are the individual/individuals who wronged the people in the first place. Here are my ideas to possibly solve or reduce the problem: If the government has previously written rules of conduct that were broken by any government employee under those rules, then taxpayers are not on the hook. If is was under orders of that individual’s boss then the boss should also pay. All the way up to the President if the orders originated from there. Any orders or actions were without exception initiated by an Individual or Individuals. In no cases should taxpayer money be used to pay for individual wrongdoing. That would put an end to all the ambulance chasing and poor people hoping for an easy jackpot. Nobody is going to be getting millions of dollars from any regular people getting paid regular wages. Laws are different. If it was an unjust law that people voted on (no matter how long ago), then everyone is complicit monetarily whether they voted for it or not. Delayed Justice is better than no Justice. All you get for voting against an unjust law is bragging rights if you live long enough to see it overturned.
“But that is the constant I see. And I’m here to tell people that it isn’t always like that. That hate is hate no matter what virtuous cause you claim vindicates you. They trust crump and other black lawyers because of skin color, and think they are saints, but those saints are only there to feed off the money they can get. But, as I’ve said, I had white lawyer that tried to roll me too. Had white cops treat me like crap, literally tore my car apart and laughed. Nothing found. I cooperated, and they were nice, then once they got bracelets one, suddenly they were invincible and physical. But I had good experience with cops too. But I do notice that many times things escalate quick because the black dude has to be disrespectful, make it difficult, , resist, call em names, and try to earn street cred. Neighbor told my dad many times, if this dude would have done this, or that it would have been a warning, or just a simple fine, or escorts em home to make sure Noone else hurt, but they did x, or y or they tried to run. Left no choice. Tazing doesn’t always work.“—-This is where I see the hiccup occur on your opportunity to learn empathy. You say you can see the way Black Individuals treated you in the past has left you a grudge. You cannot claim every Black person you know, met, or interacted with treated you badly. So you should be able to see that the way they were treated by other Individuals (White or Black) during their life on top of the way their ancestors here were treated is almost certain to justify them feeling even more angry than you are. Add poor educations, limited economic opportunities for generations and if they happen to not have a grasp of empathy on top of those factors, then they treat someone else badly to make their own anger feel soothed for a little while. Pass it on. Here Dazed and Coinfused, catch. If they have no father or one who is in jail then who will tell them about how to interact with the police? Even worse, what if one or more people they know did cooperate and still got roughed up, worse than you did? You certainly knows that happens often enough. Plenty of videos now, nobody much believed them before. They could already have a record and know their life is ruined if they go back to prison so they fight hard to get away. They just might be a hardened criminal, period. Just like poor White people that interact with and get into trouble with the police. Break the chain, Dazed and Coinfused. Every individual has to take responsibility for their own actions but they are not always responsible for the circumstances that brought them to that point. Don’t blame “Blacks” in word or deed. Blame an Individual of whatever label society assigned them, but you also better be sure they deserve the blame you assign or you are only adding kindling to their angerfire (I might have just made that word up. Nope. A hardcore metal band, of course. From Indonesia. That part surprised me). You want to bring up what someone Black did here, name names and race if you feel it is relevant. I am talking news stories, not your personal stories here. Revealing race is never relevant if your only reason for doing so is too “prove” that said Race are “The Problem”, though. The data, including context, will speak for itself over time.
“But with strangers I am polite, treat em with respect, sir, ma’am, thank you etc. And I continue that way til they give reason not to, and even then I don’t always jump to level 10. They could be having a bad day, mother died, dog sick. Just depends on what level they jump to. They often mistake kindness for weakness.“—-Again, you show you understand circumstances can make people angry or unpleasant so you can give people the benefit of the doubt. But if they are Black people, face to face you are polite but if they are out of sight you talk bad about their Race behind their back? I assume you are not just talking about White strangers here. You do not see the disconnect between your words and actions? Your words show you lump them all together, no matter how you treat them individually when face to face.
“And all this ties into investing and coins and metals. Oh right EV.
I mentioned EV because I wanted to know how yall thought market would move.”—-Anybody but me answer? What did you think of my reply? Did it help you out any? Since you were wondering what we all thought for some market insights 9 days ago, I mean. You knew that was not a true statement when you made it, don’t you? You did not look at it again so you just made up a reasonable sounding new explanation here. You asked nothing there. You told us something and asked for no input. Other than bringing up EVs in the first place (which I now suspect might be the reason you were “curious” about metals in the first place), you took a small partisan dig at the UAW as well. Basically: EVs flopping. ICEVs benefit. Metals benefit. UAW wins, Ford loses. UAW bad. War is good for metals too. You predict metals will go up. The end.
You also misunderstood the reason I brought it up here. It was one main subject (metals), few secondary subjects (all related to metals) and it was short because you left the political rant in the post above it. Well, I think you are getting it, then I wonder all over again if you aren’t. I am sorry if you are still living in a bad area but pretty much every person in a bad area is a victim in one way or another or they would not be there.

So you think felons deserve to keep right to vote. Insurrection is a felony. Guess you believe they should vote. If criminal can vote, why not serve office too?

Obama as president. The vote comment was about if the country is so racist, no matter what happens blacks wouldn’t hold office, so obviously Obama winning twice is either blacks finally showed up (reverend Jessie Jackson must not have cut the mustard for them apparently, or they didn’t vote and are complaining trump won, I don’t know). But point was that there are those that reached across the aisle and voted for him. That the school of popular thought that the 60% of white population is all racist and all republican.

You said only took 125 years for wilder to be governor. Radical Republicans and carpetbagging, but aside from that I guess the Democrat party didn’t appear til then? Why wasn’t California the first, and why not 100 years or 60 years later? I was just pointing out that the capital of the south is the first one that added a black chess piece to the board. Seems ironic or maybe poetic.

Voting. Again both sides have promised and never delivered and have done so for decades. Your side claims gerrymandering or silences voices, especially blacks. Maybe that is why they don’t vote much. But if they believe the system is rigged against them maybe that is why they didn’t vote, but courts are shouting down many states and their new lines (as seats are added or subtracted due to last census) so if lines are drawn to get a certain outcome then the vote don’t matter. Example, taking Jacksonville from 10 districts to 5. Instead of 5 black and 5 white it is 4 white and 1 black. So does the vote still count? Sure. But for electoral college nope. Because it would be majority in benefit for whites, even if 100% black vote and only 1 white person per other district vote (same as not running an opponent, why bother to vote in white district if they outnumber blacks 99 to 1 for that district). Maybe I am not explaining it right or clearly. But I voted by defending your right to retain your vote, to keep China and and Russia from moving in and switching to communism or socialism. And from checks and balanced system to authoritarian government. Just because I don’t vote doesn’t mean it deprives me of speaking about what plucks my nerve, or suddenly keeps people from being a holes. You have a suggestion box at work, ever notice that the people that stuff it, usually get fired soon after. Or you get disregarded and they reply with, we’ll take your suggestion under advisement. Meaning you are not one of us, I do not represent you and I will do things that align with what mgt says. Much like all the politicians say they will be bipartisan and represent all people. D and R. But yet as voting shows, Dems have voted 100% along party lines the vast majority of the time. They did cross a few to get the speaker voted out, but on bills it is usually party line. Manchin and sinema maybe the exclusion. And Republicans are all over the place. Now I find it hard to believe that all democrat states and all Democrat voters want what every dem wants. The take it or leave it attitude. And I’m sure the purple states with a D at the helm don’t agree with everything the D votes on. Probably the same for the R. Those that don’t fall lock step are called radicals and quickly branded. Eat their own. Now Manchim is independent and votes aren’t always guaranteed. So he’s a wild card they want to primary out. Hence the move to the middle.

Donna Deegan is a D. She replaced an R. Already suggested she is corrupted based on her choice of city managers and representatives. The R was allegedly in the pocket of the energy company. And goes back years. I don’t know enough to weigh into it. 70% of us don’t want to pay for new stadium, and although she made a tour to several districts it was obvious her stance was always whatever it takes to keep the team here. Dog and pony. But I didn’t move to the city for the team or who mayor was. I moved because of the opportunities for wife. Oddly enough Miami is a huge Latino population. But the Cubans and Puerto Ricans would consider her an outcast (another example of that racism I was talking about) and she would be basically black balled for jobs. Now if it was just her and a white person applying they may pick her, but not guaranteed. I don’t know. I don’t think it is racism, I think it is instinct. We are all animals after all. Unless that magician in the sky proves true. But how can we say, as much of that history was erased.

Politics is a game. And it is played for money. Do you think any rep gonna vote for term limit? They do become bipartisan when it comes to giving themselves pay raises. But if you look closer, everything people get angry and gather another tragedy pops up. Election coming, covid. Inflation getting high, Ukraine, dems begin to complain about illegals, Isreal. Trump trial, biden charges, trump trial, Menendez, trump trial, Santos, Georgia election, Giuliani, Pelosi husband drunk driving, Pelosi husband attacked while security down, and security detail not there.

Sure a lot of it is coincidence, but all of it is smoke and mirror. Look over here while we do this.

Get them to talk. We see how that goes. Even after I left for a month yall brought me into conversation. Guess it is easier to turn the mob to your side when the other side isn’t speaking. But let’s do the Palestine jew thing above. You got a couple folk trapped in library afraid for their life and a large mob of Palestinians burning flags, effigies, and wanting to wipe them out. I doubt if they went outside they would do well. Remember the peaceful burn loot murder protests. They show up to talk to cops and resolve their issues and find compromise, but had bricks, rocks, fireworks and molotov just in case. And not to mention didn’t see single cop in the apple store they were robbing. Maybe they left a declaration of independence on the counter.

Ok bad examples I guess. CHAZ maybe? Where they overtook the police station, I presume to walk a mile in their shoes and try to understand cops, not at all to destroy evidence against them, or attempt to clear their record, or anything like that. No? Ok what about students in California setting fire to school to protest a speaker. Much easier than not going to his speech.

Ok ok. I got one. The middle east. Surely after thousands of years of fighting they are tired of it and have come to terms. Oh right. Scratch that. My guess is that the compromise is nothing more than a chance to get better weapons and exact revenge when you hold the advantage. How many times France and England fight. The colonies and US enter a fray?

Given up? Vietnam happened way before my time. Did trump and biden vow to pull out Afghanistan because we win? OH right 20 years and no end in sight. The military I joined and what we have today are not the same. And our enemies aren’t as unprepared or stone age as before, come to think if it, many trained right beside our troops on our own bases. America not the only one on the moon. Not the only one with nukes. And troop numbers are well below recruitment number should be, minus the marines, the only branch that made quota. The youth can’t be bribed even with high enlistment bonus. They aren’t dying for oil and as you see can’t agree on whose side to take. Isreal or Palestine. Fuel reserves low, glad those jets are all electric now. Oh wait, no pilots, good thing we are training Ukrainians. But they have their hands full. Seems like Bibi sees a chance to restore glory to jews, similar to someone else in history wanting to bring pride back. And don’t forget PT standards changed because the youth can’t make the minimum. According to military times they are sending emails to sergeants to do mandatory recruiting.

And tuberville. Ah yes. The main holding up 400 promotions and leaving 3 appointments open. That bothered you. But I have a serious question, and I don’t know, but uh.. who made up that rule? Whose idea was it to allow it to happen? With so many Harvard and Yale and UCLA and other ivy schools churning out these lawyers that hold office. Both Clinton’s and Obamas were lawyers. Was it a rep that you voted for? Trump is gone, so did the person you voted for change it? Or are they too busy saying if you spare jayapal from censure, we’ll let you keep Santos, or if you go easy on hunter we’ll drop the Colorado trial against trump for eligibility to run for president. I don’t know, I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors, but I know that I you read up, the founding fathers were famous for rumors and mudslinging and character assas I nation. And name calling. After 250 years you’d think they’d have it all down to a science and gubmint be running like a fine oil machine.

So I can’t buy gold from China, but in a couple weeks America gonna go nuts on Amazon and set another sales record. With most of it made in China. Oh right Walmart, nope mostly China too. But I must order gold from mint at almost $900 over spot to be patriotic or neutral, but perfectly OK to buy Chinese products because you saved a lot on sale and kids look happy. But even now, we sit and before I get a chance to reply you already got out front and twisted my words to suit your side, to add a label to me. A scarlet letter, or maybe a star to stay in the holiday spirit. I’m sure something else you said was a misunderstanding but I’m not going back through it.

Out of curiosity, those people that voted for Bob Menendez, do you think they voted for him because he represents their views (also interested in selling out America and being foreign agent) or strictly because they voted straight ticket as they felt obligated to vote. Must have been his support of open borders. As America full of entitled people too good to do the job or wants too much for the pay. Slaves lived in poverty and starved and had little and no say in working environment, and looking at the refugees on the streets of New York and California, the same can be said of them. Wow. So forward thinking. But to be fair, you can use mgt or trump or Boebert (only capital her name because I don’t want it saved in my dictionary/keyboard).

Don’t forget, at one time the Templar knights were fighting for the great architect. Pope got scared of their power and as we know eventually France agreed to help and double crossed them, and the templers were slaughtered. Opus dei Friday the 13th. And despite wanting total eradication, some slipped through the cracks. Sounds awful familiar to what bibi wants, and call me nuts, but I think Iran just might be the spark that draws us in as they probably will take on Isreal. A nato nation.

If ya ask me, an outside party, neutral party. Since jews Christians and Muslims all lay claim to the site, perhaps they should do like DC and divide into a square. But as you know, DC was given to Virginia as the treaty didn’t last. If they did it there, how long before they claim their God is the better God. Maybe we get rid of the religious monikers as part of a fresh start and call them democrats, Republicans and independents. I’m sure that’ll work. Vote in a mayor or governor. I’m sure they won’t snub the other 2 sides, nor would either side try to rig it in their favor.

Thanks for your time. Lot to unpack.
Ok. Border wall part, build the wall in Mexico bordering Guatemala. That’s how the wall gets smaller. Most immigrants now coming from countries south of Mexico. Also it would be Latino addressing Latino so you cant point fingers and blame racism. Although I have met blacks that hate blacks and Latino that hate Latino. Inside the people are bad, race (or religion or whatever) is the excuse used to own or condemn their actions. I learned from ferris Buehler that walls dont work, he even ran through people’s houses, the point made is those that abide by laws, and respect people and their property won’t jump your fence. Kids might, but that’s being kids. Locking doors doesn’t prevent burglary. And Maybe the wall doesn’t work (corrupt guards, tunnel, power outage, or fund another path) but like locking doors it gives peace of mind and even a false sense of security is still a sense of security. Plus if the wall was up and still had the problem, then you can say wall didn’t work, until then it is just speculation.

Biden and the basement. I called him hiding Joe Biden well before it was popular. I think out of 3 debates he agreed to 1. His VP crushed his nuts during their debates then dropped out due to lack of support from her own people (California). I thought they should have done more D vs R, but just the single debate. Reagan was before my time, Bush one too. Clinton was probably first one familiar with, but wasn’t old enough to vote. Was working out of town 2nd run, boss didn’t care bout elections. And both Obama runs I was deployed and isolated, unit didn’t bring any docs to register or vote absentee. Thought Hillary would be too busy with trials to govern, and thought maybe give a non political person or businessman a chance. And look. Both Biden and trump under the microscope for misdeeds.

Flies and honey. Heard that all my life. While may be true, I’ve noticed most flies I’ve seen are attracted to 5hiT and garbage. Maybe try do unto others, but as we’ve determined, often kindness is mistaken for weakness.

And I didn’t lie or contradict, maybe didn’t explain or properly finish thought (ptsd is hit and miss, so full thought isn’t always deployed or properly explained) , but I take people at face value. Trust is earned not given. And I treat everyone with equal respect until they give me a reason not to, even then I try to calm the waters. Due to the reverse racism experienced it may take slightly longer to give benefit of the doubt, but I don’t cross the street to avoid them either. I can watch lady at VA smile, laugh, and talk to the 4 black people in line in front of me, like they are best friends or family and when I get to window the whole demeanor changes. Frown, one word answer, or even less (humming), no eye contact and an obvious mission to not help me. Or they skip me.

Redeploy knowing the odds. Well, that’s where the money was. I joined late so hard to advance in career anyway, even harder when you are 1 out of about 7 white guys in a company of about 60. That whole content of character, color of skin motto goes out the window fast. But I figured I’d change duty stations soon and it’ll look better come promotion time with all the stripes and medals on my uniform. Not a single negative counseling in 4 years, then suddenly several for fabricated reasons even barring me to reenlist. But I did the right thing and put that over my career. I am not angry, mostly disappointed in fellow man.

I don’t speak for my wife, but she said before the problems now from Venezuelans that blacks were the main ones committing crimes and problems. Totally different culture here than her country, she cussed me out when I got mad about what was happening to me and jeopardizing my family, now that she has been here she better sees my side a little more. She’s very catholic , so way more forgiving than me and since she isn’t aware of all the things I do behind the scenes (pay bills, handle business, solve problems, do budget, find houses to move to, fix a derelict house to live in with low income (VA drug their feet so my pay was very low due to disability rating) going to school, making sure she could drive, get her English classes, and try to meet deadlines for her visa while deployed and isolated from resources I need, like notary, translator etc. To this day she doesn’t know a lot. If I were to die she’d be lost. But she reminds me of a mix between Betty boop and snow white. Since she is Latina, I guess she’ll be the Disney version of those examples. But news here shows lot of shooting and cops vs crooks. Protests and then after a week of flames being fanned, they release the tape showing dude suspected of drugs, looked to have a weapon in his pants by the way was hanging, evaded cops and tried to lose them in a neighborhood, then ran, got tazed, resisted, got tazed again, more resistance then finally arrested with handcuffs. Oddly enough the 3 others in the car arrested unharmed. They didn’t run. They didn’t resist. And of course the mother and the ambulance chaser throwing shade and doubt and blaming cops and the system and claiming on Georgia we would have done this and that. Well. This ain’t Georgia. And now about a month later, investigation shows nothing done wrong. But lawyer Still wants money (he gets paid win or lose, and the tv time is free advertising) and of course mother wants taxpayer money. That’s all you see these days. I think a couple cops involved were black.

But that is the constant I see. And I’m here to tell people that it isn’t always like that. That hate is hate no matter what virtuous cause you claim vindicates you. They trust crump and other black lawyers because of skin color, and think they are saints, but those saints are only there to feed off the money they can get. But, as I’ve said, I had white lawyer that tried to roll me too. Had white cops treat me like crap, literally tore my car apart and laughed. Nothing found. I cooperated, and they were nice, then once they got bracelets one, suddenly they were invincible and physical. But I had good experience with cops too. But I do notice that many times things escalate quick because the black dude has to be disrespectful, make it difficult, , resist, call em names, and try to earn street cred. Neighbor told my dad many times, if this dude would have done this, or that it would have been a warning, or just a simple fine, or escorts em home to make sure Noone else hurt, but they did x, or y or they tried to run. Left no choice. Tazing doesn’t always work.

But with strangers I am polite, treat em with respect, sir, ma’am, thank you etc. And I continue that way til they give reason not to, and even then I don’t always jump to level 10. They could be having a bad day, mother died, dog sick. Just depends on what level they jump to. They often mistake kindness for weakness.

And all this ties into investing and coins and metals. Oh right EV.

I mentioned EV because I wanted to know how yall thought market would move. If car companies are suddenly backpedaling and pausing or ending their plans and factories and losing g 10s of thousands of dollars per vehicle, even at crazy high prices what would metals do? More catalytic converters, more sensors therefore more chips therfore more wires, so more metals needed. Will DC see that their emissions standards too high, or California not ready for all electric, or infrastructure too cost prohibitive, especially after funding Ukraine, Taiwan, now Isreal and all these line cutters coming across the border. And the $50k

Yeah some pay that much for flight to Mexico and head of line, guaranteed entry, food and lodging while they wait. That’s what the different armbands were for. Some signed on to work for them for x amount of time to pay back x amount of money, or smuggle drugs or whatever. So they paid with credit so to speak. On future money they’d get either from US aid money, working off debt, dealing, smuggling, or working on a visa. Slavery so to speak. Looks like we just cut out the ocean and switched to land crossing for our free and cheap labor.

Thanks for the humor, Kaiser Wilhelm. I even liked the meme this time, and that is unusual for me.

Hi Dazed and Coinfused,
I typed most of this yesterday (my internet went out), so some comments might be a bit out of date concerning your personal history that I just read about today. Again, I know you had a great one above from today, so do not get too upset at anything in here, unless you already backslid and I don’t realize it yet. Then feel free.
“Owning the cons. I guess that is something, but how does it compare to Owning actual people?“—I don’t know, how does that compare to “owning the libs”? Does slavery have something to do with why you cons try?
“Ah yes, go back to my old posts and see the info pertained to the history and had some thought provoking comments. But ya know, like you, eing accused over and over and over and over for stuff I didn’t do put me in a corner. Black black black. Sure. Because I know how they are. Did you ever live in a 90% black city? Work around 90% black company? Yeah it’s fun. “—-What? Am I supposed to forget what you tell me? I obviously do not know all you went through so I cannot say you do not deserve your feelings but I would not forever after hold a grudge against all Blacks, no matter how many Individuals treat me badly because I learned better. I did not know this from birth, you know. I learned it. As I lost my religion is the ironic part. I stopped going to church and believing in God at age 17. If that was the case for me, I would treat wealthy people like crap constantly and forever since I grew up in
a 90% wealthy area (no BS. a female classmates brother worked in the White house, authors, an ambassador, doctors, lawyers, business owners galore, and on and on) and some bullied me (the Trump types, so I saw through his image easy enough) because I was different than they were. I felt poor, but I realize now (only after chatting with CaliSkier
the other day) that we were probably middle class or upper middle class by gross income but poor or lower middle class in net income due to expenses in serving the wealthy, and upkeep of the property. Bordered their horses on our farm. But compared to them I felt as poor as I think you really were.
They were given new cars (corvettes, Trans Ams, BMWs, Mercedes) at age 16. I paid $250 for my used 4 door sedan out of my work money, that I drove for 4 years until I scrapped it. It is just a matter of degree. I stuck out in my neighborhood as much as you did in yours. I might as well have been a Black kid in a White neighborhood (the police in the area always messed with me from 17 on, when I grew my hair long). Not all of them were bad. Some were great. How about you? Every Black person treat you bad? I certainly have a grudge against uncaring, wealthy individuals as it reminds me of my youth, but can you blame me? I still judge everyone as an individual.
I worked with Black men from just a few years older to age 50+ when I was 16-17 years old during the summers at a steel fabricating plant/warehouse (executives 90% white, Workers around 80% Black, I estimate) and then worked there full time when I turned 18 until I was 20. I discovered Blacks were not the monsters my wealthy schoolmates had taught me they were. I went to some of their houses and parties in their neighborhoods and was in many bad White and Black neighborhoods in my nearest major city (Majority Black) all through my 20s until about 50 as I found the company of poor people of whatever race much more agreeable to me than wealthy ones. I am a Metalhead and Metal shows are only ever in bad neighborhoods, even today. I still go weekly to one bad majority Black neighborhood (72%) today (Metal bar).
I am, and have been asking you to let go of the anger. All the bad behavior you witnessed and were subjected to did not come about in a vacuum. Look at how angry you are. Were your ancestors here literally enslaved like theirs were? Treated as 3/5th of a person as far as representation? With no actual representation? I could go on and on. Tell me Dazed and Coinfused, add those grievances and more on top of whatever you already have and do you blame them? Yeah they act badly. And a lot of it is due to ignorance. Never an insult, even if someone means it as such (The proper response is always “then educate me”). And it is not necessarily their fault. They just might not know any better. It also still could be their fault. Apathy. There may be no cure for that. Ben Franklin said he would take ignorance over apathy any day. Ignorance he could cure. Kaiser Wilhelm mentioned this a few days ago in one of his posts to one of you two I think, without mentioning apathy by name.
But you cannot claim Apathy until you know the individual. I feel you and Craig are ignorant just like they are.
Craig (says he) has money, and he is obviously angry too. You both paint with a broad brush. I am trying to educate you,
rather than write you off. Not change your mind. Just research what you are spreading in public before you speak. Talk to us instead of at us. If every human on this planet understood empathy in their heart instead of in their head or not at all, Earth would be paradise for all. Here is more. I am for the death penalty, but it should only be applied when we are 100% sure of guilt. We have executed innocent people before. There are literally some beings that are just too far gone. Charles
Manson. He should have gotten it. He was literally the brain guiding the hand to murder, and an adult. Bombing at the Boston Marathon? The older brother for sure. The 15 year old?
Have any of you old men remembered what it was like to be a 15 year old? Do not reflexively say “yeah”. Seriously think about it. I have been observing the people around me and remembering what I learn since I was I was born probably. My literal earliest memory is when I was 2 years, 10 months, and
6 days old. Hahaha. My memory is not that good. You were like “what the…”. I have the painting my father painted the day before my first of two sisters were born. I remember that scene and what I said and what my father said when I was asking questions very well. I have many more just like that up to very recently for someone at my age (2020). It has to be something I cared to remember or what was a big enough deal to remember. Nothing much going on in my life the last few years so nothing to remember especially. The point of that was to say that I discovered people in general could not be trusted when I was 13 but 17 before I discovered people you trust could not necessarily be trusted (a friend, I thought). Forever after ever I had friends (4 as of today) and acquaintances (1000+). Sorry Kaiser Wilhelm and a few others here, maybe even you Dazed and Coinfused. I bet I would count many of you as friends if we met, but you are all acquaintances too. People use the word “friend” too freely in my opinion. You have to think for yourself and not trust even the data they give you. Give it the benefit of the doubt, unless other data starts contradicting it. Can you blame him if he listened to his brother? I highly doubt I was behind the curve on figuring out these lessons. All I can say is a 15 year old still has the capacity to learn a new way. He is not even a fully formed human yet at that age, in my opinion. Imprisonment not death. I saw his death sentence was reaffirmed in 2022.
I believe in the 2nd amendment. As the Republican party appears to be on a descent into authoritarianism today, I am closer politically to the Democrats today than Republicans, but the fact is that I am neither of them. My friends all told me I was Libertarian when I was around 30, and today, I still probably have more in common with them than the other parties, but I do not even agree with all their positions.
Would it surprise you that the data I have “gathered” on you and Craig by chatting here has lead me to not trust that I am getting the best data from you? Neither of you really verify if anything you are saying is remotely true. I have proved it over an over, whether you ignore my replies or not. The record remains. You are mostly ignorant of which you speak, and you treat other groups unfairly because other individuals in the past treated you badly for reasons that are a lot more complicated than “they are bad”. But you (and the far right, and the far left) do not stop there. Democrats, bad. All Democrats? See what I mean yet? You were ranting about the “kids” today just a few days ago now. Still have not given up on you, though I am less sure about Craig.
If by some rare chance you read this Craig, it is not because I have written you off as hopeless (have come close), it is because you are too afraid to be this personal so I have no idea where your anger comes from. Though you certainly have not impressed me so far. How does someone that claims to be well off end up so angry? Just what the hell do you have to be so angry about? I mean even if you did at one time, doesn’t plenty of money ease the sting considerably? Dazed and Coinfused had it tough. I didn’t have it easy but I did grow up in a loving household in a good neighborhood at least. Never went hungry until I was an adult. I am poorer today than ever in my life. Future looks hopeful currently, I might have another year of struggle, but unless unexpected disaster strikes I should be stable sometime next year.
Dazed and Coinfused shared, and still is as of today. I have and still am right now. Kaiser Wilhelm has been sharing bits of his personal history as long as I have listened and that is why I am trying to keep it that type of place now.
Stop trying to change this site, you two. Coin site, not constant partisan politics remember? Be civil and respectful to all. Find your own place to make in your image, do not try to make this one in yours. The rest of us were all here first and it was quite pleasant.

Ok, Dazed and Coinfused.
I can see this was before the good one I just replied to and there is one I was working on yesterday night when my internet went out that I will still answer below. I see plenty of erroneous statements below so I am still going to respond to them but I think you are playing nice now again, so do not get too upset. Of course, I have thought you finally got it multiple times already and was almost immediately proven wrong. Another good reason for me to respond.
“1st amendment. I have right to express my views. I have the right to vote or not vote. Obviously I am on the other side of the coin from your side so one would think you’d be happy to not have a Republican leaning vote removed, increasing chance your guy wins. “—Sure, you can keep ranting, but you do not have a lot of credibility on political topics if you do not care to vote. We also have the right to tell we think you are wrong. And produce data to back up our view if needed. Only TRINO are trying to limit others from voting today. I do not believe even felons should lose the “right” to vote (is it a “right” or isn’t it?) If Trump goes to prison, I Imagine the TRINO will officially do a 180 on that one.
“The ones that have 0 right to complain are those that came illegally and complaining. They fall under international and humanitarian law. Reprehensible is Americans going to other countries and acting like they should cowtow to American law and not local law. But weed is legal in America why can’t I have it in Russia. Wearing a bikini is legal in California, why can’t I wear it in middle east. Gay is ok in Austin, so they can’t stone me to death in Iraq. Such a sense of entitlement. Ain’t it funny tlaib and jayapal hate America and yell from the mountaintop how messed up we are, but that crap hole they left would execute them for speaking out against the mullahs. And dang sure wouldn’t hold a government position.“–This whole paragraph is just one of your typical empty rants.
“You even said yourself all the gerrymandering silences voices, meaning my vote wouldn’t count. But any excuse to try to suppress or discredit someone on the other side of the aisle from you. And then you claim also the gerrymandering prevent blacks from getting fair election, but yet the racists help elect black president. Virginia was first state to elect black governor.“—Americans didn’t used to surrender so easily. Gerrymandered so give up, huh? So, you think the racists secretly voted for Obama? How about the large Black population in the state (34%) finally having one of their own to vote for having at least a little something to do with it. Sure was a good thing the racists decided to throw their support behind Obama to get him over the finish line though. And the Black Governor of Virginia? It only took 125 years after the Civil War ended for that to happen. Do you even see how little sense your statements made?
“It is one thing to start to move back to the middle (equality) but to try to do it over night blows past equal and becomes a wrecking ball.“—158 years after the Civil War is overnight?
Do you even see how little sense your statement made?
“Just curious. When the college kids begin fighting each other, Palestine and Jewish, what do you do? Both are Americans.“—- Get them to talk. Teach them the issue is not as Black and White as both sides claim. Or I suppose you could just throw up your hands and give up.
“According to your rules, silence is compliance, so Palestinian not narcing on hamas and telling tunnel location is compliance right? Hid it for years. Same as black neighborhoods and cops. I ain’t seen nothing. I don’t know. I was sleeping. But when a white cop is involved the whole hood sees everything. Seems like the same thing.“—-How hard is it to understand when you treat people like crap for multiple lifetimes, as a people, they tend to eventually reflect back to you exactly what you have been sending them. You could say, you get what you pay for. Put off the bill, and eventually it will come due with interest. This is not rocket science. Look at how angry you are and your grievances are a fraction of theirs. I have covered exactly this in detail in another post to you recently I recall.
“Diversity, as is popularly claimed, is America’s greatest strength. Mmmm. Maybe. Also greatest weakness. Those not sees did not stay in Germany. No more than radicals stayed in middle east. Both visit and live in America.“—-This is also poor. Mutts vs purebreds. Diverse crops or Irish potato famine. Diversity is strength. Also covered in detail before. You appear to be repeating your statements. Nazis did not start racial hatred, it was in America and the rest of the world long before the Nazis appeared on the scene. They supercharged it. And today, the TRINO decided to pick up that ball and is running with it.
“Guess it is a good time to be neutral and start buying Chinese and Russian gold cheap since the mint wants to be woke.“—-Buying from our enemies is now considered neutral? My, how far the Republican party has fallen.
“Jay Z is also referred to as JHOVA. He calls himself a jigga.“—-Do you really not know taking an insult and owning it turns the tables? He is allowed to do that. It is like him saying “screw you” to the racists. Nobody who is not Black is. Deal with it. Sorry if showing respect to “others” is too “woke” for you.
“Jeff and his era seemed to have a lot of names for them.”
Don’t include me in this. The last time I referred to a Black as anything else was when I was 17 years old, over 4 decades ago. I didn’t make that term up either. It was around long before my generation was born.
“Then again, when russia and China take us over,“—-When did Americans veterans become so willing to surrender? I heard you “surrender” 2 times in this post alone. Trump isn’t in office now and may never be. The fight is not over yet.

Hi Dazed and Coinfused,
Now this is a great post. As I passed through each paragraph I wondered when the tone would change for the worse and it never did. Thank you for explaining your background and why you feel the way you do. Now I know you are a good guy. A bad one would have resorted to insults now or not responded at all. This is the type of post that can start a conversation that may help people here see most political issues are far more complicated than one side is simply the enemy trying to destroy the country so “I do not have to listen to anything they say!”. Another thing is I highly doubt any of us here are expert enough in the roots of our political problems to unequivocally declare “the answer is this!” Anyone who gets their opinions by listening to only 1 point of view is not serving themselves or our country well. I am not trying to change minds politically on the problems facing our country, I am trying to get all sides to start working together to solve them instead of yelling at each other about them. Yelling at each other accomplishes nothing. This strife is only helping our enemies. We are all on the same side even if our politicians are telling us otherwise. Here are my comments to yours:
“Unless several congressmen wrote a letter on my behalf. I wrote to a couple and they never replied. So writing congress is a waste of time for me.“—Growing up in a wealthy area, I could have you told that it would not work unless you filled the requirements to make a political point for that politician, know someone who knows the politician, your plight got press attention or multiple people wrote asking for the same thing or for you. I contacted a Senator twice. First time I was ignored, second time I was contacted by an aide because my issue helped the Senator make a political point.
“ I am against those that circumvent the system, skip lines, avoid the fees and waiting, but claim they can’t afford to come legally despite some reportedly paying gsmugglers up to $50,000 per person. We don’t have the tools in place to accommodate them.“—Honestly, I cannot imagine that both sides do not agree with this statement. I doubt the immigrants your side thinks of are paying $50000, they might pay up to $15000, But I think it’s more in the $3000-$5000 range for the majority. The $50000 ones are the wealthy ones who get to fly into an airport. The biggest problem is the politicians have got us yelling at each other about it when both sides need to be yelling in a unified voice at the politicians to do something about it. The only ones who can.
“But we still made it. Now she a citizen and has been for years. Many of my relatives are Filipino, married navy guys or their siblings.“—Congratulations on finding a soul mate. I hope you future years together are as smooth sailing as the earlier years were rough due to crappy outside pressures. I never did find mine, but I knew that was the probable outcome since I was 22 when I broke up with my first girlfriend because she cheated on me. Not traumatic for me, as I had lost interest in her perhaps as long as two years earlier. It basically gave me an excuse to do what I wished to do anyway. I am just too far outside of society to connect with someone who is still connected. After that, I never stayed in a relationship after I realized it was not going to work, I told them it was over and the reason or reasons. Too many people get married because they think that is what society expects of them. I would rather be alone than settle, and I rarely find someone I am on the same page with in more than a couple of areas, even friendship wise. No pressure to continue the family line as my father had 5 brothers.
“I also reenlisted knowing I would deploy again and that the same racists that made life harder would go again. Never could I imagine the lengths they’d go to.“—Even after going through what you went through, you have been doing here a mild version of what they did to you. Two wrongs do not make a right, but they do make you feel better if you have little to no empathy for others or you are angry (you, I still say. Not terrible anger, but possibly an unresolved anger. I had that myself. Didn’t realize until the reason disappeared along with me anger. Only then did I realize I had even been angry). I have done this before myself (anger. Misery loves company), but not for over 3 decades now. With your personal experiences, you should be well on your way to fully understanding empathy for “others” in your heart as well as in your head. Sadly, I am well aware that some people are too set in their ways to ever change, but nobody deserves to be written off before they even have a chance to prove who they are as an “individual”, not whatever label society assigned to them at birth or after they figured out who they really are in life. I ran into a racist Black a few years ago (not the first). He came with some friends to watch a football game at the bar (mixed race, 70% Black) I had been regularly going to for 15 or so years and did not like that I had sat at the bar in front of him (in his sight, not blocking anything). I told him “I never did anything to you, and you need to judge every person as an individual. I am sitting in a majority black bar sitting near and talking to Blacks, I obviously have nothing against Black people” (Bar I go to now is more like 50/50. Blacks sit on one side, Whites on the other. I sit wherever and talk to both. Once White neighborhood that has mostly turned Black over a long time) I told him I was not leaving or moving. He left angry. If he is not even willing to talk, there is nothing I can do to help him see things from a different point of view. Guess he will have to stew in his hate alone. His friends (who were also regulars that I had talked to multiple times previously) apologized for him, said he doesn’t like White people. I told them not to worry about it, nothing for them to apologize for. His anger was probably justified, but not him exporting it to others. Just like I tell you.
“My solution. Mexico southern border way smaller. Should have built wall there and have Mexican or UN forces guard it. Document and deport. Habitual offenders, life in jail as they could be considered saboteurs. Do walls work? How many people entered your fenced in backyard?“—-You made some good proposals in this entire paragraph I thought. How do you make the border smaller? Did not understand that part. There were many fences in the wealthy area I grew up in. I hopped over many and at least once knocked down one to cross using a dirt bike. Even hopped a high wall into a cemetery with mixed sex friends to party late night one time. A President is buried there. Cameras were rare in my youth. Didn’t go near the Presidents tomb, that was monitored we heard. Neither China’s great wall nor Hadrian’s wall worked more than temporarily (in Hadrian’s case, I think about 100 years. I did not look it up. Memory. China’s lasted much longer but is not answerable in black and white as to its’ success.)
From livescience.com Dec 5, 2021 “Did the Great Wall of China work?”:”The answer largely depends on how you define the wall’s successes and failures. The Chinese built the wall as a masterpiece of defensive architecture, and while Chinese troops controlling these barriers certainly helped to thwart the attacks of some would-be invaders, the Great Wall was by no means impenetrable. In other words, sometimes it helped protect China, and other times it didn’t.
On the other hand, it was also a display of imperial China’s wealth, architectural expertise and engineering prowess. On this front, it undoubtedly succeeded and continues to do so, as the ruling Communist Party has adopted the wall as a patriotic symbol. ” –and from the same article– “But the Great Wall didn’t guarantee safety. The wall isn’t contiguous — it was initially used to bulk up defenses where the geography was less challenging for armies to traverse — and in some cases, intruders simply marched around various sections. One of the wall’s most infamous failures, however, brought about the end of an entire dynasty of rulers. 
“It had offered little or no protection to the greatest wall builders of all, the Ming Dynasty, from their most threatening adversaries, the Manchus to the northeast,” said Julia Lovell, a professor of modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck University of London. A disaffected Chinese general simply opened the gates to let the Manchus into China, Lovell told Live Science. The Manchus then went on to found the Qing dynasty in 1644, which lasted until 1912.
Because of its ultimate failure, by the 19th century many people in China saw the Great Wall as “an enormously expensive strategic folly,” Lovell said.”
We do not need it for a display of our wealth, architectural expertise and engineering prowess. I think Trump just thinks it will get him in the history books as well as raise himself money. I do not think it will be effective and is just a waste of money. It would be ironic if after we spend all that money on a wall to the south that a few centuries later, the attack comes from Canada. I do not think we need another “symbol” either, America has plenty of better ones. The wall is too expensive to waste the money building it (except near cities I believe. Too easy to blend into a crowd if you cross our border near a city. I am pretty sure we already have walls or fences near all our cities. Anybody know if that is not true?) but that will not even compare to the maintenance costs that the American public will be forced to spend forever after on it. As you also said, I think in the 21st century, we would be better off using cameras/sensors, drones and manpower to intercept unauthorized border crossings. I would also like to point out that if someday we do solve the southern border problem then it will be a lot easier to move the other resources to somewhere else we need than to move an entire wall. I also have a feeling cameras, sensors and drones will get cheaper over time while wall maintenance will just get more and more expensive. Hard no to shooting or mining unless we are at war. Island idea is not bad, but could be. Too many times islands are used to put the problem out of sight, out of mind. Another thing contributing to the problem is we do not have enough immigration judges. Unless we fix that, an island is a bad idea. I think the last time I heard, there was a backlog of 500000 cases and it takes years before your case can be heard. Nobody should have to wait years to find out if they are approved or denied.
“Make fun of both sides. Well making fun of 1 side is an ism isn’t it. Racism ageism etc. No side is perfect and if you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at. And voting for the sake of voting seems odd too. Yeah ya got 3% but you pull from other candidates,“—-Still a no from me. We are making fun of nobody right now. Perhaps someone will even learn something they did not know or see the issue we are discussing from a different angle. Among people you know, sure. I kid my friendly acquaintances at my local bar occasionally after I think I know them well enough. But nobody knows much about anyone else here. Though us two have certainly laid out who we are for all to see, if they care to. Kaiser Wilhelm and a few others have regularly shared bits and pieces over the years I have been listening. You have no idea how strangers will take your comments and this is a coin site. Hard for me to think of a good reason to even risk antagonizing people over politics here. Not what anyone (else) came here to do.
“And voting for the sake of voting seems odd too. Yeah ya got 3% but you pull from other candidates, could lead to shortage of votes or recount or run off and that as we see, leads only to suspicion and doubt and validity. Plus voting laws per state vary. I might register R, all is great, then 2 days before election, R committed crime, or crossed my red line. So now the D is frontrunner based on what lies he promises to deliver, but I’m an R can only vote R.“—No, you said you felt the same as I did in 2016. You are not going to waste your vote because as far as you are concerned it does not matter which one gets in. One of them will still get in because you didn’t vote. You could send a message voting for another slim chance candidate. Ranked choice voting stops people from wasting any votes by the way, so I think both major parties are not for it. Republicans are more against it I am pretty sure. That voting in a primary locks you into a party is crap. In my state the Republicans did not like that primaries were originally open so they changed it. I had no official party affiliation my whole life as far as my state was concerned. I voted in a local Democrat primary in 2022 so now they call me a Democrat. You do know that lock-in only applies to primaries, don’t you? from usa.gov “Do you have to vote for the party you are registered with?” “Your state may give you the opportunity to declare your political party affiliation on your voter registration card.

• You do not have to vote for the party you are registered with in a federal, state, or local general election.
• Depending on your state’s rules, you may only be allowed to vote for the political party you are registered with. This may apply when you vote in:
• A presidential primary or caucus
• Congressional or local office primaries”

In a general election you can vote for whoever you want to, and I did that my whole life.
“But I find it funny biden never left his basement, didn’t debate, entered race very late and commanded record number of votes.“—-You do know Trump is doing the same thing this time, right? Even the basement part, though his blurb might instead say ran from a jail cell instead. This was probably your worst comment in this post, because Biden didn’t stay in his basement, that is a partisan political dig and you make it all sound suspicious. Did you know Reagan did the same?
From CNN politics, Feb 26, 2019 “How late is too late for Joe Biden to enter the 2020 race?”: “Reagan didn’t file with the FEC until May 18, 1979, which was far later than most of his competitors for the 1980 Republican nomination. He didn’t formally announce that he was in until November 13, 1979, which was later than all his serious competition.
Because Biden, like Reagan before him, is so well known and has previous campaign infrastructure in place, he likely can afford to wait longer to formally run than the average candidate.”
“Those same ones complaining also probably didn’t vote, and I bet share in comment sections where you have no idea if they voted or not, or telling the truth if they did.“—False. Nobody else here is talking politics here like you are and what is happening on any other websites is irrelevant to all of us here.
“I used to play claw game a lot. Won often as I befriended the guy that stocked it. And I would donate them to CHKD.“—I will look in to CHKD and donate in your “name” if my research turns up no red flags. At a glance they look good. I will let you know, give me a week.
“Finally, by pointing out and making fun of both sides, maybe it’ll shame em into going bipartisan and actually work to solve the issues, not just how to get more donor money, or free trip to speak here, or speaking fees there, or job appointments for their friends and family.“—-Not even close. “You will catch more flies with honey than vinegar”. Shaming is what I have been trying since listening didn’t seem to be one of yours or Craig’s strongpoints, but I sure tried honey for weeks and weeks. Try to leave vinegar as a last resort, all right? If you want to stick with vinegar, stick with it somewhere other than here.
“But odd that so many Hebrew and Arabic in Isreal, yet 90% of the signs and posters are in English. It is amazing how much English people learn when their paycheck is short, or they need someone to fight for them.”—No it isn’t. English is the most spoken language in the world as of 2023. I am not going to reference the source, you can look that up yourself if you want. We also are amongst their biggest supporters in the world and we bankrolled over 80% of their defense industry.
“And no I do not hate black people. My experience with them leave me questionable and guarded, but I also know some that are high ranking and would not hesitate to write a letter of recommendation. Trash in, trash out. And all I see is trash coming out.“–Your first and last sentences appear to me to contradict each other. Perhaps you are talking about the people around you in the real world, but that is no reason to talk like you see “trash coming out” here. Leave those grievances at home, don’t export them to the web. You do not know who is paying attention on this coin site, and you have no way to determine who is good or bad. Give people the benefit of the doubt until they prove otherwise later.
“I try to keep negativity out of my life. But like I said, I’m like you, tired of being mislabeled and my writings are reciprocal of what I see or read.“—Your wife went through almost everything you did and you went through almost everything she did while together. I am curious if she is as angry as you or if she shrugged it off? People from other countries seem to me to often be better at that than American’s are. If she is at peace with it, and you haven’t talked in depth with her about it, I think she could help you brighten your attitude by doing so. See her take on it. If she is angry too, never mind. Hahaha. I think you are trying too. I just do not think you have quite managed it yet. Everyone’s writings are shaped by what they see, feel or read but they attitude they bring to the table is up to them alone.
“ Not all white are owners, nor all blacks thugs.but people don’t see the Grey area they just wa t whatever benefits their side or helps prove them right. Look up cognitive dissonance.“—-Well, I am glad you know that, but you have not been speaking like that here. Cognitive dissonance is not a problem for me, because if the data contradicts, I do not “believe” either side until I do have data that lets me. The big problem I see is too many “believe” without any data or even if the data indicates otherwise.
I do not enjoy these constant massive posts as much as you do. I hope to get back to observing on the sidelines as I have traditionally done when the site is conflict free. Ours right now needed to be long because we covered a lot of ground. But how about in the future, you try to mostly stick to one political subject per post, mostly (like you bringing up EVs recently in that short post after you had rambled so much you forgot the point you intended to make in the first one, for example). No need to blast multiple political topics out in one post, unless they are truly related. Quality, not Quantity. There will always be wandering, but staying focused will make your posts more enjoyable for all here. Don’t limit your popularity to just one side. Even if everyone doesn’t agree with you, they could easily respect your insights, but not if you antagonize them. Try doing some internet searches on your claims before you share them here too, unless you really are sure they are correct. Information is good, misinformation is bad. You are nowhere near close enough to 100% accurate to be able to skip that step. Like the one about “60%” raises for auto workers that “Biden” gave them. Wrong and wrong.
Take care, Dazed and Coinfused.

I wasn’t fishing for a thank you. I was speaking generally. I tried to join as a young man out of high school when my parents said they couldn’t afford to send me to college. But I made a few bad calls and was disqualified from service. Unless several congressmen wrote a letter on my behalf. I wrote to a couple and they never replied. So writing congress is a waste of time for me. I tried it again when a dealership and lawyer was causing great hardship and violating business and ethics laws. No reply there either, but I do get ton of survey and donation request emails from them. Go figure.

I did get the chance to join military later. Those wrong choices kept me out the marines and Air force, so navy or army. Due to driving record couldn’t get a second waiver to join. They recommended I try army. I qualified for every job (94 on asvab) but colorblind so options were 2. Communications, or (hilariously) truck driver. While I did join for patriotic purposes, I also did it for the bonus to afford to travel to get married, and because I needed to turn my life around. Mission accomplished.

I wanted to marry in US, but they denied the visa for spouse. So instead of using bonus to bring her here, I went there. Nothing like gubmint requesting docs in English, but had to be notarized and translated, every doc, including health and background checks. Not cheap for someone making $900 a month or less. Deployed shortly after and while deployed had to carry those docs with me all the time due to time sensitivity. Paying $100 to DHL docs at a time. Plus having to send to power of attorney in the states, then to wife’s country, back to states so we could get copies, back to Iraq, to send back and translate. I suppose. Not easy when you move from fob to fob regularly, or getting refit once every fee weeks. But I made the deadlines and finally after 2 years of marriage and probably $35,000 spent on docs, tests, shipping etc she got travel visa. And then I deployed again a few short months after. So I have thoughts on immigration. I am not against people coming. I am against those that circumvent the system, skip lines, avoid the fees and waiting, but claim they can’t afford to come legally despite some reportedly paying gsmugglers up to $50,000 per person. We don’t have the tools in place to accommodate them.

Immediately worked on getting wife citizenship. She knew English to a degree, but British English. Enrolled in ESL classes for years. But she managed alone and isolated in a foreign country. The unit didn’t assist her. Only a couple close friends that weren’t deployable. They punished her because I was white. But we still made it. Now she a citizen and has been for years. Many of my relatives are Filipino, married navy guys or their siblings. But there is a process and laws and I DO NOT approve of the open border approach currently implemented. I also reenlisted knowing I would deploy again and that the same racists that made life harder would go again. Never could I imagine the lengths they’d go to. But I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. War is already hard enough, pray you never experience live in your neighborhood or anywhere. But if you expect troops to live a certain way, then temporary aid or shelter for illegals should be the same. What’s wrong with tents and MRE? Or shipping container.

My solution. Mexico southern border way smaller. Should have built wall there and have Mexican or UN forces guard it. Document and deport. Habitual offenders, life in jail as they could be considered saboteurs. Do walls work? How many people entered your fenced in backyard? But I’m sure there are tons of tunnels to subvert the wall. Which is why I said moat in other post. Other option is a canal split between mex and us, inlet and outlet controlled by military and on border side, make the first mile or 2 on land federal military land. Use national guard to rotate or train patrolling the area. And drone and satellite. Check periodically with gpr for tunnels and fill em in, but I doubt many would try to enter illegally if border was considered military property. Another option, not pretty is shoot on site. After a few they won’t come in such huge numbers. Or, mine the area, but that’s inhumane right. Another option, all countries get together and support them on an island til they are vetted. Like Puerto Rico, Marshall Island, New Zealand. They can’t escape, they are safe and all members pay to help feed them.

I also did not see your comment saying good show or nice read til just now. As you say, the first was nice then the crazy came out. Maybe. I hadn’t been on here in a month or so, 3 articles since the jax race shooting I think up til then. As I got further down and read more comments I had to weigh in, and I jumped in meeting the comments with equal flair, with a poker theme, I’ll see your x and raise you y.

Make fun of both sides. Well making fun of 1 side is an ism isn’t it. Racism ageism etc. No side is perfect and if you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at. And voting for the sake of voting seems odd too. Yeah ya got 3% but you pull from other candidates, could lead to shortage of votes or recount or run off and that as we see, leads only to suspicion and doubt and validity. Plus voting laws per state vary. I might register R, all is great, then 2 days before election, R committed crime, or crossed my red line. So now the D is frontrunner based on what lies he promises to deliver, but I’m an R can only vote R. But not all states are the same so how is it level? Didn’t bother to run a candidate because x is 99% R, no way a D has a chance. If you think it bad to not vote, what you think about not even offering a candidate of opposing party just because you want to save money for closer race where it’s a purple state, or was a 60 40 split but last few elections trending closer to 50 50. Or you only care about President election, not state or local or rarely, registered D, but the governor you want to vote for is R and president is D. President is nation’s pressing seat, but you think local is more important to you that year, you can’t vote local because you registered D, so do just vote for president because law says you must vote party, or do you abstain. Or do you go independent the following year. If it was the same each state, I can see a point, but it is usually rigged (gerrymandered) to lean to a certain side. But I find it funny biden never left his basement, didn’t debate, entered race very late and commanded record number of votes. Meaning many people prior chose not to vote, which gave us trump obviously. And now complaints fly daily and constantly. Those same ones complaining also probably didn’t vote, and I bet share in comment sections where you have no idea if they voted or not, or telling the truth if they did. At least I’m open and up front. And I’m not promoting trump, I’m promoting anyone not a D. I don’t like the border policy. I don’t like the way they changes the VA, I don’t like budget and how they spend their money. I bet soon they will accuse trump of selling Intel to hamas and that lead to the attack. Wouldn’t surprise me at all. And no way I support any pass it before you read it. But none of it applies to me. Don’t have kids in school. Wife is a citizen now. I get paid every month and I live within my means, better than most. I am fully accountable for what I do. I paid my fines, I did my time. And I do what I say. Like I said, Abbott crossed the line with the freeze and I moved. Out of pot into fire. And I’m looking for overseas options, belize was my choice, bit wife wants to stay here.

I used to play claw game a lot. Won often as I befriended the guy that stocked it. And I would donate them to CHKD. One year it was 4 large lawn bags full. I played Christmas music at elderly homes. I made care packages for homeless long before this whole shoebox trend started. I drop money in salvation army. I buy grocery bags for for the hungry when they offer them at Thanksgiving. I gave away 5 turkeys to neighbors a couple years ago. I handed out Christmas trees for troops. I have paid for groceries for several women (black in case you were wondering, but some white too) with kids that started putting groceries back because card declined or not enough cash. I heard kids screaming wanting a certain toy for Christmas, and I would buy it and give it to the parent outside the store. I donate clothes and furniture etc to goodwill, and other local charity collection boxes. But if you want to donate to a cause, go to a va hospital, when you see the homeless vet walk in with garbage bags full of aluminum cans, offer to help them.whether documents to help his claim, cash for food, hotel for the night. Or donate to any children’s hospital, chkd, or burn unit, cancer unit. The good toys donated in most Walmart and malls are usually taken by the volunteers to give to their kids. I have also donated 3 different cars to kars4kids. And never claimed the free rewards they offered. (Trips and stuff like that).

Finally, by pointing out and making fun of both sides, maybe it’ll shame em into going bipartisan and actually work to solve the issues, not just how to get more donor money, or free trip to speak here, or speaking fees there, or job appointments for their friends and family. Otherwise it is just having to choose a side that I don’t agree with 100%, probably closer to 52% and convincing other side they are wrong or impose my will on others. Problem today is everything offends everybody. Everyone looking for a new fresh cause to be noticed, to garner likes, to get subscribes, it’s for money and fame and nothing else.global warming wad the fad, then barbiheimer, now it is antisemitism, save Palestine etc. And they all base the assumption on American values. They don’t know r4p3 victims get stoned. Arranged marriage, LGBT not tolerated.

But odd that so many Hebrew and Arabic in Isreal, yet 90% of the signs and posters are in English. It is amazing how much English people learn when their paycheck is short, or they need someone to fight for them. And no I do not hate black people. My experience with them leave me questionable and guarded, but I also know some that are high ranking and would not hesitate to write a letter of recommendation. Trash in, trash out. And all I see is trash coming out. Wanting the cake and eat it too, plus my slice of the pie. I have been around many shady characters of all shapes and sizes and colors and religions. And I don’t associate with the bad elements. I try to keep negativity out of my life. But like I said, I’m like you, tired of being mislabeled and my writings are reciprocal of what I see or read.

To answer why not post on political. I did for a while. But my inbox would constantly go off, comment here, x liked this, comment made, someone replied to x y z. Then the censorship started. So I thought that if I could go from poor and struggling family that was the underdog to where I am now, anyone can do it. And I hope they don’t suffer the same mistakes I did. Some listen others don’t. But don’t ask for truth about history and then say can’t talk about us negative at all, even though we did those things. X is a lie, but it supports our bias so we’ll keep that in. You can’t say that, it’s our culture. And then turn around and do the same thing back. It is whitewashed. And edited history to favor them. Which is what they accused us of. Not all white are owners, nor all blacks thugs.but people don’t see the Grey area they just wa t whatever benefits their side or helps prove them right. Look up cognitive dissonance.

“I served next to many that died for that right. In a couple days you can post your empty thank you for your service post so that you can feel all warm and fuzzy. Also, voting is a right and not mandatory. “—-To “keep” that right. As I already thanked you the first time you mentioned that long ago now, I have no need to do it again. Especially if you tell me you do not want to be thanked. I can possibly understand that. Especially if I joined for any other reason than patriotism, which would not have been the reason I would join. Economic desperation or a draft would have been the only reason I would join. I already know I would be a terrible fit for the military. Don’t dare think that makes me less patriotic than you. I ask far too many questions. I would probably spend my military career mostly locked up for questioning authority. I try to help my country in other ways. Ways that fit my abilities. Doesn’t matter how we help, as long as it is a positive and not a negative.
Indeed it is. But what you do lose when you chose not to exercise that right is the “right” to complain about it. Extensively. Practically daily. On a coin site. Even in this post I am replying to. Does “Whiner” fit? Did you offer any possible solutions to resolve your complaints? Other than vote Trump, I mean. You know what I did the last time I could not stand either candidate? I voted for the Libertarian one, who got about 3% that year. 1% more than the norm. I hoped for at least 5% because that would have worried both parties. Normally I am afraid to “waste” my vote, but I could not stand either candidate. Still wouldn’t vote for Hillary even knowing Trump was even worse than I expected him to be. Hillary was no change from the same old, same old (only the sex had changed), Don was the wrong kind of change, period. Do you know what happens when you do not vote at all? The powers that be think you are perfectly happy with the status quo. How about sending your political rants to your representatives? Maybe they will be receptive.
I also think I figured out the real reason you keep doing this here. You said it was because of “better political knowledge here”. I think it is because they censor heavily on the political sites (lightly here as you well know), you probably got crushed by multiple people fact checking you, and you had no fan boy like here. Am I close?
“So for me, never a dem.“—-After all those posts where you kept claiming you are fair because you do “both sides”. Remember when I told you “only a child thinks picking on both sides is better than picking on one side. How about picking on no sides?” No? You probably didn’t read it. Do you only communicate in one direction (outbound)? I could see you improved, but you still did not understand what I was asking. So I am still working with you. Now obviously that “fairness” statement was a lie anyway. Should I trust anything you say? Should anyone?
“I rather put my time and energy helping those that want to help themselves. To donate to causes I approve, not to a country our politicians are making a fortune on inside deals with.“—-If you spend less time complaining here you would have more time to devote to your charities. Tell me your favorite charity, and if it isn’t a blatantly partisan one and has a good rating I will donate too. Even though your track record here indicates to me saying you devote your time to charities might mean you might not have ever donated to a charity in your life, I will give you the benefit of the doubt if it is a charity I can support. I will even donate it in the name of “Dazed and Coinfused” if I am allowed to. If your charity prints lists of names that donated you can check it out to verify. It won’t be large, I am poor. $20 I could handle.
“All this news you claim to read, ha e you seen what argentina went through? Or the problems Venezuelans are causing in Peru. That is what you can expect here soon when the numbers get high enough.“—So we cannot stop it, huh? Only a matter of time. We can send a man to the moon, but we cannot solve immigration. Just surrender, or rage at your fellow Americans instead. Very productive use of your time. Perhaps if our politicians start working on the problem, by seeing what both sides want and coming together somewhere in the middle it can be solved. Actually I know it can be solved. First thing is stop offering entry to people who show up on our border after paying thousands to smugglers who tell them to claim oppression in their own country as the reason they came. Next is crack down on the smugglers hard. Trump wants to attack Mexico next time he gets elected (and probably did the first time too). How about working with all of Latin America to coordinate a crackdown on the smugglers instead of making an enemy of Mexico by attacking them (???). Those are my starting solutions. At the least it is a starting point to start talking to each other here about immigration, rather than just ranting at each other about it here. One problem is your side wants 0% immigration, unless they will vote Republican (deny it, I dare you). Very lucrative getting the base angry, but not actually doing anything to resolve that anger. Where is the compromise if your stance is “no compromise”? Rather than allowing the politicians to recreate the dysfunction in Congress throughout the American population, how about sharing your thoughts with the only people who can do something about it? Your representative. Am I repeating myself?
“Also, you said you don’t read my stuff, so the many times that I have apologized fell on your deaf ears. I’ve apologized to Seth several times and never attacked him. And ask Keiser, I’ve written volumes in an apology over a simple misunderstanding that didn’t even require one.“—-You have done a good job of keeping personal insults out of your posts
(Shame Craig never noticed that part about you). I always noticed. I just know you can do better. It was one reason I sometimes wondered if you are SENZA because personal insults is what got him into trouble with me last time. I said when I started engaging with you again on Aug 25th that I hadn’t been reading your stuff for the past few months. I have been reading more than I ever wanted to for months straight now. All or nearly all. I heard your apologies, and saw you slowly modify your behavior over time. It is why I keep trying. Mentioned it many times when I thought you wrote a good or great post. Do you read my stuff? Did you see me apologize for being hard on you around a week ago because the post I responded to was a good one? (“U.S. Mint Sales: 2023 Proof Set and ‘S’ Silver Eagle Leads”, Oct 25. 9th from the bottom). Of course, the very next post I saw of yours after that was back to “your” normal (My reply, 15th from the bottom, same article). Why we are having this discussion now. Take care, Dazed and Coinfused. I still have hope you can let go of the anger and the constant partisan political posts here. Not very fun being on the other side of constant criticism, is it? Not as fun as dishing it out is, am I right?