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Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
You think you know more than I do, Jazzerman, but you are wrong. I have lived in the belly of the beast. You are naive and pseudo-sophisticated. You would do well to listen to my wise counsel.
Originally posted by Jazzerman
I have no idea where this "belly of the beast" stuff you spew out is coming from either. If your talking about your time at war I'm very glad that you served the country. However, I have had many relatives fight bravely in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and they would never use it to their advantage like you do.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Originally posted by Jazzerman
I have no idea where this "belly of the beast" stuff you spew out is coming from either. If your talking about your time at war I'm very glad that you served the country. However, I have had many relatives fight bravely in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam and they would never use it to their advantage like you do.
I am not speaking of war. I am speaking of those who seem much less threatening, but use the same tactics and ideology of marxism. I admit that I use marxism in a broader sense than you, but that is because there are numerous movements afoot which draw their ideologies and tactics from classical marxism.
It's all the same--class warfare. It uses the same language of victimhood and oppression. Rich and poor, young and old, left and right, black and white, male and female, homosexual and heterosexual--the potential is endless.
I call those marxist who wittingly or unwittingly use the language and tactics. They have been influenced often without knowing because the indoctrination has become intrinsic to their education.
I'm doing you a favor, Jazzerman. I'm your best friend and you don't even know it. One day you will wake up and you will think about this crazy old fool and you will know that I spoke the truth. Just as I sometimes wake up and think of the old fools who told me the truth when I used to know everything.
[edit on 04/9/18 by GradyPhilpott]
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Whence comes your wisdom, monica? When you don't support your country during times of peril, what do you call it?
I'm not saying that you necessarily want America to fall and die, but those are the stakes. Whose side are you on?
I hate to be so polar, but you know sometimes it comes down to whose side you're on, you know.
Originally posted by sweatmonicaIdo
Yes, you are very polar, and it's incredibly worrisome. So when we don't like how something is going, we just eschew our right to protest, our responsibility to the country, and give ourselves up to the mercy of our government? Is that responsible? Is that patriotic?
Didn't think so.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
I'm doing you a favor, Jazzerman. I'm your best friend and you don't even know it. One day you will wake up and you will think about this crazy old fool and you will know that I spoke the truth. Just as I sometimes wake up and think of the old fools who told me the truth when I used to know everything.
[edit on 04/9/18 by GradyPhilpott]
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
We don't eschew. We defer. But, this is election season and we can really expect nothing less. When it's all over, everyone has to settle down and get with the program. We can't let the outcome of the election factionalize the nation when unity is paramount.
Originally posted by marg6043
Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tempers are running hot today on these threads politics are such a hot subject, I just got insulted on another thread
I am so amuzed is not funny.
Originally posted by sweatmonicaIdo
I hope you find that person someday, because you're gonna need it!
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Maybe you're hopeless, monica. Jazzerman sees the light and he will come to view the world as it really is. Maybe he'll remember me, maybe he won't. It's unimportant.
Originally posted by sweatmonicaIdo
If you actually read what Jazzerman, he only said he sees where you're coming from. he didn't say he agreed with you (and its a good thing he doesn't, otherwise we have a problem).
If anyone is hopeless, well, regretful to state, it is thou.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Agreement was never issue, monica. If you'd stop giggling for ten seconds, you might learn something, too.
Originally posted by Mynaeris
Sweating Monica, are you intending to contribute to the discussion or just try and make smart aleck remarks? Honestly your remarks are sidetracking the discussion needlessly.
Originally posted by marg6043
Going back to the subject for a moment,
Does anybody know if Mrs. Bush has made any comment about the incident with the grieving mother?
I was wondering, Mrs. Bush shows herself as a caring Lady so I am just wondering.