The Country is in a bad marriage.

[Mac1958]

The couple refuses to have a calm, honest conversation with each other.

All they will do is scream and point the accusatory finger at the other.

I don't know how that gets fixed. Without communication, this only continues to decay.
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By 3rd party intervention. In other words an attack on our homeland by an enemy we can all agree needs destroying. Yeah... It'll take something of that magnitude.

That won't do it. You just saw the left's support and encouragement of North Korea. Moreover, we have a huge population of economic immigrants with no loyalty at all and certainly no recognition of Americans.

You just saw the left's support and encouragement of North Korea.

Of course that never happened.
This is a better example of the OP.
Care to comment Mac?

Yes, both ends of the spectrum are into hyperbole, distortion, denial and outright lies.

Their behaviors are very similar.

I say that all the time.

Did you expect something different? Did you think you "had" me there?
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Try again, Mac. Here is someone who could be your hero. Why not watch him tell you that both sides don't do it equally and one side is reacting to the other?

Lone Laugher, I want to seriously and sincerely thank you for this post.

It perfectly illustrates (a) why I no longer try to communicate with you and a few other hardcore partisan ideologues here, and (b) my strongly-held theory that both the perceptions and the thought processes of hardcore partisan ideologues are distorted.

You have made this accusation - that I say that the two sides are the same or equal - a few times in the past. What I have actually said - dozens and dozens of times - is that their behaviors are similar. Including the very post of mine that you quoted. And, you're invited to utilize USMB's search function when you try to deny this. So, again - no, the two ends of the spectrum are not the same. No, they are not equal. Their behaviors, however, are similar.

Now, I can imagine that in your mind, I have many times said that the two sides are the same or equal, and I'm afraid there's simply nothing I can do about the distortions in your perceptions. Goodness knows what other things you have imagined that I have said, and I'm happy to not know.

So, thanks again. Keep trying to get my attention, keep listening to the distorted perceptions that your mind is producing. And again, I'm under zero (0) obligation to either enable or participate in your behaviors.
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[LoneLaugher]

By 3rd party intervention. In other words an attack on our homeland by an enemy we can all agree needs destroying. Yeah... It'll take something of that magnitude.

That won't do it. You just saw the left's support and encouragement of North Korea. Moreover, we have a huge population of economic immigrants with no loyalty at all and certainly no recognition of Americans.

You just saw the left's support and encouragement of North Korea.

Of course that never happened.
This is a better example of the OP.
Care to comment Mac?

Yes, both ends of the spectrum are into hyperbole, distortion, denial and outright lies.

Their behaviors are very similar.

I say that all the time.

Did you expect something different? Did you think you "had" me there?
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Try again, Mac. Here is someone who could be your hero. Why not watch him tell you that both sides don't do it equally and one side is reacting to the other?

Lone Laugher, I want to seriously and sincerely thank you for this post.

It perfectly illustrates (a) why I no longer try to communicate with you and a few other hardcore partisan ideologues here, and (b) my strongly-held theory that both the perceptions and the thought processes of hardcore partisan ideologues are distorted.

You have made this accusation - that I say that the two sides are the same or equal - a few times in the past. What I have actually said - dozens and dozens of times - is that their behaviors are similar. Including the very post of mine that you quoted. And, you're invited to utilize USMB's search function when you try to deny this. So, again - no, the two ends of the spectrum are not the same. No, they are not equal. Their behaviors, however, are similar.

Now, I can imagine that in your mind, I have many times said that the two sides are the same or equal, and I'm afraid there's simply nothing I can do about the distortions in your perceptions. Goodness knows what other things you have imagined that I have said, and I'm happy to not know.

So, thanks again. Keep trying to get my attention, keep listening to the distorted perceptions that your mind is producing. And again, I'm under zero (0) obligation to either enable or participate in your behaviors.
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Did you watch it?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Mac1958 is insulted when someone calls him passive aggressive or tells him that he's behaving like a whiny little bitch.

I get insulted when someone tries to tell me that I'm the other side of a coin along with a fuckhead like Uncensored or Tipsy.

Does Mac get this? Will he ever stop insulting people or will he engage in mature discussion?

 

[Mac1958]

he's behaving like a whiny little bitch.
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Will he ever stop insulting people or will he engage in mature discussion?

You just can't make this up.

And I rest my case.

 

[LoneLaugher]

he's behaving like a whiny little bitch.
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Will he ever stop insulting people or will he engage in mature discussion?

You just can't make this up.

And I rest my case.

Keep resting. While you are at it, think about how you can try to act like an adult here and have some more productive discussions.

 

[SavannahMann]

Some of you have been in a bad marriage, and the rest have seen one. A marriage where all they do is argue, and blame. We are in that marriage right now. The Left won't get over it, and the right won't get over it.

The funny thing is I know when it started. I was there, and I watched it begin. Many of you did too.

Before the impeachment of Bill Clinton, we would compromise. We could work out our differences, and manage to move forward as a nation, slowly, along a more moderate approach, but there was some progress.

Bill Clinton was the turning point. The Right felt that Bill was after their guns, and he signed the Brady Bill and made it a law. In time, the most disturbing parts of the law fell away, but the Right was angry, and wanted revenge. The bad part for the left was that Bill Clinton was Bill Clinton. Not a bad guy, but a horn dog. He told misleading information during a deposition, and gave instructions to a friend who knew what was going on that appeared to expect that friend to lie under oath. So Bill was Impeached. Yes, he was impeached. Not removed from office, but impeached.

The left won in the Senate, and the narrative of Reprehensible but not impeachable carried the day. But the administration of Bill Clinton ended the era of compromise for our nation. After that, it was all about Revenge.

It's like a bad marriage. One spouse does something to hurt the other, and the other wants revenge and sets out to hurt the first. The divorce starts, and both are screaming at the children that the other is awful. The victory comes not in the separation, but by turning the kids against the other.

Back and forth it has gone, we'll get even for that, and they'll get even for this. We no longer want to compromise, we no longer want to find common ground, and we damn sure don't want to work out our differences. We aren't talking, we're shouting at each other.

If this was really a Marriage I'd tell the two sides to get a fucking divorce already. But we are a nation, and we have lost our ability to live together, work together, and talk with each other.

I had a friend who was in a marriage like this some time ago. He got divorced, and he said. "It is better to have loved and lost, than stay married to that bitch for the rest of my life."

The wife had a similar sentiment when I spoke with her.

But we are not in a marriage. We are a nation, and it is approaching the point of no return. We need to learn to set the past aside, and just start looking at the issues and finding common ground. Destroying the other side isn't going to work. You can't do it. Not without a massive civil war and millions of people dead. So everyone just calm down and let's learn to talk to one another again. We did it once. Why can't we do it again?

/----/ Thank God for Bill Clinton. He got the ball rolling for the ultimate destruction of the Democrat party we see today. Obozo and Hildabeast drove in the final coffin nails.

They aren't destroyed. They may well pick up seats in the midterm. They may well pick up the Presidency. We might as well learn to talk now.

 

[LoneLaugher]

he's behaving like a whiny little bitch.
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Will he ever stop insulting people or will he engage in mature discussion?

You just can't make this up.

And I rest my case.

Keep resting. While you are at it, think about how you can try to act like an adult here and have some more productive discussions.

Like sexing up little Asian girls?

You are still hanging out in that dark place, huh?

 

[Auld Phart]

I could submit that your concept of how old one appears to be is Eurocentric. In fact people appear younger or older than they are to people who are not familiar with racial characteristics.

No, the girl you posted a picture of earlier looks like a child. VERY child like.

To you. In Japan, she would not.

Lol. Oh, okay, so her appearance changes in Japan.

No, the perception of age.

The perception of age? What are you talking about? That girl that you posted a picture of looks like a child. She looks like a child no matter what country she or you are in. She has child-like features.

NOt uncommon in the East.

Old joke about women looking like they are 12-16 until they hit the age of 35.

Then they look 70