Where is Road Runner?

[frigidweirdo]

For many people this is true.
Feelings override facts. Beliefs usually have a loose association with facts.
It becomes a "team" that you root for based upon some sort of association that these beliefs have once held.

People who became involved with Reagan's Republicans have stayed while Democrats are faithful to the Clinton's....for whatever reasons. Obama had dedicated followers? Not that I've seen.

I'm old enough to remember when Spiro had to resign and then Nixon himself. Then Tip O'Neal had to step down. The postage scandals as well as rubber check scandal (congress) which just about bankrupted a bank.

And considering how the once stalwart Govt accounting offices that put out economic data has been blatantly lying....facts aren't what they used to be.

So....
You just gotta go with your gut. Be pleasantly surprised when a politician does something to help the common person.
(Like Joe forgiving all those student loans was a pleasant surprise....especially after Trump refused to allow those who should have had their loans forgiven continue to make payments anyway)

No one president or congress is ever all that. But if we can make some friends along the way....those people matter more than ANY politician.

Yeah, a lot of this forum is all about emotions, gut feelings. And the people in charge know this, and they manipulate accordingly.

If the people were smarter they'd stand up for themselves and demand Proportional Representation. Most people don't even know what it is, because they haven't been told by their overlords to want it.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

You are not homey and no one is playing your game, playtime. She seems more of a man than you.

 

[JohnDB]

Yeah, a lot of this forum is all about emotions, gut feelings. And the people in charge know this, and they manipulate accordingly.

If the people were smarter they'd stand up for themselves and demand Proportional Representation. Most people don't even know what it is, because they haven't been told by their overlords to want it.

True independent thoughts, as far as politics are concerned, doesn't really happen much anymore.
Even inside various churches....they just go with whatever the pastor says. (And sometimes that has been disastrous)

And that's what has gotten me in trouble often. I personally follow my own beliefs. Not anyone else's. I see good in both sides as well as evil. I am not a kool-aid drinker. Completely and decidedly independent....A-political at best.

I believe in Monarchies. Not dictatorships and not oligarchs. Monarchs try to work for the betterment of his/her people while keeping them happy at the same time. They don't "run for office" as it's lifetime appointments. So they don't tell you what you want to hear, they tell you what you need to hear. If they reluctantly raise taxes you go with it. If they drop taxes you take more responsibility for your neighborhood. (You never really stopped anyway)
Otherwise you just try to live peacefully. You don't worry about your government or talk much about it because it's mostly MIA if you don't cause or get into trouble for doing stupid stuff.

 

[frigidweirdo]

True independent thoughts, as far as politics are concerned, doesn't really happen much anymore.
Even inside various churches....they just go with whatever the pastor says. (And sometimes that has been disastrous)

And that's what has gotten me in trouble often. I personally follow my own beliefs. Not anyone else's. I see good in both sides as well as evil. I am not a kool-aid drinker. Completely and decidedly independent....A-political at best.

I believe in Monarchies. Not dictatorships and not oligarchs. Monarchs try to work for the betterment of his/her people while keeping them happy at the same time. They don't "run for office" as it's lifetime appointments. So they don't tell you what you want to hear, they tell you what you need to hear. If they reluctantly raise taxes you go with it. If they drop taxes you take more responsibility for your neighborhood. (You never really stopped anyway)
Otherwise you just try to live peacefully. You don't worry about your government or talk much about it because it's mostly MIA if you don't cause or get into trouble for doing stupid stuff.

Yeah, there are certain people who post on here, no many, who I know if they reply to me, I won't have much to say to them because they'll have used their brain, they'll have understood the issues and they'll have come to a similar conclusion as me.

The rest are as you described very well before. They don't understand.

Even my parents are like this. My father thinks he's informed, but he never really had the opportunities to go on the internet and talk, like I did. So he didn't develop his ability to understand things. It took me years to get to the point where I could think critically about politics. I started when the Columbine high school killings happened and I was anti-gun all the way. I didn't know why. Now I do. Now I can understand both sides, I can think logically about it.

But it's pretty depressing when you see the direction democracy is going.

You say you're in favor of monarchies. Well, I'd say there are many directions a monarchy can go in. Swaziland has a monarch who has total power. Their country isn't doing too well. Malaysia has a monarchy that changes all the time, different people from different parts of the country get to be monarch for a while.

European monarchs have changed over the last 100 years or so. Before WW1 they weren't that great.

 

[leftwinger]

Road Runner

Handle works.

 

[The Duke]

You are not homey and no one is playing your game, playtime. She seems more of a man than you.

https://i.ibb.co/yWzzJDN/wouldsaysomething.png

 

[braalian]

Ah, Road Runner is a good soul.

I don’t agree with her on pretty much… anything. But she does seem like a genuinely nice person

 

[toobfreak]

I don’t agree with her on pretty much… anything. But she does seem like a genuinely nice person

I'm pretty sure he is around, hanging out, reading. I've seen her posts a few times. I don't know why she just doesn't come back and start posting threads again as before? It seems like she was looking for some sort of emotional justification before, attention, recognition, position or such beyond the mere topic of the thread.

Or maybe Coyote dropping out from being a mod took the wind from her sails? Maybe Coyote was her foil.

 

[playtime]

You are not homey and no one is playing your game, playtime.

guess you didn't get the reference.


too bad, so sad.

She seems more of a man than you.

that makes me more of a female than her.

 

[playtime]

https://i.ibb.co/yWzzJDN/wouldsaysomething.png

 

[The Duke]

 

[The Duke]

I'm pretty sure he is around, hanging out, reading. I've seen her posts a few times. I don't know why she just doesn't come back and start posting threads again as before? It seems like she was looking for some sort of emotional justification before, attention, recognition, position or such beyond the mere topic of the thread.

Or maybe Coyote dropping out from being a mod took the wind from her sails? Maybe Coyote was her foil.

Like TwatCom and Harry Dresden?
Unko's got a couple fans, too.

 

[playtime]

no he sure don't.

 

[Robert W]

Evil just like ohpleasejustquit.

You enjoy lying about ohpleasejustquit?

 

[toobfreak]

Well, in a very non-christian like way, her other screen name was Fuck Joe Biden......

Who could avoid not saying that for at least three years? I saw Rabbis wearing FJB pins.

Exactly.
Evil just like ohpleasejustquit.

Your folks didn't let you go out to run and play with the other children when you were a kid, did they?

 

[Winco]

You enjoy lying about ohpleasejustquit?

Why's it a lie?
You trump cult members ALL treat non-cult members in a vile, evil manner.
I'm ok with it, just accept that it's true.
I even complemented her a few times and all that did was sharpen her evil dirty claws.

So, from my view, it's true.

 

[Winco]

Who could avoid not saying that for at least three years? I saw Rabbis wearing FJB pins.


Your folks didn't let you go out to run and play with the other children when you were a kid, did they?

You're too funny.
I remember getting on my 3 speed bike at 9am and age 8, 9,10 and playing fun games with the neighborhood kids.

You missed this experience?
So sad.

 

[toobfreak]

Why's it a lie?
You trump cult members ALL treat non-cult members in a vile, evil manner.

First you rant some stupid BS about a member then you ask US why it is a lie? Then you wonder why people are fed up? Then there are the years the left treated non-vaxxers or anyone remotely in favor of Trump in a vile and evil manner now whining because you might get a little egg on your face back now??!

I even complemented her a few times and all that did was sharpen her evil dirty claws.

Maybe she just knows a butthole when she sees one.

 

[Winco]

First you rant some stupid BS about a member then you ask US why it is a lie? Then you wonder why people are fed up? Then there are the years the left treated non-vaxxers or anyone remotely in favor of Trump in a vile and evil manner now whining because you might get a little egg on your face back now??!


Maybe she just knows a butthole when she sees one.

Wow, you're on as assault.
You enjoy this attack mode, makes you feel important?
You learned well from trump.

Too funny and yet sad.

 

[toobfreak]

Wow, you're on as assault.
You enjoy this attack mode, makes you feel important?
You learned well from trump.
Too funny and yet sad.

And you are still a total ass. You attack people behind their backs.