Years ago, I was in conversations with a lady, we agreed to meet for coffee and then a movie. When I arrived, she was busy with other people. I waited. When she was finally done with the others, I asked her which movie she was interested in seeing.
“I’ve decided I don’t want to go to a movie with you.”
My reply was, “I’m disappointed with you.”
I walked away. Later, I heard through the grapevine that my sentence had nearly broken her. “I’m disappointed” carries great weight, emotionally.
For years, I’ve felt like I’m in a political battle where the other side gets to decide what rules I fight by and what rules they fight by, but their rules are not the same as mine.
I remember every time somebody called me a murder for wanting to keep my guns. Every time I was blamed because some asshole killed children. I was to blame for the blood spilled in the cities.
If only I would consent to common-sense, reasonable gun laws. It is all about safety.
After Sandhook, I was hearing the same things again. One of the people doing it showed up on my Facebook page.
I proceeded to call her a heartless subhuman for wanting children to die. Why wouldn’t she agree that it was just common sense to have teachers armed to kill assholes that would harm our children? How could she be so selfish?
Every attack that had ever been leveled at me, I threw back at this lady.
Turns out that his lady was a friend’s aunt. They came to me and asked me to tone it down. To back off because I was being hurtful. She was a teacher and had spent her entire career helping children.
I did. I took the highroad, again.
This is where we always went.
When Trump v0.1 came on the scene, the Democrats loved him. They loved him because they knew he was a Democrat at heart. They wanted him to win the primary because he would be easier to beat than Hillary.
Trump v0.9 showed up when he became the Republican candidate for President. The Democrats turned on him like a pack of hyenas.
Trump v1.0 started when he took office the first time.
One of the reasons he won that time was because he was fighting back. He was calling the left out for their lies. But he used belittling terms for them. He fought from the gutter where the left lives.
Ally was so upset about his words that she couldn’t accept his deeds. Almost every interaction regarding Trump was her telling me about something he said that was mean.
She was still part of that leftist mindset. That mindset that looks for a reason to throw a person out of the tent. If a person is in perfect lockstep with the sheep of the left, then they are kicked out.
Every conservative was unacceptable to her because they had done something that disqualified them.
She has come around. But some of those old habits die hard.
We got into a big argument after a Republican representative introduced the mentally ill representative as “The representative of ??? Mr. ???” sorry, I don’t recall the names.
When I was talking at dinner, I mentioned this and mentioned that I got a chuckle over this.
She was very upset with me. “I expect better of you.”
From her perspective, I was being mean to that ill person. It would have been easy for the Republican to introduce the other member as “Representative X”. No Mr. No Mrs. No Miss. Just “Representative”.
Yeah, she could have. But I was pleased to have her punch back.
But everything she observes from her new group gets that same, “I expect better of my team” treatment.
I read Alito’s dissent. It didn’t pull any punches. Thomas joined him in his dissent. When those two are in agreement, then the right thing to do is what they are saying.
Barrette didn’t agree with them. She voted with the majority to deny a stay pending appeal.
Having mulled over it for a few days, I have to agree with Amy. And it is one of the reasons why she is a good choice for the Court.
I do not want somebody who votes the “right” way on my issues. I want somebody who respects the law and follows the constitution, regardless of where it leads.
I am sure that it was hard for her to withstand the powerhouse that is the Thomas-Alito team.
The short of it was that Roberts made the issue moot. This saved everybody time. It kept the status quo for a bit longer. And it put the case on the correct footing for an appeal of the preliminary injunction. In addition, even the denial was a win because it slapped the inferior courts square in the face with their rogue behavior.
I expect more of my justices. Amy gave me more. It hurt, to be sure, but she did the right thing.
When I see Trump 2028 I know it is not going to happen. The push for allowing a president to have three terms happened near the end of the Obama presidency. The left wanted their chosen one to have another term.
I didn’t like the idea then, I don’t like the idea now.
Because I don’t see any real push to get Trump a third term, I know that Trump 2028 is a troll. It is a good troll because the left can’t treat it as a joke. They can’t because they were serious when they were trying to get Obama a third term.
When I see “Trump 2028” posted on the idiot signs held by Democrats during the address to the joint session of Congress, it makes me smile even more.
It trolls on so many levels, and it makes me chuckle. It isn’t being pushed by anybody seriously. J.D. 2028 is what I’m actually hearing. The serious faces of the people holding idiot signs makes it work more. The fact that if it happened, the Democrats would have an even bigger meltdown. There would be accusations all over the place.
And not a single Democrat would admit that they had seriously looked into it for their guy, for Obama.
As a practical matter, getting a third term for a president requires a Constitutional amendment. If somebody were to propose one, I would be on the phone to my Senators and Representative to tell them to vote against the amendment.
Until that happens, this is a great troll. I’m not going to let realities get in the way of good humor.
As many have said, the left can’t meme.
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