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    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    He's dishonest on a base level.

    Heh. The pot calls the kettle black. Here is one of many, many instances in which you have made up crap, tried to cram it in my mouth, or portray it as my thoughts (psychologizing), and then attack your own concoction rather than what I did say or did think.

     

    23 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    All these years defending him...

    LOL. You are addicted to making personal attacks on me.  You can't even follow  the advice you gave to anthony, which was to ignore me.

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    21 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    This is for the reader, not for Merlin.

    [Another pile of bs.]

    "You shouldn't poop in public."--Brant (link).

    Thank you, Brant.  I also salute you for your service, fellow Vietnam vet.

    Maybe MSK will learn something from this, but I seriously doubt it.

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    lame repetition of the following variety you habitually do: 

    Person A: You're a poo-poo head.
    Person B (you): No you're a poo-poo head. yuk yuk yuk

    Now if you can learn how to do a better payoff than a simple gloat, you might start communicating in a way you will get some audience.

    Hogwash. That's a passing analysis of your lame Sep 19 story, though.

    1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

    But keep slugging at it. You are making progress and getting a decent setup. If you show some interest, we can talk about what a good payoff is.

    No thanks, snooty. I know plenty about humor, having read some astute observers, which doesn't include you. 

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    MSK made a parody Sep 19: https://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/topic/17667-current-riots-in-america-june-2020/?do=findComment&comment=299439

    I apologize for taking so long to return the favor.

    Mighty MSK at the Bat

    It was a fine but gusty, windy day for baseball in OLville. The home team was behind in runs 2-0, going into the bottom of the 9th. The visitors' pitcher was nicknamed The Magician, since he could baffle hitters with his toolkit of pitches, including tricky ones, made with superb control. He was often compared to Greg Maddux in his prime (e.g. 1995).

    Still, the home team managed to get two runners on base. The home team's play-by-play sportscaster, who was much like the late Harry Caray, announced the mighty MSK's turn to bat. The mighty MSK had doubled earlier in the game when his high pop-up, easily caught on most days, was blown by a big gust of wind beyond the fielder's reach.

    With the count 2-1, the mighty MSK swung at the next pitch. All heard the loud crack as his bat struck the ball. The crowd roared. The sportscaster began his oft-heard commentary. "It might be. It could be." Many in the crowd stood. ThatGuy and Marc leaped and yelled with delight.

    Then the flight of the ball began to curve and curved more and more, enhanced by the wind. The ball sailed well over HR-distance but landed foul by more than 50 feet. The sportscaster continued, "It is. [long pause] Oh, no. It's a long-winded foul ball!" The home-team crowd sighed, but they kept hope for change they liked.

    The next pitch was a gem. It neared the plate well outside and low. Then MSK watched --stunned -- as the ball curved in and apparently rose over the outside edge of the plate. His bat stayed over his shoulder. The ump yelled, "Ste-e-e-e-rike three!" Sadly, there was no joy in OLville that day. The home team lost.

    In a post-game interview a local reporter asked The Magician, “You were sure lucky with that pitch MSK crushed in the 9th, weren’t you?” The Magician grinned widely, then said “Lucky?” [long pause] “Do you have another question?”

     

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    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    On 12/15/2020 at 10:59 AM, anthony said:

    merjet. After posing "a Trump theocracy", and "smug pro-Trumper" personalized at me, anyone could only and rationally presume your Trump-opposition. Therefore, one against freedom as a whole, in my opinion, and for the Leftist alternative towards socialism.

    I didn't know until informed that your opinion has varied, has been inconsistent, against/for Trump.

    But I see what you are up to. To the extent of the low tactic of an appeal to someone's opinion of me in another forum.

    You goad. Then others drop to "personalizing" also, and then tit for tat, and so on.

    The zookeeper advises against feeding the trolls. He is right. I won't enter your game.

    Heh. Re theocracy, you dropped the context. You first arbitrarily invoked ‘theocracy’ trying to sneer at Andrew Sullivan, who did not use the word. “Theocracy’ implies more than a fusion of religious and political ideas. The more is real people practicing them in real-world politics. By your murky, presumptive premises, Sullivan must have meant a theocracy in the USA. I applied your premises to infer a theocracy in the USA in a different way that you didn’t like – Trump and Paula White-Cain – but wholly consistent with your premises. That's checking your premises.

    Your 2nd sentence is a non sequitur and a smear of me.

    My positions of liking X about Trump but not Y about Trump is not logically inconsistent. If you believe it is, then you must like everything about Trump, including all his lies, bs, and bad performances, or else you are inconsistent.

    Low tactic? My referring to OO members was merely mentioning another judgment like mine – trying to have a rational discussion with you is a waste of time. If I had not mentioned OO, then would have my expressing that judgment be okay with you? Moreover, why did I see no objection from you when MSK fabricated junk about my reference to OO, tried to cram the junk into my mouth, and then criticize it?

    “Goad” is a loaded word; “challenge” is much better. I challenged your questionable assumptions and questionable logic; I didn’t goad them.

    You want to play zoo metaphors? Okay, try this. Maybe I’m the janitor at the zoo trying to identify the results of carelessness, faulty premises, and faulty logic. It sure needs done.

    Is that enough "personalizing" – identifying who said (and did not say) what -- for you?

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    9 hours ago, anthony said:

    Right, got it. Thanks, Michael. That personalizing anybody over the ideas hasn't been for me on the forums, and gives an underhanded advantage to those who pull it on me. Sort of: "You're not just an idiot, your face is ugly too!".

    LOL.  😀  😄

    Anthony gets duped by MSK's mis-diagnosis. Then he tries hypocrisy. He doesn't personalize anything? LOL. Here is anthony to me within only the last 24 hours:

    "I think your trouble is that you would not see the way to individual freedom if you tripped over it" (link).

    "I'm one step ahead of you" (link).

    In other words, his arrogance posing as a rational argument.

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    2 hours ago, anthony said:

    What is the subject?

    ...

    I assume Biden/Harris were your choice.

    ...

    I'm one step ahead of you

    Wow, you are that far out of focus!

    .....

    Wrong again.

    .....

    LOL. 😄 😃 😀

    Wow, you somehow believe your arrogance is a rational argument!

    The OO folks were correct. Trying to have a rational discussion with you is a total waste of time.

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    1 hour ago, anthony said:

    I think your trouble is that you would not see the way to individual freedom if you tripped over it.

    Ditto to you. You seem unhinged.

    1 hour ago, anthony said:

    Tell me where Biden/Harris promise self-responsible freedom, in the good old American mold?

    I haven't been posting about them. Stop trying to change the subject.

    1 hour ago, anthony said:

    [Blah, blah, blah]

     

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    11 hours ago, anthony said:

    Fact is, a head line that reads:

    Christianism And Our Democracy

    The fusion of religion and politics on the right has made moderation impossible.

    ...the first implication is of a theocracy.

    ....

    And yes, never have I seen any concern about Islamic Fundamentalism from the Left.

    You get an F in logic, but have your way -- a pro-Trump theocracy led by Trump and his spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain. She can be the mystic of spirit and he the mystic of muscle. 😄 😃

    ....

    That's more of your pigeonholing and lack of focus, and you are wrong again. Andrew Sullivan is not "the Left." 

    http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/tag/islam/

    Enjoy your upvote from an idiot.

    Donald Trump

    in Stumping in the Backyard

    Posted

    20 hours ago, anthony said:

    A usual sneer piece of 'intellectualism' from the superior left. ....

    LOL. A sneering piece of “intellectualism” from a smug pro-Trumper based on pigeonholing, psychologizing, and fabrication. Sullivan said nothing at all about theocracy, yet that’s what you try to cram in his mouth. Sullivan is not a leftist like Bernie Sanders, Liz Warren, AOC, Nancy Polosi, or Adam Schiff, yet that’s how you pigeonhole him. For example, elsewhere he has been very critical of wokeness that is so popular with leftists. Sullivan said nothing about Islamic “Fundamentalism.” It’s nice that you noticed that while trying to smear him for it. Finally, not surprisingly, you sweep under the rug any fusion of religion and politics from right-wingers who talk with religious fervor as if Trump is a savior.

    I’m not surprised MSK liked your post. He’s fond of pigeonholing, psychologizing, fabricating, and smears.

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    Coronavirus

    in The Horror File Cabinet

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Peter said:

    It repeats what may have been already reported here but the Newsletter from Hillsdale College had an interesting article from an immunologist. When they first started testing people for Covid in the U.S., the death rate was 3 percent or more. But there is a problem with that percent. Only a small sample of Americans were tested back then. Now that a whole lot more people have been tested the death rate in America is TWO TENTHS of one percent. The death rate is much higher for people over 70 as previously reported. But the vast majority of people tested are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.     

    According to the Worldometer, the USA's cumulative death rate (deaths/cases) peaked at 5.94% in early May. It has since slowly declined and was 1.95% through yesterday.