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Dear Chuck…
Ouch. This was hinted at in the April 2, 2020, Coronavirus Taskforce briefing, but I still was not prepared for this level of smackdown. It serves as forewarning to the leftist hacks like Adam Schiff that their continued dishonest partisan assaults, including their planned grand inquisition just before the election, will be returned with politically lethal force:
Warning: set down your beverage, safely away from your keyboard and screen! Now enjoy a “Letter from President Donald J. Trump to Senator Charles E. Schumer.”
I remember once upon a time a company touted their 1.5 size sheets as saving paper because one often isn’t enough but two is too much. The product disappeared for some reason. The half-size sheets are also full size sheets and 1.5 size sheets and even double sheets if one has the moral fortitude to skip some perforations upon need.
Indeed. Judicious use of paper products is the duty of every American, especially in these trying times.
That is what proportional fonts and spacing are supposed to solve. The Mac is not a Typewriter.
I am not so limited as to feel a need to adapt what others tell me to do contrary to my own sense of propriety.
I wonder about the generational divide on this. I learned to type on a manual typewriter and used a typewriter through undergraduate studies in 1986. I then got a Mac Plus and dot matrix printer in 1988. I eventually stopped tapping the space bar twice after a period, but that took several years. If you are really trying to squeeze a document into a mandatory page limit, those extra spaces start to add up.
Kinda reminds me of how we “dodged the bullet” re: 9/11, with President Bush rather than Gore.
I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but my mother, surviving uncle, and several neighbors are that stupid. They don’t even know about “dog-faced pony soldier” let alone sniffing girls’ hair etc, yet still believe Biden would be doing everything better now, and will vote for him (or whoever replaces him) in November.
It depends on the font, and type size.
You obviously need Bounty, the Quicker Picker-Upper!
Oh, cool, a new tour! What was their play list?
I heard they did We’ll Almost Certainly Get Fooled Again as an opener.
They also believe that only Trump has ever “obstructed congress,” and if you point to Eric Holder etc, or show them the Obama inauguration with the Greek columns and talk of “now the oceans will stop rising” etc, they will insist those are all lies somehow invented by Trump and HIS complicit media. Wow…
So, they’re predicting a Biden win in November?
“Alternative” is misspelled in the letter.
Impeach!
This entire discussion reminds me of my late mother-in-law who, after we’d been on a trip to England together, was asked by almost everyone she knew what was the biggest difference she had noticed between the US and the UK. “Well,” she’d say, with a twinkle in her eye, “their sheets of toilet paper are bigger than ours, and their sheets of paper towel are smaller.”
That’s actually true, but I’d never noticed before.
As a person who used to live and breathe typewriter fonts, who once even wrestled with an IBM Executive typewriter (beautiful output), and who was immediately suspicious of the “Killian Documents,” because of the unlikelihood that Bush’s commanding officer could have successfully generated (let alone even bothered to type) a document on one in the early 1970’s,* I rise up in favor of the double space after a period, and against those who eliminate it while trying to cram a document into a mandatory page limit (change the line spacing or the margins if you must). Sorry @cliffordabrown.
*The linked Wikipedia article does imply that “proportional spacing” was available on a standard, non-electronic, IBM Selectric typewriter, one with which millions of people (old-timers) are familiar and know how to use. That’s not true.
The one-spacers don’t seem to value what I like. I like to have a pronounced space after the end of a sentence. To me, it makes reading easier. Also, when composing the two spaces put my brain into a new-sentence mode and helps me write with what I hope is better clarity.
There is no reason not to do two spaces. There is more reason to do three or four spaces than there is to only do one space.
I think we should use carriage return after every sentence.
Then call it poetic.
and in the spirit of e e cummings, let’s abandon all the capital letters. ok? i mean really.
we could also eliminate all punctuation altogether so that everything would look like either james joyce who i dont like at all or the opening to a childs christmas in wales which im inordinately fond of
andthenperhapswecouldgetridofspacesbetweenwordstoobecauseafterallwhatcouldbemoreefficientthanthat
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I thought once we got rid of the comment word limit we didn’t need to string our words together…
An excellent response by POTUS.
A side note to this letter and submitted for everyone’s pleasure (thank you Rod Serling); I had a rather interesting exchange a few weeks ago with Brent Orwell who is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a rather staunch objector of President Trump. The context of the exchange centered around Mr. Orwell’s position that President Trump is nothing more than a bully and operates like a petulant child. Therefore I surmised quickly that he was not fond of the our President’s style, candor and likely a host of other character aspects.
What I found intriguing with our exchange was the lack of appreciation for policy or function, and a dogged commitment to form, presentation and a sentiment of complete contempt for the President and his style and approach. To which I responded; the clash of ideology and culture was not created by President Trump but rather was revealed by the President and has him actively engaged in that confrontation. Which I felt to be both a reasonable and dare I say logical response.
What surprised me was the response I received, as it focused yet again on nothing to do with actual facts but rather placing blame fully at the Presidents feet for allowing this kind of discourse to occur and/or continue. Now in defense of Mr. Orwell, we certainly did not venture into anything material on a policy level and thus I have to assume the tone and tenor of our discussion was purely about style and approach. But nonetheless, Mr. Orwell appeared to lack the means or ability to discern any of the events that have lead to what we witness on a daily basis. As I pointed out to Mr. Orwell, the laws of nature do in fact relate to the laws of human behavior; meaning, for every action there is a just an equal reaction.
Oddly, Mr. Orwell did not embrace that element but rather went directly to a position of form over function, and that style, statesmanship and civil discourse are axioms of effective leadership and communication. Obviously I don’t disagree with his assertion, but the circumstances of our cultural divide and clear lack of objectivity concerning the conduct and comportment of the opposition appeared to be disregarded. And thus I probed Mr. Orwell further on the subject and found that he was not remotely interested in discussing the subject any further. I even suggested that maybe we take this off line and discuss this privately, and offered up both my personal email and cell number. And advised him that if he cared to investigate my background and credentials to do so, for I wanted the discussion to be civil and one where I could better understand and appreciate his sentiment. Unfortunately, I was summarily dismissed by Mr. Orwell.
I don’t slight the man for dismissing me, as I am sure he encounters many who are not in his world or sphere of influence, therefore why entertain or engage with anyone beyond that reach. Nonetheless, it is that very element that has distanced our academics, think tank pundits, political leaders and most likely our industry leaders from having a common man/woman touch. As the expression goes, the ability to walk with Kings but to still have the means to engage with the commoners.
This is the crux of our cultural divide in all facets of our society and geo-political climate. We are trapped in a world where one side has held the quasi moral high ground and bludgeoned the opposition with virulence and impunity for all too long. Now the opposition has engaged in the battle and is doing so with equal and similar tactics and force. Not a good situation but a reality that was inevitable.
We may not like or respect the nature of the Presidents discourse but to suggest that he is an initiator to this public dust up is to be entirely ignorant of what has been evolving for decades. The battle has been joined and one must probe well beyond the public rancor and investigate what is truth. That exercise takes considerable work and a means to separate one’s self from their own bias. Not easy but warranted. We are quickly approaching an event horizon that will permanently divide our Nation and thus truth must be revealed. We can not exists if our media is an agent of bias, that our justice system fails to serve the interest of its citizens, that our political leaders or leaders in general seek power and profit at the expense of the public and that we as citizens allow ourselves to be divided via identity politics and class warfare. I am not here to change the world, I am merely here to make a difference in my very small community and do so not by just words but by deeds and a commitment to the character of those who came before me and sacrificed all so that I could pen this commentary.
Oh so true. We are operating in the midst of a cultural, ideological and political divide. Sadly the population of this Nation are experiencing what a divorce is like, whereby the parents are fighting with vengeance and we are the unfortunate casualties of the battle.
Dubya was weak and myopic. In light of the family lineage, I take heed and caution to any offspring who’s father was an intelligence agency operative, let alone the 11th Director of the CIA. I think we have realized over the years, like the Church Committee that led to the formation of the FISA Court, and obviously a host of rather interesting events since the Regan era, that our intelligence agencies can & will wander astray.
On a post mortem level I am not a fan of HW Bush, Clinton, Bush 2 or Obama for they all led this Nation down a path that has culminated in what we bear witness to today. Globalization does not work.
The natural order of nature states that for every action there is an equal and just reaction. Trump is that reaction.
Portrait of a voter as a floozy who puts out for guys who talk pretty.
The ‘decorum conservative’ attitude isn’t new — remember, George Will savaged George H.W. Bush in 1986 for saying mean things about Mario Cuomo, after Bush’s ’84 post-debate comment about kicking Geraldine Ferraro’s ass (done in the kindest, gentlest way possible). Pundits like Will have long not given a damn how crass or vulgar Democrats have sounded, but get the vapors and go into a dead faint when Republicans act that way, because in their minds the Democrats don’t represent their views, but the GOP does.
Trump simply brings out that attitude in 10-fold the amount, and to the point where Will in June of ’18 called on voters to give the Dems majorities in Congress in order to teach Trump a lesson, and to teach the Congressional Republican leadership a lesson for not opposing Trump more during the 2017-18 period. For them it really isn’t whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game, and they do not want to accept any victories for conservatives Trump may have gotten on things like judges or tax policies, because of his tacky decorum, in the same way Will was aghast and enraged at Bush’s crude antics 34 years ago.
Agree the era of clutching one’s pearls is over. Tired of the intellectuals telling us how to think and act, while they run rough shot over the Constitution and our rights.
Yup, why do what is right when you can piss on the voters leg and tell them it is raining.
What I find sad is that even if you and the other millions told Wikipedia what is true because of your direct experience, Wikipedia wouldn’t accept it because it’s just “anecdotal,” not “published.” I think maybe in an attempt to avoid random garbage, they have wound up ignoring the evidence of many with first-hand experience of things, and which they won’t get anywhere else because it was never “published.”
Wasn’t it Greek or Latin that originally had no spacing between words? That’s hard to imagine, now.
Both.