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The Dawning of the Trump Era on Ricochet
I come to bury the election not to praise it or as the cannibal said,”I come to curry Caesar not to braise him”. I write not about the past or even today but tomorrow and the next thousand tomorrows. I am also writing about this place, this imperfect conglomeration of nerds, intellectuals, soldiers, patriots, thinkers, emoters, healers, comedians, musicians, atheists, agnostics, gays, straights, and marvelously tolerant God fearing people. This is a forum where people can have fun, learn, bond, or just be addicted to for pleasure. This website is also someplace you can get famous if you’re a talented writer or be like many who have fun improving over time.
We have a new president today and whatever your emotions, say a prayer or wish him well even if you’re one who dislikes or distrusts him. He occupies the office the world looks to and while the more radical elements of the left have reasons to be going bat guano, the rest of the country is hopeful, confused, and some are scared. By the way protestors, you’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company. President Trump deserves our objectivity and our well thought out opinions.
I was plenty guilty in many of the dust ups of dishing out abuse and took some myself. I had plenty of reasonable exchanges too, far more in fact than could happen anywhere else on the internet. Passionate people bring out passion in others and we get, er, passionate. I’ve become a better person by being here and I’d like to say I’m sorry for all the metaphorical Russian hotel beds I’ve urinated on ( plus all future episodes of ADHD verbal incontinence).
We owe it to whatever our cause is to be objective going forward. People who won’t acknowledge poor presidential decisions or behaviors in the future will feel some heat and those who view every moment his name comes up as a reason to vomit bile will find this isn’t Huffpo. Somewhere in the mass of Republicans in charge is someone who you admire so root for this group to be persuaded by that person.
I doubt the president will be reading these pages but I’d be surprised if people who interact with him don’t get some Rico wisdom directly or by link at some point.
So what advice can I give you beyond being a decent example when my head isn’t in the clouds, which is code, shhh, we speak in code here.
Narcissists are still malleable people, most especially if they mean well. Name calling and insulting will never bring out the best in one, often the worst as we’ve seen frequently from the outgoing and incoming president. Matter of fact conversation works as does acknowledging the perspectives and goals that might be shared in addition establishing differences diplomatically even if you have to bite your tongue once. If you have to bite it three times then let it fly and see how the debate goes.
We all want the best for the country as we see it and my prayer is for our president to have folks around him that can tell the truth and help generate positive solutions. President Trump will do things we all like, all dislike, and do a lot of stuff in between. How we all handle the between items is a challenge Ricochet will be up to. We lived through 2016. We got this one baby.
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God bless America!
I might take this time to stress objectivity but nah, you can start that Saturday LaRoche. God Bless you brother.
You too, Doc. Nothing but blue skies ahead!
Words of Wisdom for the entire Trump Administration:
Great post Doc!
And now for something completely different:
Where’s the moose?
Those Spanish shepherds killed it & made it into bagpipes…
That bandleader was having so much fun, but I feel for the little percussionist who couldn’t see him past the drum.
Like.
(I pressed the button, but wanted to say so in public, too.)
Hey! Doc. Aren’t we perfect people welcomed here, too?!
May these next four years be a blessing for us all.
God our Father, Giver of life, we entrust the United States of America to Your loving care.
You are the rock on which this nation was founded.
You alone are the true source of our cherished rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Reclaim this land for Your glory and dwell among Your people.
Send Your Spirit to touch the hearts of our nation’s leaders.
Open their minds to the great worth of human life and the responsibilities that accompany human freedom.
Remind Your people that true happiness is rooted in seeking and doing Your will.
Through the intercession of Mary Immaculate, Patroness of our land,
grant us the courage to reject the “culture of death.”
Lead us into a new millennium of life.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Perfect, @scottwilmot, thank you.
Great post.
Reading this post sparked a little insight quasi-related. Isn’t it mostly the same people who are demanding Trump to repudiate and say negative things about the evil strongman Putin who are also saying the most negative things about Trump?
We are all supposed to parade our moralism around on social media and that’s going to make everything right again? We can’t accept things and people as they are and try to find practical solutions, we have to demonize the players to feel good about ourselves?
Gosh, I feel good today!
Absolutely! This should go on the main feed.
God Bless and love you all.
The other day I went to my Doctors office for some blood work follow up. When I parked the truck by the front door I looked up into the hedges that surround the building and there in the hedges was a rooster. A big, proud red head. I live in an urban’ish area. This is odd.
I went it, slipped up to the reception desk and quietly said “I know you’re not going to believe me but there is a rooster outside in the hedges”. Without looking up the receptionist said “Oh I know, there’s a guy that’s next door that raises them and every now and then one of them gets away, it’s okay”.
So I took a seat in the reception area. As I was sitting there I thought “There’s a red head rooster sitting outside my Doctors office and Donald Trump is President. You can’t make this [bleep] up”.
This could be fun.
I don’t understand why people do not know this. Email is not a private form of communication. It is the equivalent of sending a post card. Anybody can read it, all they have to do is find the card.
Great post, Doc. I quibble with only one thing: I think what you described sounds more like a “perfect conglomeration” to me. God bless Ricochet.
That’s the kind of response we need for progressives: “Some of your fellow citizens are conservatives and occasionally they win an election. It’s okay.”
That’s what I’m telling folks. Make sure you’ve stocked lots of popcorn.
Today, we transition from one party in the White House to another, for the most part, peacefully. It is a blessing we have so often we forget that many other nations fight for it, die for it, and still miss it.
Me? I am amazed.
Beautifully written, Jay.
I can’t stop smiling today.
On the fiftieth anniversary of D Day, my local paper reprinted the editorial page from September 2, 1945, the day of Japan’s official surrender. The paper’s main editorial began with the words, “Dear Lord, let us be worthy of this peace.” I find that sentiment coming to mind often.
Both parties are constantly trying to raise money and votes by appealing to people’s emotions. It is hard to settle down afterward.
But we must. There is so much work to do, but we can do it. We just have to keep the Good Lord in front of us to light up the right path.
It’s odd that Trump is so polarizing. I never got his appeal in the beginning and I never quite understood the hatred that still persists after his cabinet postings. I feel like he is a Totem in the culture wars as much as he is an actual person.
I think that even though he’s so filthy rich, he has that Queens accent that makes him sound like a regular guy at your neighborhood bar. Not having a patrician boarding-school accent made him seem accessible and relatable to working class people who had always voted Democrat.
AMEN…and On it, Doc… Thanks, Scott!
This election has a sort of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington feel about it, I think. :)
So I was chatting with a millennial during the Need to Know/Flagship podcast. The millennial pointed out that Fox News and radio gave Trump alot of airtime while the NR and Weekly Standard people couldn’t stand him. Ricochet is the only place were the two meet up.
Great post, but all I can take away from it is that you moonlighted as a Russian Hooker. Med school is damned expensive.