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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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Well that’s urinalysis.
I’m so proud I’m ready to burst! It’s not that I’m certain we’ll roll back the administrative state. It’s that we’ve inaugurated a man who gives us a fighting chance!! Someone who is clearly not intimidated by the you can’t say that/do that/believe that nannies.
So, I raise a glass to my fellow Ricochetti and paraphrase the immortal words of Mayor Deebs: I would rather be with the people of Ricochet than the finest people in the world!
Let the winning-until-we’re-sick-of-it begin!!
There is far too much touchy-feely going on around here. There’s a bloody war going on out there and there is no time for quivering chins and steamy eyes.
Oh alright, but you all have five minutes and then it’s back to the business of saving this republic from those people on the Left.
Objectively? I object to that tie! It was six inches past the belt.
Ann Coulter said Trump didn’t want all this fuss and ceremony — he just wanted to get to work!
This is the first and last time I’ll quote Obama: “We’re going to be okay.” Well, not Obama’s legacy, but you know what I mean.
As Ben Shapiro put it, “Skeptical optimism,” is what’s called for now. Some skeptics could do with a little more optimism, and vice versa.
This is not the end. We haven’t won yet. We can only hope that this is the beginning we’ve been waiting for.
^This.
Robert, you and I are in agreement about the war. OTOH, many who appear to have chosen the Left as where they stand have gotten there through a form of indoctrination that is closely related to a term we used against the Communists in both the cold war and the shooting conflicts: brainwashed. We also have seen the term ‘programmed’ used. I cannot say how these people can be ‘deprogrammed’ but I do think many can be brought back to the realm of free people. We have also had many on the ‘right’ telling us we cannot restore our constitutional republic. I don’t accept this. The language embedded in this indoctrination includes racists, misogynists, anti-gay bigots among an array of others. We are at a stage, and have only a short time to make significant progress, where these labels must be purged because they are largely false as they have been applied in the political arena. We must take the steps necessary to shine the light of truth on those who have been flooded with these falsehoods so they may be converted to the right way.
but we are the finest people in the world! :)
Success may breed contempt but it will also breed converts.
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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/580461/bill-clinton-checking-out-ivanka-melania-trump-us-inaugration
O man, did that make me laugh!
Honestly, Hillary’s, “Oh, come on,” look is what really sells it for me.
He’s still this side of the turf, isn’t he? She’s probably the most beautiful, graceful wife of a head of state since Grace Kelly — and more exotic, too.
Hillary’s noticing, by the way.
He doesn’t have to pretend anymore. He noticed Hillary noticing, and kept right on looking.
That’s what made me laugh, he’s amusing, she’s hilarious.
It was so funny because it said it was the millionth time she’d had to deal with it. The awful thing to me is that she obviously stayed with him only to be near power. It’s really disgusting in view of the feminist tripe she constantly spouts. No normal woman would have stayed with him in a million years.
@umbrafractus Reason #45,652 why I’m rejoicing those two aren’t back in the White House.
From earlier in the inauguration, Drudge posted this pic:
They labeled it “GLUM AND GLUMMER”
[Oh, the
humanityschadenfreude! Sorry, Doc]Okay, I don’t get it. Six hours into the Trump Presidency, and the NY Times website is still up. No jackbooted thugs have been swarming through my neighborhood rounding up people for the internment camps. Damn, this is turning out to be as big a bust for the lefty hysterics as Barbara Streisand’s promise to leave the country was for me.
Great great post, Docjay.
Trump is at once so lovable a rascal and (for me) a very scary rascal — unconservative in ideology and temperament.
But he never ceases to make me smile. We’ve got a crazy four-year high-wire act ahead of us.
Yea, but all the “Climate Change” pages disappeared from whitehouse.gov at exactly noon. And I bet Trump has already ordered them to mess with the World Climate Thermostat, which is powered by fossil fuels, hidden inside Cheyenne Mountain.
Haters are gonna hate, but before you do keep this in mind.
I enjoyed that. What is it?
PATIENT: Well, DocJay, what are my urine test results?
DOCJAY: Bitter.
The image is disturbing. I’ll have nightmares.
Not tonight, tip a glass for me, I’m dry this month.
Since you mentioned it, I just finished enjoying a celebratory brewski at a local brewery. C’mon down sometime.
Did you see the letter Bush Sr. sent apologizing for being unable to make it to the Inauguration? It was decent and gracious. And I was comparing it to the bunch of congressmen boycotting the event. Bush Sr. has rather more reason to take things personally than any of them, and we know what the Bushes basically think. And he could really say whatever he wanted — he doesn’t need to care anymore. But he respected the moment and the office. (And Trump responded in kind.)
Some of them could learn from that, if they would.