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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.”
Published in General
Yes. I can’t help remembering how unglued the Left (and some nominally on the Right) became at the presence of the “Generals” on Trumps staff and in his cabinet to start with. But”the Generals” are gone.
And apparently now, the Left wants them back?
Well, it works with about half the voters, so I guess it’s worth a shot.
–President Trump drops mic–
More…
May history record the first woman Speaker as the annoying* little ankle biter she really is. (* I would say irrelevant but she has soiled lots of carpets and written too many large checks. In this context, quite an expensive little bitch.) Here’s to four more years of her being ignored by President Trump.
Brutal.
I love it.
I watched for years as W took the high road to look dignified and Presidential. He never responded to the lies and slander. Eventually, those lies stuck to him because he never refuted them. Trump not only refutes, the dishes it right back at them, good and hard. The Dems are so used to being able to slam Repubs and have them shrink away to their fainting couches. Trump comes at them with fangs bared and unafraid of bloody knuckles.
It concerns me as well. Senator Schumer may not realize it , but he is talking himself ( as well as all other senators, all congresspersons, and possibly all judges) out of a job. Once the military takes over, what do they need the politicians for?
Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?
And they are absolutely right—about the cam’t remember part, not the stupid part.
Our political discourse has been one continual air raid siren for the past three years, and normal people have simply tuned most of it out.
I’ve been fielding some pretty obnoxious emails from UK relatives. I’ve been measured in my responses; simply suggesting that they watch the full white house briefing every day if they’re so worried about DT’s competency.
After reading this beautiful letter to Chuck I am positively inspired. My next response is going to start with “Jane, you ignorant slut” and end with a polite suggestion that they move to a real country.
No. We must insist on the traditional two spaces. Our society should not change critical standards and mores on a whim.
That’s so funny. My critical editor eye noticed the same thing…
It helps us oldsters find the end of a sentence.
To us, a period and a comma are almost indistinguishable, so sentences tend to run together.
Perhaps so. I keep going back to wondering what they think will happen if they lose and President Trump is reelected. Demanding that he act as a dictator while possibly helping him remain president for four more years is incredibly shortsighted.
I know this is a divisive issue, rather like those paper towels perforated to give a choice of a less-than-full-size towel. Some people are really provoked by them. I love them, as I hardly ever need the bigger size. Can’t we all get along?
The president dismissed, and even baited the House Democrats in his remarks Thursday. If they waste time on another “witch hunt” it will just help his polls, he claimed, calling on them to unify in support of defeating the virus.
I find that a half a sheet is worthless, but I almost always prefer one and a half.
Glad to see that you’ll be toning it down 😛
We could; except that Max L., no friend to the doddering, squeezes out what he, with the thoughtless arrogance of youth, calls “extra spaces”.
My moderate tone has gotten me nowhere, except to invite even more negative communication. Since I find moderation so exhausting, I’m going to save my energy and go DT on them.
Listen, lady, you’re the one who started this fight
They are not wrong about this.
Yay, @annefy! Welcome to the ranks of the Incendiary!
Flame War!
But do be careful. Two week suspensions aren’t any fun.
To the contrary (you ignorant slut). Printing presses existed long before typewriters, and the kerning in non-fixed width computer fonts is designed to create printed book-quality spaces after periods with the typing of a single space. Two spaces is an artifact of the kind of soulless one-size-fits-all industrial revolution rise-of-authoritarianism fascist control-freak mono-spaced world that all right-thinking Americans should eschew.
Also, Ben Franklin.
:p
It mighta been typed by a Marine. Them guys are Courier junkies to a man.
You calling liberals shortsighted? I cannot believe you would cast such a shocking aspersion in these incendiary times.
This country has binary perforitical parties and your attempt to start a spoiler third party in favor of wider-than-standard sheets can only result in a win by those radical half-sheetists who are figuratively tearing our nation in half.
Don’t just stand there, pounce!
The software today takes care of it. I adapted. So can the White House.
How, they can take the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, hands.