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Tom Ridge Sniffs Joe Biden’s Hair
Former (Republican) Pennsylvania Governor and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has endorsed Joe Biden. Ridge has apparently never been enthralled by — first candidate and then President Trump — because “civility and respect, not … childish name-calling and [T]witter tirades.”
Yes, Biden is truly civil and respectful. Just ask Justice Clarence Thomas. If you want to be disgusted by the electronic lynching conducted by a “civil and respectful” man read through Ann Althouse’s post this morning.
Of course, Ridge assures us that “Vice President Biden and I both know that supporting his candidacy now certainly won’t dissuade me from speaking out later when I disagree with him.” Wow, that will be comforting under a Harris-AOC Administration.
Former Governor Ridge urges us to “put country over party.” Is that what Joe Biden is doing?
I am completely fed up with NT “Republicans” signing up for the Progressive agenda because of President Trump’s personal style. Tell us which policies that Trump has implemented that they would prefer the Democrat agenda instead.
The only ones I can think of are war over peace and uni-party decorum based on decades-long accommodations of personal trough gorging. I recall a statement made by a government executive upon the retirement of a government worker going to work for a federal contractor: “He will be continuing to eat from the same trough, but he is going to the end where the swill is richer.”
Tom Ridge is and has been in the same trough with Joe Biden for decades. Nothing must be permitted to endanger the trough.
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Assume a spherical cow.
You may be right, but I doubt they’d go back to the same goobers as before either.
Opps!
That is great! Where did you get that?
I had to go back and read this again. I’m amazed that a man so full of hatred for another human being can long for the “sunny, optimistic”. You have problems, and whether or not you believe it, I wish you well.
You should hang out with engineers and hard scientist more. You know, the people who deal with reality that smacks you down hard if you ignore it, It’s an old, old, chestnut among them.
It’s the punchline to a joke about mathematicians, IIRC.
QED.
Yes.
You don’t get that this was sarcasm do you?
For those who would rejoice that the defeat of Trump means the defeat of Trumpism, yet repeatedly say they agree with Trump’s policies, I say “whaa???”. This is the definition of incoherence.
Will it make a difference to those who feel that way that we now know the son of one of the Presidential candidates took a $3.5 million payoff from a Putin associate while their father held national office and that candidate is Joe Biden? Nah.
Orange Man Bad. And the devil take those who suffer as a result of Biden’s election. Millions of other people’s pain doesn’t matter.
And Trump only said they LET MEN do that, NOT that HE DID.
Besides just being foolish and ignorant, that’s probably part of my benighted mother’s problem too: she won’t be around long enough to suffer much from what she claims to want.
I think it’s indicative, but not surprising, that Gary completely missed your point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOckUS0OCFA
This is what I’ve been saying for four years now. Any competent lawyer should get that.
And remember, family law practices will have lots of business due to families breaking up, etc.
And if they LET rich/powerful men do that, doesn’t that mean it wasn’t “assault” even if Trump had done it too?
Or physicists. I had to look it up, but definitely applies to mathematicians. Definitely did not originate in the math department.
Did any jokes about mathematicians originate there?
On The Big Bang Theory (TV show involving physicists) the joke ends with “but it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUwlEdz42xo
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Not about mathematicians… or really anyone. All the best ones were math jokes =p What’s the integral of (cabin)d-cabin?
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I think that you are being extremely naïve. But since there is a pending slander case that has been filed against Trump by one of the women, we are about to find out what a jury says!
The only “mathematician jokes” I remember involved what I called “arm-waving proofs.” That is, the person stands there waving their arms, saying “But don’t you see? (How clever I am?)”
These “proofs” would take form of something like “6 is an even number, but 6 is an odd number of legs for a horse.” Therefor even numbers are odd, blah blah blah…
“But don’t you see????” [waving arms]
I came across a great article at The Dispatch which is Trump Skeptic but not Anti-Trump like The Bulwark:
Where Do NeverTrump Voters Stand Four Years Later?
Trump-skeptical conservatives like what the president has done in office. But they can’t get over what he says.
The first two paragraphs:
“To be a lifelong conservative unable to hop aboard the Trump Train is to be one of the loneliest people in politics. Sure, NeverTrump Republicans continue to punch above their weight class on newspaper mastheads and cable TV. But, chided by Trump and his supporters as “human scum” on the right and discarded when no longer politically expedient on the left, many anti-Trump conservatives have spent the past four years adrift, navigating through both increasingly awkward interpersonal relationships and a reassessment of their own beliefs.
“‘My policy views haven’t changed in decades,’ said Mike Bates, an Illinois man who once served as a township chairman of Citizens for Reagan and wrote 20 years worth of weekly conservative columns for the local newspaper. ‘But I’ve lost a number of friends over Trump. … Now I’m a RINO. Or a Marxist. Or nuts. Or some combo.'”
https://thedispatch.com/p/where-do-nevertrump-voters-stand
I have frequently been called a RINO or GOPe. In this very thread, I have been called a Marxist, or someone who enables Marxists. Oh well.
I appreciate the concluding paragraph:
“‘This year I’m on the fence between Biden and Jo Jorgensen,’ said Nick from Washington state. ‘I don’t think she is as good as Johnson or McMullin, and Biden is far more tolerable than Clinton. However, if I was in a swing state I would definitely vote Biden. Trump has got to go.'”
I live in a swing state. I can’t afford to vote Libertarian as I have done in the the past. I am “Ridin’ with Biden.” Sorry to disappoint my Ricochetti friends.
The best way to bring back Reaganism is to defeat people like you and your allies this election.
We shall see. If Trump loses in a landslide, what or where are you going to go? Of the 16 people who ran against Trump, who best represents your point of view?
That is silly. If anyone started to get the idea that maybe you had a point, you blew it with that one.
I’d be glad to have Ted Cruz or someone equally hated by the Republican Establishment.