10-01-2018, 07:44 AM
(09-30-2018, 11:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-29-2018, 10:13 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(09-29-2018, 05:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-29-2018, 09:56 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The Boomers who hold all the cards are those who wield the wealth and institutional power. They follow oil billionaire H. L. Hunt's dictum "he who owns the gold makes the rules". The Lost (like Hunt) were as rapacious as any generation, but they could never get away with what Boomer elites get away with easily. America used to be prone to tax conspicuous consumption heavily and have a tax system that favored small business over monopolized, vertically-integrated firms. That is over.
Have you watched the Kavanaugh hearings? I saw Cory Booker cut him down with language of mathematical precision. I don't see Booker as one to create a Boomer/X divide any more than Obama did. Booker has found the weak spots of Trump. He will not be alone at that.
Pretty boy Spartacus, who many X'ers are capable of seeing through the pretty black boy exterior of his and identify the nasty blue traits that people are starting to see, recognize and learning to hate these day. Dude, it's funny you chose him because he is the one I would choose to use or pick a fight with and use to make an example of in a way which divides blue America in two. I want to meet Marty Booker face to face. I'd like to ask Marty Booker if he would prefer good old American justice or ugly old street justice determining his fate. I want him to ask himself if the guy asking him questions about his seems like the guy who gives a shit about his fate and asking himself whether this guy believes in granting preferential treatment to wealthier blacks who live in or represent wealthier blue districts. I'd also want him to ask himself whether this guy seems like the kind of guy who COULD hurt him, damage him, harm him or limit in any way as a man. I what seen the other day was a cheap form of nasty blue street justice. WHO THE FUCK RAISED THEM? WHO TAUGHT THEM THEIR VALUES? WHAT HAPPENS TO BLUES WHOSE VALUES AND CHOICES OR VIEWS AND DECISIONS DON'T MATCH ENOUGH DEMOCRATIC VOTERS THESE DAYS?
Again so incoherent that I cannot understand it. Please do not post when drunk or on drugs.
I'm sorry that I'm not a professional writer and my writing isn't always written the best and cleanly written in a way that's crystal clear. You should probably learn to keep your mouth shut about stuff that you don't know about someone so you don't say something stupid that's wrong/false or falsely accuse someone of being something they're not or being in a certain mind frame that they weren't like a habitual drinker or drug user like you just did here.
I think that I am very good about not posting what I do not know without saying that something is on the fringe of my knowledge. It is my opinion that Kavanaugh is a problem drinker because whole in the confirmation process he said "I still like beer". I know and have known alcoholics, and unless one is in the booze business, is an anti-alcohol crusader, or in an activity related to the treatment or study of alcohol or its effects (including law enforcement)... people who talk about their alcohol consumption in incongruous and inappropriate situations usually is a problem drinker. There are things that one can say at a job interview that will keep you from getting a job, and discussing one's heavy drinking is one of them.
OK, I enjoy a good beer, and I can tell you that the best beer that I have ever had is an import from somewhere in central Europe... having one of those was on a bucket list of things to do before I die or, worse, end up permanently incarcerated in a nursing home. Many of those things are travel destinations that seem to be drifting away... and Las Vegas and Walt Disney World are not on them. Getting luxuries that simply show that one has the means in which to waste money is not on them. New York City and Yellowstone National Park are still on my list. Still, I prefer to attend events in which getting drunk is not a reasonable expectation. Drunkenness often brings out the worst in people, although I can say about myself that one drink dissolves my anxiety that goes with Asperger's syndrome.
Quote:I'm not Brett Kavanaugh. I'm not as restricted like Brett Kavanaugh. I don't have to sit there listening to bullshit, listening to Democratic lawmakers who don't seem to know the American law system or if they do they don't seem care about it, don't seem to be willing acknowledge it/respect it and value it like they should as American citizens.
Most of those Democratic lawmakers are attorneys, and they know the law system -- including the American heritage of jurisprudence -- very well. They wouldn't be on the Senate Judiciary Committee if they were not concerned with the legal system and what sort of process goes on in the federal courts. You disagree with them on what the law rightly is.
My knowledge of law is limited to a course on business law in college, which is enough to tell me little more than (1) before doing something stupid or even suspect, consult a lawyer who will charge you a hefty fee to dissuade you from doing such, (2) that the legal process is capricious and inscrutable even to attorneys, (3) legal precedents are necessary for preventing legal anarchy that would make business deals very risky, (4) the courts are the wrong place for partisan activity, and (5) that unless one is an attorney, one is extremely ignorant of law. There -- I said it. But it is still clear that Donald Trump has nominated someone grossly unfit to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court. This man is nominated for holding opinions of the law very different from the legal heritage of America. He is young enough that he could outlast President Trump by a few years if his alcoholic liver or diabetes does not get him first, but he would be a sick joke to a President with a temperament similar to that of Barack Obama.
Don't fool yourself -- once we are in a 1T we are going to have Presidents with temperaments similar to that of John Adams, Grover Cleveland, and Dwight Eisenhower, whether they be liberal or conservative. That goes with being a mature Reactive/Nomad of the type that America has typically ended up between Idealist/Prophet types and Civic types. They are as straight-laced as they can be, and they do not stir up trouble. Obama is that type, and however liberal he may be on human rights, he is an arch-conservative on jurisprudence. He did not look to the Supreme Court to rescue or promote his politics. Trump wants someone to bring his philosophy to the legal process, and he has chosen someone who believes that he can promote the Trump agenda after Trump. Add to that the bonus that he is a problem drinker.
We need clear (and I don't mean in the sense of the word as in use in $cientology) thinkers on every bench. Judgeship of any kind is all thought, so to a layman the job looks like a sinecure. The activity is so cerebral that it must be done with the clearest mind (one certainly not in an alcoholic haze) possible. Law is intricate and arcane, and unless the political leadership is corrupt, despotic, or dictatorial law is how we decide the most important disparities in life -- life and death in capital cases, freedom and imprisonment in non-capital criminal cases, and who owns what or can expect what in property disputes. Bret Kavanaugh falls far short for his alcoholism and his extreme partisanship both wholly unsuited for the Supreme Court.
Is this out of concern for the conservative bias that I expect from Donald Trump? I expect nothing other than reactionary jurists to get his nomination. Yes, it is my opinion that Donald Trump is the worst President that we could have for reasons other than his ideology. I have seen the consequences of demagogues in power in other countries in history, and I could not expect better in America just because this is America. I dread ethnic and religious animus for what it can do. At the extreme there is Nazi Germany, where people were murdered for the religion of their grandparents. Less extreme is the degrading order of Apartheid in South Africa. Ethnic and religious animus are thefts from human dignity, and even a small theft (filching a Jackson from the till at the store so that you can have lunch) is a vile deed.
Trump can choose someone else, someone amenable to his philosophy, and more subtle in expressing it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.