like_that

On Mar 16, 2024:

like_that replied to "Biden vs. Trump 2024" at 10:52 am
posted by CenterBHSFan

No, this is where you demonstrate to us that your "principles" change, depending on the person in question.

In other words, you don't have principles. You've got /Democrat/ and that's about it. 

Your feelings about being threatened by Trump have nothing to do with Hur saying that Biden's lack of cognitive ability allowed him to give Biden a free pass. He made a determination without being a doctor and that has been YOUR main sticking point. You are as unprincipled as Trump is. If you did have principles, you'd want equality in the justice system, especially when the people involved had/have been in such high powered positions on the world stage. and it wouldn't matter if you were afraid of them or not. 


Pretty much sums up Ptown and most coastal libs in a nutshell.  If Ptown and those alike him just admitted that they know Biden is trash and no better than Trump, but they dgaf and rather  see their “team” win, I don’t think anyone would give them that much of a hard time. That’s just the reality of modern politics. 

Unfortunately, Ptown still wants to pretend that he is the reasonable figure in all of this and voting for Biden gives him the moral high ground. People like Ptown are dime a dozen. They think that they are so smart that nobody sees through their bullshit. I have a decent amount of friends like Ptown (especially in DC), but at least they are willing to be honest with themselves and everyone else. 

like_that repped a post in "Biden vs. Trump 2024" at 10:44 am
posted by ptown_trojans_1

Did he say Biden had dementia?

I agree with a lot of the report and have said Biden is too old to run. However, I still think he is less a threat than Trump. That is where I diverge from a lot of posters on here. 

No, this is where you demonstrate to us that your "principles" change, depending on the person in question.

In other words, you don't have principles. You've got /Democrat/ and that's about it. 

Your feelings about being threatened by Trump have nothing to do with Hur saying that Biden's lack of cognitive ability allowed him to give Biden a free pass. He made a determination without being a doctor and that has been YOUR main sticking point. You are as unprincipled as Trump is. If you did have principles, you'd want equality in the justice system, especially when the people involved had/have been in such high powered positions on the world stage. and it wouldn't matter if you were afraid of them or not. 


On Mar 10, 2024:

like_that repped a post in "NBA 2023-24" at 08:36 am

So the Cavs are…quite good.

On Mar 4, 2024:

like_that replied to "Biden vs. Trump 2024" at 10:31 am
posted by ptown_trojans_1

This is just my post from the other thread. Yes, I do think Biden is too old to run.


Stephen A. Voice, HOWEVER,


What Trump and his advisors are saying, to me, is far worse. 


Trump, just in the last week, is in favor of a national abortion ban, against article 5 in NATO, in favor of mass detention facilities and deportation, and Christian Nationalism. (As in Christian laws tied to the Bible like the Bama IVF law, white Nationalist) 


Sorry, that is an immediate no. No, to any of that and I'm sure many of the libertarians on here would be very against that amount of federal power. That is exactly what Trump is saying he and his advisors want to do. 


You can try and bury your head in the sand and say oh that is just Trump being Trump, but his advisors will be in power and their rhetoric is absolutely terrible. 

His advisors like Stephen Miller, the Project 2025 folks, and his religious advisors are the ones I listen to on what they plan on doing once he is in office. 

That to me is far worse than the current situation we have now. That's my rational. 

This sounds like 2016 election fear porn, and then when Trump took office about 1% of the fear porn propaganda actually came to fruition.   I don't blame dems repackaging this game plan though, because a lot of people buy into it (i.e. ptown), and it worked in 2020.  This is the third election in a row, where the best argument the Dems' campaigns have is they are not the other guy running.  They are batting .500 with this strategy, we will see how the third and (hopefully) final iteration of this strategy will pan out. 


Unless you aren't living in reality, which a lot of coastal libs aren't(including the ones who moved out of their blue states taxing them into poverty), I don't know how anyone can make an argument that this country is better off than it was 4 years ago.   Considering Biden's record, Ptown using any type of foreign policy argument against Trump is laughable at best.   So far Trump has been on the money about NATO.  We all know article 5 of NATO is not going away (so does Ptown, but he is purposely being dishonest), but nobody can say Trump was wrong when he said every NATO nation needed to increase their defense spending.  This is pretty much par for the course for the dems foreign policy since 2008.  Their strategy has all aged like fine milk, and their best defense is to deflect from their own neoconservatism to bring up the Republican neoconservatism. 

Anyway, I will vote for the Libertarian candidate and hope we have perpetual gridlock.  I would have voted for Desantis if he won the primary. He would have been my first Republican vote since 2012. 


On Feb 13, 2024:

like_that repped a post in "Disgusted with the Biden administration" at 12:34 pm

On Feb 10, 2024:

like_that repped a post in "Disgusted with the Biden administration" at 07:49 pm
posted by Heretic

While I would agree that regular people lacking in medical training might not be qualified to use their observations (or anecdotal evidence) to say an old person's memory lapses are a sign of dementia/Alzheimer's, I would say that, especially when talking about a leader's capacity to rule, the eye test just might be more important than it would be in determining whether Trump or Biden would be the best Wal-Mart greeter.

And when one of the two front-runners to be our next president (who happens to be our current president) is an 80+ year old man who seems to struggle with naming current world leaders as opposed to deceased former ones and kinda, sorta has an oops about when his own kid died, that's an issue. As is it when his projected opponent, who would be his current age in four years, confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, thinks Jeb Bush was the architect of the former military action against Iraq and feels the key to us beating the Brits in the Revolutionary War involved controlling airports.

But, hey! That's our country; where ancient fucks stay in office until they're dead (Feinstein), even if they occasionally lapse into comas while talking (McConnell), because we're too stupid to actually nominate/vote based on actual merit and instead keep these olds in power because they're the incumbent and that apparently means they deserve their place as long as they want it and can't be challenged within their own party because that breaks some super-important unwritten rule. It'd be nice if we, as a people, had the intellect to realize that since those assholes never will agree to personal term limits, we could enforce term limits on them via the ballot box, but nah, let's have a big-time election between two addled, cranky old bastards and give the winner the controls to the country for the next four years! What can go wrong?!?

Well, it's all about being a team member. We all know that QO is a Republican team player. Likewise, we all know that Ptown is a team player.

Politics aside, QO doesn't deny that he is a team player. He's pretty batamt with it and doesn't appear to care what others think about it.

Om the other hand, Ptown will call names, insinuate stupidity, wiggle and jiggle and even contradict his own self to avoid admitting that he's just as all-in as QO is, just in a different direction.

like_that replied to "Disgusted with the Biden administration" at 04:04 am
posted by CenterBHSFan

You don't have to be a doctor to be well educated about medical problems. You don't have to be able to order CTs or MRIs or schedule appointments with other specialists from big university hospitals. 

But you CAN look at the images, have them explained to you, be told and shown the differences between plaques and tangles, poor over leading books on the subject, go to support groups with others that have to deal with the same thing, learn how to pick people up from the floor, witness the incremental decline and lapses of speech, the staring off, the slack jaw, the incontinence, changes in personality and how to prepare for sundowning, etc.  Right up to the point where somebody no longer knows who her daughter is. 

One doesn't need to be an artist to know art.

And it's interesting because we were all told that all we had to do was "just talk to them". Interesting that that was the antidote when it suited you, Ptown. But when it doesn't suit you, one has to be a doctor.

You're full of shit. 

If one of ptowns friends or coworkers are showing signs of a heat stroke, hopefully his other colleagues/friends are around to do something.  We all know he won’t do anything without a doctor around. 

Reminder that Ptown is the same guy that will trust anonymous sources and unverified reports if it suits his narrative, yet we need violate HIPAA in order to declare that there is something wrong with Biden.


like_that replied to "Disgusted with the Biden administration" at 03:58 am
posted by ptown_trojans_1

Gridlock does nothing to solve the debt, immigration, defense budget, or any other issue you seem to care about. 


The alternative hasn’t resolved any of that either.


On Feb 9, 2024:

like_that replied to "Disgusted with the Biden administration" at 01:09 pm
posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

I think Gut's "divided gov't" point is accurate.  A divided executive/house/senate is a good way to prevent either of these two from doing much damage.  

Gridlock is always the way to go. 

like_that replied to "Linkedin" at 05:28 am

I have been able to get a few interviews and even secured a job through cold messaging people on Linkedin.  I think it's a great networking tool. If I am looking for a specific type of role or to work in a certain location, I amp up my use of Linkedin.  If I am not seeking a new job, I check linkedin maybe once or twice every two weeks.  A lot of people in my field post good articles and start conversations that I find intriguing.   I have had some people also cold message me, and I make sure to respond as a "pay it forward" for the other people who took the time to respond to me and help me. 

As mentioned, I do see a lot of narcissism, but that comes with the territory of all social media.   I just filter through that shit quickly to find when I am looking for.

like_that replied to "Disgusted with the Biden administration" at 05:17 am
posted by justincredible

So who are they gonna replace Biden with?

Well, we need to wait for Ptown's take on this one.  For years he has told us that Biden's health is in perfect condition and it was a figment of our imagination that Biden's cognitive abilities were sinking exponentially.  

If he confirms that this is no longer the case with Biden's health, then we can start talking about a replacement. 


Adding this article for context on how quickly age no longer became a factor for presidential candidates (take note of the age of McCain at this time and Biden's age now): https://www.politico.com/story/2008/05/mccains-age-is-a-legitimate-issue-010529

On Jan 7, 2024:

like_that replied to "2024 OC Members Highlights" at 05:09 am

I am becoming a father early March.  Please send Ts&Ps my way. 


Edit: I will be sure to post my child's vertical leap results to compare to Ironman's.   Please keep this website alive for at least 9 more years. 

On Dec 31, 2023:

like_that replied to "NBA 2023-24" at 03:51 am
posted by Heretic

So, now that their losing streak is at 25 games, I guess it's time to have a fun discussion about the Detroit Pistons.

Namely:

1. Will they ever win another game? If so, who will be the utterly humiliated victim? I thought Utah, playing without half their team, would be as good a chance as they have, but they lost that one.

2. When the season is over, where will they rank as far as Worst Pro Sports Teams Of All Time? Looks like in 2011-12, Charlotte was 7-59 in a lockout shortened year. Detroit would have to pick up the pace to hit that win percentage!

Have you seen that lineup?! Wow!!!


On Dec 20, 2023:

like_that replied to "Your Extreme Lack of Skill" at 06:04 am

I have the worst handwriting in the world. I was blessed to be born as a millennial when computers started to become more commercially available and affordable.  My handwriting was so bad that my 5th grade teacher made me do all of my assignments on the computer, which was not the norm in 1998.   


Edit: There are still times now, where I write notes at work and when I look back I can’t even decipher it. 

On Nov 6, 2023:

like_that replied to "Israel-Palestine" at 04:19 am

Will the Ptowns of the world finally admit that the Obama/Biden foreign policy playbook is trash (without mentioning Bush)?


On Nov 2, 2023:

like_that replied to "Israel-Palestine" at 08:30 am
posted by gut

But wasn't 'ol Bone Spurs the first POTUS in a long long time NOT to get us involved in any new concflicts, and actually got us out of 1 or 2?

Stop.  Now that we have an adult in office, the world respects us again!

On Oct 15, 2023:

like_that replied to "Israel-Palestine" at 01:56 pm

So, is it now ok to say all lives matter? Seems to be the case according to the left. 

On Oct 7, 2023:

like_that replied to "2024 Election thread" at 02:04 am
posted by ptown_trojans_1

Yes. Mccarthy set himself up to fail as he did agree to the condition that any one member can bring a motion. That is what happened.

The funny thing is, we all know it on here,but it rarely gets mentioned: if we really, really want to tackle the debt, be honest about it. It means drastic cuts to the entitlement programs and the defense budget. But, Republicans know that would get them no where as those are really popular. So,they argue about 20% of federal spending,  while ignoring the real causes. 


There is a lot of fat in the DOD that can be cut, and they still would be the world’s most powerful military by miles. 

On Sep 13, 2023:

like_that replied to "Cottage cheese" at 11:35 am
posted by justincredible

I've been eating Good Culture and Daisy recently and both are very good.

Good culture is up there for the best imo.

Some countries in Europe sell cottage cheese by weight at the markets. Those are very good.

On Aug 28, 2023:

like_that replied to "The Russia/Ukraine situation" at 12:10 pm
posted by gut

How?  China is projected to have the largest navy in the world by 2027, possibly more advanced than the US.  The US would have to rely on a decisive edge from it's subs.

Taiwan has no chance of fighting against China without assistance.  And unlike Russia/Ukraine, China is fully capable of blockading Taiwan from receiving that outside support.

China is still far off from becoming a blue water navy, and after that they will need quite a few decades of playing an away game to figure it out. On top of that, their weapons systems do not touch the US. A lot of people need to pump the brakes on the Chinese military hype.


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