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I respect your opinion. Here's the deal, he's been warned more than once to tone it down. He was/is obsessed with hating Trump and on almost any other forum on the world wide interwebz he would be considered a troll and banned. But, we let it continue. And yes, there were times when actual discussions happened in that thread. :shock: But, there were also multiple times where he backhandedly insulted every American on this board that voted for Trump by insulting (and not veiled insults) everyone that voted for or supports the President.
Now, do I agree with everything he does? Of course not, no matter who had been President, I've never either completely liked nor completely disliked the man in office. If people remember, I'm the entire reason Anthem and Richard Cranium left this board because I told them to tone down their floods of anti Obama stuff. So I try and be more than fair on both sides of the coin.
But now that thread is causing nothing but hate and I am tired of dealing with it/seeing it. If the closure of one single thread on this vast board is all he cares about and it makes him 'pick up his toys and go home' then that;s his decision. Again, him leaving because that thread got closed is just further proof that he is obsessed. I have absolutely no problem with civil discourse, and I openly embrace actual discussions about what there is to like or dislike about the president, my country, or my ginormous penis. So please don't feel as though you can't criticize, because that's not what my closure of that thread was about.
And here, I'll say it, most of what Trump puts on Twitter is trolling bait. He needs to have his smartphone taken away. He's done a lot of good for this country, but he's also given us a bad image too in some light. So criticize away. If anyone here attacks you for it, then I will personally step in, because that's not what this place is about. :)
Now can I please go back to fucking off at work and having fun? :x :x :x
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And a quick follow up, I'm far from perfect and I let things get the better of me sometimes. It's not easy trying to stay neutral sometimes, and I know I struggle with that. All I try and do is my best.
my ginormous penis...oh FFS I didn't think this would progress into Fairytale land :lol:
Lance, you of course can do whatever you want here. You are the creator of this place, contribute most of the content and pay to keep the lights on. You have my eternal thanks without sarcasm.
And knowing your personal political leanings you for the most part remain fairly neutral. I say fairly neutral because there are not many news threads putting Trump in a bad light, conversely many news threads..umm...making observances about left party members :lol:
Which is fine. You're the guy slogging through the news stories every day and selecting/doing the thread creation, so it's a dealer's choice scenario in my mind.
I appreciate you encouraging me (us) to post open civil discourse on subjects, but unfortunately for whatever reason sometimes that can't happen here. I posted a picture with a statistic and ended up leaving the site. That was my choice at the time, but still the exchange hurt and bothered me.
You never have to defend your actions when closing a thread. I do appreciate the explanations and your willingness in the past to look at both sides of disputes (FBD and Richard with the Obama stuff).
You are fair and within that arena, I think you're also more than welcome to level a comment or joke against the Left political members if you feel that way.
Now I can only compliment you once per year, then I start feeling weird. It snowed last night, I gotta go to two places to shop and then clean the sidewalks again :x
I'll be back in a bit after my balls return from being square cubes.
It's not the Trump obsession that got me to the end of my rope, it's the trolling and purposely antagonizing other members of the forum. He does it to not invoke a discussion but to try and bait a reaction and force an argument. EVERYONE else here has at times bit their tongue in an effort to get along and be civil. Lost hit the nail on the head above when he said:
Personally if I know something is going to really get under someones skin I don't go out of my way to purposely do it. If anyone here wants to post about politics, go right ahead, positive or negative. It's all good, just please try and keep it civil and lighthearted. It's supposed to be about having productive and fun conversations here, if anyone wants to have internet "battles" there are plenty of other places to do so.
I just wanted to touch on this...I have no problem with news stories criticizing Trump, on the contrary, I have looked to post stories about things I've disagreed with him about. The problem is, Trump is SO HATED in the media, it's hard to find credible stories using just the facts against him. That's the single and only reason I don't post many anti-Trump stories (I have posted one or two, but they are very few and far between).
Well, no one's reporting on it, since it's what the leftist media wants, but the GOA has been emailing me non-stop about it: Bill Barr, Trump's nominee for AG, is close to being as big an anti-2nd amendment gun grabber as Diane Feinstein. If he gets in, we're gonna have more headaches than people realize. He was AG before under Bush 41, and all he wanted to do was take everybody's guns away.
I was on my way to the store and I see an older lady walking her small dog on our drive. It's about -20C with ice crystals in the air, what we Canadians would call 'a bit chilly'.
I notice the dog has these tiny red booties on and I roll down my window and say - I like your dog's winter boots! The lady responds - Oh hello. Yes he likes them and I hope you have yours on today too! I smile and say - Yes I hate winter.
She says - You live in the red and white house across the park, don't you? (she points over at my place).
I say yes.
She then says - Last winter you gave me and my husband a good laugh. We were watching the news and you were out shoveling behind your garage. You gave the finger to the Great Snowmaker upstairs!
:lol: :oops: I apologized and she said they weren't offended, it was the best laugh they had in months.
I remember that night. We had a record month of snowfall accumulation last February (I bitched about it here) and I was out there for the fourth time that day.
There was so much snow on my garage pad I had to make piles behind my neighbor's fence. At one point I took off my glove, flipped the bird to the sky and screamed - Give us a fuckin break would you?
:lol: nice to meet the neighbors
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