Quick Update

[Sunset Rose]

I enjoyed my time here and am thankful for forums like these as a venue for getting my own thoughts in order and having my ideas tested. But I haven't given up hope that people can actually be convinced by way of information and rational analysis, and that takes a different audience profile than the one here, which consists of deeply entrenched partisans.

You say that so kindly and diplomatically.

 

[BitterPill]

Mr. Bitter,

What is that how, six times I've requested you defend your position, and six times you've gone off on some nonsensical tangent?

Your position is: You don't think they keep Nancy as the House Democratic leader because of her looks, do you?

And my position is: Why are you wingers so obsessed with a person's appearance?

And so you went about deluding yourself, and I played you along. I was like the cat playing with the mouse, and you were like the mouse playing with the cat.

Why don't you cogitate on that for a bit and get back to me, yet I'm not sure I will be here. You may have to find another cat for your mouse to tempt.

You say that so kindly and diplomatically.

I have to say, it's starting to sink in that Arkady may no longer be with us, and that is certainly the most bitter of pills for me to swallow. Not even my giant shoe can console me.

I'm going to take some time off, maybe do some soul-searching along with the inevitable search for a new forum to call home, maybe one with Arkady on it if I can find him, or maybe none at all.

While this isn't necessarily good bye, it may be, and I will miss you while I am away.

 

[ya-ta-hey]

Your position is: You don't think they keep Nancy as the House Democratic leader because of her looks, do you?

And my position is: Why are you wingers so obsessed with a person's appearance?

And so you went about deluding yourself, and I played you along. I was like the cat playing with the mouse, and you were like the mouse playing with the cat.

Why don't you cogitate on that for a bit and get back to me, yet I'm not sure I will be here. You may have to find another cat for your mouse to tempt.



I have to say, it's starting to sink in that Arkady may no longer be with us, and that is certainly the most bitter of pills for me to swallow. Not even my giant shoe can console me.

I'm going to take some time off, maybe do some soul-searching along with the inevitable search for a new forum to call home, maybe one with Arkady on it if I can find him, or maybe none at all.

While this isn't necessarily good bye, it may be, and I will miss you while I am away.

Mr. Bitter,

My apologies. I do not know you did not know what a metaphor is. No wonder you were so confused.

Here, let me help:

Metaphor: (noun) a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

In this case, I was saying that Nancy Pelosi has retained her position, even though she was the leader during the greatest Democrat bloodletting since 1924 not because of some innate talent, but rather, because she has gobs of campaign cash which she metes out to her loyal minions.

Boy, don't you feel embarrassed, wot?

 

[BitterPill]

Mr. Bitter,

My apologies. I do not know you did not know what a metaphor is. No wonder you were so confused.

Here, let me help:

Metaphor: (noun) a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

I, the Giant Shoe, who just made you the mouse to my cat who wields that giant shoe, don't know what a metaphor is.

Stomping you was, or is, not going to be the payoff I had hoped - that is evident. Yet my incipient exit may have to wait a while if you, the mouse, another metaphor, continues to provoke me with a silly, "Wot?'

See how the mouse plays with the cat? Yet another metaphor though definitely mixed some.

In this case, I was saying that Nancy Pelosi has retained her position, even though she was the leader during the greatest Democrat bloodletting since 1924 not because of some innate talent, but rather, because she has gobs of campaign cash which she metes out to her loyal minions.

Boy, don't you feel embarrassed, wot?

So, a metaphor, in your view, is comparing a person's appearance, looks, to retaining a position while leading over a great bloodletting never seen since 1924, not because of talent, but because of gobs of cash given to loyal minions.

That's not a metaphor; that is drivel.

Bring it on, little mouse, that's a metaphor by the way, because thanks to you, perhaps, the Giant Shoe might not take a break - another metaphor.

Anyway, pending a reply from the little mouse, metaphorically speaking, I will be taking a break from this forum.

Also, I'm going to continue my op-ed to the end since I feel I owe it to the people who have viewed and responded to it, and more importantly, there are questions and concerns I also feel compelled to answer. I'm just that way. The obligations I've made to myself and others hold sway over my emotion... for the most part. I am human after all.

 

[BitterPill]

Gwen Iffil passed, and so the bad news keeps accumulating.

 

[resident_evil]

I often pointed out that it was unlikely that any poster here, liberal or conservative, was a paid activist, for the simple reason that Political Jack would be a poor target for paid work, given its small audience of mostly hard-core partisans. You could post here for years and be lucky to sway a single vote. It would be more cost-effective to target forums with a lot more people, or at least people who are less entrenched in their positions. That point has a broader implication. Posting about politics here is self-indulgent, in that the same time and effort would do a lot more good elsewhere. So, if people are curious about my absence, that's the reason. I'm going to be more strategic about where and how I post.

ha ha

You just figured that out?

This place is practice and info collection. But feel free to leave. ha ha

 

[resident_evil]

Gwen Iffil passed, and so the bad news keeps accumulating.

I have fond memories of Ifill on the PBS News Hour way back when.

 

[Wolfert Webber]

I enjoyed my time here and am thankful for forums like these as a venue for getting my own thoughts in order and having my ideas tested. But I haven't given up hope that people can actually be convinced by way of information and rational analysis, and that takes a different audience profile than the one here, which consists of deeply entrenched partisans.

Don' go away mad, just go away, and take the other DNC shills with you.

 

[Wolfert Webber]

How much do you get paid to say this.

Btw it is self indulgent

Also don't take yourself so seriously...no one else does. You were going to try to elect a woman who has violated are security laws and her Husband who has violated many women. You should just let it go.

Let it go, and then GO.

 

[Wolfert Webber]

Your position is: You don't think they keep Nancy as the House Democratic leader because of her looks, do you?

And my position is: Why are you wingers so obsessed with a person's appearance?

And so you went about deluding yourself, and I played you along. I was like the cat playing with the mouse, and you were like the mouse playing with the cat.

Why don't you cogitate on that for a bit and get back to me, yet I'm not sure I will be here. You may have to find another cat for your mouse to tempt.



I have to say, it's starting to sink in that Arkady may no longer be with us, and that is certainly the most bitter of pills for me to swallow. Not even my giant shoe can console me.

I'm going to take some time off, maybe do some soul-searching along with the inevitable search for a new forum to call home, maybe one with Arkady on it if I can find him, or maybe none at all.

While this isn't necessarily good bye, it may be, and I will miss you while I am away.

Hit the road, toad.

 

[BitterPill]

Hit the road, toad.

Toad is the metaphor in that clever rhyme.

Well done. Yatahay couldn't figure it out, yet I'm sure he can rhyme some doggerel verse.

Truth is, I don't expect Yatahay to return, the big shoe hurts, so perhaps you will do in his stead. Think you can manage?

 

[Wolfert Webber]

DNC pulled funding and computer bank

 

[Capitalist]

DNC pulled funding and computer bank

Yep. He's free as a bird to post here. It just doesn't pay what it used to, that's all.

 

[BitterPill]

If you two avoid me like that, you might be safe, but don't bet on it.

 

[Wolfert Webber]

I hope when he leaves he run into a BLM riot and they give him "what fer".

 

[Capitalist]

I, the Giant Shoe, who just made you the mouse to my cat who wields that giant shoe, don't know what a metaphor is.

Stomping you was, or is, not going to be the payoff I had hoped - that is evident. Yet my incipient exit may have to wait a while if you, the mouse, another metaphor, continues to provoke me with a silly, "Wot?'

See how the mouse plays with the cat? Yet another metaphor though definitely mixed some.



So, a metaphor, in your view, is comparing a person's appearance, looks, to retaining a position while leading over a great bloodletting never seen since 1924, not because of talent, but because of gobs of cash given to loyal minions.

That's not a metaphor; that is drivel.

Bring it on, little mouse, that's a metaphor by the way, because thanks to you, perhaps, the Giant Shoe might not take a break - another metaphor.

Anyway, pending a reply from the little mouse, metaphorically speaking, I will be taking a break from this forum.

Also, I'm going to continue my op-ed to the end since I feel I owe it to the people who have viewed and responded to it, and more importantly, there are questions and concerns I also feel compelled to answer. I'm just that way. The obligations I've made to myself and others hold sway over my emotion... for the most part. I am human after all.

 

[Capitalist]

Your position is: You don't think they keep Nancy as the House Democratic leader because of her looks, do you?

And my position is: Why are you wingers so obsessed with a person's appearance?

And so you went about deluding yourself, and I played you along. I was like the cat playing with the mouse, and you were like the mouse playing with the cat.

Why don't you cogitate on that for a bit and get back to me, yet I'm not sure I will be here. You may have to find another cat for your mouse to tempt.



I have to say, it's starting to sink in that Arkady may no longer be with us, and that is certainly the most bitter of pills for me to swallow. Not even my giant shoe can console me.

I'm going to take some time off, maybe do some soul-searching along with the inevitable search for a new forum to call home, maybe one with Arkady on it if I can find him, or maybe none at all.

While this isn't necessarily good bye, it may be, and I will miss you while I am away.

This giant shoe thing just ain't as clever as you hoped.

 

[BitterPill]

You seem speechless.

 

[Wolfert Webber]

Toad is the metaphor in that clever rhyme.

Well done. Yatahay couldn't figure it out, yet I'm sure he can rhyme some doggerel verse.

Truth is, I don't expect Yatahay to return, the big shoe hurts, so perhaps you will do in his stead. Think you can manage?

Raise that shoe at me and I will shove ii up your ass sideways.

Think you can manage?

 

[Wolfert Webber]

This giant shoe thing just ain't as clever as you hoped.

Rather stupid if you ask me.