OT Life's "Gray Areas"....

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  1. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    I'll start.

    In the Express lane at the grocery store, if the limit is, say, 15 items....my "gray area" is 17 or 18 items. After that, I may say something.

    That is, unless it's a beautiful woman....or a dude twice my size.
     
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    Saying is not going to do anything with some at Winco. :biglaugh:

    Hell, I will go with you @ABM and watch you say something. :biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:
    You should know that I will literally laugh my ass off.
     
  3. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I never say anything. In fact, if I've got a dozen items or so and someone comes along with one or two I let them cut in front of me whether I'm in a 15 item limit line or just a regular line. My wife does the same. Small act of kindness? I guess so, I never thought of it that way 'till now. I guess I figured everyone was that way.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    If a man associates with one pedophile, it's a grey area as to the character of that man.
    If a man has two close associates (who don't know each other) who are both in jail for trafficking children for sex, then there's something seriously wrong with that president.

    barfo
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Well said and should be obvious.
     
  6. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Not certain if this is the nature of your post, but, as far as I know, Trump disowned Epstein, even banned him from his clubs well over a decade ago.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    A political stunt. Trump attended a party hosted by Epstein where the only people attending were Trump, Epstein and 18 young girls. What do you think the purpose of that was? Reading Shakespeare sonnets?
     
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  8. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Here's the deal: Trump has virtually the ENTIRE media and ENTIRE Democratic class that want him GONE.....yet he still stands strong. Why is that?
     
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    Because there are a lot of dumb, gullible and/or racist people in the country?
     
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    As an FYI I consider myself moderate but I lean conservative on quite a few issues and Im definitely more on the right then most here.

    Didnt basically the “right” want Obama gone? Yet he got two terms and wasnt impeached. Its HARD to impeach a president.

    I dont like Trump as a leader. I also think some people take their disdain for him too far.

    I prescribe to the MLK line of thinking:

    Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”


    However as a leader Trumps onus is to lead, and unite and he makes no attempts to do that. He’s a hypocrit who has preached many things and been caught living the life styles he’s railed against.

    Trump has stood because of a few things the Democrats in power have proven very inept themselves, and it isn't easy to oust a president (and it shouldn't be).
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    He still stands because

    1) he's utterly shameless, and
    2) voters like you don't hold him to the same standards you've always held every other politician - hell, every other adult - to

    barfo
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    After hanging out with him for 15 years.

    barfo
     
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    I dont think you can use the voters like you argument unless he wins another election. Once he’s voted in the 1st time, not much “voters” like him or you can do about it.
     
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    One obvious gray area I think we all skirt a little bit is the speed limit.
     
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    Well said! There needs to be more balance and moderation with a spirit to compromise, for the good of the youngsters growing up in this country.
     
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    When I was 19 I got hit going 85 in a 55 (and I had managed to slow down about 10 MPH before he was able to scan me, it was actually on highway 26 by the turn off to north plains. Anyways I think that scared me straight, I try very hard to stick to the speed limit (which I know pisses people off). Glad they let me take a class and walk away but the lesson was learned.
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    He stands strong with less than half the country. Why is that?

    Actually, a bigger question would be...considering how he's not religious, says inflammatory things ALL the time (and I'm being polite and not calling them racist)...has increased the deficit (all things that are classic conservative no nos)...yet conservatives and republicans are still lock step in support.

    Why is that?
     
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    I see your point, but I disagree. Imagine if people like ABM started saying they weren't going to vote for Trump again unless he started being (not acting, being) presidential. Imagine if people like ABM started calling their Republican congresspeople telling them that they wouldn't vote for them again unless they stopped enabling Trump's worst habits.

    You know, if one person, just one person, does that, they may think he's really sick and they'll ignore him
    And if two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they'll ignore both of them
    And if three people do it! Can you imagine three people callin' in, singin' a bar of "Stop Enabling Trump" and hangin' up? They may think it's an Organization!
    And can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day
    Callin' in, singin' a bar of "Stop Enabling Trump" and hangin' up?
    Friends, they may think it's a Movement, and that's what it is

    barfo
     
  19. TorturedBlazerFan

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    I know you and I dont see eye to eye, but I respect your opinions and try not to chime in too much.

    I find Trump to be fiscally fairly anti conservative he loves to waste money, his and the tax payers.

    Then on other grounds he has sort of a mixed track record of being “conservative”, but “socially”, not even close, and all those morals and things my parents taught me, he has never lived even close to by those lines.

    I think conservatives stand by him because they dislike the liberal/ democrats ideals enough their willing to say anything but Hillary! Or anything but insert some one Dem.

    I think many now see it as either Trump or someone who they think will be extremely opposed to their ideals.
     
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    I get what you’re saying but, there are movements all over the place people pro trump, people anti trump. It wouldnt matter if his approval ratings were at 1% if the whole country said they wouldnt vote for him again, there is only a certain group with the authority to do anything about it and as long as they continue to not move. A movement by the people would do very little. When he was voted in, there was close to anarchy in the streets of many major cities, it didnt really stop his inauguration.

    I suppose if the current batch of politicians were less fearful of their own jobs because of those movements then they may very well move on impeaching him, quicker.
     

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