In my view, this particular forum has some benefits over “the Internet,” at large.
Once of them is the supposed interest in fighting ignorance.
Also in my view, the ability to offer predictions as a rhetorical technique and then avoid being called out for the failure of those predictions to materialize is not an aspect of fighting ignorance.
If it’s a flaw of the forum, it’s a ubiquitous and unavoidable one. Most of us recognize the meaninglessness of this rhetorical technique and can ignore it if we choose.
I have no problem with calling out lousy predictions, by the way. It’s just shooting fish in a barrel, IMO.
It’s difficult to see this as anything but an attempt to get in a dig and ride the line as close as possible without going over it. Your attempt has failed and this is a warning for being a jerk.
If you want to refute or rebut an argument or idea you are welcome to. Name calling or posting a picture and saying, ‘this is you’ is childish and jerky. Don’t do this again.
Early 2019, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer announce a joint select committee to investigate the crime syndicate currently in the White House. The committee sends a subpoena to Dumb Donald to testify, who responds with a tweet saying “I know you are but what am I?” The case goes to the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Roberts, of all people, casts the deciding vote that rules that he must testify before Congress. The first question asked under oath is to please recite the ABCs, and he misses three letters. Former Senator McConnell immediately tweets that those letters never existed. Back to Donald, who under oath states that he lives in a big white building that doesn’t have a name and that he is the emperor of Freedonia. Four men in white coats arrive to escort him to an asylum for psychiatric evaluation, and he goes willingly because he thinks he is going to Candy Mountain. The 25th amendment is invoked but Pence refuses to take the oath because it would mean being on the stage alone with Justice Sotomayor, who has arrived to administer it to him. President Pelosi’s first act is to nominate George Soros to be vice president and Republicans all over the nation spontaneously combust leaving only ashes behind. The 2020 elections are all won by Democrats, the second amendment is repealed and a new amendment to formally legalize abortion and gay marriage is quickly adopted. All nations immediately destroy all weapons of war since the age of peace and prosperity has been ushered in, a solution to global warming and a cure for cancer are found and Obama and Pelosi are added to Mount Rushmore.
(a) you genuinely believe the substance of the above; or
(b) you genuinely believe the dates, and have crafted a fun and fanciful story to serve as a framework for the genuine date prediction; or
(c) the entire post is a fun and fanciful prediction that
(c)(i) serves to contrast with the more serious predictions made earlier; or
(c)(ii) serves to highlight the fact that the earlier predictions were also made in jest
Can you help me understand your meaning with a straightforward answer?
This of course are what I HOPE will happen. What I think will happen is that late this year, the Mueller investigation will be sent to Congress and it will outrage even Republicans, who will reprise the Goldwater-led visit to Nixon and tell him that the jig is up and he must resign, which he will do early in 2019, 2020 tops.
I meant that you do smarmy shit like this and then have hifalutin justifications for it, as though you’re trying to Increase Accountability and Hold People Responsible, when really you just love to gloat.
Congressional Republicans have no sense of actual outrage or shame anymore. They occasionally fake it in feeble attempts to pretend they hold the moral high ground, but even the rabid right-wing of the Goldwater era would be considered liberals by the standards of today’s Congress.
As I said, the only way Republicans turn on Trump is if sufficient numbers of the public turn on them for not turning on Trump. Hell, even the ones who are criticizing Trump still vote for his agenda and don’t lift a finger to curb his excesses.
Even though I fear you may be right, I refuse to believe that when confronted with compelling evidence of Donald actively cooperating with if not being directed by Putin, that Republicans would not have the decency and patriotism to do the right thing.