You're not going to TJ me. Sorry.
Lol. You chose to engage in this discussion. Don’t act like it’s something that happened to you.
Your comments made it seem like it wasn't that big of a deal she left her dying husband to go "handle some family business" in China. Not like she was just across town.
“Made it seem.” So even though I made it crystal clear numerous times that I don’t support or condone her actions, you went ahead and decided that I support her actions. That’s the core problem with this board in a nutshell.
“Not all marriages are created equal” is not expression of support for her actions. It’s a statement of fact. Multiple people declared they would never leave their spouse’s bedside and wondered why she would so such a thing. So I explained why. None of us are part of a Washington power couple. None of our spouses are a prominent senator. Elaine’s husband is. None of us have multimillion dollar business and philanthropic endeavors in China. Elaine and her family do. She lives in a different world than we do.
I don’t support what she did. At no time have I ever said I support her going to China. I simply explained to you why she did it. Because it sure as hell wasn’t for the purpose of blocking the doctors from removing Mitch’s life support. She can easily do that without boarding an airplane.
Multiple people in this thread, also read into your comments that way. As Jerome said, why does this keep happening all the time? Have a good one!!
To Jerome’s point, it’s not “weird” at all that it keeps happening. It’s actually quite predictable. Expected, really. It keeps happening because no one on this board is interested in having a grownup discussion about anything.
By that I mean actually reading the words that another poster writes. Interpreting those words the way they were intended to be interpreted. Paying attention and acknowledging when someone repeatedly clarifies any misconceptions about their point. And then responding accordingly and intelligently.
The only lib poster I can think of who actually does those things is
@What Would Jesus Do? . There are probably a couple others that I’m forgetting, but none of them are participating in this thread.
Nobody wants to do that because it’s boring. It’s more fun to make fart noises and shoot spitwads to make the rest of the class laugh.
That’s why guys like Lucas like to accuse me of changing the subject when I respond directly to something that someone else already posted.
It’s why Torbee accused me of “both sidesing” in a post that’s not even in the same realm as a “both sides” argument. It’s why he spent two hours repeatedly accusing me of constantly doing the “both sides dance” but couldn’t spend 30 seconds coming up with a single example to back up his accusation. He can’t because there
are no examples and he knows there are no examples. But he continues to make the accusation anyway because he also knows he can rely on 10 or 15 of his buddies to join in and regurgitate hackneyed phrases like “TJ gonna TJ”.
Those guys made a choice to be a dick. It’s not even a little bit surprising because they do it all they time.
It’s why 8 pages into this thread, even after I have repeatedly stated that I don’t support Elaine’s actions, there are posters still accusing me of supporting Elaine’s actions. I could declare 20 more times that I don’t support her and the same dumbasses will still be accusing of supporting her. Because they’re choosing to be a dick.
That’s just the way this board operates. And it’s sure as hell not my fault.