boyfromnyc

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re: What If Donald Trump Is Just An Elaborate Prank? (youtube.com) originally posted by langhorne
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

You may be right, I may be wrong , but it may just be a maniac you're looking for.
Thanks Billy

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re: Trump complains about light bulbs making him look orange and people flushing toilets 15 times in rambling monologue (independent.co.uk) originally posted by eugene
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

Trump to solve water pressure problem.
Sounds allot like Benito Mussolini promising to get the trains to run on time.

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Game Two (self.sports)
submitted by boyfromnyc 5 years ago to /h/sports
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re: Feist's First Track in 6 Years - Pleasure - YouTube (youtube.com) originally posted by djfrodo
boyfromnyc's reply 6 years ago

I tried ,but couldn't get there.
I listened to a few other pieces with the same result.
I like more grit in my music.

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re: The best television show of all time? (self.television) originally posted by djfrodo
boyfromnyc's reply 6 years ago

I'm thinking "The Prisoner"

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re: Seen and Not Seen (2005 Remaster) (youtube.com) originally posted by djfrodo
boyfromnyc's reply 137 days ago

Remarkable, and yes scary.

There is a an episode of Criminal Minds in these lyrics.

I see this as predecessor to Stop Making Sense, @1984, particularly Once In A lifetime

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re: Trump Campaign Attacks Joe Biden for Not Having COVID-19 (thedailybeast.com) originally posted by eugene
boyfromnyc's reply 2 years ago

At first reading, I thought it was the Onion

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re: A Modest Proposal, (Apologies to Jonathon Swift (self.politics) originally posted by boyfromnyc
boyfromnyc's reply 2 years ago

Your point is well made.
Actually that is what we believed our majority vote meant.

The rules changed when Team Trump realized the implicatio

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re: You Can't Make This $%&@ Up (self.politics) originally posted by boyfromnyc
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

Gratias Percuniae

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re: No Witnesses In Impeachment Trial, Senators Vote (npr.org) originally posted by lyndonb
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

See my earlier post re McConnell " I'm 100% not impartial"

Trial a sham

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re: Mustard's Last Stand (self.f8andbethere) originally posted by drtom
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

Do they have Gray Poupon ?

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re: Shameless pop tracks of the 2010s that don't totally suck (self.music) originally posted by djfrodo
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

With pride mixed with a little arrogance, I can happily say I have never heard or heard of any of the songs.

I have heard of some of the artists

In the category of music that doesn't suck, at a Christmas party I heard a Christmas Trap.

I have certainly heard worse

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re: Evangelical magazine founded by Billy Graham calls for Trump's removal (axios.com) originally posted by eugene
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

Probably both, but I'll come down on the side of sarcasm.

I would say 100% sarcasm , except the issue is too serious.

Also , I wonder if Jonathon Swift had the same problem

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re: Evangelical magazine founded by Billy Graham calls for Trump's removal (axios.com) originally posted by eugene
boyfromnyc's reply 3 years ago

And now we have a Far Left Evangelical movement.

No more need be said

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FedUP (self.sports)
submitted by boyfromnyc 3 years ago to /h/sports
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re: KavanaUGH (self.politics) originally posted by boyfromnyc
boyfromnyc's reply 4 years ago

I am confident that neither of us believe KavanaUGH should be a Supreme Court Judge.
However, we get to that conclusion via different routes.
If I interpret your comments correctly, you are opposed to him because of his judicial philosophies and
his politics; a legitimate position
However carried to an extreme such thinking would result in a Court of likeminded individuals
(I must admit we do seem to be headed in that direction)

I do not believe unanimity of thought was what the Founding Fathers intended
At least that is how I read The Federalists.

My opposition to K,( I kind of like your Kafkaesque reference), is based on the man's temperament
and his ability to control his emotions, particularly at times of stress.

I'll admit to naivete, but I am more willing to accept someone with whom I disagree than
someone who has demonstrated the ability to lose it.

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re: Ruby Washington: A Quiet Trailblazer in Photojournalism (nytimes.com) originally posted by drtom
boyfromnyc's reply 4 years ago

O.K. I'm guessing is completely unrelated, but you sent me looking for Ruby Ruby by Dion and
the Belmonts.
Couldn't find the Drifters original, and have no interest in the Beach Boys version.

Also , if I see that woman waving for a cab. I'm stopping!

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re: Arlo Guthrie & Family pay tribute to Mary Travers - YouTube (youtube.com) originally posted by drtom
boyfromnyc's reply 4 years ago

Thanks.
I had not heard this in a very long time.
You are correct, the words still matter.

I don't know the solution to our immigration problems.
I know it is not a wall or a process whereby Immigation Judges allow people
attempting to follow the rules to languish.

Many of my Republican friends told me the Dreamer crisis would be solved if the Democrats
separated Dreamers from funding the government.
The Democrats folded, the issue remains.
The lyrics are meaningful today.

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re: Polarization in Poland: A Warning From Europe (theatlantic.com) originally posted by eugene
boyfromnyc's reply 4 years ago

Much too much to unpack quickly.
A couple of kneejerk comments.

After the election Jeanne shared an article which if memory serves came from The New Yorker.
It offered many reasons to explain the election result.
One of the reasons resonated; the Democratic Party had "overlooked" rural America, concentrating on the urban elites.
This article identifies the Law and Justice acolytes as being well educated and neither rural or poor.
The quote fro Hannah Arendt, 1940 ???, rattled me the most.

I'm reminded of a quote from Santayana, about those who refuse to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. I always thought, hoped, this was relevant.
Reading the words of the Greek professor re the circularity of political systems makes me wonder.

Finally, I can't ignore the similarity of Black PR and Fake News.

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re: Trump says official Puerto Rico hurricane death toll of 3,000 was made up by Democrats 'to make me look bad' (independent.co.uk) originally posted by kermit
boyfromnyc's reply 4 years ago

It is hard to believe but Trump's statements and sel serving lies
make Bush 2' Katrina comments sound good.

"Brpwnie, you're doing a great job"

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re: Meet Etta Baker (youtube.com) originally posted by drtom
boyfromnyc's reply 4 years ago

I could drive a very long way listening to her.

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re: Trump Accuses Democrats of ‘Treason’ Amid Market Rout (nytimes.com) originally posted by eugene
boyfromnyc's reply 5 years ago

Where is the outrage?
Where are Ryan and McConnell?
Why is the only damning commentary coming from Jeff Flake, a self imposed lame duck Republican senator ?
Labeling Democrats who chose not to support his narcissism as treasonous and un- American
has moved our government and country closer to the worlds phony " democracies " we claim to loathe.

It cannot and should not be categorized as "another Trumpism".
Repeated comments and actions which undermine our institutions have a cumulative effect.
" Say it often enough and loud enough a, people start to believe it"

The shithole comments are all but forgotten.
This latest assault mus be answered.

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Why ? (self.politics)
submitted by boyfromnyc 5 years ago to /h/politics
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re: Cleveland Indians Will Abandon Chief Wahoo Logo Next Year (nytimes.com) originally posted by sportsguy
boyfromnyc's reply 5 years ago

Allie Reynolds, a member of the Creek Nation, pitched for Cleveland before coming to the Yankees.

Reynolds was nicknamed " Big Chief".

Jim Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox tribe, distinguished himself playing for the Carlisle Indians,
prior to his Olympic and professional football and baseball career.

To the best of my knowledge, neither objected to playing for the " Indians"

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re: What Makes a Movie a “Cult” Film? (thoughtco.com) originally posted by drtom
boyfromnyc's reply 5 years ago

The Day The Earth Stood Still.
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Klaatu barada Nickto,

Groundhog Day

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re: Trump's Medical Report (self.politics) originally posted by boyfromnyc
boyfromnyc's reply 5 years ago

Donald Trump is the ultimate three cars monte player.
His ability to masterfully hide the Queen, keeps both political parties, the Country,
and all us citizens guessing and off balance.

To date his strategy has been "successful"