SCYTL – This may REALLY BE the smoking gun

“Well I guess I’m compelled to offer my take on what the definition of is is. I’ll make it mercifully brief.”
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Except you were not brief, were you?
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“Lin Wood is part of THESE PEOPLE.”
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Sure, but if I was referring to a person (or any person) in the egregiously offending sentence, I would have used “he”, not “it”. How can you even argue otherwise?
Do you go around referring to people as “it”?
I saw your wife buying sweetbreads at the grocery, does it actually like sweetbreads?
Do you ever refer to people that way? Me neither.
Clearly the intended meaning was that the idea of “resignation” as punishment for Treason is cartoonishly stupid. If I had intended to say that Mr. Lin Wood was stupid, I would have said “he” is stupid, or I would have just said Lin Wood is stupid.
And considering your declared opinion of me, you should have n o trouble at all believing that 😁
Lin Wood is a subset of the larger group of people (political-class and media) who keep trying to MINIMIZE the most outrageous TREASON in our nation’s history. Traitors who make Julius and Ethel Rosenberg look like PATRIOTS by comparison.
The one person who is NOT minimizing this horrific Treason, the one person with the courage to call it out over and over again for exactly what it *is*, is the President of the United States.
I’m with POTUS.
Who are you with?
Lin Wood?
Do you want to defend this minimization of the crimes against our Republic? Do you want to pretend as if it is something it is not?
I don’t.
But when I point this out, you take offense. Which is fine, though I am curious to understand why. I’m not trying to censor your speech or silence your viewpoint.
Why are you trying to silence mine?
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“THESE PEOPLE must not discuss Kemp’s actions without calling for his arrest for treason.”
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Something else which I never said. That is a logical fallacy called a “Straw Man”. It’s an easy fallacy to fall into, which is one reason why quoting the person you are replying to is a very helpful thing, it removes the possibility (or temptation) of accusing people of things which the never said.
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“A tweet from one of THESE PEOPLE, has caused you to slap your forehead in disbelief and outrage, and blurt out term “clownishly stupid” – which you direct at THESE PEOPLE. Not the ether.”
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The idea that ‘resignation’ is a proper and just punishment for High Treason is STUPID.
Will you argue otherwise?
Will you argue that resignation is a just and proper punishment for High Treason against our Republic?
If not, then what are you so upset about?
I make similar comments every day of the week, all day long, expressing my reaction to various utterances by people in the public spotlight, and yet you zeroed in on THIS particular post like a hound dog, gnawing on this bone like it’s your last one.
Why is that?
You have accused me of making a personal attack against Lin Wood, which I did not do. I don’t know Lin Wood from a hole in the ground. If he was sitting right next to me, I wouldn’t recognize him.
I am not guilty of your charges, I am not guilty of attacking Mr. Wood personally. Moreover, I am not in the habit of personally attacking people who are on our side, as Mr. Wood certainly appears to be.
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“Evidently you assume Mr. Wood meant “your GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD” literally, as if he would telegraph a plea deal in a tweet.”
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Makes me wonder what my part in this conversation should be, since you’re handling the dialogue for both sides 😂🤣😂
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“I’m done parsing words.”
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But you’re not parsing words, you’re constructing Straw Man arguments. You are accusing me of things I never said, and then attacking me as if I said them.
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“We all know you’re the smartest guy in the room, and that it’s of prime importance to you.”
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Who’s ‘we’?
And how long have you been harboring this resentment and hostility?
And why?
What did I ever do to you, Gingersmom?
Whatever it is, it strains credulity to believe it’s actually about my short post saying that the penalty for treason is not ‘resignation’.
And this most recent line of attack is also untrue, I’m not the smartest guy in the room, not even close. It’s amazing how people can be ‘around’ others for so long, and not have any idea who they are or what they’re about.
What I care about is the truth, which (hopefully) leads to being right, and being right is important because there is no value or purpose in holding onto beliefs or ideas or views that are wrong.
And considering that we are confronted by so many people (Leftists) whose beliefs and ideas and views are tragically wrong — and the damage their ideas and views do to all of us — it is important to be right instead of wrong.
The world is full of wrong, and people who are glad to defend or go along with ‘wrong’, either to get along with others (to not ‘rock the boat’, and/or receive the benefits of going along) or out of the fear of being ridiculed or ostracized from the ‘popular group’.
I detest that construct, and I have become very sensitive to its presence. When I see it, I attack it, as a matter of course. Not only because of the threat it represents, but because attacking it is the surest way to make sure I don’t fall into that high school ‘peer pressure’ trap, and because it is the easiest way to expose the manipulation, and those who use it to control others. Just call it out, right to their face, and let them try to defend it. It shatters the whole construct when you do that.
Try it some time, at a social gathering, when someone makes a Leftist PC assertion with the confidence of someone who thinks everyone believes as they do. Call them right out, to their face, in front of everyone, and ask them to defend what they just said.
Your challenge will burst the whole bubble.
You’ll be able to hear a pin drop.
And be ready to stand your ground, because it’s unlikely anyone else will back you up.
None of that, or most of what I post here, is about being smart, Gingersmom. Smart would be to make friends with the world, to be like the world, to embrace the world’s lies and deceptions, to not only submit to the peer-pressure and adopt whatever views or opinions are held by the ‘smart’ people, but to use it to my advantage, to be ‘smart’ like them, for my own advancement or promotion.
I hate that. I am diametrically opposed to it. It is so phony and dishonest and coercive (and subversive, and corruptive) that it provokes a reaction against it. It provokes me to fight it. And since it is everywhere, I fight it everywhere, all the time. It’s second nature, practically subconscious most of the time, until a confrontation occurs.
That doesn’t make me very popular with the ‘in crowd’, so it’s not the kind of thing the ‘smartest guy in the room’ would do. It’s the opposite of what the smartest guy in the room would do.
I am sure Lin Wood is very smart, far smarter than I am. Lin Wood will never read anything I’ve ever written. I was shouting at the universe, into the void, declaring the plain truth that RESIGNATION is NOT the penalty for Treason.
It’s not even debatable, anyone can look it up for themselves.
It is also true that pretending as if ‘resignation’ is an acceptable punishment for Treason MINIMIZES the crime of Treason, it ‘normalizes’ the crime of Treason, it is permissive of the crime of Treason.
Suggesting or implying that these crimes of Treason against our Republic only merit resignation by the perpetrators — which many of the main players besides the President do routinely — is a full frontal assault on reality. Akin to catching someone molesting a child and suggesting that losing their job is sufficient punishment. That’s absurd and obscene. No one in their right mind would consider that a just or acceptable punishment.
But when a global Satanic pedophile ring tries to rape our COUNTRY and take over the entire world in the process, suddenly all many people can do is timidly suggest that they ought to resign. Not even forcing them to resign, just suggesting or requesting.
It makes me SICK.
It ought to make ANY patriot sick. And angry.
I don’t have a national spotlight to oppose that kind of assault on reality at a national level. But I can declare truth and call out the minimization and normalization of these crimes to whosoever will hear.
And if no one will hear, or no one else will say it, then I will say it — because I need to hear it.
There are at least two good reasons why I do this and things like it, and I do it all the time.
First, it is an affirmation of reality, of truth, which is always a good thing, but even more critical in the midst of an information war.
And second, the affirmation of truth and reality is edifying to others, that others who see how truth is being twisted or ignored or marginalized will know that they are NOT alone, that we ALL see it and we ALL know.
” (ah, that Carly Simon tune)”
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I’m pretty good with songs from that era, but I don’t know which one you’re referring to here. It could be “You’re so Vain”, that’s probably her best known song, but that song has nothing to do with being ‘smart’ or being the ‘smartest guy in the room’.
It may be in vain to affirm reality and shout truth into the void (all is vanity, cf. Ecclesiastes 1:2), but that is very different from believing oneself is better than others, which I certainly do not.
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“But when you lay it on so thick and smarmy, it’s no longer smart. Insert cringe emoji.”
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You have figured me all wrong, Gingersmom.
I am not your enemy, and I am not the things you have accused me of being.
I don’t know what has set you off, unless you are the wife or daughter or mother of Lin Wood — and even if you are, nothing I said was a personal attack against him.
I did not lay anything on ‘thick’ or ‘smarmy’, I attempted to use humor to lighten the discussion, to diffuse tension, to signal that I was not angry, etc. This is a written medium, and it is easy to come across in the wrong way, so injecting humor and/or sarcasm is helpful to avoid coming across as hostile or aggressive.
If I had been blunt and direct, I suspect you would not have liked that either.
What would you have me do?
How can I disagree with you or defend myself, in a way that meets your approval?

“I’ve asked for someone else to read through this conversation.”
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What on earth are you implying that I’ve done wrong now, Gingersmom?
There’s no need to make insinuations or put any more words in my mouth — just copy and paste my exact words in quotes.
It’s easy!