I have asked you in the past to stop the repetitive snarky sniping. I’m asking you again. I have zero desire to ban you, and I’m not saying snark is never okay. But the ratio of useful meat to snark in your comments is very low these days.

It’s easy for a comment section to devolve into petty sniping and almost nothing else, and I have no interest in having that happen.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/21/huge-state-department-announcement-shows-biden-lied-and-sends-the-afghanistan-situation-into-code-red-territory-n430643

The Cloth Headed Dummy was not truthful yesterday? Shocked!

Are the walls at “foggy bottom” closing in?

See Bonchie at
redstate.com

Oh my gracious, to not be taken seriously by the esteemed Mr. T., that indeed would be a grave mortification. His disapprobation gives me pause! Or not.

My mother, who was fully an adult during FDR’s entire administration, knew a lot about him, and was very intelligent, told me that neither she nor anyone she knew was aware of the extent of FDR’s disability. They knew he’d had polio and they knew his legs were weak, but they had no idea how bad it was. He used to pretend in public that he could walk, with his sons or others supporting him, for example. He would wear leg braces and grip the podium to stand – his upper body was of course very strong. So yes, most people knew he had a serious problem using his legs but had no idea he was basically wheelchair bound.

As I said, my mother described this to me, and it was long before 1982 when she was telling me. What she said about his technique for doing this is congruent with the description in this article.

At the age of 8, perhaps your mother didn’t make much of a distinction between having weak legs and trouble walking and actually being unable to walk. Or perhaps she was just a very intuitive child and sensed – correctly – that he couldn’t walk.

The notion that FDR’s mobility problems were ‘hidden’ is a fiction cooked up ca. 1982 by magazine journalists. The general public knew perfectly well he couldn’t walk. (My mother, who was 8 years old at the midpoint of his administration, knew this and explained it to me when I asked her a question about the March of Dimes).

The partisan Democrats in my social circle are pretending it isn’t happening. You remember all that blather about ‘epistemic closure’ 15 years back? It was projection, like every other animadversion they offer.

I’m neither pro nor con Zaphod, but you’re just a snide flame thrower. Come up with with some original thoughts and a substantive addition to the general conversations on this blog, and stop the sniping, and I’ll start to take you a bit seriously … but only a bit.

“Remember the Maine!”

Was about yellow journalism and the role of the Hearst newspapers in the run up to that war. That is US history.

As if the CCP and its controlled media is a good thing? Who has the reading comprehension problem Telemachus?

Thanks for sharing. You are free to be a fan of Z and to comment or not, it’s neo’s blog after all.

To be blunt.

Your “reply” to Zaphod was unnecessary. I read Neo’s blog a lot, and not just for Neo’s blogging, but for the commentary, as well. To be blunt, you rarely if ever add anything of substance, just snide comments directed at one other commenter. Do you really believe that his “Remember the Maine” comment was about the Spanish-American war? If so, your reading comprehension is junior high level, which I don’t believe. It was just pure invective from you. Or maybe I’m mistaken; maybe it is your level of reading comprehension.

From an everyday reader of Neo’s blog, and an occasional commenter, I want to say that I wish you’d just try to grow up and cut it out.