Wolves and sheep

Apr 21, 2021
Apr 21, 2021 Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Editor,

In response to Sandra Winkler’s letter “Look at the broader picture” in the April 17-18 edition of the Daily Journal, the Democrats are ruining the whole country — not just California.

(21) comments

Ray Fowler Apr 21, 2021 6:11am

Hello, Neil

Thanks for submitting an LTE. I don't disagree with your premise but is may be a little sheepish to just hurl statements like, "The way Pelosi and Joe and the rest have behaved is nothing short of a complete power grab," across the political aisle. So, what would you point to as examples of such behavior?

Ray Fowler Apr 21, 2021 11:17am

Well, if it was my letter... I would point to HR-1 (federalization of voting), DC statehood, and packing SCOTUS as examples of power grabbing. All that is going on while the media is asking, "Where's Kamala?" and "How 'bout that Maxine?"

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Tafhdyd Apr 21, 2021 11:56am

Ray,

Beep, Beep, back up the truck. I am a bit confused. The Dems are packing the SCOTUS. Where have you been for 5 years?

The Repubs won't even talk to Garland for almost a year to stall his nomination and then almost within minutes of the election they ram through Barrett for the 3rd justice in Trump's term. I am talking actual, not possible. Oh yeah, Maxine, we agree, thumbs down.

Ray Fowler Apr 21, 2021 1:27pm

Careful that truck doesn't back over your toes...

We have discussed (at length) the Garland nomination as well as Trump's appointments. Uh... did you see the word "packing" in the preceding sentence? That's because those situations were not court packing... pure and simple.

Court packing is adding justices to the court to achieve an ideological advantage, and that's what is on the Dems agenda. FDR tried it when portions of his New Deal program were declared unconstitutional. Fortunately, FDR's own party saw through FDR's plan and the court remained unchanged.

Funny how Dems are only talking about court packing now that conservative minded justices have been added to the court... those conservatives, by the way, are more likely to make decisions based on their interpretation of the law and not their personal political leanings... John Roberts, maybe?

Most Americans during the 2020 campaign were firmly against court packing. Joe would not commit... but said he would like to see a special commission study expansion of the court. Well, he kept his promise... but why wouldn't he tell Americans how he really felt about the issue? That's an easy one... most Americans were against it, and he didn't want to lose votes.

One last thing... remember who came down firmly against court packing?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Tafhdyd Apr 21, 2021 1:52pm

Ray,

I know we have been there before. I am not in favor of packing the court either. I am only looking for a fair shake and hearing, which Garland didn't get and Barrett shouldn't have gotten, IMHO. The Dems haven't packed anything yet, it's only talk. Was it Nixon or Reagan that "talked" about saving the public the trouble of holding elections? He would just stay on forever, like a king. Again, only talk.

BTW, I am surprised there are no comments, other than mine, on the trial results.

Ray Fowler Apr 21, 2021 3:31pm

Hey, Tafhdyd

Well, if Schumer instead McConnell had been running the Senate over the past half dozen years, it would be bizarro world and we would be talking about more liberals being added to the court. Even so... I don't see the court skipping off to the right the way some Dems fear. Roe v Wade will not be reversed. Yes, the states may get may say-so than they once had, but blue will be blue and red will be red.

Maybe we'll see a return to three-martini committee meetings...

Often, I'll grab a cup of coffee, drive to a nearby grassy knoll, and read the DJ's paper version. I didn't see you comments. Not much to add to the verdict... guilty. Did this trial divide America? I don't think so... everyone I know... left and right... thought a guilty verdict would be the outcome. Where did you post your thoughts?

Tafhdyd Apr 21, 2021 4:12pm

Ray,

My comment was on the DJ feature news stories that start the internet version we write on. It is the third panel that cycles at the start after yellow tier and tennis courts. I was just asking where the comments were.

Yes I think the martini lunch is the only way to get the country back to civility.

Wilfred Fernandez Jr Apr 22, 2021 7:54pm

Best of all, the "right leaning" SCOTUS didn't help Trump in his election woes. They followed the law. Which I believe is all deplorables like me want.

Terence Y Apr 21, 2021 9:20am

Mr. Wild – I agree on the Pelosi and Joe and the rest stance. After all, if you’re a Democrat and you’re with crooked Pelosi and Joe and not with us, you’re against us. Of course, I’d throw a bunch of RINOs into that Democrat mix. I also agree the global warming myth is a joke. It seems people ignore the fact that in Earth’s past, temperatures and CO2 levels were higher, but yet there were no humans driving cars, no plastic, no air conditioning, no aerosols, so obviously, the Earth will do what the Earth will do, regardless of man having the gall to think they can tame Mother Nature. As for vaccinations, initial results show vaccinations are effective, but we’ll see once life returns to BC (Before COVID). Unfortunately the idiotic mask mandate continues to ignore the science that masks won’t help against COVID (see latest Stanford study results, among many others that have been ignored by the lamestream media). It seems to me that masks don’t control COVID, but masks do serve to control the sheep you describe.

Tafhdyd Apr 21, 2021 1:34pm

Terence,

Please tell us your source for your latest right wing conspiracy theory on masks? Apparently you didn't bother to do a "simple search" before you spread your false info.

To help the the readers I will post a couple of links that they can read and decide for themselves. Just because you don't believe in facts you shouldn't endanger others with misinformation, even though that is about the only information you have.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/21/blog-posting/paper-about-mask-wearing-was-not-stanford-and-make/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stanford-nih-mask-study/

Terence Y Apr 21, 2021 3:06pm

Nice try, Taffy. You can’t handle the truth and all you do is post two links as to why? Well, your first link isn’t active and your second link is from Snopes. C’mon man, Snopes? If you read the Snopes smear job, all they can do is attack the writer and try to discredit some of what they call “radical speculations” by using their own radical speculations. Please note that Snopes doesn’t do anything to discredit the method or the results of the findings. Did you even bother reading the Stanford study or did you disregard it because the results went against the bias from your Democrat overlords? So much for critical thinking. And again, Snopes, really? You may as well start using links to yourself.

Tafhdyd Apr 21, 2021 4:05pm

Talk about can't handle the truth. Show me your link. Is it a third hand facebook hand-me-down or was it from your youtube channel with trump rally reruns? BTW., Stanford has nothing to do with the study so what else to you have in your book of lies and misinformation? BTW again, the election is over and it wasn't stolen or rigged.

Terence Y Apr 21, 2021 5:04pm

Wow, it must be Touchy Taffy day. Before you again go spouting off about links, you should know the link to the Stanford study is embedded in the article from your beloved Snopes. So in addition to not reading the study, you didn’t even bother reading the Snopes smear job? Did you just post it because it was from left-wing biased Snopes? So much for critical thinking, or even reading, for that matter. BTW, each day, more and more information is revealed to prove the election was stolen. A few days ago, the LAA released their report on Georgia and added another 12k illegal ballots to the existing 355k illegal ballots (no chain of custody) cast in Georgia. Arizona has an upcoming audit of Maricopa County (facing lots of resistance from Democrats). New Hampshire has an upcoming audit…

Tafhdyd Apr 21, 2021 9:46am

Mr. Wild,

I am not sure if your name is your ancestral name or if it is your pen name but I think it does fit with your rant about everything being bad in your letter. I will agree with the end of your second paragraph about crooked politicians. You did include both sides of the aisle with your comment but I am not sure if that was on purpose or just coincidence. Yes there are crooked folks on both sides.

The impression I get from your letter is that you do not believe or trust anything in government. I have to guess that you believe that your freedom is more important than the rights of others. I would not be surprised if you use a DuPont spinner when you go fishing in a posted no fishing area.  With your rather negative attitude I wonder if you are a registered voter or just someone that likes to complain and not do anything about it. As the saying goes, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. BTW, ..."They don't care about the country, or anyone in it. They care about power and money, that's it". Where have you been the past 4 years?

Wilfred Fernandez Jr Apr 22, 2021 2:39pm

Good day Tafhdyd,

I would like to understand the following, "I have to guess that you believe that your freedom is more important than the rights of others." What is more important than freedom? What rights are being deprived?

Tafhdyd Apr 22, 2021 9:17pm

God evening Wilfred,

Freedom is important but is total freedom lawlessness? If everyone thinks they are free to do what they want what would happen. Are laws and rules made to be ignored in the name of freedom? The rights of one are deprived when the freedom of another exceeds the law. You are free to do want you want on your property but are you free to dump your sewage into the creek that feeds other properties? You are familiar with fishing I am sure. Should everyone be free to take as many fish as they like of any size they catch or should they follow the regulations and take only the proper size and limit?

My comment to Mr. Wild was based on my impression, right or wrong, that he doesn't care for government and therefore I also think that he may not care to follow the laws set by the government.

Wilfred Fernandez Jr Apr 22, 2021 9:40pm

Tafhdyd,

Thanks for the reply. I think we are on the same page. I say freedom is unequivocal. Further, there are natural and legal consequences in the exercise of it.

Forgive me, but I still don't see the connection between what Mr. Wild wrote, freedom and the violation of rights. You needn't trouble yourself again. On occasion, I am slow on the uptake. [unsure]

Tafhdyd Apr 23, 2021 12:23pm

Wilfred,

If you are slow on the uptake it is the same kind of slow as Columbo uses when he goes on a side story to distract while investigating. It is no trouble to communicate with someone that communicates with good info or ideas, even when opposing views are expressed.

There may not be any connection to what Mr. Wild wrote and what I wrote in reply. I may take things too literally or not literally enough. Like the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression and that was my impression. Have a nice day and remember it is 5 o'clock somewhere. :)

Rel Apr 21, 2021 11:26am

Democrats ruining the whole country? The MAGA hat wearers and seditionists on 1/6 were hardly Democrats. Democrats power grabbers? You mean like Mitch McConnell having one set of rules for the Garland nomination and quite another for the Barrett seating?

Climate change a joke? Tell that to the West Coast who is undergoing record forest fires and droughts. Tell that to the millions of people who will have to move their homes because of rising record water levels. Tell that to climatologists who have measured historically high average temperature levels around the globe for the past decade. Tell that to anyone observing the rapid melting of glaciers at both ends of the globe over the past decade.

Ray Fowler Apr 21, 2021 11:54am

Just noise...

Terence Y Apr 21, 2021 1:25pm

Ok, Rel, your wish is my command. Hey West Coast, climate change is a joke. Hey millions of people who will have to move, climate change is a joke. Hey climatologists, climate change is a joke. Hey anyone observing the rapid melting of glaciers, climate change is a joke. Did I miss anyone? BTW, I notice China generates over 50 percent of the world’s coal-fired power and I also notice there has been only one nuclear power plant built in the US in over 25 years, even though nuclear is one of the cleanest sources of energy. If you think climate change isn’t a joke, convince China to stop building coal-fired power plants. I’m thinking they’ll tell you to pound sand, which may not be a bad idea, as you may be able to gather enough uranium and plutonium from that sand for the nuclear rods in your reactors.

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