PUFFINGRASS. TOOL PALACE & PAWN. THINKING MADE OF MOONBEAMS, UNICORNS & VICTIMS . . . ONE TRAIT OF MILLENNIALS, THE MAJORITY OF BERNIE SANDER'S SUPPORTERS, IS THE FACT THAT THEY TRUST AUTHORITY FIGURES, PARENTS, TEACHERS, BOSSES, ETC.; HOWEVER, IF THOSE SAME AUTHORITY FIGURES, BETRAYS OR DISAPPOINTS THEM, THEY TURN WITH VENOMOUS RAGE ON THOSE SAME AUTHORITY FIGURES . . . ARE WE SEEING THIS WITH THE DNC AND THE CONVENTION? BE CAREFUL--YOUNG, PASSIONATE, IDEALISTIC VOTERS: (1) HILLARY CLINTON HAS 2.9 MILLION MORE VOTERS THAN BERNIE SANDERS; (2) THE BERN SAYS THAT THERE WERE 400 PLEDGE DELEGATES, PLEDGED BEFORE ANYONE ELSE GOT IN THE RACE . . . WHO CONTROLLED WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THEIR CANDIDACY? (3) IN ALL THE LOVE FOR YOUR CANDIDATE, YOU CAN'T DENY THE MATH, PRETEND THE SCOREBOARD DOESN'T MATTER, THAT ONLY SUPPORT FOR BERNIE MATTERS, ONLY BERNIE'S FANS MATTER . . . WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HERE . . . IF YOU CARRY YOUR ANGER, YOUR FEELING OF BEING BETRAYED TO THE CONVENTION, AND MAKE IT AS MESSY AND UGLY AS YOU CAN, NOW WITH THE DNC GIVING BERNIE SANDER'S SUPPORTERS 4 OR 5 KEY POSITIONS ON THE RULES COMMITTEE, THEY CAN BE AS DIVISIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE AS AMERICAN POLITICS WILL LET THEM BE WITH FREE POLITICAL DISCOURSE WHICH IS GOOD, BUT WHAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE? WHO IS GOING TO BENEFIT FROM YOUR PISS AND VIGOR? A MAN WHO IS RUNNING ON 20 OR 30 YEAR OLD CONSPIRACY THEORIES RATHER THAN ISSUES AND POLICIES, ROBBING THE CRYPT, DIGGING UP CONSPIRACIES, THAT WERE NOT EVEN ENTERTAINED IN THE 90'S . . . YOU HAVE A BIRTHER, SOMEONE WHO IS DRAGGING UP ALLEGED RAPES, THAT WERE NOT PROVEN, SUBSTANTIATED, NOR VALIDATED, BACK WHEN NONE OF US WANTED TO HEAR IT--THE ECONOMY WAS BOOMING, THE COUNTRY ROCKIN' AND JOBS AND PROSPERITY FLOWING . . . DO WE WANT TO HEAR FOX OPINION, DRAG THE CHICKS WHO BILKED THEIR CONNECTION WITH THE PRESIDENT TO THE HILT--SELLING THEIR STORIES TO THE TABLOIDS, NOT TO DEMINISH THEIR ACCOUNTS, BUT USING MONEY TO GETTING BOOB JOBS, NOSE JOBS, GLAMOUR MAKE-OVERS, AND PUBLISHING THEIR BOOKS, JUST LIKE MONICA LEWINSKI, JUST TRIED, REVITALIZING HER ROLE AS THE "VICTIM" WHEN HILLARY ANNOUNCED HER BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY, CHAMPIONING CYBER BULLYING ATTACKS, GOOD BUT IT DIDN'T LAST . . . DO YOU SEE HER STILL? A TIMED REPUBLICAN PAWN, I AM GUESSING. TRUMP IS TRYING TO DIVERT, I LACK OF EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, PLAN, THE HARD WORK OF A "REAL" CANDIDACY, ATTACKING THE PERSON, RATHER THAN THE ISSUES, TAKING THIS CAMPAIGN FROM THE ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED, TO OLD MURDER CONSPIRACIES, OF FOSTER, THAT WAS RULED A SUICIDE? ARE WE GOING TO LOOK LIKE THE "NATIONAL ENQUIRER" NATION, OR ARE WE GOING TO TAKE A POSITION OF STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP IN THE WORLD? BACK IN 2008, SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON WAS MUCH CLOSER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA, IN VOTES, PLEDGE DELEGATES, AND WINNING MANY OF THE LAST STATE PRIMARIES AND CAUCUSES, BUT AS SHE SEES THE WRITING ON THE WALL, THAT, THE TREND WAS MOVING TOWARD AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY, HILLARY, VERY GRACEFULLY, BOWED ASIDE, GAVE A GREAT SPEECH IN SUPPORT OF BARACK OBAMA, AND THREW HER FULL SUPPORT TO HIS CANDIDACY AND ENCOURAGING ALL HER SUPPORTERS TO GET BEHIND OBAMA TO BEAT SENATOR MCCAIN, IN A UNITED FRONT, GOING INTO THE DNC CONVENTION, I EVEN REMEMBER HER STANDING IN HER ORANGE JUMPSUIT, GIVING A POWERFUL SPEECH, LEAVING MANY OF US, WONDERING WHAT THE HELL THE VOTERS WERE SEEING IN THE YOUNG SENATOR OBAMA, AND WHAT WERE THEY THINKING TO GIVE UP THIS POWERHOUSE, FOR AN UNKNOWN? I REMEMBER BLACK WOMEN CRYING, BESIDE THEMSELVES, WHEN HILLARY CONCEDED TO DROP OUT AND SUPPORT FULLY, PRESIDENT OBAMA, AND THE REST IS HISTORY . . . SHE EVEN PUT THE CAMPAIGN ASIDE AND ACCEPTED A BIG POSITION, AS SECRETARY OF STATE, SERVING FOUR YEARS FOR HER COMPETITION, BEING THE TOTAL ADULT IN THE ROOM! THINK LONG TERM, BIG PICTURE, AND WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE IN THIS ELECTION? A TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT? SOMEONE MADE THE COMMENT THIS MORNING ON MSNBC, THAT BERNIE HAS PLAYED THE ANGRY "VICTIM" SINCE WAY BACK, IN HIS COLLEGE DAYS, STARTING AT THE SAME TIME IN LIFE THAT MOST OF YOU ARE AT RIGHT NOW--HIS ISSUES ARE ROCK SOLID GOOD, THE SOLUTIONS, TAX HIKES, SOCIALIST LEANINGS? . . . DON'T GIVE UP YOUR FIGHT, YOUR PASSIONS, YOUR IDEALISM, JUST REDIRECT THAT ENERGY AND REFOCUS ON YOUR PARTIES CANDIDATE, THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE HILLARY, AT THIS POINT . . . I GUESS A MIRACLE COULD HAPPEN, BUT DO THE MATH! YOU ARE PROBABLY THE "SMARTEST GENERATION" SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, WITH ALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS . . . THIS ELECTION MATTERS! EXPERIENCE MATTERS. YOUR SUPPORT AND VOTE MATTER! YOU DIGGIN' IN TO HELP THE DEMOCRAT WHO WINS THE NOMINATION, IS VITAL AND CRITICAL! I LOVE THE OLD MARINE MANTRA . . . ADAPT! LOOK FORWARD, NOT BACKWARD! TWO VERY INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEWS YESTERDAY AND THIS MORNING: (1) VETERANS PROTESTING AT THE TRUMP TOWERS OVER TRUMP'S PROMISES, LIES, FUND RAISING, AND ISSUES, USING VETERANS AS POLITICAL PAWNS . . . GOOD FOR ALEXANDER FOR ORGANIZING THE EVENT . . . HE IS DAMN RIGHT AND SPOT ON, FOR GOING AFTER TRUMP ON HIS ALLEGED $6 MILLION FUND, THAT HAS NEVER MADE IT TO THE VETS, HE TRUMPETED AND SAID SUPPORTED . . . "A MAN'S TREASURE IS WHERE HIS HEART IS" . . . TRUMP DOESN'T PAY TAXES, DOES THAT SUGGEST HIS HEART IS NOT IN AMERICA? I WOULD SAY HIS REFUSAL TO TURN OVER HIS TAX RETURNS, OR HIS EFFORT TO PAY AS LITTLE TAXES AS POSSIBLE, AND THE NOTION THAT IT IS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS WHAT HIS TAX RATE IS, DISQUALIFIES HIM MORE THAN HIS IGNORANCE OF POLICY, THE ISSUES AND HOW TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT, ALREADY DOES. THE MONEY THE DONALD, ALLEGEDLY RAISED BACK, WHEN HE OPENED HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN, SPEAKING IN FRONT OF THE USS IOWA, ALLEGING THAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VETS SUPPORTED HIM, WITH FACT CHECKERS FINDING OUT THAT THE ORGANIZATIONS TRUMPED AS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VETS, WAS REALLY ONE MAN, WHO WAS THE SOLE MEMBER OF BOTH OFFICIALLY SOUNDING NAMED ALLEGED VET ORGANIZATIONS! HE BRAGGED THAT HE RAISED $6 MILLION FROM HIS RICH FRIENDS, GIVING ONE MILLION OF HIS OWN MONEY, BUT RATHER THAN THE MONEY GOING TO VETS, IT WENT RIGHT INTO THE TRUMP ELECTION FUNDS, TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS, WHICH APPARENTLY NEVER HAPPENED, NOW THE MONEY IS $4.5 MILLION, OR WAS TRUMP JUST "PUNKING" THE VETS AND AMERICA, LIKE HE SEEMS TO BE GREAT AT DOING! THE MAN LIES, HAS NO SHAME, LIES AGAIN, IS SHAMELESS, IN HIS LIES, AND THEN CHANGES THE STORY, DIVERTING THE LIES, INTO OTHER LIES! HITLER SAID, THANK GOD THE PEOPLE DON'T READ, LISTEN AND THAT ALLOWED HIM AND HIS MEN TO LEAD THE GERMANS DOWN THE PRIMROSE PATH, MURDERING 6 MILLION JEWS . . . HITLER SAID, THE BIGGER THE LIE, THE MORE THE PEOPLE WILL BUY THE LIE . . . JUST KEEP TELLING THE LIE, AND THE NEW TRUTH, BECOMES THE LIE! THIS IS TRUMP STRATEGY, TO LIE HIS WAY RIGHT INTO THE WHITE HOUSE! TRUMP IS PLAYING THE "TRUMP REALITY SHOW" AND THIS IS ALL ABOUT TRUMP THE CELEBRITY, PLAYING HIS BIGGER THAN LIFE GAME, THAT IS FEEDING HIS EGO, AND DRAGGING THE WHOLE FUCKING COUNTRY INTO THE "TRUMP GAME!" (2) SABASTIAN JUNGER, A VETERAN, IS SPEAKING AND WRITING ABOUT WHAT IS HELPFUL TO HELP VETS RE-ASSIMILATE INTO SOCIETY, AND AVOID PTSD AND SUICIDE, WHICH HAPPENS ONCE EVERY 22 MINUTES, A VET KILLS THEMSELVES, SAYING THAT, WHAT WILL HELP WITH THIS IS THE SENSE OF "TRIBE" THE NAME OF HIS NEW BOOK . . . WE CLAIM THESE MEN AND WOMEN IN ARMS ARE HEROES, WE HAVE EVEN GOTTEN GOOD AT THANKING THEM, BUT WE DON'T WELCOME THEM BACK HOME, INTO THE ARMS OF A "TRIBE" OR A SUPPORT SYSTEM, BE IT FAMILY, CULTURE, EXTENDED SUPPORT NETWORKS, MUCH LIKE HE SEES IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATIONS, THAT ARE VERY HIGHLY IDENTIFIED WITH THEIR "TRIBES" AND SEEM TO HANDLE THE HORRORS AND DEMANDS OF WAR, AND LATER ASSIMILATION BETTER THAN MOST OTHER AMERICANS . . . THE ISOLATION, THE LONELINESS, THE FEELINGS OF BEING LEFT BEHIND, HAVING TO JUMP BACK INTO A SOCIETY THAT, REALLY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND OR EVEN COMPREHENDS WHAT WAR IS LIKE, OR THE IDEA THAT THEY NEED TO JUST PICK THEMSELVES UP BY THE BOOT STRAPS, AND GET ON WITH IT . . . MAY SIMPLY BE, BECOMING AWARE OF WHAT JUNGER SEES, AS CONSTITUTING A "TRIBE" OR JOINING A COMMON GOAL, AFTER LEAVING THE "TRIBES" OR THE FAMILY AND BRANCHES OF THE MILITARY, THAT THEY JUST LEFT! ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, SEALS, SPECIAL FORCES, MARINES, ARE ALL HIGHLY IDENTIFIED AND EVEN COMPETITIVE, GOING EVEN DEEPER THAN BLOOD IDENTITY, AS IN FAMILY AT TIMES, SO LEAVING THEIR FELLOWS IN ARMS, GOING INTO A VOID, IS HARD . . . HOW DO WE HELP? I HOPE TO LEARN MORE, THANKS FOR EDUCATING US IN THIS CONCEPT, THAT PROBABLY HAS MUCH BROADER APPLICATION, THAN JUST TO VETS! I LOVE THINKERS, THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THE "SOLUTION!" KEEP UP THE LECTURES AND GOOD WORK! KISSES, HUGS, AND LOVES TO ALL OUR SOLDIERS, SERVICE MEMBERS, AND VETERANS! BOOTS OF TRUTH!

Donald the "Groper" is the Candidate, Calling the Kettle Black!  Hillary, the "Good Girl," is the Candidate, Not Bill!  The Nation Handled Bill in the 90's!  The Nation Re-elected, President Bill Clinton, 1996 . . . So?

ad hominem

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Ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"^[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.^[2]

Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of statements of fact or when used in certain kinds of moral and practical reasoning.^[3]

Fallacious ad hominem reasoning is normally categorized as an informal fallacy,^[4][5][6] more precisely as a genetic fallacy, a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.

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