On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 1:55:55 PM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote:
On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 6:56:51 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 10:02:14 AM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 3:45:12 AM UTC-7, William Crowell wrote:
It's OK, Jay! You don't really need to be a guilty white liberal just because you do insurance defense work. I feel so sorry for you defense attorneys, and how ashamed you are about the work you do, so you try to atone for it and virtue signal by being mindless liberals. The frustrating part is that you don't have enough self-knowledge to realize what you are doing, so it's impossible to reason with you. I sure am glad that I did plaintiffs' work, so I didn't need to feel guilty, and was therefore intellectually and emotionally free to become a conservative. But if you feel so guilty about the nature of the work you do, why don't you change practice areas?
WTF? That doesn't even make sense. The plaintiff's bar is notoriously liberal, particularly when it comes to electing judges. There are outliers, however, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Lin_Wood -- but most of those folks are just narcissists looking for attention -- or terrified that their former clients will damage their $10M Georgian mansions. https://i.insider.com/5ef9ab9a4dca686d1f04e9a3

In contrast, those who defend businesses swing both ways but trend conservative -- although not Trump cultist. One of the last viable Republican candidates for Oregon governor was a former partner in my firm, Ron Saxton.. I voted for Ron. Here's a fun story about all the dueling Republicans from my firm: https://www.wweek.com/portland/artic...old-potty.html All these guys practiced together and ended up ****ing all over each other to get the Republican nomination -- it was sad.

Its also interesting that at the same time these guys were practicing together, Neil Goldschmidt, the former Democratic Governor, sublet space at our firm -- on my floor. Years earlier, Neil hired my patriarch, Dennis Lindsay, and took him to Washington when he was Secretary of Transportation during the Carter administration. Another partner, Alan Hart, was one of BPA's first chief counsel, buddy of Bill Douglas (who would visit before my time), and started the ACLU in Oregon -- and notably stood up for Japanese internees. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/a.../#.YLzzF_lKgRk Alan was a great man, and my partner Carl Neil was another great civil libertarian who went to Mississippi during the civil rights movement. https://www.bizjournals.com/portland...3/daily24.html The firm was filled with heavy-hitting Democrats and Republicans, all of whom worked together and drank together -- perhaps too much.

This was my political education -- one big family of lefties and righties -- like a loud Thanksgiving dinner and not the current cult-driven insurrection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEu_...n%262Neph ews As illustrated by your response, one cannot point out an obvious fact or flaw about Trump without prompting a jihad. You can rail on Biden as much as you like, and if it is factual and legitimate, I'm not going to come at you with a short-sword screaming Allahu Akbar.

It feels like the McCarthy era or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Maybe when the plague is over, sanity will return.

-- Jay Beattie.
Jay, stop talking in circles. I am not so interested in what your real politics are but only your political comments far too often being so far left that I'm surprised that you can ride a bicycle without falling over. As a lawyer you know English well and yet use that absolutely false term "insurrection" when you know damn well that it was not an insurrection since there was NO arms of any sort used and that the only fatality was 3 people who had heart attacks at the rally and the one woman who was murdered by that capital police officer who has remained unnamed. But that hasn't stopped the Lame Stream Media from claiming that the cop who went home and had a heart attack was a victim of an insurrection.

The left has spent the last year re-defining the entire English language for their own purposes and if you are going to play that game someone is going to use it on you.
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The Left has been changing the meaning of words since forever. Paul Johnson, the historian and sometime Leftie, first pointed out in a book published in the 1960s that the first order of business of the Left was undermining the language we all use to commanicate by commaily changing the meaning of words. And Saul Alinsky's book, the bible of the American Left, was published in the 1960s too IIRC. My googlebug, Slow Johnny, will look up the relevant book titles and years of first publication for us. He doesn't have a life, so he's always grateful for something to do. -- AJ
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Well, regardless of what the far left thinks that they are doing, definitions of English words are relatively fixed and we simply laugh in their faces when they try to misuse the English Language. I must admit that I've been quite surprised that Jay actually falls for this since he is not just an educated but intelligent man. He isn't like Frank or John who in truth are dunces.