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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Will Bet GOP Operatives & Trump Secretly Pushing Indicting The Clintons & Maybe Obama.
I am suspicious of what is going on behind the scenes and in secret. The secret meeting by certain Congress critters s just as suspicious as well. My take and sense of it all is that Trump and the GOP is furious that they believe Hillary got such special treatment. They are pushing the idea that she is guilty of a Benghazi cover up, email cover up, Uranium treason etc etc etc. And they are willing to make ANYTHING up and do ANYTHING to get their way. In the end they even want to taint Obama.
Now what I am saying is probably over the top. Yet with these crooks anything is possible. We are so off the rails right now during this recess. They are hunting for anyone in the FBI who will become their accomplices. We must take these attacks on the integrity of the FBI very seriously. The fact that we are getting tweeted over the holiday is unacceptable. IT IS A GOD DAMNED HOLIDAY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!!!!!
And the GOP is just as guilty as Trump. We see how they plan to govern or not govern going forward. And there are red flags waving all over the place.
WHAT OTHER DAMNED SECRET MEETING IS THE GOP PARTICIPATING IN RIGHT NOW???
Sorry for my rant but I do not like what I am seeing and sensing.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)They running scared.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)to distract and confuse.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)That is what my father would say.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Great saying, had not heard it before.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)But true.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)The GOP is pretty good at this.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Most likely an old country saying.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)After about 1800 they started to move to Texas.
No telling how old or where that saying came from.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)My Father's mother was born in the 1890s and spoke like a hillbilly.
Old words and a weird accent.
Not a texas accent or southern accent.
Something a lot older.
I
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Lots of Scots Irish migrated to the US in the 18th and 19th century,
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Some of them fought in the Battle of the Cowpens against the British.
I wish I would recorded her speaking.
It may have been how people spoke after they moved here before the southern accent.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)in the Revolutionary era.
I know, I wish I had asked my grandparents a lot more about the family
history. Didn't occur to me back then.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)We paper proof.
They were the guys hiding behind the trees and rocks.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)The Battle of Cowpens was a turning point for the South in the Revolutionary War,
the colonists wiped out the British fighting in that battle. That victory led to a chain of events culminating in the decisive American victory at Yorktown, which ended the Revolutionary War. Americans, the underdogs, had successfully broken
away from Britain.
I am very proud of that.
Then these people moved to Texas.
They got Spanish, Mexican, and Texas land grants.
Some of them fought in the Texas Army.
I guess I get attitude from them.
The last ones moved to Texas after the Civil War.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Maybe you also had a Texas ranger in the mix somewhere.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Great and Great-grand parents.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)In Europe.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)It was not Irish or Scottish or English accents.
I think people moved here and the accents started to mix.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)She was born at time the older people would be still be alive.
She picked up the accent.
She would say zinc instead of sink.
Like that.
My father said it that way to.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)There were big families back in the days before birth control.
Interesting about the pronunciation.
Wonder what language this might have been.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)They would start talking and it was hard to follow.
It was English but older mixed up English.
I am thinking the Irish family members may not have spoken english when the came here.
Then there was a native american mix in there.
My grandmother and grandfather on mother also came from big families.
Thirteen kids and 18 kids.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)By the mid 1800's, the Irish were mostly speaking English in Ireland.
So perhaps some of your ancestors came over prior to that time
when the Irish were still speaking Gaelic.
My grandparents were Irish, with a brogue, and they did not
pronounce Zink for sink. I am thinking perhaps more Germanic
or regional for your kin.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)I am a mixed bag of people.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)My cousin worked really hard on it.
Not a lot of German but enough.
A lot of Germans moved to Texas.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)It is a sure bet that Russian money flowed to the GOP coffers.
Irish_Dem
(47,179 posts)Once they found out Russia was handing out large sums of money to politicians, they all lined up with their hands out.
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)So why not take it.
Now Putin owns them.
procon
(15,805 posts)before Trump himself is officially indicted, then Republicans can claim that any legal action against Trump is just an act of bitter retaliation by hyper partisan leftist raconteurs. If Trump's crimes are made public, the entire GOP propaganda machine will kick into overdrives and dismiss any stench of wrongdoing as nothing more than politically motivated sour grapes, just another tit for tat Dem attack on their Immaculate Dear Leader.
Vinca
(50,299 posts)on the dish have been coming in off and on. Oddly, Fox always comes on. I flipped onto it today and there was a bizarro headline about the Obama administration not investigating Hezbollah in order to make the Iran deal work. I didn't bother to listen to the whole story, but given the size of the headline it must be a brand new conspiracy theory.
newblewtoo
(667 posts)Sadly there are a lot of people in denial over that fact. The GOP has been setting the table for quite some time now. Thank you for your post. K/R
defacto7
(13,485 posts)The GOP and its cohorts are caged in a corner with little way out. We must be prepared for anything and everything.
Takket
(21,592 posts)These people already staged a coup with Russia to seize power. They won't be above forging a few documents to make Hillary and Barak look guilty.