(02-04-2021 02:23 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(02-04-2021 02:08 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Why don't you think he's informed on such issues or intelligent enough to read the story as you did?

When did I stop beating my wife you ask?

It has nothing to do with whether I thought Tanq was informed on the issues or intelligent enough to read the story. It's that it wasn't clear to me what the criticism was of Yellen requesting a waiver.

The only way I thought that would look bad, was if she was requesting a waiver to speak to a Wall Street bank in the future, and be paid for it (not for her doing her job as you've said).

When I read the article and saw that she was requesting a waiver to discuss an issue related to a bank that had previously paid her a speaking fee, I didn't see what was particularly notable, let alone worthy of criticism.

As to your gigantic post - I appreciate how frequently you didn't take your own medicine... The bolded sentence being the best example of it.

Why isn't the bolded just me asking for clarification, Lad? lol. See how stupid that sounds?

I'll start with the most glaring part of your response...
FIRST you said that you responded as you did because you hadn't read the article so you assumed he was claiming she was asking to get paid a fee to meet with them as part of her job. NOW you're moving the goal posts and saying that you HAD read the article, and didn't understand why he was criticising her for following the procedures for such an event.

Once again, trying to have it both ways. Either way, Tanq is to blame and not you.... and my point is that you assumed that he was criticising HER... and even THAT is only in evidence if you make some assumptions up front.


As to me not following my own advice... I made the allegation. I stand by it. That's the impression that your repeated comments leave. I'm not hiding behind a claim of innocence or blaming my misunderstanding on you. You haven't presented any evidence of me misunderstanding you... you've just claimed (in numerous ways) that it was somebody's fault other than your own that you had this preconception.

I'll use smaller, though less kind words.

The options are...
1) You aren't as smart as I think you are... You lack critical reading comprehension skills and repeatedly misinterpret people as a result. I don't think this is the truth, because you have on numerous occasions demonstrated the ability to comprehend complex subjects. This isn't one of them, but I think its because you simply can't accept your own bias or take any blame for them.... which leads me to :

2) You ARE reasonably smart with critical comprehension skills, but you are so caught up in your preconceptions and biases about people 'on the right' (or at least those of us on the right on this forum) that you read everything through 'D' colored glasses where Republicans are all single minded morons.

We can debate degrees of your condescension here... but I don't think you'd debate whether it is 1 or 2.

I suppose we could throw in 3... which is you think this is just a forum for slinging mud at each other with no attempt whatsoever to have actual discussions. If anyone believes this, please let me know and we can dismiss you from this forum. That is not its purpose, despite some clear disagreements. The point of this forum is debate on areas of disagreement... and not merely a Monty Python skit.

Your entire criticism, no matter how you want to spin it... is that you think Tanq doesn't know the subject of the article... OR that he doesn't know how common such an event might be.

He MAY think it concerning that she's only a few days into her post and already run into a conflict... but you not only seem to disagree with this (which would be fine) but apparently can't understand why it would ever concern anyone.