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@hightor,

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I think Herr Hinteler's experience and perspective would pretty effectively eclipse any opinions you might hold

Glad you feel that way, did you see"opinions" in your post? Anything else?

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@georgeob1,

Even I recognized that Irving Berlin lyric

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@blatham,

I'll be dammed: good catch.

On a Navy ship its's the Boatswains whistle on the 1MC (a voice circuit from the Bridge that reaches all compartments on the ship), that did that job. As I recall the chant was reveille ! reveille! all hands rise and shine.

On a brief tour on the old Arc Royal (the one with catapults) in a RNAF Buccanner squadron the reveille chant (in an English regional accent) was incomprehensible to me at first. However, I soon learned it was something like "Now wakee, wakee, rise and shine... cook's in the galley a long, long time.

Happily I fairly quickly learned to tune out the noise and distraction. In a carrier squadron the air wing officers are quartered on the 03 Level (above the main (hangar) deck and immediately below the flight deck. The noise and vibration from the catapults, taxiing aircraft on the flight deck immediately above, or from aircraft tie down chains being dropped on the 2" steel deck, were hard to ignore. However eventually one learned to do it.

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@georgeob1,

Perhaps a bit like living in Manhattan. After a while, the only thing that woke me was the sound of some human in loud distress.

Although I would have not survived two days in any military setting, I do envy you your life experiences.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Perhaps a bit like living in Manhattan. After a while, the only thing that woke me was the sound of some human in loud distress.

Although I would have not survived two days in any military setting, I do envy you your life experiences.

You might’ve surprised yourself. One indelible lesson I took from my years in the Army was that I didn’t really know what I could do until I tried it. Most times I could do more, accomplish more, endure more than I had estimated.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Perhaps a bit like living in Manhattan. After a while, the only thing that woke me was the sound of some human in loud distress.

Although I would have not survived two days in any military setting, I do envy you your life experiences.

I've learned we tend to adapt to our experiences and develop the skills needed to deal with them - whatever those experiences may be. Moreover I believe there's lots of overlap in the lessons and learning involved in a variety of experiences. You gave a good example of tuning out noises you can't control in Manhattan : at the core it's the same experience as I recounted, despite the differences in dramatic, but unrelated details.

None of us knows for sure how we would cope with experiences we haven't had. We naturally fear new, very different environments, but often without considering just how much carryover there is from the experiences we have had and the lessons learned from them.

Persistence, in my experience is the key differentiator in meeting such challenges.

My strong impression is that you are indeed a stubborn SOB, and there's likely hope for you !

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Pete Buttigieg has announced he is withdrawing from the 2020 presidential election

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@ehBeth,

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Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
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Buttigieg's withdrawal might help Biden in two ways:

1) Biden will inherit more of his voters than Sanders
2) Warren - who shares a demographically similar support base - could become 15% viable in a lot of places, limiting Sanders's haul in places he might otherwise romp
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Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
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Buttigieg's Supporters Second Choice:

Klobuchar 26%
Warren 26%
Biden 19%
Sanders 11%
Bloomberg 9%

According to leatest @QuinnipiacPoll https://twitter.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1234253937110388736

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Interesting Post-MayoPete shifts

Although Pete is ultra conservative, he had a high contingent of identity voters who are now being welcomed into our family. Might not be many, but I don’t see these guys going to The Klob or Biden.

Tuesday will tell.

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Buttigieg told Abby Phillips of CNN that he was motivated to drop out now because he didn’t want to be one reason Sanders got an insurmountable lead.

Buttigieg said the night of the Nevada caucus: “I believe the best way to defeat Donald Trump...is to broaden and galvanize the majority that supports us on critical issues.... “Sen. Sanders believes in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans.”

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@georgeob1,

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stubborn

Interesting. I've never thought of myself that way. But if the mule is to be my spirit animal I suppose I ought to celebrate that I possess at least one of the two characteristics for which he is renowned.

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@snood,

The fellow has a promising future. This is a smart move as well as a good one.

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@snood,

That’s bullshit. We are the most inclusive campaign.

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Several gay former Petes are sharing videos from Bernie’s past, explaining why Bernie was their number 2 choice:

I hadn’t seen this one before. Always glad to see a new clip. Bernie put his ass on the line for gay people when it was risky.

https://youtu.be/_2R74OOv_S0

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Back to the Corona virus. Do you think more people will die from the virus or from a crime by an illegal. I am going to take the illegals out preforming the pandemic. The MSM does not report every time a citizen is killed by an illegal, it will cover Corona deaths. They should do both.

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Trump continuing to work for the success of the left

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Pete Buttigieg is OUT. All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play - NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!

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@Lash,

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That’s bullshit. We are the most inclusive campaign.

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Bernie Bros call SC Biden voters “rodents,” blacks “low IQ m*****s”

Are you sure about that? Any truth behind this?

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One Twitter user collected some of their tweets and they apparently think Biden supporters are rodents. They think South Carolina voters are stupid and that especially includes the black voters.

One actually said, “It’s not racist” to say black voters are “low information.” Another called black voters “low IQ monkeys.” Those are your racists folks.

It’s an interesting technique to get votes for their candidate.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/bernie-bros-call-sc-biden-voters-rodents-blacks-low-iq-ms/

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@coldjoint,

I guarantee you no Bern supporter talks like that on Twitter. Those are KHIVE people and Bloomberg people pretending to be Berners.

We have stored up at least s hundred receipts of them inciting violence against Nina, Brie, Sarandon—Bernie. Plenty of disgusting misogynistic epithets against the black women at the top of our campaign.

We’re mild compared to them.

People voting for Bernie were intolerant of racism as a precursor to being attracted to the campaign. That’s why the bots and fakers stand out.

It’s bullshit.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Trump continuing to work for the success of the left

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Pete Buttigieg is OUT. All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play - NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!

Either that or simply to sow confusion and discord. Either is effective. It's like the Russian election interference.

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The day after black voters rejected him in SC, Bernie Sanders blows off Selma. Alrighty, then.

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He’s busy crisscrossing California and Texas—trying to attend to his most enthusiastic and exponentially exploding demographic—Hispanics.
#BernieInLA

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