It's pathetic whimpering and bowing to the government that is naive.No, poster Al, government officials, bureaucrats, clerks, police, recorders, secretaries, service crews, maintenance folks, etc. .....should not fear our citizens. We want them to be service oriented, heedful, responsible, courteous, and effective in their duties. Living in fear doesn't aid in our expectation of such.
To desire that, to express that.....indicates an inexperience and naivete' of what governance must be to be effective. Nor has ever worked within any government....village, city, township, county, state, federal.
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Umm, color me skeptical, good poster Oddball.
Accounts vary.
Notably, the story of 'begging' for endorsement and/or job comes from one source.......Don Trump's camp.
So is it true? Or rather was it manufactured and disseminated by those interests in order to, first, diminish Romney; two, bolster Don Trump?
Well, actually he is still a Senator, a pretty big friggin' job. Compare his job to your job, Lassie. More important to this discussion though, is the reference to 'threats' by MAGA/QAnon, and similar nutters against anyone who offers a skeptical view towards Don Trump. That, as we have been reading for months and months, (and seen in lawsuits) is a very real .......reality.
True that.
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I would suggest to prolific posrer, Hawk, that "Doing his job" does not require subservience to a disgraced....and fired.....ex-president. Notably, the comments were made to a biographer who then spoke to someone in the press. To the best of my knowledge such comments were not in the biography.
Nonetheless, the comments have the ring of truth as we've seen multiple incidents of death threats to a whole variety of folks who have expressed skepticism towards Don Trump, or who have attempted to hold him accountable for his words or his actions. 'Variety of folks' from judges, to Senators, to opposing candidates, to part-time election clerks, to journalists.....to the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. We all know there is a slice of the MAGA/QAnon world that thinks violence is acceptable----witness the violence of the January 6th Jackasses. Hence, these hearsay comments by the biographer do have the ring of truth. Of credibility.
With no desire to be dismissive or disrespectful towards poster Doc, and this is merely my opinion, but......but I would view the above comments as uber-partisan effluvia.
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The comments came from the biographer. I suppose if the good poster Hiker is truly interested in finding out he could google out news reportage.
As a small aside, I would suggest that those who make threats against public officials generally do it anonymously.....by phone, by letter, by scrawled on the side of car or house. I may be wrong on that.