woodpusher: "At this point, I was not even aware of the existence of this thread. I had stated nothing on the thread, nor does it appear anybody quoted me saying anything. BroJoeBidenK merely has cognitive issues.
Only in BroJoeBidenK's head, was I here among his imaginary friends and adverseries, being "quoted.""
Naw, you're just driving yourself nuts here for no good reason.
I was just documenting that you have cognitive issues.
Your quote from my #206 was extremely selective, as is your norm. A more complete quote may counteract your cognitive issues enough for you to see that you falsely attributed a quote to me.
[DiogenesLamp #208 to FLT-bird #205] begins, To: FLT-bird They were against the spread of slavery to the western territories.
DiogenesLamp was quoting FLT-bird #205.
[BroJoeBidenK #228 to DiogenesLamp #208]
DL quoting woodpusher: "They were against the spread of slavery to the western territories."
At this point, I was not even aware of the existence of this thread. I had stated nothing on the thread, nor does it appear anybody quoted me saying anything. BroJoeBidenK merely has cognitive issues. Only in BroJoeBidenK's head, was I here among his imaginary friends and adverseries, being "quoted."
Due to your Biden syndrome, in your confusion you imagined that DiogenesLamp had "quoted" woodpusher. As I had not participated on the thread in any way, nor had I even been cited or referenced by anyone, there is no good reason why anything on the thread was attributed to me as a "quote." There was nothing of mine on the thread to confuse with someone else.
Free Republic's traditional posting guidelines say: if I mention you in my post, then I should include your name in my address line.It's a "rule" that oldtimers like wardaddy well know, but often chose to ignore.
That's why you were addressed.
Do try to not make believe that you were doing me a courtesy, pinging me to your misbegotten wrongly attributed "quote." BroJoeBidenK, your excuse making is on a par with Jen Psaki. Come to think of it, are you two related?
Another old tradition is due diligence before posting. Our conversation is on another thread where you established that Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Roy P. Basler were all Lost Causers. For some reason, you left that conversation abruptly after I was called a Lost Causer for a post I made, and I documented I had used the words of Ulysses S. Grant from a report to President Andrew Johnson, December 18, 1865. Ulysses S. Grant, a Lost Causer. Who knew?
woodpusher:
"I was just documenting that you have cognitive issues...
Due to your Biden syndrome, in your confusion you imagined that DiogenesLamp had "quoted" woodpusher." You're right, I checked your homework and it's a clear case of clerical mistaken identity -- I mistook your twin brother (or sister), FLT-bird, for you, sorry about that, young fellow.
I'll be more careful in the future.
And maybe you can help out by explaining in what ways you actually differ from FLT-bird?
woodpusher: "Our conversation is on another thread where you established that Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Roy P. Basler were all Lost Causers. "
And here you demonstrate your own "cognitive issues" and also validate my criticism of many Lost Causers -- you can dump-truck a full 14 yards of quotes on us, but have only specious arguments to cement all that aggregate together.
First, here, you duplicated your post to jmacusa, just changing the addressee.
Second, your duplicated posts #127 & 128 both refer back to your post #123, in which you seem to think you've made a very, very, too too clever argument, actually quoting someone else's words, but presenting them as if they were your own, then demanding:
"Am I right, or am I a Lost Causer?"
So jmacusa responded factually (& I chimed in) that Freedmens' Bureaus were hated by Southerners so abolished by Congress in 1872.
Now comes woodpusher's Big Reveal: his words in post #123 were not his own, they were quotes from Ulysses Grant!
So that means jmacusa and BroJoeK have called Ulysses Grant a Lost Causer, WOW!
What a brilliant thinker is woodpusher, getting two Union defenders to call Grant a Lost Causer, AMAZING!
Except, of course, it's not.
Grant's quote is from December 1865, years before incidents like this one:
"Failed attacks led to a massacre during the 1868 elections, with the insurgents' murders of about 1,300 voters across various southern states ranging from South Carolina to Arkansas."
Such incidents tend to suggest that Grant's words of 1865 were perhaps a bit naïve.
However, Grant's words which woodpusher
did not quote in his post #123, but did quote in his post #127-8 show us that perhaps Grant was not so naïve as woodpusher would have us think:
"It is not the thinking men who would use violence towards any class of troops sent among them by the general government, but the ignorant in some places might..."
Finally, to nail down this point: Grant's quote is dated December 18, 1865, and less than a week later on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, six former Confederate officers first gathered as an informal social club, modeled after the iconoclastic
Sons of Malta,
"...ludicrous initiations, the baffling of public curiosity, and the amusement for members were the only objects of the Klan..."
Years later:
"Beginning in April, 1867, there was a gradual transformation.
...The members had conjured up a veritable Frankenstein.
They had played with an engine of power and mystery, though organized on entirely innocent lines, and found themselves overcome by a belief that something must lie behind it all – that there was, after all, a serious purpose, a work for the Klan to do."[41]"
So I think Ulysses Grant can be totally forgiven for not foreseeing in December 1865 what didn't happen until years later.
And I would also forgive woodpusher for trying to play a silly trick -- it is, after all, all he's got to offer.
I don't, however, think woodpusher would qualify as, in Grant's words, a "thinking man".
Too many "cognitive issues". ![]()