RESPECT YOURSELF FIRST? IT TAKES SOME PRACTICE

Try and respect yourself when you see others doing the wrong thing.

But, maybe they don’t know they’re doing something wrong, and you don’t want to correct them?

If you know better, then what’s your excuse for not doing better?

Call it a lifestyle, or a life choice, or maybe just being a decent person.

It’s not always easy.

A man out on the town with a date comes across a couple where the man is verbally abusing the woman.

When asked if everything is okay, the other man said, “Yes, she’s my wife.”

The first couple wondered if they should have done more.

They should they have done more, but what?

How To Help The Other Couple

A man stepped out of Cinema 21 on NW 21st in Portland.

He saw a fight happening in the bus kiosk across the street with one person repeatedly slammed into the wall.

He crossed the street and heard a woman’s voice say, “You can’t keep doing this every time you get drunk.”

The man was delivering body punches on the woman that sent her reeling backward.

In the spirit of respect yourself, the first man yelled for the guy to stop punching the woman.

Another punch in the bus kiosk bounced the woman off the wall where she rebounded for another gut punch.

The first man leaned in and yelled louder: “STOP THIS NOW!”

The women beater stopped and punched the man in the face before leaving with the woman.

Job well done?

Respect Yourself Like No One Is Watching

Over the past few years we’ve learned more about self respect than we’ve wanted to know.

The Trump presidency, a shared exercise in self degradation from the top down, ended with the big man spewing his bile over a crowd assembled for insurrection.

The cult followed careful instructions and hustled up to the Capitol with Trump in the lead carrying the promise of the Big Liar and his Big Lie that no matter what they did they’d get a pardon from him.

The man who said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave NYC and get away with it extended his bullshit to his followers who felt they could break and enter a federal building with impunity.

If the law doesn’t apply to the Big Man, why would it apply to them? After all, he loves them all so much and tells them he loves them. Except it’s not love, and they don’t know the difference.

If you respect yourself, would you listen to an out-going president’s claim that he won in spite of the final vote count?

Who among us understands the concept of scoreboard?

Let’s Ask Guy Reffitt

From NPR:

Guy Reffitt, a Texas man who authorities say belongs to the self-styled Three Percenter militia movement, is charged with five counts, including obstruction, civil disorder and entering the Capitol grounds with a firearm. He has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors say Reffitt drove from his home in Wylie, Texas, to Washington, D.C., for Jan. 6 events and brought an AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson pistol with him.

The Justice Department says that when Reffitt returned to Texas after Jan. 6, he warned his wife, son and daughter that “they would be traitors” if they reported him to the authorities.

“Traitors gets shot,” he allegedly told them.

FBI agents interviewed Reffitt’s wife, son and daughter. 

There’s more, but this is the main point:

This Guy thinks he could shoot his wife and kids and get away with it just like Trump on 5th Ave.

Remember when your Dad said he’d shoot you if you reported his sketchy activities?

Yeah, me neither, and I believe my own Dad knew how to handle himself. He didn’t get a Silver Star and Purple Heart with the Marines in Korea for making a tight bed and shining his shoes and keeping a straight gig line.

My Dad taught his boys to ‘respect yourself’; I’ve taught my boys to respect themselves. So far I’m a happy parent. The key to my parental happiness is getting married to an exceptional woman and staying married.

We’ve got a saying around my place that applies to food: “Don’t throw it away.”

It also applies to wives for some of us. “Don’t throw them away.”

Do you wonder what kind of home life Guy Reffitt had with his dad if he sees fit to threaten his own kids?

Respect Yourself And Protect Yourself The Trump Effect

A weak male presence in the home leads to poor outcomes.

Look at the Trump children.

Their multi-married dad sprinkled offspring among wives in between bang sessions with an assortment of career minded women, professionals, and rape survivors.

The man of the house is so impressed by his adult daughter that he said he’d date her if not for the family ties.

How do you imagine that date would go?

Their dad was a pal of the trafficker Jeff Epstein for starters.

Did you hear the account Melilnda Gates gave when she met Epstein?

French Gates said that she made clear to her husband that she didn’t want him engaging with Epstein, whom she met only one time.

“I wanted to see who this man was, and I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified,” she said. “I had nightmares about it afterwards.”

Did Daddy Don introduce his daughter to Epstein? Did his sons meet the man their dad admired so much?

When the elephant in the room gets love letters from North Korea and calls Russian dictator Putin a savvy genius, where is the bar set for civilized behavior?

One answer asks, “How low can you go?”

You’re gonna need a shovel for the right answer from this group.