RESPECTING DECISIONS IS HARD, BUT WHY BE A PUNK ABOUT IT

Respecting decisions is part of the hard learning process. It starts early.

Parents decide to put little Jimmy in an accelerated learning school and he learns to doubt their decisions sooner than later.

But he still shows up for school everyday. Why?

Because even little Jimmy knows that respecting decisions made for him by people who care about him, even if he doesn’t understand why 100%, will probably be better for him than being left to his own childish whims and ways.

Little Jimmy may have doubts, but he’s also a good kid.

Jimmy would never travel abroad to work knowing he was violating health rules and protocols, and if he did he wouldn’t be a little bitch about it if he got caught.

“Sure there are millions of dollars on the table along with reputation and sportsmanship and being a good steward of all sports, but if Australia, country and continent, says get the f#ck out, then that’s all there is. It’s, “So long, deportee.”“

Novak Djokovic, number one tennis player in the world, should fold his tent and hit the road. The guy is ignoring the new players at their first Grand Slam event like he once was. It’s got to be an athletic thrill, being good enough to play in the Australian Open for the first time, to travel all that way just to play.

Instead it’s Djokovic doing this, Djokovic getting detained, Djokovic working on a way to play, Djokovic sucking all the wind out of the southern hemisphere.

How many ‘free thinkers’ and ‘rules, what rules’ people are encouraged by each celebrity or known face revealed doing something stupid in public.

Or brought out in the public.

Respecting decisions shouldn’t be so difficult.

When Your Momma Says Go

This is the face of an extremely accomplished man, a man held in high regard, a man who literally travels the world in the style of a prince.

Not any more.

Now it’s the face of a privileged man accused of things his mother won’t stand for, and neither does anyone else.

Below is who Prince Andrew used to be before he stopped respecting decisions a normal divorced guy with two daughters makes about hanging out with freak shows.

From BBC News

He has now lost a series of UK military titles:

• Colonel of the Grenadier Guards – one of the most senior infantry regiments in the British army. He took this role over from his father Prince Philip in 2017
• Honorary air commodore of RAF Lossiemouth
• Colonel-in-chief of the Royal Irish Regiment
• Colonel-in-chief of the Small Arms School Corps
• Colonel-in-chief of The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth’s Own)
• Colonel-in-chief of the Yorkshire Regiment
• Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm
• Royal colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers
• Royal colonel of the Royal Regiment of Scotland

He has also lost a number of overseas honorary military titles: 

• Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen’s York Rangers (Canada)
• Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada
• Colonel-in-Chief of the Princess Louise Fusiliers (Canada)
• Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment

Prince Andrew retains his service role as a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.

He’s still a Vice-Admiral?

If you were defending yourself against the sort of accusations Prince Andrew faces, what would you lose?

I’ll go first with self-respect for knowing someone who traffics and instead of speaking up, joins in.

No mother wants to think that of her son. Queen Elizabeth deserves better from her kids.

Respecting Decisions With A Side Of Dissentment

Does this look like a staged picture with a photo-shopped head?

It’s not.

One justice likes to get close without a mask. In doors.

The man is a Supreme Court Justice, one of nine in the world.

Who knows more about respecting decisions than a Supreme Court Justice?

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, that’s who.

Is he breaking the law with his bare face? Inconceivable.

But he is ignoring the social norm of the environment he poses in. Why, Justice Neil, why?

From the penthouse to the outhouse, no one wants to see your performative behavior for the camera, Justice Neil. You are a Supreme Court Justice, a man of the law, not a man of “look at me I’m not wearing a mask because, , , .”

It’s not because you’re stupid, Justice Neil, not with these schools:

Columbia University (BA)

Harvard University (JD)

University College, Oxford (DPhil)

So why pretend you don’t get the bigger picture. You’ve seen the bigger picture. You’re one of the brushes painting the bigger legal picture. But wearing a covid mask around your collegues after you’ve been maskless around still others?

That’s poor judgement, Justice Neil, poor judgement indeed.

But you can redeem yourself when cases surrounding the insurrection on Jan. 9 flood the court. Maybe brush up on your seditious conspiracy legal theories.

The Hard Learning Process

Don’t see everything as a personal ‘Hill To Die On.’

That wears people out, the idea of someone not knowing the difference between important and not so important.

Breakfast is important, so is protecting voting rights. The difference in importance may be whether you’ve had breakfast or not.

Being accountable with your time is always important. And difficult.

How can a retired man find time to go to Washington D.C. on Jan. 6th and raise hell with a bunch of climbing, clawing, club swinging ‘normal tourists’ and not find time to hold and sing to a new grand baby?

Spend a moment encouraging those close to you, emotionally and physically, to get vaccinated and wear a mask. That’s important. Spare them the ‘holier than thou’ and you might get through.

Skip the “what are you, stupid” part too and they’ll hear you better.

And if you take time to listen to them, you might understand how things are for them at that moment.