Woods Ag said:
I deleted this earlier but I'll include it as it happened a few hours ago at my own peril.
In preface, I'm not a fighter. Not at all. It's been since college that I got in a fist fight, but if instigated I'm not backing down.
It's long, but to avoid questioning I'll tell the whole story.
I took my 2 dogs to a local mountain bike park today like I do most days that the weather is nice. As I'm unloading and getting ready to go a guy comes off the trail with his dog. My dog and his dog meet face to face as he says "is your dog friendly?" I respond that he is as in the 3 years that we have hiked and biked trails across this country he has never fought another dog other than when an old man lost control of his pit bull that attacked my dog. My other dog is younger and I'm training him and keep him at my side. He's well trained and I can call him off of anything.
As I go about my business the 2 dogs start fighting. As I holler at my dog and approach my dog quits and comes back to me and I hear him say "get your ****ing dog off of my dog!" I ignored him, as I understand he's emotional and my dog doesn't start fights but I'm also not concerned because he can handle himself. It's when his 2 buddies leave where they are eating lunch at their vehicles and start approaching me aggressively with "Mother ****er" as part of their rants that I understand the situation that I am in. I can't flee, I certainly ain't going to shoot them because this is just a old fashion dispute. So I quickly made the decision that I am probably about to get my ass beat by 3 guys, but this first ****ing dude is going to get severely hurt. I respond and start approaching them with every intention of ****ing as many of them up as I can or at least going down with a fight. Thank the good Lord that in my response they started backpedaling and I quickly saw it and did the same. Most people aren't about that life.. They act tough, but when it comes time to get down they don't want it. I went on my ride and when I came back I approached them, apologized if my dog was the dog that initiated the fight, explained that that hasn't happend before, and my response was only in retaliation of 3 guys aggressively approaching me because I had determined that I had no other choice. All good, we shook hands and wished each other well.
Point is.. Most people think they are tough, but when they see that there is real opposition they don't want to get in a real fight. Thank God that it didn't happen today. It's the first time in 10-15 years that I got to that level, but you want ot **** around I'm never stepping back. My knee doesn't bend. You can call it childish or immature, but thats the way **** works.
You meet a bully or you get run over. It's the exact same in business and in world politics. You're dealing with the mother ****er that was mean enough to rise to the top. You meet him on his level or he will destroy you.
So we must meet a bully head on, but we should stop funding Ukraine with arms. Unless Trump is president then it's okay and you're not only okay with funding Ukraine, but commiting American troops and possibly using a nuclear weapon on Moscow.
