Elections; 2024
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AFAIK no hard feelings.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
AFAIK no hard feelings.
Good. Tell her there's none here either.
That was some terrible shit they pulled on all of us.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:Hoping to capitalize on the passions of their base, Texas Republicans introduced a bill in early 2023 that would require public school classrooms throughout the state to display the Ten Commandments “in a size and typeface that is legible to a person with average vision from anywhere in the classroom.” This was part of a coordinated legislative effort to Christianize civics in the state. Texas had already enacted a law requiring classrooms to display donated “In God We Trust” placards (one local district made headlines by banning Arabic versions while accepting those written in English). At the same time, Republicans were pushing to replace public school counselors with religious chaplains. When it came time to muscle the Ten Commandments bill through the Senate, the bill’s sponsor called on—who else?—the “esteemed” pseudo-historian David Barton to testify. Barton did his part: The bill cleared the Senate on a party-line vote. Its failure in the House coincided with an ironic twist of timing: Weeks before the bill died, Bryan Slaton, a Republican representative and former SBC youth pastor who branded himself a champion for family values—criminalizing abortion, warring with LGBTQ “groomers,” and, yes, promoting the Ten Commandments in public spaces—was expelled by the House after an investigation found that he’d cheated on his wife with a nineteen-year-old aide who “could not effectively consent to intercourse” after he’d plied her with copious amounts of liquor.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, that's too bad!! I was hoping Trump was planning a MASS PURGE of the DOJ, FBI, DOD, CIA, and Foggy Bottom!
Champions of Christian nationalism would have you believe that these efforts to rule the country are inherently theological; that they are in service of a broader effort to reclaim America for God. This is a lie. Christian nationalism is a contradiction in terms: Paul told the Galatians, “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” This assurance—that anyone who accepts Christ becomes a part of the Abrahamic family, residents of the promised New Jerusalem—transcends all known racial, ethnic, and national identities. This is why Paul wrote so explicitly to the people in Philippi, a Roman colony full of soldiers and state officials, imploring the Christians there to pledge allegiance to Christ alone. “Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things,” Paul warned of those who would reject his plea. “But our citizenship is in heaven.”
There is nothing here to reclaim. This country—a drop in the bucket, like all the nations—was never God’s to begin with, because “God does not show favoritism,” as Peter said, “but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.” Attempts to devise some divine conception of the United States often end up demonstrating exactly the opposite. Take, for example, an Independence Day 2023 tweet from Josh Hawley, the disgraced Missouri senator whose lies and deceptive parliamentary maneuverings helped set in motion the violence of January 6. Celebrating the holiday with a “quote” from Patrick Henry, the senator tweeted: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” It might have been humiliating enough for Hawley to learn that the founding father never spoke or wrote these words; what should have been downright mortifying was to realize, as the historian Seth Cotlar documented, that these words actually originated in a notoriously antisemitic and white-nationalist publication, the Virginian, 150 years after Henry’s death.
Hawley never bothered to apologize for the error. And why would he? The way many of his constituents see it, secular progressives, in their quest
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I'm sorry, but WTF does Christian nationalism have to do with Washington DC??? I imagine very little!
People in Washington conspired to thwart a democratic election; use the DOJ, CIA, and FBI to spread malicious rumors and lies; use the media to spread fake news, censor real news; DOJ to whip up ridiculous charges against Trump and peaceful protesters, holding many in solitary under unconscionable conditions for months before trial; converting nonviolent behavior into "terrorism"; whitewash evidence of crimes committed by Hillary, Hunter, Joe, and others; impose policies of "the interagency" over those voted for by the American electorate...
I'm sure ALL of the people who did these things not only violated the terms of their employment, they failed to defend and protect the USA and made a mockery of the Constitution and the concept of justice. They DESERVE to be fired if not charged with crimes.
I'm sure truth, justice, and democracy mean NOTHING to you since you're an inveterate liar, a monumental hypocrite, and you despise everyone who isn't you.
But they still mean something to me, and they should mean something to everyone bc were supposed to be able to trust that the system works for everyone, not just a select few. That's the glue that's supposed to be holding us all together.
But I know why you have such a soft spot for Ukraine: you're as corrupt as they are.
Maybe you should move there!
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Why Trump Refuses to Deny He Plans to Become a Dictator
By Jonathan Chait | Dec. 6, 2023
Donald Trump’s threats to use the presidency as a vindictive weapon to punish his enemies have grown so naked that his allies now find it inconvenient. They are irritated — not with Trump, but with the news media for reporting on his undisguised plans. They recognize “I am your retribution” is comic-book-villain dialogue, not an effective message for swing voters. Their goal is to give the party some plausible deniability that the man they are planning to install atop the executive branch will not attack the foundations of the republic.
Trump, however, is refusing to cooperate with the charade.
Trump’s allies insist that coverage of his plans is actually a scheme to seed violence against Trump. “All of these articles calling Trump a dictator are about one thing: legitimizing illegal and violent conduct as we get closer to the election,” proclaims Senator J.D. Vance. “This extreme and dangerous genre — of claiming Trump is Hitler (because, they say, he might do what Democrats are doing right now) — should probably be given the name ‘Assassination Prep,’” warns the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway.
The whole pretense of these complaints is that Trump has done or said nothing dangerous or unusual, and that reporting on his plans and public statements is a form of dangerous incitement. They are all but begging Trump to give them a shred of deniability. He can simply say, even with a wink, that he doesn’t wish to become America’s Putin. He won’t give them even that — because, to Trump, being called “dictator” is a compliment his ego won’t permit him to deny.
More at https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/why-trump-refuses-to-deny-he-p
lans-to-become-a-dictator.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
Why Trump Refuses to Deny He Plans to Become a Dictator
By Jonathan Chait | Dec. 6, 2023
Donald Trump’s threats to use the presidency as a vindictive weapon to punish his enemies have grown so naked that his allies now find it inconvenient. They are irritated — not with Trump, but with the news media for reporting on his undisguised plans. They recognize “I am your retribution” is comic-book-villain dialogue, not an effective message for swing voters. Their goal is to give the party some plausible deniability that the man they are planning to install atop the executive branch will not attack the foundations of the republic.
Trump, however, is refusing to cooperate with the charade.
Trump’s allies insist that coverage of his plans is actually a scheme to seed violence against Trump. “All of these articles calling Trump a dictator are about one thing: legitimizing illegal and violent conduct as we get closer to the election,” proclaims Senator J.D. Vance. “This extreme and dangerous genre — of claiming Trump is Hitler (because, they say, he might do what Democrats are doing right now) — should probably be given the name ‘Assassination Prep,’” warns the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway.
The whole pretense of these complaints is that Trump has done or said nothing dangerous or unusual, and that reporting on his plans and public statements is a form of dangerous incitement. They are all but begging Trump to give them a shred of deniability. He can simply say, even with a wink, that he doesn’t wish to become America’s Putin. He won’t give them even that — because, to Trump, being called “dictator” is a compliment his ego won’t permit him to deny.
More at https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/why-trump-refuses-to-deny-he-p
lans-to-become-a-dictator.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Because everything you brainlets are saying Trump is going to do when he's in office is exactly what you've been doing since Biden* was in office.
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Quote:6ix, writing this sentence is more proof you are crazy and stupid. It is no surprise that bad things have happened to you (and Trump) because that is what happens to crazy and stupid people. But you think you are not crazy and stupid, so you'll never make the connection between what you are and what happens to you. Never. (Neither can Trump make that connection. But his inherited money and the lawyers that money allowed him to hire have protected him from consequences.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Because everything you brainlets are saying Trump is going to do when he's in office is exactly what you've been doing since Biden* was in office.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, writing this sentence is more proof you are crazy and stupid. It is no surprise that bad things have happened to you because that is what happens to crazy and stupid people. But you think you are not crazy and stupid, so you'll never make the connection between what you are and what happens to you. Never.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Because everything you brainlets are saying Trump is going to do when he's in office is exactly what you've been doing since Biden* was in office.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
You haven't refuted his argument, have you?
All you have is name-calling. Just like THUGR.
How about describing for us, IN DETAIL, how it is NOT the same?
BTW, considering how you post I'm beginning to think SIX is right: I think you "borrowed" an identity and history from someone you know well- your dad?- and you sit in your mom's basement posting lies and hate speech all day long.
Either that or you're going senile or plain, nucking futs.
You don't post like anyone with a history of accomplishment of ANY sort, just a massive pile of insecurities.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm sorry, but WTF does Christian nationalism have to do with Washington DC??? I imagine very little!
People in Washington conspired to thwart a democratic election; use the DOJ, CIA, and FBI to spread malicious rumors and lies; use the media to spread fake news, censor real news; DOJ to whip up ridiculous charges against Trump and peaceful protesters, holding many in solitary under unconscionable conditions for months before trial; converting nonviolent behavior into "terrorism"; whitewash evidence of crimes committed by Hillary, Hunter, Joe, and others; impose policies of "the interagency" over those voted for by the American electorate...
I'm sure ALL of the people who did these things not only violated the terms of their employment, they failed to defend and protect the USA and made a mockery of the Constitution and the concept of justice. They DESERVE to be fired if not charged with crimes.
I'm sure truth, justice, and democracy mean NOTHING to you since you're an inveterate liar, a monumental hypocrite, and you despise everyone who isn't you.
But they still mean something to me, and they should mean something to everyone bc were supposed to be able to trust that the system works for everyone, not just a select few. That's the glue that's supposed to be holding us all together.
But I know why you have such a soft spot for Ukraine: you're as corrupt as they are.
Maybe you should move there!
DETAILS OF THE DEEP STATE'S CONSPIRACY TO SHRED AMERICA AND IMPOSE MORE TYRANNY ON AMERICANS. AND I HAVEN'T EVEN CONSIDERED DC"S COVID RESPONSE YET.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Quote:I have been facing crazy and stupid people all my life and they have taught me it is a waste of my energy to try convincing them of anything. As I got older, and accumulated more experience of what eventually happens to crazy and stupid people like 6ix, Signym, (and Trump), I felt it was natural justice to watch them slowly suffer and die in their ignorance. In other words, stupid and crazy people end up in stupid and crazy situations. And then they die. It is natural. It is God's Way. It is not my place to interfere.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You haven't refuted his argument, have you?
All you have is name-calling. Just like THUGR.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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