Everything posted by formermav43
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Trump Impeachment 2: Insurrection Boogaloo
Is there an echo in here? Have you looked at the US government lately? Some might argue it takes at least as much faith to believe in the fairy tale of its proper functioning as it does to believe in God. It was just a throwaway post that struck me as mildly amusing. Though not nearly clever enough (or complicated enough-not sure what you guys aren’t getting about it) to warrant any real discussion, let alone multiple posts of explanation.
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Trump Impeachment 2: Insurrection Boogaloo
Let’s ignore the fact that he said “our government shouldn’t be forced to stop its work,” which is pretty clearly an implicit statement of faith. More importantly...it was a joke. Thought that was fairly obvious.
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Trump Impeachment 2: Insurrection Boogaloo
Bold move to criticize a belief in “fairy tales” while proclaiming your faith in the work of our government in one post.
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The Batshit Insane QAnon Conspiracy Theory
Completely agreed on the first point. I’ve been lamenting that for years. As far as Q goes, I think it’s worth reiterating, consistent with some of the observations others have made on this thread, that serious evangelical scholars as well as popular but more intellectual publications like Christianity Today and The Gospel Coalition have articles denouncing Q all the time and have ever since it first started making news. The question of who is swept up in this (or for the umpteenth time, who is an evangelical) is complex.
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How does the U.S. benefit from our relationship w/Israel?
I’m not disputing your take on Netanyahu in general, but I don’t know that loyalty to your religion over your country makes you “radical” in the sense it’s normally used in political discourse.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
It’s possible you’re overdoing the Yeats references.
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17 year-olds, Dude.
More like the coats wear him.
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How does the U.S. benefit from our relationship w/Israel?
Dispensationalists. "Evangelical" already has enough baggage of its own without painting all of them with that brush.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
Well that’s better than the “your argument is stupid/history is dumb/it’s common sense” trifecta that you went with before.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
Your counterargument is clearly much more persuasive.
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Abbot Has Primary Challenger
You have to bake it on Cornyn-style to truly appreciate it.
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the trump election lawsuit thread of dominance
Most of the Bill of Rights (including the 1st Amendment) have been made applicable to the States under the 14th amendment-its called incorporation. (Not a lawyer, I’m certain they could explain in more detail.)
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
Agreed. “I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”
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I'll admit it, I'm getting a little depressed.
If you’ve never placed any hope in this country, it’s much easier to deal with.
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The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]
Strange criteria for hiring a football coach.
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The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]
Good luck with getting that by the Constitution.
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The Batshit Insane QAnon Conspiracy Theory
20+ million Seventh Day Adventists stand as an alarming counterexample.
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Parler = Trumpkin Facebook....?
I am a beignet!
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The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]
This might be a more effective message from a guy who doesn’t average 5,000 posts a year on surly.
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Lauren Boobert - Tits and a Gun
The Colorado state capitol, actually.
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Trump Impeachment 2: Insurrection Boogaloo
This is my favorite highlight from his time there.
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The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]
Yeah, I was thinking that too. A revolution fomented by the privileged and powerful is the American way.
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The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]
What do you think “at this moment” means?
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Trump Impeachment 2: Insurrection Boogaloo
Not only begged past tense-according to the tweet that prompted my post, the plan is STILL to take a couple of votes on a resolution to urge Pence to invoke the 25th amendment and only if he fails to act to take up impeachment. That’s not their job, and it’s certainly not “turning the gears of impeachment as fast as they will go.” Its looking for an out.
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The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]
He was just referring to the consensus of historians. He’s not wrong. Buchanan is either 1 or 2 in all of these (and thus worst overall): ”In compiling its 10 Worst Presidents rankings, U.S. News averaged presidents' scores from three separate metrics: C-SPAN's 2017 Presidential Historians Survey, Siena College's Presidential Expert Poll and the Presidential Greatness Rankings conducted by professors at the University of Houston and Boise State University. Those narrowly missing the cut were Presidents Zachary Taylor and George W. Bush, who tied for 11th-worst among the nation's 44 commanders in chief. President Richard Nixon, who had previously ranked among America's 10 worst presidents in previous iterations of the U.S. News rankings, was remembered more fondly by recent presidential surveys. He ranked 15th-worst, just ahead of Martin Van Buren and Calvin Coolidge. Ulysses S. Grant made the biggest jump since 2014, when U.S. News last updated its Worst Presidents methodology. Grant was considered the seventh-worst president in U.S. history just a few years ago. He's now considered historically average, ranking 22nd-best out of the 43 presidents that were considered. U.S. News opted not to include President Donald Trump, who has yet to finish his first term. But he was deemed to be the worst president on the Presidential Greatness Rankings and third-worst in Siena's Presidential Expert Poll.“ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/articles/ranking-americas-worst-presidents%3fcontext=amp