Re: the gay/race communists: I think the most absurd/traumatic visual was that of Dr. Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. An overweight, aging Jewish male, with long hair, lipstick and spike high heels. (Smiling at the camera) Even Alfred Hitchcock or Steven Spielberg couldn't create a scene like that.
Can't forget about his cohort, the luggage stealing bald dude sportin' a mustache and constant 5:00 shadow, also applying the bright red lipstick and turquoise eye shadow whilst pranicin' around in stolen attire and Gucci stilettos! Ya know, the one in charge of nuclear waste!
The thing that was most bothersome, (as in jaw-dropping, eye-popping, and mind bending) albeit, both of these examples are hard to beat, was the fact that the "media" portrayed this as "normal" and the controllers silenced anyone who thought otherwise, making it seem as if the whole country was way ok and on board with this lunacy.
Good times , if one is retarded or completely insane!
I have always believed that the government is a bright reflection of the people it governs. Are Americans so different from the insanity of the Biden Administration? Trump won the last election but in most states he won he won by a fairly narrow margin. Only in a few states did he win by convincing margins. My point? Literally half the American people believe in and support the nonsense of Rachel Levine and Gucci Stilettos dude. A righteous and sane people would never permit a government like the one we are experiencing today. It exists because the people largely accept and support it.
I think one reason roughly half the country embraces Rachel "Stunning and Brave" Levine, and Sam "Butt-Sniffer" Brinton is because they hate Trump so much.
The media-promoted insanity of the Biden years would not have been possible without the polarization of Trump 1.0.
Followed up by a more than portly Governor JB Pritzker who supports lopping off the body parts of minors saying that RFK Jr. was spreading dangerous ideas about health.
They taught you the heart was just a glorified meat pump. That it squeezes and pushes blood like some crude mechanical device. A hydraulic engine made of flesh. That is what they want you to believe. Because if you buy into that primitive lie, you never ask deeper questions.
But it is false. It has always been false. And the real science proves it.
Dr Francisco Torrent-Guasp, a Spanish cardiac researcher, discovered what the textbooks refuse to acknowledge, that the heart is not a pump. He dissected thousands of hearts and found that the heart is a single continuous muscle band, folded into a spiral. He proved the heart works like a vortex generator, creating suction and torque, not pressure.
He called it the Helical Ventricular Myocardial Band and it changes everything.
The real movement of blood comes from pressure differentials, electromagnetic flow, and coherent resonance. The blood spirals naturally. It does not need to be forced through miles of arteries and capillaries. That idea is beyond stupid. The so-called pump is not strong enough to push thick fluid through 60,000 miles of tubing. That is basic physics. That lie was dead on arrival.
Here is the truth. Blood moves before the heart forms in the embryo. It flows via frequency, resonance, and electric charge. The body is a field, not a factory.
Your heart creates a toroidal electromagnetic field that radiates six metres from the body. This field syncs with the Earth, the Sun, and every living being around you. It is a resonator. A tuner. A conductor. It aligns the rhythm of your cells. It feels. It remembers. It emits. And it responds to emotion, thought, light, sound, and breath.
When you feel love, grief, fear, or peace, your heart transmits it. It is the central frequency modulator of your biology. Not a crude pump.
And the institutions know this. The HeartMath Institute has measured these fields for decades. They know the heart has more neuronal cells than parts of the brain. They know it is a second brain. They know coherence in the heart transforms the entire nervous system.
So why are they still teaching children a 400-year-old guess from William Harvey that has never been updated?
Because if you knew the truth, you would never accept statins or beta blockers again. You would understand that trauma, emotion, and disconnection break the heart field, not cholesterol. You would stop obeying the medical cartel and start tuning your body like the intelligent frequency field it is.
They do not want coherent humans. They want disrupted, inflamed, fragmented people who rely on drugs to survive. That is the business model. And the fake heart pump lie is central to it.
Your heart is not a pressure valve. It is a vortex. A field tuner. A resonating gateway between physical and energetic worlds.
It is the instrument of your soul.
And it has been hijacked by science that refuses to evolve. —Jamie Freeman
Interestingly, which has also been proven, is that one can send or portray a message from the brain via the mouth or typing, however, that message rarely gets gas to go. It usually falls flat. It resonates very little.
However, when a message is sent from the heart, with Love, it never ends. It just keeps resonating further and further.
This is why when one 'plants a seed' in Love, someone else can water it and the message is never lost. A completely different someone can tend to it, and still, the message resonates.
A long time ago, when I was in medical residency, the cardiovascular surgical team came out of the OR splattered with blood from head to toe. They'd been trying to save a guy with a rupturing abdominal aortic aneurysm. The aneurysm burst just as they had it exposed. The blood shot up to the ceiling and rained down on the OR crew. The heart is a pretty powerful pump.
Mel Brooks is currently involved in a sequel to his 1987 film Spaceballs, titled Spaceballs 2, which is set to be released in 2027. He will be reprising his role as Yogurt. Additionally, Brooks is executive producing a new series, Very Young Frankenstein, a reboot of his 1974 film Young Frankenstein, according to MSN.
This video explains the plot and cast of Mel Brooks' Spaceballs sequel:
Did you see that Liam Neeson is set to start in a new Naked Gun / Police Squad movie? Those movies were hilarious. I hope these new ones will have the charm and humor of the originals. Modern comedy usually just involves disgusting sexual innuendo and constant grotesque evaluations of human genitalia. Not funny at all.
They're incapable of understanding how other countries look at us or looked at us during the Biden administration. They look at us as a liability, not an asset.
Do they, Kathy? Really? American democracy breeds abortion, drugs, pornography, feminism, homosexuality, transgenderism, child mutilation, welfare, sloth, gluttony and corruption. Many countries call us the "great satan" for a reason.
I surmise that the BRICS Bunch (esp. Iran and Russia) have decided that they cannot have any diplomatic negotiation with America, because it is unreliable and does not keep its promises.
I used to think the same Kathy, but now that I see most of Europe veering headlong into the insanity, I’m not so sure they weren’t cheering on our own case of crazy this whole time. Pat yourself on the back for staying on the sane side
With respect and things may get back to normal.You have to agree that with Iran was given a 60 day window to dress down it's Nuke program and it did not happen day 61 brought on an event....accountability.The administration was still trying to gather a deal but..No..then came the busters.The world now knows that what Trump says Trump will do look at Canada giving up on the tech taxes?
A large part of the world knows Iran didn't have a military nuke programme. They made it illegal in 2003. Perhaps your president thinks he's entitled to say how Iranians heat their homes. Actually, take out the 'perhaps'.
Well with "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" they fund Hamas which means they funded 10/7/23.The fact they continued to add and enrich uranium beyond the 60% needed(easier togo from 60>90%).The country of NK was supplying missile technology one thinking might assume something is afoot.
Israel created and funded Hamas, as a ruse to make sure there was never a Palestinian state. Netanyahu is on video in the Knesset saying everyone should fund Hamas, as he does., for that purpose.
Re 'death to Israel', that means the conversion of the state of Israel into a normal non-Zionist state. It doesn't mean they want all Jewish people dead or they'd have started with the low-hanging fruit of the Jews who've been living in Iran since Ottoman times. See here for the view of those Jews on the Israeli attack:
The fact is that, whatever rhetoric Iran employed, it attacked nobody.
Do you hit people pre-emptively who 'look at you funny'? 🙄
To people outside of the US/Israeli bubble, bombing a country because you don't like their (civil) nuclear programme is not OK. They don't like your military nuclear programme or the fact that we've all long since lost count of how many countries have been bombed, invaded, regime-changed or 'colour-revolution-ed' by the US, but they haven't attacked you. And, given how the Iraq story was spun, I wouldn't believe a word that came from western intelligence anyway.
lololol first trump dismisses the obama fully regulated nuke deal, then demands that they make the same deal with him, in the midst of which israel started bombing them . . .. accountability? or just bad faith. of course the US gov practiced for centuries not keeping a single treaty with native americans so they're pretty good at it.
You mean Obama did something in the interest of the American people?When was the last time the Dimocrat party gave a rats ass about us they luv illegals more than me or you.
The world despises him. The world laughs at him. The world calls him a 'clown' and a 'buffoon.' The world does fear him but it sure as hell does not respect him.
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Right. It is far better that Bezos have that money earned in Canada off of Canadians on a purely tax-free basis while Canadians go hungry because taking over Venice costs a lot of loonies, eh?
Alfred E. Newman... Didn't he get that non-reversible black-as-me pigmenting procedure? As I recall he then had a meteoric political career: Bathhouse Bottom, Illinois Senator, US President...
Tried to find an emoji for Dr. Rachel Lavine and just noticed...There are no emoji's for the TRANS crowd. Even emoji's are more sane than the 'Numb Skull's' thinking to gaslight us all into delusions.
There should be a call for the five activist judges to resign and if they don't, begin impeachment proceedings for abuse of office in their attempt to usurp the constitutional authority of POTUS, purely for political purposes. There should be no room in the Judiciary for legal experimentation with fucking around with the commander in chief.
The Constitution also allows for Congress to pass legislation that authorizes the commander in chief to use the military to act swiftly, if needed, without a formal congressional declaration of war.
Obviously, there was no way to conduct a successful mission like the recent B2 bomber mission if a vote of Congress was needed. There are far too many in the opposition that would pull a Milley and warn the enemy ahead of time.
That blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law has never once been confirmed by a judge ... in one a half of a century. The uni-Party never challenge it because it would obviously be thrown out for obviously being the complete opposite on the constitution itself.
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Even that blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law states that there must be "imminent danger to the USA." Trump's 9/21 sneak-attack bombing of Iran did not even adhere to that blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law.
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Here is a list of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of WW II to 2020:
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Cambodia 1969-70
China 1945-46
Congo 1964
Cuba 1959-1961
El Salvador 1980s
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958
Grenada 1983
Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-
Iran 1987
Korea 1950-53
Kuwait 1991
Laos 1964-73
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986, 2011-
Nicaragua 1980s
Pakistan 2003, 2006-
Palestine 2010
Panama 1989
Peru 1965
Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-
Sudan 1998
Syria 2014-
Vietnam 1961-73
Yemen 2002, 2009-
Yugoslavia 1999
... but you don't have a king. No, no, no. You have a Commander-in-Chief.
Laws are not confirmed by judges. Judges only interpret laws passed by Congress. If this were not the case, we wouldn't need a Congress of legislators to write and pass bills or for a president to ratify a bill into law. We'd have only judges.
It's 'blatantly' obvious that a nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to the U.S., our allies, and world peace. Obviously, it's up to the commander in chief to determine what threat is imminent. It would be ridiculous to leave that the Legislative or Judicial branches.
I completely agree that our adventures overseas are often misguided or poorly planned and executed. Ukraine being the most recent utter FUBAR.
Laws are challenged and taken to court to test their adherence to legal constitutionality constantly. Constitutional Law is the highest form of Law in the U.S.A. The Supremes' cases are a significant percentage of such cases.
Yes, legislated but unconstitutional laws are struck down for being unconstitutional by judges but first someone must legally challenge the unconstitutionality of it. A "Demonrat" or Republican (i.e. Frick or Frack, Tweedledee or Tweedledum). Someone.
Aye! There's the rub! Neither Frick nor Frack would ever challenge such blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law because DC is much, much, much more lucrative ignoring the constitution. MIC dollars slosh around DC while every single Congress-critter and Senator can truthfully claim, "I never voted for it."
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"If this were not the case, we wouldn't need a Congress of legislators to write and pass bills or for a president to ratify a bill into law. We'd have only judges."
No. Without the other two branches there'd be no new laws. Judges don't create law but they do upload constitutional laws while they also strike down unconstitutional ones (e.g. War Powers Resolution of 1973).
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Existential, perhaps. Imminent? Not on your life!
It's up to ONE GUY to determine 'imminent' even though WE ALL KNOW that it clearly was not imminent here in the real world?!!!
"But he's not a king. We don't have a king! We call our guy a Warmonger-in-Chief - way better than 'king'!"
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You call the U.S. Constitution "ridiculous"? Well, I never!
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"I completely agree that our adventures overseas are often misguided or poorly planned and executed. Ukraine being the most recent utter FUBAR."
Maybe the U.S. Constitution is not that "ridiculous" after all, eh?
While you were apparently not looking, Jeff, the Commander-in-Chief unilaterally declared war on Iran without requesting a declaration from Congress as required by the Constitution, and then bombed the hell out of them, continuing a decades-long trend of activity designed to keep the dogs of war free to feed at the trough to their hearts' content, full speed ahead and damn the deficits .I do agree with you that impeachment proceedings against jurists who violate the Constitution are in order, e.g.,justifying Obamacare as a tax bill and not the imposition of health care whereas all tax bills according to the Constitution must originate in the House and "Affordable" Health Care started in the Senate. Not to mention the Patriot Act which nullifies habeas corpus, the War Powers Act and other abominations.
Is there a way to remove Jumanji Jackson for incompetence? Or another angle would be along the lines of the Autopen fiasco. She was appointed by Biden who was non compos mentis. She should be removed and Trump should be allowed to appoint a new justice.
The entire Biden Administration was Fraudulent. The 2020 Election is being proved with evidence as willfully fraudulent.
Every single item, action, and decision made by the Fraudulent Election and the insertion of the Biden Administration must be considered null and void regardless of whether FJB or his guilty cohorts with the Magical FJB Pen signed it or implemented it.
Regardless of how her name came to be put forward, she was confirmed by the Senate. Repealing the 17th amendment would fix so many things negatively affecting the US.
I would respectfully disagree in this regard; although the thirteenth amendment may not be the original "Titles of Nobility" amendment, in keeping with the consistency of the 8th amendments "Cruel or Unusual Punishment" clause, why are so many people being forced and coerced into conditions of slavery and/or involuntary servitude if people have a "Right" to be secure or a right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, if people can be prematurely punished and coercively detained on the word of a bureaucrat alone? The tribal warfare/lawfare continues as long as only one side gets to define what "Reasonable" or "Cruel and Unusual" is? Is there any dialogue with autocrats?
Lincoln claimed that the Southern states never really seceded and that it was just the action of some rogue leaders and that the states never actually left the union. Then, during reconstruction, they were put under military rule and puppet governments who had to pass certain laws as a condition of "readmission." It can't be both. They either seceded or they didn't. If they seceded, which was perfectly constitutional, then the Northern actions were unconstitutional and amounted to a tyrannical war and forcing readmission unconstitutionally. Or, if they didn't secede, then they didn't need readmission. Either way, everything that happened as a consequence of reconstruction was unconstitutional, and every amendment passed after the war is illegitimate.
Lincoln was evil. A true tyrant. He overthrew the Constitution of 1788 and changed the order of the United States from a union of individual states to a country with administrative divisions. What he did to the innocent women and children in the south when he let that Satanic bastard Sherman loose says it all. I hope he's rotting in hell for eternity for his crimes against humanity committed during his lifetime and the crimes that followed in the years after his death.
A really good thought. Most of them are to accommodate the Leftist or Rightist politics of the moment. Should amendments have review cycles after a period of time, or even sunset conditions. I think that the corrections concerning former slaves were correct, but some things like the birthright part of 14 should be expanded upon by further judgement y SCOTUS. IMHO, SCOTUS under Roberts has done a magnificent job of dodging the political issues. That seems to be abating now as finally, SCOTUS is growing a spine and is defending the strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Bill Benson went to every state legislature looking for the original documents ratifying the 16th and17th amendments. They were never actually ratified.
One of my "senators" does not appear to have been "elected" in 2020. If he couldn't see it per the "reported" and "certified" results he has no business being a senator.
He also received $2M from the medical industry and then successfully had a stroke...
Considering a strategy based on the use/misuse of the autopen, I'd go for some low-hanging fruit first.
The legal system is based on precedent, something former law professor ACB pointedly emphasized in her recently authored decision signed onto by 5 other Justices. With this in mind, set the precedent of reversal of actions based upon fraudulent use of the device in a series of escalating steps. It would be a slow process. Since she could be hanging around for another 20-30 years as a DEI hire, the effort could be worth the time.
Of course, given all the boring legalese involved in such an action, she might be persuaded to take early retirement with whatever pension goes with the job. It will nicely supplement the income from some book deals.
She could then sit around pondering her body parts, discordantly assembling a stream of thoughts and feelings concerning the definition of 'woman'.
I want her to write an Opinion on "her body parts"...she seems to be a fashion minded professional, you gotta know what "look" looks best. Why is she doing a tour of shows?
Surely in the whole history of the Supreme Court there has never, ever been a denunciation of a fellow Justice by another Justice like what came down this week from Amy Coney Barrett of Jumanji Jackson.
This case was about birthright citizenship but also shut down a local judge from making a ruling affecting the entire country.
ACB at one point in her opinion included, "No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation—in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so.
Observing the limits on judicial authority—including, as relevant here, the boundaries of the Judiciary Act of 1789—is required by a judge’s oath to follow the law. JUSTICE JACKSON skips over that part."
"Jumanji!" That's a good one. I wouldn't be surprised if "Biden" chose her on the premise that her "prenom" would piss off the Deplorables even more. If she were named "Margaret" or "Dolores" or some other non-hiphopism, I wonder whether she would have been nominated. Her juridical acumen certainly wasn't a priority.
You speak of the National Debt. Factually, the US is going bankrupt. If the "Big Beautiful Bill" passes, the National Debt will rise, and the US will continue to go bankrupt. Ditto if it fails to pass. In fact, no matter what happens, in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in the South China sea. . .no matter what happens, the US is going bankrupt, and it went farther in debt in the time it took you to read this. Eventually, the National Debt will be downgraded (again) and interest rates on our debt will rise (again) as the process of the bankruptcy moves faster. It really doesn't make much difference who wins, and who loses, elections in this failing nation. . . all of our political leaders cheerfully agree that we must borrow more money, spend more money, and keep going bankrupt. The ending of this farce is quite predictable, and inevitable. . . it will be very, very ugly.
Correct. The only variable that keeps us afloat for now is the dollar's reserve currency status. The world, nations and markets in particular, are drenched in dollars denominated in TBills. It's telling that Japan holds a lion's share of treasuries and enjoys the interest payments BUT, cannot sell them. When the buying stops there will be no chairs left to sit in!
The British pound was once the world's reserve currency but two world wars brought an end to that. These days, Britain is a second rate power which has difficult paying for its defense commitments while at the same time trying to pay for its National Health Insurance plan. I hate to disappoint you, but Japan held only 3% of US government debt as of 2023. See: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-heres-who-owns-u-s-debt/
The published National Debt numbers do not include what accountants call unfunded liabilities such as the shortfall in the Social Security, Medicare and Disability trust funds.
Unfortunately, those that think that shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic to keep her afloat may be sane, but they are apparently irrational. The inability to recognize Trump and other "leaders" for what they are is astounding.
If the bill passes, Congress will be able to kick the can down the road a while longer. If it fails, the Treasury won't be able to borrow any more money and will face an immediate financial crisis. Who are the fools still buying 30 year Treasury bonds?
Mr. Mike---I am certainly not a financial genius but if you look at the rates payable on 30 year Federal Bonds, I cannot think why anyone would even consider buying a long term bond at a rate of 4-6%. However, I would guess that the big banks who a too big to fail probably have had discussions with the Fed and got assurances that if they plow money into long term bonds they will be protected and made whole when it goes to bat guano. The rate you get on a long term bond does not even cover the inflation risk----unless you believe the gov't when they say inflation is 1 or 2%.
I was amazed a couple of years ago when several banks got into big trouble when the interest rates went from negative (after you factor in inflation) to 4-5%----which is still close to zero with inflation included. These banks had no idea that the zero interest rates had to end at some period of time. I think that these Financial genius' all sit around and pump each other up with the latest BS and they all go and make the same decisions which is based on the federal gov't never having to pay the piper for the last 50+ years of federal financial stupidity.
IMHO, we are caught in a death spiral with the debt. Our government has just spent 70 years working to make folks dependent on them for subsistence. So much of the economy is based on a service sector model, championed by Obama. To keep up with the needs of a constantly growing economy, more and more federal money is needed. If the BBB is defeated, taxes go up, spending continues open loop, the Dems succeed in keeping things going just the same as always. Trump’s contingent has to deal with the fact that this service economy needs more and more input just to stay up with the times. A good example is the unbelievable minimum wage ideas floating around right now, leading up to UBI, the dems wet dream.
Second, are you aware that the gold bullion banks, the international gold buyer and sellers for nations, have been allowed to take Treasuries in place of gold in transactions. Think about that one, we do not even know what value gold has as a goodly amount of “gold” is worthless Treasuries. I do wonder, assuming an audit was actually done at Ft. Knox, how much gold is in there? IOW, how worthless is the dollar?
The only way UBI is possible is if the government figures out a way to tax the robots and AI that will take over the workplace. Even then, what happens to the pride in work that folks need? Elon has a negative feel about what AI is going to do to humanity. He was a co-founder of Open AI and left when he saw that they did not give a hoot about what AI could do to humanity. His own AI stuff, robotics, is under careful control to not be overtaking humanity. In his factories, reviews are held on workstations to see if humans can beat out robots and AI. I think Elon is right, it is inevitable. For the Luddites in the crowd, AI is a totally different animal that John Henry’s drilling machine. AI does not only take away your job, it takes away your neighbor’s job and then improves on its own performance, maintains itself, works 24/7 with maintenance breaks.
UBI is the hi tech solution to the damage it is going to do to the workplace. UBI will be scarce compared to today’s wages and that is going to slow down the consumer market. So what if the tech gurus can build a car using robots and AI, if there are not enough people to buy them, who cares.
Milton Friedman proposed a negative income tax (NIT), which effectively sanctioned a basic income for all, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom.
In his 1964 State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced legislation to fight the war on poverty. Johnson believed in expanding the federal government's roles in education and health care to reduce poverty. In this political climate, the idea of a guaranteed income for every American also took root. Notably, a document, signed by 1,200 economists, called for a guaranteed income for every American.
President Richard Nixon explained its purpose as "to provide both a safety net for the poor and a financial incentive for welfare recipients to work."
The American Enterprise Institute estimated that the annual cost of a UBI in the US would have been about $200 billion less expensive than the US social safety-net system in place at that date. By 2020, it would have been nearly a trillion dollars less expensive.
From Wikipedia the following is a list of notable individuals who have publicly expressed support or are working for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI).
Give me a break, Dennis. Exactly why do you think the USA is almost 37 trillion dollars in debt and hanging on to a thread. It is socialists like you that favor the gimme syndrome that leads populations into poverty. UBI will be successful at one thing, if it is ever put in. It will destroy the pride and self- respect of every person it touches.
BTW, your statement from the American Enterprise sounds like typical Leftist gibberish. If you give everyone in a society UBI of any sort at all, the math says that there is no way that supporting 20% poverty levels could ever be less . Also, how exactly are you going to fund all these freebies, just print money? You think we have a deficit now?
Unless Trump releases enuf of the minerals trapped in federal land "reserves" to pay off the debt. Ukrainian minerals could help, too. Using them requires restoring manufacturing, too, which requires tariffs.
Dude----I think that Trump has already moved on from Ukraine. I agree that there is no chance in Hell that we will get any money out of Ukraine-----except, of course, all the money that has been shifted from Ukraine aid to Swiss bank accounts owned by our Congress critters.
You need to work on developing subtlety. See if you can concoct something more subtle than hitting your 1.5 readers over the head with that "Trump and his Zionist Masters" crowbar. It flies waaay over the top!
Justin Martyr and John Chrysostom no doubt used nuance and finesse, when teaching so many Christians to hate Jews, 2000 years ago. Illiterate stupid boneheads like you haven't even the slightest scintilla of an idea about from where your biased hatred is derived.
Going bankrupt? I argue the US IS bankrupt. The money is long gone. The US is broke. Bankrupt. Busted. Broken. There is no fucking way this debt get repaid.
Add to the Federal debt, private debt in the USA is somewhere around $78 trillion.
There is not enough money in the world to pay this debt off. Default is the only way to absolve the debt and that brings economic catastrophe.
The American economist Michael Hudson is a proponent of a Debt Jubilee, writing in a Washington Post op-ed that it was an alternative to a depression. A debt jubilee is a clearance of debt from public record across the nation.
Similarly, anthropologist David Graeber pointed to kings' historical use of debt jubilees during regime changes to suggest that a Debt Jubilee would have been an appropriate response to the 2008 financial crisis.
I know you are not a believer in the Bible, DM, but, the Old Testament had the same kind of idea as you suggested. If I remember correctly (been a long time since I read in the Old Testament) the ancient Israelites were solidly against usury and all debts were automatically forgiven after 7 years.
I think the idea of a debt jubilee has merit. Otherwise the debt burden just continues to grow and the interest payment grows to a point that it consumes all the wealth any individual may have or ever have.
I think a debt jubilee would also make lenders think twice about loaning money to individuals who are not likely to pay it back. Knowing they might not have that money paid back would require more responsible lending practices and may even keep debt levels down.
Money isn't real. It is a figment of mans imagination. An invention intended to wield power and control over the masses. That said, it is extremely difficult to live in this fucked up world without it. Wanna buy some treasury bonds?
I suspect that a big reason for the left's histrionics is that there's not competence nor moral standing to support themselves. Simply put, there's no "there" there.
So, like an unruly 3yo child, when bargaining doesn't work and things aren't going the way they want, a temper tantrum results.
Occam----and the proper thing that should happen when a tantrum erupts is the boss should jerk the slack out of the reins and get control over the child so the unruly child knows that continued insanity will not be tolerated Unfortunately this has never happened to our bureaucrats and useless Reps and Senators.
Religion should NOT be the ultimate answer to human problems.
Religion sucks at answers to human problems.
EG: Netanyahu invoked the Biblical reference with the Amalek rhetoric for a blatant call to genocide.
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." 1 Samuel 15:3.
Religion: The divided states of delusion, hubris, arrogance, ignorance, hypocrisy and stupidity. People killing each other trying to decide who has the best imaginary friend.
Who is the last atheist that sawed the head off an infidel, or strapped explosives to his belt to kill hundreds in a public square, or publicly hung a homosexual, or drove planes into buildings where people were at work, or committed genocide in the name of a GOD?
One reply: God does not kill people, Man does. Man is totally responsible for his own self-inflicted misery. Man is the font of evil. God sent a very simple message through Jesus, love God and love your fellow man. That does not seem like a war cry to me.
You do not like religion, but all it really is, is an inspiration, an excuse to MOST of humanity to do terrible things to each other. As atheism is a religion in itself, Quite a few atheists in the SS gassed and cremated millions of people and not just Jews. Quite a few atheists throughout history tried to destroy other humans to feed their own egos, Khan, Lenin, Mao, Tojo, Napoleon, Julius Caesar , the Jewish Sanhedrin leadership, people who had no idea what God and religion are all about. They have a common ideal, they are blinded by their own egos so they cannot believe someone or something is bigger than them. Sound familiar?
Do you realize how sick people get of your parading your self-professed atheism? Do you not realize it exposes the ego driven side of you that cannot accept that a bigger and more important entity exists and that His ideas are much, much better than anything Man has come up with?
God exists? Yeah, proof is that we exist. Just go back in time to “the beginning”, what started it all? Hint: man including you does not have a clue. Faith in the presence of a Creator is not a bad thing. Oh yeah, 90% of all the “facts” of the world are not facts but hypotheses and theories, never to be proven. Science describes the behavior of the Creator and His Universe(s). If you have been watching what the cosmologists have been doing since James Webb went up, you would realize that all the “God disproving” science is taking it in the shorts. The Big Bang and all other theories are being disproven as star systems older than the Big bang are being discovered and the proposed existence of other older universes is being debated. All the new Theories have no more credibility than a creative entity started it all and it may be so much bigger than what we have envisualized up to now.
And do you realize how sick people get of your parading your self-professed theism?
"There must be a creator"
"Why"?
"Because I'm mentally immature and can't understand science so it's the only option"
Jesus dying once, then magically rising from the dead to run back to heaven and never to show up again...that’s just being regular dead with extra imaginary steps thrown in!
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.” ― Sigmund Freud, "The Future of an Illusion".
Still not a single convincing reason to believe in the existence of any god, gods, demigods, souls, spirits, magic, any form of afterlife or other divine or supernatural beings. Something tells me today will be no different.
As one who writes and teaches a lot about secularism and humanism, lectures a lot about atheism and agnosticism, and directs a secular studies program, there are a few common questions/comments that come my way with regular frequency. For example: "How can you be moral if you don't believe in God?" is a pretty standard line of inquiry. And then there's always: "What about spirituality—is that religious or secular?" And another one that also often emerges is this perennial classic: "Isn't atheism just another religion?"
It’s that question I’d like to address today.
First off, the question is usually posed as a sly put-down. Its pejorative. At worst, it is meant to somehow put atheists in their place (You think religion is so stupid? Well, your atheism is just another religion, so you are also stupid! Hah!), or to expose atheists as hypocrites (You condemn religious people but you atheists are not so different, so there!), or at best, it is meant to be snarkily clever (Bet you didn't think of that mister secular smarty pants!).
But let's go ahead and assume that the question is actually put forth in complete earnestness. If that is the case, then yes, one can see some striking similarities between atheists and religious people. For example:
* Like religious people (at least religious fundamentalists), atheist are pretty convinced that they are right about God—that there isn’t one. So there is a dogmatic or “uber-convinced” quality to the conviction of atheism that seems strikingly similar to religious conviction. That is, both the atheist and the religious fundamentalist are sure that they know the truth and everyone else is wrong, at least about God.
* Just as some religious people are very public about their religiosity, some atheists are also public about their atheism: they wear T-shirts proclaiming it, they put bumper stickers on their car asserting their lack of belief in God, and some even buy billboards along highways that broadcast their atheist viewpoint.
* Finally, although most atheists are not involved with any atheist, secularist, or humanist groups, many are. And these groups—such as American Atheists, American Humanist Association, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and a zillion small atheist meet-ups all over the country—do share many things in common with religious groups: people gather for a shared sense of identity, people gather to support each other’s worldview, people gather to articulate their values and actively try to promote those values in the wider society.
None of the above, however, makes atheism a religion. Just because something resembles something else in various ways, doesn’t make the two the same.
So, consider the first aspect of atheism noted above: strong conviction. Yes, it is true that atheists are sure that there is no God and they think they are right about this and everyone else is wrong. But strength of conviction does not make one religious. Most people are absolutely convinced that the earth is round, and they are sure that anyone who thinks that earth is flat is simply wrong. Such earth-is-round believers do not constitute a religion. Many mathematicians are strongly convinced of basic mathematical formulas. That doesn’t mean they are religious in their mathematicalness. In sum, while strength of conviction is certainly a hallmark of religiosity, and also atheism, it is also a hallmark of so many other world-views and beliefs and orientations, and thus does not a religion make.
As for atheists publicly proclaiming their religion on T-shirts, bumper-stickers, etc.—again, such behavior does not make atheism a religion. Sports fans also proclaim their love of their favorite teams, and people publicaly assert all kinds of things—political affiliation, nationalistic adoration, regional allegiance, pet preference, etc. Such public proclamations do not make a religion.
Finally, as for gathering with like-minded individuals—this, too, does not make for a religion. Just think of the PTA, vegan cooking conferences, annual business associations, etc.
So what does make something a religion?
Simple: the supernatural. Religions are social movements that maintain a belief in the supernatural, and religions are organizations who’s members engage in rituals and celebrations in relation to, or predicated on, shared supernatural beliefs. It is belief in God, or angels, or karma, or heaven, or Allah, or spirits, or past lives, or zombies, or Vishnu, or Satan, or Jesus, etc.—and the gatherings, rites, and activities that go on as a result of those beliefs – that make religion religion.
Atheism lacks a belief in the supernatural. As such, it is not a religion.
As many other have already said—and these are not my lines, but lines I’ve picked up over the years from various sources—calling atheism a religion is like calling abstinence a sexual position, or baldness a hair color, or not collecting stamps a hobby."
A religion provides a basis for faith. Huge questions have plagued Mankind since someone or something gave him the ability to reason, to question his existence, to wonder who made him, to wonder what the future holds for him. God, through Jesus, gave humanity a model for behavior. Even so, Man has managed to muck it up, over and over and over. If an atheist, or deist has no moral structure that he believes in, is it any wonder he can reason out any form of evil hat history has shown over and over.
You do not have a clue about any of this, mortal human. You have no answers. I believe you are satisfied with that. Most people are not.
As for the tired old..."Quite a few atheists in the SS gassed and cremated millions of people and not just Jews. Quite a few atheists throughout history tried to destroy other humans to feed their own egos, Khan, Lenin, Mao, Tojo, Napoleon...blah, blah...."
"It is an often heard refrain among less well informed Christians that Hitler and Stalin (those slightly more knowledgeable sometimes add Pol Pot and Mao Zedong) were atheists and that their atheism led them to commit atrocities resulting in the deaths of millions of people. These claims are demonstrably false.
Hitler was never an atheist. The available evidence points to the fact that he remained a theist throughout his whole life.
It is true that Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot, were all atheists. But the primary influences that led to their atrocities were not atheism per se but their dogmatic Marxism and communist ideas.
We see that in none of these cases could atheism be made to “take the blame” for the atrocities committed by these men."
I think we need to commission someone like "Big Balls" of DOGE fame. That kid could put together a near seamless voting system far better and faster than the 535 members of congress.
Bugtussle Township, Anywhere USA. Annual voting test: you have to know how government works, your districts, your representatives - basically the civics test American kids used to have to pass 100 years ago to graduate. Anyone who passes the test becomes an Elector. Annual testing, because people get stupid...
Nobody says, "Hey, I wanna be President! Vote for me!" Well, they might say that, but that's not how it works - not anymore...
Example: Newly-formed Bugtussle Township has no government, so the Electors get together to form one. Every elector is subject to being elected. First Elector with >50% of the vote wins. First round of voting: the top 10 Electors add up to >50%, so you have a run-off. Second round: the top 3 >50%. Last round: winner has >50%.
When do you have an election? When you need one. Representative died. Electors lose confidence in their Representative - no confidence vote. Election scheduled, new representative elected.
County representatives elected from among township representatives. State representatives selected from among county reps. And so on.
No parties, no candidates, no regularly-scheduled elections - just pure, unadulterated representative government.
Excellent. but this is the second offering this morning with a victory lap-adjacent feel to it. But vigilance! It all stops at the mid-terms without wise candidate selection and beyond the margin of fraud turnout. Because no federal level election reform is getting out of the senate with the existing margin.
I have said and written your introductory line so often in the last 9 years, you coulda been quoting me! Witnessed by 2 of his opponents in Congress deciding over the weekend to quit the arena. This term, Trump isn't mincing words; he's saying out loud what most of us are thinking. He has no reason to care where the chips fall as long as he achieves his mission - and I'm behind him 100%.
Yes, I can. The J6 people would still be in jail, reparations would've already been implemented, homeowners would be saddled with the 44.6 percent capital gains tax and the 25 percent equity tax (unless they were black), and Christianity would be outlawed and churches closed (unless they were black).
Another trend has been the removal of cause of death from obituaries. If some young person just keels over and drops dead, there is a nice summation of his or her brief life. If anyone dares to ask the cause of death, a barrage of criticism ensues. Let them grieve! How dare you disturb the family at this time! etc. etc. Meanwhile medical journals, mostly abroad, continue to publish studies showing various downsides, to put it politely, of our recent mandates. Last year, I believe, the august Cleveland Clinic published a peer-reviewed study which showed the boostered group was actually more likely to test positive for Covid than the group with no vaccinations at all. This is not the only research with this result. Of course, the press did not find this newsworthy.
There's a channel on Bitchute and X called Kurganreport, where this guy has been meticulously posting, (dark humor included), from VAERS and other websites, cataloging the ongoing damage and deaths that have occurred and continue to occur ever since this scamdemic started.
A useful definition of wisdom is competence with Reality--and the ability to know the best thing to do when the rules don't apply. And the best way to do navigate the unknown is by staying sane, alert, and not repeating past mistakes.
What is true for the individual is true for society. Much of the insanity (and indeed evil) abroad in the land is the stinking bubbly discharge from the nether end of a rotting body of bad ideas and wishful thinking coming to the end of its parasitic life cycle.
I keep coming back to Mark Halperin’s prediction that a Trump win in the 2024 Presidential election would cause the biggest mental health crisis in the history of the Country.
Why blame him? Most of our country had lost sight of sanity with the acceptance of Obama….too many fell for the rouse. The GOOD thing that came out of his running for presidency the first and second time is that he won. THANK GOD! Truth will hurt those who are lost to their various groups of insane. They cannot ever be sane again. Who Cares!! They are soon to be history.
Re: the gay/race communists: I think the most absurd/traumatic visual was that of Dr. Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. An overweight, aging Jewish male, with long hair, lipstick and spike high heels. (Smiling at the camera) Even Alfred Hitchcock or Steven Spielberg couldn't create a scene like that.
Can't forget about his cohort, the luggage stealing bald dude sportin' a mustache and constant 5:00 shadow, also applying the bright red lipstick and turquoise eye shadow whilst pranicin' around in stolen attire and Gucci stilettos! Ya know, the one in charge of nuclear waste!
The thing that was most bothersome, (as in jaw-dropping, eye-popping, and mind bending) albeit, both of these examples are hard to beat, was the fact that the "media" portrayed this as "normal" and the controllers silenced anyone who thought otherwise, making it seem as if the whole country was way ok and on board with this lunacy.
Good times , if one is retarded or completely insane!
I have always believed that the government is a bright reflection of the people it governs. Are Americans so different from the insanity of the Biden Administration? Trump won the last election but in most states he won he won by a fairly narrow margin. Only in a few states did he win by convincing margins. My point? Literally half the American people believe in and support the nonsense of Rachel Levine and Gucci Stilettos dude. A righteous and sane people would never permit a government like the one we are experiencing today. It exists because the people largely accept and support it.
Trump won 'bigly' in almost every state; they just didnt figure the steal quite enough...
I think one reason roughly half the country embraces Rachel "Stunning and Brave" Levine, and Sam "Butt-Sniffer" Brinton is because they hate Trump so much.
The media-promoted insanity of the Biden years would not have been possible without the polarization of Trump 1.0.
Followed up by a more than portly Governor JB Pritzker who supports lopping off the body parts of minors saying that RFK Jr. was spreading dangerous ideas about health.
It's about time for Pritzker to have a heart attack.
First you have to have one to be attacked.
cheney can speak to that. heart transplants trying repeatedly to kill him
They taught you the heart was just a glorified meat pump. That it squeezes and pushes blood like some crude mechanical device. A hydraulic engine made of flesh. That is what they want you to believe. Because if you buy into that primitive lie, you never ask deeper questions.
But it is false. It has always been false. And the real science proves it.
Dr Francisco Torrent-Guasp, a Spanish cardiac researcher, discovered what the textbooks refuse to acknowledge, that the heart is not a pump. He dissected thousands of hearts and found that the heart is a single continuous muscle band, folded into a spiral. He proved the heart works like a vortex generator, creating suction and torque, not pressure.
He called it the Helical Ventricular Myocardial Band and it changes everything.
The real movement of blood comes from pressure differentials, electromagnetic flow, and coherent resonance. The blood spirals naturally. It does not need to be forced through miles of arteries and capillaries. That idea is beyond stupid. The so-called pump is not strong enough to push thick fluid through 60,000 miles of tubing. That is basic physics. That lie was dead on arrival.
Here is the truth. Blood moves before the heart forms in the embryo. It flows via frequency, resonance, and electric charge. The body is a field, not a factory.
Your heart creates a toroidal electromagnetic field that radiates six metres from the body. This field syncs with the Earth, the Sun, and every living being around you. It is a resonator. A tuner. A conductor. It aligns the rhythm of your cells. It feels. It remembers. It emits. And it responds to emotion, thought, light, sound, and breath.
When you feel love, grief, fear, or peace, your heart transmits it. It is the central frequency modulator of your biology. Not a crude pump.
And the institutions know this. The HeartMath Institute has measured these fields for decades. They know the heart has more neuronal cells than parts of the brain. They know it is a second brain. They know coherence in the heart transforms the entire nervous system.
So why are they still teaching children a 400-year-old guess from William Harvey that has never been updated?
Because if you knew the truth, you would never accept statins or beta blockers again. You would understand that trauma, emotion, and disconnection break the heart field, not cholesterol. You would stop obeying the medical cartel and start tuning your body like the intelligent frequency field it is.
They do not want coherent humans. They want disrupted, inflamed, fragmented people who rely on drugs to survive. That is the business model. And the fake heart pump lie is central to it.
Your heart is not a pressure valve. It is a vortex. A field tuner. A resonating gateway between physical and energetic worlds.
It is the instrument of your soul.
And it has been hijacked by science that refuses to evolve. —Jamie Freeman
Interestingly, which has also been proven, is that one can send or portray a message from the brain via the mouth or typing, however, that message rarely gets gas to go. It usually falls flat. It resonates very little.
However, when a message is sent from the heart, with Love, it never ends. It just keeps resonating further and further.
This is why when one 'plants a seed' in Love, someone else can water it and the message is never lost. A completely different someone can tend to it, and still, the message resonates.
This is what [they] don't want you to know.
THIS is what [they] have tried to minisculize.
The Power of Love.
interestedly enough I had a primer cube (magnetic oscillator) running next to a pelvic injury while reading your response.
It's said that the Buddha's aura extended for more than a mile.
Thank you for that info, Phil.
A long time ago, when I was in medical residency, the cardiovascular surgical team came out of the OR splattered with blood from head to toe. They'd been trying to save a guy with a rupturing abdominal aortic aneurysm. The aneurysm burst just as they had it exposed. The blood shot up to the ceiling and rained down on the OR crew. The heart is a pretty powerful pump.
And the lungs?
Hitchcock or spielberg wouldn't CONSIDER a Rachel Levine scene. THAT is the purview of Mel Brooks.
I was thinking the Zucker Brothers (creators of the Naked Gun series).
Or early Woody Allen.
Mel Brooks would have spun it to be funny not grotesque.
My what big knockers.
Why thank you Doctor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB_aegewceU
Mel Brooks is currently involved in a sequel to his 1987 film Spaceballs, titled Spaceballs 2, which is set to be released in 2027. He will be reprising his role as Yogurt. Additionally, Brooks is executive producing a new series, Very Young Frankenstein, a reboot of his 1974 film Young Frankenstein, according to MSN.
This video explains the plot and cast of Mel Brooks' Spaceballs sequel:
https://youtu.be/RmqqZa8aPh0
Did you see that Liam Neeson is set to start in a new Naked Gun / Police Squad movie? Those movies were hilarious. I hope these new ones will have the charm and humor of the originals. Modern comedy usually just involves disgusting sexual innuendo and constant grotesque evaluations of human genitalia. Not funny at all.
I hope that Liam Neeson and the rest of cast knock it out of the park. I see great possibility.
he has a way with wry, pithy humor.
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They're incapable of understanding how other countries look at us or looked at us during the Biden administration. They look at us as a liability, not an asset.
Do they, Kathy? Really? American democracy breeds abortion, drugs, pornography, feminism, homosexuality, transgenderism, child mutilation, welfare, sloth, gluttony and corruption. Many countries call us the "great satan" for a reason.
I'm not sure you can blame it on democracy, Cankerpuss. The Age of Pericles is described with reverence, and Greece was a democracy.
I surmise that the BRICS Bunch (esp. Iran and Russia) have decided that they cannot have any diplomatic negotiation with America, because it is unreliable and does not keep its promises.
I used to think the same Kathy, but now that I see most of Europe veering headlong into the insanity, I’m not so sure they weren’t cheering on our own case of crazy this whole time. Pat yourself on the back for staying on the sane side
How do you think other countries look at Trump and Trumpsters?
With respect and things may get back to normal.You have to agree that with Iran was given a 60 day window to dress down it's Nuke program and it did not happen day 61 brought on an event....accountability.The administration was still trying to gather a deal but..No..then came the busters.The world now knows that what Trump says Trump will do look at Canada giving up on the tech taxes?
A large part of the world knows Iran didn't have a military nuke programme. They made it illegal in 2003. Perhaps your president thinks he's entitled to say how Iranians heat their homes. Actually, take out the 'perhaps'.
The US has a nuke programme.
Israel has a nuke programme.
Well with "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" they fund Hamas which means they funded 10/7/23.The fact they continued to add and enrich uranium beyond the 60% needed(easier togo from 60>90%).The country of NK was supplying missile technology one thinking might assume something is afoot.
Israel created and funded Hamas, as a ruse to make sure there was never a Palestinian state. Netanyahu is on video in the Knesset saying everyone should fund Hamas, as he does., for that purpose.
Re 'death to Israel', that means the conversion of the state of Israel into a normal non-Zionist state. It doesn't mean they want all Jewish people dead or they'd have started with the low-hanging fruit of the Jews who've been living in Iran since Ottoman times. See here for the view of those Jews on the Israeli attack:
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-857895
The fact is that, whatever rhetoric Iran employed, it attacked nobody.
Do you hit people pre-emptively who 'look at you funny'? 🙄
To people outside of the US/Israeli bubble, bombing a country because you don't like their (civil) nuclear programme is not OK. They don't like your military nuclear programme or the fact that we've all long since lost count of how many countries have been bombed, invaded, regime-changed or 'colour-revolution-ed' by the US, but they haven't attacked you. And, given how the Iraq story was spun, I wouldn't believe a word that came from western intelligence anyway.
lololol first trump dismisses the obama fully regulated nuke deal, then demands that they make the same deal with him, in the midst of which israel started bombing them . . .. accountability? or just bad faith. of course the US gov practiced for centuries not keeping a single treaty with native americans so they're pretty good at it.
You mean Obama did something in the interest of the American people?When was the last time the Dimocrat party gave a rats ass about us they luv illegals more than me or you.
"the Obama fully regulated nuke deal"?
Expediency.
Hear! Hear!
The world despises him. The world laughs at him. The world calls him a 'clown' and a 'buffoon.' The world does fear him but it sure as hell does not respect him.
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Right. It is far better that Bezos have that money earned in Canada off of Canadians on a purely tax-free basis while Canadians go hungry because taking over Venice costs a lot of loonies, eh?
Good thinking.
wouldn't it be grand if bezos would re up nuptials annually in different cities that could use the economic boost?
So far, so bad.
God, I’d almost forgotten about that creation of trans-whatever!
Alfred E. Newman of Mad Magazine was about as close to Rachel as I could imagine but Alfred was more handsome.
One question----how would you like to be the offspring of such an insane individual ?
Or....ex wife ( I assume he is divorced).
Strangely enough, "Rachel" Levine married a female and they had 2 kids. So it doesn't sound like he was overly dedicated to his transgenderism.
Alfred E. Newman... Didn't he get that non-reversible black-as-me pigmenting procedure? As I recall he then had a meteoric political career: Bathhouse Bottom, Illinois Senator, US President...
Noted and granted.
Tried to find an emoji for Dr. Rachel Lavine and just noticed...There are no emoji's for the TRANS crowd. Even emoji's are more sane than the 'Numb Skull's' thinking to gaslight us all into delusions.
Spielberg could. He is one of them.
The US is starting to look like the bar scene in Star Wars. Maybe George Lucas is scriptwriting US policy...
There should be a call for the five activist judges to resign and if they don't, begin impeachment proceedings for abuse of office in their attempt to usurp the constitutional authority of POTUS, purely for political purposes. There should be no room in the Judiciary for legal experimentation with fucking around with the commander in chief.
Amen.
Five? You think they're are just five? Fire all of them like Bukele did in order to save El Salvador.
The five that formed the basis of the recent appeal to SCOTUS. Can't just fire judges. Have to be impeached and removed.
State of Emergency. Then you can do what must needs be done without a lot of mewling and keening. It's kill or cure time, Jeff.
I read he has a 95% approval rating. Someone likes what he is doing down there.
Well, since America has become a Banana Republic, that would be a normal action.
Or the Constitution!
Do you mean that old rag that says only Congress can send American forces to war?
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Left and Right both cherry-pick the Constitution like an a la carte restaurant menu.
The Constitution also allows for Congress to pass legislation that authorizes the commander in chief to use the military to act swiftly, if needed, without a formal congressional declaration of war.
https://govfacts.org/explainer/declaration-of-war-vs-authorization-for-use-of-military-force-how-america-goes-to-war/
Obviously, there was no way to conduct a successful mission like the recent B2 bomber mission if a vote of Congress was needed. There are far too many in the opposition that would pull a Milley and warn the enemy ahead of time.
That blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law has never once been confirmed by a judge ... in one a half of a century. The uni-Party never challenge it because it would obviously be thrown out for obviously being the complete opposite on the constitution itself.
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Even that blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law states that there must be "imminent danger to the USA." Trump's 9/21 sneak-attack bombing of Iran did not even adhere to that blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law.
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Here is a list of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of WW II to 2020:
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Cambodia 1969-70
China 1945-46
Congo 1964
Cuba 1959-1961
El Salvador 1980s
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958
Grenada 1983
Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-
Iran 1987
Korea 1950-53
Kuwait 1991
Laos 1964-73
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986, 2011-
Nicaragua 1980s
Pakistan 2003, 2006-
Palestine 2010
Panama 1989
Peru 1965
Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-
Sudan 1998
Syria 2014-
Vietnam 1961-73
Yemen 2002, 2009-
Yugoslavia 1999
... but you don't have a king. No, no, no. You have a Commander-in-Chief.
Toe-may-tow. Toe-mah-toe.
Laws are not confirmed by judges. Judges only interpret laws passed by Congress. If this were not the case, we wouldn't need a Congress of legislators to write and pass bills or for a president to ratify a bill into law. We'd have only judges.
It's 'blatantly' obvious that a nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to the U.S., our allies, and world peace. Obviously, it's up to the commander in chief to determine what threat is imminent. It would be ridiculous to leave that the Legislative or Judicial branches.
I completely agree that our adventures overseas are often misguided or poorly planned and executed. Ukraine being the most recent utter FUBAR.
Huh? What are you talking about?
Laws are challenged and taken to court to test their adherence to legal constitutionality constantly. Constitutional Law is the highest form of Law in the U.S.A. The Supremes' cases are a significant percentage of such cases.
Yes, legislated but unconstitutional laws are struck down for being unconstitutional by judges but first someone must legally challenge the unconstitutionality of it. A "Demonrat" or Republican (i.e. Frick or Frack, Tweedledee or Tweedledum). Someone.
Aye! There's the rub! Neither Frick nor Frack would ever challenge such blatantly, obviously unconstitutional law because DC is much, much, much more lucrative ignoring the constitution. MIC dollars slosh around DC while every single Congress-critter and Senator can truthfully claim, "I never voted for it."
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"If this were not the case, we wouldn't need a Congress of legislators to write and pass bills or for a president to ratify a bill into law. We'd have only judges."
No. Without the other two branches there'd be no new laws. Judges don't create law but they do upload constitutional laws while they also strike down unconstitutional ones (e.g. War Powers Resolution of 1973).
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Existential, perhaps. Imminent? Not on your life!
It's up to ONE GUY to determine 'imminent' even though WE ALL KNOW that it clearly was not imminent here in the real world?!!!
"But he's not a king. We don't have a king! We call our guy a Warmonger-in-Chief - way better than 'king'!"
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You call the U.S. Constitution "ridiculous"? Well, I never!
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"I completely agree that our adventures overseas are often misguided or poorly planned and executed. Ukraine being the most recent utter FUBAR."
Maybe the U.S. Constitution is not that "ridiculous" after all, eh?
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While you were apparently not looking, Jeff, the Commander-in-Chief unilaterally declared war on Iran without requesting a declaration from Congress as required by the Constitution, and then bombed the hell out of them, continuing a decades-long trend of activity designed to keep the dogs of war free to feed at the trough to their hearts' content, full speed ahead and damn the deficits .I do agree with you that impeachment proceedings against jurists who violate the Constitution are in order, e.g.,justifying Obamacare as a tax bill and not the imposition of health care whereas all tax bills according to the Constitution must originate in the House and "Affordable" Health Care started in the Senate. Not to mention the Patriot Act which nullifies habeas corpus, the War Powers Act and other abominations.
Sounds good but will never happen.
Is there a way to remove Jumanji Jackson for incompetence? Or another angle would be along the lines of the Autopen fiasco. She was appointed by Biden who was non compos mentis. She should be removed and Trump should be allowed to appoint a new justice.
The entire Biden Administration was Fraudulent. The 2020 Election is being proved with evidence as willfully fraudulent.
Every single item, action, and decision made by the Fraudulent Election and the insertion of the Biden Administration must be considered null and void regardless of whether FJB or his guilty cohorts with the Magical FJB Pen signed it or implemented it.
And we all know that fraud vitiates everything else.
Amen she is a complete and utter joke.
Put in place for being black and "female" even though it is so absurd as to not be able to tell us what makes a human female.
For Christ sakes even four years olds know boys from girls.
She doesn't even know what a fucking woman is and she is a fucking woman. Well, at least that is what we are told. Who knows in America anymore.
Regardless of how her name came to be put forward, she was confirmed by the Senate. Repealing the 17th amendment would fix so many things negatively affecting the US.
Agreed. Every amendment after the 12th is fraudulent and should be invalidated anyway.
I would respectfully disagree in this regard; although the thirteenth amendment may not be the original "Titles of Nobility" amendment, in keeping with the consistency of the 8th amendments "Cruel or Unusual Punishment" clause, why are so many people being forced and coerced into conditions of slavery and/or involuntary servitude if people have a "Right" to be secure or a right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, if people can be prematurely punished and coercively detained on the word of a bureaucrat alone? The tribal warfare/lawfare continues as long as only one side gets to define what "Reasonable" or "Cruel and Unusual" is? Is there any dialogue with autocrats?
Lincoln claimed that the Southern states never really seceded and that it was just the action of some rogue leaders and that the states never actually left the union. Then, during reconstruction, they were put under military rule and puppet governments who had to pass certain laws as a condition of "readmission." It can't be both. They either seceded or they didn't. If they seceded, which was perfectly constitutional, then the Northern actions were unconstitutional and amounted to a tyrannical war and forcing readmission unconstitutionally. Or, if they didn't secede, then they didn't need readmission. Either way, everything that happened as a consequence of reconstruction was unconstitutional, and every amendment passed after the war is illegitimate.
Lincoln was evil. A true tyrant. He overthrew the Constitution of 1788 and changed the order of the United States from a union of individual states to a country with administrative divisions. What he did to the innocent women and children in the south when he let that Satanic bastard Sherman loose says it all. I hope he's rotting in hell for eternity for his crimes against humanity committed during his lifetime and the crimes that followed in the years after his death.
Agreed. America's first dictator.
A really good thought. Most of them are to accommodate the Leftist or Rightist politics of the moment. Should amendments have review cycles after a period of time, or even sunset conditions. I think that the corrections concerning former slaves were correct, but some things like the birthright part of 14 should be expanded upon by further judgement y SCOTUS. IMHO, SCOTUS under Roberts has done a magnificent job of dodging the political issues. That seems to be abating now as finally, SCOTUS is growing a spine and is defending the strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Bill Benson went to every state legislature looking for the original documents ratifying the 16th and17th amendments. They were never actually ratified.
One of my "senators" does not appear to have been "elected" in 2020. If he couldn't see it per the "reported" and "certified" results he has no business being a senator.
He also received $2M from the medical industry and then successfully had a stroke...
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/01/sen-ben-ray-lujan-suffered-stroke-and-underwent-surgery.html
at age 49. And speaking of the Supreme Court...
Obviously it would be breaking new ground.
Considering a strategy based on the use/misuse of the autopen, I'd go for some low-hanging fruit first.
The legal system is based on precedent, something former law professor ACB pointedly emphasized in her recently authored decision signed onto by 5 other Justices. With this in mind, set the precedent of reversal of actions based upon fraudulent use of the device in a series of escalating steps. It would be a slow process. Since she could be hanging around for another 20-30 years as a DEI hire, the effort could be worth the time.
Of course, given all the boring legalese involved in such an action, she might be persuaded to take early retirement with whatever pension goes with the job. It will nicely supplement the income from some book deals.
She could then sit around pondering her body parts, discordantly assembling a stream of thoughts and feelings concerning the definition of 'woman'.
Ha, good post. I wonder what she considered her sexual status to be?
Likely still trying to 'understand'.
I want her to write an Opinion on "her body parts"...she seems to be a fashion minded professional, you gotta know what "look" looks best. Why is she doing a tour of shows?
https://www.eventticketscenter.com/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-charleston-tickets/1179191/e?msclkid=792ae825e6a51d26de7280475a4880ab&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%5BD%5D%20Charleston%20SC&utm_term=ketanji%20brown%20jackson%20gaillard&utm_content=250902%20Supreme%20Court%20Justice%20Ketanji%20Brown%20Jackson%20(Performance%20Hall%20At%20Gaillard%20Center)%20%5BD%5D
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/justice-ketanji-brown-jacksons-declaration-of-independence
Surely in the whole history of the Supreme Court there has never, ever been a denunciation of a fellow Justice by another Justice like what came down this week from Amy Coney Barrett of Jumanji Jackson.
ACB's smackdown of Brown Jackson was well said and well deserved.
I'd like to read it. Where can it be found?
Here's how journalist Julie Kelly explained the opinion: https://x.com/julie_kelly2
This case was about birthright citizenship but also shut down a local judge from making a ruling affecting the entire country.
ACB at one point in her opinion included, "No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation—in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so.
Observing the limits on judicial authority—including, as relevant here, the boundaries of the Judiciary Act of 1789—is required by a judge’s oath to follow the law. JUSTICE JACKSON skips over that part."
"Jumanji!" That's a good one. I wouldn't be surprised if "Biden" chose her on the premise that her "prenom" would piss off the Deplorables even more. If she were named "Margaret" or "Dolores" or some other non-hiphopism, I wonder whether she would have been nominated. Her juridical acumen certainly wasn't a priority.
Incompetence is the only priority.
This is Great! More "relief" coming? I hope so.
100%
You speak of the National Debt. Factually, the US is going bankrupt. If the "Big Beautiful Bill" passes, the National Debt will rise, and the US will continue to go bankrupt. Ditto if it fails to pass. In fact, no matter what happens, in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in the South China sea. . .no matter what happens, the US is going bankrupt, and it went farther in debt in the time it took you to read this. Eventually, the National Debt will be downgraded (again) and interest rates on our debt will rise (again) as the process of the bankruptcy moves faster. It really doesn't make much difference who wins, and who loses, elections in this failing nation. . . all of our political leaders cheerfully agree that we must borrow more money, spend more money, and keep going bankrupt. The ending of this farce is quite predictable, and inevitable. . . it will be very, very ugly.
Correct. The only variable that keeps us afloat for now is the dollar's reserve currency status. The world, nations and markets in particular, are drenched in dollars denominated in TBills. It's telling that Japan holds a lion's share of treasuries and enjoys the interest payments BUT, cannot sell them. When the buying stops there will be no chairs left to sit in!
The British pound was once the world's reserve currency but two world wars brought an end to that. These days, Britain is a second rate power which has difficult paying for its defense commitments while at the same time trying to pay for its National Health Insurance plan. I hate to disappoint you, but Japan held only 3% of US government debt as of 2023. See: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-heres-who-owns-u-s-debt/
The published National Debt numbers do not include what accountants call unfunded liabilities such as the shortfall in the Social Security, Medicare and Disability trust funds.
It is very expensive to be the world's policeman.
Maintaining a strong dollar helps keep the reserve currency status.
Weakening it (reducing its value) will push foreign investors to dump US assets. Reducing the value of the dollar reduces the value of all assets.
And it going downhill fast inlast two weeks
‘Disaster looms LARGE’
Yes, on many fronts.
Some people write of a soft landing. That ship likely sailed a long time ago.
X cept the dollar has been continually downgraded in last month
Unfortunately, those that think that shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic to keep her afloat may be sane, but they are apparently irrational. The inability to recognize Trump and other "leaders" for what they are is astounding.
If the bill passes, Congress will be able to kick the can down the road a while longer. If it fails, the Treasury won't be able to borrow any more money and will face an immediate financial crisis. Who are the fools still buying 30 year Treasury bonds?
Mr. Mike---I am certainly not a financial genius but if you look at the rates payable on 30 year Federal Bonds, I cannot think why anyone would even consider buying a long term bond at a rate of 4-6%. However, I would guess that the big banks who a too big to fail probably have had discussions with the Fed and got assurances that if they plow money into long term bonds they will be protected and made whole when it goes to bat guano. The rate you get on a long term bond does not even cover the inflation risk----unless you believe the gov't when they say inflation is 1 or 2%.
I was amazed a couple of years ago when several banks got into big trouble when the interest rates went from negative (after you factor in inflation) to 4-5%----which is still close to zero with inflation included. These banks had no idea that the zero interest rates had to end at some period of time. I think that these Financial genius' all sit around and pump each other up with the latest BS and they all go and make the same decisions which is based on the federal gov't never having to pay the piper for the last 50+ years of federal financial stupidity.
Good posts regarding the debt.
Couple of comments.
IMHO, we are caught in a death spiral with the debt. Our government has just spent 70 years working to make folks dependent on them for subsistence. So much of the economy is based on a service sector model, championed by Obama. To keep up with the needs of a constantly growing economy, more and more federal money is needed. If the BBB is defeated, taxes go up, spending continues open loop, the Dems succeed in keeping things going just the same as always. Trump’s contingent has to deal with the fact that this service economy needs more and more input just to stay up with the times. A good example is the unbelievable minimum wage ideas floating around right now, leading up to UBI, the dems wet dream.
Second, are you aware that the gold bullion banks, the international gold buyer and sellers for nations, have been allowed to take Treasuries in place of gold in transactions. Think about that one, we do not even know what value gold has as a goodly amount of “gold” is worthless Treasuries. I do wonder, assuming an audit was actually done at Ft. Knox, how much gold is in there? IOW, how worthless is the dollar?
The only way UBI is possible is if the government figures out a way to tax the robots and AI that will take over the workplace. Even then, what happens to the pride in work that folks need? Elon has a negative feel about what AI is going to do to humanity. He was a co-founder of Open AI and left when he saw that they did not give a hoot about what AI could do to humanity. His own AI stuff, robotics, is under careful control to not be overtaking humanity. In his factories, reviews are held on workstations to see if humans can beat out robots and AI. I think Elon is right, it is inevitable. For the Luddites in the crowd, AI is a totally different animal that John Henry’s drilling machine. AI does not only take away your job, it takes away your neighbor’s job and then improves on its own performance, maintains itself, works 24/7 with maintenance breaks.
UBI is the hi tech solution to the damage it is going to do to the workplace. UBI will be scarce compared to today’s wages and that is going to slow down the consumer market. So what if the tech gurus can build a car using robots and AI, if there are not enough people to buy them, who cares.
Milton Friedman proposed a negative income tax (NIT), which effectively sanctioned a basic income for all, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom.
In his 1964 State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced legislation to fight the war on poverty. Johnson believed in expanding the federal government's roles in education and health care to reduce poverty. In this political climate, the idea of a guaranteed income for every American also took root. Notably, a document, signed by 1,200 economists, called for a guaranteed income for every American.
President Richard Nixon explained its purpose as "to provide both a safety net for the poor and a financial incentive for welfare recipients to work."
The American Enterprise Institute estimated that the annual cost of a UBI in the US would have been about $200 billion less expensive than the US social safety-net system in place at that date. By 2020, it would have been nearly a trillion dollars less expensive.
From Wikipedia the following is a list of notable individuals who have publicly expressed support or are working for the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_advocates_of_universal_basic_income
Give me a break, Dennis. Exactly why do you think the USA is almost 37 trillion dollars in debt and hanging on to a thread. It is socialists like you that favor the gimme syndrome that leads populations into poverty. UBI will be successful at one thing, if it is ever put in. It will destroy the pride and self- respect of every person it touches.
BTW, your statement from the American Enterprise sounds like typical Leftist gibberish. If you give everyone in a society UBI of any sort at all, the math says that there is no way that supporting 20% poverty levels could ever be less . Also, how exactly are you going to fund all these freebies, just print money? You think we have a deficit now?
It sounds like a repeat of the German central bank buying German government bonds in WWI. It did not end well for Germany.
Unless Trump releases enuf of the minerals trapped in federal land "reserves" to pay off the debt. Ukrainian minerals could help, too. Using them requires restoring manufacturing, too, which requires tariffs.
One HUGE shot in the arm of the Nation's economy would be abolishing the IRS. The release of individuals' productivity would sky rocket.
Dude----I think that Trump has already moved on from Ukraine. I agree that there is no chance in Hell that we will get any money out of Ukraine-----except, of course, all the money that has been shifted from Ukraine aid to Swiss bank accounts owned by our Congress critters.
Is terminal TDS painful?
You need to work on developing subtlety. See if you can concoct something more subtle than hitting your 1.5 readers over the head with that "Trump and his Zionist Masters" crowbar. It flies waaay over the top!
Justin Martyr and John Chrysostom no doubt used nuance and finesse, when teaching so many Christians to hate Jews, 2000 years ago. Illiterate stupid boneheads like you haven't even the slightest scintilla of an idea about from where your biased hatred is derived.
Wrong it doesn’t come from Christendom it comes from experience and observation for many
Going bankrupt? I argue the US IS bankrupt. The money is long gone. The US is broke. Bankrupt. Busted. Broken. There is no fucking way this debt get repaid.
Add to the Federal debt, private debt in the USA is somewhere around $78 trillion.
There is not enough money in the world to pay this debt off. Default is the only way to absolve the debt and that brings economic catastrophe.
Don't forget the Federal government's unfunded liabilities i.e. the reserve shortfalls of Social Security, Medicare and the Disability trust funds.
Dealing with that is one of the things fake plagues and 'vaccinations' are for.
What about the idea of a Debt Jubilee, Cankerpuss?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_jubilee
The American economist Michael Hudson is a proponent of a Debt Jubilee, writing in a Washington Post op-ed that it was an alternative to a depression. A debt jubilee is a clearance of debt from public record across the nation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubilee-is-only-way-avoid-depression/
Prominent economists proposed a Debt Jubilee as a solution to debt anticipated during the COVID-19 recession.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2020/06/21/the-case-for-a-modern-debt-jubilee/
Similarly, anthropologist David Graeber pointed to kings' historical use of debt jubilees during regime changes to suggest that a Debt Jubilee would have been an appropriate response to the 2008 financial crisis.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-cliff-and-the-jubilee-on-david-graebers-debt/
Another proponent of debt jubilee is Australian economist Steve Keen.
https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-political-economy-forever
If Micheal Hudson likes this ~ maybe it's worth the USA looking at it, eh?
I know you are not a believer in the Bible, DM, but, the Old Testament had the same kind of idea as you suggested. If I remember correctly (been a long time since I read in the Old Testament) the ancient Israelites were solidly against usury and all debts were automatically forgiven after 7 years.
I think the idea of a debt jubilee has merit. Otherwise the debt burden just continues to grow and the interest payment grows to a point that it consumes all the wealth any individual may have or ever have.
I think a debt jubilee would also make lenders think twice about loaning money to individuals who are not likely to pay it back. Knowing they might not have that money paid back would require more responsible lending practices and may even keep debt levels down.
Usury is evil and our country is all about usury.
If I were king of the world, I'd support it.
Money isn't real. It is a figment of mans imagination. An invention intended to wield power and control over the masses. That said, it is extremely difficult to live in this fucked up world without it. Wanna buy some treasury bonds?
Not yet, I am still trying to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
Gold and silver are real and have real value.
Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. So the leftards have clearly gone mad. Now, can we please watch them be destroyed?
50% of Americans still support this shit. Destroyed? Not yet.
I suspect that a big reason for the left's histrionics is that there's not competence nor moral standing to support themselves. Simply put, there's no "there" there.
So, like an unruly 3yo child, when bargaining doesn't work and things aren't going the way they want, a temper tantrum results.
Occam----and the proper thing that should happen when a tantrum erupts is the boss should jerk the slack out of the reins and get control over the child so the unruly child knows that continued insanity will not be tolerated Unfortunately this has never happened to our bureaucrats and useless Reps and Senators.
And the bullies arise!
Your masterful first sentence says it all.
Attend also the title!
“ If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”
~ “IF”, by Rudyard Kipling
Give up Caesar what is Caesar's , and unto God what is God’s.
Politics should NOT be the ultimate answer to human problems, as they are man generated. And Man sucks at philosophy.
Religion should NOT be the ultimate answer to human problems.
Religion sucks at answers to human problems.
EG: Netanyahu invoked the Biblical reference with the Amalek rhetoric for a blatant call to genocide.
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." 1 Samuel 15:3.
Religion: The divided states of delusion, hubris, arrogance, ignorance, hypocrisy and stupidity. People killing each other trying to decide who has the best imaginary friend.
Who is the last atheist that sawed the head off an infidel, or strapped explosives to his belt to kill hundreds in a public square, or publicly hung a homosexual, or drove planes into buildings where people were at work, or committed genocide in the name of a GOD?
One reply: God does not kill people, Man does. Man is totally responsible for his own self-inflicted misery. Man is the font of evil. God sent a very simple message through Jesus, love God and love your fellow man. That does not seem like a war cry to me.
You do not like religion, but all it really is, is an inspiration, an excuse to MOST of humanity to do terrible things to each other. As atheism is a religion in itself, Quite a few atheists in the SS gassed and cremated millions of people and not just Jews. Quite a few atheists throughout history tried to destroy other humans to feed their own egos, Khan, Lenin, Mao, Tojo, Napoleon, Julius Caesar , the Jewish Sanhedrin leadership, people who had no idea what God and religion are all about. They have a common ideal, they are blinded by their own egos so they cannot believe someone or something is bigger than them. Sound familiar?
"God sent a very simple message through Jesus, love God and love your fellow man."
Its a great CLAIM, John. Now prove that this actually happened.
Start by proving that your God exists. LOL
Do you realize how sick people get of your parading your self-professed atheism? Do you not realize it exposes the ego driven side of you that cannot accept that a bigger and more important entity exists and that His ideas are much, much better than anything Man has come up with?
God exists? Yeah, proof is that we exist. Just go back in time to “the beginning”, what started it all? Hint: man including you does not have a clue. Faith in the presence of a Creator is not a bad thing. Oh yeah, 90% of all the “facts” of the world are not facts but hypotheses and theories, never to be proven. Science describes the behavior of the Creator and His Universe(s). If you have been watching what the cosmologists have been doing since James Webb went up, you would realize that all the “God disproving” science is taking it in the shorts. The Big Bang and all other theories are being disproven as star systems older than the Big bang are being discovered and the proposed existence of other older universes is being debated. All the new Theories have no more credibility than a creative entity started it all and it may be so much bigger than what we have envisualized up to now.
And do you realize how sick people get of your parading your self-professed theism?
"There must be a creator"
"Why"?
"Because I'm mentally immature and can't understand science so it's the only option"
Jesus dying once, then magically rising from the dead to run back to heaven and never to show up again...that’s just being regular dead with extra imaginary steps thrown in!
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.” ― Sigmund Freud, "The Future of an Illusion".
Still not a single convincing reason to believe in the existence of any god, gods, demigods, souls, spirits, magic, any form of afterlife or other divine or supernatural beings. Something tells me today will be no different.
As one who writes and teaches a lot about secularism and humanism, lectures a lot about atheism and agnosticism, and directs a secular studies program, there are a few common questions/comments that come my way with regular frequency. For example: "How can you be moral if you don't believe in God?" is a pretty standard line of inquiry. And then there's always: "What about spirituality—is that religious or secular?" And another one that also often emerges is this perennial classic: "Isn't atheism just another religion?"
It’s that question I’d like to address today.
First off, the question is usually posed as a sly put-down. Its pejorative. At worst, it is meant to somehow put atheists in their place (You think religion is so stupid? Well, your atheism is just another religion, so you are also stupid! Hah!), or to expose atheists as hypocrites (You condemn religious people but you atheists are not so different, so there!), or at best, it is meant to be snarkily clever (Bet you didn't think of that mister secular smarty pants!).
But let's go ahead and assume that the question is actually put forth in complete earnestness. If that is the case, then yes, one can see some striking similarities between atheists and religious people. For example:
* Like religious people (at least religious fundamentalists), atheist are pretty convinced that they are right about God—that there isn’t one. So there is a dogmatic or “uber-convinced” quality to the conviction of atheism that seems strikingly similar to religious conviction. That is, both the atheist and the religious fundamentalist are sure that they know the truth and everyone else is wrong, at least about God.
* Just as some religious people are very public about their religiosity, some atheists are also public about their atheism: they wear T-shirts proclaiming it, they put bumper stickers on their car asserting their lack of belief in God, and some even buy billboards along highways that broadcast their atheist viewpoint.
* Finally, although most atheists are not involved with any atheist, secularist, or humanist groups, many are. And these groups—such as American Atheists, American Humanist Association, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and a zillion small atheist meet-ups all over the country—do share many things in common with religious groups: people gather for a shared sense of identity, people gather to support each other’s worldview, people gather to articulate their values and actively try to promote those values in the wider society.
None of the above, however, makes atheism a religion. Just because something resembles something else in various ways, doesn’t make the two the same.
So, consider the first aspect of atheism noted above: strong conviction. Yes, it is true that atheists are sure that there is no God and they think they are right about this and everyone else is wrong. But strength of conviction does not make one religious. Most people are absolutely convinced that the earth is round, and they are sure that anyone who thinks that earth is flat is simply wrong. Such earth-is-round believers do not constitute a religion. Many mathematicians are strongly convinced of basic mathematical formulas. That doesn’t mean they are religious in their mathematicalness. In sum, while strength of conviction is certainly a hallmark of religiosity, and also atheism, it is also a hallmark of so many other world-views and beliefs and orientations, and thus does not a religion make.
As for atheists publicly proclaiming their religion on T-shirts, bumper-stickers, etc.—again, such behavior does not make atheism a religion. Sports fans also proclaim their love of their favorite teams, and people publicaly assert all kinds of things—political affiliation, nationalistic adoration, regional allegiance, pet preference, etc. Such public proclamations do not make a religion.
Finally, as for gathering with like-minded individuals—this, too, does not make for a religion. Just think of the PTA, vegan cooking conferences, annual business associations, etc.
So what does make something a religion?
Simple: the supernatural. Religions are social movements that maintain a belief in the supernatural, and religions are organizations who’s members engage in rituals and celebrations in relation to, or predicated on, shared supernatural beliefs. It is belief in God, or angels, or karma, or heaven, or Allah, or spirits, or past lives, or zombies, or Vishnu, or Satan, or Jesus, etc.—and the gatherings, rites, and activities that go on as a result of those beliefs – that make religion religion.
Atheism lacks a belief in the supernatural. As such, it is not a religion.
As many other have already said—and these are not my lines, but lines I’ve picked up over the years from various sources—calling atheism a religion is like calling abstinence a sexual position, or baldness a hair color, or not collecting stamps a hobby."
Is Atheism Just Another Religion?
No.
Phil Zuckerman Ph.D.
A religion provides a basis for faith. Huge questions have plagued Mankind since someone or something gave him the ability to reason, to question his existence, to wonder who made him, to wonder what the future holds for him. God, through Jesus, gave humanity a model for behavior. Even so, Man has managed to muck it up, over and over and over. If an atheist, or deist has no moral structure that he believes in, is it any wonder he can reason out any form of evil hat history has shown over and over.
You do not have a clue about any of this, mortal human. You have no answers. I believe you are satisfied with that. Most people are not.
As for the tired old..."Quite a few atheists in the SS gassed and cremated millions of people and not just Jews. Quite a few atheists throughout history tried to destroy other humans to feed their own egos, Khan, Lenin, Mao, Tojo, Napoleon...blah, blah...."
"It is an often heard refrain among less well informed Christians that Hitler and Stalin (those slightly more knowledgeable sometimes add Pol Pot and Mao Zedong) were atheists and that their atheism led them to commit atrocities resulting in the deaths of millions of people. These claims are demonstrably false.
Hitler was never an atheist. The available evidence points to the fact that he remained a theist throughout his whole life.
It is true that Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot, were all atheists. But the primary influences that led to their atrocities were not atheism per se but their dogmatic Marxism and communist ideas.
We see that in none of these cases could atheism be made to “take the blame” for the atrocities committed by these men."
Hitler, Stalin and Atheism
July 14, 2016, Abdullah Sameer
Read more at Hitler, Stalin and Atheism
https://friendlyexmuslim.com/hitler-stalin-and-atheism/#:~:text=The%20available%20evidence%20points%20to%20the%20fact%20that,se%20but%20their%20dogmatic%20Marxism%20and%20communist%20ideas.
A great poem of wisdom, except for the part about making "one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss".
Wise words for no matter what is coming. Stay cool. Use thermal mass to your advantage, basements and under slab foundations.
Paper ballots only, counted by The National Guard.
How about paper ballots counted in a live feed in every county broadcast online where the public can see what the counter is seeing?
Omigod, you want to take all the political machines powers away from them? Yay, let’s go.
No. Paper ballots counted by The League of Women Voters. They used to. Of course, maybe they have been "disappeared" too?
Yes they’ve disappeared.
So much good has.
Surely, they can count better than what is in place now.
I think we need to commission someone like "Big Balls" of DOGE fame. That kid could put together a near seamless voting system far better and faster than the 535 members of congress.
And... no political parties, no running for election, no regularly scheduled elections, ID.
Ha! You bit! Now time to reel you in...
Bugtussle Township, Anywhere USA. Annual voting test: you have to know how government works, your districts, your representatives - basically the civics test American kids used to have to pass 100 years ago to graduate. Anyone who passes the test becomes an Elector. Annual testing, because people get stupid...
Nobody says, "Hey, I wanna be President! Vote for me!" Well, they might say that, but that's not how it works - not anymore...
Example: Newly-formed Bugtussle Township has no government, so the Electors get together to form one. Every elector is subject to being elected. First Elector with >50% of the vote wins. First round of voting: the top 10 Electors add up to >50%, so you have a run-off. Second round: the top 3 >50%. Last round: winner has >50%.
When do you have an election? When you need one. Representative died. Electors lose confidence in their Representative - no confidence vote. Election scheduled, new representative elected.
County representatives elected from among township representatives. State representatives selected from among county reps. And so on.
No parties, no candidates, no regularly-scheduled elections - just pure, unadulterated representative government.
Hey, you asked! Now you know the way...
Excellent. but this is the second offering this morning with a victory lap-adjacent feel to it. But vigilance! It all stops at the mid-terms without wise candidate selection and beyond the margin of fraud turnout. Because no federal level election reform is getting out of the senate with the existing margin.
I have said and written your introductory line so often in the last 9 years, you coulda been quoting me! Witnessed by 2 of his opponents in Congress deciding over the weekend to quit the arena. This term, Trump isn't mincing words; he's saying out loud what most of us are thinking. He has no reason to care where the chips fall as long as he achieves his mission - and I'm behind him 100%.
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"Aim to stay sane"--Words to live by in this upside-down world!
We've been living in a 'ClockWork Orange' stage set! Thank God for President Trump. Could you image a Kamala Harris Administration? Over the edge!!
Yes, I can. The J6 people would still be in jail, reparations would've already been implemented, homeowners would be saddled with the 44.6 percent capital gains tax and the 25 percent equity tax (unless they were black), and Christianity would be outlawed and churches closed (unless they were black).
And we'd all be gay - or else!
Another trend has been the removal of cause of death from obituaries. If some young person just keels over and drops dead, there is a nice summation of his or her brief life. If anyone dares to ask the cause of death, a barrage of criticism ensues. Let them grieve! How dare you disturb the family at this time! etc. etc. Meanwhile medical journals, mostly abroad, continue to publish studies showing various downsides, to put it politely, of our recent mandates. Last year, I believe, the august Cleveland Clinic published a peer-reviewed study which showed the boostered group was actually more likely to test positive for Covid than the group with no vaccinations at all. This is not the only research with this result. Of course, the press did not find this newsworthy.
The closest definition of a vaccine related death that the obituary section will print is "suddenly and unexpectedly".
There's a channel on Bitchute and X called Kurganreport, where this guy has been meticulously posting, (dark humor included), from VAERS and other websites, cataloging the ongoing damage and deaths that have occurred and continue to occur ever since this scamdemic started.
"Celebration of life".
Even babies are getting Covid now after vaccinated
A useful definition of wisdom is competence with Reality--and the ability to know the best thing to do when the rules don't apply. And the best way to do navigate the unknown is by staying sane, alert, and not repeating past mistakes.
What is true for the individual is true for society. Much of the insanity (and indeed evil) abroad in the land is the stinking bubbly discharge from the nether end of a rotting body of bad ideas and wishful thinking coming to the end of its parasitic life cycle.
I keep coming back to Mark Halperin’s prediction that a Trump win in the 2024 Presidential election would cause the biggest mental health crisis in the history of the Country.
Why blame him? Most of our country had lost sight of sanity with the acceptance of Obama….too many fell for the rouse. The GOOD thing that came out of his running for presidency the first and second time is that he won. THANK GOD! Truth will hurt those who are lost to their various groups of insane. They cannot ever be sane again. Who Cares!! They are soon to be history.
just a little typo "the rouse" - 'the ruse'
The spelling was not my mistake because it was changed by the computer. However i did not fix it. Thanks
My computer doesn't change what I write.
I guess it's just as old fashioned as I am.
Besides, who gives a shit what Mark Halperin thinks. Another TDS nut?
Actually the country did have a mental breakdown it was the libs tbat are having it
The libs are certifiable and on psychotropics