John Thune is a shining example of the depravity of the Uniparty in DC - he cares nothing about doing the right thing for the country. Rather, his objective is to avoid creating friction with his Uniparty brethren, be they Dems or RINOs. There is little hope for the US with scum like him ensconced in Congress. These people make me sick 🤮.
Intriguing comment, Canker. But isn't it always more lucrative to be the party in power?
If the deep state runs the show and the Uniparty gives the illusion of choice while working together to implement deep state policies, why bother throwing the election to the Dems? Just stay in power, keep up the grift, get courted by lobbyists, receive more payouts.
I believe they refer to baby flesh as "jerky." Many of the Epstein emails have the redacted names of the elites constantly talking about "jerky" and moving it from freezer to freezer or from building to building.
As I read this article I could feel a deep seeded anger welling up inside of me. If only I could have some time alone with Mr. Thune in a sealed room to learn him some of the Constitution. Never before have I come to hate and despise politicians more than I do after reading this essay. Such an utter waste of space and resources. This article made my eyes want to explode.
I despise and hate the Democrat party but I truly loathe and detest the Republicans. This bullshit we are getting from Thune is yet more evidence that the Republicans are frauds. They are the paid vocal opposition to the deep state. When they are in power they never make true reforms or do anything to actually fix anything.
Mr. Trump is the Executive and he can only execute the will of Congress. He can't make law. Everything he does with EOs is a temporary band aid, nothing more. Without Congress, no permanent changes will be made. Congress, the biggest do nothing waste of space.
That fucker Thune knows this, as do all of the hypocritical Republican scum that pollute the halls of our Capitol building.
Or so we're told while he really plans with Fink, Thiel, Ellison, Altman, Gates, Zuck, Musk, Bezos, Bourla, Adelson et al.
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You want your economic system "fixed" by a guy who claims that tariffs are not taxes on consumers of imports? 🙄
I guess we'll have to wait and see how that works out for ya.
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Here's what Trump has really accomplished for the American economic system:
Warp Speed (COVID shot)
Stargate (blood tests and mRNA vaccines powered by Palantir, Open AI, SoftBank, Oracle to “cure cancer…” [caused by COVID shot? 🤔])
GENIUS Act (Digital Currency)
REAL ID rollout led by Kristi Noem (intermediate step to national digital ID linked to medical records among other future [digital currency] applications).
Genesis Mission (National AI platform linking federal data centers)
6G Executive Order with “implantable technologies” as one of its purposes.
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I wrote this a year ago. Every day it looks less "crazy" and more just plain accurate:
Trump's WEF mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of US Inc. and its phoney-bologna US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy that we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Trump brokering and providing Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & Sam Altman with a half a TRILLION[!] dollars falls into that last mandate. Those 3 amigos are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
Then there's the clown show they called a dog parade. It's hard not to think of it as a deliberate poke in the eye of the people who still hope and pray they have any say in what the government is and does.
Not to disagree, but seeing the term “uinparty” used as an excuse / deflection to explain Thune’s lack of action is something of a copout, (perhaps in order to avoid deeper analysis of what has to be his intentional, calculated, inaction).
When 75% of the electorate can not get an innocuous, reasonable, and important law enacted, there is something very wrong with the way our government is operating. Sure, we get to elect (choose between) pre-selected party candidates to faithfully represent our common interests, . . . but if it’s easy to cheat on the elections, where the hell are we as a nation? We are kidding ourselves if we think we are a democratic republic.
And a long-term oligarchy at that. Only recently have they been more exposed as The Long Emergency continues, and the scramble for their "share" of the shrinking wealth pie consumes more of their time trying to maintain the gains of theft.
This election reform is just theater - the game is rigged. A constitutional convention or convention of states could perhaps provide some temporary relief by replacing all members of Congress, but human nature being what it is, it seems a return to a corrupted system would be likely. But it would be nice to see some justice for at least some of the criminals. Perhaps someday a mob may go France 1793 with torches and pitchforks, when there is nothing left to steal.
The founders knew this kind of thing could happen. That's why they put Article 5 in the Constitution. The problem is the States themselves are divided by the bickering political factions we know as Democrat and Republicans and the states themselves can't pull their heads out of their own asses to get together and do anything about the madness.
We are truly boned as a Republic.
Thank you Abraham Lincoln you ugly son of a bitch!
True. Evil, avaricious men destroyed the family and society by taking women out of the house, away from their children, and letting them vote. It's ultimately the fault of greedy men. But women bear the burden of falling for it, and advocating for it. They were, and are, dupes and pawns.
We don’t need a constitutional convention. What we need is for the government to stay within the bounds established by the constitution we have now. If they’re ignoring the constraints and restraints of the constitution we have now what would passing more amendments or changing the constitution do?
Who says a constitutional convention has to result in new amendments. A convention could repeal previous amendments and bring the constitution back to what it was intentionally created to do. Referring to the 17th Amendment and the income tax.
I agree with your comment but it is unrealistic to expect a corrupt and failed government system such as ours to suddenly decide to start behaving itself is a pipe dream my friend. And don't tell me that we can vote the bad people out of office. Voting doesn't work, hasn't served us well, and won't fix a damned thing.
Amen to that. You should see the scum bags on my HOA. $2 million missing from the HOA checking account. The President of the Board just bought a new Land Rover and paid cash for it.
The American Government is a bright reflection of the American people themselves. School boards, City Councils, HOA boards, all the way down to families themselves. Americans seek only the grift and filthy lucre of the world. Money, money, money. That's all they care about and they'll do anything to get it.
It’s what the delusive democratic principle is all about — social equality, which boils down to free competition for the acquisition of wealth, which leads to corruption (moral and political). The people are as guilty as the politicians.
Exactly. Now take that one step further: the USA is governed by such immense corruption that it is the last nation on earth that should be imposing its will on other nations.
Thune will do anything he can to help the Dems. As I predicted months ago, after the midterms are over POTUS Trump will be impeached over allegations that he is a child molester and rapist. He'll be subpoenaed and if he refuses to cooperate or lies he'll be impeached. The goal of the Dems is to make the child molesters and pervert child rapist label stick to not only him but everyone who ever supported him. He'll be subpoenaed and if he refuses to cooperate or lies he'll be impeached. The left have their Woodwards and Bernsteins ready and have already begun their feeding frenzy:
Think about the idea that the Ult-Left, the enemy of this country is setting up to destroy the financial power of their own party with Epstein. So far, their attempt to get Trump has been pathetic and the folks in the moderate wing of the Democrats are under threat. The Ult-Left are a group of power crazed elites that need to be destroyed by the voters. Soon.
It's possible, even likely, that Trump has a plan. He has a history of drawing his adversaries out into the open so that they are exposed as weak and feckless, fighting the wrong battle, and then does some kind of end-around to get what he wants.
That's true. But if voters think he fucks children for sport and Thune won't allow the SAVE Act to be voted on so that Dems can create more votes than there are voters (again), what good does Trump's machinations do?
Trump is surrounded by neocons and globalists. There are only a handful of (as in one hand) people around him who will act in the interest of the people (and his fast-fading presidency) because they are essentially internal motivators who want to do right for the country.
Because they've convinced him that going after the bad guys full-force would collapse the entire world. And it might. But if you have satanists by the balls, you crush them or face God's judgment. It doesn't help that his spiritual advisor is one of these "gospel of wealth" types who pronlbably gives him bad counsel.
The real enemy is the far far Left. They are marxist and have infiltrated most institutions in the country. It has been a journey spanning about a century. It appears they feel strong enough to strike the major blow. Although it can be framed in Left/Right, I maintain this is the incorrect axis. It is the up/down axis which needs attention. Up is freedom, down is oppression.
"that need to be destroyed by the voters" You're too kind, they need to be destroyed without qualifiers. They are the zealous enemies of the Constitutional Republic.
The solution rides with the moderate Left. When more folks cross the line and join MAGA against the idiots, then the Ult-Left will be stopped from destroying the country.
Mr. John----in a decent world with decent and law abiding pols, that could happen but.....I think it is only wishful thinking. How many Dem/Marxists would agree that men cannot have babies? zero ? one?
Moderates in the Dem/Marxist party went extinct quite a while ago.
They won't be destroyed, John. They're caught in a thought-loop that they're smarter and more righteous than anyone else who's ever lived, and the big money is backing them, just as big money supported Mussolini, Hitler, and other maniacs whom they thought would give them absolute financial power over a people, and ideally (in their fantasies) the whole world. They thought they could control the lunatics because of expected financial power, but as we know, they were wrong. If Yrump succeeds, there'll be upheaval; if he fails, we'll have a global dictator supported by the ultra-wealthy and the governments they control; basically, worldwide fascism.
Many mal-educated (meaning brainwashed) Americans have not figured out that Fascists and Communists are just two-sides of the same Socialist coin. Both hate free-market capitalism, both hate freedom, both love dictatorship, both are racist (the race to be persecuted may differ by location), and both fervently believe that the Socialist political elite are the only ones qualified to control and manage the economy. The only historical difference between the two Socialist ideologies is that Fascist/Socialism will allow some large corporatists to exist, so long as they pledge their total allegiance to the regime, while Communist/Socialism holds that there should be no private ownership of property whatsoever. What no one notices is that two ideologies are slowly merging--the Fascist/Socialists moving toward even greater government control of property while the Communist/Socialists (China, specifically) have moved to the more Fascist model of accepting some corporatist ownership with that requirement of complete allegiance pledged to the regime.
The fight within the now full Socialist Democrat Party in the U.S. (the name is now a joke, there is not one shred of Democratic ideology in the Democrat Party) is between the few Communist/Socialist nutcases (Sanders, the Squad, and some younger Democrat morons), and the more cold Fascist/Socialist scumbags (the wealthy Democrat elite, Pelosi, Clintons, Obama, Biden, et al). Both are supremely dangerous to the survival of the American Republic and both will ultimately have to be permanently removed from political power--however that is effected--for the American Republic to be safe from dictatorial tyranny. The issue with some RINOs is that they are either "closet" Fascists or they are gullible enough to think that one can reason with dyed-in-the-wool Socialists of either the Fascist or Communist factions. You can't negotiate with Socialists; you can't negotiate with a Socialist ideology that can only exist and survive in a dictatorship. And the saying rings absolutely true: Scratch any Socialist and you will find either a Fascist or a Communist underneath. The biggest lie ever told is that "MAGAs" are Fascists--they are as far from Fascists as one can get.
AND they are globalistic, powered by international financiers. An irony here is that the Democratic government of the USA under FDR at the end of WW2 was responsible for much of the globalistic thinking.
The Global Elite may think they have all the Muslims, but they will find out differently. Just as they thought they had the Chinese, but the Chinese were always National Socialists in their hearts. That came to the fore once madness of the Cultural Revolution receded.
They may have thought they had Hitler, if so he showed them otherwise. Ditto for Putin.
Who do you think funded the Communist Revolutions? Your Capitalist heroes. It's one system, sport. Who is their enemy? The nationalists. And that means the Fascists and National Socialists. You need to start all over again with the basic theorems. You can't do calculus until you've learned the basics.
China is the world's first technate. You can thank Kissinger for getting them there. That was always the plan. They are the globalists' experiment, because it would have been harder to do in the west (no longer, since western populations have agreed to give up their freedoms - the left for protection against Deadly Germs, the right for protection against immigration). If there's one thing our Overlords understand it's human psychology. They've been studying us like bugs under a microscope forever.
China is the blueprint for what you are going to get everywhere, although Gaza and Ukraine are now also being used as prototypes. War is extremely useful for bringing in a technate - desperate people will agree to anything.
There will be no politics, since technocracy does not require politics. So no 'national socialists' or 'communists' or 'capitalists' or any other '-ists'. Just a global technate/gulag/digital prison.
Mr. John, I typically agree with most of your comments but......you mention the moderate wing of the Democrats. I think that part of the Dem/Marxist party has been gone for 40+ years. You used to have pro-life Dems and Dems who supported the 2nd Amendment, and.....used to support the military and generally were pro America. Those people are long gone----sadly. We have Fetterman but....he still votes with the Dems basically 99%
That answer is easy. The PTB protect themselves. Trump knows that the cream of the crop are going to get clobbered by their obvious corruption by Epstein, and lots of others. Remember the Jewish corruption withMaddow in Florida? Trump has used the word, disruption. I believe that is an understatement.
Bondi is a Swamp plant -- all talk, no production, and intentionally fuckung up cases to protect the VIPs, as you say.. Patel, I'm not sure. Bongino, I think is a decent guy, but he was told to stop pulling threads or they'd wipe out his family and put him in a federal prison on trumped-up charges (pardon the pun).
Watch the hostage video again: Patel and Bongino were terrified as they lied about Epstein being dead. He's in Israel. He wanted his girl Friday back with him, so they got Maxwell out too. She's Israeli royalty in any case.
It's good that you are in touch with reality. The writing is on the wall. They are obviously being destroyed by the voters:
" Gubernatorial Elections
Democrats secured notable victories in the 2025 off-year gubernatorial races, which were the first major statewide contests following the 2024 presidential election.
Virginia: Abigail Spanberger (D) won the open seat, flipping it from Republican control after Governor Glenn Youngkin's term limit. This marked Virginia's first female governor and shifted the state from a Republican trifecta to a Democratic one.
New Jersey: Mikie Sherrill (D) won the open seat, retaining Democratic control after Governor Phil Murphy's term limit. This was the first time Democrats won three consecutive gubernatorial elections in the state since 1961.
Both victories were by double-digit margins, outperforming Democratic expectations and signaling a backlash against the Trump administration's early policies.
Other Statewide Elections
Virginia Lieutenant Governor: Ghazala Hashmi (D) won the open seat, making history as one of the first Muslim Americans elected to statewide office in Virginia.
Virginia Attorney General: Jay Jones (D) defeated incumbent Jason Miyares (R), flipping the position.
Georgia Public Service Commission: Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard won two seats, flipping them from Republicans. These were the first non-federal statewide Democratic victories in Georgia in nearly two decades.
State Legislative Elections and Specials
Throughout 2025, Democrats flipped 25 GOP-held state legislative seats out of 119 contested in regular and special elections, representing a 21% flip rate. Key highlights include:
StateChamberDemocratic GainsNotesVirginiaHouse of Delegates+13 seatsLargest majority since the 1980s.New JerseyGeneral Assembly+5 seatsAchieved supermajority.MississippiState Senate+3 seats (net)Broke GOP supermajority.IowaState Senate+2 seats (net)Including a January 2025 special.GeorgiaState House+1 seatSpecial election flip in a Trump+ district.PennsylvaniaState Senate+1 seatFlip in a deeply Republican area.TexasState Senate+1 seatFebruary 2026 special flip by Taylor Rehmet in a Trump+17 district.
Democrats also retained three Pennsylvania Supreme Court seats. In California, a 2025 ballot measure (Prop 50) added five Democratic-leaning congressional districts via redistricting.
Congressional Special Elections
Democrats held or overperformed in several 2025 specials, with vote swings averaging 13% toward Democrats across 60 contests.
Arizona's 7th: Adelita Grijalva (D) held the seat.
Texas's 18th: Christian Menefee (D) won the runoff.
Virginia's 11th: James Walkinshaw (D) held the seat.
New Jersey's 11th: A Democrat won the special following Mikie Sherrill's resignation to become governor.
Additional overperformances in Florida (two districts), Virginia, Arizona, and Tennessee specials (though Tennessee was a GOP hold).
Major Mayoral and Local Elections
Democrats won several high-profile mayoral races in 2025, including flips and historic firsts.
New York City: Zohran Mamdani (D) won in a three-way race, with historic turnout.
Miami: Eileen Higgins (D) flipped the seat, the party's first win in 25 years.
Detroit: Mary Sheffield (D) gained the seat after the incumbent retired.
San Antonio: Gina Ortiz Jones (D) flipped the seat.
Other gains: Roswell (GA), Dearborn Heights (MI), Syracuse (NY). Holds in Albuquerque, Hoboken, Jersey City, and more.
County-level: Flips in Erie County (PA), Winnebago County (WI), and Hudson County (NJ) sheriff.
As of February 28, 2026, no major 2026 midterm results are available, but early specials like the Texas state Senate flip indicate continued Democratic momentum. These wins have boosted Democratic optimism heading into the 2026 midterms, amid low Trump approval ratings and economic concerns."
Yup, Blue state denizens scared into the voting booth by Trump. They do not want their Federal tit to dry up. The worst enemy of a democracy is when the people figure out they own the purse strings. That is the primary reason the FF made us a republic.
Right - and you’d think Trump would understand this. Without the SAVE act, he rots in jail the rest of his life and his family impoverished. He may not be able to control the seditionist Thune, but he could replace Patel and Bondi with someone that would aggressively prosecute all those connected to the Fulton County fraud. How could he not understand the personal stakes here?
I hadn't thought about that, but you may be right. It would explain the preoccupation with Epstein, pederasty, and obstruction of the facts. It would also explain Thune's refusal to get the SAVE Act yo the floor for a vote since the GOP Establushment no doubt sees the Democrats' evildoing as a way to get rid of the troublemaking Trump so they can get back to their own evildoing.
If he has any foresight at all he would have seen this coming and planned an attack on Iran as soon as it became obvious this was headed for the front pages. Getting the US embroiled in a foreign forever war and letting that dominate the headlines would be a master stroke now.
First real disagreement with you. You think he's going to get impeached if he attacks Iran? The people will accept it. They have no choice. His party is controlled by the Zionists as are the high level Democrats. He'll get away with it, though his beloved legacy will be in tatters and the Iranians take out every American ship and base in the area.
I think the Dems would want to impeach him and nothing will divert them... attacking Iran, after his previous war crimes... coupled with his Epstein guilt... likely are enough.
I am convinced that someone, somewhere, within one or more of the various alphabet agencies has compromising information on practically all members of Congress, which they hold over their heads should they fail to comply. It beggars belief that this is not the case, as the matter before Thune amply suggests.
As for the Democrats cheating their way into a midterm blowout: yes, not only possible but extremely likely. Should this occur, and should they successfully impeach the president, I believe it would be akin to a modern-day firing upon Fort Sumter. I do not say this in jest or without careful deliberation.
There is no way on God’s green earth that a great swath of this country would merely grumble and ultimately do nothing. Take it as you wish, but that would be the flashpoint and, in my view, the ultimate undoing of the Marxist left.
Unfortunately, I think the great swath of this country will do nothing if the Dems cheat their way to a midterm blowout. Nobody will want to be first in the line of fire. There will need to be an outside event - a huge disaster, an enormous revelation that is not watered down, an event so shocking that people are jolted into action. So many people are stuck in their thought silos with no real concept of what is going on. We live in a matrix.
That is my read of the political temperament here in the northeast. Most people are oblivious or just plain not interested. Any relevant conversations only regurgitate MSM talking points. Try introducing alternative news, you get blank stares like they can't comprehend. It's very discouraging and frankly scary knowing these people vote.
Life must still be pretty decent for them. They can pay their taxes, buy food, download their porn and visit their prostitutes. As long as they still have money in their bank accounts and food to eat, why should they think any differently?
People will think very differently when they have to worry about where their next meal is going to come from.
Naw, I think it will come down to one thing. Starvation. When people can't eat anymore then they'll be motivated into action. As long as they can get EBT and go buy pizza and pepsi with it they will be content to continue to absorb all their mind porn spewed at them by the teevee.
Covid should have awakened the masses to the cancerous leviathan the US government has become but it didn't. In fact, the majority of Americans jumped on the covid band wagon, closed down their own businesses, failed their own churches and turned their backs on their own family members. Americans are mind numbed people. It will take something terrible that kicks them in the balls to wake them up.
It why the government has to keep spending money and supporting the welfare wastrels. Imagine a US without welfare. People would be at war within the three days the citie’s food supply lasts.
And even then, what will they do? The majority of young people have been pussified and feminized into irrelevance. Doom loop is already well established. It was a great country while it lasted. It’s been over for decades. Just one man’s opinion from decades of observation.
Trump stated that he feared releasing the files because of the disruption to the political situation it would cause, and the country needed to have solid governance. Like a lot of things, Trump’s words have been confirmed, the Epstein files are clobbering many elites, and the Ult-Left are showing what a huge group of assholes they really are. Does ANYONE think that the squad gives one thought about the welfare of their people? Or most of the Congress.
Just a start; we can move on at the pace you are comfortable with:
The USA PATRIOT Act (2001) significantly expanded government surveillance powers, resulting in the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, increased monitoring of private records, and reduced judicial oversight
. Key rights lost or curtailed include privacy, due process, and protections against unwarranted, secret surveillance.
Key Rights and Protections Lost or Diminished
Privacy Against Warrantless Surveillance: The act expanded the government's ability to conduct "sneak and peek" searches, allowing law enforcement to enter homes or offices without immediately informing the owner.
Protection of Personal Records: Section 215 allowed the FBI to force businesses, libraries, and universities to turn over records (financial, medical, library, and internet usage) without showing probable cause, often with minimal judicial oversight.
Protection Against “Suspicionless” Spying: The act allowed for surveillance of individuals not directly suspected of being an agent of a foreign power.
Due Process for Detainees: The Act allowed for the indefinite detention of non-citizens based on suspicion, often without immediate access to counsel or disclosure of charges.
Freedom from General Searches: Surveillance expanded beyond terrorism to include "domestic terrorism" which critics argue can be used to target political organizations and advocacy.
Financial and Communication Privacy: Expanded wiretapping and pen register monitoring, along with easier access to internet and phone records, reduced expectations of privacy in daily communication.
He's right. Unredacted the files will destroy the Establishment and of course he, himself being an intimate of Epstein. If he doesn't attack Iran, they'll release more dirt on him.
Intimate of Epstein, what do you know that thousands of Leftists don’t know that have been trying to depose him for ten years? All you know everything’s seem to think you know all the dirt, you know nothing. As I do. The facts will come out, and much of the male elite will be destroyed potentially. What Hugh Hefner begot, the Karens will finish.
The Left has had 10 years and an nutso administration to get him. They didn’t, why? Because they are more guilty than he is and they know it. How come right now that the only folks pushing “Get Trump”are a few Ult-Left wingnuts. The PTB realize who is really going to get hurt.
Trump, starting an UNPROVOKED war with Iran... all to serve Israel and the Zionist swine... will END him.
I hope it will END Israel too.
You are a moron and a eunuch... Trump exposed his obvious GUILT in his laughable reactions to the Epstein files... first: "They don't exist"... next, they are a Dem hoax"... next... can't we all move on from this???
What brain fever leaves you with the notion that if any undeniable salacious evidence on Trump were in those files, that it wouldn’t have been lead story for the Biden/Harris era? It absolutely 100% would have and you know it. The logical conclusion is that it simply doesn’t exist. I’m not in love with Trump the man, and if he’s guilty ~ take him down, but logic and reason tells me that it doesn’t exist. Prove me wrong if I’ve missed something…
I forgot about him. I looked him up on Wikipefia and this is what it says about the incident:
"On June 11, 2007, Craig was arrested for indecent behavior in a men's restroom at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport; he pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in August 2007 and paid $575 in court fines and fees. The arrest remained unknown to the public until the Washington, D.C.–based newspaper Roll Call disclosed it in an article, drawing widespread public attention as well as charges of hypocrisy against Craig, as he had been an opponent of LGBT rights in the United States.[2] Despite stating that he was not and never had been homosexual, on September 1, 2007, Craig announced that he would resign from the Senate, effective September 30, 2007. He later reversed this decision and chose to finish the remainder of his term, although he did not seek re-election in 2008.[3]"
I still think "God-accursed Sodomite" is a less- confusing euphemism, though.
Billy Joel sang a song called "We Didn't Start the Fire." In that song he mentions "British Politicians Sex." He was referring to the rampant homosexuality and sodomy that prevailed among the political class and I believe that was back in the 1970s. The world is far worse today.
He was referring to the Profumo Affair, where a minister of MacMillan's cabinet was plowing a 19-year-old girl, as well as another mistress who was a Soviet spy. There was another song, "Nothing Has Been Proved," which described the episode.
Yes, I agree, but in a way, you can't really blame people. They've been told all their lives that their elected representatives had their backs when that obviously wasn't the case. They were brought up to trust in the authorities, science, medicine, law, education, and yes, elections, and now have discovered that all of these have failed, and failed by design.
Blackmail is the currency of the elite political class. Has been since, well maybe the 2nd Century BC. So nothing new. But the players simply play their own games within that blackmail. Epstein is by the way a mid-level player on the global stage. Not the central figure by any means. There are many “Epsteins”. Some even Arab and Muslim. All play the game.
One of the turning points in society was the ending of the draft. At the time I supported ending it. Now, not so much. When almost everyone had to serve, even in peace time, and often for only two years, it helped to form a foundation for the idea of civic duty, for belief in something greater than self.
Now, it's all about the self, the me, the somebody owes me, someone else is why I am the way I am.
And so, everyone lives in their little silo, unwilling to do what is needed, and willing to lead their pathetic existence under a rock, only to come out from under it occasionally to eat or breed.
Civic responsibility, civic duty, love of country and kin, belief in morality and responsibility and faith in God are what we need. Maybe having a draft that required civic participation, whether military or not could be a good thing, in some future version of America.
Young women too must serve, either by early marriage and hopefully children, or by service to the State. Men will go on to serve in the military, either regular or militia, for decades after they have done their initial service. For the gung ho, they can skip the service and dive right in. Only this is Nationalism. Only this is Fascism or National Socialism - the modern forms of Nationalism. Is it compatible with Capitalism? No. Just as Christianity is not. Private enterprise and ownership are compatible with Nationalism and Christianity. But just letting an economic Elite run rampant and creating hell on Earth is a different story. Most, including most here, can't see the different - which is bizarre and the result of endless indoctrination. The Communists have nothing on us in this regard.
Women want to be treated the same as men when it comes to pay, benefits and all the good stuff. However, when it comes to the nasty shit like fighting a war, cleaning out sewer lines or mining for copper in the depths of the Earth they can't be seen or heard and are gone like a fart in the wind.
Mr. Tom-----that someone, somewhere is the Mossad. Our Congress is bought and paid for. But....I believe there is more than 1 someone/somewhere and between these 3,4, or maybe 5 or 6 groups control our pols with compromising info on almost all of our pols. Yes, I could be a conspiracy nut but........too much stuff does not add up. Don't you think that just for once most pols would do something/anything that is good for the taxpayers but......I have seen very little of this outside of what Trump is trying to do and......I think the MIC has his ear, unfortunately.
I challenge anyone to share one thing that Congress has done that has personally benefitted them in their personal lives? I cannot think of one damned thing.
Sorry, but that's exactly what they'll do. January 6 told them that they have no right to redress grievances to the government. Law enforcement will not be on their side.
Thune , Tillis, Cornyn, Lankford, et al, they all have that look of sipping martinis by a 1960s country club pool. They’re old skool Rockerfeller Republicans, who used to be some of the most liberal politicians before Vietnam and feminism permanently changed the Democrat Party. My family were ethnic east coast Catholics, Union Members, and very conservative Democrats. Back then the Democrats were more socially conservative than the Republicans by a long shot. The war among Republicans that resulted in the Reagan Revolution was very staunchly opposed by those liberal Republicans who had all the power in the 60s and early 70s. These clowns are cut from the same bolt of cloth. I despise them with the intensity of a thousand suns. Fooking country club, chamber of commerce, WASP Republicans.
It is an absolute minority of the voter base but still controls a majority of the party hierarchy. This was why it was so difficult to remove the doofus Romney woman in spite of evidence of incompetence, or even depraved indifference.
I called Thune a few minutes ago to tell him I am "unified" about the SAVE act and killing the silent filibuster. Lazy, worthless, spineless, grifters..... 202-224-3121 is the #
Even ten thousand calls from peasants like you and me is nothing compared to the one call that matters - the ones from their owners. Which means this is not a representative republic, but another kind of government entirely.
Exactly, and I participated in that nonsense until 2024. 2020 and 2022 was my wake up call. Never again, unless the cheat machines are removed and they pass the Save Act. None of that seems to be likely, ever. Christ is the only way out, and I don’t see that on the horizon either. IMO
What?!? We live in an oligarchy with a veneer of the original constitutional republic poorly pasted on top?!?!? I'm shocked -- SHOCKED!!! --by this allegation!!!! 😯😯😯😯🤯🤯 Of course, you're right -- but still!! 🤯😂😂
I got a voicemail/answering machine from Mr. Thune which means we are melting the phone lines. I am reliably told that overwhelming numbers of calls to the point where they turn on the answering machine is one of the only things which can cause these pols to reconsider something. I imagine it indicates people are getting their asses off he sofa and people getting up and doing things historically can end with certain people decorating lamp posts in the gravest extreme. None of them want to think of themselves winding up on display like Mussolini.
Mr. John, decorating lamp posts is a great idea. I think we need north of 500 lengths of rope and the same number of lamp posts but.....if we run out of lamp posts, a stout tree will suffice.
Not to mention, not wanting to risk welfare, SSI, SSD, unemployment, food stamps, pensions, tax rebates, and all other kinds of largesse from Washington they give us after first stealing it from us.
Ben, they are devil’s advocates. No matter what Trump does, they will take the opposite view. If he reversed something tomorrow, they would reverse their whining. The just plain hate Trump.
[11] The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
Lord have mercy on America. Lord change the minds of the ones who oppress your people. Save us O Lord that the power of our government returns to the people. In Jesus name Amen
God won't do anything. God has given this filth too much deference for more than a hundred years. Not only has God given them deference he has permitted them to thrive, prosper and replicate.
Who am I to dictate what God should or shouldn't do? I'm nobody.
All I can say is evil thrives in today's world and it thrives at the expense of the good and the innocent. Why does God permit this to happen to such an extent? I don't know and I certainly don't understand. Two explanations make sense to me:
1. God doesn't intervene because he created us and is now off playing golf with his buddies.
2. God doesn't intervene because he can't. He's either dead or he's limited by his own laws as to what he can or cannot do.
Either way, without a God to help, we are boned as a society and totally on our own.
You have no idea what your 'God' wants, George. You only know what you want.
The guy's that wrote the fairytale ''Bible'' had no clue where our Sun went at night ....let that sink in!
'God' hasn’t spent a moment with me.
We haven’t done a single activity together.
I’ve never heard a 'God’s' voice or shaken a 'God’s' hand.
Never had a 'God' come and help me mow the lawn or fix dinner after a hard day.
Or comfort me when my wife was ill.
Or bring me jumper cables when my car would not start.
My fellow humans have made infinitely more effort to be a part of my life and give it meaning than any 'God' has.
How foolish would it be for me to say that this absentee 'God' is what gives my life meaning?
Apologists in a nutshell: "God is incomprehensible, now listen very carefully while I tell you all about him." If what God does is above us, then why do we have all these believers speaking FOR God, forever explaining him?
I don't believe 'God' stands for morality and Good. Need I tell you about all the immoral things he promoted in the Bible. Genocides, for one. How about Slavery?
I also do not believe God was the creator. And if he was, he created Naegleria Fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba. And earthquakes, tsunamis and floods that killed millions of the creatures he created.
And of course, that he sent his human representative to earth to show us the way is just ancient fiction. Myth. Humans can never resurrect. Humans can never fly like birds. Those only occur in fiction like Jesus and Superman.
Religions just created stories about their heroes. Nothing was written about these heroes by eyewitnesses. All stories were written after they were dead. Lies and fiction invented to glorify their hero. In the Christian's case, Jesus.
As I drop into my comments sometimes, if you want to see America's future, read Revelation 17 & 18. If you think we're bad now, just wait, it'll get worse -- until we're gone in a white flash and a shockwave, followed by a shitload of mushroom clouds from coast to coast. Then everyone in America, from Thune to that putz Schumer to Carter to Lugh, will get to be judged by God.
I've read Revelation many times. I have come to the conclusion that John was smoking and hopped up on Patmosian Peyote when he wrote it. Nobody in their right mind can understand what all that stuff means. Or, it can be interpreted in so many ways by so many different points of view.
"Let’s assume God really is a Trinity and that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit really did reveal themselves as a Trinity in the New Testament. Where is it explained? Why is the doctrine so dependent on personal interpretation?
The Case:
What is the Trinity?
1. One God in three persons
2. Co-eternal
3. Co-essential
4. Co-equal
5. Eternal generation
6. Dual natures of Christ in one person
7. In their union each nature preserves its distinction in nature
8. Two wills in Christ, both divine and human that never conflict
The Trinity is never explained in Scripture ~ quote the chapter or verse that explains this?
The Bible can be used to support the Trinity, just like it can be used to support brutal slavery or antisemitisms or any number of bad ideas
If we place the Trinitarian grid on top of Scripture, it will line things up in a sort of way but without this a priori framework one does not read the Trinity out from Scripture (exegesis vs. eisegesis). Give a non-Christian a Bible to read and they will not come up with the Trinity
The Rebuttal:
The Trinity is not taught in one place but throughout Scripture. The post-biblical Christians developed the doctrine to correctly explain all the biblical data
Response:
The Trinity is nowhere taught in Scripture, it is only superimposed upon Scripture from later Christian thinkers who were highly influenced by Greek philosophy"
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“If one must have faith in order to believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished. The harder work of inquiry, proof, and demonstration is infinitely more rewarding and has confronted us with findings far more "miraculous" and "transcendent" than any theology.”- Christopher Hitchens.
I do not seek to understand that I might believe. I believe that I might understand.
St Anselm
One can believe in God without the Trinity - just as the Jews and Muslims do. Why not convert to Islam? Or Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta? The latter find little of the world, just like modern physics. The more you really look, the less you see.
An atheist reads many books and knows he must learn more.
While a Christian partly reads one very old book written by unknown authors and has been edited hundreds of times, and there are many versions of, and thinks he knows everything!
"Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."- Thomas Paine
Why is it so hard for people to understand that "My book is true because my book says it is true" is not a valid form of reasoning?
“The road to atheism is littered with Bibles that have been read cover to cover." -Andrew L. Seidel
Trust and obey God ~ The wish to be a slave ~ a celestial North Korea!
The stories in these old books made the Church rich.
While the truth lay outside of all of them.
To be fooled is not an insult, to stay in the foolery is an insult to oneself.
Atheists believes there is no god. Atheists have faith there is no god.
Christianity is considered a belief. Faith that Jesus God the Son became human and died for us. Believe that Christ died for your sins is all you need for eternal life. Who does not want to live forever?
Believe what you want. But you will serve someone. Do you love money, or power or sex or drugs or being right?
Who would want to follow a god that makes you do things. Christians are not God’s slaves.
Think what you want.
Read what you want.
You are correct most people don’t read the Bible. The ones that do are blessed. Read Psalm 1 if you dare.
"Atheists believes there is no god. Atheists have faith there is no god."
WRONG
The only thing atheist's claim is that there is insufficient evidence to prove any 'God' exist.
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Christianity is considered a belief.
NOBODY believes in a God until his/her PARENTS have TALKED them into being believers.
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"Faith that Jesus God the Son became human and died for us."
Faith is the art of lying to yourself.
Critical thinking is the art of questioning yourself.
“The reason we call it faith is because it’s not knowledge” – Christopher Hitchens.
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Atheist: Why did God need to violently sacrifice his son so he could forgive us?
Theist: You just don’t understand God.
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Always listen to those who say they are searching for truth, never those who say they have found it. If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people left.
Sounds like a solid foundation for basing your life on!
Here's evidence from my book of claims......... Gosh why is that always their Go-To answer?
"Do your own research! Read the Bible" ~ the battle cry of the ignorant, the official and automatic reply whenever caught out on their religious. It's maddening that they think reading scripture is research ~ you're just conditioning yourself more with falsehoods.
“After all, Lazarus was raised—never said a word about it, the daughter of Jairus was raised ~ didn’t say a thing about what she had been through, and the gospels tell us that at the time of the crucifixion, all the graves in Jerusalem opened, and their occupants wondered around the streets to greet. So, it seems the resurrection was something of a banality at the time.” - Christopher Hitchens
Then how do you explain the rotten shape that pre-Abraham cities were in, sodomy amongst many sins prevalent. Sodom and Gomorrah have been found under the Dead Sea in Israel, God’s judgement over the people of the time.
You are a humanist, giving credit to humanity that it does not deserve. Men have always clobbered each other with slavery, wars, sexual deviance, power, ethnocentrism, thievery, and many other sins. Even Israel split apart due to the evil of both sides.
Mankind is evil, and we are entering just another time of the expansion of that evil. Man does not need evil to survive, as he does not need morality to survive. Even Charles Darwin would blush at that idea.
Tyrannosaurus Rex did not need morality to survive in his world, just big teeth. Man did not need morality as an adaptation piece, just an occasional visit by the celestial law giver.
People all over the world believe in Khrishna, Allah, Yahweh, Zeus, Odin, Ra, Shiva, Anu, Amaterasu, Hades, Quetzalcoatl, and Tezcatlipoca. But lucky you, you were born under the one true God. LOL
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Theists don’t deal with reality over emotion. They argue to satisfy their fears. Arguing with a theist is letting them know they will die. They treat it like a death threat. They’re fear driven, not fact.
Religion peddles an imaginary saviour ~ only to protect us from imaginary demons.
You know it's a loving religion when it's laced with threats. If your beliefs can't be questioned, why have them?"
A Theist friend said that in order to reject the idea of a God, I have to study and learn as much as I can about that God. I asked him how much time he spent studying Zeus or Allah.
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"There must be a creator"
"Why"?
"Because I'm mentally immature and can't understand science so it's the only option"
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"Hell is an eternal separation from God." Sounds fantastic! Where do I sign up?
Atheists don’t know LITERALLY EVERYTHING, therefore God.
Trust and obey God - The wish to be a slave - a celestial North Korea!
Currently Senator Thune is President of the UniParty! That’s the problem he owes his Supporters their continued Grift and he knows they don’t care what the People want!
Thune will do nothing and retire comfortably on our dime. Whether he's known forever as the villain who continued the downward spiral of the United States or not won't bother him or his family in the slightest. He'll be only a footnote amongst those that not only allowed this to happen, but orchestrated it.
Sociopaths possess neither the skill of introspection nor the capacity for empathy, so they really don't care unless there are harsh consequences for their criminality. They're pathological liars and that is why so many are found in positions of power (especially the unelected beaurocrats who never seem to be held accountable for their actions).
As a bureaucrat, I can assure you that not all government employees are criminal, evil assholes. The problem (if it IS a problem) is that we're bound by state and federal laws, so we may have to decide not to pay you for something while some dirtballs gets money or we'll break the law. I cannot legally go into any details, and I'll be damned (figuratively or literally) if I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison over something I post online.
I'm not referring to $$ - I'm speaking for all of us who have lost loved ones due solely to the gross negligence on the part of governmental 'officials.' - I realize that I will have to live with the fact that I personally will not obtain justice and that the guilty, criminal perpetrators continue to walk freely about, collect their pensions, and live out their lives while mine has been destroyed. I really thought after seeing the palpable sociopathy on display by Fauci that finally at least some people would start obtaining justice, because there's a long line of us who never will. If this government will do the work it's supposed to do and start handing out severe penalties for the most heinous of the crimes, it will be a wake up call and others will fall into line...
I'm sorry for your loss. Sounds like your loved one was killed by a cop or was forced to take the clot shot, and you were unable to get anywhere because a DA or AG won't act. Again, I'm sorry for your anguish.
Thank you for your kind thoughts. I need to be more careful about lumping everyone who works for the gov't into one group, and I can tell that you are someone who takes his job seriously and cares about the ramifications of your actions. - If only everyone did... even in the small rural area where I live there is an underlying network of people who have some kind of group-think agreement where they operate outside of the law (small time stuff, not like the Clinton Foundation) and get away with it because there's nothing you can do if you're someone who doesn't have a lot of money or a certain status within the community.
Yep. Who remembers Harry Reid or Tom Daschle? Remember Orrin Hatch? These filthy fuckers live out the remainder of their lives in peace because Americans can't remember them.
The self serving fools who populate the GOPe or Bush faction of the party believe they can get rid of Trump and his supporters who are the majority of GOP voters and return us to that halcyon time when the President and his cronies secretly screw us in the shadows while acting with "decorum." A return to those glorious days of go along to get along, a guaranteed cut of all grift, and being the cuckolds known as the "controlled opposition."
So were the Democrats, created by Andy Jackson to protect slavery. Not sure which is worse,protect slavery like a ca. 1830 Democrat or just wanting to feed Massachusetts mills with Alabama cotton regardless whether slavery exists, even if it takes a war to make sure said cotton continues going to said mills.
Yes, I read an interesting article about how the north benefited from southern slavery, and that it was really the South's decision to sell its cotton elsewhere that sparked the war.
America uses various means, such as recommended best practices in national codes, to standardize commercial law, engineering standards (ASTM), building and fire codes across the USA. Why not use the same process to establish national standards for elections? Think of an ASTM standard for election integrity.
I would be interested in seeing how much money Thune received from AIPAC. Any way, we have more important things on our plate right now than voter reform, like bombing Iran.
There is no more important issue than voter verification, IMHO. That is exactly what always stops the reform process, coming up with stuff to jam the gears. Until the true nature of the voting citizens is obtained, corrupt politicians will run the Deep State down our throats.
Unless and until the SAVE Act is passed and instituted, I will not vote. I live in Minnesota. I'm 75 and I have voted in every national election since 1972. But this is my promise.
Wow, so you are going to protest by removing your only way of protesting, your vote. Minnesota needs all the conservative voters it can muster. Your state is falling off a Blue cliff.
The counter of the votes is just as important. The ID laws will change nothing, other than subject the citizenry to ever increasingly intrusive requirements to participate in civic life.
Yes, and think a bit further. Do you really believe this is going to solve anything? Who watches the watchers?
The system is not only broken, but evidence of its brokenness is used by both sides to convince you that the fix is to be had by your compliance with the destruction of your rights.
Destruction of my rights, by making only citizens to vote, and stopping the invasion of the voting booth by machine, both high tech and political. How is that an invasion of my rights?
I see it more as window dressing. That is the difference between us: you think SAVE signifies something. I think it is there to pacify you into thinking something is being done.
Of course something is being done, though: you are being asked to verify your identity even further--which also happens to be part of the global agenda.
When I took the LSAT, my thumbprint was affixed to the test sheet. I would gladly do the same to vote. Hell, they can make the thumbprint in my blood if that would help.
"Senator John Thune of South Dakota has emerged as a vocal supporter of Israel’s military operations, heavily influenced by the $461,724 he has received from AIPAC to fund his political campaigns. This financial backing has secured Thune's unwavering loyalty to pro-Israel, anti-Palestine legislation, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Thune's votes to send Israel $41 billion in military aid and his support for cutting U.S. funding to UNRWA—an organization providing humanitarian relief to Palestinians—underscore his complicity in the war crimes committed against Palestinian civilians." https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/john_thune?utm_source=perplexity
Not another Palestinian protester. If there is a single and only single issue Thune is right on it is pro Israel: cold blooded murdering babies and children and families Oct 7 clearly demonstrates who the aggressors are.
It’s obvious that the SAVE Act is being turfed by Israeli money corrupting American politicians. Obvious to all the God-hating Satan-worshipping jihadist supporters.
You have a right to your opinions. We have a right to ours. Belief/Non belief are two non-overlapping magisteria. I'd rather naked wrestle a flea-bitten meth zombie on Skid Row than argue that with you, pal.
"Belief/Non belief are two non-overlapping magisteria" -GOBBLEDYGOOK
Faith is the art of lying to yourself
Critical thinking is the art of questioning yourself.
“The reason we call it faith is because it’s not knowledge” – Christopher Hitchens.
When inventing a 'God', the most important thing is to claim it is invisible, inaudible, and imperceptible in every way. Otherwise, people will become sceptical when it appears to no one, is silent and does nothing.
Stop the bullshit, Tenquid! Just present the evidence for the existence of your 'God'. 'God' only exists in the minds of people who need him to give answers to questions they want to hear.
God picked this version of the universe, and he will burn you forever because he loves you so much, after creating you to not believe... Yea makes sense...
If God knew his creations would end up being tortured, why did he create us?
The reason John Thune, not someone of great integrity and intellect, is Majority Leader is because he is Cocaine Mitch McConnell's protege. Also, the GOP Establishment doesn't give a shit about the Constitution or the general public any more than the Satanic Democrats do. Trump wants to do great things that, if successful, would upset the apple cart for almost everyone in Washington, even the country; therefore, it's understandable that everybody and his brother is doing everything he can to stop Trump, even if it destroys what's left of the country.
The beginning focus of this term was DOGE and ending theft and misappropriation. I believe we are seeing that there was a whole lot more stealing going on than even a cynic such as myself imagined. I consider opposition to be an admission they are benefitting from or participating into this theft.
Agreed. But what are we gonna do about it? We can't very well vote them out because at least half of the country WANTS the corruption. Assassinations are out because that's what the bad guys do. I don't know that a revolution is feasible because, again, so many people like what we have, plus even the military who might side with us would fight to protect the existing order against "subversives," even though the actual subversives are essentially running everything.
“…Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”
How do we bring more pressure to bear on Mr. Thune?? Calling him out in front of the whole country as Mr. Trump did during the State of the Union speech was not enough?
When has the congress not ultimately wrecked the country? The 1986 vaccine laws, the 2005 prep act, now the putrid Save Act to usher in digital IDs for everything. When has the government catered to the citizenry? Before the Civil War, perhaps and not since.
Your last statement is wrong. The pre-Civil war years were marked by continuous compromise, trying to keep a balance in the Congress between slave and free states. The ability to compromise stopped when more free states were to be admitted, and when Lincoln was elected, that was it. The torch was lit.
I will answer your question. The only time that the government does anything is when it is forced to by disasters That affect their re-electability. That is it. When they cannot manipulate things to hide problems instead of dealing with them.
Remember Dulles, Hoover et al? 1950s editions of the Patriots in DC with Bush. Always take advantage of an emergency. The former killed JFK when he had the temerity to say no to them.
When I finally read C. Wright Mills’ 1956 book, The Power Elite about twenty years ago, I was surprised at how well it had stood the passage of time. Rather than just a document of an earlier era, it continues to be a valuable lens for seeing the way the world works.
A detail of the book that I found startling at first was Wright’s placement of United States Senators as only middle managers in our nation’s power structure. When W retired from the Oval Office he was asked what most surprised him when he first became President. He replied, without hesitation, that he was surprised at how little power he had. More than a few of our better-informed fellow citizens regard the Federal Reserve Banks as the apex of evil, while most have never even heard of the central bank of central banks: the BIS.
It would almost be comforting to believe that the world is the way it is because human beings are deeply flawed, and our monkey brains are so limited - which is true enough. But the real reason we must continue to be oppressed by so much that is patently stupid, and perverse, and counterproductive is because that all benefits those who actually run things, and the real puppet masters are scarcely visible to us at all.
Wouldn’t the world produce vastly more wealth for the benefit of billions of people if visible solutions were implemented? Well, sure. But then it would no longer serve as a gigantic engine to transfer wealth upward, from those who labor and create and produce to those who rake it all in.
As ever, the key to understanding is simple: Cui Bono.
John Thune is a shining example of the depravity of the Uniparty in DC - he cares nothing about doing the right thing for the country. Rather, his objective is to avoid creating friction with his Uniparty brethren, be they Dems or RINOs. There is little hope for the US with scum like him ensconced in Congress. These people make me sick 🤮.
The GOP: We love being the out party! All of the grift, none of responsibility!
They get paid handsomely for being the minority party.
Yep. They do what they're told. They are in the big club.
DC is Hollyweird for ugly people.
"All the world's a stage." - Billy Shakes
Intriguing comment, Canker. But isn't it always more lucrative to be the party in power?
If the deep state runs the show and the Uniparty gives the illusion of choice while working together to implement deep state policies, why bother throwing the election to the Dems? Just stay in power, keep up the grift, get courted by lobbyists, receive more payouts.
Exactly. Why fix a problem if we can leech more money out of people if we leave it alone?
The money, sure, plus eat babies!
I believe they refer to baby flesh as "jerky." Many of the Epstein emails have the redacted names of the elites constantly talking about "jerky" and moving it from freezer to freezer or from building to building.
Pure filth.
Amen!
I second that regurgitation!
I third! I feel sick to my stomach just thinking about this.
As I read this article I could feel a deep seeded anger welling up inside of me. If only I could have some time alone with Mr. Thune in a sealed room to learn him some of the Constitution. Never before have I come to hate and despise politicians more than I do after reading this essay. Such an utter waste of space and resources. This article made my eyes want to explode.
I despise and hate the Democrat party but I truly loathe and detest the Republicans. This bullshit we are getting from Thune is yet more evidence that the Republicans are frauds. They are the paid vocal opposition to the deep state. When they are in power they never make true reforms or do anything to actually fix anything.
Mr. Trump is the Executive and he can only execute the will of Congress. He can't make law. Everything he does with EOs is a temporary band aid, nothing more. Without Congress, no permanent changes will be made. Congress, the biggest do nothing waste of space.
That fucker Thune knows this, as do all of the hypocritical Republican scum that pollute the halls of our Capitol building.
They're the Washington Generals to the Dems' Harlem Globetrotters. They're supposed to lose, but make it look like a real game.
BINGO!
The Generals try harder
Best analogy ever for the revered two-party system.
You are correct.
Hint: Trump is also the "blob's" controlled opposition. They control everything and we're watching their production.
Hint 2: If Trump were truly opposed to, say, his partner WEF Co-chair Larry Fink, Butler would've served up the goods.
Hint 3: The "blob" are far more competent than sending Thomas Crooks solo. 🙄
I dunno. You should watch Promethean updates on YT to understand what Trump is really up to. It's about the American economic system
Or so we're told while he really plans with Fink, Thiel, Ellison, Altman, Gates, Zuck, Musk, Bezos, Bourla, Adelson et al.
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You want your economic system "fixed" by a guy who claims that tariffs are not taxes on consumers of imports? 🙄
I guess we'll have to wait and see how that works out for ya.
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Here's what Trump has really accomplished for the American economic system:
Warp Speed (COVID shot)
Stargate (blood tests and mRNA vaccines powered by Palantir, Open AI, SoftBank, Oracle to “cure cancer…” [caused by COVID shot? 🤔])
GENIUS Act (Digital Currency)
REAL ID rollout led by Kristi Noem (intermediate step to national digital ID linked to medical records among other future [digital currency] applications).
Genesis Mission (National AI platform linking federal data centers)
6G Executive Order with “implantable technologies” as one of its purposes.
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I wrote this a year ago. Every day it looks less "crazy" and more just plain accurate:
Trump's WEF mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of US Inc. and its phoney-bologna US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy that we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.
Trump brokering and providing Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & Sam Altman with a half a TRILLION[!] dollars falls into that last mandate. Those 3 amigos are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!
I shit you not.
Deep 'SEATED'
Not Deep 'seeded'
Exactly!
Then there's the clown show they called a dog parade. It's hard not to think of it as a deliberate poke in the eye of the people who still hope and pray they have any say in what the government is and does.
Hand picked by McConnell, just like Paul Ryan's replacement
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Do you remember that picture of Paul Ryan "pumping iron?"
Tyson? I don't think so. Pete Buttigieg maybe and Buttigieg would have been the one doing the pumping.
Or maybe it was Lindsey Graham?
Not to disagree, but seeing the term “uinparty” used as an excuse / deflection to explain Thune’s lack of action is something of a copout, (perhaps in order to avoid deeper analysis of what has to be his intentional, calculated, inaction).
When 75% of the electorate can not get an innocuous, reasonable, and important law enacted, there is something very wrong with the way our government is operating. Sure, we get to elect (choose between) pre-selected party candidates to faithfully represent our common interests, . . . but if it’s easy to cheat on the elections, where the hell are we as a nation? We are kidding ourselves if we think we are a democratic republic.
They're an oligarchy. It's been an oligarchy with a veneer of the republic they murdered and used as a skinsuit. I don't know what the answer is.
Sure, you do. It just requires courage conviction and the willingness to kill and die to preserve Liberty for your children and grandchildren.
Yup. Weak people won't do what's necessary. And that definitely includes all women, especially feminists, who expect men to die for them.
Come on all you strong and equal "ladies", step up!
If kinetic civil war is ever declared, I"m ready, at 82, to defend my country. Where I live, people are MAGA/Trump, and a DEM rarely shows his face.
And a long-term oligarchy at that. Only recently have they been more exposed as The Long Emergency continues, and the scramble for their "share" of the shrinking wealth pie consumes more of their time trying to maintain the gains of theft.
This election reform is just theater - the game is rigged. A constitutional convention or convention of states could perhaps provide some temporary relief by replacing all members of Congress, but human nature being what it is, it seems a return to a corrupted system would be likely. But it would be nice to see some justice for at least some of the criminals. Perhaps someday a mob may go France 1793 with torches and pitchforks, when there is nothing left to steal.
The founders knew this kind of thing could happen. That's why they put Article 5 in the Constitution. The problem is the States themselves are divided by the bickering political factions we know as Democrat and Republicans and the states themselves can't pull their heads out of their own asses to get together and do anything about the madness.
We are truly boned as a Republic.
Thank you Abraham Lincoln you ugly son of a bitch!
Men let women vote. This is the result. Get it yet?
True. Evil, avaricious men destroyed the family and society by taking women out of the house, away from their children, and letting them vote. It's ultimately the fault of greedy men. But women bear the burden of falling for it, and advocating for it. They were, and are, dupes and pawns.
We're all guilty of not being more engaged in our futures.
Agreed. I've never absolved men of any culpability in all of this. Men stood by and let women take control. Now we are reaping the consequences.
We don’t need a constitutional convention. What we need is for the government to stay within the bounds established by the constitution we have now. If they’re ignoring the constraints and restraints of the constitution we have now what would passing more amendments or changing the constitution do?
Who says a constitutional convention has to result in new amendments. A convention could repeal previous amendments and bring the constitution back to what it was intentionally created to do. Referring to the 17th Amendment and the income tax.
I agree with your comment but it is unrealistic to expect a corrupt and failed government system such as ours to suddenly decide to start behaving itself is a pipe dream my friend. And don't tell me that we can vote the bad people out of office. Voting doesn't work, hasn't served us well, and won't fix a damned thing.
Amen to that. You should see the scum bags on my HOA. $2 million missing from the HOA checking account. The President of the Board just bought a new Land Rover and paid cash for it.
The American Government is a bright reflection of the American people themselves. School boards, City Councils, HOA boards, all the way down to families themselves. Americans seek only the grift and filthy lucre of the world. Money, money, money. That's all they care about and they'll do anything to get it.
It’s what the delusive democratic principle is all about — social equality, which boils down to free competition for the acquisition of wealth, which leads to corruption (moral and political). The people are as guilty as the politicians.
Exactly. Now take that one step further: the USA is governed by such immense corruption that it is the last nation on earth that should be imposing its will on other nations.
Right?
Same - sickens me
Perfectly stated.
He needs to have a massive car accident.
Might be a day to fill the gas tank and the fridge.
Thune will do anything he can to help the Dems. As I predicted months ago, after the midterms are over POTUS Trump will be impeached over allegations that he is a child molester and rapist. He'll be subpoenaed and if he refuses to cooperate or lies he'll be impeached. The goal of the Dems is to make the child molesters and pervert child rapist label stick to not only him but everyone who ever supported him. He'll be subpoenaed and if he refuses to cooperate or lies he'll be impeached. The left have their Woodwards and Bernsteins ready and have already begun their feeding frenzy:
DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows https://share.google/qj7SjnK2BOnSOEpq0
Underage Accuser Included Trump 'Rape' Allegations In Her Lawsuit Against Epstein https://share.google/2jMCuVAR9gXEePTAP
The Epstein Files: The FBI Interviewed an Underage Trump Accuser https://share.google/dwbIeJlIXGWSbDsD6
FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show https://share.google/JTW6KelC7vqfJFO3a
DOJ Exposed Name of Trump Underage Accuser After She "Refused To Cooperate" Against Him https://share.google/SQXwZOIXX38umYhMs
DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump https://share.google/Nrl53iftLoklZWqlp
Underage Trump Accuser's Brother Was Arrested For Participating Jan. 6 Riot https://share.google/UA3UgNBrcDmsLNhS2
https://youtu.be/aqCx8m6pSuM?si=EBBK7f2l1Am0TP7_
Think about the idea that the Ult-Left, the enemy of this country is setting up to destroy the financial power of their own party with Epstein. So far, their attempt to get Trump has been pathetic and the folks in the moderate wing of the Democrats are under threat. The Ult-Left are a group of power crazed elites that need to be destroyed by the voters. Soon.
It's possible, even likely, that Trump has a plan. He has a history of drawing his adversaries out into the open so that they are exposed as weak and feckless, fighting the wrong battle, and then does some kind of end-around to get what he wants.
That's true. But if voters think he fucks children for sport and Thune won't allow the SAVE Act to be voted on so that Dems can create more votes than there are voters (again), what good does Trump's machinations do?
Trump is surrounded by neocons and globalists. There are only a handful of (as in one hand) people around him who will act in the interest of the people (and his fast-fading presidency) because they are essentially internal motivators who want to do right for the country.
Lutnick appears to be Trump's minder.
I'd go for Wiles. Got a quarter we can flip?
He's got some guys in the right places though. Why doesn't he get the charges and arrests going?
Because they've convinced him that going after the bad guys full-force would collapse the entire world. And it might. But if you have satanists by the balls, you crush them or face God's judgment. It doesn't help that his spiritual advisor is one of these "gospel of wealth" types who pronlbably gives him bad counsel.
The judiciary is totally corrupt. Nothing would stick. Comey for example
The real enemy is the far far Left. They are marxist and have infiltrated most institutions in the country. It has been a journey spanning about a century. It appears they feel strong enough to strike the major blow. Although it can be framed in Left/Right, I maintain this is the incorrect axis. It is the up/down axis which needs attention. Up is freedom, down is oppression.
"that need to be destroyed by the voters" You're too kind, they need to be destroyed without qualifiers. They are the zealous enemies of the Constitutional Republic.
The solution rides with the moderate Left. When more folks cross the line and join MAGA against the idiots, then the Ult-Left will be stopped from destroying the country.
IF the GOP voted in lock-step like the Dems do... and we didn't have sell-outs like Thune and Johnson... so many great Bills would have been passed.
Yes, Dems are scum... as usual... but the RINOs are the ones to blame.
Absolutely, 100% agree.
Mr. John----in a decent world with decent and law abiding pols, that could happen but.....I think it is only wishful thinking. How many Dem/Marxists would agree that men cannot have babies? zero ? one?
Moderates in the Dem/Marxist party went extinct quite a while ago.
I agree, not many. Ironically, two of them are named Clinton. The voting differences are so small though that every vote counts.
They won't be destroyed, John. They're caught in a thought-loop that they're smarter and more righteous than anyone else who's ever lived, and the big money is backing them, just as big money supported Mussolini, Hitler, and other maniacs whom they thought would give them absolute financial power over a people, and ideally (in their fantasies) the whole world. They thought they could control the lunatics because of expected financial power, but as we know, they were wrong. If Yrump succeeds, there'll be upheaval; if he fails, we'll have a global dictator supported by the ultra-wealthy and the governments they control; basically, worldwide fascism.
Many mal-educated (meaning brainwashed) Americans have not figured out that Fascists and Communists are just two-sides of the same Socialist coin. Both hate free-market capitalism, both hate freedom, both love dictatorship, both are racist (the race to be persecuted may differ by location), and both fervently believe that the Socialist political elite are the only ones qualified to control and manage the economy. The only historical difference between the two Socialist ideologies is that Fascist/Socialism will allow some large corporatists to exist, so long as they pledge their total allegiance to the regime, while Communist/Socialism holds that there should be no private ownership of property whatsoever. What no one notices is that two ideologies are slowly merging--the Fascist/Socialists moving toward even greater government control of property while the Communist/Socialists (China, specifically) have moved to the more Fascist model of accepting some corporatist ownership with that requirement of complete allegiance pledged to the regime.
The fight within the now full Socialist Democrat Party in the U.S. (the name is now a joke, there is not one shred of Democratic ideology in the Democrat Party) is between the few Communist/Socialist nutcases (Sanders, the Squad, and some younger Democrat morons), and the more cold Fascist/Socialist scumbags (the wealthy Democrat elite, Pelosi, Clintons, Obama, Biden, et al). Both are supremely dangerous to the survival of the American Republic and both will ultimately have to be permanently removed from political power--however that is effected--for the American Republic to be safe from dictatorial tyranny. The issue with some RINOs is that they are either "closet" Fascists or they are gullible enough to think that one can reason with dyed-in-the-wool Socialists of either the Fascist or Communist factions. You can't negotiate with Socialists; you can't negotiate with a Socialist ideology that can only exist and survive in a dictatorship. And the saying rings absolutely true: Scratch any Socialist and you will find either a Fascist or a Communist underneath. The biggest lie ever told is that "MAGAs" are Fascists--they are as far from Fascists as one can get.
AND they are globalistic, powered by international financiers. An irony here is that the Democratic government of the USA under FDR at the end of WW2 was responsible for much of the globalistic thinking.
Wilson’s attempt after WW1, the League of Nations was stopped successfully by an AmericaFirst Senate.
The Global Elite may think they have all the Muslims, but they will find out differently. Just as they thought they had the Chinese, but the Chinese were always National Socialists in their hearts. That came to the fore once madness of the Cultural Revolution receded.
They may have thought they had Hitler, if so he showed them otherwise. Ditto for Putin.
Who do you think funded the Communist Revolutions? Your Capitalist heroes. It's one system, sport. Who is their enemy? The nationalists. And that means the Fascists and National Socialists. You need to start all over again with the basic theorems. You can't do calculus until you've learned the basics.
China is the world's first technate. You can thank Kissinger for getting them there. That was always the plan. They are the globalists' experiment, because it would have been harder to do in the west (no longer, since western populations have agreed to give up their freedoms - the left for protection against Deadly Germs, the right for protection against immigration). If there's one thing our Overlords understand it's human psychology. They've been studying us like bugs under a microscope forever.
China is the blueprint for what you are going to get everywhere, although Gaza and Ukraine are now also being used as prototypes. War is extremely useful for bringing in a technate - desperate people will agree to anything.
There will be no politics, since technocracy does not require politics. So no 'national socialists' or 'communists' or 'capitalists' or any other '-ists'. Just a global technate/gulag/digital prison.
Shh you are going to send Lugh into orbit with this one.
100% on point.
Best add "zionists" to that malignant mix.
Accurate.
Mr. John, I typically agree with most of your comments but......you mention the moderate wing of the Democrats. I think that part of the Dem/Marxist party has been gone for 40+ years. You used to have pro-life Dems and Dems who supported the 2nd Amendment, and.....used to support the military and generally were pro America. Those people are long gone----sadly. We have Fetterman but....he still votes with the Dems basically 99%
Voting is not going to resolve this, son. Get it yet?
Well, the alternative is war.
Thanks Captain Ob(liv)ious.
It is unfortunate, however this seems to be the case.
There are a number of scenarios. One, a few, a mix, none are healthy choices.
Ever wonder why Trump, Blondi, Kash, bongina have all been spewing bald-faced lies about the Epstein matter since it first became a 'thing"???
That answer is easy. The PTB protect themselves. Trump knows that the cream of the crop are going to get clobbered by their obvious corruption by Epstein, and lots of others. Remember the Jewish corruption withMaddow in Florida? Trump has used the word, disruption. I believe that is an understatement.
Bondi is a Swamp plant -- all talk, no production, and intentionally fuckung up cases to protect the VIPs, as you say.. Patel, I'm not sure. Bongino, I think is a decent guy, but he was told to stop pulling threads or they'd wipe out his family and put him in a federal prison on trumped-up charges (pardon the pun).
Watch the hostage video again: Patel and Bongino were terrified as they lied about Epstein being dead. He's in Israel. He wanted his girl Friday back with him, so they got Maxwell out too. She's Israeli royalty in any case.
It's good that you are in touch with reality. The writing is on the wall. They are obviously being destroyed by the voters:
" Gubernatorial Elections
Democrats secured notable victories in the 2025 off-year gubernatorial races, which were the first major statewide contests following the 2024 presidential election.
Virginia: Abigail Spanberger (D) won the open seat, flipping it from Republican control after Governor Glenn Youngkin's term limit. This marked Virginia's first female governor and shifted the state from a Republican trifecta to a Democratic one.
New Jersey: Mikie Sherrill (D) won the open seat, retaining Democratic control after Governor Phil Murphy's term limit. This was the first time Democrats won three consecutive gubernatorial elections in the state since 1961.
Both victories were by double-digit margins, outperforming Democratic expectations and signaling a backlash against the Trump administration's early policies.
Other Statewide Elections
Virginia Lieutenant Governor: Ghazala Hashmi (D) won the open seat, making history as one of the first Muslim Americans elected to statewide office in Virginia.
Virginia Attorney General: Jay Jones (D) defeated incumbent Jason Miyares (R), flipping the position.
Georgia Public Service Commission: Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard won two seats, flipping them from Republicans. These were the first non-federal statewide Democratic victories in Georgia in nearly two decades.
State Legislative Elections and Specials
Throughout 2025, Democrats flipped 25 GOP-held state legislative seats out of 119 contested in regular and special elections, representing a 21% flip rate. Key highlights include:
StateChamberDemocratic GainsNotesVirginiaHouse of Delegates+13 seatsLargest majority since the 1980s.New JerseyGeneral Assembly+5 seatsAchieved supermajority.MississippiState Senate+3 seats (net)Broke GOP supermajority.IowaState Senate+2 seats (net)Including a January 2025 special.GeorgiaState House+1 seatSpecial election flip in a Trump+ district.PennsylvaniaState Senate+1 seatFlip in a deeply Republican area.TexasState Senate+1 seatFebruary 2026 special flip by Taylor Rehmet in a Trump+17 district.
Democrats also retained three Pennsylvania Supreme Court seats. In California, a 2025 ballot measure (Prop 50) added five Democratic-leaning congressional districts via redistricting.
Congressional Special Elections
Democrats held or overperformed in several 2025 specials, with vote swings averaging 13% toward Democrats across 60 contests.
Arizona's 7th: Adelita Grijalva (D) held the seat.
Texas's 18th: Christian Menefee (D) won the runoff.
Virginia's 11th: James Walkinshaw (D) held the seat.
New Jersey's 11th: A Democrat won the special following Mikie Sherrill's resignation to become governor.
Additional overperformances in Florida (two districts), Virginia, Arizona, and Tennessee specials (though Tennessee was a GOP hold).
Major Mayoral and Local Elections
Democrats won several high-profile mayoral races in 2025, including flips and historic firsts.
New York City: Zohran Mamdani (D) won in a three-way race, with historic turnout.
Miami: Eileen Higgins (D) flipped the seat, the party's first win in 25 years.
Detroit: Mary Sheffield (D) gained the seat after the incumbent retired.
San Antonio: Gina Ortiz Jones (D) flipped the seat.
Other gains: Roswell (GA), Dearborn Heights (MI), Syracuse (NY). Holds in Albuquerque, Hoboken, Jersey City, and more.
County-level: Flips in Erie County (PA), Winnebago County (WI), and Hudson County (NJ) sheriff.
As of February 28, 2026, no major 2026 midterm results are available, but early specials like the Texas state Senate flip indicate continued Democratic momentum. These wins have boosted Democratic optimism heading into the 2026 midterms, amid low Trump approval ratings and economic concerns."
Yup, Blue state denizens scared into the voting booth by Trump. They do not want their Federal tit to dry up. The worst enemy of a democracy is when the people figure out they own the purse strings. That is the primary reason the FF made us a republic.
Right - and you’d think Trump would understand this. Without the SAVE act, he rots in jail the rest of his life and his family impoverished. He may not be able to control the seditionist Thune, but he could replace Patel and Bondi with someone that would aggressively prosecute all those connected to the Fulton County fraud. How could he not understand the personal stakes here?
Using which judge?
They all seem to be corrupt and in someone pocket.
I hadn't thought about that, but you may be right. It would explain the preoccupation with Epstein, pederasty, and obstruction of the facts. It would also explain Thune's refusal to get the SAVE Act yo the floor for a vote since the GOP Establushment no doubt sees the Democrats' evildoing as a way to get rid of the troublemaking Trump so they can get back to their own evildoing.
These people are crazy- Donald J Trump
If he has any foresight at all he would have seen this coming and planned an attack on Iran as soon as it became obvious this was headed for the front pages. Getting the US embroiled in a foreign forever war and letting that dominate the headlines would be a master stroke now.
That's nuts.
Attack Iran to cover his guilty ass?
Lose tens of thousands of our sailors and soldiers to prevent HIS guilt being exposed?
He would and SHOULD be impeached immediately if he attacks Iran... and it will be bipartisan.
First real disagreement with you. You think he's going to get impeached if he attacks Iran? The people will accept it. They have no choice. His party is controlled by the Zionists as are the high level Democrats. He'll get away with it, though his beloved legacy will be in tatters and the Iranians take out every American ship and base in the area.
maybe...
I think the Dems would want to impeach him and nothing will divert them... attacking Iran, after his previous war crimes... coupled with his Epstein guilt... likely are enough.
He needs pictures of body bags. That's what he needs people to focus on. He needs a rally around the flag effect ASAP. He would know that.
I am convinced that someone, somewhere, within one or more of the various alphabet agencies has compromising information on practically all members of Congress, which they hold over their heads should they fail to comply. It beggars belief that this is not the case, as the matter before Thune amply suggests.
As for the Democrats cheating their way into a midterm blowout: yes, not only possible but extremely likely. Should this occur, and should they successfully impeach the president, I believe it would be akin to a modern-day firing upon Fort Sumter. I do not say this in jest or without careful deliberation.
There is no way on God’s green earth that a great swath of this country would merely grumble and ultimately do nothing. Take it as you wish, but that would be the flashpoint and, in my view, the ultimate undoing of the Marxist left.
Unfortunately, I think the great swath of this country will do nothing if the Dems cheat their way to a midterm blowout. Nobody will want to be first in the line of fire. There will need to be an outside event - a huge disaster, an enormous revelation that is not watered down, an event so shocking that people are jolted into action. So many people are stuck in their thought silos with no real concept of what is going on. We live in a matrix.
That is my read of the political temperament here in the northeast. Most people are oblivious or just plain not interested. Any relevant conversations only regurgitate MSM talking points. Try introducing alternative news, you get blank stares like they can't comprehend. It's very discouraging and frankly scary knowing these people vote.
Life must still be pretty decent for them. They can pay their taxes, buy food, download their porn and visit their prostitutes. As long as they still have money in their bank accounts and food to eat, why should they think any differently?
People will think very differently when they have to worry about where their next meal is going to come from.
The first thing they'll think of is taking it from someone else.
Yes, food more than anything else motivates rebellion.
Let them eat cake!
Cake was far healthier back then. Sweetened bread.
Yes, it was brioche in the original, although there's no evidence she actually said it in the first place.
Naw, I think it will come down to one thing. Starvation. When people can't eat anymore then they'll be motivated into action. As long as they can get EBT and go buy pizza and pepsi with it they will be content to continue to absorb all their mind porn spewed at them by the teevee.
Covid should have awakened the masses to the cancerous leviathan the US government has become but it didn't. In fact, the majority of Americans jumped on the covid band wagon, closed down their own businesses, failed their own churches and turned their backs on their own family members. Americans are mind numbed people. It will take something terrible that kicks them in the balls to wake them up.
It why the government has to keep spending money and supporting the welfare wastrels. Imagine a US without welfare. People would be at war within the three days the citie’s food supply lasts.
And even then, what will they do? The majority of young people have been pussified and feminized into irrelevance. Doom loop is already well established. It was a great country while it lasted. It’s been over for decades. Just one man’s opinion from decades of observation.
I agree with you Patricia. The “people” will do NOTHING!
Sadly, I believe you’re exactly right.
Trump stated that he feared releasing the files because of the disruption to the political situation it would cause, and the country needed to have solid governance. Like a lot of things, Trump’s words have been confirmed, the Epstein files are clobbering many elites, and the Ult-Left are showing what a huge group of assholes they really are. Does ANYONE think that the squad gives one thought about the welfare of their people? Or most of the Congress.
To make an omlette, you break eggs.
The idea that he can't release files or arrest anyone for committing crimes is ridiculous.
It is a show. And your rights get stripped away ever more the longer it goes on.
What rights?
Do be specific and show your work.
Ever hear of the Bill of Rights?
Not only have I heard of it I have read it!
Further unlike you I have taken Constitutional classes from Hillsdale on the subject.
https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses
You must have also read all the Rush Revere books about Liberty, the time traveling horse.
Just a start; we can move on at the pace you are comfortable with:
The USA PATRIOT Act (2001) significantly expanded government surveillance powers, resulting in the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, increased monitoring of private records, and reduced judicial oversight
. Key rights lost or curtailed include privacy, due process, and protections against unwarranted, secret surveillance.
Key Rights and Protections Lost or Diminished
Privacy Against Warrantless Surveillance: The act expanded the government's ability to conduct "sneak and peek" searches, allowing law enforcement to enter homes or offices without immediately informing the owner.
Protection of Personal Records: Section 215 allowed the FBI to force businesses, libraries, and universities to turn over records (financial, medical, library, and internet usage) without showing probable cause, often with minimal judicial oversight.
Protection Against “Suspicionless” Spying: The act allowed for surveillance of individuals not directly suspected of being an agent of a foreign power.
Due Process for Detainees: The Act allowed for the indefinite detention of non-citizens based on suspicion, often without immediate access to counsel or disclosure of charges.
Freedom from General Searches: Surveillance expanded beyond terrorism to include "domestic terrorism" which critics argue can be used to target political organizations and advocacy.
Financial and Communication Privacy: Expanded wiretapping and pen register monitoring, along with easier access to internet and phone records, reduced expectations of privacy in daily communication.
That's thirty years ago and not under Trump you are moving goal posts I see.
You didn't understand my comment, as usual. You are literally the reason this shit continues. You couldn't think your way out of a paper bag.
He's right. Unredacted the files will destroy the Establishment and of course he, himself being an intimate of Epstein. If he doesn't attack Iran, they'll release more dirt on him.
Intimate of Epstein, what do you know that thousands of Leftists don’t know that have been trying to depose him for ten years? All you know everything’s seem to think you know all the dirt, you know nothing. As I do. The facts will come out, and much of the male elite will be destroyed potentially. What Hugh Hefner begot, the Karens will finish.
Trump's fear is that HIS guilt will be exposed.
PERIOD.
JJ
The Left has had 10 years and an nutso administration to get him. They didn’t, why? Because they are more guilty than he is and they know it. How come right now that the only folks pushing “Get Trump”are a few Ult-Left wingnuts. The PTB realize who is really going to get hurt.
Trump, starting an UNPROVOKED war with Iran... all to serve Israel and the Zionist swine... will END him.
I hope it will END Israel too.
You are a moron and a eunuch... Trump exposed his obvious GUILT in his laughable reactions to the Epstein files... first: "They don't exist"... next, they are a Dem hoax"... next... can't we all move on from this???
Your Trump sycophancy is pathetic.
You are a fucking joke.
Post facts... not just bleats about your wet panties.
HELP, JHK, HELP!!
What a coward pussy.
F-0ff.
What brain fever leaves you with the notion that if any undeniable salacious evidence on Trump were in those files, that it wouldn’t have been lead story for the Biden/Harris era? It absolutely 100% would have and you know it. The logical conclusion is that it simply doesn’t exist. I’m not in love with Trump the man, and if he’s guilty ~ take him down, but logic and reason tells me that it doesn’t exist. Prove me wrong if I’ve missed something…
Prove ME wrong, Bozo...
Explain why Trump funded Israel's genocide in Gaza... 300,000+ innocents dead... think America was under some sort of threat from Palestinians?
Why did Trump calim fista, "the files don't exist"... then... "The Files are a Dem hoax... then... "Can't we all move on from this"??
You have 3 million files to go through to prove he's not guilty... he's been mentioned in the files tens of thousands of times...
Let me know, jagoff.
When you resort to name calling it becomes " filler" from an empty head.
🤣
Keep laughing Fuktard...
Let's see how this turns out.
PS: F-0ff.
Thune is probably a toe-tapper and they know it.
I prefer to call them sodomites. Sodomy is the initiation ritual of Satan and his cabal of evil and it is rampant among the elite.
That’s also my description for them Canker, and I use it as often as possible. That’s the reality of it. It’s unnatural and satanic.
LBTGQ+ is 6% of the population, what has them able to control the public sector as they do? This country’s government does NOT represent the people.
It is deviant and sickening.
But you, asscheese, support Israel, home of the pedophiles and the Epstein Extortion Operation.
You excuse their 911 attacks too... what a vile skid-mark you are.
How did you learn so many retorts? Mommy or daddy call you that?
Your imagination is broad and wide,
Unfounded. You have absolutely no proof of what you are saying. JHK, where are you?
Your vileness precedes you.
Mommy!!! Help me!! Bad JJ is bitch-slapping me!!
With truth!
Jagoff Johnny... see if you can dispute any facts in this... and be specific or shut that meat-holster.
https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/
No arguments here.
Ah good old Larry Craig!
Toe-tapper? Pardon my crudity, but is that a way of saying turd-tapper, fudgepacker, etc.?
Remember that closeted fruit, Larry Craig?
From Idaho. He had a "wide stance."
Had a wide meat-holster too.
Like so many zio-pigs and congressmen.
I forgot about him. I looked him up on Wikipefia and this is what it says about the incident:
"On June 11, 2007, Craig was arrested for indecent behavior in a men's restroom at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport; he pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in August 2007 and paid $575 in court fines and fees. The arrest remained unknown to the public until the Washington, D.C.–based newspaper Roll Call disclosed it in an article, drawing widespread public attention as well as charges of hypocrisy against Craig, as he had been an opponent of LGBT rights in the United States.[2] Despite stating that he was not and never had been homosexual, on September 1, 2007, Craig announced that he would resign from the Senate, effective September 30, 2007. He later reversed this decision and chose to finish the remainder of his term, although he did not seek re-election in 2008.[3]"
I still think "God-accursed Sodomite" is a less- confusing euphemism, though.
Billy Joel sang a song called "We Didn't Start the Fire." In that song he mentions "British Politicians Sex." He was referring to the rampant homosexuality and sodomy that prevailed among the political class and I believe that was back in the 1970s. The world is far worse today.
He was referring to the Profumo Affair, where a minister of MacMillan's cabinet was plowing a 19-year-old girl, as well as another mistress who was a Soviet spy. There was another song, "Nothing Has Been Proved," which described the episode.
In our modern age that is a mark of honor
Yes. The primary role of the US military, apart from fighting for Israel, is to spread toe-tapping around the globe.
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I disagree with the country not doing anything.
What sends people into the streets is not a cheated election per se.
No, it's when they show up to the just in time store and there are no cheesy doodles and nothing but empty shelves and their own cupboards bare.
A European drought caused the famine that caused the French Revolution.
Yes, I agree, but in a way, you can't really blame people. They've been told all their lives that their elected representatives had their backs when that obviously wasn't the case. They were brought up to trust in the authorities, science, medicine, law, education, and yes, elections, and now have discovered that all of these have failed, and failed by design.
Failed by design?
Exactly, the stupidification of the country was done by the global socialists that want this country to be third world.
It makes me ill to realize that the majority of Americans do not even understand what Trump said during the SOTU. They vote!
Blackmail is the currency of the elite political class. Has been since, well maybe the 2nd Century BC. So nothing new. But the players simply play their own games within that blackmail. Epstein is by the way a mid-level player on the global stage. Not the central figure by any means. There are many “Epsteins”. Some even Arab and Muslim. All play the game.
Agreed. One can only surmise that that's exactly what they want.
One of the turning points in society was the ending of the draft. At the time I supported ending it. Now, not so much. When almost everyone had to serve, even in peace time, and often for only two years, it helped to form a foundation for the idea of civic duty, for belief in something greater than self.
Now, it's all about the self, the me, the somebody owes me, someone else is why I am the way I am.
And so, everyone lives in their little silo, unwilling to do what is needed, and willing to lead their pathetic existence under a rock, only to come out from under it occasionally to eat or breed.
Civic responsibility, civic duty, love of country and kin, belief in morality and responsibility and faith in God are what we need. Maybe having a draft that required civic participation, whether military or not could be a good thing, in some future version of America.
Young women too must serve, either by early marriage and hopefully children, or by service to the State. Men will go on to serve in the military, either regular or militia, for decades after they have done their initial service. For the gung ho, they can skip the service and dive right in. Only this is Nationalism. Only this is Fascism or National Socialism - the modern forms of Nationalism. Is it compatible with Capitalism? No. Just as Christianity is not. Private enterprise and ownership are compatible with Nationalism and Christianity. But just letting an economic Elite run rampant and creating hell on Earth is a different story. Most, including most here, can't see the different - which is bizarre and the result of endless indoctrination. The Communists have nothing on us in this regard.
Women want to be treated the same as men when it comes to pay, benefits and all the good stuff. However, when it comes to the nasty shit like fighting a war, cleaning out sewer lines or mining for copper in the depths of the Earth they can't be seen or heard and are gone like a fart in the wind.
I think you can add Judges and prosecutors to that list.
Mr. Tom-----that someone, somewhere is the Mossad. Our Congress is bought and paid for. But....I believe there is more than 1 someone/somewhere and between these 3,4, or maybe 5 or 6 groups control our pols with compromising info on almost all of our pols. Yes, I could be a conspiracy nut but........too much stuff does not add up. Don't you think that just for once most pols would do something/anything that is good for the taxpayers but......I have seen very little of this outside of what Trump is trying to do and......I think the MIC has his ear, unfortunately.
I challenge anyone to share one thing that Congress has done that has personally benefitted them in their personal lives? I cannot think of one damned thing.
Sorry, but that's exactly what they'll do. January 6 told them that they have no right to redress grievances to the government. Law enforcement will not be on their side.
If that happens make sure your stocked up on ammo and night vision equipment .
That agency is named The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). You know, the Epstein guys.
Thune , Tillis, Cornyn, Lankford, et al, they all have that look of sipping martinis by a 1960s country club pool. They’re old skool Rockerfeller Republicans, who used to be some of the most liberal politicians before Vietnam and feminism permanently changed the Democrat Party. My family were ethnic east coast Catholics, Union Members, and very conservative Democrats. Back then the Democrats were more socially conservative than the Republicans by a long shot. The war among Republicans that resulted in the Reagan Revolution was very staunchly opposed by those liberal Republicans who had all the power in the 60s and early 70s. These clowns are cut from the same bolt of cloth. I despise them with the intensity of a thousand suns. Fooking country club, chamber of commerce, WASP Republicans.
Bush Republicans, Trump’s goal has always been to stop that group in the GOP.
Think about this, Trump has been labeled a populist by the Deep State media. What an insult, feeling he is supposed to be supporting Joe Average.
"Trump’s goal has always been to stop that group in the GOP."
It's not a group within the party. It IS the party and always has been.
It is an absolute minority of the voter base but still controls a majority of the party hierarchy. This was why it was so difficult to remove the doofus Romney woman in spite of evidence of incompetence, or even depraved indifference.
He can't let go of his goofy RINO meme.
You are wrong. It is just part. MAGA is not GOP, it is Tea Party. Both parties are about to splinter and form new alliances. The sooner the better.
Nonsense.
He is just fine with a corrupt DOJ and FBI... Kash and Blondi should have been ejected long ago...
His staff and Cabinet are a gaggle of zionist-supporting sell-outs, Lutnick, Wiles and Ratcliffe especially.
Mr. Willian, my sentiments exactly.
I called Thune a few minutes ago to tell him I am "unified" about the SAVE act and killing the silent filibuster. Lazy, worthless, spineless, grifters..... 202-224-3121 is the #
Even ten thousand calls from peasants like you and me is nothing compared to the one call that matters - the ones from their owners. Which means this is not a representative republic, but another kind of government entirely.
Yep. What we see before us is merely a collection of marionettes.
If voting mattered, it would be illegal.
Exactly, and I participated in that nonsense until 2024. 2020 and 2022 was my wake up call. Never again, unless the cheat machines are removed and they pass the Save Act. None of that seems to be likely, ever. Christ is the only way out, and I don’t see that on the horizon either. IMO
Very good analogy, NO.
What?!? We live in an oligarchy with a veneer of the original constitutional republic poorly pasted on top?!?!? I'm shocked -- SHOCKED!!! --by this allegation!!!! 😯😯😯😯🤯🤯 Of course, you're right -- but still!! 🤯😂😂
HE knows he is ignoring 80% of the population... I doubt he cares about one more.
I got a voicemail/answering machine from Mr. Thune which means we are melting the phone lines. I am reliably told that overwhelming numbers of calls to the point where they turn on the answering machine is one of the only things which can cause these pols to reconsider something. I imagine it indicates people are getting their asses off he sofa and people getting up and doing things historically can end with certain people decorating lamp posts in the gravest extreme. None of them want to think of themselves winding up on display like Mussolini.
Mr. John, decorating lamp posts is a great idea. I think we need north of 500 lengths of rope and the same number of lamp posts but.....if we run out of lamp posts, a stout tree will suffice.
Americans don't have the guts to do this. Too afraid of the powerful Federal Leviathan.
Not to mention, not wanting to risk welfare, SSI, SSD, unemployment, food stamps, pensions, tax rebates, and all other kinds of largesse from Washington they give us after first stealing it from us.
If 100k people call, it might make a difference, but only from his own district.
Are there even that many people in all of his district in South DAKOTA?
He couldn't care less if you are outside of that, as you don't control his job.
Yep, and your call may have been listened to by one of Thune's horny female political science interns and then subsequently deleted.
Rest assured, when that call is made, your number and name are put on some kind of list to be dealt with at some point.
They run your file to see if you are crazy.
As you said, What rights? If only you could meet yourself coming or going.
Being run through a database to see if you are a violent criminal is not an infringement of rights it's a commonsense move.
Have you not been paying attention to the absolute bat shit crazy idiots running all over?
There are all sorts of warnings when someone is going to shoot up a school or show up to a Republican baseball game to throw hot lead.
People like you whine they are not doing enough when something shitty happens and then whine when they do bare minimum common-sense shit.
You can't have it both ways and when antifa tracks your Nazi loving fascist ass down then what?
Who you gonna call?
Ben, they are devil’s advocates. No matter what Trump does, they will take the opposite view. If he reversed something tomorrow, they would reverse their whining. The just plain hate Trump.
They hate far more than just Trump.
He proved that the other night.
Psalm 94:1-11 NKJV
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs-
O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
[2] Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
Render punishment to the proud.
[3] LORD, how long will the wicked,
How long will the wicked triumph?
[4] They utter speech, and speak insolent things;
All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
[5] They break in pieces Your people,
O LORD, And afflict Your heritage.
[6] They slay the widow and the stranger,
And murder the fatherless.
[7] Yet they say, "The LORD does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob understand."
[8] Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when will you be wise?
[9] He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?
He who formed the eye, shall He not see?
[10] He who instructs the nations,
shall He not correct,
He who teaches man knowledge?
[11] The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
Lord have mercy on America. Lord change the minds of the ones who oppress your people. Save us O Lord that the power of our government returns to the people. In Jesus name Amen
God won't do anything. God has given this filth too much deference for more than a hundred years. Not only has God given them deference he has permitted them to thrive, prosper and replicate.
Who am I to dictate what God should or shouldn't do? I'm nobody.
All I can say is evil thrives in today's world and it thrives at the expense of the good and the innocent. Why does God permit this to happen to such an extent? I don't know and I certainly don't understand. Two explanations make sense to me:
1. God doesn't intervene because he created us and is now off playing golf with his buddies.
2. God doesn't intervene because he can't. He's either dead or he's limited by his own laws as to what he can or cannot do.
Either way, without a God to help, we are boned as a society and totally on our own.
Yes. Does it not say, We created man in our own image? Elohim is plural. The golf balls are planets and stars!
The Koran talks this way too. I went to Ask a Muslim.com and actually got a good reply: The We used is the "royal we", not actual plurality.
Why do we anthromorphize God? We do not have a single clue of what He is. He is definitely not a human, thank Him.
You have no idea what your 'God' wants, George. You only know what you want.
The guy's that wrote the fairytale ''Bible'' had no clue where our Sun went at night ....let that sink in!
'God' hasn’t spent a moment with me.
We haven’t done a single activity together.
I’ve never heard a 'God’s' voice or shaken a 'God’s' hand.
Never had a 'God' come and help me mow the lawn or fix dinner after a hard day.
Or comfort me when my wife was ill.
Or bring me jumper cables when my car would not start.
My fellow humans have made infinitely more effort to be a part of my life and give it meaning than any 'God' has.
How foolish would it be for me to say that this absentee 'God' is what gives my life meaning?
Apologists in a nutshell: "God is incomprehensible, now listen very carefully while I tell you all about him." If what God does is above us, then why do we have all these believers speaking FOR God, forever explaining him?
Dennis, something started the process that led up to what we perceive today. How? Who?, what?, when?, all are things of which we do not have a clue.
God stands for morality and Good, and humans stand for evil represented by Satan, a man made commodity. We know nothing else about the Creator.
He sent his human representative to earth to show us the way. We killed Him.
I don't believe 'God' stands for morality and Good. Need I tell you about all the immoral things he promoted in the Bible. Genocides, for one. How about Slavery?
I also do not believe God was the creator. And if he was, he created Naegleria Fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba. And earthquakes, tsunamis and floods that killed millions of the creatures he created.
Ten Logical Failures Of God As A Creator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQG4T2BQf4
And of course, that he sent his human representative to earth to show us the way is just ancient fiction. Myth. Humans can never resurrect. Humans can never fly like birds. Those only occur in fiction like Jesus and Superman.
Why the Resurrection Story Makes No Logical Sense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO5BdQn1FvU
Religions just created stories about their heroes. Nothing was written about these heroes by eyewitnesses. All stories were written after they were dead. Lies and fiction invented to glorify their hero. In the Christian's case, Jesus.
The "Eyewitness" Lie About the Gospels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR8-0CbLoHc
Repent and ask forgiveness
Oh, no! Please! No! Not Hell!
Not the Lake of Eternal Fire!
Lord, I believe! I repent!
I'm saved now, praise Jesus!
I'm saved!
Thank you, God, thank you!
As strange as this sounds, DM, this is probably the first anti-god comment you have posted that I can finally appreciate and understand.
I believe changing the minds of many evildoers is not God’s will. He has hardened many hearts just as He did Pharaoh’s, to destroy them.
God’s will be done! If America must be broken in pieces, so be it.
Paul won't be happy until Murica is a theocracy.
With HIS 'God' being the big Boss!
As I drop into my comments sometimes, if you want to see America's future, read Revelation 17 & 18. If you think we're bad now, just wait, it'll get worse -- until we're gone in a white flash and a shockwave, followed by a shitload of mushroom clouds from coast to coast. Then everyone in America, from Thune to that putz Schumer to Carter to Lugh, will get to be judged by God.
I've read Revelation many times. I have come to the conclusion that John was smoking and hopped up on Patmosian Peyote when he wrote it. Nobody in their right mind can understand what all that stuff means. Or, it can be interpreted in so many ways by so many different points of view.
The Book of Revelation: Prophecy or Nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm773msViLE&t=12s
The book of revelation is absolute nonsense.
And the idiots who so often quote from it are idiots devoid of critical thinking.
The most ridiculous thing about revelation is that in all of human history only ONE person had this vision.
ONE! Let that sink in! LOL
If everyone who believes in the Rapture was actually raptured, the world would be a better place!
If only religious people were as good at listening as they are at talking.
Tell them about the Noahide Laws and what they mean for Christians. Or have you already rejected the Trinity?
Five Major Problems with the Trinity
https://restitutio.org/2019/01/19/five-major-problems-with-the-trinity/
Where Is the Trinity Taught in Scripture?
"Let’s assume God really is a Trinity and that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit really did reveal themselves as a Trinity in the New Testament. Where is it explained? Why is the doctrine so dependent on personal interpretation?
The Case:
What is the Trinity?
1. One God in three persons
2. Co-eternal
3. Co-essential
4. Co-equal
5. Eternal generation
6. Dual natures of Christ in one person
7. In their union each nature preserves its distinction in nature
8. Two wills in Christ, both divine and human that never conflict
The Trinity is never explained in Scripture ~ quote the chapter or verse that explains this?
The Bible can be used to support the Trinity, just like it can be used to support brutal slavery or antisemitisms or any number of bad ideas
If we place the Trinitarian grid on top of Scripture, it will line things up in a sort of way but without this a priori framework one does not read the Trinity out from Scripture (exegesis vs. eisegesis). Give a non-Christian a Bible to read and they will not come up with the Trinity
The Rebuttal:
The Trinity is not taught in one place but throughout Scripture. The post-biblical Christians developed the doctrine to correctly explain all the biblical data
Response:
The Trinity is nowhere taught in Scripture, it is only superimposed upon Scripture from later Christian thinkers who were highly influenced by Greek philosophy"
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“If one must have faith in order to believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished. The harder work of inquiry, proof, and demonstration is infinitely more rewarding and has confronted us with findings far more "miraculous" and "transcendent" than any theology.”- Christopher Hitchens.
I do not seek to understand that I might believe. I believe that I might understand.
St Anselm
One can believe in God without the Trinity - just as the Jews and Muslims do. Why not convert to Islam? Or Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta? The latter find little of the world, just like modern physics. The more you really look, the less you see.
🙏 Amen and amen. 🙏
Thank you George for reminding people who is in control. It’s all being allowed according to His plans. Have mercy on us indeed.
Some of the reply’s read like I am over the target. If you have doubts about God or what God says please find a Bible and start reading. God Bless.
An atheist reads many books and knows he must learn more.
While a Christian partly reads one very old book written by unknown authors and has been edited hundreds of times, and there are many versions of, and thinks he knows everything!
"Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies."- Thomas Paine
Why is it so hard for people to understand that "My book is true because my book says it is true" is not a valid form of reasoning?
“The road to atheism is littered with Bibles that have been read cover to cover." -Andrew L. Seidel
Trust and obey God ~ The wish to be a slave ~ a celestial North Korea!
The stories in these old books made the Church rich.
While the truth lay outside of all of them.
To be fooled is not an insult, to stay in the foolery is an insult to oneself.
Atheists believes there is no god. Atheists have faith there is no god.
Christianity is considered a belief. Faith that Jesus God the Son became human and died for us. Believe that Christ died for your sins is all you need for eternal life. Who does not want to live forever?
Believe what you want. But you will serve someone. Do you love money, or power or sex or drugs or being right?
Who would want to follow a god that makes you do things. Christians are not God’s slaves.
Think what you want.
Read what you want.
You are correct most people don’t read the Bible. The ones that do are blessed. Read Psalm 1 if you dare.
Peace
"Atheists believes there is no god. Atheists have faith there is no god."
WRONG
The only thing atheist's claim is that there is insufficient evidence to prove any 'God' exist.
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Christianity is considered a belief.
NOBODY believes in a God until his/her PARENTS have TALKED them into being believers.
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"Faith that Jesus God the Son became human and died for us."
Faith is the art of lying to yourself.
Critical thinking is the art of questioning yourself.
“The reason we call it faith is because it’s not knowledge” – Christopher Hitchens.
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Atheist: Why did God need to violently sacrifice his son so he could forgive us?
Theist: You just don’t understand God.
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Always listen to those who say they are searching for truth, never those who say they have found it. If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people left.
Anonymous undated ancient writings.
Sounds like a solid foundation for basing your life on!
Here's evidence from my book of claims......... Gosh why is that always their Go-To answer?
"Do your own research! Read the Bible" ~ the battle cry of the ignorant, the official and automatic reply whenever caught out on their religious. It's maddening that they think reading scripture is research ~ you're just conditioning yourself more with falsehoods.
“After all, Lazarus was raised—never said a word about it, the daughter of Jairus was raised ~ didn’t say a thing about what she had been through, and the gospels tell us that at the time of the crucifixion, all the graves in Jerusalem opened, and their occupants wondered around the streets to greet. So, it seems the resurrection was something of a banality at the time.” - Christopher Hitchens
Okay, so give a list of books that set the course for moral human behavior better than the Bible and Jesus’s teaching.
Good social behaviour is necessary to advance a species.
“Morality” is behaviour that keeps you safe. Killing, raping, and stealing, are not conducive to remaining safe from reprisal.
Man behaves morally to minimize threat to their own safety.
Long before the Bible and Jesus’s teachings, man learned through evolution that survival requires lowering risk to ourselves and our children.
Good morality is how we reduce risk.
Morality does not come from the Bible. Man understood moral human behavior and morality long before the Bible was written.
Then how do you explain the rotten shape that pre-Abraham cities were in, sodomy amongst many sins prevalent. Sodom and Gomorrah have been found under the Dead Sea in Israel, God’s judgement over the people of the time.
You are a humanist, giving credit to humanity that it does not deserve. Men have always clobbered each other with slavery, wars, sexual deviance, power, ethnocentrism, thievery, and many other sins. Even Israel split apart due to the evil of both sides.
Mankind is evil, and we are entering just another time of the expansion of that evil. Man does not need evil to survive, as he does not need morality to survive. Even Charles Darwin would blush at that idea.
Tyrannosaurus Rex did not need morality to survive in his world, just big teeth. Man did not need morality as an adaptation piece, just an occasional visit by the celestial law giver.
People all over the world believe in Khrishna, Allah, Yahweh, Zeus, Odin, Ra, Shiva, Anu, Amaterasu, Hades, Quetzalcoatl, and Tezcatlipoca. But lucky you, you were born under the one true God. LOL
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Theists don’t deal with reality over emotion. They argue to satisfy their fears. Arguing with a theist is letting them know they will die. They treat it like a death threat. They’re fear driven, not fact.
Religion peddles an imaginary saviour ~ only to protect us from imaginary demons.
You know it's a loving religion when it's laced with threats. If your beliefs can't be questioned, why have them?"
A Theist friend said that in order to reject the idea of a God, I have to study and learn as much as I can about that God. I asked him how much time he spent studying Zeus or Allah.
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"There must be a creator"
"Why"?
"Because I'm mentally immature and can't understand science so it's the only option"
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"Hell is an eternal separation from God." Sounds fantastic! Where do I sign up?
Atheists don’t know LITERALLY EVERYTHING, therefore God.
Trust and obey God - The wish to be a slave - a celestial North Korea!
Currently Senator Thune is President of the UniParty! That’s the problem he owes his Supporters their continued Grift and he knows they don’t care what the People want!
Thune will do nothing and retire comfortably on our dime. Whether he's known forever as the villain who continued the downward spiral of the United States or not won't bother him or his family in the slightest. He'll be only a footnote amongst those that not only allowed this to happen, but orchestrated it.
Who needs a beer?
Sociopaths possess neither the skill of introspection nor the capacity for empathy, so they really don't care unless there are harsh consequences for their criminality. They're pathological liars and that is why so many are found in positions of power (especially the unelected beaurocrats who never seem to be held accountable for their actions).
As a bureaucrat, I can assure you that not all government employees are criminal, evil assholes. The problem (if it IS a problem) is that we're bound by state and federal laws, so we may have to decide not to pay you for something while some dirtballs gets money or we'll break the law. I cannot legally go into any details, and I'll be damned (figuratively or literally) if I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison over something I post online.
I'm not referring to $$ - I'm speaking for all of us who have lost loved ones due solely to the gross negligence on the part of governmental 'officials.' - I realize that I will have to live with the fact that I personally will not obtain justice and that the guilty, criminal perpetrators continue to walk freely about, collect their pensions, and live out their lives while mine has been destroyed. I really thought after seeing the palpable sociopathy on display by Fauci that finally at least some people would start obtaining justice, because there's a long line of us who never will. If this government will do the work it's supposed to do and start handing out severe penalties for the most heinous of the crimes, it will be a wake up call and others will fall into line...
I'm sorry for your loss. Sounds like your loved one was killed by a cop or was forced to take the clot shot, and you were unable to get anywhere because a DA or AG won't act. Again, I'm sorry for your anguish.
Thank you for your kind thoughts. I need to be more careful about lumping everyone who works for the gov't into one group, and I can tell that you are someone who takes his job seriously and cares about the ramifications of your actions. - If only everyone did... even in the small rural area where I live there is an underlying network of people who have some kind of group-think agreement where they operate outside of the law (small time stuff, not like the Clinton Foundation) and get away with it because there's nothing you can do if you're someone who doesn't have a lot of money or a certain status within the community.
That's why we should all hire serial killers....
And security teams.
Yep. Who remembers Harry Reid or Tom Daschle? Remember Orrin Hatch? These filthy fuckers live out the remainder of their lives in peace because Americans can't remember them.
At least Reid went to whatever Hell the LDS preaches.
Mr. Dweebie----ok if I imbibe a shot of something a little stronger? Kind of early but I cam make an exception.
Chin Chin!
Honor? Did you say honor? ROTFLMAO!
Honor? We don't need no stinkin' honor!
What is ROTFLMAO.
Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off.
Thank you! Now I get it.
The self serving fools who populate the GOPe or Bush faction of the party believe they can get rid of Trump and his supporters who are the majority of GOP voters and return us to that halcyon time when the President and his cronies secretly screw us in the shadows while acting with "decorum." A return to those glorious days of go along to get along, a guaranteed cut of all grift, and being the cuckolds known as the "controlled opposition."
Why don't they arrest any of the criminals from the past 10 years or so? Wouldn't that be a start to solving the problem?
I mean, if not now, then when?
Just haul his sorry ass off to Guantanamo in the middle of the night along w Mitch and some of their pals.
I think too many people have too much dirt on too many people.
When the streets turn red I'm afraid
Even then, do the malleable masses figure out that their enemy is largely not one another, but those manipulating them to think exactly that?
Even on CFN, which is not mainstream, we have a whole gaggle of Binary Bobs who can't think their way out of a paper bag.
Binary Bob definition?
Someone who disagrees with Night Owl.
The egos on some of the CFNers are just wel, enormous. The real deal is that they know nothing more than Joe Average CFNer.
Isn't it time for your booster?
The Republican Party was birthed in iniquity and hasn't changed much since.
So were the Democrats, created by Andy Jackson to protect slavery. Not sure which is worse,protect slavery like a ca. 1830 Democrat or just wanting to feed Massachusetts mills with Alabama cotton regardless whether slavery exists, even if it takes a war to make sure said cotton continues going to said mills.
Yes, I read an interesting article about how the north benefited from southern slavery, and that it was really the South's decision to sell its cotton elsewhere that sparked the war.
America uses various means, such as recommended best practices in national codes, to standardize commercial law, engineering standards (ASTM), building and fire codes across the USA. Why not use the same process to establish national standards for elections? Think of an ASTM standard for election integrity.
That’s precisely what the Save Act is.
Ray where do you get off proposing some of that, “Common Sense” stuff when Politicians are involved!
Ha, truer words.
Such standards are voluntarily adopted to some extent. Like the USC.
I would be interested in seeing how much money Thune received from AIPAC. Any way, we have more important things on our plate right now than voter reform, like bombing Iran.
There is no more important issue than voter verification, IMHO. That is exactly what always stops the reform process, coming up with stuff to jam the gears. Until the true nature of the voting citizens is obtained, corrupt politicians will run the Deep State down our throats.
Unless and until the SAVE Act is passed and instituted, I will not vote. I live in Minnesota. I'm 75 and I have voted in every national election since 1972. But this is my promise.
Wow, so you are going to protest by removing your only way of protesting, your vote. Minnesota needs all the conservative voters it can muster. Your state is falling off a Blue cliff.
Everything time I contact a politician, I make that promise. If only more voters did, they might get a bit concerned.
Right! Could it be that social media has replaced voter input?
Not voting may make you feel better, but is it really the right thing to do?
The counter of the votes is just as important. The ID laws will change nothing, other than subject the citizenry to ever increasingly intrusive requirements to participate in civic life.
Part of the SAVE act will control the methodology of counting the vote, counting machines and computers included.
I agree though, until it is a paper vote, corruption is possible.
Yes, and think a bit further. Do you really believe this is going to solve anything? Who watches the watchers?
The system is not only broken, but evidence of its brokenness is used by both sides to convince you that the fix is to be had by your compliance with the destruction of your rights.
Destruction of my rights, by making only citizens to vote, and stopping the invasion of the voting booth by machine, both high tech and political. How is that an invasion of my rights?
It's not NO has gone full Socialist on us and lost his mind.
He makes allegations and runs on without answering simple questions while accusing others of not answering his questions.
Those two brain cells are fighting over which one dies next.
That is the fear. "Get quaxxinated and prove your status with this handy quaxxine passport."
If it requires a biometric scan will you do it?
As I said earlier, passage of SAVE is imperative as a guide post. A whole new problem shows up, how do you enforce it?
I see it more as window dressing. That is the difference between us: you think SAVE signifies something. I think it is there to pacify you into thinking something is being done.
Of course something is being done, though: you are being asked to verify your identity even further--which also happens to be part of the global agenda.
My God. We have to start somewhere.
When I took the LSAT, my thumbprint was affixed to the test sheet. I would gladly do the same to vote. Hell, they can make the thumbprint in my blood if that would help.
"Senator John Thune of South Dakota has emerged as a vocal supporter of Israel’s military operations, heavily influenced by the $461,724 he has received from AIPAC to fund his political campaigns. This financial backing has secured Thune's unwavering loyalty to pro-Israel, anti-Palestine legislation, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Thune's votes to send Israel $41 billion in military aid and his support for cutting U.S. funding to UNRWA—an organization providing humanitarian relief to Palestinians—underscore his complicity in the war crimes committed against Palestinian civilians." https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/john_thune?utm_source=perplexity
OpenSecrets tracks $461,724 in career pro-Israel contributions to Thune from 1990-2024, placing him among top recipients.....
Not another Palestinian protester. If there is a single and only single issue Thune is right on it is pro Israel: cold blooded murdering babies and children and families Oct 7 clearly demonstrates who the aggressors are.
That is actually a matter of public record.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/john-thune/summary?cid=N00004572
The man has held office for 24 years.
The longer they hold office, the more corrupt they get.
Looking at his net worth, he is nowhere near as corrupt as Omar, who is worth like 30 million now.
It’s obvious that the SAVE Act is being turfed by Israeli money corrupting American politicians. Obvious to all the God-hating Satan-worshipping jihadist supporters.
You know that all 'Gods' and Satan are fiction, eh Paul?
Imaginary. Myths. Man made.
“Did Jesus resurrect?” “Yep!” “Is he still alive?” “Yep!” “Cool, then can I see him?” “We’ll, it’s complicated…”
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Huang Po
Jesus is like Nylon, man made
Christianity: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God.
You have a right to your opinions. We have a right to ours. Belief/Non belief are two non-overlapping magisteria. I'd rather naked wrestle a flea-bitten meth zombie on Skid Row than argue that with you, pal.
"Belief/Non belief are two non-overlapping magisteria" -GOBBLEDYGOOK
Faith is the art of lying to yourself
Critical thinking is the art of questioning yourself.
“The reason we call it faith is because it’s not knowledge” – Christopher Hitchens.
When inventing a 'God', the most important thing is to claim it is invisible, inaudible, and imperceptible in every way. Otherwise, people will become sceptical when it appears to no one, is silent and does nothing.
Stop the bullshit, Tenquid! Just present the evidence for the existence of your 'God'. 'God' only exists in the minds of people who need him to give answers to questions they want to hear.
God picked this version of the universe, and he will burn you forever because he loves you so much, after creating you to not believe... Yea makes sense...
If God knew his creations would end up being tortured, why did he create us?
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The reason John Thune, not someone of great integrity and intellect, is Majority Leader is because he is Cocaine Mitch McConnell's protege. Also, the GOP Establishment doesn't give a shit about the Constitution or the general public any more than the Satanic Democrats do. Trump wants to do great things that, if successful, would upset the apple cart for almost everyone in Washington, even the country; therefore, it's understandable that everybody and his brother is doing everything he can to stop Trump, even if it destroys what's left of the country.
The beginning focus of this term was DOGE and ending theft and misappropriation. I believe we are seeing that there was a whole lot more stealing going on than even a cynic such as myself imagined. I consider opposition to be an admission they are benefitting from or participating into this theft.
Agreed. But what are we gonna do about it? We can't very well vote them out because at least half of the country WANTS the corruption. Assassinations are out because that's what the bad guys do. I don't know that a revolution is feasible because, again, so many people like what we have, plus even the military who might side with us would fight to protect the existing order against "subversives," even though the actual subversives are essentially running everything.
If Thune does not act….
“…Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”
That is the purpose of elections. That is why it is so important that elections are legitimate.
Yet we get people like Nancy Pelosi for forty years.
A measure of how distorted our process is. Fix the process. We still have millions of ignorant people voting through their ass.
How do we bring more pressure to bear on Mr. Thune?? Calling him out in front of the whole country as Mr. Trump did during the State of the Union speech was not enough?
Call him at 202-224-3121. ☎️
Call every day. Let the numbers rack up to a record if possible.
When has the congress not ultimately wrecked the country? The 1986 vaccine laws, the 2005 prep act, now the putrid Save Act to usher in digital IDs for everything. When has the government catered to the citizenry? Before the Civil War, perhaps and not since.
Your last statement is wrong. The pre-Civil war years were marked by continuous compromise, trying to keep a balance in the Congress between slave and free states. The ability to compromise stopped when more free states were to be admitted, and when Lincoln was elected, that was it. The torch was lit.
I will answer your question. The only time that the government does anything is when it is forced to by disasters That affect their re-electability. That is it. When they cannot manipulate things to hide problems instead of dealing with them.
And the response from Dennis is hilarious.
He wines about snarky nasty comments.
What an absolute putz.
Instead of whining and moaning in every comment thread, my friend.....
Watcha going to do about it?
Another glass house comment.
A long list of them actually.
Don't forget the Patriot Act (name being an inversion, as so often).
Remember Dulles, Hoover et al? 1950s editions of the Patriots in DC with Bush. Always take advantage of an emergency. The former killed JFK when he had the temerity to say no to them.
When I finally read C. Wright Mills’ 1956 book, The Power Elite about twenty years ago, I was surprised at how well it had stood the passage of time. Rather than just a document of an earlier era, it continues to be a valuable lens for seeing the way the world works.
A detail of the book that I found startling at first was Wright’s placement of United States Senators as only middle managers in our nation’s power structure. When W retired from the Oval Office he was asked what most surprised him when he first became President. He replied, without hesitation, that he was surprised at how little power he had. More than a few of our better-informed fellow citizens regard the Federal Reserve Banks as the apex of evil, while most have never even heard of the central bank of central banks: the BIS.
It would almost be comforting to believe that the world is the way it is because human beings are deeply flawed, and our monkey brains are so limited - which is true enough. But the real reason we must continue to be oppressed by so much that is patently stupid, and perverse, and counterproductive is because that all benefits those who actually run things, and the real puppet masters are scarcely visible to us at all.
Wouldn’t the world produce vastly more wealth for the benefit of billions of people if visible solutions were implemented? Well, sure. But then it would no longer serve as a gigantic engine to transfer wealth upward, from those who labor and create and produce to those who rake it all in.
As ever, the key to understanding is simple: Cui Bono.