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  1. It's certainly comforting seeing a win without relying on FL or GA.
  2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/07/archbishop-trump-hate-racism-el-paso-twitter/?utm_source=reddit.com San Antonio Catholic Archbishop becomes vocal too. 286 people are talking about this 239 people are talking about this 330 people are talking about this As the eldest of 15 children, Garcia-Siller said he grew up in a lower middle-class family in the central Mexican city of San Luis Potosí, where he attended 6 a.m. Mass every day, according to the Vision Vocation Network. Serving as an ordained priest for almost 15 years in California and Oregon, he became a U.S. citizen in 1998 shortly before his 42nd birthday. After Pope John Paul II appointed him as auxiliary bishop of Chicago, Pope Benedict XVI named Garcia-Siller archbishop of San Antonio in 2010. Garcia-Siller isn’t the only religious leader to speak out against Trump in recent days, with liberal church officials denouncing Trump for his recent broadsides against Democratic minority lawmakers. Pope Francis has been open about his disdain for Trump’s immigration policies, namely his wall at the southern border, saying that a fear of migrants “makes us crazy.” In July, 11 leaders of Catholic and Protestant groups in Maryland, including two Baltimore bishops, issued a public letter imploring Trump to “stop putting people down,” according to the Associated Press. Earlier this month, Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, the only black archbishop in the U.S., accused the president of “diminishing our national life.” Last week, Washington National Cathedral, the seat of the Episcopal Church, condemned Trump’s racist rhetoric in a statement entitled, “Have We No Decency? A response to President Trump.” “We feel compelled to ask: After two years of President Trump’s words and actions, when will Americans have enough?” the Cathedral’s leaders wrote. [Washington’s new Catholic archbishop slams Trump for ‘diminishing our national life’] But prominent figures on the religious right have either remained silent on the issue or maintained that Trump’s rhetoric reflects politics rather than racism. “He does not judge people by the color of their skin,” the Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the Southern Baptist megachurch First Baptist Dallas, told the AP. “He judges people on whether they support him. If you embrace him, he’ll embrace you. If you attack him, he’ll attack you. That’s the definition of colorblind.” Ahead of Trump’s Wednesday visit to El Paso, Garcia-Siller had the border city on his mind. Months earlier, the archbishop preached empathy during a February visit to El Paso, coming to see for himself what Trump had described as a “humanitarian crisis.” Instead, he said he found that claims of a “national emergency” were “a lie,” according to Catholic News Agency, and that the real crisis was in supporting the migrants and “how we are going to take care of those who are discriminated against, and those who are disadvantaged.” He echoed that sentiment on Tuesday. “There is growing fear and harassment, and at times American public discourse uses rhetoric that instigates fear against foreigners, immigrants and refugees,” he said. “We must pray fervently for peace amidst all of the violence, which seems to be overwhelming our society. We must be lights in the darkness.”
  3. he's going to have to do this again in El Paso, and this time the guy in hospital gowns will be brown. it's going to be a little awkward.
  4. just went through their wikipedia page showing all the districts. man, who knew california was so big. they have a ton of districts the size of a pin prick.
  5. i can't tell if this is a bit or not. and i'm concerned it is not.
  6. if someone can get data to show that Kill Bill was male-centric, then their data is garbage.
  7. El Paso reaction does seem like it is different from the other mass shootings. Probably because the dude's manifesto being basically a copy-and-paste of Trump's speeches. I think the reaction will be more permanent. That's why there are reports of the admin meeting with the NRA. They're trying to pre-clear some action with them.
  8. no one is saying the information is confidential. pointing fingers at people so your followers will know who they are supposed to shun is the issue.
  9. I've mulled over this tweet ever since it was posted. When did Cornyn become such a piece of shit?
  10. also, lulz at that list of last names -- very San Antonio-y.
  11. Pretty inauspicious start, Bonnen. I'd already decided he was one of the good guys. May still be one, but also seems to be a fuckup.
  12. Relevant parts of the email: /applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />
  13. should be a 1 on the left column. sic semper tyrannis, you know.
  14. the range is basically noise if you just look at the last year. everyone's opinion became baked in with him 18 months into his presidency. i don't expect it to change from here on out.
  15. facemask, since you seem to be new to the U.S., I've included some helpful links that explain Brisket's post. That way, next time someone says something like the below, you'll have enough information to respond intelligently. Learning is Fun!
  16. it seems sort of light. i'm just not upset about it either way. but it is a 20 year sentence of a dude almost at retirement age. those aren't nothing. but again, there are differences. 'this guy was a moron' was actually part of their defense, 'he didn't have the ability to hurt anyone.' that morphed into 'he actually knew how to build real bombs, but the fact that he didn't shows an intentional decision to not.' presumably, the ISIS guy wouldn't have those factors. sentencing is hard.
  17. no, but i do think those things are different. a citizen is subject to criminal laws. a military combatant is subject to laws of juris in bello. you could unleash the 7th fleet on one and not the other.
  18. Mitigation by Nuremberg defense actually worked here. “I was just following orders [from the President]”
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