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Gatorubet

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  1. Leave Vic alone…
  2. and how did the original poster claim to get what I assume is still confidential flight recorder data?
  3. I’m a bit conflicted by this. I’m hoping that smearing a really good étouffée over my door jam will cause God to skip my house.
  4. Gotcha. Agree. I also liked you pointing out the no God before me concept. Before my paternal grandfather was kicked out of the Mormon church for his alcoholism, that side of the family were all latter-day Saints. The interesting thing about them is they are actually a polytheist theology. And I believe Joseph Smith referred to that particular sentence to validate the fact that there was a cosmic father and mother producing spirit babies, and the teaching that with enough time and adherence to theology that a human man can eventually become a God worshiped by people on other planets. I have to say, that is a hell of a lot better than hanging around on a cloud twanging on a harp.
  5. Sure. But you may have noticed that the easier thing is to ignore facts that oppose your worldview and accept facts that confirm it. I had a work colleague who was very Catholic and would use his lunch hours to go pray for his various deceased relatives. I kept asking him how he could support the GOP doing all these bad things, and he literally looked me in the eye and said I have to support family values. He was not being snarky. He had simply fully adopted the bullshit party line from the 90s and felt comfortable ignoring any negative - as he viewed himself as a family values supporter - which allowed him to disregard any critical thinking about the policies the family values party was actually adopting. He would probably be OK with concentration camps as long as there was no abortion going on at them.
  6. Mary is flat bringing the truth here. Not all, to be sure. There are people too ignorant and gullible to get out of the bubble of self-selected facts. I know several non-horrible (not racist or nativist) Republicans who have empathy for other people and are not hate fountains. They live in all-MAGA families (and neighborhoods), and are people who place more value in not destroying relationship with those family/neighbors/church members than they do voting against Republicans and losing the societal acceptance that they feel they cannot live without. We are a tribal species, and we sometimes forget how important that is to humans. this does not excuse them or forgive them, rather, it explains the incongruous behavior. But for elected Republican leaders - almost every one of them have no character and are finally happy to be able to say out loud the personal beliefs that they hold.
  7. Not a criticism GOLL, but I disagree with the bolded statement. “Protestant” includes everything from the Anglican church to evangelical snake handlers and the abomination that is the politics-centric cowboy church. The term protestant is perhaps the least theologically exclusive term you could find…they cover the theological map from Catholic-light to bat shit crazy. And if you are approaching this from the Catholic perspective, that church has a list of rules and requirements for salvation that appear nowhere in the Bible - yet make up some of the core tenets of the mother church (the list of sins requiring confession to a priest, last rights, Papal infallibility, etc.)
  8. I have no problem with means testing. That also means that if that rich person loses everything - then they have access again to their Social Security retirement benefits. The program was supposed to keep people from starving and being homeless in their old age. It was not meant as extra income for wealthy people to pay their country club dues and make stock investments.
  9. No hookers. Would not attend.
  10. He meant, “to blave…”
  11. Does God have a sense of humor? I’m not sure if He or She has a sense of humor. Because it is looking far more likely that a giant hurricane is going to switch tracks right after sunset and level Mar-a-Lago.
  12. *steal factories
  13. “It is a strawman to say that I do not criticize the Trump administration”, he says as he once again refuses to criticize the Trump administration, but instead inserts criticism of Biden in his continued deflection.
  14. In your defense, they hadn’t invented artificial lighting yet.
  15. Ana is always a master class in complete deflection from the valid point being made. There is no force on earth that can get him to trash talk his orange hero’s administration.
  16. Putin‘s mouthpieces have been shit talking and making fun of Trump for a few weeks. We really need some journalist to ask Donald and the press conference what he thinks about what they’re saying about him quoting the worst things they say - where they call him a clown. Once you publicize that Putin is saying bad things about him, and enough people are aware of that, he will be almost forced to shit on his daddy.
  17. I have a Roth IRA that was sitting around with about $8000 in it forever collecting CD dribs and drabs! It is now all IBRX. i’m about to be a fivefiguresanaire!!!
  18. Except that when you’re dealing with the fundies, it’s not perceived but actual. But your point still stands.
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