And what has he said publicly?
These GQPers are all cowards.
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“What Rudy and Jenna are doing is a joke and they are getting
laughedthrown out of court…
We were laughing. The courts were not.
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That’s my approach.
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The more intelligent animals use tools, and that behavior has helped them survive. We have a tool called vaccine to help us survive the pandemic. And so in these formerly united states, Covid-19 and its more deadly variants has become a disease of choice. Stupid is as…
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Humans through their intelligence and opposable thumbs have short circuited the process of evolution. People that 100,000 years ago would have died due to their inability to implement proper measures of self preservation and diligence to their survival now remain alive. The species is degrading. Stupid people don’t have it nearly bad enough. It needs to get far worse, to the point their unwillingness to adapt and react properly kills them off. In this sense COVID is a blessing. From here on out just about every death due to the disease in this nation is a cleansing of the gene pool.
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When trump drops dead (please let it be a massive coronary event during one of his spittlestock events), at least some of his acolytes will crawl back into their holes and stfu. All of that will be welcome.
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Obama nailed this one. In times of change, people do cling to what they know, and the religion they learned as children is one of the big things they think they know. Religion and science have long been at odds, and people will endure suffering and death sooner than live in uncertainty and doubt. We know we’re seeing that when we look at wars of religion and death cults. But we fail to recognize it, many of us, when it’s at work all around us.
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Not really OT.
This is an important thing to watch in Texas…
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True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times - if only rarely - you cannot do without. - Italo Svevo, Zeno’s Conscience
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My PhD advisor (hard core biochem/endocrinology) was an evangelical guy. How he resolved the two things in his mind I never did understand.
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Millions do it. Not everyone believes in the literal truth of it all, or they just set the question aside and consider the everyday world and the life of the spirit to be two different realms.
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Can a person that believes the Earth is 6000 years old teach geology?
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Yes, but that course is really frikkin’ weird! You essentially have to take the teacher’s word on pretty much everything.
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So much for the conservative claim that they are “pro-life.”
Actually, it is not actual life they believe in, but only potential life, symbolic life. Life in the ideal, idyllic womb. Life before Original Sin.
Because if they were actually for life, they would support reform that brought health care to millions of Americans.
They would support contraceptives, prenatal care for poor mothers, and sex education for children— all of which would reduce the incidence of abortion, which they claim to oppose.
They would support stem cell research that has the potential to save countless lives, and vaccines that can reduce the number of preventable deaths.
They would support efforts at police reform to address the unjustified death of unarmed blacks and other minorities at the hands of law enforcement.
They would support funding for education and training that could enable people to lead better lives.
They would support taking in refugees seeking asylum from violent and war-torn regions.
They would support sensible regulations to stem the epidemic of gun violence.
They would support a historic nuclear agreement crafted by the world’s powers designed to prevent a nuclear arms race in an already volatile Middle East.
They would oppose a proposed ban that seeks to exclude an entire community of faith from our shores.
They would oppose a politics that seeks to build a wall and demonize immigrants seeking a better life.
They would oppose laws that sanction discrimination against racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.
And they would oppose an Orwellian “conscience clause” that uses the fiction of “religious freedom” to justify denying some people life saving health care and that encourages us to regard them as unworthy of equal protection under the law.
So, no, they do not “support life.”
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Seriously once I tried to get straight the difference between evangelicals and fundamentalists, Pentacostalists and born-agains, everyone, that is, more hepped on it than the Presbyterian normies I grew up with, and got nowhere. Threw up my hands, basically. Evidently it meant something in the beginning but now who even knows?
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There’s really only two rules you need to follow to lead a peaceful life.
Know the proper way to clean a bathroom.
AND LEAVE HER FRICKING LAUNDRY ALONE, SHE’LL TAKE CARE OF IT!!!
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The only problem with this is that the Repubs in the red states are doing their utmost to kill off as many POC as they can. They have already refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA. In the last year, they have deliberately impeded the ability of blue cities to protect their health workers, refused to provide sufficient vaccines for city dwellers (I think that’s been resolved) and refused to allow urban mayors to shut down businesses and require masking. Although these actions affect rural areas as well, the largest impact is on areas with larger concentrations of people and consequently POC and others likely to not only vote Dem but also people that really don’t agree with their tribalist let-them-eat-cake positions.
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There should a codicil to the Hippocratic Oath disallowing any doctor to treat someone who says stuff like that.
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Weisselberg is no longer listed as treasurer, director, vice president and secretary by the Trump Payroll Corp. on Florida Department of State business records, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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trump Payroll corp.
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He has no intention of being amongst the cull.
It’s the hoi polloi who get to make up the “certain amount of people” who get “wiped out.”
As usual, the privileged will use their means to move out of harms way. And he undoubtedly counts himself amongst the privileged.
So, as you point to, he’s really arguing that all of us in the target population should accept it as the natural course of affairs, not demand something be done about it and never mind the social division in who is and is not dying.
It’s what underlay the argument Scott Atlas was pushing.
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