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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
No can do Donnie,unless you want to eliminate the Fourteenth Amendment,to wit "The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
Of course one concern I've read about is that he's filling the Supreme court with partisans so he could have a decent chance
Edited by Ultimatum on Oct 30th 2018 at 4:35:26 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI’m from Indiana and I strongly disagree. I am positive every nasty anti-LGBTQ thing the Trump admin has done came from Pence. He actually truly, devoutly BELIEVES all the white Christian supremacist dogma that Trump yammers on about. He will lie to your face with a gentle smile, while Trump says the quiet parts loud. He is an abominable, vicious, dangerous man.
"For what it's worth I'd argue that Trump's incompetence is actually a bug rather than a feature. His incompetence doesn't make him less destructive-it makes him even more destructive than he wants to be. It also means that it's very difficult for anything good to come of his presidency, since even if he did make a token good action, he'd screw it up."
See, I disagree with this part. His incompetence, bug or feature, is still our salvation. Can you imagine if the Trump administration was actually competent, how much damage that would do to us as a country morally and politically, except without the obviousness that helps even the ignorant comprehend the situation we're in? Every malevolent, petty, cruel policy would be entrenched because they're delivered by a softer glove. The creative destruction of his presidency makes the opposition, and thus the only chance America has of opposing his neo-fascist ideology, that much more potent.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Oct 30th 2018 at 8:13:47 AM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."![]()
You can’t have one without the other, the incompetence and the malice are linked, Trump is liked by the people who like him because he’s a genuine ignorant idiot like them, he’s gotten as far as he has because he’s an idiot and that’s allowed the people around him to downplay his malice.
To pursue the policies Trump has pursued you have to be an idiot, because they’re that god dam stupid, you can’t have one without the other.
It’s like when we get the occasional question of “what if that terrorist hadn’t been an idiot”, the answer is that they wouldn’t have been a terrorist, because terrorism is stupid.
A competent Trump wouldn’t be Trump, because competent people don’t belive in the things Trump believes in.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranExcept he’s not competent, the man is so bad at politics that he almost got run out of Indiana and could only get elected office at a federal level by hiding at the bottom of a ticket taken up by Trump.
Pence couldn’t have won in 2016 by himself, he needed Trump to get the pair fo them elected and as such Pence has to manage the loadstone of Trump while he tried to get things done.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranPence is not a political genius or especially charismatic. But that doesn’t make him incompetent, and acting as if he is ignores how dangerous he is.
In 2 years, he’s erased a ton of progress on LGBT issues and gotten 2 Christian believers on SCOTUS, ready to further erode LGBT and repro rights. He’s quietly steered Trump while avoiding the same level of scrutiny and outrage.
Firstly, Yazidis (the Religion you're talking about) don't revere Iblis; they're Monotheists that worship the 1 God, and revere his 7 Archangels, especially the head Archangel, the Peacock Melek Taus. Like Iblis, Melek Taus was an Angel that wouldn't bow before Humans on God's Orders, but unlike Iblis (who was then kicked out of Heaven and has been Satan every since), Taus redeemed himself and helped shape the Earth. The belief that Yazidis are devil worshippers come from extremist Muslims, and isn't what the Yazidis actually worship.
Secondly, Yazidis do not consider themselves Muslims
. They claim their Religion is completely independent from the Abrahamic Faiths, and thus calling a Yazidi a Muslim might be offensive. A better example of "Muslims not being accepted as Muslims" would be the Amahdi Muslim Faith (which, coincidentally, is also because they believe a Redeemer has come when most do not).
On the topic at hand, if a Jewish Person follows most of the core tenants of Judaism, but also accepts Jesus as the Messiah, I would say they are Jewish, especially if they claim themselves to be Jewish.
Collins continues to be the feckless piece of shit, complaining about the synagogue attack caused by both sides implicitly equating "harassing lawmakers when they're in public" and "attempting to murder random people because they're different from you.
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Mc Connell does the same, of course. But that's on-brand for him, no one pretends he might sometimes be decent.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Sessions explicitly going #AllReligiousLivesMatter
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Edited by Larkmarn on Oct 30th 2018 at 9:33:06 AM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.It is indeed important to keep in mind that intelligent (and even rational) can believe in wide variety of political views, including very bad ones.
@Ultimatum: To be fair, I actually would call that a good point. Trump is smarter than he appears IMO (in fact, "lack of self control" is a more accurate description of him than "unintelligent"), and one of his strengths is that he is easily underestimated.
Overall though I'd actually say that a lot of his success goes down to a sort of Confusion Fu of sorts. It's not necessarily that Trump is competent, but rather he's so incompetent that it makes him into something of a wild card. Politicians are used to dealing with people more competent than him.
Leviticus 19:34
Now I'm imagining Sessions reacting the way Pazuzu reacted to the exorcism in The Exorcist.
Edited by M84 on Oct 30th 2018 at 10:36:23 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised

For what it's worth I'd argue that Trump's incompetence is actually a bug rather than a feature. His incompetence doesn't make him less destructive-it makes him even more destructive than he wants to be. It also means that it's very difficult for anything good to come of his presidency, since even if he did make a token good action, he'd screw it up.
A good metaphor would be this: Let's say somebody kidnaps you and pulls you into a helicopter to be taken to where you'll be held for ransom. You do not necessarily want that person to crash the helicopter.
Leviticus 19:34