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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So with Amy Coney Barrett the likely nominee how should Democrats tackle the hearings?
Obviously there's little to no point in trying to convince Republicans not to confirm her. There's even an argument that they shouldn't show up so as to make clear that this whole thing is not legitimate.
All that aside however, if we assume an otherwise normal nomination process, what questions should the Democrats ask?
Because I would want to ask her "Is the Pope a Catholic?"
It's a serious question, because Francis is seen (actual results may vary) as a liberalising force within the Church. Laudato si' practically calls for the Green New Deal. Steve Bannon has been rabble rousing in Italy trying to push the "Benedict is my Pope" movement. It would be really interesting to see where she stands on that question.
"I'm sure plenty of people from all over the world get a smug sort of satisfaction in seeing Trump rape the country."
Well I cant speak from everyone but I do get a sort of satisfaction manly because some people kinda treat donald winning as THE breaking point of american politic were everything just sort of stop funtion, as is everything was all right an preachy before and now is going to shit because "how could america actually chose a populist like that?", which it have a hint of excepcionalism I always dislike, with a healthy does of "this thing never happen here".
And considering how Biden have actually good change to wining, calling "rape the country" is....well....
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Given Benedict resigned/retired for a variety of reasons, I think Steve Bannon would be surprised by his reaction. The entire world does not revolve around people trying to cling to power by every means possible.
Trying to incite revolt in the Catholic Church seems like a good time to break out the rarely used tool of papal excommunication.
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Is there any other Popes? I thought the Pontifex of Rome was a uniquely Catholic thing.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 25th 2020 at 10:37:11 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I'm not even sure if Pope is actually an official title for... uh, the pope. But there's the Pope of Alexandria for one and I think the various eastern denominations broke up quite a bit and they each have their own pope. The Orthodox church doesn't, though, since that schism was later. And religious history is not my forte.
Ah, I checked, and it's a similar position in both—Alexandria and Africa—the Coptic Church and the Greek Orthodox church, but the latter obviously isn't the religious head.
Edited by RainehDaze on Sep 25th 2020 at 6:50:45 PM
Thinking about the Supreme Court again, is it just me or is "court packing" not that great a term for expanding the court/adding justices, especially from a 'we have to sell this to people' perspective?
Also the Trump admin. wants to allow logging/development in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. NPR
The Trump administration has cleared the way to open the country's largest national forest to more development and logging.
The forest is currently protected by the Roadless Rule, a 2001 policy passed in the waning days of the Clinton administration, which has long prohibited development on 9.37 million acres of roadless areas, comprising about 55% of the Tongass.
In the final EIS, the U.S. Forest Service recommends removing nearly the entire Tongass from roadless designation.
The forest plays a major role in the battle against climate change: The Tongass is an enormous natural carbon sink, holding an estimated 8% of all carbon stored in U.S. national forests.
Edited by nova92 on Sep 25th 2020 at 11:54:40 AM
Maher calls himself a lot of things. For example he identifies as a libertarian despite not having a whole lot of views other than being antivax.
But even besides the fact that I already tend to find political labels limiting without a great deal of qualification, I can't really pigeonhole him into any particular ideological camp other than "stopped clock" and "at least he's less of an enemy than the strictly rightwing ideologues".

My usual respons to nonsense like that is "So, you are what in political science terms is known as a dumbass."