Richard T said:

Proven? Not a fact either way. Seems likely to most he took the cash, but it was not a crime. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/tom-homan-50k-sting-operation-00611219
But since the Trump DOJ dropped the case, we may never know, though perhaps some documents will surface later. My apologies if I suggested it was a clear cut case. We have no access to the potential evidence, and Trump seems very soft on some white collar crime. I say that based on his known and factual pardons. it is interesting to note that Homan got a advisory role in the Trump Administration, one that avoided any Senate confirmation. A more prudent administration would be more independent on internal investigations. Instead both sides are far too political. The good news is that as the GOP prosecutes the likes of Bolton, the dems will have their turn at some point to ferret out potential corruption of those in the GOP.

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Yeah it was proven. Homan wasn't even in office when this was supposed to have taken place. Accepting
money was not against the law for him, if in fact it happened.


George Stephanopoulos has been caught lying twice so far, and it is well known that he worked in the
Clinton administration and is a staunch democrat and hater of the republicans, especially trump.

One thing stands out clear: This discussion is about declining religiousity and the response seems to be that it cannot possibly be the fault of organized religion, but must be due to some malevolent counter-force. If they can blame it on political opponents, as is happening here then they get a twofer.

Valletta said:

Try not to judge others.

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I don't judge others, but human behavior is a fact of life. Humans often attach themselves
to ego-identity. It's why we have divisions in the Church, in politics and society
itself. People want to belong to a tribe and will identify with that tribe.
Religion is no different.

Charlotte, North Carolina reels as 81 people arrested in immigration raids​

Charlotte is the state’s largest city, home to a steadily growing and diverse population. Over the weekend, videos circulated on social media that showed people being chased or simply picked up by federal agents outside of various local businesses.

For the first time in 28 years, the popular Manolo’s Bakery closed for the weekend.

In east Charlotte, a predominantly Latino neighborhood, Willy Aceituno captured a video of US border patrol agents smashing his car window on Saturday morning, while bystanders recorded footage of him being pulled out of his pickup truck, thrown to the ground and handcuffed while he shouted: “I am a citizen.” Aceituno, a Honduran-born US citizen, was later released.

Speaking on the phone from one of the laundromats he owns in east Charlotte on Saturday morning, David Rebolloso fought back tears.

“People are nervous just because of the tactics. Even me. I’m brown-skinned and I’m an American citizen and I’m a [military] vet. But here I’m thinking: should I be carrying my passport with me?”

“We do not need to have border patrol,” said state representative Aisha Dew at a press conference on Friday. “I’m not quite sure what border we’re patrolling here ... We don’t have borders here in North Carolina that need to be protected.”

Apple Sky said:

Most sat dishes are aligned south, ever wondered why this is ?

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This has already been explained. The satellites are positioned above the equator, so satellite dishes in the northern hemisphere must point south, towards the equator.

ThatRobGuy said:

Oh...wait?... is this one of those times where we're supposed pretend that Trump is uniquely bad in some regard?

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Yep. Because he is. No other president has used the office to enrich himself and his family to the degree that Donald Trump has.

I think we are more likely to create an Ai human before a genetically super human. In ronotics you have all the best human qualities and even superhuman ability because its machine.

The key is going to be making the machine as human like as possible. I think we will be more likely to be able to program humanness into Ai even mimicking consciousness. Even in texture. Its scary.

If people are fooled by Ai now in 2D imagine in 3D. Potentially an army of super human robots could be made that could wipe out any force. The bots would have the potential to be programmed with whatever the programmers imagine. Human looking Ai that are like supernatural beings that can walk and talk and respond like us.

But are not just super humans but a complete new species of super machines.

rambot said:

Nobody has a bias against blue collar workers. You would actually find that everyone you purport to be angry with for being a "socialist" would FAR father see your wages increase. We are angry you get paid so little when owners get so much more.

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Yeah, I love how the ones constantly decrying the abuse and scorn directed at "the working man" are also the ones who scoff at minimum wage hikes, union rights, workplace protections, expanded health insurance coverage, and mandatory sick time and parental leave. No socialism for them! It's gotta be pure every-man-is-an-island capitalism, forgetting that, in the free market, they're not the titans. They're just the fodder.

GoldenBoy89 said:

You’re fine with presidents using the office to secure private business deals for themselves?

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Trump and his family had an international billion dollar business LONG before he got into politics. Should that business stop growing when he became POTUS?

BCP1928 said:

If that were the case, wouldn't there be more support for it amongst believers?

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Believers are just as infected by the kind of historical biases as unbelievers, if not more so due to a sense of corporate culpability.

BCP1928 said:

As to recency bias, wouldn't that work in your favor? Christians haven't tended to burn and torture people for doctrinal errors in some time.

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Recency bias works in the favor of secular government because its the current model, any change would be disruption of the status quo and that's always resisted.

The Aldobrandini Villa.



Northern Lights.

Dan1988 said:

Question for Julie and Sarah, what happens when the blind lead the blind?. Bingo! they both fall into a ditch/pit. But in this case we're talking about the bottomless pit

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Oooooh, another eternal torment champion implicitly condemning us to hell simply because we don't share in his sick imaginations about what he personally thinks should happen to his enemies in the afterlife, sic burn! (No pun intended at that last part, Julie. XD )

I am shocked by this, I tell you!

johansen said:

i'm not sure its foolishness at all.

yes, there will be unforeseen consequences. being born on this earth is bad enough, but being born and finding out at say, 20-40 years of age that you're sterile because your parents did some genetic experimentation on you to make you smarter, well, you're going to have to go take anger management classes...

I'm actually surprised I didn't get totally banned for a mild but interesting argument with an old man on reddit who felt personally offended in a thread where I predicted that the ever increasing number of vaccines are going to cause significant unforeseen consequences on the order of 100 to 200 years from now.

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I agree and I think we can look at our track record on messing with nature and see how its come back to bite us many times. Over time it accumulates and has a negative affect.

So imagine trying to manipulate the genetic code. The problem is we are intelligent enought to discover benefits from repairing. But trying to actually create something new into nature is a lot different. There are so many related factors that may cause problems upstream.

Servus said:

That's what they said about his last term. Trump has always supposedly been on the brink of losing the presidency one way or another. Or quitting the presidency for one reason or another. In all likelihood he'll finish out his second term and then go back to what he was doing before he became president. But still be very outspoken and most anything he says or tweets will carry lots of impact and be publicized by the media.

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I do not go by others. Most of them including some Christians that basically prophesied the Biden would not finish his term were wrong. All I said is Trump would be fortunate to finish his term. That could be implied to any President or politician worldwide. Not many Trump's age can stand the rigors of such an office. I do think too the challenges of his Presidency might also be ultra frustrating if the House and/or Senate turns democratic. Public opinion is turning and the courts are not in bag for Trump always either. The Epstein files are on their way, the economy may teeter, so it would seem fortunate to me in all sorts of ways. I pray Gods will for Trump and those around him and certainly wish him no harm.

“The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it,”

-Pete Hegseth

Postvieww said:

Explain how that is the case especially communism.

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I'm surprised you didn't say, dictatorship. I was wrong about this one. The Constitution doesn't support an authoritarian government but Communism isn't necessarily authoritarian.

Postvieww said:

Then those who want that life style are free to move there.

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And they are free to stay here and work to make it better for the people, which the Constitution supports.

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. What is currently being proposed in this country as democratic socialism or what ever variation of that is not compatible with the preamble as you claim. “the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” is not in the future promoted by the likes of Bernie, Mamdani, Omar, Cortez and many others .

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That is incorrect. What they propose is exactly what this calls for.

I don't support Democratic Socialism because what most call for is eventually achievement of economic socialism. But, Social Democracy does not.

Fervent said:

Hardly. Mostly it's revisionist history and a lack of perspective, combined with recency bias.

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If that were the case, wouldn't there be more support for it amongst believers? As to recency bias, wouldn't that work in your favor? Christians haven't tended to burn and torture people for doctrinal errors in some time.

Desk trauma said:

Well that’s clear as mud.

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I think I’ve provided ample evidence that the reason you are paying taxes is because of ”muh representatives” and not to Caesar. And yet you are using Caesar’s images.

Aryeh Jay said:

The United States has been involved against the armed and dangerous drug cartels for decades, fighting the war on drugs. Under the failed and possibly illegal regimes of Bill "Slick Willie" Clinton, Barry "Barack HUSSAIN Obama" Sorento, and Sleepy "Genocide" Joe Biden, the borders were unsecured and dangerous drugs and illegal immigrants flooded into the country. President Trump has stopped all the illegal activities that these former presidents chose not to.

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...and President Trump will secure the great oil fields of Venezuela for the American people. Drill, baby, drill!

Phil G said:

Charles Duke has put his personal testimony for Christ on YouTube, which includes his eyewitness testimony of being on the moon and seeing the globe earth. And he has a personal ministry dedicated to bringing the Gospel to the world. He has done more for the Gospel in the public domain than either you or me.

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Has he ?

JimR-OCDS said:

This was proven false.

MSN

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Proven? Not a fact either way. Seems likely to most he took the cash, but it was not a crime. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/tom-homan-50k-sting-operation-00611219
But since the Trump DOJ dropped the case, we may never know, though perhaps some documents will surface later. My apologies if I suggested it was a clear cut case. We have no access to the potential evidence, and Trump seems very soft on some white collar crime. I say that based on his known and factual pardons. it is interesting to note that Homan got a advisory role in the Trump Administration, one that avoided any Senate confirmation. A more prudent administration would be more independent on internal investigations. Instead both sides are far too political. The good news is that as the GOP prosecutes the likes of Bolton, the dems will have their turn at some point to ferret out potential corruption of those in the GOP.

BCP1928 said:

Not "inherent" supicion. It's based on well-earned reputation.

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Hardly. Mostly it's revisionist history and a lack of perspective, combined with recency bias.

Fervent said:

As long as the cage has a wheel and a water bottle, huh?

Yeah, still not seeing a reason to give blanket preference other than inherent suspicion of religion.

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Not "inherent" supicion. It's based on well-earned reputation.

wing2000 said:

You needed an aircraft carrier battle group to "detect, monitor and disrupt illicit actons"? What a gross misuse of our military assests....

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The United States has been involved against the armed and dangerous drug cartels for decades, fighting the war on drugs. Under the failed and possibly illegal regimes of Bill "Slick Willie" Clinton, Barry "Barack HUSSAIN Obama" Sorento, and Sleepy "Genocide" Joe Biden, the borders were unsecured and dangerous drugs and illegal immigrants flooded into the country. President Trump has stopped all the illegal activities that these former presidents chose not to.

RDKirk said:

Critical Theory is the removal of economics from Marxism. That's not me saying so...the creators of Critical Theory stated that up front.

Critical Theory can thus be applied to a number of other movements. But one central component of Critical Theory brought over from Marxism is the proposal of eternal class conflict between Oppressor and Oppressed, which in Critical Theory is not economic class but other classifications such as race and sex.

Thus, in Critical Race Theory, the eternal class conflict is and will _always_ be between whites and non-whites. In this eternal conflict of Critical Theory, there can never be reconciliation, treaty, or compromise between whites and non-whites.

In Radical Feminism, the eternal class conflict is between males and females with males as the oppressors, and there can never be reconciliation, treaty, or compromise between them.

The only acceptable outcome in Critical Theory is vanquishing the Oppressor.

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And you claim that is the sole and entire driver of Demcratic policy. Can you give some examples? For instance how does Critical Theory form the basis of a policy in favor of universal health care?