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Trump promises $2000 tariff dividend to all Americans

Senate Republican Ron Johnson: ‘We can’t afford’ $2,000 tariff checks

“Look, we can’t afford it. I wish we were in a position to return the American public their money, but we’re not,” Johnson told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo.

“We’ll have at least a $2 trillion deficit this year,” Johnson warned, comparing the staggering national deficit projected for 2025 to smaller deficits under former President Obama and during Trump’s first term.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

And vice versa, which is why conversion therapy doesn't work.

-- A2SG, no matter how much some people try to force it to.....
No one is saying otherwise. Behavior, is a choice. Sexual orientation and sexual behavior are two different things. That's the difference.
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It’s not perversion. You are projecting your irrational fears onto harmless drag queens.
From his perspective, drag queens is perversion. There are no irrational fears. Men dressing up as women and acting provocatively? I say that's quite abnormal. It makes a mockery of women, imo.
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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

Ive seen a lot of it including curriculum from the schools. I've seen the books and whats in them. I've read the material. It does NOT belong in the schools. There is no reason for it except to expose children to indoctrination. Kids are not psychologically prepared to deal with that kind of sexual influences.

The left is so determined to introduce kids to this younger and younger. Its unconscionable.
It's pornography. Disgusting. No minor. needs to see it.
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This is true. There is no evidence tha people who transition are actually better off after a number of years. The Cass Review proved that.

Also a recent Oxford study showed those who undergo transition are more likely to have more mental health issues, not less.
It saddens me so much. I can only pray constantly for my niece and nephews and all the children in public schools. They don't need this ideology forced upon them. It's flat out abusive.
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U.S. military ready to cut support to Scouting America, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting America, saying the group once known as the Boy Scouts is no longer a meritocracy and has become an organization designed to "attack boy-friendly spaces," according to documents reviewed by NPR.

In a draft memo to Congress, which sources shared with NPR but which has not yet been sent, Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

The proposal calls for the Pentagon to no longer provide medical and logistical aid to the National Jamboree, which brings in as many as 20,000 scouts to a remote site in West Virginia. It also states that the military will no longer allow Scout troops to meet at military installations in the U.S. and abroad, where many bases have active Scout programs.

Banning Scout troops from meeting on military bases in the U.S. and overseas troubles Kenny Green. He's a retired Army Staff Sergeant who served as a sniper in Iraq and is the parent of three Scouts — two girls and a boy. Because of his military service, his family has moved frequently.

"We went from Louisiana to Alaska. From Alaska to Germany. From Germany to Texas," he said. But at every military base there was a Scout troop that could help ease the transition to a new home. "We don't have to say a word to them, let them go see the other kids, and they'll be immediately integrated in."

Congress requires the Pentagon to support the scouting program's Jamboree, a gathering of thousands of young scouts held every three or four years. The U.S. military lends trucks, ambulances and medical teams, and puts on aviation and skydiving demonstrations, all at no cost to the Scouts. For the military, it's both a training exercise and an opportunity to recruit highly motivated, civic-minded kids.

But the law includes an exemption: the Secretary of Defense can withhold support  if he determines providing it would be "detrimental to national security."

Hegseth was never a Boy Scout, and has said he grew up in a church-based youth group that focuses on memorizing Bible verses.

The Secretary of War has acted just in time -- this could have led to having girls in the armed forces!

Well, off we go

Pro-Trump Nurse Shocked He Removed Career From ‘Professional’ Degree List

Under the revamped list of professional degree programs, nursing and other key health care jobs were excluded, triggering debate over how this could affect nurses’ ability to get approved for student loans in the long run.

“Please remove the limitations of professions!” wrote Wendy Brindley Hines on Facebook. “As a PROFESSIONAL nurse who has her Masters Degree and as someone who has voted each time for you, I cannot believe that you would disrespect our profession!”

“Additionally, our middle daughter will graduate as a PT in 1 month, and our youngest is planning on becoming a Physician's Assistant. All of which take care of patients on a daily basis. Grad school is very expensive… trust me, I know! I have paid my way myself for each level of my education," she wrote.

Also kicked off the list of professions (for increased student loan support) were architects, accountants, educators and social workers.

Well, at least theology is still on the list. Maybe your kids can get loans and do faith healing.
How on earth does he have power to do that?
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Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani after White House meeting

And perhaps Trump isnt the fascist Hitler that the left wing media was painting him to be.
It SHOULD be off-limits for anyone to be compared with Hitler.
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That being said, it is not off-limits to call someone a fascist or socialist. We can debate in what sense Trump is a fascist or whether calling him tat is so, so off-limits.
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Well, off we go

Pro-Trump Nurse Shocked He Removed Career From ‘Professional’ Degree List

Under the revamped list of professional degree programs, nursing and other key health care jobs were excluded, triggering debate over how this could affect nurses’ ability to get approved for student loans in the long run.

“Please remove the limitations of professions!” wrote Wendy Brindley Hines on Facebook. “As a PROFESSIONAL nurse who has her Masters Degree and as someone who has voted each time for you, I cannot believe that you would disrespect our profession!”

“Additionally, our middle daughter will graduate as a PT in 1 month, and our youngest is planning on becoming a Physician's Assistant. All of which take care of patients on a daily basis. Grad school is very expensive… trust me, I know! I have paid my way myself for each level of my education," she wrote.

Also kicked off the list of professions (for increased student loan support) were architects, accountants, educators and social workers.

Well, at least theology is still on the list. Maybe your kids can get loans and do faith healing.
As I understand it, there are QUITE a few professions he removed from the list...and you won't be surprised to learn most of them are female dominated.

Good heavens the "We need businessmen to run things" argument is, literally, the dumbest argument I've heard.
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The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

Go with Muskism. Muskism is the idea of having everything automated 100% into a cashless society, where bots make so much of everything, nothing ever runs low, and everyone can have infinite amounts of anything they want for the rest of their life.

...I choose a Muskist economy!
Funny.

I would prefer to lean into an Amish life if that were my other option.
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Independents....

I think that at this point, people who call themselves "independent" are either uninformed or think that claiming to be independent gives them more street cred.
I DEFINITELY lean into the 2nd one. I feel like there tends to be an air of "I'm impartial because I'm in the middle".
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

. Do you believe this annihilation is immediately after death, or is it at the Last Judgment?
I believe at the last judgement. Christ called it the second death.
And if at the Last Judgment, what is the condition of the psyche until the final judgment, unconscious or being in some sort of torment?
I believe there is a gulf as Christ described. And I believe after Christ was quickened/made alive in the Spirit he went to that side to preach to the spirits in prison.
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"Don't Give up the Ship"

Who threatened the lives of anyone. Surely you aren't referring to the president are you? I don't recall him saying he was going to kill anyone.
He did not say that he personally would put the noose around their necks and pull the trapdoor lever, but he did call for them to be hanged and otherwise executed.

Hot rhetoric!
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The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

And so how do you know whether or not only certain countries were invited into the OECD data set to begin with, in order to produce a desired outcome?

Because the OECD is the successor to the OEEC, which was formed in post-war Europe to promote democracy and open markets.

Countries wanting membership need to meet the organization's criteria on democracy, rule of law, free markets and human rights. So, there's a limited set of countries that are eligible for membership.

Sorry, but there's not so many countries in the world that it couldn't have been done to produce a true, realistic picture, rather than a selective one.

OECD is useful because they have specific data sharing and reporting standards. So you know you're getting a like-for-like comparison. It's not selective, it's limited/exclusive. The countries that are compared in OECD are the only ones that can be compared in OECD data - because they're the only ones that the OECD receives data on.
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Independents....

I have never really met a self identified "Independent" who has had a truly centrist position (or; who argues "both sides" with equal vigor)
Well... I used to have a truly centrist position before Trump first became president. Now that MAGA has replaced the conservatives, I'm in a position of being anti-MAGA. So, if we now defined liberal as being opposed to Trump, I would count as a liberal.

I'd prefer to go back to being a true centrist again.
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Do you keep the Sabbath? (poll)

For his saints Rev14:12 Rev22:14 that make it to the New Heaven and New Earth this clearly shows after His Second Coming Isa 66:22-23 for all flesh (His saints), not just Jews. This whole dichotomy that God only wants Jews to keep His Sabbath day holy, but Gentiles can profane God’s holy day Isa 58:13 is not one we can find in our Bibles Mat2:27 Isa56:6 Isa56:2
And you did NOT provide a verse how anyone can be saved under the Law of MOSES. ??

and you HIS SAINTS and not just Jews SO WHO are HIS SAINTS ??

And just where does. the BODY of CHRIST come IN by 1. Cor 12:12. !!

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The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

That means that Capitalism can't work either.
It can and does with appropriate legislation to protect workers. I still think it is amazing how liberals are now out in the open about how they really feel about socialism.
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What happened in the past has an effect on us today, all because Sin is in the world.

Quite preachy, don’t you think? It does not add to your credibility. So you reject the Spirit In favor of the law? Do you not see your folly?

“And when you were dead in your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings, having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭2‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Christ nailed the law to the cross. It’s really that simple. Tell you what, you actually address my post and I’ll give you the gift to show you why and for what purpose the law was established as Paul explains in Romans 3:31.
I agree, Christ nailed the law on the cross, but you my friend don't seem to know which law it was. Paul preach about more then just one law, more then just one death.

Paul didn’t come preaching and teaching his own thing, but he abided in the doctrine of Christ. (Rom. 3:20) Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sights for by the law is the knowledge of sin. The deeds of the law is referring to the animal sacrificial laws, all those sacrifices can never remove sins, so they could never be justified. This is true because the blood of Jesus can only justify us. The animal sacrificial laws was added because people continue to sin, and the wages of sin bring for death. So instead of God killing people every time they sin, the Lord gave Moses a law to use, animals. So by the other law (Ten Commandments, Statutes and Judgement) is the knowledge of sin. Because, Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Now we have just read the biblical definition of sin, the transgression (breaking) of the law (commandments.) It doesn’t matter what you or I think sin is, it’s what God says sin is that counts. (1John 3:4)

Paul says in Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. So when you quoted all the places in the Bible that do away with this animal sacrificial law, not understanding that Paul talks about two sets of law. The Royal law (Ten Commandments) and the animal sacrificial law sometimes in the same verse you bring can bring destruction to yourself not knowing which law is which.

At some point common sense should kick in. If I'm reading about the doing away of a law or not under a law, then somewhere else Paul tell you that the law is Holy just and good, another place break mostly all the Ten commandments down. A light bulb should come on in your head, Paul have to be talking about two sets of laws. In other places Paul explain the animal sacrificial law.

Paul says in (Rom. 4:15) Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. If there is no law there is no sin.
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