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essentialsaltes · 2025-11-10T08:57:31-0600

The Barbarian said:
On the other hand, Newsom is a democrat and therefore probably didn't consider not putting it to a vote.

The 2008 vote to create the independent redistricting committee was a change to the state constitution voted in by the voters. IIRC, the only way to change the constitution (and a few types of law, like tax laws) in California is to put things to a public vote.

[When we Californians get our ballot information on the propositions, some are put on the ballot by signed petitions from voters, others are ratified by the legislature, but must be sent to a public vote.]

FAITH-IN-HIM · 2025-11-10T08:57:27-0600

rjs330 said:
Unless the GOP can get some traction regarding the economy and inflation the Blue Wave will be huge in 2026.

The economy and inflation isn't bad, but its not as good as Trumps first term. And inflation sure isn't as bad as under Biden. However, Americans don't care. The midterms will go to the Democrats anyway. It always goes to the party not in power. So if the GOP wants to get somw things done, they need to move quickly. They don't have much time. If you ask.me they are wasting time with this shut down, even though its the Dems fault.

Unlike other issues, neither the media nor political parties can control the economic narrative, especially regarding inflation, because every voter experiences it firsthand. Whether buying gas, shopping, or dealing with job loss, people directly feel the state of the economy, making it impossible for any party to shape this narrative.

As a proponent of free-market capitalist, I believe government intervention only harms the economy rather than improves it. The Trump administration's tariffs have damaged economic growth, and added inflation to stay up, while removing them could help, it may be too late for significant recovery before November 2026.

The GOP is confronting several challenges. Notably, youth voters who supported the GOP in 2024 appeared to shift back to the Democratic Party during the last week election, as did Hispanic voters. President Trump made significant gains among Hispanic voters since 2016; however, results from Virginia and New Jersey indicate that the GOP lost nearly 25% of its Hispanic support in those states. While it remains uncertain whether this trend will continue in other swing states such as Arizona, Nevada, or Georgia, it was evident in New Jersey and Virginia.

Hispanic voters’ decisions were influenced not only by economic concerns and inflation, but also by immigration policies. Exit polls suggest these policies are a deeply personal issue for many Hispanic Americans. Millions of Hispanic American citizens are affected by immigration policy through family members who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Many Hispanic communities are closely connected, often including both documented and undocumented individuals, making their experiences intertwined and inseparable. President Trump’s immigration policies have had a substantial impact on these communities. While some may discuss law and order from a distance, for Hispanic Americans these policies are personal, and they have responded by voting for Democrats in at least three states.

Historically, during mid-term elections, the White House typically loses seats to the opposition party. This pattern has been consistent throughout decades of American politics. The question for 2026 is the extent of losses that the GOP may experience, as well as what developments might occur following that year. If the economy rebounds, President Trump could receive recognition for this change. It remains uncertain whether Hispanic voters or younger will come back to GOP as they did in 2024.

Phil G · 2025-11-10T08:56:44-0600

Apple Sky said:
What about the others you install ?

What about them? They are also fixed in place. You think mine is that needs such alignment? :doh:

iluvatar5150 · 2025-11-10T08:55:59-0600

probinson said:
Who said they would "abandon" the city? Of course some will stay. But some will go as a result of this. "The Mamdani Effect" has been written about already, and there is already evidence that it's happening.

There isn't any evidence of it yet. The "evidence" presented thus far has been a piece or two from right-wing reactionary outlets playing up the significance of a literal handful of people who've expressed interest in moving. When I say "handful," I mean a couple dozen out of a city of 8.5 million.

probinson said:
Yes. But if their taxes go up and they can choose to live a few miles outside the city for less, you can be sure some of them will certainly do so.

Living in the city is already wildly expensive for a number of reasons. If they're that price-conscious, it's highly likely that they're already living outside the city.

Benaiah468 · 2025-11-10T08:55:12-0600

Desk trauma said:
Right, hangings in time square by February I’m sure.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: 'It always seems impossible until it is done.'

You can't win an unlimited war whose existence you refuse to acknowledge.

Stopped_lurking · 2025-11-10T08:40:37-0600

stevevw said:
The same way we know its a bullet. From the existing bullet signatures we have gathered from many cases. The same with the marks on stone. We see some marks and we try a chisel, a pounder, a saw and we match the signature.

So now you have proposed (loosely) a method to determine if the marks was most likely left by a chisel, a pounder or a saw. What is the equivalent to "From the existing bullet signatures we have gathered from many cases." when it comes to the unknown ancient technology? Your example is contingent on the presence of known bullet holes to compare to. In the case of the unknown ancient technology we don't have any known examples or marks to compare against.

stevevw said:
Have you not seen the Scientists against Myths. They virtually stop even 2nd minute to show the audience how much the marks look like the Egytians ones. They are real proud of themselves for being able to replicate the marks lol.

Ah the good old provenance again. How would provenance matter in determining whether it was a gun or not. Doesn't matter what gun or when it was made its still a gun.

In forensics there are something called a chain of custody, so that the proposed forensic evidence can be connected with a crime scene. If any marks are found on a object with unknown provenance, we have no clue when they got there, we don't know when the object was made, so we don't know if it is remarkable to find the marks.

stevevw said:
Like wise if we find a circular saw or routing cut in stone one a works on site in ancient Egypt we have good prevenance. No ones going around making ancient monoliths in modern times.

Why not? People are buying replicas of ancient monoliths in modern times, it is possible that someone have tried to make some from stone quarried in Egypt. Collectors are a strange group.

stevevw said:
Wait I think sjastro reckons one of the circular saw cuts I linked was a modern forgery. Someone came along with a circular saw in modern times and hacked intoan ancient block. But then theres many of these. I can't imagine someone being allowed to go around hacking up ancient sites lol.

So they are not smart enough to know that straight edged copper saws cannot cut around bends. Do we really need to have peer review for that. You don't have an opinion as to how even a traditional method could even achieve this.

Yes, expert opinion is more convincing than your say-so.

stevevw said:
Hum I am adventurous and inquistive. I do have an active imagination. But I know the difference between a saw that cuts straight and one that can cut around corners. Did you ever think it may be the result of an under active imagination. One too stuck in its way or governed by assumptions that adhere to orthodoxy.

If anything I am open to all possibilities. It does not matter to me. I am more optomistic yes but at least I am not in the negative that I need to not allow something.

So why can't they do it through publishing in peer-reviewed journals?

Tropical Wilds · 2025-11-10T08:39:55-0600

comana said:
If the economy is so great, why is he floating the idea of stimulus checks?

Bribery.

durangodawood · 2025-11-10T08:39:32-0600

rjs330 said:
Holy Cow you guys act like this has never been done before by the Democrats.

No we dont.

rjs330 said:
Gerry mandering has been a thing for a long time in both parties. Except California passed a law against it. I guess they changed their mind huh?

Which party do you expect to voluntarily put themselves at a unilateral disadvantage?

What we all need is for gerrymandering to be illegal across the board.

Delvianna · 2025-11-10T08:37:32-0600

Interesting, thank you for posting. I've always thought there was a duel fulfillment just based on what Jesus said in Matthew 24, " Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath." Which gives the idea theres another instance that WONT be in winter or on the sabbath because, "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again." Which is clearly the tribulation period.

GloryToHisName said:
(“and a half of one”) marks a defined midpoint in the week, enabling division into 10½ years + remaining half-week.

Verse 27 does not say "and a half of one" or even "and half a week" it says "in the midst of the week" I highlighted what you're mistranslating

vaḥăṣî haššāḇûaʿ ... I can see why you think that but you got to look at the root word first which is חָצָה for the word חֵצִי which holds the fundamental meaning of the word and that root word is to divide or "midst". So you can't add to it, when the root implies division (since you ADD to the root word). So I think that fundamentally messes up your conclusion when you expound on it and how it doesnt mean 10 and half a year.

Belk · 2025-11-10T08:36:47-0600

Valletta said:
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One of the most incredible stock picking examples in the history of our country.

Let me know when you get around to holding your own side accountable. Until then it is just more partisan sniping without a desire to change anything.

Anonymous9090 · 2025-11-10T08:36:46-0600

Pray The Holy Spirit guides the first responders, security personnel, medics, doctors & nurses as they address the emergency needs of the victims of a terrorist attack that took place in Delhi, India:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhi-lal-quila-metro-station-explosion-in-parked-car-near-red-fort-live-updates/article70263264.ece

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-10T08:33:25-0600

Trump has pardoned them all (but these are all state crimes, so it has very little effect)

Updates: [quotes from individual state wiki pages]

Nevada:
Prosecutors refiled the charges in Carson City in December 2024 to resolve the venue issue. Because the statute of limitations for the filing false instruments charges had expired in December 2023, state prosecutors were not able to initiate a new case on those charges, although the forgery charges have a statute of limitations that is one year longer.

Georgia:
Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro, Jenna Ellis and Scott Hall pled guilty, receiving years of probation, community service, and 4 figure restitution fines.

The trial for the 15 remaining defendants remained unscheduled while the Georgia Court of Appeals removed Fani Willis from the case and then while the Supreme Court of Georgia chose not to hear her appeal.

Mchigan:
On September 9, 2025, 54-A District Court Judge Kristen D. Simmons dismissed the charges against all 15 remaining defendants. She found that the prosecution had not presented enough evidence that the defendants had intention to commit fraud, as opposed to the ringleaders of the plot, who had not themselves been indicted.

Wisconsin:
In August 2025, the judge denied a motion to dismiss the case

In a civil case, the ten Trump electors reached a settlement with the plaintiffs on December 6, 2023, acknowledging that their votes were cast on December 14, 2020, at the behest of the Trump campaign and the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and were part of an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and disrupt the peaceful transition of power

Arizona:
On August 6, 2024, Loraine Pellegrino, one of 11 Arizona Republicans who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors for Donald Trump, pled guilty to one count of filing a false instrument.[46] The deal included 3 years of unsupervised probation and no jail time.
On August 5, 2024, Jenna Ellis reached a cooperation agreement with Attorney General Kris Mayes. Ellis signed the agreement the same day.[48] All charges were dropped, and she must cooperate with the prosecution

New Mexico and Pennsylvania: these states' documents (unlike the 5 above) clearly outlined the slate was dependent on a judgment declaring Trump the winner. No charges were ever filed.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-10T08:31:52-0600

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-10T08:30:11-0600

President Trump has pardoned a long list of political allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to Justice Department Pardon Attorney Ed Martin.

A proclamation published on Martin's personal X accountlate Sunday listed 77 people who received "full, complete, and unconditional" pardons, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, a former Trump attorney who spread conspiracy theories about ballot fraud after Trump lost the 2020 election.

The pardons are largely symbolic as none of the names listed were ever charged with federal crimes. Dozens of people listed were charged in multiple swing states that were the center of unfounded claims of election fraud, including Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and Wisconsin.

Nevertheless it continues to send the message -- break the law for me and you get a pardon.

NO MAGA LEFT BEHIND

Michie · 2025-11-10T08:28:43-0600

I’ll get to the other stuff later.

2PhiloVoid · 2025-11-10T08:25:05-0600

didactics said:
For a big part of my life I have been confident in the young earth creation model but one thing that has sort of been a sticking point for me is the ancient near east (ANE) interpretation of creation. It was first pointed out to me in talking about day 2 of creation, the idea that the writer is making reference to a solid firmament. It is further reasoned that the people in those days only knew of a flat earth cosmology, so they were just speaking in terms that everyone would understand. Just because they got something wrong does not mean God’s word is not true. It’s not a science textbook after all. And I have thought about this and wondered if there is any validity to it. The other thing that has really captured my attention is ideas surrounding behemoth and leviathan found in the book of Job. I have been persuaded that these are references to dinosaurs until I saw this video of Ben Stanhope’s critique of Answers in Genesis. He makes a compelling argument that these are descriptions of a mythological creature that symbolizes a false god, such as the followers of the Canaanite deity Baal. The comparison may have been a way of showing people that the true God is omnipotent and has no fear of them. And while I may want to entertain the idea that humans lived alongside dinosaurs, it is a weak argument to suggest Job makes mention of it.

It leads me to ask, if I am wrong on these things, what else am I wrong about? Most people who espouse this view about creation week, saying that it was a polemic to the pagan nations who say their gods took part in creation, tend to also be theistic evolutionists. In a wikipedia article “Firmament” it reads,

But one thing I found interesting is that John Hancock believes the ancients did believe the earth was round.

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Maybe the way to reconcile this is to say that philosophers in those days were more split on the issue and many thought it was flat before the time of the Middle Ages.

But if I cede the argument and say it had an ANE context, wouldn’t I be inconsistent to still believe in young earth creationism (YEC)? I have argued before that the Bible is inerrant and infallible and that no contradictions exist, only apparent contradictions. And I do feel in some way it would be a compromise to say that the Bible was wrong about the firmament being a solid dome that separated the heavenly waters above. I understand that the Bible is not a science textbook, but I believe that it has to be right whenever it does talk about science.

Don't try to force-fit the array of biblical literature into a Modern paradigm. Each book of the Bible was written not only by different people, but by people who lived during different ancient eras as well. We can't stuff ancient literature into a 21st century scientific box and expect it to reflect today's Cosmology.

In other words, I accept that the biblical writings are a product of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age paradigms. Moses probably did think the 'world' was fairly young, but even if that's the case, we have to do the hard work of examining those written works in light or their own times and do so with academic rigor. If we do this, we can take the biblical writings as they were intended to be: prophetic utterances, not modern scientific descriptions of the world. If we fail to recognize this, then the introduction of worries over alleged Slippery Slopes begin to creep in like snakes in the dark. But, there's no need to fall for that fallacy...................................................

So yeah, there is an A.N.E. background out of which the biblical writings have to be considered. @Job 33:6 has already referenced some things in his post above for you to engage with for further thought.

Valletta · 2025-11-10T08:21:52-0600

It was a strange move by the Democrats because they weren't just asking for one thing. The Democrats added new spending in foreign countries for a number of causes that the GOP opposed, besides the removal of wording that closed up loopholes for illegals receiving taxpayer funded health care.

Chesterton · 2025-11-10T08:16:38-0600

ArmyMatt said:
I doubt it. Walsh said the same thing about Israel when America struck Iran in one of his videos which was in summer.

Apparently you're right. I double checked and he did make the comment that "erasing threats to Israel is not America’s job", but he made it in the larger context of his being non-interventionist anywhere in the world. Not necessarily pro- or anti- Israel.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-10T08:12:59-0600

ranunculus said:
This is cute. The current US administration is doing everything in its power to cut back cancer research by billions, as well as cut back pollution standards. They're cancelling mRNA studies when mRNA vaccines could potentially lead to cancer vaccines. The EPA is no longer publishing a mandatory report detailing the amount of climate pollution produced in the US. Guess what happened to the Biden era ruling to limit 'forever' chemicals in drinking water. If you guessed it was reversed in this year 2025, you'd be right. Every guard dog protecting the soil, water and air has been taken out back and shot like it was Kristi Noem's puppy.

There is no bigger friend to cancer and pollution than the current Trump administration. All while paying lip service to the idea of Making America Healthy Again. It shouldn't surprise you to learn who the US chemical industry has been donating a lot of money to. Oh they took away some artificial dyes? That's adorable. How about restoring funding to the research, studies, and agencies they've cut? The agencies that were specifically set up to protect Americans from being poisoned by the industrial complex. The research and studies that are vital to the curing of diseases but were defunded because Fox "News" kept making fun of shrimp on treadmill type "silly" studies. You are being ruled by idiots making the dumbest decisions in pursuit of profits and they will step over your corpse without batting an eye.

So this frequently returning talking point of 'well Trump could cure cancer and libs would still be mad about it' is the epitome of irony. It truly is. You really need to delete this from your repertoire. Honestly I feel vicarious embarrassment whenever it comes up. Like I'm embarrassed for you that you would write this unironically. Trump could post an AI generated video where he goes around like Papa Nurgle spreading a miasma of sickness and death across the land and his sycophants would still claim that's him curing cancer. The administration is lying to you at every turn and you're being deceived by propaganda outlets. They're not looking out for you. They're only looking out for them.

You're making a lot of assumptions about me, and most are wrong

RDKirk · 2025-11-10T08:03:55-0600

FireDragon76 said:
Evangelization and proselytism are two separate things.

Not in scripture.

RDKirk · 2025-11-10T08:03:09-0600

keras said:
What people seem to ignore, is the many things Prophesied to happen before the glorious Return. All of Revelation from Rev 6:12 to 19:11.
All unfulfilled, as yet, the Sixth Seal being the next event we can expect.

They are the Words of Jesus, given to us in a viable sequence. To not take very careful note, is a serious denial of scripture.

Expectation is not the same thing as anticipation.

BobRyan · 2025-11-10T08:02:44-0600

Bob S said:
I believe it is a matter of choice.

Bob S said:
I also believe that Jesus came and did fulfill (brought to an end) all of the law and brought to an end all of the prophecies concerning His coming.

Prophecies concerning His second coming are still be fulfilled

Bob S said:
All mankind is now under the New and better Covenant

only the born again are under the new covenant. All the lost are under "obey and live" Gen 2, the oldest covenant of all and because of that Rom 3 says all are lost, all need the gospel.

Delvianna · 2025-11-10T08:02:34-0600

Michie said:
English Literature students at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom have been warned: Scripture contains some “graphic bodily injury and sexual violence.” Specifically, the institution highlighted the Old Testament account of Cain killing Abel and the gospel accounts of Jesus’ crucifixion.

Other literary works also receive trigger warnings, the university explained. In a statement, it said that type of “content note is a standard academic tool used to signpost when sensitive or graphic content will be discussed.”

But critics called the move a form of censorship, saying it is “misguided” and “absurd” to label God’s Word as potentially triggering.

Bible Receives Trigger Warning from University of Sheffield

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UK University Slaps Violence Warning on Bible, Citing the Crucifixion and Cain and Abel

English Lit. students at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. have been warned: Scripture contains “graphic bodily injury and sexual violence.”

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How long until the bible is banned and misinterpreted as "inciting violence" or some other nonsense they'll say? I mean, it's banned in China if I'm not mistaken already, so it's only a matter of time before it comes to the West.

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