Don't be deceived... anytime an openly hedonistic, openly corrupt, clearly amoral narcissist leader welcomes the religious into his house, he is always only planning on using them for personal gain and power. It's almost biblical, isn't it?
And I know that I've heard some conservatives note that he is a greedy, filthy man, but that maybe GOD can use "such a man" for saving the church. Again, the only one who will be used are the religious people who lend him their support. Corrupt con men have already told you who they are and what they want - power and money. If they're playing nice with you, it's only to use you. A dog returns to its vomit, St Peter also says.
More from 2 Peter 2:
They brag with words that mean nothing...
These false teachers promise [the duped followers/supporters] freedom,
[and there, it might be noted that this is true for the con man AND his marks,
Truly, WHO does Peter sound like he's talking about... almost as if these were prophetic words from God.
More from 2 Peter 2:
"These false teachers take pleasure in openly doing evil,
so they are like dirty spots and stains among you.
They delight in trickery while eating meals with you.
Every time they look at a woman they want her,
and their desire for sin is never satisfied.
They lead weak people into the trap of sin,
and they have taught their hearts to be greedy...
They brag with words that mean nothing...
These false teachers promise [the duped followers/supporters] freedom,
but they themselves are not free.
They are slaves of things that will be destroyed.
For people are slaves of anything that controls them"
[and there, it might be noted that this is true for the con man AND his marks,
where the con man is controlled by his unbridled greed and lust and his marks
are controlled by the con man]
Truly, WHO does Peter sound like he's talking about... almost as if these were prophetic words from God.
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She left her first husband, dumped the second one after cheating on him, then married a member of the rock band Journey, broke into the band's bank account & embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars after committing fraud and running a Ponzi scheme. Now she’ll lead the White House Faith Office.
Marshal, the point of this post is, as I stated: "anytime an openly hedonistic, openly corrupt, clearly amoral narcissist leader welcomes the religious into his house, he is always only planning on using them for personal gain and power."
Do you have ANY data to suggest this isn't true, generally? Do you have ANY data to suggest that this isn't especially clearly true in the case of your pervert prince?
Provide data or move on.
Your corrupt convicted felon has created a pro-conservative religious liberty (specifically) office by hiring another serial cheater. Corrupt people surround themselves with corrupt people. To pretend that this man is doing anything but using some conservative religionists (themselves, apparently mostly charlatans) to pretend to some faith which he clearly doesn't have is to defend a literally false teacher.
You've blinded yourself and I'm sure you can't be convinced of how thoroughly you've been fooled by a thoroughly stupid, thoroughly amoral anti-christ, but regardless, don't post unless you provide data to support your empty claims.
"Marshal, the point of this post is, as I stated: "anytime an openly hedonistic, openly corrupt, clearly amoral narcissist leader welcomes the religious into his house, he is always only planning on using them for personal gain and power."
Do you have ANY data to suggest this isn't true, generally?"
I don't need any. YOU'RE the one making a truth claim. It is YOU who has no data to suggest this is happening now in any way, shape or form. It's just something you hope is happening so that your hatred seems justified to actual Christians and Americans.
Google's AI Overview defines a hedonistic person as "someone who is devoted to seeking pleasure and avoiding pain". Clearly, Trump has been seeking the improvement of American without regard for the pain and suffering involved in working toward that goal...even setting aside assassination attempts. He's the Energizer Bunny liars of your stripe pretended Joe Biden was. Biden was awake four hours/day, while Trump sleeps four hours/day. Doesn't sound like a hedonist to me, even if he shoots a round or two now and then.
An openly corrupt president would at some point be found to have indulged in corruption. Your kind failed to find any the first term and there's no sign of it now. Constantly falling back on spurious claims of his private sector dealings doesn't make this charge true. Allegation does not equal guilty and Christians don't act like you in pretending it does.
The same Google AI Overview describes "narcissist" as "someone who has an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy". Thus, this term is cheaply chosen to apply falsely to Trump. What your kind wants to regard as "exaggerated sense of self-importance" is what most people seek to instill in their own kids...the sense that they are capable of accomplishing great things. And given how his policies have led to and will lead to better, safer lives for all Americans and many of foreign nations as well, it's baffling to suggest he's acting without empathy. Well, who cares if he cares for no one when his actions make life so much better for so many?
"Amoral" is defined as "lacking a moral sense, unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something...as in "an amoral attitude about sex".
Well, that too is a falsely applied word. He clearly has a sense of right and wrong. It's just not the sense you demand he must have (a sense not imposed upon worse presidents, like Biden and Obama...with these two, you do your typical thing of heaping praise without just cause or concern for their legitimate and serious shortcomings). His notions are simply different than yours and, excuse me if I'm mistaken, but I believe you've taken a stance against imposing one's morality upon others.
Thus, he's not "amoral", but only not "moral" by YOUR standards. And even when we consider his history of adultery, it's a single behavior where he was in the wrong. That one behavior doesn't mean he doesn't find other sexual appetites immoral.
So, with these actual definitions of the words you're using to besmirch a far better and truer man than you, your subsequent charge that he is using the religious for personal gain and power is not at all a given by any stretch of honest, Christian imagination, and as such there's nothing for which I need bring any "data". You've created a fiction and you expect ME to prove it's fiction. You do this to avoid having to defend your lies and false allegations. And now you're going to delete me again because I've exposed your false claim of Christianity yet again. And by this you've proven that attempts to engage in true, adult, good-faith, intelligent discourse is impossible with a liar like you. So, my response to your crap will be again made at my blog, where you can protest and not be deleted and then flee because you can't fool anyone there that you're actually a Christian.
Buh bye, now.
Marshal:
An openly corrupt president would at some point be found to have indulged in corruption. Your kind failed to find any the first term and there's no sign of it now.
HE IS A CONVICTED FELON for his corruption, convicted in a free court of law by a jury of his peers.
He has been found guilty of establishing a fake university.
He has been found guilty of abusing his charitable organization.
He is, on the face of it, corrupt in dozens of ways.
That you don't see it only speaks to how well this idiot conman has been able to dupe his marks. The conned rarely see or understand how they've been played for a fool until LONG past when they should have recognized.
The con is that Trump is enriching himself off of dupes like you.
The con is that Trump is keeping himself out of jail and out of the courthouse thanks to dupes like you.
HOW MUCH have you "donated"/given/been swindled by this idiot billionaire conman? Give me a dollar amount.
I had said:
"Marshal, the point of this post is, as I stated: "anytime an openly hedonistic, openly corrupt, clearly amoral narcissist leader welcomes the religious into his house, he is always only planning on using them for personal gain and power."
Do you have ANY data to suggest this isn't true, generally?"
Marshal responded:
I don't need any. YOU'RE the one making a truth claim.
Yes. Yes, you do. My blog, my rules. You have an unrelenting unrepentant history of making stupidly false claims without even TRYING to support them with data. YOU have to support truth claims.
As to me, I'm offering a truism.
anytime an openly hedonistic,
openly corrupt,
clearly amoral narcissist leader
welcomes the religious into his house,
he is always only planning on using them for personal gain and power."
Do you doubt that Truism? That likelihood?
Trump is objectively openly hedonistic. The man has golden toilets, has had multiple affairs and is a serial cheater, and an entire lifetime of loafing at his golf course and other luxury places avoiding pain (avoiding the draft, avoiding actual labor, etc) and indulging in decadent luxury.
You simply can't deny that reality. And if you do, it doesn't matter. Reality doesn't need you to agree with it.
Likewise for the rest.
Do you SERIOUSLY think that this man is a seriously follower of the humble prince of peace, the man who's come to preach good news to the poor and marginalized? If so, how blind can one man be?
Marshal:
describes "narcissist" as "someone who has an exaggerated sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy". Thus, this term is cheaply chosen to apply falsely to Trump.
Wow. I don't know what to tell you, my man. You've blinded yourself to reality. Get help. In the meantime, if you have nothing but your blind devotion to an open narcissist, hedonist, cheater, corrupt con man, don't bother commenting. YOU must support your claims. As I've done.
The advantage I have when proving my claims is that I'm looking at just the known data. He IS a convicted felon, convicted for his corruption. He HAS been found guilty of cheating his charity. He WAS found guilty of establishing his fake college to rip people off. He IS a serial cheater who openly laughs about sexually preying upon women and girls and how he can get away with it because of his wealth and white power/position. He WAS found guilty of cheating employees in the past, of abusing redlining rules, etc etc.
Reality is tough to beat when all you rely upon are your wishes and fantasies about a very openly bad man.
Here's a question you can answer, Marshal, if you dare: IF the SCOTUS or other courts rule against his fascist take-overs... THEN will you condemn this idiot pervert's strongman behaviors? IF he "takes over" Gaza and Panama and makes the playgrounds for the ultra-wealthy and other hedonists like him, THEN will you condemn the fascist behaviors?
Is there ANYTHING he can do that you won't bow down and kiss his butt and say, "yes, boss, yes, yes, yes!!"
You're lying again. You haven't supported a damned thing, particularly in rebutting anything I've said.
But I expected this middle school crap from you. Frankly I can't expect better because you're incapable of presenting better. Thus, my full responses will be at my blog where truth and freedom reign.
It's only "really tough to beat" if one is a gullible TDS hater like you, so willing to believe the worse because of that grace embracing hatred of yours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmSiSvJmukk
Try rebutting the above, Dan. I love to laugh.
"You have an unrelenting unrepentant history of making stupidly false claims without even TRYING to support them with data."
You're an inveterate fake Christian liar, and this is a totally unsupportable lie having no resemblance to how I present my positions. It would be more obvious if you had a pair of testicles and allowed my comments to stand without deleting them on false premises. I don't care if you delete me. But we both know you're a little girl of man, lacking honor, integrity and Christian character. You're a fraud, a hater and evil as all get out.
The only good refugee is a “White” refugee. Trump makes his racism clear. President Trump on Friday directed government officials to prioritize the resettlement of South Africans of European descent through the U.S. refugee program, which he suspended during his first day in office.
Roger Stone, a prominent political consultant and staunch ally of PresidentDonald Trump, took a swipe late Tuesday at the Trump administration's newest hire.
Corey Lewandowski, a senior advisor for Trump's presidential election campaign last year, is now a special government employee at the Department of Homeland Security, now headed by Secretary Kristi Noem, Politico reported. Lewandowski sat in on transition meetings with Noem and consulted with her on political appointees for the agency.
"Proving that even a drunk talentless advance man with a long history of sexual assault can make it under DHS secretary Kristi Noem," he raged on X.
What "fascist takeoevers"?
Marshal:
What "fascist takeoevers"?
Greenland is not Trump's to take over.
Gaza is not Trump's to take over.
Panama is not Trump's to take over.
Same for Canada.
IF a felon/pervert/con man says he's just going to take over another nation (or a portion of another nation), that's illegal, it's colonial-fascism, it's criminal.
Try to keep up.
Marshal, a question for you: IF the SCOTUS rules against Trump on any of a myriad of constitutional abuses he's currently involved in and IF Trump ignores it and does what he wants (even when the SCOTUS - HIS SCOTUS) says it's unconstitutional, will you THEN denounce the fascist strongman as the anti-liberty, anti-American despot he is?
Don't comment on anything else unless you first answer this.
Dan
(Not that you need to answer. We already know your answer is the same as all the MAGA kool-aid drinkers.)
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18e1rZdsQ9/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Craig always diverts to the personal because he hates society. So, he excuses the mass ripping up of healthy society. Case in point.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
What the DOE DOES:
✅ Protects students with disabilities – Enforces IEPs (Individualized Education Programs) and 504 plans under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Without this, schools could refuse accommodations to kids who need them.
✅ Ensures equal access to education – Enforces Title IX (protecting students from sex discrimination), Title VI(protecting students from racial discrimination), and laws ensuring English language learners and low-income students get a fair shot.
✅ Provides federal education funding – Sends billions to public schools, Title I schools (low-income students), special education programs, and Pell Grants for college students.
✅ Oversees federal student loans– Manages programs like Public Service Loan Forgiveness, income-driven repayment plans, and loan relief programs (yes, the ones you cheered for). And it’s said you’ll still be responsible for paying the loans you’ve already taken out regardless of if the DOE gets disbanded
✅ Holds schools accountable– Investigates discrimination, ensures civil rights laws are followed, and prevents fraud in higher education (like scam colleges that take your money and leave you with useless degrees).
✅ Supports teachers and education research – Funds initiatives to improve teaching methods, early childhood education, and STEM programs to keep our kids competitive globally.
What the DOE DOES NOT Do:
❌ Does NOT control what your kids learn – State and local school boards decide curriculum, textbooks, and what’s taught in history or science class. The DOE doesn’t force any particular agenda on schools.
❌ Does NOT run public schools – Schools are managed by states and local districts—NOT the federal government.
❌ Does NOT hire or fire teachers – Teacher salaries, hiring, and qualifications are determined by state laws and local school boards.
❌ Does NOT mandate Common Core – That’s a state decision. The DOE doesn’t force states to adopt any particular education standards.
❌ Does NOT regulate private schools – Private and religious schools operate independently, and while some federal protections apply, the DOE doesn’t dictate how they run.
❌ Does NOT set tuition prices for colleges – Public universities are funded by **state governments**, and they set their own tuition. The DOE only provides federal aid and loan programs.
Everything you said is literally worthless. No one cares what you think, centipedo.
Your face is funnier than the video. It was stupid.
"Marshal, a question for you: IF the SCOTUS rules against Trump on any of a myriad of constitutional abuses he's currently involved in and IF Trump ignores it and does what he wants (even when the SCOTUS - HIS SCOTUS) says it's unconstitutional, will you THEN denounce the fascist strongman as the anti-liberty, anti-American despot he is?"
First, SCOTUS is not "his" SCOTUS. And within that body are only two reliable constitutional conservatives (meaning they would rule according to a strict and objective comparison of the action on the table and how it aligns with or is contrary to the Constitution. In addition to Thomas and Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are more likely than not to rule in Trump's favor. Roberts and (unfortunately) Barrett are questionable. Kagan is a leftist, Sotomayor is worse and Brown is an idiot. What this means is that a majority of SCOTUS could rule against Trump and that wouldn't mean Trump is anything you so desperately need him to be in order to rationalize your grace embracing hatred.
That truth aside, I'd need to hear the actual decision of the majority...should it go against him...weigh it against both my own understanding of the Constitution and those on the Court who dissent and decide from there.
That a president might overstep his authority on a given issue doesn't make him "fascist", "anti-liberty", "anti-American" or a "despot". It just makes him wrong on that issue or, wrong on how he hoped to act on his position regarding the issue. One can be spot on regarding the morality or righteousness of a position yet wrong with how one tries to deal with it. SCOTUS would be ruling on the latter. He may be outside his authority as president, yet could still persuade Congress to act legislatively to achieve his goal. Thus, it's the action to achieve the goal which would be addressed by SCOTUS, not the goal itself.
This is pretty basic stuff, and I get that to acknowledge the truth of it confounds your agenda of condemning Trump as evil incarnate. You don't have the honor and integrity to do so anyhow, so I expect you'll respond in your usual childishly petulant manner, rather than act like a man.
Nice list, feo. Unfortunately, it does little to alter the fact that we don't need the DOE, as each of the six points regarding what it does can be done at the local level just fine, if a given state has the will to do them. Getting money from the federal government doesn't ensure those things will get done any better, especially since the DOE is so inept at guaranteeing success on any of them.
1. It's doubtful there would be any change whatsoever as regards accommodating disabled kids. Indeed, construction of new schools always provides for the disabled.
2. Title IX is being abused, as it ignores what's in the best interests of female students by enabling mental illnesses which put them at risk. All states prohibit racial discrimination and public schools do not bar students because of poverty.
3. There is no Constitutional mandate for spending money on education. States can fund their own schools. In higher education, federal funding is the impetus for increased costs, making it harder to afford and/or the first reason students carry large debt for years. Universities grow exceedingly rich sitting on funds which could be used for actual education, but aren't.
4. Same as the previous. Not a federal obligation and one which impedes the fed's ability to fund what is.
"And it’s said you’ll still be responsible for paying the loans you’ve already taken out regardless of if the DOE gets disbanded"
It's ""said"??? It's freakin' obvious and proper that anyone who borrows is obliged to repay. Of course responsibility for school loans are on the borrower! Only low intellect people insist others should be footing the bill!
5. Also that which the states can handle themselves. This is absurd.
"(like scam colleges that take your money and leave you with useless degrees)"
This is the problem with universities in general and why so many are saddled with debt. They are offered a large array of choices of useless degrees, yet the DOE has done nothing to pressure universities to restrict their offerings to that which can actually result in jobs. It's what makes TDS sufferers hypocritical when demonizing Trump over Trump U. Apparently it's only OK for the universities to leave students holding the bag.
6. This can also be done without federal funding. But the worst part is that after all the funding which has been doled out, our ranking among nations is crap as regards test scores of the kids this worthless department was set up to improve.
Nice argument. You lose again.
Reviewing this comment thread I saw again this absurd question:
"Is there ANYTHING he can do that you won't bow down and kiss his butt and say, "yes, boss, yes, yes, yes!!""
Aside from the fact that I don't bow down to any person, it's ironic that your lack of criticism of any Obama/Biden policies, including those which have proven to actually cause great human suffering (which Trump is moving to alleviate) doesn't prevent your asking such a question out of shame alone. But you're not ashamed of the harm YOUR preferred presidents and representatives have caused. You pretend those harms don't exist despite all the dead people resulting from them.
But to offer just a couple of quick examples,
1. I oppose the recruitment of Paula White. She's no more a true Christian than you are. Trump needs a real teacher and spiritual advisor for himself AND for his "faith office" if he insists on having one.
2. I oppose the "no tax on OT/tips" idea, but prefer simply reducing income taxes across the board, though I'll settle for making his previous tax cuts permanent, since they did so much good.
3. I oppose his Labor Secretary pick and his Surgeon General pick.
4. I oppose the reality that we now have the most pro-LGBTQ administration in history, though I feel confident that each cabinet member will be working to move Trump's agenda as it concerns their area of responsibility, without concern for their predilections. However, there's always the possibility some promotion of the ideology will be promoted in some way, which is a really bad thing for America.
That should answer the question well enough, and given I don't recall any more than one complaint about Biden from you during his four years, and that complaint was within the context of far worse policy which would have remained largely unchanged if his parole alteration wasn't enacted, so...you remained throughout, bowed and puckered.
There are states requiring teaching the Christian Bible as history but erasing the facts of slavery.
Marshal thinks Jim Crow laws are a good thing.
Bottom 21 states in education. 1 blue state, 20 red states. Marshal is sick in the head.
30 Georgia
31 Iowa
32 Missouri
33 Ohio
34 South Dakota
35 Alaska
36 Arizona
37 Idaho
38 South Carolina
39 Tennessee
40 Indiana
41 Texas
42 New Mexico
43 Alabama
44 Kentucky
45 Nevada
46 Oklahoma
47 Arkansas
48 Louisiana
49 Mississippi
50 West Virginia
No doubt Marshal thinks veterans should be left to their own devices as well. Marshal drank ALL the Kool-Aid.
“ SO... MUSK AND TRUMP FIRED 1,000 EMPLOYEES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS WHICH PROVIDES VETERANS WITH HEALTH CARE.
TWO OUT OF TOUCH BILLIONAIRES WHO HAVE NEVER SERVED IN UNIFORM SLASHING AN AGENCY THAT SERVES
OUR NATION'S VETERANS.
WHO THE HELL IS ASKING FOR THIS?”
REP. MARK POCAN
Depraved users, like Trump and Giuliani, eventually use themselves. Your point, Dan, is that we as a nation will be collateral damage. Like this:
Heather Cox Richardson: It certainly appears that those in charge of the firings didn’t know what they were doing: on Thursday they fired more than 300 workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, apparently not aware that they were the people who oversee the nation’s nuclear weapons. Today, Peter Alexander and Alexandra Marquez of NBC News reported that officials are now trying to rehire them but can’t figure out how to reach them because the workers lost access to their work email when they were fired.
Yes.
It's very sad to see someone try so desperately to pervert/undermine/debase the rather clear teachings of Jesus, especially the main lessons from his two big sermons, on the mount and on the plain.
Clearly, Jesus taught of God's realm come, God's will be done, ON EARTH, as it is in heaven. While I understand that some find some comfort (especially many who have been oppressed) of a better day to come... but I have so very little use for the human traditions of pie in the sky. What the poor and oppressed want is that better day and that beloved community to come NOW, here.
Yes
Grace is a relationship of a covenanted life. It’s not a free ticket. It’s an unmerited relationship given an eternal end. But we can form the relationship and then leave.
I don’t know if any of the Thugs ever responded to God’s offer of a covenant relationship. It entails accountability, which includes sacramental confession of sins as living into the relationship.
What is clear to me is that not one of Thugs, with the possible exception of Bubba, is still in the relationship with the love of Christ.
Good god! Talk about a User!!
Making peace on behalf of another nation of people with the terrorist invader. And not including the invaded nation. Not even Chamberlain did this.
Abuser in Chief. But we knew him this way already
I am new to this site. If you do not mind me asking, who are these "thugs" you speak of? Names please?
Somewhat differently, I ascribe to those described by Dan as brutalizers. Even if unconscious, they thrill to the violence, in thought or word or deed, toward objects of their hate. And usually the object’s circuit hate have been objects of hate for centuries of White Americans. Even white women accede to violence against other white women in order to “preserve” White Supremacy, from where they get their 2nd class citizen status. 2nd class only to white men.
For me, these neighborhood Thugs here, perform the racist part with commitment. They couldn’t care less that black women die in in maternal care much greater numbers proportionately than white women. They couldn’t care less that black men are convicted at much greater percentages for low level. Times, like drug possession, than white men. That is, if the black man survives being arrested while driving it taking in a cell phone. They didn’t care that Mr Floyd was choked to death over 9 minutes for a misdemeanor. They didn’t care about any of the advertised executive lynchings - no concession that maybe a couple were wrong? (Breonna Taylor, sleeping at home, absolutely unconnected to somebody the police were looking for?) - they argued that each one deserved what they got.
Thugs are the ones who have killed off their empathy, their compassion, their humanity when it comes to the suffering of those who were the objects of our greatest national crimes - and yet who physically empowered the economy and physically built the infrastructure of a Superpower.
There are three full time Thugs here and three more in an outer orbit.
As a reminder, "arnold," If you're a real person and that's your real name, you need to send me an email to verify that. Everyone else who comments here, I know who they are, even if they're using a pseudonym.
It's what we must do in an age of Russian bots and white supremacist trolls.
The nation is being used by racists.
Hegseth called General Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then Trump fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he "lacks the legally required prerequisites for the position" and requires a Presidential WAIVER from Trump just to take the job. This is what "merit" means to them.
And to remind Craig - or rather to educate him…
Donald Trump is the self-proclaimed “king of debt.” Before becoming president, he built his brand and companies with massive amounts of borrowed money.
Allmand Law teamed up with James Publishing to illustrate this timeline by Mother Jones, outlining Trump’s Bankruptcies: How Trump Leveraged Other People’s Money to Make Bankruptcy Work for Him.
In the 1980s, Trump amassed casinos, hotels, an airline, and a 282-foot mega yacht. But his gold-plated bubble popped. By June 1990, Trump was unable to make loan payments on his $3.4 billion in outstanding debts. In total, Trump businesses filed for bankruptcy six times.
In many ways, Trump’s path to bankruptcy is just like that of many other business owners. His ambition was bigger than his financial resources. Risky business decisions didn’t play out as planned. And his attempts to restructure his debt were unsuccessful. But, in classic Trump form, there are flourishes of scandal. (His father illegally tried to bail his companies out.)
So how did he rebound and rebuild? Trump, along with his bankruptcy attorneys and financial advisors, used federal bankruptcy laws to their advantage. While investors and creditors lost a lot of their money, Trump was highly compensated for his day-to-day work, earned fees during the property transfers, and slashed his personal debts.
As with everything involving Trump, his bankruptcies are polarizing. He and his supporters argue that the casino industry was perilous in the 1980s and Trump simply used bankruptcy laws to his advantage. On the other hand, some critics claim that he made reckless decisions and took advantage of investors and the small businesses that worked with him. Regardless of how you view Trump and his business practices, learn more about his bankruptcies in this timeline.
Nonsense. Even if Arnold is a "Russian bot" or "White supremacist troll", what counts is the merits of his arguments and your ability to counter them with rational, logical and factual arguments...which isn't a strong suit of yours. You have no "need" to know if any commenter is a "real person" as if even a bot has no real person behind it, and thus you're left with yet another argument from which you will dodge on the basis of the "real person" excuse.
You'll more at liberty to express yourself or question others at my blog. Dan visits there when he thinks he has a point against my positions, so you can freely question his commentary there without fear of deletion or draconian, ever changing criteria for doing so. You can even be snarky, to a great extent, without being called a bully or thug. What's more, there's no requirement to prove you're a real person. I only prefer that those who choose to remain anonymous not simply be a troll and leave drive-by comments which have no substance.
So if we’re in a fight against viscous bigotry and you say you have no interest… then you know who you are.
And I suspect that you know half the country is against you.
Anonymous people need to identify themselves, at least to me, with a real name to continue to comment here. FYI.
Marshal: "You have no "need" to know if any commenter is a "real person""
Well, it's not your blog, so you don't really get to make the rules here, do you, Marshal. Just like the felon tyrant doesn't get to decide which countries he takes over or what rules he tries to live above. Being an ultra-privileged tyrant wannabe, he's getting away with a lot, but it can't last.
Since when have conservatives so thoroughly embraced tyranny and hedonistic anarchy?
When did firing park rangers, scientists and air traffic controllers become a better idea than simply taxing billionaires?
So rather than use your powers of reason...which you claim to have...you choose to parrot the party line. Trump's not looking to "take over" any countries, like communists or muslims. Actual investigation into his intentions would serve you well. There are no laws he's trying to "live above", as there is nothing he is doing now which isn't presidential authority. You might want to study some more...assuming you ever do. As such, there's no "tyranny and hedonistic anarchy". But you keep embracing grace. Christ likely than not doesn't know you as it is.
As to "real persons", to quote your beloved Hillary, "what difference does it make" if comments are from real people or "bots"? Either the comment is factual and substantive or it's not. I've seen nothing which suggests that for which a response shouldn't be made. Just be honest and admit you don't want any more people who will so easily confound you, and if you can pretend you're dealing with a "bot", then somehow your dismissals and deletions are justified. You fool no one.
1. Marshal thinks that the Park Rangers at Glacier National Park have been thoroughly reviewed in just the last month for malfeasance along with thousands of others. Well, Marshal doesn’t think, really. He spews the bizarre fantasies that professional liars put in his itching ears.
2. And then convinces himself that he can do that job, too. Marshal just LOCES lies.
In a week when taxes and tax returns have dominated the headlines, billionaire investor Warren Buffett jumped back into the political debate and showed his returns exclusively to ABC News' Bianna Golodryga, adding, "I have never had it so good. … What has happened in recent years, we were told a rising tide would lift all boats, but the rising tide has lifted all yachts."
Buffett's secretary since 1993, Debbie Bosanek, sat next to her boss just hours after being invited by the president to the State of the Union address, where the president made her the face of tax inequality in America.
Bosanek pays a tax rate of 35.8 percent of income, while Buffett pays a rate at 17.4
And despite Marshal's (once again unsupported and demonstrably false claims), the national debt has risen under (nearly?) every GOP administration and improved under every Democratic administration for decades.
The U.S. economy has performed much better under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents in the modern era. In almost every measure of the U.S. economy including total job growth, unemployment, economic growth, manufacturing job growth, manufacturing investment, small business creation, and contribution to the national debt, economic performance is stronger under Democrats.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/10/the-u-s-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidents
https://www.investopedia.com/democrats-vs-republicans-who-had-more-national-debt-8738104
And of course, Feodor is right. The billionaire doge is NOT assessing waste, he's just slashing. He is NOT reviewing case by case, agency by agency areas of waste and inefficiencies (because there is waste and inefficiencies, to be sure) because that takes time. This is not an intellectual, data-driven approach to improving gov't efficiency. It's an ideological smack down and attack on hard-working US laborers.
And keep in mind, some "waste" or inefficiency is built in by design. When agencies have employees write detailed notes about their work that day/that week, that takes hours of time out of each work week per person. BUT, we've decided that the accountability (which IS built in by design) is worth the loss of hours due to note-taking/record-tracking etc. For just one area of examples. Complete efficiency is a tricky goal to have, there are costs associated with more efficiencies, ironically but obviously.
The doge team is not doing this in a systematic way. The chainsaw is the perfect metaphor for these slashers.
Marshal, be honest: IF this was Harris and she implemented a slash and burn, widespread careless dismantling of, for instance, the military, you'd go nuts. If she did in a couple of weeks what the billionaire boys have done... with no accountability, no transparency, no details on HOW they're assessing their decisions to make cuts and fire people (and to be clear: They are NOT assessing at all), you'd be going nuts, wouldn't you? You'd call her a traitor and want to see her impeached, wouldn't you?
Of course, you would.
Oh, I long for the return of actually fiscally responsible conservatives, not anarcho-hedonist plutocrats in an anti-liberty oligarchy of the wealthy.
We’re being used. And so are our Democratic/Western Christian allies.
The USA, Russia, Iran, and North Korea just voted together against a UN resolution to support Ukraine.
Last night, 99% of House Republicans voted tonight to gut Medicaid and food stamp programs for the poor so they can give the richest 1% another tax cut that they don't need. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
"And despite Marshal's (once again unsupported and demonstrably false claims), the national debt has risen under (nearly?) every GOP administration and improved under every Democratic administration for decades."
It's neither false nor have I not supported this fact I presented. Whether I did so here or at another blog is incidental. If I did elsewhere and not here, it's still a fact that spending has risen higher by the end of every four year presidential term than it had at the beginning of it, and this includes the second term of every two term president:
https://heartland.org/publications/cpi-x-a-novel-method-to-decrease-spending-and-the-national-debt/
Go to the above and seek out page 12 (of 28). There you will find a list of the spending by presidential terms since Nixon.
This shows debt my recent presidents mostly. Where do you see it going down for any of them?
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/us-debt-by-president.html
The following also shows debt increases of every president, and one has to go back to Harding and Coolidge to find negative numbers.
As to the economy performing better under Democrats, that's an issue I've proven wrong in the past and as is your way, you present the same arguments that have been shown less than accurate in those prior discussions as if the subject was never broached.
As to the elimination of waste, DOGE is finding the waste and the slashing is where necessary. If a department is routinely wasteful, then eliminating the department is justified. feo's never right. And neither of you provide sound evidence for any assertion you make while demanding it from me for merely stating the obvious.
"[and there, it might be noted that this is true for the con man AND his marks,
where the con man is controlled by his unbridled greed and lust and his marks
are controlled by the con man]"
This is a wildly false and unsupported claim, particularly "the con man is controlled by his unbridled greed and lust".
Prove it. Don't try to tap dance away by "it's self-evident" or "it's obvious" or "it's my opinion" or any other responses that do no more than reflect your own grace embracing hatred and biases. Prove it with facts.
That pervert prince has been abundantly clear about who he is. It IS obvious and you all don't get to say "Ignore what you're seeing, listen to what we tell you, instead." You see, we don't buy into your sick, altered non-reality.
When he mocks the disabled, you don't get to say "he didn't really do that." We SAW it and heard it.
When he demonizes and attacks immigrants, you don't get to say he isn't doing that. We can see it and recognize it for what it is.
When Musk uses the "R" word to demonize and oppress people with intellectual disabilities, you don't get to say he didn't mean anything. We all SEE the oppression he's taking part in.
Your sexual predator pervert felon IS just what he tells us he is.
I refer you back to the title and point of this post: Don't be used by a user.
Don't be obtuse.
And Marshal, your comment attacking public servants who YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING about, when it's a stupidly obviously false attack coming from a place of ignorance... it's been deleted. You don't get to make stupidly false, ignorant claims, not on my blog.
"That pervert prince has been abundantly clear about who he is."
Why do you keep bringing up Biden? Our current president, by contrast, has shown himself to be a true lover of American and its people. That's beyond any intelligent objection. He's been far more productive on our behalf than anyone since Reagan, and certainly far more than your favs, Obama, Biden and Carter. This also is an unassailable fact. He's demonstrating it again while your kind demonstrate your unwavering hatred against him.
"When he mocks the disabled, you don't get to say "he didn't really do that." We SAW it and heard it."
What you saw and heard, but aren't honest enough to acknowledge, was Trump mocking his tap-dancing, not his disability. Here's evidentiary support for the truth I just presented:
https://www.catholics4trump.com/even-more-video-evidence-trump-did-not-mock-reporters-disability/
"When he demonizes and attacks immigrants, you don't get to say he isn't doing that. We can see it and recognize it for what it is."
Another lie intentionally and knowingly told. Well done. Trump clearly "demonizes and attacks" those who cross our borders illegally and those who overstay their visas. Whether you like it or not, these people are purposely ignoring our laws and sovereignty. While you choose to ignore the reality of those for whom crossing illegally and/or overstaying a visa is the least of the criminal acts they've committed and excuse everyone else on the ambiguous and unsupported claim they have a legit reason for breaching our sovereign border illegally, you demonize and attack all of us, including Trump, who are concerned for the most vulnerable among them as well as for our own people by opposing the open borders policy you support.
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/president-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-benefits-illegal-aliens
Note the wording of 8 U.S.C 1641, and present evidence that Trump has any animosity of any kind toward those who this law refers to as "qualified aliens". That is, foreigners who are here legally. There's nothing Trump has done to "attack and demonize" these people.
"When Musk uses the "R" word to demonize and oppress people with intellectual disabilities, you don't get to say he didn't mean anything. We all SEE the oppression he's taking part in."
As a grandfather to a special needs girl (who turned 14 yesterday) and great-uncle to a special needs boy (now a man, actually), as well as a friend two women with special needs children and also as one who grew up with a special needs man living behind us, I resent your attack on a disabled man for using a word you exploit just to demonize and attack. Your pearl clutching is insincere. What's more, you can't prove...even if I helped you lie...that Musk has demonized and oppressed anyone with intellectual disabilities. Using a word you don't like doesn't do either. You just assert it does without any evidence.
"Your sexual predator pervert felon IS just what he tells us he is."
Trump is not a "sexual predator pervert". Nor is he a "felon" justly convicted of having actually committed an actual crime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmSiSvJmukk
I'm not "used" by Trump, but you're used by the Father of Lies. Don't be a liar. One can't be a hateful liar and claim to "embrace grace" at the same time, so stop the hating and lying or stop claiming to care about "embracing grace".
Make sure you delete this despite the supporting evidence I've provided on some BS excuse to rationalize doing so. It's how you roll.
8 accomplished military leaders were serving on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump got rid of the black man and the white woman. 6 white men remain.
Racism and misogyny. Marshal laps it up like vanilla ice cream.
That’s me just above.
And, again, Marshal and the Thugs swallow lies:
THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT, THE U.S.
PRESIDENT AND CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER SIGNING THE USMCA CUS-MEXICO-CANADA TRADE DEAL IN
2019. DONALD TRUMP SAID THIS WEEK THAT TARIFFS ON CANADA WILL HAVE TO BE INSTITUTED BECAUSE THIS TRADE DEAL WAS "SIGNED BY A PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION AND LEADER WHO WAS A FOOL."
2019. Trump was the President
yup.
Some fragile and incoherently raging brutalizer with tortured sexual fantasies objects to scripture and the news.
Must be a White evangelical Republican male.
For any readers: Feodor's comment above was in response to a childish comment left by a troll pretending to be Feodor.
I'm not running a day care here, friends (with no offense intended to children, who generally act better than trolls like that).
You're a liar. The laziness and incompetence of public sector employees is well know to the extent it's a freakin' punchline. I don't need to know them all to know it's at a far higher percentage than any place I've ever worked since 1970. The only claim stupidly false and ignorant is your objection to this well known reality. When public sector employees acknowledge this, it's you who is ill informed. Go get some knowledge.
I'm sure my comment was posted, so I'll just try again.
Your boy wants to pretend Trump dismissed to members of the Joint Chiefs because of their race/sex. Yet, Trump has appointed and had confirmed a number of women and non-whites, as well as having had women of color in his employ in his businesses. He also opened owned a golf course, the membership of which was opened by him to blacks and Jews. Only grace embracing haters accuse Trump of racism or sexism. Honest people know better.
Marshal thinks it’s not racism unless it’s absolutely perfect in practice. As if sin is ever absolutely perfect in practice.
He forgets that the “good Negroes” served in the house. Others out under the hot sun. But neither were allowed to be equal to Mr. And Mrs. Whitey.
The treatment of the House Negroes and the occasional saving of the whip was the self-justification the Massahs cooked up for themselves. The same justification Marshal just offered.
And, as is clear, Marshal’s unconscious dependence on racist instincts where the self must hide its own conscience and consciousness - despite a few generations of being confronted… or rather more accurately, an effort of the Will to deny the humanity and truth and Christian righteousness of the confrontation - is testament to the enduring, strategically reframing and rephrasing of centuries of White Supremacist narrative conveying meta messages of racism and anti-blackness.
It is anti-blackness that is the driver, the hub of the wheel, around which all the other treasured bigotries of White Supremacy turn. Misogyny, Homophobia, Trans hate, Ableism, etc. Anti-blackness is at the core of White identity.
And those who keep choosing to thrill to the voice of this part of their mind and perform as White people, they are the only and true Thugs.
The First Black Leader of Virginia Military Institute Is Ousted
The college’s board decided not to renew the contract of its superintendent, Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, who led diversity efforts and removed a Confederate statue on campus.
All your religious infighting is stupid. You guys should just give up your fairytale nonsense and become atheists. That is the thinking man's position. It's 2024 give up your talking serpent narrative already.
Mr Atheist, you're always welcome here for respectful dialog, but you need to provide me an actual name. I don't care for anonymous commenters.
To your point, I'm not sure what "religious infighting" you find "stupid." Discussions about how we treat our fellow humans are important discussions, regardless of philosophy or religion.
Hate is hate. Racism and bigotry isn’t distinguished who practices it. I would say that faithfulness to theism provide the only sustainable ground for fighting hate. In the 20th century alone, organized atheism killed as many people as religion has in two millennia.
Trump's CFPB dropped its lawsuits against:
-Capital One, for cheating depositors out of $2B+ in interest
-Rocket Homes, for providing kickbacks to agents and brokers
-Vanderbilt Mortgage, for trapping customers in risky loans
It's open season for corporate crooks.
Robert Reich
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