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SimonBolivar

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  1. 31 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

     must have been done at Trump’s insistence and over the objections of his counsel. 

    I'm not so sure. I feel like he could tell you to do something and then you could just pretend you did it and he wouldn't know the difference.

  2. 1 minute ago, cactusflinthead said:

    First post. He's been here a while.

    "New poster, long time lurker from Llano TX I feel much better about Christian Jones being on this roster with banks and Campbell to come 🤘🏼 Just signed up for burnt ends"

    Maybe he's the actual Confederate statue on the square in Llano. He might be relatively enlightened, and we are over here judging him.

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  3. 10 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

    Enseneda and IM are on complete opposite ends of the country. 

    That's like expecting lower airbnb rates in Maine after a bunch of murders in San Diego.

    You overestimate 

    1.) The average American's geographical knowledge

    2.) The average American's ability to logically see "Mexico Murders!1!1" and not connect that to the entire country and possibly The Valley too just to be safe.

    I was heading down to Oaxaca around the time of the killings/kidnapping in Matamoros and had 2 different people ask me if I was going to cancel my trip. 

  4. 12 minutes ago, Mole said:

    It’s a good chance to remind them that family values and character in leadership used* to be core conservative values. This case lays bare the reality that conservatives have abandoned** their core values.

    *in some mythical past, perhaps

    **embraced, but we like to lie to ourselves 

    I grew up in the SBC and have a very typical family connection to the church (hell Ronnie Floyd married my parents when he was a young preacher) in that I am WASPy as hell and from a relatively monied family in a monied church. The values in our particular large church in the 90s/00s was absolutely about appearance and a large part of that appearance came from the political belief in American exceptionalism and white exceptionalism (not expressly of course). 

     

    The fall of the SBC is interesting as the evangelical right have coalesced around a non-denominational banner in recent decades, but with the SBC political culture still being in charge of the movement. I'd argue this allows for theological mushiness in building the political coalition of the religious right which seems to outweigh their theological beliefs in importance of their self-image. 

     

    Something for future historians to ponder for sure.

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  5. 10 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
    18 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
    Baptist shit usually 

    Like what? Push on that shit. Trump is the most immoral man I've ever seen.

    Abortion, War on Christmas, anti LGBTQ, anti-woke all that fun jazz that is either policy or policy adjacent for the GOP. 

     

     

  6. 9 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
    35 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
    My Trump friends/family have full shifted to "I vote for the policy not the man" position in public.

    I would ask them what the policies are. Republicans have no policy other than fascism and owning the libs.

    Baptist shit usually 

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