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Satchel

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  1. It’s a fact that 92 million Americans of voting age skipped the last election. Unfortunately, considering where we are today, they don’t matter, other than taking up wasted space in the majority of Americans.
  2. Sure there is. A majority of the voting public could not abide another four years of feeling a loss of privilege and power they experienced during Obama’s presidency. To them, electing a criminal was worth it.
  3. We can no longer afford to have any kind of normalcy bias when we can see in real time how Trump’s goons are terrorizing American citizens with impunity. Tonight, Rachel reported that US Marshals and the FBI are claiming not to have had agents on the premises, even though the women who was terrorized, said some were wearing US Marshals, FBI and ICE branded attire. There’s no immediate relief for this family since the US government claims to know nothing about nothing. They have no money to feed their children because some unknown persons took every penny they had. This shit is happening in America to Americans.
  4. I saw snippets of their debate last night. How anyone could judge Trump to be the superior candidate, capable of leading this country is beyond me. Now we’re seeing the folly of our decision play out before the world to embarrassingly disastrous effect.
  5. He simply must be driven from office in ‘26: https://www.alternet.org/johnson-hegseth-cnn/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Apr.29.2025_7.55pm Late Tuesday morning, April 29, CNN's Wolf Blitzer delivered some breaking news: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), according to Blitzer, "is taking steps to change House rules" in a way that "would effectively block an investigation into the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal chat app." Hegseth's critics are calling for him to resign in response to reports that he discussed a U.S. military operation in Yemen in two separate conversations on the messaging program Signal — a platform that, critics say, is not secure enough for discussing sensitive or classified information. President Donald Trump's defense secretary is also drawing criticism over firings at the Pentagon. Hegseth's problems, Raju noted, aren't Johnson's only reason for this move. Raju told Blitzer, "And I just asked the speaker about this. He's done this now on multiple occasions — not just on this, but also, to deny efforts to target Trump on tariff policy. I asked him why he's protecting Donald Trump." CNN aired a clip of Johnson saying, "No, we're using the rules of the House to prevent political hijinks and political stunts. And that's what the Democrats have. As I mentioned: no leader, no vision, no platform. All they have is obstruction
  6. Vernon Johns said famously, “ when you see a good fight, get in it.” There’s nothing particularly good about arguing with people who are intractable in their positions.
  7. About this border czar: remember when Republicans HATED czars of any kind and feckless Democrats went along with them? https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/gop-czar-revolt-scores-its-first-win-026781 Republicans and a handful of Democrats have called on the White House to review and suspend its use of czars. “In the wake of these recent revelations, the president should suspend any further appointments of so-called czars until Congress has an opportunity to examine the background and responsibilities of these individuals and to determine the constitutionality of such appointments,” said Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), Chairman of the House Republican Conference, who called on Jones to resign. The czar-attacks have begun to catch fire far beyond the Beltway. In town hall meetings across the country this August, questioners slammed the administration’s advisers, claiming that they allowed the White House to wield unchecked power. It’s an argument that’s been fed by Republicans in Congress, who see an opening to attack the credibility of the popular administration. In an Arizona town hall meeting last week, Republican Sen. John McCain joked that Obama, “has more czars than the Romanovs” — a laugh line he frequently uses. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls the czars, “administrative chaos.”
  8. I RUN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD’ Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term-comeback/682573/
  9. Here’s a thought: this drama has very little to do with the guy charged with domestic violence, and everything to do with intimidating a judiciary that has dragged Trump’s ass for weeks.
  10. Maya Angelou told of an encounter she had with one of her bright young students who proudly proclaimed to her that she was Christian. Angelou responded rather quizzically, already???
  11. Since when did Deion become a Trump supporter?
  12. It’s telling just how much Trump resents the justice system: He absolutely loves, adores and identifies with criminals. With him, the more criminal one is, the better: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/michele-fiore-says-shes-been-pardoned-by-trump-after-federal-guilty-verdict-3362518/ President Donald Trump has granted “a full and unconditional pardon” to Michele Fiore, the former Las Vegas councilwoman found guilty of defrauding donors who believed they were giving money for a statue to honor a fallen Las Vegas police officer. “Today, I stand before you — not just as a free woman, but as a vindicated soul whose prayers were heard, whose faith held firm, and whose truth could not be buried by injustice,” Fiore said in a text message statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday. Fiore was found guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud charges by a federal jury in October. Federal prosecutors accused Fiore of raising tens of thousands of dollars through a charity and political action committee for a statue honoring Metropolitan Police Department officer Alyn Beck, who was shot and killed with his partner in 2014. Prosecutors said Fiore spent the donations on rent, plastic surgery and payments on her daughter’s wedding. On Thursday, Fiore’s defense attorneys filed a motion to vacate her May 14 sentencing and included a copy of Wednesday’s order from Trump pardoning Fiore. She was never really punished for the crime,” he said. “That sends a horrible message if you’re an elected official who engages in public corruption.” Return to the bench? Fiore cast the pardon in biblical terms. Her statement began with a phrase lifted from the book of Isaiah: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper” and said she would return to her position as a Pahrump justice of the peace. “On Monday, I will walk back into my courtroom as the elected Justice of the Peace — not because man permitted it, but because God ordained it,” she wrote. Pahrump Justice Court administrator Alisa Shoults said she did not yet know if Fiore, who was suspended without pay by the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, would return to her position Monday.
  13. Don’t they have the same rights as felonious presidents?
  14. I’m glad you offered this. I’ve long sworn off trying to “debate” people into the faith. A major challenge as I see it, is that most Christians are what Catholics might call, poorly catechized. They know very little about their faith beyond the cultural aspects. It might be trite, but it’s also true: people prefer to see a sermon rather than to hear one. So many Christians have all but abandoned the love ethic that sits at the heart of the faith. As my great grandmother used to say, love can change a mule’s mind.
  15. Just imagine how much time Trump spends doing his hair and makeup on a daily basis?
  16. During the ordination of new bishops, Pope Francis encouraged them to look beyond the trappings of the office and to not be beguiled them - but to instead stand in their calling as proclaimers of the Gospel and to always endeavor to “smell like sheep.” The universal church can benefit from such sagacious advice.
  17. Vance ether bored Francis to death or the smell of sulphur emanating from Vance was too much for the Pontiff to overcome.
  18. From Texas Monthly: Tim Dunn grew up in Big Spring, about forty miles northeast of Midland, with three older brothers in a cramped house. He now lives in a mansion, hidden within a roughly twenty-acre walled compound on the northern edge of Midland. Nearby is the nondenominational church where he regularly delivers sermons as a lay minister.
  19. You have a very valid point which becomes stronger when you don’t acknowledge the difference in application of a faith practiced by William Barber, Jim Walls, and that of Franklin Graham or Paula White.
  20. I like to think of myself as one does not practice his faith casually, and as such I still attend church regularly. In most things, I am an advocate of modernity, but the changes in worship, across denominational lines has been dispiriting. One would have difficulty discerning the difference in the music at St.Ann and that offered at Gateway or some such. From the sterile, uninspiring, windowless auditoriums that typify most modern churches, to the annoying, loud, often poorly performed band music, churches have made change the calling card without mapping to anything remotely transcendent. In my tradition (the black church) the fadishness has reached riduculous levels, to the extent that choosing a worship style that motivates and inspires is virtually impossible. While I am theologically and doctrinally in sync with my local congregation, (“Christ centered, Justice Driven, Kingdom Minded), I struggle with the pandering to Gen Z and Generation Alpha that masquerades as disciplining. I believe the church must change or die, but I’m not entirely comfortable with all that’s being done in the name of change Rant over.
  21. We didn’t know about this two weeks ago. This is a new breach.
  22. They can’t blame this in some underling. Hegseth created the chat himself and used his person phone instead of his government secured phone. Are these people just throwing their incompetence in our faces?
  23. Damn. This guy… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat. Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen — essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic. Mr. Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, is not a Defense Department employee, but she has traveled with him overseas and drawn criticism for accompanying her husband to sensitive meetings with foreign leaders. Mr. Hegseth’s brother Phil and Tim Parlatore, who continues to serve as his personal lawyer, both have jobs in the Pentagon, but it is not clear why either would need to know about upcoming military strikes aimed at the Houthis in Yemen.
  24. Trump watched those old codgers light up Grassley at his town hall, and it gave him pause, which rarely happens. Of course he gave the okay.
  25. Since it is a well known and established fact that criminals commit crime where they roost, race related crime is not all that common.
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