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  1. 1 hour ago, Fastbreak said:


    The Jewish high priest took 2 goats into the temple. He sliced the neck of one of the goats and drained the blood as an offering to God. Then he held the 2nd goat close and confessed the sins of the Israeli people. He then carried the goat to a cliff at the edge of the city and threw it over, removing the sins from Jerusalem.

    Thus the word Scapegoat was invented.

    Also this is Yom Kippur, the most holy day for Jewish people.

    All of it is batshit crazy…

    For it being called the Holy Land, I have to say there’s not much about it that feels holy when you’re there in the middle of all that division and hatred.

  2. On 3/7/2024 at 12:03 PM, Guest said:

    That's really what it seems like. I just don't see him punching Cruz in the nose in the campaign. Cruz will say anything and everything.

    I think Gutierrez is much more of what was needed.

    Colin suffers from a condition that infects most black male politicians. He’s afraid to turn off white voters who might consider voting for him by coming across as the scary, angry, arrogant even, black man. Trust me. It’s a real fear and not without credence.

  3. 1 hour ago, Bojack said:

    I don't know about y'all but every Libertarian I've ever known is an insecure, know it all, contrarian jackass that likes to scrutinize the political  views of others while never wanting to hear scrutiny of their own. The fact that they'll never win and hold any office makes it where they never have to admit that their ideas are childish and unworkable in the real world. 

    Watched quite a bit of their convention on C-SPAN. What you say, checks out.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Rex Kramer said:

    I wouldn’t be telling anyone anything. I’m not voting for Trump and I think a lot of his supporters are truly deplorable. I don’t believe ALL of his supporters are evil simpletons that can be manipulated like Weimar Republic Germans. We aren’t in that kind of poor shape economically, and so many are quick to presume if Trump wins we’re gonna replicate Nazi Germany. It’s something we should be very mindful of, but, I believe it an absurd comparison.

    Unfortunately, though, I think we are going to get to find out from January 2025 on. 

    But there are millions of evil simpletons who can be manipulated like Weimar Republic Germans. Millions.

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  5. Supreme Court upholds S.C. election maps gerrymandering Black voters out of competitive district

    https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/23/south-carolina-election-map-supreme-court-decision-gerrymandering/

    South Carolina election maps that moved Black voters out of a competitive congressional district are legal, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

    In a 6-3 decision, the nation’s highest court overturned a federal court decision that ruled the maps were unconstitutional and violated the 14th Amendment. The court split along ideological lines, with the six conservatives comprising the majority while the three liberals dissented.

    The challengers provided no direct evidence of a racial gerrymander, and their circumstantial evidence is very weak,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion. “Instead the challengers relied on deeply flawed expert reports.”

    South Carolina’s 1st District, currently represented by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, was hotly contested during the 2020 election, and Mace won it by 1%. But in 2022, after the district was redrawn, she cruised to reelection by 14%.

     

    Alito is on a mission. The Court must be expanded

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  6. 4 minutes ago, tx ind said:

    What's the actual procedure to expand the court? 

    Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to change the size of the Supreme Court. Congress has used that authority seven times before. To restore balance and integrity to a broken institution, Congress must expand the Supreme Court by four or more seats

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    What I don't think people fully appreciate is that while yeah, there are some dumb fucking voters out there, there are a lot of voters who aren't dumb but love Trump.  I know a few of these, and they have kind of given up all pretenses if they trust you.  They think the federal government is fatally flawed and needs to be broken and rebuilt no matter the cost.  They know completely well that Trump has some horrific traits competing for dominance -- narcissism, sociopathy, stupidity and criminality.  They do not care.  They view his hatchet-man governance as the opportunity to remake the federal government to be something from before the New Deal and all the progressive measures enacted in the last half of the 20th century (civil rights, gay marriage, etc...).

    That is their vision of a better America.  And they don't sport swastikas tattoos or shaved heads.  They are directors or VPs at companies whose names you would recognize in Austin, Dallas and Denver.  They are some of the parents of the kids that your kids are friends with.  You've sat next to them at little league games, maybe even laughed together at a (non-political) joke among the circle of dad's at the neighbor kid's birthday party.

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    From Merriam Webster:

    Dumb: lacking intelligence STUPID

    Intelligence: the skilled use of reason

    The people you describe manifest a deficit in the skilled use of reason and could reasonably be described as dumb.

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  8. President Carter will be 100 in October. He just might make it, given the number of times he’s confounded those making his premature death announcements.

  9. 1 hour ago, Born to Run said:

    I have some pretty left leaning friends that listen to this shit because "he has good guests on." It fucking sucks to watch them get a bit of brain worms, parrot TDS and parrot empty Biden rhetoric at behest of a dude that used to make people eat bugs and currently comments on dudes beating eachothers brains in for money in the CTE era. They enjoy the show.


    That whole Rogan, Tucker Tik Tok sphere might turn the election assuming those chucklefucks can figure out how to vote, even bother, and have past felony they have gotten fully addressed so they can legally vote.
    I don't think I'll be doing community outreach on that demo when I work this early fall. Ah, Mr Tapout shirt you have a prior felony and can't vote for life? Sorry to waste your time you can't re-register.
     

    The problem can be traced back to the moment the culture decided that it needed influencers to help people make sense out of life. Stupidest shit ever.

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