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7 minutes ago, royiv said:

Since urgent care isn’t covered by EMTALA, they should tell Mr. Snowflake to get bent and GTFO.

For the sake of the front desk staff I waited till stormed out thinking it was a waste of time to see a doctor - hadn’t eaten in 2 days - dehydrated and showing serious symptoms. Walked out. I called buck a fucking asshole out loud to the remaining patients and the staff.

 

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It's like he stopped mentally growing as a bully in 3rd grade. He uses the same language over and over with anything he dislikes. "Nasty, not smart, boring, not very good at her job, owes an apology, ungracious." He believes power is in fear and how much you have in your checking account. I can't call him my President because he's not at all presidential - he gives no joy or hope. He's not uplifting, he's just a hateful, immature old man and I have less than zero respect for him. He's vapor.

This is the country that had a game show about being smarter than 5th graders. Why is this surprising?
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11 minutes ago, troph said:

For the sake of the front desk staff I waited till stormed out thinking it was a waste of time to see a doctor - hadn’t eaten in 2 days - dehydrated and showing serious symptoms. Walked out. I called buck a fucking asshole out loud to the remaining patients and the staff.

 

Hope you feel better quickly. I know the past six months have been a slog for you.

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26 minutes ago, troph said:

Of course some problems like climate are time sensitive so 4 years really matters.

Yep.  Part of my wellness plan over the next decade is to focus on the existential threats, and climate is the main one. 

I've believed for the past couple of decades that the first party to fully embrace economic affirmative action and oppose all other forms of affirmative action would get a big electoral advantage.  I think the Dems need to pivot to that now -- accept the attacks on affirmative action and diversity but only with the proviso that we are going to practice economic affirmative action.  The blanket "protected class" language is going to be useful only in individual discrimination lawsuits from now on.

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39 minutes ago, troph said:

At urgent care, man walks in refuses to fill out the forms, asked about gender identity - DID YOU WATCH THE NEWS?! I’M A MAN, A MALE, I’M SO SICK OF THIS SHIT. Refuses to answer the race and ethnicity questions. Just an entitled piece of shit. Can’t even fucking fill out a form to sign in to see a helper. 

Texas hospitals now have to ask about citizenship. More than a few MAGA types start to rant that it's none of the hospital's business and can't they see that they're white. Then they're reminded that this was a recent legal requirement from Governor Greg Abbott and then they proudly state that they're an American citizen.

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12 hours ago, DixonHur said:

But isn't this true of any social arrangement?

The libertarian concept I took from the above definition doesn't preclude taxation ...

Anyway, I understand the argument of simplistic, but I think all systems of government and economics suffer from the same fate when introduced to human nature.  I'd just like a system where the government is designed to take care of the citizens basic needs but no laws governing morality that doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights.  IE murder, theft, etc.

To the bolded, yes and no.

Yes, all systems of government have to deal with and overcome the issues created by human nature.  Those that ACKNOWLEDGE human nature, and created mechanisms that allow for it in managed form (e.g., greed is a natural impulse, so we allow people to pursue full-on naked capitalist enterprises.....but we don't allow them to commit fraud, to steal, etc.) are the most successful and ultimately beneficial.

Note that perfection and hitting the bullseye is impossible.  And even a relatively good system (e.g., the American one) can suffer from fundamental failings (like the one at our inception: a "capitalist" system built in large part on slave labor, or the one we're dealing with right now: oligarchical capture of the state).  But that puts such a liberal system in the bucket of "shitty...but still better than all the others."

11 hours ago, DixonHur said:

I don't know.  I don't dislike government.  In fact I think government has a vital role in setting the rules of the game.  That said, I think that governments tend to overstep that role.  

Perfect world: 

  • Government provides common defense ...not "national interests", but legit, if we face aggression at home, we defend ourselves.
  • Government provides infrastructure (inclusive of utilities)
  • Government provides healthcare
  • Government provides education
  • Government provides regulatory environment
  • Government protects the borders and issues visas
  • Government sets tax rates
  • Government sets basic laws that 99% of sane people can agree on (IE no killing other people, no stealing from people, No diddling kids, etc)

Then...

  • Government stays the fuck out of my life

 

Yeah, again, you're describing a pretty common flavor of classical liberalism.  The hell of it is, if you float these concepts to the American people, you'd get broad majority support.  But, because a huge chunk of the people have been distracted by the shiny object of bullshit hotbutton issues ("DON'T BE WOKE!"), they reflexively OPPOSE these things and/or vote enthusiastically for people who have promised to prevent/destroy these things.

We just elected a regime that wants to invade and seize Greenland because we are "the apex predator."  And a lot of those votes were because they supposedly wanted a regime that "keeps us out of foreign wars."  See the inherent stupidity?  Oh, and those same people?  Most of them would characterize themselves as libertarian given the opportunity.  Just fucking stupid.

Our problem, and our ultimate failure, will be because we are too stupid to continue as a functioning Republic.  It was probably inevitable, eventually.

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42 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

That wasn't a prayer or sermon, that was a political speech. But the biggest red flag to me was absolutely no mention of Christ. God is portrayed as this distant being and people are supposed to be leftist social activists in order to be 'good'. Those are the words of a false prophet that has no personal relationship with Christ. Unfortunately there are many American churches filled with those types. Lost people.

Entirely predictable "prayer" service with a woman bishop in the Episcopalian "church".

This stupid twat is as far from being a Christian as one can get....except for his orange god. 

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10 hours ago, yoladu said:

Of the 7 richest people in the world, 5 were in attendance for the Inauguration. Why exactly?

Because.....

10 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Because Donald Trump is a populist. Duh.

 

10 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

trump = man of the people !!!

Seriously.  

The MAGAts voted for Trump because "fuck the elites!  We want a man of the people!"

And that man does exactly what any sane person saw he was going to do: turn over the keys of the country to literal oligarchs.

1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said:

So why did he pardon the Silk Road guy?

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/21/trump-pardons-silk-road-ross-ulbricht-.html
 

I thought he was saying we should kill drug traffickers- is that only for brown ones?

Bolded for "yes, duh."

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Trump’s America apparently proves no one cares whether foreign interests are buying influence or policy outcomes with direct bribes to the president and his family. This is something I truly don’t understand is tolerable and not the lead story every day 

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

That wasn't a prayer or sermon, that was a political speech. But the biggest red flag to me was absolutely no mention of Christ. God is portrayed as this distant being and people are supposed to be leftist social activists in order to be 'good'. Those are the words of a false prophet that has no personal relationship with Christ. Unfortunately there are many American churches filled with those types. Lost people.

Entirely predictable "prayer" service with a woman bishop in the Episcopalian "church".

Awwww, the wittle snowflake got his fee fees hurt.

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2 hours ago, royiv said:

When the majority of medical school graduates are female, I will never understand why any woman would seek primary healthcare from on old dude. Heck, I feel the same way myself. My last two internists have been younger females and I’ve been extremely happy with them. I’ve found they spend a lot more time listening and having a dialogue about my health so that any treatment is a collaboration between them and me.

 

2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

All else being equal, I tend to gravitate toward female doctors vs. male.  I think women are better suited to being doctors. 

 

2 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Plus, it's fun to have a woman touch your pickle.

This is actually pertinent to my interest as last week I went to a female internist with the intention of "firing" my male PCP of 20+ years. The relationship had grown stale and his one-man show had ZERO automation. Plus I'd gotten annoyed when he started charging me for an office visit when I'd go in for my annual physical, which is paid for by insurance, by asking me some innocuous question about my BP/cholesterol meds, me saying "all good" and then him adding that code to the chart/bill.

At any rate, went to see a female doc last week on recommendation from friends and a few others. She was awesome.

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The laying on of hand shit freaks me out.  And some of those folks are just touching the person in front of them. 
 

but I was never even comfortable with hand holding with strangers during the our father. 

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

That wasn't a prayer or sermon, that was a political speech. But the biggest red flag to me was absolutely no mention of Christ. God is portrayed as this distant being and people are supposed to be leftist social activists in order to be 'good'. Those are the words of a false prophet that has no personal relationship with Christ. Unfortunately there are many American churches filled with those types. Lost people.

Entirely predictable "prayer" service with a woman bishop in the Episcopalian "church".

Perhaps, you troglodyte, the prayer on National Prayer Day was intended to address those who worship God, but not Christ, as well as followers of Christ.  There are a few of those, yknow.

And, regarding the bold, Jesus was kind of the ultimate social activist.

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I was thinking about how suddenly the news shifted from all sorts of world and national events to just one person. My informal survey is to check AP, Reuters, and BBC and count headlines. There’s been an overwhelming shift in focus, even though so much of the focus is on the profoundly asinine.

Then I see the trolling here and consider how the campaign was largely a meme and trolling campaign, powered by rage and attention.

Then we see the new presidential photo that looks just like Vigo the Carpathian. We used to live in Idiocracy, but we may have jumped over to Ghost Busters 2.

There may be literal slime building up under DC. How long until the Ulysses S. Grant monument comes to life and starts trampling people? Can we organize a 24-day singing of Auld Lang Syne in front of the White House?

My recommendation is to stay informed of actual events, advocate where you can, but to stop feeding the rage monster. It’s not just unhealthy for you, it’s his super power and provides his movement energy.

If you claim Christ and are supporting this filth, prayerfully search the Bible to see what it says about the hot button issues of the day. Maybe start with Deut. 24 and 27; it’s pretty explicit and applicable. Or maybe just read the book of James and think about how we should interact.

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

That wasn't a prayer or sermon, that was a political speech. But the biggest red flag to me was absolutely no mention of Christ. God is portrayed as this distant being and people are supposed to be leftist social activists in order to be 'good'. Those are the words of a false prophet that has no personal relationship with Christ. Unfortunately there are many American churches filled with those types. Lost people.

Entirely predictable "prayer" service with a woman bishop in the Episcopalian "church".

I’ve never quite understood the arrogance of some who claim to be Christian who feel it is their place to critique prayers that are not being prayed to them. How does that work, exactly?

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15 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

Does Ross get his bitcoin back too? That would make him the world's newest multibillionaire

I laughed at first, but ya know, it's kind of a good question. Was the money seized from "Silk Road" as an organization? Or was it really Ross's money? I don't know if Silk Road was ever actually incorporated, so it could essentially just be a d/b/a. In that case, I could see the argument that a full pardon means he would be entitled to all of his seized belongings being returned. But I'm just speculating here. Don't think there's any previous case to compare this to. 

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36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The theology on this shit is not complicated.  And what truly fascinates me is that the evangelical movement has been so focused on "the Antichrist" for decades.....that the first chance they got to swear fealty to the Antichrist, they prostrated themselves before him with vigor and enthusiasm.  Fucking amazing.

As a lifelong atheist, I'm a little confused. Every religious person I know loves Trump and has voted for him at least once (at least, every religious person I know well enough to talk about this shit. Maybe Gary at the office is super religious and hates Trump, I don't know). Meanwhile, the non-religious people I know all fucking hate him. 

As you said, if you tried to construct an Antichrist from scratch, you wouldn't need to make any changes to Dotard. He checks every box. And they love him. Hell, they used to accuse Obama of being the Antichrist because he ate mustard or something. Make it make sense.

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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

As a lifelong atheist, I'm a little confused. Every religious person I know loves Trump and has voted for him at least once (at least, every religious person I know well enough to talk about this shit. Maybe Gary at the office is super religious and hates Trump, I don't know). Meanwhile, the non-religious people I know all fucking hate him. 

As you said, if you tried to construct an Antichrist from scratch, you wouldn't need to make any changes to Dotard. He checks every box. And they love him. Hell, they used to accuse Obama of being the Antichrist because he ate mustard or something. Make it make sense.

it never will and the second you reconcile that fact the happier you will be

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On 1/22/2025 at 6:30 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

The disturbing part here is Annex I.  It directs ALL employees— whether they worked on DEI or not— to rat out colleagues who have been and who lawfully and within the scope of directions might have reframed DEI activities in advance of the new admin.  It promises no consequences for reporting but adverse consequences if you were aware but do not.

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The MAGA rats will love this.

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They see the rational and/or libs as, and I mean literally, enemies of their country. Serving the state by reporting wokers to local Committees for Public Safety and Forced Births will bring high praise. 

 

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If you rat out an enemy of the state, we'll move you to the top of that list!

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2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

That wasn't a prayer or sermon, that was a political speech. But the biggest red flag to me was absolutely no mention of Christ. God is portrayed as this distant being and people are supposed to be leftist social activists in order to be 'good'. Those are the words of a false prophet that has no personal relationship with Christ. Unfortunately there are many American churches filled with those types. Lost people.

Entirely predictable "prayer" service with a woman bishop in the Episcopalian "church".

Wow this guy is an ugly terrible person. The internet and social media has laid bare the true thoughts and beliefs of people like this everywhere. I really didn’t realize there were this many terrible people in this country like him. I want nothing to do with people like this. I wonder if he will ever realize what a horrible human being he is and try to change. 

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4 minutes ago, Red Five said:

As a lifelong atheist, I'm a little confused. Every religious person I know loves Trump and has voted for him at least once (at least, every religious person I know well enough to talk about this shit. Maybe Gary at the office is super religious and hates Trump, I don't know). Meanwhile, the non-religious people I know all fucking hate him. 

As you said, if you tried to construct an Antichrist from scratch, you wouldn't need to make any changes to Dotard. He checks every box. And they love him. Hell, they used to accuse Obama of being the Antichrist because he ate mustard or something. Make it make sense.

Hi. Lifelong and fairly religious Catholic here (Mass every week and on holy days, etc). I was also a Republican from the day I could vote until '22 or so before I finally gave up on the GOP. But even before then, I've always been a Never-Trumper. I voted third-party in '16, abstained in '20, and voted for Harris in '24.

Before Trump, I felt a somewhat uneasy alliance with conservative evangelicals. While we wanted the same thing politically, I feel like there was still a level of mutual distrust of one another. I was previously a Republican because I believed it reflected Christian values more than the alternative, largely because of the issue of abortion which made things pretty black-and-white in my mind. But now, post-Roe, that dragon is slain, and looking at other moral issues--the treatment of immigrants and refugees, the environment, and capital punishment--not to mention Russian aggression, I now consider myself an independent conservative who votes more for Democrats than Republicans, and will likely continue to do so as long as MAGA runs that party.

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21 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Every religious person I know loves Trump and has voted for him at least once (at least, every religious person I know well enough to talk about this shit. Maybe Gary at the office is super religious and hates Trump, I don't know). Meanwhile, the non-religious people I know all fucking hate him. 

That may be a function of your social circle, or it may be that the actually religious people you know are few in number and don’t pray on street corners. 

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2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

That wasn't a prayer or sermon, that was a political speech. But the biggest red flag to me was absolutely no mention of Christ. God is portrayed as this distant being and people are supposed to be leftist social activists in order to be 'good'. Those are the words of a false prophet that has no personal relationship with Christ. Unfortunately there are many American churches filled with those types. Lost people.

Entirely predictable "prayer" service with a woman bishop in the Episcopalian "church".

One of the most disturbing posts ever written on this site.  Not necessarily just because of the content, but because you know there are millions more who agree.

I've managed to generally stay away from this forum since November, and I think this post alone has convinced me to keep that going.

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2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

That wasn't a prayer or sermon, that was a political speech. But the biggest red flag to me was absolutely no mention of Christ. God is portrayed as this distant being and people are supposed to be leftist social activists in order to be 'good'. Those are the words of a false prophet that has no personal relationship with Christ. Unfortunately there are many American churches filled with those types. Lost people.

Entirely predictable "prayer" service with a woman bishop in the Episcopalian "church".

You seem unfamiliar with Christ’s gospel, particularly the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and especially The Beatitudes. 

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4 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

This could probably go in the dementia thread too. 

 

“Fuck your fruit and vegetables that need to be picked or the construction you are needing done! My rich friends need wine experts and quality waiters and we need to get those from anywhere BUT the US. MAGA!!!!”

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3 minutes ago, Saint Austin said:

was previously a Republican because I believed it reflected Christian values more than the alternative, largely because of the issue of abortion which made things pretty black-and-white in my mind. But now, post-Roe, that dragon is slain, and looking at other moral issues--the treatment of immigrants and refugees, the environment, and capital punishment--not to mention Russian aggression,

So your belief was and still is, that pregnancy termination should not be available for anyone, even those that don’t follow the same faith?  
 

if that’s the case, my question to you is why shouldn’t it be a choice, and those that believe it is wrong for religious reasons can abstain from having the procedure done, while others have it remain a viable option?

additionally the quoted portion reads to me as if abortion was such a big issue that it overshadowed all of the other things that you mentioned, and only now that roe is overturned has the general lack of Christian morals turned you away from claiming party membership.  Is that a correct comprehension of your statement?

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