The thread says 'Absurd GOP".
We know they are absurd.
BUT-THEY ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS NOW!
They dominate the internet and have paid trolls infiltrating any "progressive" on line discussion or forum.
I joined this site because I think they are less likely to be here.
First of all , we there a very few members here.We "atheists" are a marginalized group so we are not a threat to them.
I believe the game is over for the USA .
Our flawed democracy is no longer...
There will be an intense struggle when the economy crashes and after the billionaire class has pick pocketed middle class America into poverty.
A second civil war here is going to occur within 10-15 years.
By then,I'll be part of infinity ...
I hope I am mistaken....

A lot of trolls and a LOT of bots.

(August 14, 2025 at 1:52 pm)DocGabby Wrote: The thread says 'Absurd GOP".
We know they are absurd.
BUT-THEY ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS NOW!
They dominate the internet and have paid trolls infiltrating any "progressive" on line discussion or forum.
I joined this site because I think they are less likely to be here.
First of all , we there a very few members here.We "atheists" are a marginalized group so we are not a threat to them.
I believe the game is over for the USA .
Our flawed democracy is no longer...
There will be an intense struggle when the economy crashes and after the billionaire class has pick pocketed middle class America into poverty.
A second civil war here is going to occur within 10-15 years.
By then,I'll be part of infinity ...
I hope I am mistaken....

Atheists make up around half the population according to recent polls.
It's a long way from 'over' for anyone. Whether Britain in 1940, UKraine now or the US.
Democracy will return stronger.
Your second civil war is about 18 months off, about the time they try to cancel the midterms.
You have this time to prepare.

(August 16, 2025 at 8:56 am)Mr Greene Wrote:

(August 14, 2025 at 1:52 pm)DocGabby Wrote: The thread says 'Absurd GOP".
We know they are absurd.
BUT-THEY ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS NOW!
They dominate the internet and have paid trolls infiltrating any "progressive" on line discussion or forum.
I joined this site because I think they are less likely to be here.
First of all , we there a very few members here.We "atheists" are a marginalized group so we are not a threat to them.
I believe the game is over for the USA .
Our flawed democracy is no longer...
There will be an intense struggle when the economy crashes and after the billionaire class has pick pocketed middle class America into poverty.
A second civil war here is going to occur within 10-15 years.
By then,I'll be part of infinity ...
I hope I am mistaken....

Atheists make up around half the population according to recent polls.
It's a long way from 'over' for anyone. Whether Britain in 1940, UKraine now or the US.
Democracy will return stronger.
Your second civil war is about 18 months off, about the time they try to cancel the midterms.
You have this time to prepare.

(Bold mine)

That prognostication makes me want to move to the US. I’m too old to take a direct part in the street fighting, but I’m sure I could be set up in a cellar somewhere, assembling Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs. My code name would be ‘Pappy Boom-Boom’.

Boru

(August 16, 2025 at 12:26 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(August 16, 2025 at 8:56 am)Mr Greene Wrote: Atheists make up around half the population according to recent polls.
It's a long way from 'over' for anyone. Whether Britain in 1940, UKraine now or the US.
Democracy will return stronger.
Your second civil war is about 18 months off, about the time they try to cancel the midterms.
You have this time to prepare.

(Bold mine)

That prognostication makes me want to move to the US. I’m too old to take a direct part in the street fighting, but I’m sure I could be set up in a cellar somewhere, assembling Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs. My code name would be ‘Pappy Boom-Boom’.

Boru

My disability prevents my active participation in fighting, but I know enough about all sorts of military matters to be of use.

Heard press secretary Leavitt referred to as Taco Belle. LOL

Count me in. I will provide empty bottles. 

Lindsey Graham, that champion of Biblical morality, is gay.

Quote:Laura Loomer, in wild court testimony, says Trump staff told her Lindsey Graham is gay

Loomer filed a lawsuit against Bill Maher, who has his own history of anti-transgender rhetoric, after he said on the Real Time with Bill Maher show during the campaign that the influencer might be “f---ing” Trump.

But Maher's attorney, Katherine Bolger, also raised a number of controversial remarks Loomer has made, including insinuations about Graham’s sexuality. In September, Loomer on the X platform wrote: "When is Lindsey coming out of the closet? We all know you’re gay, Lindsey… and that’s ok."

She defended those remarks to Bolger, who raised the exchange.

"I called him 'gay,'" she said. "It’s well-known. Several of President Trump's staff have told me in confidence that – that Lindsey Graham is gay."

Further, she said a number of people in Republican circles "told me that they've attended dinners where he's brought male significant individuals with him -- like, significant others."

"I will say that he never denied being gay after I said that," she said.

Bolger stressed she did not ask for Loomer to explain the accusation, and Loomer’s own attorney, Larry Klayman, objected to the topic being further discussed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/laur...57076.html

^Because Loomer is such a reliable source of information.

Boru

(August 16, 2025 at 5:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^Because Loomer is such a reliable source of information.

Boru

Well it was under oath.

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Do you think they'll divorce?

Quote:Divorce him already, Usha

JD Vance and his wife really seem to loathe each other.

Last month, Megan McCain hosted Usha Vance for what should have been the softest of softball interviews, focused on what life as second lady is like. Vance clearly understood her assignment was to make it all seem like a great time — that leaving her career as a high-powered attorney to spend her days doing sub-Melania Trump public appearances about dull topics like the importance of reading for kids. But her acting chops weren’t up to it. Instead, audiences were treated to a one-hour hostage video, as the increasingly desperate McCain tried to get Vance to feign interest in her own life.

The longer Vance talked, the more miserable she seemed. Despite McCain’s best efforts to talk up how “excited” she is to see a “modern” woman in the role of second lady, Vance ended up talking about how much she missed her old life. “In a dream world, eventually, I’ll be able to live in my home and continue my career,” Vance told McCain, shrugging off questions about whether she wants to be first lady.

McCain also tried to extract sentimental details about the passionate romance between the Vances, for her audience to coo over. Usha Vance wouldn’t — or perhaps couldn’t — deliver, instead speaking of her husband like he was assigned as her roommate.

J.D. Vance has spent years now dropping similarly miserable hints that he is not enjoying married life. He runs down Usha Vance all the time in public. In March, he “joked” that when “the cameras are all on; anything I say, no matter how crazy, my wife Usha has to smile, laugh, and celebrate it.” At Trump’s birthday parade in June, he wished both the president and the Army a happy birthday without caveat. Then he added, “I would get in trouble if I didn’t mention it’s also my wedding anniversary.” But the most disturbing example, to me at least, is how he used his speech at last year’s Republican National Convention to celebrate how he is erasing her very identity in marrying her.

It’s also telling that J.D. Vance seems to think marriage and parenthood should be mandatory for nearly everyone. He speaks of these choices so often in terms of duty — as if he can’t imagine either being undertaken out of joy. A mere seven years into his marriage, Vance argued people should be “doggedly determined to stick it out” in marriage, no matter if it’s “unhappy” or even “violent.” Despite his claims that “childless cat ladies” are “miserable,” it’s hard not to notice the protest-too-much quality to his obsession with single or childless people.

As liberal commentator Melissa Ryan wrote during the campaign, when he calls other people “miserable,” you get the sense Vance is projecting. Despite his insistence that marriage and parenthood should be nearly universal, he talks about his own family with a sense of distance. He often refers to his kids as if they belong only to his wife. “She’s got three kids,” he said, laughing, during a 2024 interview in which he also admitted that, even though she’s not even Catholic, Usha Vance has his wife has “more responsibility to keep the kids quiet in the church.”

What the Vances show in public is hard to stomach. If that’s what the right thinks marriage is all about, J.D. Vance shouldn’t be so surprised that ever larger numbers of women are saying, “Thanks, I’ll choose cats instead.”

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/11/divorce...eady-usha/