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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 3, 2025 at 7:42 am
(June 3, 2025 at 6:44 am)Alan V Wrote: (June 3, 2025 at 6:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I guess he missed the bit where Jesus told the apostles ‘Go not into the way of the Gentiles.’
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Interesting, but Paul was the actual founder of Christianity. Didn't he promote promoting?
As an aside, I have no doubt that most professed Christians are not really Christians in their behaviors at all.
He did, but Paul was a psychopath.
‘Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor’ is one of the verses that gives them the howling fantods.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 3, 2025 at 7:50 am
(June 3, 2025 at 7:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (June 3, 2025 at 6:44 am)Alan V Wrote: Interesting, but Paul was the actual founder of Christianity. Didn't he promote promoting?
As an aside, I have no doubt that most professed Christians are not really Christians in their behaviors at all.
He did, but Paul was a psychopath.
‘Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor’ is one of the verses that gives them the howling fantods.
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It's a lot easier to be a psychopath than a real Christian. In fact, the latter may be impossible unless you really do believe the end of the world is coming very soon.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 3, 2025 at 7:55 am
(June 3, 2025 at 7:50 am)Alan V Wrote: (June 3, 2025 at 7:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: He did, but Paul was a psychopath.
‘Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor’ is one of the verses that gives them the howling fantods.
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It's a lot easier to be a psychopath than a real Christian. In fact, the latter may be impossible unless you really do believe the end of the world is coming very soon.
I’m much more comfortable with Jeffersonian Christians than the so-called ‘real’ Christian. If you take out all the god-ish bits, Jesus is fairly unobjectionable.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 4, 2025 at 7:59 pm
OIDK....
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23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 4, 2025 at 11:48 pm
They didn't know. What, are they supposed to read the shit they vote for?
Quote:House Republicans Shocked to Learn Bill They Didn’t Read Has Stuff in It They Don’t Like
Like small children suddenly learning their actions have consequences—or cynical grown-ups scrambling to cover their asses—a number of House Republicans are now claiming they did not realize what was in the GOP spending bill they voted for last month, and had someone told them, they would not have voted “yes.”
One day after Elon Musk dubbed Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” a “disgusting abomination,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X to tell her followers that there is no way she would have voted in favor of the legislation had she known it contained a measure she doesn’t like. “Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years,” the Georgia congressperson wrote. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”
Several hours later, Representative Scott Perry took to X to declare Musk was “right to call out House Leadership” for voting for the bill, saying “I wish I had a nickel for every time the @freedomcaucus sounded the alarm and nobody listened, only to find out the hard way we were right all along.” What Perry didn’t note is that all but one member of the House Freedom Caucus voted yes for the bill, including Perry.* Surely an honest oversight!
Greene and Perry’s mea culpas follow that of Representative Mike Flood, who said in a town hall last week that he he was unaware the bill would limit judges’ abilities to hold people in contempt, and that he would not have voted for it if he was aware of the measure.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ho...-dont-like
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 4, 2025 at 11:50 pm
Faux News was on a patient's telly, and their commentary on Democrats is pure projection.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 5, 2025 at 12:01 am
(June 4, 2025 at 11:48 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: They didn't know. What, are they supposed to read the shit they vote for?
Quote:House Republicans Shocked to Learn Bill They Didn’t Read Has Stuff in It They Don’t Like
Like small children suddenly learning their actions have consequences—or cynical grown-ups scrambling to cover their asses—a number of House Republicans are now claiming they did not realize what was in the GOP spending bill they voted for last month, and had someone told them, they would not have voted “yes.”
One day after Elon Musk dubbed Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” a “disgusting abomination,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X to tell her followers that there is no way she would have voted in favor of the legislation had she known it contained a measure she doesn’t like. “Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years,” the Georgia congressperson wrote. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”
Several hours later, Representative Scott Perry took to X to declare Musk was “right to call out House Leadership” for voting for the bill, saying “I wish I had a nickel for every time the @freedomcaucus sounded the alarm and nobody listened, only to find out the hard way we were right all along.” What Perry didn’t note is that all but one member of the House Freedom Caucus voted yes for the bill, including Perry.* Surely an honest oversight!
Greene and Perry’s mea culpas follow that of Representative Mike Flood, who said in a town hall last week that he he was unaware the bill would limit judges’ abilities to hold people in contempt, and that he would not have voted for it if he was aware of the measure.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ho...-dont-like
Flooding the zone.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 5, 2025 at 4:39 am
(June 5, 2025 at 12:01 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (June 4, 2025 at 11:48 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: They didn't know. What, are they supposed to read the shit they vote for?
Flooding the zone.
When I was in high school (back in the Bronze Age), there was a required course called 'Consumerism and Society'. On day one, the teacher said, more or less, 'If you come away from this class knowing only one thing, I'll consider myself a success. That one thing is to read everything before you sign anything.'
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 5, 2025 at 4:48 am
Mike Lindell says he's going to take the stand in his defamation trial. Should be a shit show of epic proportions.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 5, 2025 at 7:06 am
Gonna be a long boring trial. I'll bring my pillow.
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