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2024 US Presidential Election
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 (January 8, 2024 at 12:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Trump is now saying the the American Civil War could have been avoided with ‘a negotiated settlement’. He's apparently unaware that that was tried, to no avail, in the decades leading up to the Civil War. The Congress tried to negotiate compromises limiting where and where not slavery could be legal in order to balance Congressional representation between slave and free states.  (January 4, 2024 at 10:37 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: America 2025 if Trump wins LMAO Is this what liberal boomers watch on Facebook? This is insane. ![[Image: nL4L1haz_Qo04rZMFtdpyd1OZgZf9NSnR9-7hAWT...dc2a24480e]](https://external-preview.redd.it/nL4L1haz_Qo04rZMFtdpyd1OZgZf9NSnR9-7hAWTNVY.jpg?width=216&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7b11e8b38bea0eacc8797fc971574ddc2a24480e) 
Trump just promised an authoritarian ‘task force’ to impose Christian ideology
In recent campaign stops and on social media, Donald Trump has reprised lies aimed at inciting his Christian-right base against Joe Biden. These tirades, centered on the false charge that the Biden administration is persecuting Christians, aren’t just Trump’s typically dubious claims. Much like Trump’s lies about a stolen election, they are designed to immerse his loyalists in a grievance-laden alternative reality in which Trump alone can rescue them from an evil government threatening their freedom. In a Dec. 19 speech in Iowa, for example, Trump pledged, “As soon as I get back in the Oval Office, I’ll also immediately end the war on Christians. I don’t know if you feel it. You have a war. There’s a war.” Speaking just after the Colorado Supreme Court disqualified him from appearing on the state’s GOP primary ballot, Trump tied this “war” to his own legal woes. “Under crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted and government has been weaponized against religion like never before. And also presidents like never before,” he added. “I always say Al Capone was treated better than I was treated.” Unsurprisingly, Trump’s ardent supporters see his and their “wars” as tied together. When he was indicted in a Manhattan court on charges that he illegally covered up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, his backers compared this supposed persecution to that of Jesus Christ. In a Truth Social video two days after his Iowa speech, Trump made this persecution pact complete. He contended that under Biden, “Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted like nothing this nation has ever seen before.” Trump has also echoed wild and debunked claims from congressional Republicans about anti-Catholic bias by the Biden administration and the FBI in particular. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opin...rcna132082
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 (January 8, 2024 at 12:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Trump is now saying the the American Civil War could have been avoided with ‘a negotiated settlement’. The Missouri Compromise? The Gag Rule? The Fugitive Slave Act? The Compromise of 1850? Bloody Kansas and John Brown? Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854? The Lincoln-Douglas Debates? Shame there was no attempt at negotiation. The orange turd assumes, correctly, that his followers won't fact check him 
There are those in the deep south who are going to buy into anything that they think may prove their side.
Many are still mentally fighting the civil war. Or as I was told - That's the war of Northern Aggression to you Missy. This wasn't all that many years ago and wasn't anything that surprised me after living a few years in SC. Trump is playing to an audience that wants to hear things like this. ![[Image: MmQV79M.png]](https://i.imgur.com/MmQV79M.png)
It's the economy, stupid.
Trump wants the US economy to crash this year so that he can win.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
It's almost always about the economy. Republicans claim that Trump would've won a second term if not for the pandemic. They may be right.
I think that is the Republican house strategy. Tank the country so that Trump can get into power. Then they can plot how to stay in power forever.
Trump over Murica
Who needs equality, freedom, or justice anyway?
Quote:Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-bat...-immunity/ |
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