What an amazing display of privilege. It must be nice to live in a society where religious belief isn’t being injected into the public and our government.

They passed separate aid packages for Ukraine and Israel. They could have done all the aid packages in one lump, but House Republicans voted it down on Trump’s orders.

The speculation is that with Trump’s criminal trial in session in New York, he doesn’t have the capacity to micromanage Republicans on the Hill. So this was Magic Mike’s first opportunity to pass the bill unobstructed, even if it required Democrats to assist.

Sorry, I was slow in removing this one.

I don’t agree with that statement, because both on paper and in practice, Christianity is no better or worse than Islam. The only reason Christians aren’t slaughtering homosexuals and transgender people the same way is because they’ve been leashed by secularism. It’s not that they haven’t or don’t want to again. It’s that they know they can’t get away with it – yet.

Look at organizations like Seven Mountains and other Dominionist groups promoting Christian Nationalism. It’s not a coincidence that Kevin Swanson regularly sees Republican office holders at his “Kill the Gays” rallies. They don’t hate Islamic theocracies because of the theocracy part. It’s that they’re jealous of their religious power and want to surpass it.

Dawkins stopped representing us a long, long time ago. He made some good points for a while, and then got so enamored of his own celebrity that he stopped being skeptical of his own thoughts. It’s sad to watch his decline, but he’s no longer relevant.

“Rules for thee but not for me.” Which brings us around to Wilhoit’s observation:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

https://youtu.be/ohgTEk9h1kc?si=RP3DiYmUxUooBnPH

It took me seconds to find video proving this is a lie.

The Narcissist’s Prayer:

“That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.”

Yes, but because religious indoctrination is so pervasive, we’re expected to be religious academics in order to defend our rejection of their beliefs. We literally have to know their religion better than they do. And that’s often true.

He also has a favourable judge in the Miami court from what I’ve heard.

The case was randomly assigned to Judge Cannon, who was already censured by the higher courts for her obvious bias toward Trump. This case will not remain in her docket.

Honestly its mad he’s allowed to run his campaign with several trials for high crimes on the table.

This is absolutely a problem, but on the flip side then Republicans would have tied Hillary up in the courts rather than risk her winning in 2016. I mean, they launched how many Congressional investigations against her while they controlled the House? It worked as a smear campaign, and if it carried legal consequences she would have been barred from running at all. Imagine that they do this to every potential Presidential candidate that Democrats have to offer. Even ones you like.