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Fucking good. These extra judicial ex parte ROs are such fucking bullshit, and should be ignored.

They drive me up a fucking wall because these cunt judges know exactly what they’re doing. It’s either pause everything you’re doing so that you can answer to my bullshit order that had absolutely no right to be filed, or ignore them (as you again, fucking should) and be branded the tyrant that is opposing muh heckin judicial process by gay retards who don’t know better or are actively malicious.

I hate activist judges so much it’s unreal. It’s such a shame. I used to have respect for judges as a whole. More the fool me.
The problem is that there's almost zero legal mechanism to get rid of these fucking people either. It's a major problem.
 
i'm sorry, but i simply don't accept, at face value, the idea that the church should ever have cared about what lawyers would think. the correct action morally was always to report them, and the consistent and continued to this very day failure to do so reveals exactly why the church doesn't do it; they are not concerned about the people who will be hurt, they are concerned about their reputation.

as people who are claiming to hold dominion on the true church of christ, that is completely unacceptable to me, without question.
This is a very fair point.
 
You're welcome to read the linked article.
I did.

1. No empirical data exists that suggests that Catholic clerics sexually abuse minors at a level higher than clerics from other religious traditions or from other groups of men who have ready access and power over children (e.g., school teachers, coaches).

That does not mean there's no difference in pedo rates that means that no data exists. No data exists because it would require the church to self-report which is what they've spent millions of dollars over decades to avoid doing.
 
people don't even remember hoovervilles anymore, which were named after the president of their time, and were built in the places where all those work projects hoover wanted to get going would be at. easy to see how FDR swooped in and used them to snatch up the laboring worker's vote by claiming it was all his idea later.
Neither of those are what I was told. The story was always they were shantytowns of poor people with no jobs or homes and they were called that because everyone hated Hoover for doing nothing.
 
And to any Kiwis who might be on the fence about all this religion stuff, or might be thinking of giving it a try, there's never been a better time to pick up the Gospel and start reading. God wishes for all of His children to come home to Him, and He will absolutely give you the grace you need. A ton of conversions begin with the simple prayer, "God, I don't know if You're real or not, but I'm open to finding out."
This has nothing to do with US politics or politics in general but I have a thought on this. It'll earn me trashcans and coin slots but it's something I've always been thinking about and would like to get off my chest.

Without powerleveling too hard I've been stuck in spiritual/religious limbo for what feels like a decade.
As in somewhere deep down I understand a creator exists, and my takeaway from my previous/current(too much of a coward to actually change the status quo) is generic "be as good as you can to everyone within reason and act towards others how you'd like them to treat you" but I don't actively believe in the core commandments of a religion and I haven't touched any holy book in a while.

My problem with religious conversion is that I don't think I have, or will ever earn it(being "saved" or at least made spiritually content) and I keep applying it to others even though I shouldn't.
Being that it took however many years of life, hardships and blatantly committing sins, no matter how minor, unintended or how bad you've felt about it until you've reached the darkest points of your life and then deciding that's the point where you'll turn to god after ignoring him for so long simply feels scummy. Like you're just saying
To relate this to Trump it apparently took him getting almost assassinated to have a religious awakening. I'm in no way knowledgeable about what trump did in his life or am fit to judge it but speaking for myself I would feel like mega shit if it took a near fatal miss for me to finally go "I admit I am wrong, please accept me" and it's a greater kind of fear to think that you'll never be accepted by God, like you were born flawed with a one way ticket to hell if it exists and you're there just as a contrast to more virtuous people.

I just don't think it's as easy as "just read the bible and you'll be saved, and everyone God included will accept you" and anything more than private worship is too much for a genuine coward like myself.
I mean fuck I'm posting this sob story bullshit here and that has been the extent of my attempt at salvation in what feels like years.

Again sorry for the off topic shit it's just something that's been eating at me since I've read the post on Thursday.
 
Classes should be livestreamed so that parents can check on what is going on in these schools at any time. Our children are being dropped off and left with strangers.
I disagree. We're getting far too dystopian as it it stands. We really need to focus on rebuilding high-trust society and PUNISHING with EXTREME PREJUDICE (sorry, went a lil ConstellationZero there for a minute) those that break the law so we don't even have to consider such extreme measures.

It's like putting speed bumps on every street because niggers won't stop driving recklessly. It's a shame we've made the idea of strapping cameras everywhere and locking deodorant behind plexiglass the norm.
 
"The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters," the conservative think tank wrote in its report published Feb. 4.

Not super surprising, but still depressing.

 
So because teachers aren't trying to be christ-like you're giving them the pass to molest kids?
i never said that, i said that the reason people want to hold churches to a higher standard in my view as a christian is because we claim to be beholden to the highest standard-bearer of them all, and teachers do not. nowhere in my explanation about my views on this did i say that teachers shouldn't or can't be held to a higher standard. i actively advocated for parental oversight of teachers directly in the classroom earlier along with other people.

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How am I being dumb? He's saying if you aren't actively living up to perfection then you don't get judged the same which is retarded. Even the fucking Bible says not to do that (we're all equal in the eyes of God and will be judged as such).
Nobody is giving a pass to teachers to molest kids, retard.
 
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