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That "protest" by the dems is totally pathetic even with everyone being paid to be there. The energy has never been this low as long as I've been alive for them.

I'm also just laughing that apparently all the money we sent to NIH/colleges they took a 50% cut while any private donations they only took 20% but yet a judge decided to file to stop the cut they could take being capped which would've meant more actual money going to fund research and studies.
Have been keeping an eye on protests locally, and currently in a blue larger city that’s also a sanctuary city so I was expecting a lot more passion and turnout.
The crowds aren’t even large enough to take to the streets, they just march around government buildings.
And the longer standing social justice groups seem to…..not really care now. There’s no organizing there except for new grassroots immigrant groups.
There were Orthodox Jews for racial justice marching before, it’s just beaners and Muslims and the occasional white person now.
I’m basing that off of protests aimed at Trump’s first presidency, and the protests/riots during Summer of Love.
 
Have been keeping an eye on protests locally, and currently in a blue larger city that’s also a sanctuary city so I was expecting a lot more passion and turnout.
The crowds aren’t even large enough to take to the streets, they just march around government buildings.
And the longer standing social justice groups seem to…..not really care now. There’s no organizing there except for new grassroots immigrant groups.
There were Orthodox Jews for racial justice marching before, it’s just beaners and Muslims and the occasional white person now.
I’m basing that off of protests aimed at Trump’s first presidency, and the protests/riots during Summer of Love.
Even just temporarily cutting off the USAID slush fund has worked wonders for defunding these "grassroots" protests and movements. Turns out these lazy fucks don't get off their asses unless they're being paid for their trouble.
 
Even just temporarily cutting off the USAID slush fund has worked wonders for defunding these "grassroots" protests and movements. Turns out these lazy fucks don't get off their asses unless they're being paid for their trouble.
Turns out every time we pointed out the fleet of buses driving them and that they were paid to be at protests/rallies means they aren't organic at all was 100% true for all these years.
 
i went to Arby's recently and a medium beef'n'cheddar meal was only $11

it's a good start
Steak And Shakes throughout Florida have swapped to beef fat for the fries, shit's so cash

also from the presser with the King, Trump was asked about what authority he had to take Gaza and he basically does the meme


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I can explain this dumb shit we keep seeing with "president Elon"

they genuinely think that their best way of combating trumps policy's via Elon is to damage his ego so bad by calling Elon the president so Trump gets jealous hearing someone else being called president and fires him so they call him president again.

I know, I know. I felt fucking retarded as I typed it but that's actually what they believe, an Idea so colossally stupid you pause every time you wanna start pointing out its flaws in logic but its like trying to explain to someone who is deadest on using a colander as a boat why that might not be a prudent course of action.
Yep. They really do think he’s just an infantile egomaniac who throws tantrums when he sees someone else being called the president. They’ve been pushing this image for years. Surely if they just call him Drumpf enough (he hates it!!) or make enough gross and juvenile representations of him, he’ll be thrown into a tailspin. To them he is simultaneously an all-powerful powerful fascist and a fragile baby who was very owned by a subpar halftime show.
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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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A member of the Church answers to a higher power, their punishment will be eternal, that's the enforcement of the higher standard. I think someone found to have abused a child should be put to death, doesn't matter if muslim, white, black, teacher, scout leader or not in a position of authority over the child.
 
Am I the only person who thinks the Catholic Church may have gotten fucked with the pedo scandals? The other side of the story that I've heard was that the Catholic Church leadership in the US had no clue what to do or how to handle the pedophiles in their ranks. So, they consulted lawyers who told them to conceal, to move pedophiles around, and to deny, deny, deny. Then the story went public in a way that was impossible to deny anymore and the cover up became a bigger scandal than the original crimes, which were bad enough.

I'm not trying to defend the Catholic Church here - I am not a Catholic - but I wonder if the above information comports with anyone else's understanding. From my perspective, it seems that church leadership panicked, made a dumb decision by listening to lawyers, and then got hammered by atheists who have a conniption when you point out that your child is far more likely to get molested by public school teachers than a member of the clergy.
I know I am late but its hardly an american thing. Church overall has had rough few past decades, with more and more substantiated and proven stories of priest rapists, pedos, gamblers, addicts, whatever. Vatican response in majority of cases was exactly that - move them around, conceal, move to other parishes, deny allegiations.. It has been happening for a while now.
Also a reason why I never go with the "world was better when atheism was not a big thing" argument. It was not, its simply that people trusted a guy claiming to speak for the big guy in the sky. Now we have way too much information available at our fingertips for that to fly.
 
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