2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

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I was doing an online survey that had me listen to part of a podcast called The Watch with Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald, and one of them mentioned giving some of his income to Senate races in states he's "never visited", and he mentioned Mississippi and Iowa.

I was just rolling my eyes. Luckily, Republicans kept both seats, but they just don't get how bad stuff like that comes off and how elitist it sounds. Trying to buy political influence in states you would never dream of stepping foot in. No wonder people hate coastal elites/media types.
Andrew Yang is another one. He wants to move to Georgia to influence the runoffs and then get the hell out once they're done.
 
That's not actually how Catholicism works. Only when the Pope speaks "Ex Cathedra," or "as the church," are his statements to be considered infallible. This predictably happens very rarely, and only concerning matters of doctrine in specific circumstances.

Yes, frank is a limp, pussy pope, sadly. But, in perspective, he is incredibly far from the worst in history. The Catholic Church has survived much worse without changing one iota of doctrine, and will continue to do so.

I agree, maybe 'the Pope's statements are often confused with the direction of the Catholic church' is more apt.

That in itself is still a problem, considering how much of a popular figure the pope has become.
 

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/05/2020-15039/manner-of-federal-executions

In recent U.S. Supreme Court litigation involving Eighth Amendment challenges to execution by lethal injection, nitrogen hypoxia and firing squad have been identified as potential alternative methods of execution, including by prisoners themselves, that might—or even must—be used instead of lethal injection, in particular because those methods allegedly carry a lesser risk of pain. The Supreme Court has rejected such arguments in the case of nitrogen hypoxia, in part because it has not been shown that the proffered alternative can be readily implemented by the relevant State and is less likely to cause pain. See Bucklew, 139 S. Ct. at 1129-33 (regarding nitrogen hypoxia); id. at 1142-43 (Breyer, J., dissenting) (same); see also id. at 1136 (Kavanaugh, J., concurring) (regarding firing squad); Glossip, 135 S. Ct. at 2739 (same); id. at 2796-97 (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) (same); Arthur v. Dunn, 137 S. Ct. 725, 733-34 (2017) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (discussing a prisoner's claim that the firing squad should be imposed as an alternative method in Alabama).

Nitrogen hypoxia is actually a pretty good way to kill people. There was an interesting documentary the BBC did back before it became irreparably infested where Michael Portillo looked into the various alternatives and concluded that inert gas hypoxia is the best way to go. They even showed a video of a pig taking apples from a box filled with inert gas. It knocked the pig clean out but it woke up and took another apple. Portillo himself experienced hypoxia and claimed it was like being drunk. He was happy as a clam and minutes from passing out and dying.

https://www.documentarytube.com/videos/how-to-kill-a-human-being-2

So it's actually pretty sensible. I'm also not at all convinced that it's possible to convict people of treason in the US in peacetime. So even if many riggers are convicted the worst they'll get is a couple of years in club fed.

Sydney Powell said that she doesn't support long sentences for white-collar crime but instead, people should get a year or two inside and then many years wearing an ankle bracelet helping out a soup kitchen. She said this is what should have happened to Bernie Madoff. Works for me.

Sometimes less really is more. Also from my admittedly warped and amoral perspective, you need to make sure your law and order isn't seen to be so excessively nasty that it is unsustainable. Rioters need to be tear-gassed and bean bagged, not shot. People who rig elections need to get a couple of years inside and then a few more feeding the homeless as a penance, not fried in the electric chair or shot.

Violence, as Saddam told his psychopathic son Uday in the excellent House of Saddam, is a tool, not a pastime.
 
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On a tangent, according to some, the Catholic church has been apparently going the same way with Francis at the helm. It turns out that if the word of the pope is something that must be taken as a divine statement, then the fish rots from the head down.

On the contrary, I've heard some theories that the decentralized conservative nature of the Orthodox church means that it's far more compartmentalized, and I strongly believe its strong links to monasticism acts as a foundation for the church in retaining its mysticism, rituals, and 'authority' (providing models of 'true faith' that are harder to find in lay society).

francis hasnt gone changed the dogma of the latin church, he's said, really reported to have said, things the secular world likes which causes concern with the tradcaths.

if you cross reference some of his statements its not different from the Eo. Priests marrying women will cut back on the child diddling and homosexuality in the clergy.

homosexuality is still a sin to be treated no different than sex outside of marriage,.divorce or alcoholism.

His refusal to mandate the trindentine mass is similar to the eo stance on using the local vuglar language.

the consular nature of eo protects it from vatican 2 schenanigans. bishops are equal, the metropolitans are equal to bishops, etc. the monastics keep the faith even during the hardest times.

i mean eo has its problems with corruption and in america its going to be fundamentalism of the laity putting too much emphasis on the monastics instead of their parish priests. and on top of that is the laity isnt properly catechised as the Oriental orthodox are.

but i've yet to see, hear or read about an american eo church imploding because a few lgbt/pro abortion laity started to raise doubt in the rest of the congregation. it's bled into the pca denom and looks like itll hit the opc hard too. there is no side a/side b discussion in eo.

anyway, trust not in princes and men who cannot save.
 
https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ve-action-top-biden-preview-of-first-100-days
https://archive.vn/wip/EEQ2T



So if the Democrats stuff ballots in the GA runoffs they will give citizenship to 11 million illegals which will then make it impossible for the Republicans to ever win again.

They don't even need to win those seats. Remember awhile back here or some other thread, someone posted an article that pointed out that Grassley and another republican signaled that they would be open to granting amnesty. If they do happen to win those seats though, then they'll have it completely in the bag with or without any RINO. So yeah, Republicans are screwed anyway.
 
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"Look, I know Biden cheated to win, but we just need to accept that and carry on fighting later."

The amount of time it took some people in the GOP to go from ferocious to pussed-out retard is frankly astonishing. If you want to make the argument that he won legitimately and it's time to call it quits, sure, whatever, but to accept that he cheated and accept that you need to just live with that? That's the dumbest fucking take I've seen out of anyone thus-far.
 
Holy shit this Senator Mastriano guy at the PA hearing is based.

Got a big applause after doing a speech about getting to the bottom of what happened and fighting for democracy during which he compared this hearing to the battle Gettysburg in terms of it being a turning point.
Gettysburg keeps coming up, trump needs to deliver something insanely big in order to keep the symbolism comparison going instead of cheapening the symbolic connection. The first part of the Gettysburg address is particularly apt:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
 
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"Look, I know Biden cheated to win, but we just need to accept that and carry on fighting later."

The amount of time it took some people in the GOP to go from ferocious to pussed-out retard is frankly astonishing.
I remember in of Trump's books where he went over one of his bankruptcies and how it was blessing in disguise; citing that it quickly showed him who his real friends were and who the leeches were (not exact quotes, but the point remains). Assuming that things play out in his favor, this situation could very well be another blessing in disguise, as it has pulled back the curtain and put everyone's true colors on full display.

Gimme all the rainbows you want, I just thought it was an interesting parallel.
 
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"Look, I know Biden cheated to win, but we just need to accept that and carry on fighting later."

The amount of time it took some people in the GOP to go from ferocious to pussed-out retard is frankly astonishing. If you want to make the argument that he won legitimately and it's time to call it quits, sure, whatever, but to accept that he cheated and accept that you need to just live with that? That's the dumbest fucking take I've seen out of anyone thus-far.
I’d say it’s more “accepting the crushing reality before you die chasing some mythical fantasy that might never come.


At this point, the crushing of optimism should consider doing speed runs.
Andrew Yang is another one. He wants to move to Georgia to influence the runoffs and then get the hell out once they're done.
He feels that he has a chance to benefit on the road to utopia, if only because he wants to give people free shit. And money. If he can harness that into part of a Democrat pet project, he could be the future.

I remember in of Trump's books where he went over one of his bankruptcies and how it was blessing in disguise; citing that it quickly showed him who his real friends were and who the leeches were (not exact quotes, but the point remains). Assuming that things play out in his favor, this situation could very well be another blessing in disguise, as it has pulled back the curtain and put everyone's true colors on full display.

Gimme all the rainbows you want, I just thought it was an interesting parallel.
I think that’s been going on the last four years. And fake friends and backstabbers show up every day, and could potentially outnumber those who’d stab him from the front. Harry Truman once said, if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
 
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"Look, I know Biden cheated to win, but we just need to accept that and carry on fighting later."

The amount of time it took some people in the GOP to go from ferocious to pussed-out retard is frankly astonishing. If you want to make the argument that he won legitimately and it's time to call it quits, sure, whatever, but to accept that he cheated and accept that you need to just live with that? That's the dumbest fucking take I've seen out of anyone thus-far.
Just accept election fraud, and they probably won't do it next time.

Fucking gop, how do they get so goddamn squishy?

Still I think Scott adams take of "trump should win the court case, then concede to biden, then for some reason the democrats can't cheat anymore" is the dumbest one possible.
 
You know, i wonder how true it is about kamala sleeping her way up. I've been seeing that thrown around the farms. I would love to know since TDS folks slut shames manlia over her past modeling photos
Googling Kamala Harris/Willie Brown will bring up tons of articles, like this one

For those not from California, Brown was the Democratic party boss for decades, the protege of Phil and John Burton, SF politicians who dominated state politics beginning in the 1950s. That's right, the same people have been pulling the strings for the past seventy years in Democratic circles. That's why I'm smiling when the woke brigade turns on them; you reap what you sow.
 
He feels that he has a chance to benefit on the road to utopia, if only because he wants to give people free shit. And money. If he can harness that into part of a Democrat pet project, he could be the future.
Just like all utopianism, it utterly ignores the will of the people.
 
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"Look, I know Biden cheated to win, but we just need to accept that and carry on fighting later."

The amount of time it took some people in the GOP to go from ferocious to pussed-out retard is frankly astonishing. If you want to make the argument that he won legitimately and it's time to call it quits, sure, whatever, but to accept that he cheated and accept that you need to just live with that? That's the dumbest fucking take I've seen out of anyone thus-far.
I was just about to post this.

I found this guy during the election, and I like his feed generally, but nah dude, this is bullshit.

I get wanting to temper people’s expectations and give them a realistic view of how the legal battle is going, but anyone who says this kind of shit before December 14th is giving up, plain and simple.
 
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