Senate The US Politics discussion

The question is, which view will win?

 

The secular view because trends show we're becoming less religious - especially within the West.

 

Well, in the Gnostic Bible, Jesus was a little **** as a kid. Would use his powers on people for fun - he was a mini Sidious.

 

Nah, we're in it for the hoochies and his calling Ted Cruz, "Lyin' Ted". It worked for the orange baboon.

 

CNN reports there was more people there than Trump Jr reported.

Could one of them have a name that rhymes with Fronald Wrump?

 

It's beginning to look like there were more people in that meeting than at Trump's inauguration.

 

Exactly. Conservative Christians are no friends of Democracy. Putin is seen by them as a champion of White Christianity, which is the only kind of Christianity to them.

 

Except Jesus wasn't white. And he was Jewish to boot.

 

And possibly not real, either.

 

Most likely very real.

 

"Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Not a lot of people know that."
"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."
"France was America's first ally. Not a lot of people know that."

Did I miss one?

 

Thanks. I think he means "I".

 

relevant tweet:

 

This supports my belief that Daddy bought his education. Picture Billy Madison.

Either he was Chinese and his name is really Jesus Huang, or he's black and owes an Apostle twelve dollars.

 

IDK if all the stuff like "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice" counts. There's a lot to choose from.

 

Relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/...-conservatives.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur


WASHINGTON — Years before the words “collusion” and “Russian hacking” became associated with President Vladimir V. Putin, some prominent Republicans found far more laudatory ways to talk about the Russian leader.

“Putin decides what he wants to do, and he does it in half a day,” Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and longtime friend and adviser to President Trump, gushed in 2014.
Mr. Putin was worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, K. T. McFarland said in 2013, before going on to serve a brief and ill-fated stint as Mr. Trump’s deputy national security adviser.

 

They're conservative. There was a time in the early 2000s when nobody knew yet how devious Putin would be, so he was given the same courtesy as Yeltsin. The Republicans are just 15 years behind.

 

Meh, the only Jesus I know for sure existed used to work with me and we called him Chuy.

 

It's not so much ideological affinity as it is just partisan hatred at work here. Yes, there are some people who subscribe to that idea of "Christian civilization", but probably not that many. Rather it's that Fox News has been whipping up all that antipathy against liberals for decades and people have had their minds marinating in all that propaganda for so long that they really do not give a s---. These people were willing to elect Donald Trump...they're willing to defend him, and they don't regret their votes one bit. Why? Because liberals are just that terrible, according to Fox News. There's certainly people who recognize that kind of propaganda for what it is, but there'a also a lot of people who don't...and at this point the latter have been drinking the Kool-Aid for so long that they're beyond saving.

 

So Trump told reporters he just found out about that meeting two or three days ago. And while that was previously off the record, he wanted it on the record. So, I am taking bets on how long before they find proof he knew about that meeting well before two or three days ago given the timeline of his public statements during that period. That'll be a fun lie to watch him backtrack.

 

Guys I realized something hilarious.
So Trump JR. got an email that promised dirt on Hillary. He went to have the talk, but supposedly had to listen to stuff about adoptions and some Russian law.
He's the victim of a Russian email scam! Only the Russian bride in this case is Hillary dirt.