Talarico's bots are appearing on social media

It's not too surprising that traditional Christians are flummoxed by some of the preaching of James Talarico, and that social media posts concerning his "theology" continue to appear. But I am starting to see some comments on legit pages that seem to be from sources which post little or no content of their own. They have few followers or "friends". They only challenge posts from right-ish points of view.

An unsophisticated example concerning the war in Iran would be:

Jesus loves a bomb.

But there are more sophisticated challenges to posts concerning Talarico from these sites which seem dedicated only to criticism, suggesting that those who disapprove of his theology are mean or perhaps even bad people. For example, the conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well was demonstrating that Jesus was sent to expand the covenant between God and the Jews to other people. It was about Social Justice. Forget the complexities about "living water", salvation and all.

Additionally, Talarico's special affinity for trans children is a lot like Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman. Social Justice.

.@JeffcoSchoolsCo allegedly has 61 males on the girl’s sports team

SIXTY ONE

Wtf pic.twitter.com/Gotdin5TqX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 13, 2026

Come to think of it, there was a lot of Social Justice stuff in the Old Testament. How dare you question Talarico for talking about Social Justice in a religious way?

Best not to interact with these bots, I think. But there's an election coming up.

Partial Review of the Talarico Story

Back before the primaries in Texas, Ace reported that Stephen Colbert lied when he accused CBS of censoring him because he was interviewing James Talarico, a candidate for the upcoming senatorial Democratic primary race in Texas.

Talarico kept the lie going, blaming Trump for trying to silence him. The real story was that the Democrats for trying to silence his primary opponent, Jasmine Crockett.

Anyway, this ploy seems to have been successful, garnering lots of contributions for this guy. In addition, he was interviewed by Joe Rogan, who suggested that he should run for president in 2028. And then there was a long interview by Ezra Klein, included in this report by Mary Rooke: Rising Star James Talarico's Soothing Voice Will Lead Lambs To Slaughter

Good article.

Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico presents himself as a Christian who prays, quotes Jesus Christ extensively, and grounds his politics in faith. However, on several defining moral issues, he does not submit his political ideology to scripture; instead, he reinterprets or ignores scripture to genuflect to his true “god”: far-left orthodoxy.
Talarico, a Texas state representative and self-proclaimed Presbyterian, discussed his supposed Christian faith in a New York Times interview with Ezra Klein released on Tuesday. During which he spoke reverently about God, scripture, and his prayer life. Overall, he defined his faith as trust and acts of love. But there’s an argument to be made that Talarico is not truly Christian but rather a devout practitioner of radical left ideology wrapped in Christian symbolism. . .

Talarico’s interview makes it clear that he doesn’t believe that Christianity is a faith that transforms ideology, but rather that an ideology can selectively reinterpret or override scripture and Christian dogma to remain unchanged. This suggests that his operative authority is not Christ, scripture, or doctrine, but leftist ideology, which is then clothed in Christian language. In this way, he becomes the wolf in sheep’s clothing, leading others to follow down this treacherous path. . .
Probably the most insidious example of this is when Talarico explains his political views on abortion using the Blessed Mary. In the interview, Klein plays a clip from Talarico’s appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience.”

Talarico cites Mary’s consent at the Annunciation, when she exclaims, “Let it be done to me according to your word,” as a biblical foundation for so-called reproductive freedom and a woman’s absolute autonomy over her body. . .

And Klein thought that this would be a fine example, too, I guess.

Talarico’s public presentation of Christianity exposes that his true faith is in human autonomy, sexual liberation, and state-mediated economic equality, with Jesus recast as a mascot for those causes rather than the Lord who demands repentance and transformation.
His calm voice and boyish face aid in this endeavor. They are powerful rhetorical assets that make his presentation of far-left positions feel disarming, sincere, and authentically Christian rather than ideological or confrontational. This makes listeners less likely to categorize him as a partisan activist and more likely to see him as a sincere young believer simply sharing his faith. . .

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:14 AM (Ia/+0)

2 "Tolerate Everything" doesn't seem like a viable theological principle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:21 AM (JkO4W)

3 Go to
DidIwashundermytits.gov

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Kt19C)

4 Stopped to read the post, rookie mistake.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2026 11:21 AM (0N4FZ)

5 Can say don't know anything about Talarico but see he is a snake salesman

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)

6 What is "Christian Nationalism?" If it oppose International Socialism, I may like it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:23 AM (d6BF2)

7 It is James Talarico's body, it is James Talarico's sphincter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:24 AM (M9gjJ)

8 Tolerate some other religion than wants you to change to their beliefs can't be right

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:24 AM (Ia/+0)

9 5 Can say don't know anything about Talarico but see he is a snake salesman
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)

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He has the vibe of a guy with a hard drive full of kiddie porn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:25 AM (JkO4W)

10 Or Christian Nationalism is worse the Islamic Nationalism

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:26 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Stopped to read the post, rookie mistake.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Moose at door even told me.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 14, 2026 11:26 AM (qZdIZ)

12 Bringing in illegals is a crime. If the heads of these orgs were paid to do so why aren't they being arrested - along with the Biden regime members that approved the payments?

We have laws for these things. We aren't using them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:27 AM (sKqQm)

13 James Talarico on building a coalition with white nationalists:

“What if we found the courage and the vulnerability to do the difficult work of building a movement based on radical love that could create solidarity between latinx…a movement so powerful it could even liberate WHITE NATIONALISTS”

Framing white nationalists like they are imprisoned and have no agency is crazy work.

The fact that you use LatinX, a term rejected and mocked by all but a small subset of Latinos, tells me that this is about your ego, and not what's good for the presumptive beneficiaries of your white savior syndrome.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

14 His position on illegal immigration alone is enough to sink him with both republicans and independents here in Texas. I doubt he will get the number of independent votes that beto did.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)

15 Amusingly the model for people like Talarico isn't Christ...its Muhammed.

The later took a mismosh of religious ideas - pagan, Jewish, and Christian, and turned them into something he could build a regime out of. Just like Talarico.

If you forced the latter to tell the truth he'd tell you as much - the idea isn't to point people to Christ, the idea is to sell people ideas they otherwise wouldn't accept so you can rule them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:29 AM (sKqQm)

16 There's a video out there with Talarico sincerely expressing how 'prophets like Jesus' have helped him cope with his toxic whiteness.

I think of it as part of his "White Fragility" phase.

Posted by: KT at March 14, 2026 11:30 AM (7vIsy)

17 Isn't the new Ayatollah an autopen?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 14, 2026 11:30 AM (AlhUl)

18 I thought the term "Latinx" had already gone the way of putting pronouns in your bio.

Stupid fads.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:30 AM (JkO4W)

19 I'm white, I Catholic and love my country. I guess that makes me a White Christian Nationalist. *shrugs*. It sure is better than being a White Heathen Traitor.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (lCppi)

20 Jesus loves a bomb.

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Be sure to tune in tomorrow for the Academy Awards. You know, treason with singing and dancing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (ndZc7)

21 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

22 The problem whenever a leftist talks about White Nationalism is that it can mean several different things:

People that oppose unlimited immigration
People that support traditional notions of law and order
People that think America and its ideals are good

Or

Some white guy in a trailer that thinks he's better then the black guy that lives in the next trailer because of the color of his skin.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

23 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Posted by: The guy Talarico claims to follow at March 14, 2026 11:32 AM (sKqQm)

24 Two aphorisms seem to me to be related:
“Leave it to Caesar” and
“all power comes from the barrel of a gun” (Mao)

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 14, 2026 11:34 AM (1FEc1)

25 Bringing in illegals is a crime. If the heads of these orgs were paid to do so why aren't they being arrested - along with the Biden regime members that approved the payments?

We have laws for these things. We aren't using them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:27 AM

Technically they were not "illegal" because biden gave them all temporary asylum when they walked across the border. They became illegal and deportable when they did not go to their first asylum claim hearing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2026 11:34 AM (0N4FZ)

26 Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 14, 2026 11:35 AM (baZJK)

27 That Mao may have stunk but he sure knew his shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:36 AM (JkO4W)

28 If you have any knowledge of history one of the oddest things about the Modern world is Woke Christianity's view on Islam.

Pull any Christian from 629 AD until around 1914 AD and ask them what the Christian response to Islam should be and you'd get something between DEUS VULT and "let them wallow in their own filth". The notion of PAYING to bring millions of them to the west to practice their religion...and kill Christians and Jews would literally boggle their minds.

Posted by: The guy Talarico claims to follow at March 14, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

29 Technically they were not "illegal" because biden gave them all temporary asylum when they walked across the border. They became illegal and deportable when they did not go to their first asylum claim hearing.

All you have to do is find *1* for whom the paperwork was not correctly done. Ideally in some red area.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:37 AM (sKqQm)

30 Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.

You had me at sweet little boy.

Posted by: David French at March 14, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

31 I don't trust anyone who uses Christianity as a tool to enrich themselves financially or attain a higher societal position. PERIOD!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

32 "I love Jesus so everything I want He wants"

Eh, it's probably the other way around, dude

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 11:40 AM (tcsrY)

33 Are there any homosexuals in the senate that have accomplished anything except enriching themselves?

Something smells funny here.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:43 AM (M9gjJ)

34 I live in MT and attend a traditional Catholic parish with a priest that preaches what the Bible teaches without reimagining what it says. I'm a thinking mr talarico is one of satan's minions and should be mocked soundly and often.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (SgvkQ)

35
A Christian acquaintance of mine has meetings with her AWFL friends on Sundays and the leader noted a homeless man across the little pond at the park one day and queried the group, "Why is he homeless?" The implication was that society had failed him. The rich are guilty.

I wish I'd been there. I would have answered. "Because of you. You won't bring him into your home. You have a spare bedroom and enough money to support an extra human. Why do you let him languish out here? Hey, I'll go give him your address now!" (gets up and runs to homeless scag)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (y2OcL)

36 I live in MT and attend a traditional Catholic parish with a priest that preaches what the Bible teaches without reimagining what it says. I'm a thinking mr talarico is one of satan's minions and should be mocked soundly and often.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (SgvkQ)

I think the term is false prophet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 11:45 AM (snZF9)

37 Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.

You had me at sweet little boy.

Don't think Talarico wears dresses so you might want to find a different guy. Maybe one of the Jeffco schools has a "female" athlete you could mentor?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm)

38 Thomas Aquinas defined love (agape) not as mere emotion, but as a conscious decision to "will the good of the other" which sometimes means saying the hard thing, not the comfortable thing. . . .
_______
Ite ad Thomam.

Always a good idea.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 14, 2026 11:45 AM (AlhUl)

39 It isn’t for me to judge what is in another person’s heart.

Jesus DOES love everyone. And He will forgive anyone who is truly sorry for what they’ve done and pledge to STOP DOING IT.

Some people want only forgiveness, but will expend no effort to correct their behavior. So, they really aren’t asking for forgiveness. They are asking for permission. Which they will not get for their wicked choices.

But that is between them and God.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 11:49 AM (A5RD0)

40 I wish I'd been there. I would have answered. "Because of you. You won't bring him into your home. You have a spare bedroom and enough money to support an extra human. Why do you let him languish out here? Hey, I'll go give him your address now!" (gets up and runs to homeless scag)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (y2OcL)

How delicious that response would be. I’d pay to watch that happen to see the AWFL’s reaction

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 14, 2026 11:50 AM (uq8Bc)

41 > Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.
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Living bobblehead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:50 AM (jtM2q)

42 There's a short series on Netflix called Midnight Mass. It's a vampire story but with a very different perspective than what is normally used. This post's subject reminds of it very much.

This is an excellent post, btw.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

43 "Every conversation came back to some version of this: "Jesus summarized everything as love God and love your neighbor, and that overrides the harder moral teachings."

"Love your neighbor (as yourself)" ... I never studied it in depth, but it seems loving one's neighbor is more tribal than "love the whole world, because everyone has a spark of the divine". No, everyone has sin nature. Especially in Biblical times, one's neighbor was likely family and like-minded friends, and fellow Christians.

Jesus instructed to go out to the world and spread the gospel, "And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town".

At some point even among "fellow Christians", "A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject". Titus 3:10. So the One Body of Christ is to be united with itself, not with the world (that rejects them).

There was no "one body of Christ" (The Great Mystery) till Pentecost, but Jesus was giving instructions before the crucifixion.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:53 AM (vbXSk)

44 Every individual has the same rights.

We don't grant rights to groups of like-minded people.

What these odd groups want is privilege. Fuck your group.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:54 AM (M9gjJ)

45 I thought "Latinx" had gone out of style.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 11:56 AM (Cqx++)

46 Every individual has the same rights.

We don't grant rights to groups of like-minded people.

What these odd groups want is privilege. Fuck your group.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:54 AM (M9gjJ)

Amen!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:57 AM (g8Ew8)

47
Ran across this while reading 'The Brothers Karamazov'. I marked it:

"These are the people we are most afraid of. They are dreadful people! The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist." -- Dostoevsky

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 11:57 AM (XeU6L)

48 "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit!"

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2026 11:57 AM (GD0B3)

49 to expand the covenant between God and the Jews to other people.
Well, yes.

It was about Social Justice.
WUT? Where is social justice in that, AT ALL? Not even a Venn diagram, just two circles that exist on similar but non-intersecting planes.

Forget the complexities about "living water", salvation and all.
Since, you know, that's what the covenant was all about. /double facepalm/

Talarico is a blasphemer and a heretic. On top of looking like a Damien version of Opie.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:59 AM (XZoNw)

50 No surgery should ever be performed on any confused teenage girl until they're over 18 and have had extensive counselling.

But for boys wanting to play on girls teams, there should be penis removals every Tuesday.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Sco7b)

51 James Talarico is just another Nehemiah Scudder wannabe. Of course, there's always the possibility that things may get so out of hand that he looks like the sane and reasonable candidate for president-for-life in the not too distant future.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 14, 2026 12:01 PM (4mmkh)

52 I just finished putting in a ceiling fan. I feel just like prehistoric man taking down a woolly mammoth.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 12:01 PM (3uBP9)

53 Problem is the counselors ard the oned pushing mental illness

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)

54 The Bible commands us to treat migrants (strangers) equally as citizens. "So sayeth the Lord" Leviticus.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Yd4me)

55 In Talerico’s brand of Christianity, there is no super predicate order, ie its leftism with the thinnest of theological veneer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (LOAVH)

56 Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:53 AM (vbXSk)

Problem with the first part of your post is that the next question was "Who is my neighbor?" at which point Jesus used the parable of the Good Samaritan. So it's definitely not supposed to just be tribal. The potential neighbor does need to at least show good will though, which is the opposite of what has been brought into the country lately.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (lFFaq)

57 Would it ever be possible for voters to consider candidates based on, you know, the only relevant thing - their likely impact on policy, and life? Instead of this version of Shi'a vs. Sunni or Hutu vs. Tutsi?

Of course that would require at least a hamster's level understanding of public policy. So a non-starter. Oh well.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 12:04 PM (U/Byj)

58 Libtard Preacher Man gave me the stink eye not too long ago when I told him he was attracting all the layabouts and bums to his soup kitchen downtown and that he needs to take them home with him and feed them there while teaching them the good word. His garage and backyard outta do just fine. Just don't go all Jim Jones on me.

Posted by: Foreskin Lint at March 14, 2026 12:05 PM (Ksqrb)

59 Mullah-cide >>> Mulled Cider

Posted by: muldoon at March 14, 2026 12:09 PM (qgHp7)

60 Voter integrity does not help the Democrat party -- in fact, it hurts them. I really don't know why we would do that.

Posted by: John Thune (D - SD) at March 14, 2026 12:10 PM (qUkBO)

61 Would it ever be possible for voters to consider candidates based on, you know, the only relevant thing - their likely impact on policy, and life? Instead of this version of Shi'a vs. Sunni or Hutu vs. Tutsi?

Lefty LIVs will *refuse* to consider this. Their vote is determined solely on who is "good". How do they know who is good? The FNM or their HIV lefty friends tell them.

Then later when the pol they voted for does stuff to make their lives harder these same LIVs will argue either "well it must be bad luck" or just blame it on the nearest Republican/Trump.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)

62 Morning all. Running errands.

If God is non binary and He made a human in his image, why didn't he create Eve first?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:14 PM (vRciE)

63 The funny thing about the whole Talarico situation is that if was caught in a compromising position a la Elmer Gantry at this time his popularity would go up. If not he'll lose by double digits, because every Christian, except for the most left , won't vote for him, and neither will African Americans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 12:14 PM (YsPj+)

64 The funny thing about the whole Talarico situation is that if was caught in a compromising position a la Elmer Gantry at this time his popularity would go up. If not he'll lose by double digits, because every Christian, except for the most left , won't vote for him, and neither will African Americans
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Black southern church ladies? Yeah. He ain't getting that.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:16 PM (vRciE)

65 I was watching a Elisabeth Wheatley video where she was complaining about economists directing policy when it will have no impact on them personally and while she certainly isn't wrong, this seems a core problem with any form of leftwing economics.

No the economist that predicts a recession...or a Biden boom...that never comes won't pay any price. But nor will the pols voting for those policies or the bureaucrats implementing them.

And when there is no accountability well, why would you expect competence?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

66
Digging into the corruption reveals that there's far more of it than we realized. Putting the public liars under pressure forces them to reveal their true nature. It's like what's revealed by turning over a log. It is distressing to see this cavalcade of evil and betrayal day after day. Really difficult sometimes. But I guess it has to be that way. The necessary price of addressing the problem.

But it's nasty.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (PbePe)

67 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa. Also interesting (and on the same page) is his video clarifying his objection to the case the State of California was making to ban larger capacity (i.e. standard capacity) magazines. California’s argument was that the magazine is an accessory to the gun and thus not protected by the second amendment. Judge VanDyke deconstructs this argument in his video (on the same page as the Korean spa link) by deconstructing a typical semi-auto handgun to show that all parts are interchangeable and modifiable. Thus all parts are, by California’s argument, “accessories” and not protected by the second amendment. He reduces California’s argument to absurdity by making a Theseus’s gun analogy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (X5qGl)

68 Eve?
Ribbed for her pleasure

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (HTa/G)

69 Several sessions at Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show oughta straighten James Talarico right up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (wVcYX)

70 Do you know anyone who follows the progressive Christian pattern?

Methodists.

Posted by: Also bushwackers, sidewinders and hornswogglers at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (TbWk/)

71 How delicious that response would be. I’d pay to watch that happen to see the AWFL’s reaction

It would be pretty much the same as the famous video where someone went door to door asking AWFLs if illegals should be allowed into the country. And when they said "yes", he had half a dozen Latinos walk up and ask how many she could take.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)

72 Talarico is basically the leftwing stereotype of an out of touch Christian using his faith transparently for power.

And they will still vote for him

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:19 PM (sKqQm)

73 31 I don't trust anyone who uses Christianity as a tool to enrich themselves financially or attain a higher societal position. PERIOD!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew

I'm sorry you feel that way but as a follower of Christ I forgive you!

Posted by: Joel Osteen at March 14, 2026 12:20 PM (TbWk/)

74 Economists are almost never right, and are always never held accountable. That's a sweet fucking gig if you can get it and be paid.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (M9gjJ)

75 Can say don't know anything about Talarico but see he is a snake salesman
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)

Even his name is a fraud.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (8zz6B)

76 It would be pretty much the same as the famous video where someone went door to door asking AWFLs if illegals should be allowed into the country. And when they said "yes", he had half a dozen Latinos walk up and ask how many she could take.

We had this meme on last night's ONT. https://ace.mu.nu/archives/socialism.jfif

It is one of the core problems we have with the left - they don't want to take care of any of the "problems" they claim we face. They want to enslave us to pay for them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)

77 Problem is the counselors ard the oned pushing mental illness
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)

Yup. Today's psychology and psychiatric professions should not be trusted. They are the most woke of the medical world.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (g8Ew8)

78 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.

That's Judge Lawrence "Swinging Dicks" VanDyke to you, pal.

Posted by: Swings a mean gavel he does at March 14, 2026 12:22 PM (TbWk/)

79 Talarico is basically a lizard-alien from V that was trained to be human entirely on David French columns. If the woman from the plane showed up at one of his speeches and yelled that he's not real I'd believe her.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:22 PM (QZThv)

80 When I look at Talarico I see Percy Wetmore.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 14, 2026 12:23 PM (enw9G)

81 Come to think of it, there was a lot of Social Justice stuff in the Old Testament.
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Amalekites must be destroyed?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 14, 2026 12:23 PM (KAqW5)

82 Eve?
Ribbed for her pleasure
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Never not funny.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:23 PM (vRciE)

83 Talarico is an anti-Christ, or in the spirit thereof. Not THE anti-Christ. At least, probably not.

Posted by: Check his scalp for 666 just to be sure at March 14, 2026 12:24 PM (TbWk/)

84 Yup. Today's psychology and psychiatric professions should not be trusted. They are the most woke of the medical world.

The left tells me that doctors don't want to cure your problems, they want to get you coming back on a regular basis so they get paid.

But then they also tell me a psych or trans-butcher that signs you up for a literal lifetime of therapy, surgery, and medical treatments are doing it out of nothing but a desire to "help" the victim.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm)

85 So the left murdered Charlie Kirk and replaced him with mirror universe Spock (James Talarico.)

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 12:24 PM (smnV3)

86 Morning Hordemates!
Talarico is an idiot. Twisting scripture into politics is a very dumb thing to do, in this life and the next.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

87 So the left murdered Charlie Kirk and replaced him with mirror universe Spock (James Talarico.)

I think that's slander against mirror universe Spock. Nimoy rocked that goatee.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (QZThv)

88 Do you know anyone who follows the progressive Christian pattern?

Methodists.
Posted by: Also bushwackers
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Well, the traditional prevalent Prostetant denominations have generally been rent asunder. What has happened to the UMC is very upsetting, but, the Global Methodist Church is strongly comitted to traditional Methodist ethos.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (XeU6L)

89 Great news!

We may finally get the Western we've always wanted with a black, tranny sheriff in a wheelchair. From ew

"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."

However, the Raiders of the Lost Ark director noted that his Western will try to avoid the conventions — and baggage — of the genre's past. "But there'll be no tropes, I can just tell you that," he said. "There are gonna be no stereotypes, no tropes."

I'm sure it will be epic....

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

90 Will Social Justice issues or economic issues determine the mid terms?

Transgender surgery,; or gas, groceries and jobs?

ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 14, 2026 12:27 PM (Yd4me)

91 Great news!

We may finally get the Western we've always wanted with a black, tranny sheriff in a wheelchair. From ew

"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."

However, the Raiders of the Lost Ark director noted that his Western will try to avoid the conventions — and baggage — of the genre's past. "But there'll be no tropes, I can just tell you that," he said. "There are gonna be no stereotypes, no tropes."

I'm sure it will be epic....
Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

It won't be Silverado, that's certain.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (wVcYX)

92 The troll isn't entirely wrong. Generally the perceived state of the economy is the most important issues in any election

But...I suspect crime will also play a role in this one when we see some surprise red wins in deep blue areas...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

93 Circa 1920 all these sects of Christianity had differences on minute points of doctrine (the split between the Orthodox and Roman Churches was over one vowel in the Nicene creed - in the original Greek). But they all practiced a Christianity that followed scripture and demanded discipline and self-denial among believers. Lo, how the mighty are fallen! Or is that: Low! How the mighty are fallen!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (X5qGl)

94 86 Morning Hordemates!
Talarico is an idiot. Twisting scripture into politics is a very dumb thing to do, in this life and the next.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

I don't know about that. Hucksters have twisted up scripture for their own purposes quite successfully since Tetzel started selling indulgences the Pardoner hustled fake relics. Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF

Posted by: It can be quite profitable at March 14, 2026 12:31 PM (TbWk/)

95 Yup. Today's psychology and psychiatric professions should not be trusted. They are the most woke of the medical world.
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It seems that psychologists/counselors often become enablers, providing rationalizations that justify/reinforce a particular behavior.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:32 PM (XeU6L)

96 Grab Talarico’s head, pull his hair back, and look for any unusual birthmarks!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:32 PM (X5qGl)

97 "... "Who is my neighbor?" at which point Jesus used the parable of the Good Samaritan. So it's definitely not supposed to just be tribal. The potential neighbor does need to at least show good will though"
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

good point, thx.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 12:33 PM (vbXSk)

98 "Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."
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Are you holding auditions?!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM (XeU6L)

99 The troll isn't entirely wrong. Generally the perceived state of the economy is the most important issues in any election

But...I suspect crime will also play a role in this one when we see some surprise red wins in deep blue areas...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

Too much of the taxpayers' money goes to support Commies, trannies, and faggots. A remedy exists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM (8zz6B)

100 My comment was directed entirely at non-left-wing voters, of course. The above post is all about dissecting the religious whatever of a candidate. Like some abstruse debate over the finer points of velayet-i-faqih, between Shi'a clerics, in a painfully boring/stupid conclave in Najaf.

Of course feelz and predominantly irrelevant factors are not limited to religious stuff. "Veteran" candidates, better yet, "combat veteran" candidates, is another example. And the whole "like me" idiocy many voters respond to.

It's a minor miracle the US ever got as far as it did, probably. Even as the guard-rails brilliantly constructed by the founders were stripped away one by one. So there's that.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM (U/Byj)

101 Grab Talarico’s head, pull his hair back, and look for any unusual birthmarks!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:32 PM (X5qGl)
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Might as well give him a swirly, too, if you're to go to that trouble.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 14, 2026 12:35 PM (KAqW5)

102 Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF
Posted by: It can be quite profitable
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Jim and Tammy Baker

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

103 Jesus loves a bomb.

So we've got that going for us. Which is nice.

Posted by: Disney Paramount at March 14, 2026 12:38 PM (Fs0KI)

104 Eyepatch McCain was a politician that traded on his image, rather than his principles. Now that the electorate has gotten to know him better, he has been “shot down” in the primaries, thank the LORD.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:39 PM (X5qGl)

105 I don't know what the CIA/NSA plan was that Hegseth is apparently destroying, but they're getting more desperate. Intelligence community mouthpiece Natasha Bertrand pulled 4 words out of a paragraph he spoke and dramatically changed the context. And right on cue, Bill Kristol is repeating her "journalism".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)

106
"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."
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Are you holding auditions?!
Posted by: Alec Baldwin

We're only seeing dancing sheriffs.

Posted by: Producer at March 14, 2026 12:41 PM (Cqx++)

107 74 Economists are almost never right, and are always never held accountable. That's a sweet fucking gig if you can get it and be paid.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (M9gjJ)

We know ... it's a sweet gig

Posted by: Meteorologists at March 14, 2026 12:43 PM (3sXRv)

108 Are you holding auditions?!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM

YOU ARE WORTHRESS AREC BAWLWIN! *fires AK-47*

Posted by: Zombie Kim Jong Il, now even more ronrey at March 14, 2026 12:44 PM (QZThv)

109 We know ... it's a sweet gig
Posted by: Meteorologists
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My favorite forecast; 'There's a 50 percent chance of rain'.

Maybe it will...maybe it won't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:47 PM (XeU6L)

110 Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF
Posted by: It can be quite profitable

Jim and Tammy Baker
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

Daddy Rich.

Posted by: Zombie Richard Pryor at March 14, 2026 12:49 PM (Ksqrb)

111 My favorite forecast; 'There's a 50 percent chance of rain'.

Maybe it will...maybe it won't.

That figure isn't actually as preposterous as it sounds, but they never properly explain it. What it actually means is that 50% of the forecast area will get rain. For a 50/50 that's a pretty subtle difference, but when you get to something like 80/20 or 90/10 it does make a little more sense.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)

112 We're only seeing dancing sheriffs.
Posted by: Producer

Talk about gay stereotypes.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:50 PM (tUSws)

113 I Like eggs!

Posted by: Zombie Joe Biden. Wait, I'm Still Alive? at March 14, 2026 12:55 PM (dmDsy)

114 Looking forward to Spielberg's trope-free GirlBoss rodeo. At the end there will be a tranny blue fairy statue granting last wishes to robotic woke NPC's.

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 12:55 PM (smnV3)

115 Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike.

"Known popularly as "Reverend Ike", his ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s, when his weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across the United States. He was famous for his "Blessing Plan" - radio listeners sent him money and in return he blessed them."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:56 PM (XeU6L)

116 Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF
Posted by: It can be quite profitable

Jim and Tammy Baker
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

***

Never give to a church that doesn't share the financials.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:56 PM (2WIwB)

117 Ritchie Rich >>> Daddy Rich

Posted by: I Like This Game! at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (dmDsy)

118 NoVa in the news again with about a dozen girls of a Fairfax high school being the victim of an illegal student roaming the hallways doing drive-by gropes of their crotches from behind. Local school administrators are poo-pooing the entire thing, saying they were minor assaults and not acknowledging that they were sexual assaults.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)

119 Vote Bacon!

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (jrgJz)

120 Saw on YouTube Neil DeGrassey opines with his veiw on war
If one cares

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)

121 *victims

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)

122 >>Economists are almost never right, and are always never held accountable. That's a sweet fucking gig if you can get it and be paid.

I would have a agreed faster but I was in the middle of downloading bug fix number 2047495729309.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2026 12:58 PM (viF8m)

123 120 Saw on YouTube Neil DeGrassey opines with his veiw on war
If one cares
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)

No sane person does.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 14, 2026 12:59 PM (dmDsy)

124 Ritchie Rich >>> Daddy Rich
Posted by: I Like This Game!
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Daddy Warbucks>>Ritchie Rich>>Daddy Rich

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:59 PM (XeU6L)

125 Before I head up for movies, where my friends' cat Snowflake is currently sleeping in my bed, I'm slumming at Kos.

No mention of TACO.

There's articles wondering whe the hardcore MAGA base will finally wake up. Because we're stupid. And they have the best of Bluesky!!!

Not as many articles about what goes into each orifice as I expected.

All of you have a good day.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 01:00 PM (Sco7b)

126 Known popularly as "Reverend Ike", his ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s, when his weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across the United States. He was famous for his "Blessing Plan" - radio listeners sent him money and in return he blessed them."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:56 PM (XeU6L)

Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send
Ten dollars to the church of the Sacred Bleeding Heart Of Jesus
Located somewhere in Los Angeles, California
And next week they'd say my prayer on the radio...

Posted by: The Rolling Stones at March 14, 2026 01:00 PM (Ksqrb)

127 124 Ritchie Rich >>> Daddy Rich
Posted by: I Like This Game!
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Daddy Warbucks>>Ritchie Rich>>Daddy Rich
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:59 PM (XeU6L)

Scrooge McDuck >>> Daddy Warbucks>>Ritchie Rich>>Daddy Rich

Posted by: I Like This Game! at March 14, 2026 01:00 PM (dmDsy)

128 The term in the 80s. For liberal catholics was Cafeteria Catholic. They pick and choose from the buffet what they like and ignore what they dont. Its a matter ot taste you see. This is cafeteria christianity. You get to decide which things you like on your own and can leave the rest. Who wants to eat vegatables and salad!!!!! More dessert, where is the chocolate fountain!!!

Judge not lest ye be judged. They think they can avoid God judging them if they dont judge others. The saying is about judging people. Judge not other people unless you are judged by them. God still judges everybody. Enabling sin isnt loving your neighbor. Drag shows for children etc are satanic. Tolerance and cooperation With that is evil. You are setting yourself up for a millstone. These people need a wake up call and the failure to call it out is a failure to love. I get that not everyone is going to embrace orthodoxy, but tolerance is not actually virtue. The virtues are known and well described. There are 4 cardinal. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and temperance/moderation. There are theological virtues Faith Hope and Love/charity.

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:07 PM (LILNU)

129 >>>Scrooge McDuck was always my hero until that unfortunate incident when he got a gold doubloon lodged in his gizzard.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 01:08 PM (M9gjJ)

130 They are also defined in opposition to the seven deadly sins as: humility, generosity, chastity, meekness, temperance, kindness and diligence.

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:08 PM (LILNU)

131 >>That figure isn't actually as preposterous as it sounds, but they never properly explain it.

It's like the cone depiction chart put out by the National Hurricane Center in the advance of an approaching hurricane to a U.S. landmass. People don't understand what they are looking at. They think because they are on the outer edge of the cone, they are only going to get some wind and rain and probably some minor storm surge.

That's not what the cone represents to them.

Finally, a few years ago, if I recall correctly, the NHC put out an explanation of what the cone actually represents. I think many never received that explanation.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 01:09 PM (Y1sOo)

132 > Local school administrators are poo-pooing the entire thing, saying they were minor assaults and not acknowledging that they were sexual assaults.
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The definition depends on the race or ethnic background of the perp. And the race or ethnic background of the victim.

As it has always been over the last several years.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 01:11 PM (jtM2q)

133 Sincere argument between Christians and unbelievers, and I rank "progressive Christians" among the latter, is darn near impossible. We start from too separate a viewpoint. Unbelievers think we are imagining things while Christians believe that the unbelievers are blind to what stands obviously before us both.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:11 PM (4NO2D)

134 >>> Talarico's special affinity for trans children ...

Any male who says his his favorite things are 'children', just plain 'children' would be recognized as a sick POS right there. Saying it is 'trans children' should make most people recoil in horror and want to kill it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 01:13 PM (/lPRQ)

135 Two people were shot and killed near the ongoing Players Championship today before the gunman escaped onto the TPC Sawgrass course, leading to a manhunt across Northeast Florida.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 01:15 PM (Y1sOo)

136 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.
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He recognizes the real problem, using coded language. Woke judges. Meaning we have judges, who refuse to Judge, when it is imperative that they do so, because they, as a group have a duty to do so to protect society.

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:15 PM (LILNU)

137 As I learned it, the type of judgment warned against in "judge not" is the judgment of salvation- making our own determination of who, in God's eyes, is redeemed and who is condemned. Of course we're exhorted and expected to recognize sin and to move people away from it (with love, and without assuming they're forever condemned).

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 01:20 PM (lCppi)

138 136 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.
==
He recognizes the real problem, using coded language. Woke judges. Meaning we have judges, who refuse to Judge, when it is imperative that they do so, because they, as a group have a duty to do so to protect society.
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas
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Yes, and the same principle applies to school boards and libraries when confronted with the publications they put on the shelves for children. The powers that be flinch and shut up advocates and prevent those advocates from reading quotes from the material in public meetings. Yet, they are fine with children being literally exposed to graphic sex at school or at the public library.

Same with quoting the Koran. And that is because it is a pattern--the pattern is our elites in society get upset if their beliefs and principles get examined. And they cannot defend them, so they obfuscate.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

139 Always cute when people who hate religion use religious talking points to attack people who are religious.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (Y5yQx)

140 Any male who says his his favorite things are 'children', just plain 'children' would be recognized as a sick POS right there. Saying it is 'trans children' should make most people recoil in horror and want to kill it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Nasty critter whose internet search history is full of darkness.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (E4rtv)

141 Here is an insight that I found really clarifying: if you look at progressives' Marcusian "tolerant intolerance" (or "liberating intolerance"), and how they apply it (or don't) to Islam, it becomes clear that their highest priority is to be able to get away with sexually molesting children and animals.

On every other subject, Christianity is the more tolerant, "progressive" faith, except for that. And, Islam is wealthy, numerous, patriarchal, violent, supremacist, conquering, and colonialist; it's a strong perpetrator, not a weak victim.

So, when progressives demonstrate a heavy preference for Islam over Christianity, it shows plainly that they would rather give up literally every other freedom, in exchange for just that one: the ability to stick it in kids and beasts without fear of social consequence. That's how important it is to them.

And -- to tie this in -- I think that when you look at James Talarico's Fauxtianity, it has a radical nonjudgmentalism that, if followed to its logical conclusion, would smuggle in the Muslim attitude to beastiality and pedophilia. They would get what they want now, without having to wait for the Caliphate.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (Sy6m/)

142

David Sacks, the White House adviser overseeing artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policy, said the United States has already achieved significant military objectives and should now consider stepping back before the conflict widens further.

Speaking on the widely followed “All-In Podcast,” Sacks argued that the moment may have arrived for Washington to pursue an off-ramp rather than escalate further. “We’ve degraded Iranian capabilities massively,” Sacks said. “This is a good time to declare victory and get out.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

143 139 Always cute when people who hate religion use religious talking points to attack people who are religious.
Posted by: Heroq
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And religious people need to quit taking the bait and assuming these people are acting in good faith. They are not--like their master, they live by lies.

But holding frame is difficult for a lot of people because they don't want to seen as unpleasant and difficult.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (E4rtv)

144 For a change today’s mass shooting wasn’t courtesy of a Muslim.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Y5yQx)

145 21 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

146 Of course always defer to Jesus, but the Old Testament has validity as well. I mean you know?

Posted by: Eromero at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (PaOYH)

147 There are 4 cardinal. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and temperance/moderation. There are theological virtues Faith Hope and Love/charity.
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas
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Well said.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (E4rtv)

148 145 21 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (Y5yQx)

149 "Unbelievers think we are imagining things while Christians believe that the unbelievers are blind to what stands obviously before us both." Posted by: toby928(c)

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man." I Corinthians 2:14-15

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 01:26 PM (vbXSk)

150 Iran knows they don’t have to win they just have to wait out US appetite for war. Which apparently is in the days/weeks timeframe not months/years.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:27 PM (Y5yQx)

151 Or elections until they grt another Islam lover

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:29 PM (Ia/+0)

152
Is there presently, in fact, a lucky religious bigot comfortably ensconced in the role of Flat Ayatollah?

The last that I had heard, it was the previous guy's comatose and minus-one-or-more legs son. Flat Mojtaba, he was, the first of that line.

Then it was reported that he was dead. Have any takers pressed forward to assume that position?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (xG4kz)

153 There's a Zen Buddhist who has said when people argue over religious symbols, it is because they aren't doing the work.

Jesus said a lot of things - and there are a lot of things he notably did not do, like build a church or push top-down solutions in the world of men. This was controversial enough, then. But what you would think a follower of Christ would focus on, is how Christ said to follow him.

He didn't tell the rich young man from Mathew to go tell his neighbors to give away all of his possessions. He told him sell his possessions, give the money to the poor, and follow Him.

He also said to take up your cross, to hate your mother and father, to fast - specifically he modeled fasting for 40 days and nights among other things that you won't find many mainline Christians doing Left or Right.

Knowing what it means to love your neighbors and enemies as yourself comes after these things, not before.

Not doing these things is like being a Buddhist who doesn't meditate. Or a martial artist who doesn't pressure test. Your wisdom is unearned and built on sand.

It is clear what Talarico is not. It is always clear who isn't doing the work, regardless of what side they're on.

Posted by: Mad Jojo at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (LTRDy)

154 So, when progressives demonstrate a heavy preference for Islam over Christianity, it shows plainly that they would rather give up literally every other freedom, in exchange for just that one: the ability to stick it in kids and beasts without fear of social consequence. That's how important it is to them.
Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (Sy6m/)

Is this similar to AWFLS giving MohMen a pass on behavior they shriek about in white men? It's been suggested that they have a secret desire to be overcome by strong men. Because they emasculated the ones around them.

Posted by: sal at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (f+FmA)

155 Speaking on the widely followed “All-In Podcast,” Sacks argued that the moment may have arrived for Washington to pursue an off-ramp rather than escalate further. “We’ve degraded Iranian capabilities massively,” Sacks said. “This is a good time to declare victory and get out.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

That is observably false. As long as Iran is able to make new drones, it has not been degraded enough.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:32 PM (Sy6m/)

156 146 Of course always defer to Jesus, but the Old Testament has validity as well. I mean you know?
Posted by: Eromero
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Yes, and Hebrews is basically a pared down version of the Old Testament. Jesus himself said he was here to complete the law; not abolish it. And that is because law without love and compassion is sterile and pro forma in human hands.

The Creator intended his law to be compassionate and loving to make people live their best life. Instead, the law became oppressive in human hands where it became a competition to claim more slavish adherence to the law than others. It lost its heart in the meantime.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)

157 I read an article earlier this year purporting to explain why conservative believers are wrong. The terms they used were something along the lines of "vertical theology" versus "horizontal theology." You see, conservative Christians only care about their obligation to God and therefore don't care about other people, but the nice progressives care about their fellow humans and thus are more compassionate. (The article was undoubtedly linked in a post or comment here.)

It seems the left is entirely unable to understand the motivations of the right. I often wonder if I as a conservative correctly discern the true motivations of the left. Or am I as blind as they are?

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:32 PM (FMtrg)

158 Speaking on the widely followed “All-In Podcast,” Sacks argued that the moment may have arrived for Washington to pursue an off-ramp rather than escalate further. “We’ve degraded Iranian capabilities massively,” Sacks said. “This is a good time to declare victory and get out.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

Either...Sacks is signaling a change...or...he needs to shut his pie hole and leave warfighting to the warfighters. Degraded yes...but we have not achieved the goals laid out by the President.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:33 PM (2WIwB)

159 If I were Trump, Id suspend the federal gas tax and offer states money to suspend theirs as well. If gas can drop by 40,50 cents cents a gallon it would go a long way to making Americans more willing to go the distance and finish the job.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:33 PM (Y5yQx)

160 As long as we don't get caught up in the hunt for a proper supreme leader, we should continue taking out hard assets and let the Israelis do the assassinations for the regime change.

Commerce and trade will work out on its own.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 01:33 PM (M9gjJ)

161
"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."

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He wants to disappoint and horrify us. He's jonesing for it, like a serial killer who's gone too long since his last murder.

Who knows what he'll do. A movie about gay 'cowpokes' has already been done. It'll have to be a lot worse than that. He has a reputation to uphold.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 01:34 PM (VWtfl)

162
I think the "let the gubmint do it" crowd's beliefs boil down to something like this --

The reason I don't practice charitable giving all by myself is that I believe that it is important for the Government as Charitable Giver Complex to employ otherwise worthless individuals in some capacity, any capacity, and it does that really, really, really well. And I'm good with that type of double giving, as it were.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:34 PM (xG4kz)

163 There is no such thing as a progressive Christian.

To be a Christian, you have to recognize that you are a sinner in need of a savior, and that Christ is that savior. But that means you have to recognize your personal failure to live according to God's moral standards *as He defines them* (rather easily observed in Scripture).

If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His (which is what progressives require), you are off on your own, doing your own thing. You may as well carve your "Jesus" out of wood or stone for all the good it will ever do you.

Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)

164 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?
Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM

He could never have outfought Santino.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:35 PM (4NO2D)

165 Christian Nationalism is a totally made up bullshit term that the left probably ran through a dozen focus groups before they started using it.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:36 PM (2WIwB)

166 >>> Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.
===

Got to be a way for a straight guy to get in on that spa...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 01:37 PM (/lPRQ)

167 This western will undoubtedly have a Latino transgendered woman as the main character, blazing a trail of pride across the west. And the baddie will be a white guy named Tom Johnson who won’t let he/her/they/them be their/her/his true self/selves.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:37 PM (Y5yQx)

168 Are we Nationalists that happen to be Christians? Or Christians that happen to be Nationalists? Or is the suggestion that only Christians can be Nationalists, or vice versa?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:38 PM (4NO2D)

169 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?
Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM

He's certainly a temp.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:38 PM (2WIwB)

170
You see, conservative Christians only care about their obligation to God and therefore don't care about other people, but the nice progressives care about their fellow humans and thus are more compassionate.

Sure. That's why you compassionate types allow the wretches to fester, rot, defecate and otherwise infest our cities and their streets. Your compassion is just that deep.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:39 PM (xG4kz)

171
If the new ayatollah has really been in a coma all this time, he's not coming back mentally. The best the Iranian regime will be able to do is roll him in front of a microphone that hides his mouth, and play a recording, like in that old episode of Star Trem about the Nazi planet.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM (VWtfl)

172 If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His
=
That is a succint way to put the whole problem. That person made themself their own god. Not gonna end well. No to mention meanwhile being surrounded by billions of other gods who have their own ideas about what is owed to them and allowed, or even required of you.

Thats not a small problem, is it?

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM (LILNU)

173 Is this similar to AWFLS giving MohMen a pass on behavior they shriek about in white men? It's been suggested that they have a secret desire to be overcome by strong men. Because they emasculated the ones around them.
Posted by: sal at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (f+FmA)

It's related. It's an example of the Marcusian "tolerant intolerance" (or "liberating intolerance") that I mentioned, where they're selective about what to be tolerant of.

The claim is that they have to be intolerant of intolerance, in order to promote tolerance; the practice is to be intolerant of Christianity and Western culture, while embracing every abusive, repressive foreign practice. Their actions don't match their words, so they're lying about their motive.

The specific example you cite muddies the water a bit. People with the anxious-aversive attachment style naturally have conflicted feelings by definition. So, they may use The Handmaid's Tale as a masturbation aid, while wearing the outfit to protests (as if they were against it), and carrying signs welcoming their new Muhammadan overlords (who actually treat women like that for real).

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:41 PM (Sy6m/)

174 If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His (which is what progressives require), you are off on your own, doing your own thing. You may as well carve your "Jesus" out of wood or stone for all the good it will ever do you.
Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)

Yep. Whenever a progressive tells me I'm doing Christianity wrong, they are telling me what Jesus wants me to do and the Jesus they are talking about is communism dressed up in a Bible costume.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:42 PM (FMtrg)

175
If the new ayatollah has really been in a coma all this time, he's not coming back mentally.

Not coming back mentally has never been a disqualifier in the past. Hosting and practicing a burning and murderous rage toward anyone who will not hew to your line of thinking appeared to be priority number one for those guys.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:42 PM (xG4kz)

176 If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His
=
That is a succint way to put the whole problem. That person made themself their own god. Not gonna end well. No to mention meanwhile being surrounded by billions of other gods who have their own ideas about what is owed to them and allowed, or even required of you.

Thats not a small problem, is it?
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM

It's hubris, and the original temptation and sin. and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:42 PM (4NO2D)

177 I think the "let the gubmint do it" crowd's beliefs boil down to something like this --

The reason I don't practice charitable giving all by myself is that I believe that it is important for the Government as Charitable Giver Complex to employ otherwise worthless individuals in some capacity, any capacity, and it does that really, really, really well. And I'm good with that type of double giving, as it were.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:34 PM (xG4kz)

Add to it, "And my supporting charity-by-government makes me feel like a I'm a good person too!"

Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 01:43 PM (PrsTH)

178 >>> Judge VanDyke deconstructs this argument in his video (on the same page as the Korean spa link) by deconstructing a typical semi-auto handgun to show that all parts are interchangeable and modifiable. Thus all parts are, by California’s argument, “accessories” and not protected by the second amendment. He reduces California’s argument to absurdity by making a Theseus’s gun analogy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Ah, that VanDyke.
Had to explain to little that if 'X' is protected then some that is literally a part of 'X' is protected.

With 'free speech' these same would that a phrase, a sentence or two is not protected because it wasn't a whole speech.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 01:46 PM (/lPRQ)

179
Not coming back mentally has never been a disqualifier in the past. Hosting and practicing a burning and murderous rage toward anyone who will not hew to your line of thinking appeared to be priority number one for those guys.

This brings us to the observation -- then what distinguished them from other murderous leaders of nations -- Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Saddam, and the like? And the answer is nothing -- they all were cut from the same cloth.

Recall the human wave attacks that the Ayatollah called up for Iranians to mount in the Iraq - Iran War back in the day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:46 PM (xG4kz)

180 169 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?
Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM

He's certainly a temp.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:38 PM (2WIwB)

He's probably room temp.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 14, 2026 01:47 PM (w/O5Q)

181 Thats not a small problem, is it?
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM

It's hubris, and the original temptation and sin. and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil
Posted by: toby928(c)
==
Yes it is. Isnt that interesting. The made up fairy tale bible accurately describes the fundamental and persistent fault in humanity throughout time. What are the odds???????? Some illiterat goat herder came up with a boffo story and it was so popular it got written thousands of years later and preserved to today.....

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:48 PM (LILNU)

182 A close family member has become re-involved in a church as an adult after being raised in a church. She is progressive. We have attended her church with her. I've observed that the service at her church seems to be oriented toward reassuring the members that they are "good" people, while at our church, we contemplate the goodness of God. Totally different focus.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:49 PM (FMtrg)

183
Add to it, "And my supporting charity-by-government makes me feel like a I'm a good person too!"

Posted by: Vendette

"I don't want to be forced to decide where I'd practice my charity (by giving my time and treasure) -- that would make me all judgey! And judgey people are icky!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:49 PM (xG4kz)

184 I think the Christian Nationalism is another name that they link no Nazism which they don't want Socialism connected to it

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

185 I think the important phrase in 'Judge not lest ye be judged' is not the start but the end. By the yardstick you judge others, shall you be judged. It's a call to understanding our own sinfulness rather than a grant of carte blanche to evil.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:54 PM (4NO2D)

186 A close family member has become re-involved in a church as an adult after being raised in a church. She is progressive. We have attended her church with her. I've observed that the service at her church seems to be oriented toward reassuring the members that they are "good" people, while at our church, we contemplate the goodness of God. Totally different focus.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:49 PM (FMtrg)

Your 2nd-to-last sentence is a nice, succinct summation of progressive churches.

Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 01:54 PM (PrsTH)

187 The theme of last Sunday's homily at our church was 'While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us'.

I appreciate being reminded of this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:56 PM (4NO2D)

188 I think the Christian Nationalism is another name that they link no Nazism which they don't want Socialism connected to it
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

Precisely.
It is just spooky enough and hints at a dark side to nationalism, and since not everyone is a Christian then it becomes exclusionary, hence racist and bad.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

189 Your 2nd-to-last sentence is a nice, succinct summation of progressive churches.
Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 01:54 PM (PrsTH)

There's also a certain amount of "we're better/more caring/more morally-refined than those other people." The first time we went to that church, part of the sermon was the pastor telling us how distressed she was over a church spending money on property maintenance that she felt should be used to help poor people. So she was more attuned to moral issues than the church leadership was.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 02:00 PM (FMtrg)

190 “illegal student”: illegal why? Because groping? Because illegal alien? Not properly enrolled?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 02:01 PM (gqKkr)

191 He recognizes the real problem, using coded language. Woke judges. Meaning we have judges, who refuse to Judge, when it is imperative that they do so, because they, as a group have a duty to do so to protect society.
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas

The real problem is swinging dicks. He said so in his opinion.

Posted by: A right proper schlonging he gave them at March 14, 2026 02:01 PM (TbWk/)

192 Outside of maybe a crank or three on the internet, no one is even proposing actual Christian Nationalism, which would be a theocracy. It's a strawman, and the purpose is to invalidate your right to self-rule, since you're Christian, and your policy preferences are based on Christian values, so -- *** here comes the fallacy *** -- you're violating the 1A and establishing your religion in the State when you vote your conscience, therefore your preferences are always morally and legally invalid.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 02:03 PM (Sy6m/)

193 188 I think the Christian Nationalism is another name that they link no Nazism which they don't want Socialism connected to it
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

Precisely.
It is just spooky enough and hints at a dark side to nationalism, and since not everyone is a Christian then it becomes exclusionary, hence racist and bad.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

If a nation wants to survive as a nation, it must be exclusionary as a baseline rule, and highly selective as to who it lets in.

Posted by: Of course, destruction is what they want at March 14, 2026 02:05 PM (TbWk/)

194 nood gardening

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:06 PM (+YA9H)

195 >>>The real problem is swinging dicks. He said so in his opinion.

Posted by: A right proper schlonging he gave them

>If your dick ain't swinging, you need to turn up the heat or get under the covers. The showers live in Florida, the growers live everywhere else.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 02:06 PM (M9gjJ)

196 nood gardening was posted at 01:29 PM

Posted by: K.T. at 01:29 PM

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:07 PM (+YA9H)

197 There's also a certain amount of "we're better/more caring/more morally-refined than those other people." The first time we went to that church, part of the sermon was the pastor telling us how distressed she was over a church spending money on property maintenance that she felt should be used to help poor people. So she was more attuned to moral issues than the church leadership was.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 02:00 PM (FMtrg)

Ironically, "can't afford to maintain the building may eventually be a major cause of the church having to sell the building and/or shut down completely.

Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 02:08 PM (PrsTH)

198 I think the important phrase in 'Judge not lest ye be judged' is not the start but the end. By the yardstick you judge others, shall you be judged. It's a call to understanding our own sinfulness rather than a grant of carte blanche to evil.
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I think there's a fair case to be made that what Jesus was talking about in that passage, was warning a believer not to destroy his witness by drawing attention to his own fault by exclaiming it in others (don't be a hypocrite). So don't rag on other people watching internet porn if you're doing it to, as sooner or later you'll be discovered. Or stealing. Or whatever.

Acknowledging a thing is wrong, and admitting I'm weak to it, is another thing. "First take the plank out of your own eye then the speck in your neighbors" seems to suggest that once our struggle with a particular sin has been resolved, we might be better positioned to help someone else with that struggle out of it.

It's similar to the implication of The Lord's Prayer, that we ought to forgive as we've been forgiven (which probably more means we shouldn't be holding on to any offence, which would include as a subset those specific sins we're guilty of), but not exactly.

Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2026 02:08 PM (vSvIl)

199 199

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:11 PM (+YA9H)

200 I remain sinful. I judge people that harm children and wish damnation on those that do. I have nothing but ill will towards those that want to pervert the Word of G-d for their own purposes.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 02:13 PM (+nEug)

201 There's also a certain amount of "we're better/more caring/more morally-refined than those other people." The first time we went to that church, part of the sermon was the pastor telling us how distressed she was over a church spending money on property maintenance that she felt should be used to help poor people. So she was more attuned to moral issues than the church leadership was.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 02:00 PM (FMtrg)

Ironically, "can't afford to maintain the building may eventually be a major cause of the church having to sell the building and/or shut down completely.
Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 02:08 PM (PrsTH)
***

Hmmm. The poor you will always have, but the church facility can die away unless it is maintained. Something about being good stewards...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 02:17 PM (2WIwB)

202 Joe Rogan has lost his mind

Posted by: Gonzotx at March 14, 2026 02:17 PM (nGraA)

203 I remain sinful. I judge people that harm children and wish damnation on those that do. I have nothing but ill will towards those that want to pervert the Word of G-d for their own purposes.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 02:13 PM (+nEug)

I have always thought that if there were a Don Lemon-like church takeover at my church, I would have the presence of mind to take my lead from the pastor. But if some protestor blocks my exit, touches my wife or me, or shoves a bullhorn in my face, I'm probably going to beat the crap out of him/her. I'm just not sure I could hold back. This isn't turning the other cheek. It is protecting my family and my rights.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 02:23 PM (2WIwB)

204 Diogenes, you are a protector and defender of your family and I respect and admire that.

I saw too much of pastors deserting their flock during covid.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 02:30 PM (+nEug)

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