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Hillary Clinton's Running Mate, Democrat Senator Tim Kaine: Your Rights Don't Come from God, They're Granted by the Government At Its Pleasure, and Christians Saying Otherwise Are Iranian Religious Fanatics
Say, remember when they all used to pretend to go to church and once in a while pretended to give glory to God?
I knew they were lying, of course, but I think I liked the lying better than the truth. Even if you're secular, the idea that rights derive from God is a very attractive one. It's an alternate way of saying these rights are innate -- inborn, possessed since birth simply as part of the patrimony of being a human being -- and therefore inviolate. As a somewhat famous Declaration put it:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.It is slightly different to invoke God as the source of these rights, but the gist of it, whether you're religious or secular, is the same: The government does not grant these rights as it chooses, these rights are innate and inviolable, and therefore the government may not steal away these rights, even if it finds them deeply inconvenient. Adding God into the mix helps secure them, because people will tend to physically fight if someone attempts to steal away God-given rights, and that's a positive thing when it comes to your most basic, fundamental political rights. Tim Kaine, and all other Democrats, do not want to acknowledge God because they are, whether they realize it or not, Satanists. But the practical reason they want to contradict the Founding Father's own statement that these rights derive from God is because they seek to undo these rights, so they argue that they can increase or decrease your rights as easily as they can increase or decrease the top marginal income tax rates. God's got nothing to do with it, you see, so you have no argument against the state stripping you of your rights. The Declaration and Constitution are a covenant, and agreement by which the people consent to be governed, and if the terms of that covenant are violated, then the consent to be governed is withdrawn and we may ignore it and physically oppose it. Otherwise, the government can just alter the terms of our agreement at its own self-interested whim.
Kaine goes even further, and declares that anyone who disagrees and believes that rights derive from God and are therefore inviolable, no matter how much a transitory government wants to violate them, is the equivalent of an Allah-besotted mullah or terrorist in Iran. And of course Kaine rejects the idea that if the government steals away these rights -- that is, that it becomes "destructive to these ends" of securing liberty -- then that government has forfeited its legitimacy and may justifiably be rebelled against. The government owns you. It owns you, it owns your children, it owns your souls, it owns your children's souls, and you just have to accept that, Peasant. Well, this has certainly been clarifying.
Tim Kaine arguing that our rights come from the government, rejecting our longstanding, founding principle that "[we] are endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty & the pursuit of Happines" as Iranian-ish propaganda, is madness. pic.twitter.com/W7RnvNc3nt
— Robert G (@RobertG1406) September 3, 2025
Our rights don’t come from government or the DNC.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 3, 2025
They come from God. @timkaine, I suggest the Dems go back and read the words of our Founding Fathers. pic.twitter.com/QRmhTcbbOH
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 04, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4TOv)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:23 PM (MlvSb)
Cruz in his response definitely proved his worth
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 04, 2025 12:24 PM (Q4TOv)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 04, 2025 12:24 PM (vbXSk)
He said/she said:
https://tinyurl.com/e5n4y62c
Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (pvrrs)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (2UnvF)
May the pickle juice flow freely and forever and may you never eat a pickle the wrong way.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:26 PM (MlvSb)
"You only have what I allow you to have."
It's so backwards, hilariously so, even more so because he takes the position as "progressive".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 04, 2025 12:26 PM (pvrrs)
Posted by: Josephistan at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (PG7PD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Tim Kaine at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (MlvSb)
"You only have what I allow you to have."
It really does come down to that.
Dear Mr. Kaine, please explain your comment in the context of your accusations that we are all fascists.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (bss/y)
Parents of five children have been arrested after police said they were locked in a room that 'functioned as a dungeon' with surveillance cameras and dead bolts to prevent them from escaping.
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Well, at least they didn't let the kids go to the store by themselves.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (N4KWG)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (63Dwl)
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"I've been training for this!"
-Ted Cruz, debate champion
"Find some more shit to cut from the fed budget to punish my enemies more, bruh."
-Me
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (2UnvF)
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Classical liberalism detached from any moral grounding.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
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The chickens are coming home to roost!
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (rj6Yv)
What a maroon
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (+kWhq)
You're right, ace, you can take the word "God" out of this and say "innate," as in something you're born with. Probly going to rile a few people here, but it's a fact: you can equally use terms like "natural rights" and "innate rights" for the purposes of this argument. In fact, I think it's better because otherwise this whole national discussion is going to turn into a "Whose religion is the true religion?" fight, which is a distraction from the essence of of the argument.
It's sickening that Kaine actually thinks the government's job is to decide on your rights, not to PROTECT and GUARANTEE your rights. This is so basic.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 04, 2025 12:29 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Max Power at September 04, 2025 12:29 PM (Pd9qR)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:29 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Not bad for an illiterate asshole.
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at September 04, 2025 12:29 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: mr tmz at September 04, 2025 12:29 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Oglebay at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (MMp6W)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (Q4TOv)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (XIYoZ)
Posted by: Chief Wiggum at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (61TgR)
And yes. That's exactly the point
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (sKqQm)
Fuck all Democrats. And those who vote for them.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (Kakst)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (fV+MH)
What a maroon
Perhaps he was thrown by "unalienable".
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (+kWhq)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (PzXaK)
Dude. That was so like a hundred years ago. Or something.
(As mentioned earlier, my .02 is that Timmy believes himself to be a citizen of the world, and we should all recognize his status)
Posted by: man at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (tubbA)
It's the second part of that statement that is more important. Sure, you can have all the innate and god-given rights as you want. But who will secure and enforce them when the mob comes to your door?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Clay at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (SY/fS)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (+kWhq)
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Elderly lesbians just tend to like the same films.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (fV+MH)
The "unalienable rights" are fundamental, inherent rights that belong to all individuals and cannot be taken away by any government or other authority. The most famous articulation of these rights is in the United States Declaration of Independence, which lists them as Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. These rights are considered the foundation of many legal and moral frameworks, serving as a critical concept in both American law and international human rights
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)
Have you no sense of shame, Senator?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (XK2P4)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (kTd/k)
So to take that to its logical conclusion if congress passed a law allowing Trump to put every tranny in a mental institution then he's not violating their rights...right?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (sKqQm)
Come take them. I dare you. I fu*king double dare you to try.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 04, 2025 12:31 PM (2WIwB)
Today is a very smoky day. No chance of getting out on the bike until this shit clears out.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Excellent point! It really is rich to have the actual Nazi's accusing us of being nazi's.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (Kakst)
[Raises hand]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)
I don't think they look that similar. And only one of them is a pedo...as far as we know
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (PzXaK)
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This is oddly specific.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (Tuo+M)
We had a blood moon last night and a red sun this morning.
Very spooky.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)
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I'm on Day One. The first couple of hours of Day One actually.
My self-discipline has been flawless so far.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 04, 2025 12:33 PM (XIYoZ)
Very spooky.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)
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"Blood has been spilt this night..."
-Legolas of the Woodland Realm (not son of Thranduil, apparently)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 04, 2025 12:33 PM (kTd/k)
Very spooky.
Yeah...Sunsets look like a shot of Mt Doom here, this week.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:33 PM (Tuo+M)
He's also an imbecile, but that just goes with the territory.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 04, 2025 12:34 PM (MZ+PY)
But of course only specifically the human rights the government wanted people to have
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Michael Bolton at September 04, 2025 12:34 PM (7IDZL)
Maybe most elves end up with Legolas in their names, kind of like the Jihadis with Mohammed
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: F. Hayek at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (XIYoZ)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (OPGS/)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (PzXaK)
Well...Hell. Now I'm going to be thinking about this all damn day.
How far back?
What kind of Dinosaur?
How big was the egg?
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (2WIwB)
"Individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell," one source inside the Justice Department told the Daily Wire.
https://tinyurl.com/4at6cdsc
Posted by: illiniwek at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (mFSH6)
And those Kings all claimed to be Ordained by God...so, not really much difference.
This is simply the Hegelian Dialectic run wild. Hegel was a ponce.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: SMOD at September 04, 2025 12:36 PM (RHGPo)
Wait Trump is seriously going to give us common sense tranny control?!?
How many days of Trumpsmas are we getting this year?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 12:36 PM (LJi3N)
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Yeah, that link was exactly what I was expecting.
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 12:36 PM (zLwRl)
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I'm on Day One. The first couple of hours of Day One actually.
My self-discipline has been flawless so far.
I'm on minute...checks watch...30 of my fast since lunch.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
agree.
and this is fundamental and important.
the Ds (and most Rs, probably) are Utliitarian elitists. this is not in accordance with the US Constitution nor with our founding.
IT MUST BE OPPOSED
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:36 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (Pv3Rg)
The Dems are the new Farmers General.
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: mr tmz at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Lady Clairol at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (oftw2)
Very spooky.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)
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"Blood has been spilt this night..."
-Legolas of the Woodland Realm (not son of Thranduil, apparently)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)
Ah, you've seen the news from Chicago.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (xcxpd)
Thank you for the clues, because upon seeing the name, I have to admit that I thought: "Who?" He could have been the last person drafted this year, Mr. Irrelevant, and I would believed you.
Posted by: t-bird at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (acaMd)
That quote fit perfectly on top of pictures of German National Socialists doing socialist things together during WWII
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: eleven
The only value of that Commie fuckface's noggin is as a glasses holder.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (7IDZL)
One meal a day, still going strong.
Down 3.5 pounds from Monday (water weight, mostly).
And I got my full 60 minute workout in this morning (feelin' swole).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Governor Newsom at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (v1oP/)
Iranian Fanatics would hang your poofter ass from a crane* and I have to admit you are convincing me that they have solid position on that issue.
* or toss off a building or push a wall over onto it.
Posted by: Operator Error at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (Ps8NB)
Just a few years ago, we had Terry McAuliffe claiming that children belong to the state, not their parents
Now, we get Tim Kaine saying we are not endowed by out creator with certain inalienable rights.
Posted by: SMOD at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SMOD at September 04, 2025 12:36 PM (RHGPo)
It's a dangerous high powered assault opinion.
With the thing that goes up.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: man at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (PzXaK)
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This is oddly specific.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
I agree. Not to say it isn’t an entirely commendable and worthwhile objective.
Posted by: Clay at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (SY/fS)
Posted by: He's a dunce, and an evil one at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (TbWk/)
Truth, Ace. This whole past decade or so has been like that; and getting clearer every day.
Merry Trumpmas!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (ppG5b)
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The Democrats' rejection of that point invalidates any government they sit at the top of.
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (zLwRl)
That wars have been fought for far less troubles none of them.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (7hBFV)
how long? I've done this before and I should do it again. It's basically a 23 hour fast every single day.
Posted by: ace at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (KRtlO)
Armalite, Kimber, etc...
God made man
Colt made them equal
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (sKqQm)
One meal a day, still going strong.
Down 3.5 pounds from Monday (water weight, mostly).
And I got my full 60 minute workout in this morning (feelin' swole).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
Congrats man. I have a friend who eats one meal a day, mostly Korean food...and a lot of it. He's losing weight too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (xcxpd)
Yep. The Argument of Utility is a False Argument and the Utilitarian is the most dangerous permutation of Elitist because they are completely unmoored from Principle.
They are ONLY concerned with preferred/controlling Outcomes.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:35 PM (Pv3Rg)
The Dems are the new Farmers General.
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (rj6Yv)
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They're the pigs that walk upright on their 2 hind legs.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (pvrrs)
Posted by: ace at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (R6ueR)
You forgot their most important demand.
We have to give them all our stuff too.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (sKqQm)
Excellent point! It really is rich to have the actual Nazi's accusing us of being nazi's.
Posted by: Chairborne!
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It's almost as if...as if projection is an element of 'progressive' thought.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (XeU6L)
Armalite, Kimber, etc...
God made man
Colt made them equal
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (sKqQm)
Got the tee shirt
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Weasel at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (V5pka)
Posted by: Case at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (iwlvf)
Trying to continue. It is odd to try to pace the calories over 5 hours.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy sitting in a lake of fire pondering if a car would float on it at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (sKqQm)
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Much like many of the Wahabis who founded this country.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (9eaV3)
Cruz's response is good. It would be great if Trump pounded on it in public statements at events where they can't be ignored
Posted by: JTB at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (yTvNw)
I'll bet my quatloos on Timmy.
Posted by: Gref at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: SMOD at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (RHGPo)
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The Dems think that criticizing their right to rule us by quoting the Declaration of Independence is revolting.
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (XIYoZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (mFSH6)
Posted by: wth at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: mea culpa at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (Yb08v)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (YLve5)
Posted by: man at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (tubbA)
Everyone else, don't bother saying anything nice. You missed your chance. You're on The List now.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Weasel at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (V5pka)
I have Padilla and Schiff.....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (qBdHI)
Truth, Ace. This whole past decade or so has been like that; and getting clearer every day.
Merry Trumpmas!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 04, 2025 12:38 PM (ppG5b)
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I just have to once again put forward my theory that Democrat politics completely changed after the 2010 Tea Party election.
Scared stiff that they'd lose power for ideological and practical reasons, they cast off the populace and chose to fortify elections to retain power. They did this through fed grant money to non-profits that bolstered the Democrat party financially which allowed them to enforce greater and greater direct control over election results in favorable precincts, especially in the face of a GOP unwilling to even consider fighting back.
No longer concerned with winning voters, they just became increasingly radical, bending to the whims of the craziest and loudest of those within the power structure, who reinforced their positions through personnel decisions.
Breaking that model has become Trump's main focus in his second term, and Democrats simply do not know anymore how to fight back any other way than with increasing radicalism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)
But who will secure and enforce them when the government comes to your door?
Posted by: In theory that's what the 2d amendment is for at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Operator Error at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (Ps8NB)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (wBaIH)
Wait. That IS the entire party.
Posted by: Joe Mama at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (2sMLA)
They will not defend our rights at home here in America. Why would anyone believe they GAF about anyone in Ukraine or the Sudan? Or Australia or the UK?
They should be defenders of Free Speech. They are not. Farthest thing from it. And that’s just the 1st Amendment. Far too many are simply imposters and grifters taking up a seat in congress that could be held by an authentic American. Kaine is apparently one such individual, an odious creature stinkin’ up the joint.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (XK2P4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (R6ueR)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (7IDZL)
https://tinyurl.com/4at6cdsc
Posted by: illiniwek
Bad idea/ won't work; psychs will not diagnose trannies as mentally ill, so that determination cannot be a matter of medical diagnosis. Which means A ) they are arguing the DOJ can make that ? B ) Local authorities can investigate mental illness?
If they expand the determination of mental illness, the next Dem admin will use that to ban guns by declaring any and all opposition to leftie issues as mental illness.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (mlg/3)
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You really can't, because aside from God's decision to create us in His image, there's no reason that we'd have innate rights.
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (zLwRl)
good to know. It more or less *has* to work, unless you're eating such a huge meal that you're taking in 2500 calories in one sitting.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (KRtlO)
My IF window is usually 4 hours, these days.
Slowly losing those last few lbs that I could not shed on the 6/18 schedule.
Essentially, one full meal and a snack each day.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (Tuo+M)
*Reaches into desk for bag of peanut M&Ms*
Starting now.
OK, now.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (N4KWG)
All means to an end. If elections give them power, they like elections. If instead its mobs, they prefer mobs.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy sitting in a lake of fire pondering if a car would float on it at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Oglebay at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (MMp6W)
29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Posted by: SMOD at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (RHGPo)
Or they never did, and even Arthur's muck farmers knew it (he was King of the Britons, of course)
Posted by: t-bird at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (acaMd)
Hah! I'm higher on the list than all the rest of you losers.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (Riz8t)
how long? I've done this before and I should do it again. It's basically a 23 hour fast every single day.
Posted by: ace at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (KRtlO)
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Just since Monday, but it's my default fasting method when I actually stick to it. If I can keep to it for a few weeks, I end up losing decent weight pretty quickly. I also have a goal of January (our next cruise) to give me an end in sight.
I find doing it during the week easy enough, just say no to snacks that suddenly become meals. It's the weekends that get me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
I was last of our family to leave VA after nearly 400 years.
Moved to Texas...
Posted by: man at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (tubbA)
Well, if you retards weren't ignoring clear and binding precedent, making up or ignoring laws, citing dissents over the majority, playing dumb about the precedential weight of SCOTUS emergency orders, and displaying out-and-out animus toward Trump you might get a fucking clue why.
And the open criticism of that clown judge in Boston--the same one who has ruled against Trump 3 times now--telling the SCOTUS they're being big meanies is sure gonna change their mood.
It's hilarious watching these little clown judges get more and more wound up, demanding the public listen to their god-like wisdom.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (E10jf)
Just for the fuckballs.
Didn't lose a pound.
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:43 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (xcxpd)
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I love it when I talk myself into eating a shit ton of food because it's low carb...and then I just gain weight for mysterious reasons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Case
Highway is nearly complete.
Posted by: Acey Deecy at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (2sMLA)
And He gets a bigger say in the wellbeing of a nation than the government or the voters do.
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (zLwRl)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)
As far as what is going on in Virginia, the state has become dominated by The Washington beltway, and the tendrils that extend out from it, so see my comment above. They do think that rights come from the government. Or the King. Or the Left.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (wBaIH)
Kaine was the one with the penciled in eyebrows, no?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)
Yeah, like you'd think Tim would take a closer look at the state flag and all them words on it.
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: The lady of the lake... at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (tubbA)
You're putting us on the list? Getting a little grumpy from not eating, Ace? 😉 Well, I'll dare say it anyway: Good essay. Thanks. And I'm glad that you are doing well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (2GCMq)
All that said, the point of the Declaration's Deism was that it doesn't matter what sort of Christian you were, including Marylander Catholics; or even if your own name had a "-berg" in it. This universe had a Creator and the Creator chose to give free will to humans.
Believing otherwise is what Turks and tyrants believed. Or scumbags like Kaine who think he's got free will and you don't.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (gKWVE)
The only solution is to burn it all down and start over again.
IMHFO.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (Kakst)
Posted by: E Buzz at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (RpWMF)
I am down to 2 meals a day and I try to “close all my rings” on my Apple Watch Fitness App.
I’m down about 30-35 pounds and keeping it off.
I feel healthy and more energy.
Posted by: Czech Chick at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (vK/Ja)
Had a long discussion with a friend and his wife over dinner last night...on this exact Thesis.
I finally made some headway with his wife as she is slowly becoming red-pilled.
The Genesis of this being the Protests over Trump's Law Enforcement Actions in DC.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (Tuo+M)
——-
They understand it just fine. They categorically reject it.
That’s why he’s such a cunt
Posted by: Common Tater at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (XK2P4)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)
Or else.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (Pv3Rg)
always good to hear the wisdom of Frank Costanza.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 04, 2025 12:45 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 04, 2025 12:46 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 04, 2025 12:46 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 04, 2025 12:46 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: ace has a little list
This would be considered a good start.
Posted by: Kratwurst at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (ESB2T)
I think it does. Even though I was doing some stuff to get GAINZZZ, one thing I was not doing was intermittent fasting, and I think that's why I continued gaining weight even when being low(ish) carb and exercising four or five times a week.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (KRtlO)
no donna
your rights are innate - natural law
before the Constitution - but that document underscored it. they used religious terms but they meant INNATE HUMAN DIGNITY AND FREEDOM
it's not religious necessarily so we shouldn't get bogged down in that aspect
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (Pv3Rg)
Or else."
I suspect that many would not like what happens after the "or else".
Could get...sporty.
Posted by: The lady of the lake... at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (tubbA)
He also had to be stopped from using city funds to send protesters to the Million Mom March. It never occurred to him he couldn't use tax dollars as he wished. (Those rules apply only to Republicans.)
And he is, ostensibly, a Mackerel Snapper.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (+kWhq)
Perhaps Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum can tell us.
I was wondering the other day where the hell they find these freaks. All face streached and plastic looking. Weird walks and mannerisms.
Posted by: Reforger at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (CjwnQ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 04, 2025 12:46 PM (Wnv9h)
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Seems like that should be the center square on every Democrat Bingo Card.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (7fElN)
I think it does. Even though I was doing some stuff to get GAINZZZ, one thing I was not doing was intermittent fasting, and I think that's why I continued gaining weight even when being low(ish) carb and exercising four or five times a week.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (KRtlO)
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What's your exercise routine?
Cardio focused or strength training?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
Well, to say something nice would be to imply we actually read it.
And. Nobody does that.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: JTB at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Ripley at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (sKqQm)
And. Nobody does that.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:47 PM (Tuo+M)
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I feel seen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jean Rasczak at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (QpHLI)
To declare that men and women had rights themselves that were independent of any other higher authority was an incredibly revolutionary and radical statement. Most would-be rulers have hated it ever since.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
I bet Loose Lips there gets fired.
Posted by: EatherBlade at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (a+4eV)
Just you wait until they start pounding their wee little fisties and stamping their wee little feet.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:46 PM (sKqQm)
Wait. So you are saying he 'aspires' to be David French?
That might be one of the worst insults I have ever heard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)
That was Uncle Leo
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (nrfI8)
Posted by: Cheri at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (FGQ5G)
which cannot be rights, as they require the service/work of others - compelled service
so they are not rights
you have the right to try to grow/procure food, but not to force someone to grow it and give it to you, or pay for it for you.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:49 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Leupold at September 04, 2025 12:49 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)
That was Uncle Leo
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (nrfI
Hello!!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:49 PM (nrfI8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:49 PM (Jhqzr)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Duncanthrax Ten Bears at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (kTd/k)
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The heat from his flaming retardation brain has melted his glasses.
Posted by: Weasel at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (V5pka)
so they are not rights
you have the right to try to grow/procure food, but not to force someone to grow it and give it to you, or pay for it for you.
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:49 PM (Pv3Rg)
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They can be rights. Positive rights. Rights granted.
The right to a trial by jury is a positive right. It requires the labor of others.
I just largely reject the idea that governments should be giving out many positive rights.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much
......
Got you beat. My last name is Harris.
Posted by: wth at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (UjdFS)
"Rights" are a expectation of members, when you are seen as a member of such benefitting group.
God can decide that it's your time to go. So, no one has a "right to life" that God can't rescind. Instead Locke interpreted that we have a right to life, because our living expresses a Will of God. And since we do not have the right to dispose of ourselves as well, other people should respect the Will of God in our drawing of breath.
It is nearly irrefutable that this is the kernel of Locke's reasoning on rights. That God has expressed his will that we live. Locke then extends that to what a person possesses.
Again, what somebody legally possesses can be seen as an expression of God's will, what God has blessed them with. Nobody was given a right to hoard their possessions away from God (by God).
As we construe the entirety of the human race as intended receivers of such rights, "rights are intended from God".
The question is then:*how* as a simple, happenstance member of the human race is a member intended "rights"?
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (9eaV3)
I should send him chocolates.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Jean Rasczak at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (QpHLI)
Well don't leave out strange women lying in ponds, and farcical aquatic ceremonies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Kratwurst at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (ESB2T)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)
That was Uncle Leo
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (nrfI
>Hello!!!!
It was a Crime of Passion!
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:50 PM (Tuo+M)
The other Tim VP candidate aspires to be John Weaver so it could be worse.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Weasel at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM
Texas beckons you
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (qoLdL)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (gxokI)
If the gov't can the arbiter of rights, then why-
are the Democrats/Communists/Progtards all fired up about Trump being "a tyrant" and "an authoritarian"?
By idiot Kaine's own definition, Trump's power, whatever he does, is legitimate because he heads the gov't.
Ol' Smirky Timothy is so convinced he's smart, you know, not stupid like people say.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (iJfKG)
I was recently told that my constant cross-wearing is upsetting my Catholic family. here I thought it was not liking their anti-Trump social media nonsense! no, now seeing a person openly cross-wearing is somehow a trigger.
this is new. I need a bigger cross
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (Pv3Rg)
Pray we do not alter them further.
Posted by: Democrats at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (LJi3N)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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To be fair, you might want to deal with your own cyber security embarrassment sent over here and Ehud Baraks documented emails and numerous visits to Epstein. I am sure you are tracking both carefully.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (MlvSb)
The same folks that told you that the government is something we all belong to, not too long ago.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
“Government, as Barney Frank likes to say, is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Commenting Bull at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (Tuo+M)
Which explains their love of Islam.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Jean Rasczak at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (QpHLI)
Was that from the book or paraphrased in the movie?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:39 PM (xcxpd)
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I love it when I talk myself into eating a shit ton of food because it's low carb...and then I just gain weight for mysterious reasons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
Low carb and no carb are not the same.
I can eat a lot of meat and eggs and still lose weight. But if I add in bread...I start to get as large as Leon again.
Also avoiding sugar helps a ton.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (QpHLI)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:25 PM (MlvSb)
The issue is that Dems categorically reject consistency.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (FMtrg)
Loose from Elizabeth Warren's Twitter account, are we?
Posted by: gKWVE at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (gKWVE)
Marijuana Moment
Massachusetts Lawmakers Approve Bills To Protect Marijuana Users From Employment Discrimination And Expand Medical Cannabis Program
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (TGPs7)
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Known to Leftist politicians as, " the good old days."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (XIYoZ)
Posted by: Weasel at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM
You are an Honorary Texan. Consider dropping the Honorary part of that.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: naturalfake at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (R6ueR)
I was gonna go to work
but then I got high...
Posted by: Afroman at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (FMtrg)
Do they reject consistency or embrace inconsistency. Is there a material difference.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (63Dwl)
I don't wanna see Barney Frank's "government" in action.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (uWKK8)
I maintain it was Kaine's resulting involuntary ejaculation that was responsible.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (Riz8t)
I can eat a lot of meat and eggs and still lose weight. But if I add in bread...I start to get as large as Leon again.
Also avoiding sugar helps a ton.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)
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I know the balance to strike, I just choose to stuff my face because I'm hungry.
So, I either keep to one meal a day, or I end up eating 3000 calories across the day because I have no will power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)
Apparently Thomas Jefferson, James Adams and James Madison were all religious fanatics like the Iranians.
This guy is like Tim Waltz’s twin.
Both are goofy numbnuts who get a pass because of the D after their name.
They’re not alone though, universities don’t teach about natural rights anymore because domg do might give students ideas they don’t want them to have.
Propaganda & Brainwashing uber alles.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Duncanthrax Ten Bears"
These things you say we will have, we already have.
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (R/KdX)
The fact that dunces like Kaine are still arguing about it 250 years later shows they knew what they were doing. Everyone learns at their own pace, I always say.
Note well the usual suspects talk about the Constitution and BOR as “archaic” and “outdated”.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Kaine proves it very publicly here.
Technology changes. Human nature, however has not changed a whit in 5000 years or more. Don’t be fooled by their parlor tricks.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (XK2P4)
https://is.gd/481H5U
Anyone? Anyone?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (rj6Yv)
I maintain it was Kaine's resulting involuntary ejaculation that was responsible.
Now that was must see TV
Sadly though I picked the wrong night to turn off the TV and get on a pile of naked guys.
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (XIYoZ)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (AFztM)
Posted by: Naturalist v positivist makes a huge difference at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (Pv3Rg)
I just pictured Roy Scheider saying “we’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (WdMlw)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (+kWhq)
All the cocksucking causes their faces to take a set.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (Jhqzr)
Kaine should know that the Constitution doesn't protect the people from the government, it protects the government from the people.
That is, so long as the government stays within the bounds of consent of the people, it is safe.
If he wants to let loose those bounds, he may not like which side of he is on.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (E10jf)
Posted by: Duncanthrax Ten Bears"
These things you say we will have, we already have.
That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (Riz8t)
An easy hack is to remove all/most Calories from your chosen beverages.
A lot of people fail to notice the caloric density of the things they choose to drink. Juices and Soda are pretty similar in caloric value.
But people seem to think Juices are healthy.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (XIYoZ)
Thanks to Trump 2024, there is one less slot at the top.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 04, 2025 12:55 PM (AFztM)
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I have Tillis...and Budd. Budd's not bad. His staff showed us around the Capitol.
Also, despite Roy Cooper announcing his run and the supposed terrible environment the GOP will face in 2026, the active GOP registration lead in NC keeps growing while the overall Democrat lead on overall registration keeps shrinking.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (GBKbO)
When you are a democrat and have Jonah Goldberg mocking you, you know you've struck gold.
Kaine has voiced a less than 20% popular agreement statement.
Let's run him for Preznit.
Posted by: Auspex at September 04, 2025 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:30 PM (+kWhq)
Yes. It's called Communist China.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:57 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:54 PM (fV+MH)
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That's true. I'm just saying men can comment on a smart military blog without butchering one another.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 04, 2025 12:57 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: gKWVE at September 04, 2025 12:57 PM (gKWVE)
A lot of people fail to notice the caloric density of the things they choose to drink. Juices and Soda are pretty similar in caloric value.
But people seem to think Juices are healthy.
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:56 PM (Tuo+M)
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I drink coffee and water. The only time I get calories from drinks is on the weekends when I drink the alcohols.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
I tangled with a couple of "moral progress" prattlers earlier on X
"Progress" is growth in a direction. It's also a preference-encoding word. People who like a change call it "progress", people who don't definitely do not call it that.
Morality describes norming behavior among a societal group. Hume argues that it means nothing to say one "ought" to do something. But it is establishable that human groups engage in norming behavior. "Morals" then are the contents of any body of norming principles. Thus a change in moral content is "progress" to people who approve of it.
Thus all people want to make "moral progress"--especially if "moral" is construed as "what other people ought to do". No one is against their own preference for how other people should restrain themselves--or other people.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (9eaV3)
Posted by: ...
Isn't he still in 0rison?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (LJi3N)
The question is then:*how* as a simple, happenstance member of the human race is a member intended "rights"?
Posted by: Axeman
Fair statement but I think you overlook natural law emphasis in Locke's Second Treatise--Locke emphasizes that most everyone including wild animals will fight even unconsciously to try to preserve their life. Locke, if anything from his writings, was more the clockwork type Lord of the Rationalists at the time. His argument does not depend on the existence of a Creator.
So a deserve to preserve one's own life exists in nature before any governments whatsoever were constituted. Same with freedom of speech and the desire and ability to acquire and hold property necessary for self protection from violence as well as a means to sustain one's own life.
So we constitute a government to preserve our natural rights, not to violate them and any government that does so becomes a tyranny deserving of overthrow. The main disagreement between Hobbes and Locke over social contracts is whether once in existence, it can be abrogated by the people
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: 18-1"
500 wonderful calories.
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (fV+MH)
Timmy is in pain.
Posted by: Orson at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (dIske)
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Go look at all the rights the North Korean constitution "guarantees."
And no less than a former Supreme Court justice, Ginsberg, mused approvingly toward the South African constitution.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (E10jf)
BREAKING: UMass Lowell lockdown that terrified families turned out to be nothing more than a juvenile waving a plastic toy, police say
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: ...
I think it's so so... Well Ace said it's too late to get on the good list so I'm going out in a blaze of glory... Takes ball and goes home...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: m at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: gKWVE at September 04, 2025 12:57 PM (gKWVE)
Henry James or Henry Adams?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (WdMlw)
Very spooky.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 04, 2025 12:32 PM (xcxpd)
Smoky here, too. Has been for a few days. Not super bad, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Jhqzr)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (LJi3N)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Lefties would try that anyway.
idk if the story has solid sourcing ... saw it linked by Tim Pool on X. But "gender dysphoria" was a real mental illness "back in the day", iirc. (and still is, except for the efforts of the Woke crowd). Every murder by trannie might move the needle a little more.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (vbXSk)
Hume is a Ponce's Ponce.
Posted by: Kant at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (fV+MH)
And, even during the polio pandemic, they didn't mandate vaccines.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (kUxzU)
Posted by: toby928 at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (jc0TO)
To hammer home the point that the English are fucking up their own freedoms they just fought and died over.
Posted by: Operator Error at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (Ps8NB)
Posted by: 18-1"
500 wonderful calories.
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:58 PM (fV+MH)
500 wonderful, tasty calories.
Posted by: m at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (aURVT)
Based.
Posted by: garrett"
He also denies his essence to women.
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (fV+MH)
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Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
Shrub spent 8 years trying to be nice to the Dems and not do anything that would upset them.
Good thing that Obama returned the favor to us right?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (sKqQm)
Tyrants.
Posted by: Defenestratus at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: No Name Today at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (vlXMQ)
Western Europe is the latest example of why the Progs want to get rid of our Constitution. They must salivate each time they see a report of speech policing in the UK. And then curse Donald Trump and his supporters even more. The Progs must have believed they were on the threshold of negating the First Amendment, by extra-Constitutional actions, until Trump was re-elected.
Posted by: Gref at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (F3WRl)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 12:53 PM (MlvSb)
Sounds like you may have thoughts about this.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (FMtrg)
George Helmy- Phil Murphy's Former Chief of Staff..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 04, 2025 01:01 PM (2GCMq)
When they start shooting people under color of government we will know they are completely off. They they will reveal for all to see.
I hold little to any hope that we will vote our way out of the proggie leftist war they so desperately want.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 04, 2025 01:01 PM (17s+e)
Western Europe is the latest example of why the Progs want to get rid of our Constitution. They must salivate each time they see a report of speech policing in the UK. And then curse Donald Trump and his supporters even more. The Progs must have believed they were on the threshold of negating the First Amendment, by extra-Constitutional actions, until Trump was re-elected.
Posted by: Gref at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (aBgBM)
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I think I would have been a Federalist in the 1790s, arguing that a Bill of Rights wasn't necessary. The constitution as written was clear enough about what powers the federal government had and didn't have.
I would have been wrong, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 04, 2025 12:52 PM (QpHLI)
Everybody thinks they get to be a Kommissar or a member of the Politburo when in fact there's a 99% chance you'll get relegated to some farm or factory, sent to the gulag, or get purged like the Bolsheviks after they served their purpose.
Posted by: Failing to learn from history at September 04, 2025 01:01 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 04, 2025 01:02 PM (VE6XX)
https://is.gd/481H5U
Anyone? Anyone?
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I read the whole thing. I may not agree with all of it, but its clear that Mark believes what he wrote. Maybe that's what being a (good) critic is all about.
Posted by: Crusader at September 04, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Don Wilson's Ghost at September 04, 2025 01:02 PM (oftw2)
A lot of people fail to notice the caloric density of the things they choose to drink. Juices and Soda are pretty similar in caloric value.
But people seem to think Juices are healthy.
Yes. Try out the rule, "don't drink your calories."
Diet soft drinks get a bad rap because "chemicals!"
but if you want something "sweet" and fizzy, they're way better, from a weight standpoint than the regular stuff.
Hell, a bottle of coke is over 200 calories. It doesn't sound like much, and it's ok for a treat, but all the time? no.
Posted by: GMan at September 04, 2025 01:02 PM (GfWuY)
Propaganda & Brainwashing uber alles.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I did actually in classes from the beginning. Necessary to understand the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Notably foreign students had the most difficult time with those ideas--alien, foreign, and scary to them. Ironically though I had a student who dad served on Saudi Arabia's version of a Supreme Court. He liked that particular course section so go figure.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 01:02 PM (LJi3N)
it's not religious necessarily so we shouldn't get bogged down in that aspect
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It absolutely is.
God-given Rights are inherently limited to the common knowledge of the God who granted them. You could include deists in the discussion since their worldview was within what we'd probably handwave away as 'culturally Christian', with highly overlapping understanding of right and wrong, and 'how things ought to be' and still get some conclusions that 1776 Americans could all agree to.
Most of what's gone wrong in this country since its founding is due to getting away from that original common understanding. That need for commonality (most easily achieved by a common relationship with God) is why our system is incompatible with islam or marxism.
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (zLwRl)
When they start shooting people under color of government we will know they are completely off. They they will reveal for all to see.
I hold little to any hope that we will vote our way out of the proggie leftist war they so desperately want.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 04, 2025 01:01 PM (17s+e)
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What those Commies did to the J6ers was pretty darn close to the final step.
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (rj6Yv)
https://is.gd/481H5U
Anyone? Anyone?
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I read the whole thing. I may not agree with all of it, but its clear that Mark believes what he wrote. Maybe that's what being a (good) critic is all about.
Posted by: Crusader at September 04, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)
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He writes from the heart.
A cold, calculating heart that only finds the occasional nugget of pop culture worthy of his affections and love.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
They are Utilitarians.
They embrace either, based solely on their desired outcome.
ALL of their reasoning is Ad Hoc and based on nothing other than their selfish desires.
I have long endorsed killing ALL of the Utilitarians.
It is the only way.
Posted by: Kant at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Tuo+M)
If you drink several Cokes a day, that adds up.
I drink a lot more water than I used to, at least.
But drinking tea or soda/ginger ale a few times in the afternoon and evening is something I would like to be able to stop also.
I hate drinking water while eating.
That’s one reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (6ydKt)
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Running Cooper in NC reminds me of when the Dims ran the last governor of their party for a Senate seat in TN. The governor was not that many years removed from office (and he won at least one of his races in a blowout), but he didn't come close to winning a Senate seat.
Governor is the best office for oddball candidates to win, since it's high profile but not federal and therefore connected directly with DC. See the governors of KY and VT for examples.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Dg7ng)
The core of any good talk is:
1) Tell 'em what you're going to say.
2) Say it.
3) Tell 'em what you said.
Reinforcement is good.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Riz8t)
Morals.
Rights.
But we can throw away "gender", why? Because it's "just a social construction".
And despite that the traditional definition of sex has been instrumental in populating society with enough people to talk about anything, we can blithely confuse "gender" with "sex", because "gender is made up".
And it makes people feel better.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (9eaV3)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 04, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)
I was hoping ace would flat out reject me to mirror the gaping wounds left by a mother who was a cross between Joan Crawford, the Wicked Witch of the West and that woman who put a contract hit out on her own daughter - but only their really bad points. But alas, it was merely ignored, shunned, so here I am.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (MlvSb)
I could go on, but NONE of these things exist due to government.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (F3WRl)
Posted by: Governor Newsom at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (v1oP/)
The food is too starchy there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (Jhqzr)
And, even during the polio pandemic, they didn't mandate vaccines.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
People waited in line to get it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Marooned at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (kt8QE)
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Well put! Until we remove all impediments to peaceful assembly (abortion clinics--I'm looking at you), we still won't be back to where we were in the 1980s in terms of free speech and free assembly.
Posted by: Crusader at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Ripley at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (Tuo+M)
Posted by: Kant at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Tuo+M)
Ahhh nailed it
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
I bet Loose Lips there gets fired.
Posted by: EatherBlade at September 04, 2025 12:48 PM (a+4eV)
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Transferred to Penguin Palace listening post, Antarctica.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (pvrrs)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (nrfI8)
Tyrants.
Posted by: Defenestratus
This is by and large our ruling elite class in government, business, and society. And the common denominator is elite credentials rather than education and imported goons from places with no such culture and tradition of rights. Judge Chutkan anyone?
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)
Governor is the best office for oddball candidates to win, since it's high profile but not federal and therefore connected directly with DC. See the governors of KY and VT for examples.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Dg7ng)
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The politics of a statewide governorship and a statewide Senate seat are just different.
If NC is actually purple, Cooper has a shot.
If NC is trending redder, he doesn't.
It's why Hogan could easily win the governorship of MD and get embarrassed in a senate race immediately after that governorship ended. People just view the politics of a senate race in more purely partisan terms.
And the trends in NC seem to indicate that the state is just...getting redder. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (2DrSB)
Cruz in his response definitely proved his worth
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 04, 2025 12:24 PM (Q4TOv)
I agree!
Unfortunately, too many here would have preferred TX elect Dewhurst in 2012.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (F3WRl)
Posted by: Zombie RBG at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (Ug0fl)
Posted by: Orson at September 04, 2025 01:06 PM (dIske)
Add a slice of Lemon or Lime to your water...or drink Sun Tea with Lemon, maybe?
Posted by: garrett at September 04, 2025 01:06 PM (Tuo+M)
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Even more confusing to them is that he's attacking them from multiple directions all at once.
Deporting their illegals.
Gerrymandering
Voter ID and ballot integrity
Cutting their funding; USAID, grants, ActBlue
Etc.
But the one that is really crushing them is Trump's use of the Bully Pulpit.
They have not had a Republican able to beat their media cycle since Reagan. They have tried literally every possible trick they know to build a narrative.
And Trump bats it away, destroys it and replaces it with his own.
Every time.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 04, 2025 01:06 PM (E10jf)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 04, 2025 01:00 PM (FMtrg)
Probably if pressed, but no I was genuinely asking.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:06 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I stopped drinking sodas a few years back. Lost 15 pounds and dropped cholesterol number by 30 points by that alone.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 01:06 PM (LJi3N)
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Right, because they hate God. They hate God because the things they want to claim as 'rights' are obviously evil in His sight and shouldn't even be tolerated much less be supported by government.
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (zLwRl)
Posted by: Governor Newsom at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (v1oP/)
The food is too starchy there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (Jhqzr)
And all the steaks are flat-iron.
Posted by: Folding in another pun at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (UseAb)
He is of the same "brilliant" liberal speak that man wrote the Bible, which, in their weak minds is archaic. As it does not give LBGQT a mention. Nor abortion. Yet it does write about sodomy and murder, which they tend to omit.
Hebrews 4:12:
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart"
Our Founders wrote the Bill of Rights and the Constitution as men of faith. Their words were led by this faith in God and freedom.
Granted, Jefferson had his own ideas and wrote his own Bible. Saying that, I do admire his genius of gardens and architecture (I loved touring Monticello).
To compare Christianity to eeslam if ridiculous, and him saying that does not come from God. A pitiful man. Plus he's ugly. There's no comparison. None
I'll stick to being a Christian (yes, a snarky one) and former supermodel with happy thoughts.
I do pray for the eradication of radical esslam and for Christians and Jews to rise up and fight the invasion in the UK and Europe...and to follow our lead with deportations.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (6PCLE)
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Yes, and even some of "our" team continue to not understand how much of a nothing-burger that day should have been IF it hadn't been for the Commies desire to obliterate Trump and his supporters.
Posted by: Crusader at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 04, 2025 01:03 PM (Dg7ng)
And historically it is a training ground for the presidency.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (F3WRl)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (kTd/k)
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Fundraising.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
That's usually enough for Democrats.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 04, 2025 01:08 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (zLwRl)
God to the Left is The State.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:09 PM (F3WRl)
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Maybe he was angry that he felt guilty (or was guilted by someone else) for wanting to do extremely depraved stuff.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at September 04, 2025 01:09 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 12:51 PM (LJi3N) "
exactly; none of this is new, they have always thought this way, just having increasing self-control issues as time goes by.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 04, 2025 01:09 PM (ppG5b)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 04, 2025 01:10 PM (JNTt1)
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Ah, if you hold it out at arms' distance and don't really look at the words you are using, it's kinda not religious.
What's religion? I mean absent God, what is religion?
At it's ceiling, it is a shared communal vision.
So, if you are saying the central structuring principle of the vision does not exist, then it still exists according to its behavior. Thus the force of religion is not insight into "God's plan", but a communal vision people see significance within its structure.
Unevidenced "Innate human dignity" is a vision of how humans could be treating each other (even though they largely don't).
It's a shared communal vision.
Now, here is where we run into the Sam Harris principle: how can something not established on fact (a "lie") produce good things?
Do you believe "belief" can produce good things? Empirically verifiable benefits to humanity?
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:10 PM (9eaV3)
If they expand the determination of mental illness, the next Dem admin will use that to ban guns by declaring any and all opposition to leftie issues as mental illness.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 04, 2025 12:42 PM (mlg/3)
Make trannyism a legally-defined mental illness, and require psychs by law to make that diagnosis, where appropriate, or lose their license to practise.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 01:10 PM (Jhqzr)
Posted by: ballistic at September 04, 2025 01:10 PM (3BwY8)
Extremism in the defense of cuckoldry is no vice
And…moderation in the pursuit of your kinks is no virtue
Posted by: Tim Kaine at September 04, 2025 01:10 PM (sKqQm)
1. All human beings have inalienable rights granted to them by God and Nature.
2. Nobody has any rights that they're not willing to fight for.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (QpHLI)
These people are not our political opponents. They're our enemies, and it's okay to see them that way.
Posted by: troyriser at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (DPeYO)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (kTd/k)
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1. To mock Christians and Jews who believe God is the source of innate rights
2. To fundraise
3. Because he's an idiot
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (zLwRl)
God to the Left is The State.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:09 PM (F3WRl)
Which is why communist countries in particular either closely control churches or outlaw them altogether. They will brook no competition to their primacy in the hearts, minds, and souls of the peasantry.
Posted by: I am your god now at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Accomack at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (0o/AH)
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Depends on your definition of "isn't."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (kTd/k)
This is the Left putting down their marker. Trump has brought God back out into the public square in a reasonable way.
This is the Left's way of picking their side. Think of them as "bitterly clinging" to their government and their greed.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Zombie RBG at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (Ug0fl)
Their constitution is famously crazy.
Kinda like the EU Constitution they tried to get through, but the people and nations kept on rejecting it, so it never happened. They just pushed most of it through with treaties and conventions and bypassed the people.
Imagine if they tried to rewrite the U.S. Constitution today.
A lot of people think that there should be a constitutional convention called among the states, at last for some amendments, but it’d be an unmitigated disaster with the woke left lawyers we have so many of today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 04, 2025 01:12 PM (6ydKt)
It's why Hogan could easily win the governorship of MD and get embarrassed in a senate race immediately after that governorship ended. People just view the politics of a senate race in more purely partisan terms.
And the trends in NC seem to indicate that the state is just...getting redder. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
Roy Cooper isn't nearly as popular as Jim Hunt was in 1984.
Posted by: mrp at September 04, 2025 01:12 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 04, 2025 01:12 PM (Pv3Rg)
I would have been wrong, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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There probably would have not been a Constitution absent the agreement to pass a Bill of Rights first thing in the New Congress. Promising that got the Federalists over the hump in the Massachusetts Convention and helped in VA. Then was a powerful tool used by Hamilton to get the Constitution ratified in New York against all odds.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (Q4TOv)
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It cannot help to slip out, occasionally.
Marxism is mega-stupid. Any atheist who thinks that atheism is the brain soap that many atheists sell it as, has to contend with how thousands upon thousands of people were swept up in the vision of perfection just because it did not contain a mythological being.
That's what I dislike about how James Lindsay construes Marxism. He thinks that anything you can label an unreasoned belief can be called "a religion". And so Marxism is a "religion" (and so should be segregated from the State as a religion).
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (9eaV3)
plus 4 grams of sugar for every tablespoon of ketchup.
I'm not sure if sugar is worse than other carbs ... but it is in a lot of foods, to please all the sugar addicts.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:12 PM (WDjG6)
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Yeah, I remember that series of details.
I'm just saying that, as I had read about the formation of the Constitution, I kept siding with the Federalists instead of the anti-Federalists despite my nic.
"Really, the Constitution is clear about the limits of power as it is."
And I still think it is. It's just...people suck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
Sen Tim Kaine
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 04, 2025 01:14 PM (hubkZ)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (kTd/k)
Trump has freed their inner demons. It's all coming out now.
It's funny and hamhanded how Kaine equates Christians or patriots with Iranian theocrats as if he really expects us to believe he sees the latter as an enemy.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 04, 2025 01:14 PM (UseAb)
Holy shit. Really?
Kid must have been a real terd.
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:14 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: mea culpa at September 04, 2025 01:14 PM (Yb08v)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (MlvSb)
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That's just their cargo-cult Alinskyan posing.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:14 PM (9eaV3)
Posted by: Governor Newsom at September 04, 2025 12:37 PM (v1oP/)
The food is too starchy there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 01:04 PM (Jhqzr)
And all the steaks are flat-iron.
Posted by: Folding in another pun
Hate that place. Get agitated just thinking about it.
Posted by: Lonely Maytag Repairman, Jesse White at September 04, 2025 01:14 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 04, 2025 01:15 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Any amendments still required 3/4 ratification by the states. I am less afraid of amendment than perhaps a runaway Convention that scraps the old and writes a new one. Not that it would get a 3/4 ratification right now but that it might spawn a civil war between red and blue states. It should wait until we figure out whether Trump and his successors can make their remodelling government will stick. Midterms are a good starting point for that.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:15 PM (WDjG6)
Tim Kaine should go spend some time under the thumb of the dictator in Ukraine... Or Canada. Or England.
Posted by: Danimal28 at September 04, 2025 01:15 PM (1E4GV)
Posted by: DaveA at September 04, 2025 01:15 PM (FhXTo)
Imagine being able to download his podcast and listen to him dissect Kaine on this ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 04, 2025 01:16 PM (E10jf)
plus 4 grams of sugar for every tablespoon of ketchup.
I'm not sure if sugar is worse than other carbs ... but it is in a lot of foods, to please all the sugar addicts.
Posted by: illiniwek
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That's why I dip my fries in mayonnaise.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 04, 2025 01:17 PM (17s+e)
That's what comes from wearing your eyeglasses on your forehead instead of your nose.
Posted by: Auspex at September 04, 2025 01:17 PM (Y8DZL)
I'm just saying that, as I had read about the formation of the Constitution, I kept siding with the Federalists instead of the anti-Federalists despite my nic.
"Really, the Constitution is clear about the limits of power as it is."
And I still think it is. It's just...people suck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
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Ah, that's what the Antifederalists knew.
Marxism didn't happen in America. It happened in Monarchist-remnant Europe. But it was brought to America by Euro-wannabes.
Would you want to live in a post-Marx America if your freedom of speech had *not* been specified?
That it's written down is the thing that our gas-lighters continually run up against.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:17 PM (9eaV3)
Posted by: I am your god now at September 04, 2025 01:11 PM (TbWk/)
That, and churches are a major part of civil society.
Think about it. Many, if not all, churches engage in charity. The congregations chip in and work to ameliorate problems like homelessness and poverty. If they were left to their own devices…government would have little to do.
Government would much rather civil society be destroyed so they can usurp those functions and make people utterly dependent on them. Government, even in this country, views civil society as a threat.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:17 PM (F3WRl)
Strategy is to sue over everything.
Posted by: torabora at September 04, 2025 01:17 PM (v1oP/)
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:18 PM (9eaV3)
Holy shit. Really?
Kid must have been a real terd.
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:14 PM (fV+MH)
I have never witnessed hatred more intense, boundless, raw, and venomous than that of a mother toward her children.
Posted by: Only your utter destruction will suffice at September 04, 2025 01:18 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: -DC at September 04, 2025 01:18 PM (i3jTa)
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Well, the Congress of the United States does attract many of the country's leading assholes
The Left despises any external code, whether it be the Ten Commandments or the Sermon On The Mount or the Magna Carta or the Constitution. To them, there is no God- the Left is its own god.
Posted by: Don Black at September 04, 2025 01:18 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at September 04, 2025 01:18 PM (s9EN2)
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Fry sauce; ketchup and mayo, with a dash of hot sauce.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 04, 2025 01:19 PM (E10jf)
So for the 5 hour eating, I am trying to eat at the beginning and the end (with maybe a snack in between.)
I found these screaming sicilian topping bowls that are not bad as far as fat to protein to carbs. Plus, 510-520 calories a pop.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 04, 2025 01:19 PM (bss/y)
I'm just saying that, as I had read about the formation of the Constitution, I kept siding with the Federalists instead of the anti-Federalists despite my nic.
"Really, the Constitution is clear about the limits of power as it is."
And I still think it is. It's just...people suck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The antifederalists, specifically Brutus, called out the necessary and proper clause as the ticking time bomb. And Justice Marshall used it in McCulloch v. Maryland as such as did Hamilton to create the First Bank of the US. By moving away from strict limits on enumeration of powers to where if the ends are legitimate and not contradictory to any provisions in the current Constitution, then Congress should be able to use its enumerated powers to color outside the believed Constitutional limits.
Libertarian F. Paul Wilson, in his LaNague series, dealt with something similar in his series of sci fi books. You might enjoy them--the first Enemy of the State, got some libertarian grant of pure gold for that book as an award.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:19 PM (WDjG6)
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Yes, and even some of "our" team continue to not understand how much of a nothing-burger that day should have been IF it hadn't been for the Commies desire to obliterate Trump and his supporters.
Posted by: Crusader
Bottom line is there were a handful of protester (50?) that got out of line enough to be arrested and given some short sentence of a few months or probation. The other 1500 or so weren't even worth identifying and hunting down in a normal world. It showed to me just how much the Dems/Deep State hate us that they tormented these people for 4 years.
Posted by: Ripley at September 04, 2025 01:20 PM (GUOwU)
Cruz in his response definitely proved his worth
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 04, 2025 12:24 PM (Q4TOv)
I agree!
Unfortunately, too many here would have preferred TX elect Dewhurst in 2012.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:05 PM
Who? Was Ace a Dewhurst backer?
Posted by: toby928 at September 04, 2025 01:20 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger
So was the author of Hebrews, which Christy quoted above.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 04, 2025 01:20 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Only your utter destruction
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Result of treating children as property more than individuals with their own natural rights apart from parents.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:21 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:21 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:21 PM (MlvSb)
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Posted by: r hennigantx at September 04, 2025 01:22 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:21 PM (MlvSb)
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I'm not fat by any measure.
I just want Dolley to think I'm sexy. I have the chest and shoulders, but the tummy...It could go flatter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)
Gramsci was an Italian Marxist. Would anybody really like to live in a post-Gramsci America, if your freedom of speech and arms, etc. was not an explicit principle people had to run up against and skirt.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:23 PM (9eaV3)
1. All human beings have inalienable rights granted to them by God and Nature.
2. Nobody has any rights that they're not willing to fight for.
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That's what we said!
Posted by: The Beastie Boys at September 04, 2025 01:23 PM (TN0g+)
1. All human beings have inalienable rights granted to them by God and Nature.
2. Nobody has any rights that they're not willing to fight for.
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That's what we said!
Posted by: The Beastie Boys at September 04, 2025 01:23 PM
3. You own what you can defend.
Posted by: toby928 at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (jc0TO)
"Every day I look in my mirror and see G-d, you fucking swine. Also - I'm planning to kill you all."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: r hennigantx
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1215 to 2025 was a pretty good run!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (fV+MH)
Sugar is poison after all.
::eventhoitsineverything::
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:21 PM (fV+MH)
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There are 1g ketchups out there. Although they might have a little Stevia in them.
That's what I use 1g, clean ketchup.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (9eaV3)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Which in turn ends up killing that ruling regime as it spirals down from destroying the very trust by the populace needed to stay in power but a lot of lives are wasted and stunted by that.
The worst it gets, the more that Revolution results in massive bloodletting of those elites that can be caught and a lot of innocents getting crushed in the gears. In most cases, it simply means meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (WDjG6)
Gramsci was an Italian Marxist. Would anybody really like to live in a post-Gramsci America, if your freedom of speech and arms, etc. was not an explicit principle people had to run up against and skirt.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:23 PM (9eaV3)
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And you're right, the anti-Federalists were right.
Thinking about it from today, the Bill of Rights is so obviously necessary from a practical point of view.
I just think it's interesting that putting myself in the shoes of a Constitutional Convention delegate in the 1790s, I'd side against that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
I just don't like anyone comparing some religion to my faith in God. My faith is mine. Don't make me go all Aunt Easter on your ass.
Posted by: Case at September 04, 2025 01:25 PM (iwlvf)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:22 PM
I've found arms (I hate it when the gym bros call them 'guns') are the key.
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at September 04, 2025 01:25 PM (0sNs1)
Tim Kaine is the Temu Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
How's your oxygen-breathing no load son's criminal rap sheet coming along, Tim?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at September 04, 2025 01:25 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:22 PM
I've found arms (I hate it when the gym bros call them 'guns') are the key.
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at September 04, 2025 01:25 PM (0sNs1)
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*flexes my guns*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at September 04, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)
It galls me that deep state Spanberger and her Muslim sidekick may become the next governor and Lt. governor, respectively. There are so many solidly Republican counties in Virginia, but they can't overcome the population bulge in the counties near D.C. which include the hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats who make up the deep state. And there's also the cheating, of course.
Posted by: Paco at September 04, 2025 01:25 PM (mADJX)
That's what I use 1g, clean ketchup.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:24 PM (9eaV3)
The trouble with Stevia is it tastes like fermented donkey ass.
Posted by: A sweetener in name only at September 04, 2025 01:25 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 01:26 PM (LJi3N)
Posted by: Jukin
King John coincidentally died of the runs aka dysentery after he reneged on accepting the Magna Carta and was on the run fighting the barons over it.
Notably, no British king was foolish enough to call themselves John II in Britain. He was that bad of a king.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (WDjG6)
I'm not sure if sugar is worse than other carbs ... but it is in a lot of foods, to please all the sugar addicts.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (vbXSk)
No ketchup for this cowboy. Salt and vinegar only. Malt vinegar will do, but white, preferably.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (5djiY)
Imagine being able to download his podcast and listen to him dissect Kaine on this ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 04, 2025 01:16 PM (E10jf)
Miguel Estrada is dangerous because he's latino.
Posted by: El Rushbo quoting Dems at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (QpHLI)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (fV+MH)
We waiting for a signal before we toss you upon a mass grave that you guys dug up first.
We all will forget you except for children rhymes about a troll with your name.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (1L/OH)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 04, 2025 01:15 PM (17s+e)
I think I probably am, too. People can't repent of their sins and accept their need of a Savior, much less accept Him, if they don't understand what God's standards are, and how far short of them we each fall.
Posted by: Methos at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (zLwRl)
There's a pretty good article somewhere about how after the Plague, the barons colluded to throw the peasants into a near-Slavic level of serfdom. The 1400s were not a good time.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 04, 2025 01:28 PM (gKWVE)
Democrats are no longer Americans.
Posted by: cpurick at September 04, 2025 01:28 PM (lNjg1)
Posted by: The_Hoser at September 04, 2025 01:28 PM (f4jia)
Those weren't real Communism!!!
Posted by: Tankies at September 04, 2025 01:28 PM (Ug0fl)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:28 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 04, 2025 01:28 PM (ppG5b)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 01:26 PM
Assuming a large enough percentage are wealthy enough to have skin in the game.
That percentage used to be known as the 'middle class'.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 04, 2025 01:29 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: davidt at September 04, 2025 01:29 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 04, 2025 01:29 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger
Well, I did like how God handled the Amalekites . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 04, 2025 01:29 PM (8eg9N)
Posted by: eleven at September 04, 2025 01:28 PM
No, it's acetic acid.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 04, 2025 01:29 PM (0sNs1)
I'm not sure if sugar is worse than other carbs ... but it is in a lot of foods, to please all the sugar addicts.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 04, 2025 01:13 PM (vbXSk)
People who never eat sugar die.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 04, 2025 01:29 PM (F3WRl)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 04, 2025 01:07 PM (kTd/k)
With the WEF (Starmer, etc) ripping up rights (except illegal aliens) and the Canadian police saying "comply with home invaders". Kaine just wants to be in with the in crowd
Posted by: night lifted at September 04, 2025 01:30 PM (/YboP)
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But mainly because their ceiling has been lifted to an actual guarantor that those rights actually belong to them and are not just somebody's preferred way of thinking.
The Evil (or Fallen) World in rebellion to the Good God is key to this. Somebody might, in rebellion to God, violate your rights. You still are intended to have them, the World is just Evil and God has withheld his absolute will of intention from how the world works.
If it's a just a group of men who find the structure you agree with to be inconvenient, then it's just somebody treating you according to their preference for what Nature left you with.
The popular Reid-ism is brittle.
Posted by: Axeman at September 04, 2025 01:30 PM (9eaV3)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at September 04, 2025 01:31 PM (6qf1m)
Posted by: Ripley at September 04, 2025 01:20 PM (GUOwU)
Look at the condition of the cities they have their own people in. They hate EVERYONE.
It's frightening to look at or think about.
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:32 PM (MlvSb)
Posted by: Crusader at September 04, 2025 01:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ... at September 04, 2025 01:35 PM (MlvSb)
Notably, no British king was foolish enough to call themselves John II in Britain. He was that bad of a king.
Posted by: whig at September 04, 2025 01:27 PM (WDjG6)
Wasn’t he the king in the Robin Hood stories?
He took over when his brother/cousin (Richard the Lionheart?) was fighting in the crusades or something.
I could have a bunch of stories mixed up in my head.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 04, 2025 01:36 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I stopped drinking sodas a few years back. Lost 15 pounds and dropped cholesterol number by 30 points by that alone.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 04, 2025 01:06 PM (LJi3N)
cool
Posted by: m at September 04, 2025 01:40 PM (aURVT)
They need to justify theft.
It’s hard to do that when there’s a religious/moral code, law, or right getting in the way.
Basic property rights have been in practice since agriculture was invented. The left has been on a mission to eliminate that for 200 years.
They’ll call it “theocracy” just because they know they’ve made religion a bad thing for decades and it’s playing to the choir of their secular religion. A religion they’ve been imposing on the rest of us for a century.
Trump should get Socialism (and all derivatives) classified as a religion, and let them deal with all the restrictions that other religions have imposed on them.
Oh? You want to teach Socialism in public schools?
Sorry. No can do, it’s forbidden to teach religion in our schools.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 04, 2025 01:45 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: avi at September 04, 2025 01:50 PM (cBCwV)
Posted by: Rich at September 04, 2025 02:03 PM (oVH5f)
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Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 04, 2025 02:14 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Skip at September 04, 2025 02:25 PM (+qU29)
"It is the oldest temptation of them all: 'Ye shall be as gods.'"
(Satan, tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden)
Posted by: Beverly at September 04, 2025 02:27 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Beverly at September 04, 2025 02:28 PM (Epeb0)
That DS Kaine is attempting to supercede our citizenship rights with his personal projections that have no bearing on our authoritarianism.
Posted by: john at September 04, 2025 02:56 PM (nEWxZ)
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Posted by: Elmer Stoup at September 04, 2025 03:11 PM (ImRU4)
That phrase is scattered all over the founding docs and the federalist papers and all that. God, or nature if you don't believe in God.
Little birds can chirp their little hearts out. They have free speech, and so do you. Mama bears can tear your heart out, if you get too close to her or her babies. They have the right to self-defense, and so do you.
You know something? The preamble to the Bill of Rights, that little introductory paragraph, has been getting left off most every copy of the Constitution that I've seen lately. Must be deliberate, a vile decision by tyranny-supporting filth who share Tim Kaine's mindset.
Posted by: Persnickety at September 04, 2025 03:24 PM (jJdyX)
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Posted by: bob at September 04, 2025 03:48 PM (V5oEd)
But Allah-besotted mullahs and Iranian terrorists are the Left's partners in arms against the Great Satan--the USA. Faux paux: Kaine contradicts himself here.
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