Trump isn't Pence's son, so no. Your moral outrage is your moral outrage. Never forget that.
Trump isn't Pence's son, so no. Your moral outrage is your moral outrage. Never forget that.We'll know for a fact, the next time Trump tweets, if he apologizes then we can assume Pence had a talk with him Logical assumption right?
What lowered the bar is our gridlock. The voters want change... and cannot get anything done. Trump filled the void by being outlandish, but the desperation that allowed him to squeeze in already existed. This "new normal" is a symptom of a far bigger problem than Trump, however difficult that may be to imagine.
Oh, it's definitely a problem larger than Trump, and it definitely predates the Trump administration. However, I wouldn't call "gridlock" the cause. It's more like a symptom of the same underlying problem that is causing the lack of civility. While the conventional wisdom is to call this underlying problem partisanship, I think it's actually deeper than that. It's more like cross-cultural antipathy. We're in a culture war right now. It's urban v. rural, young v. old, secular v. religious, white v. non-white. This antipathy, which is inevitable in any remotely pluralistic society, has been greatly exacerbated by hateful propaganda, with the internet providing an unprecedented forum to perpetuate it.
What lowered the bar is our gridlock. The voters want change... and cannot get anything done. Trump filled the void by being outlandish, but the desperation that allowed him to squeeze in already existed. This "new normal" is a symptom of a far bigger problem than Trump, however difficult that may be to imagine.
You don't get to decide what being a Christian is all about.
You know my stand on this. PM me or don't bring it up at all.Equally, your politics don't get to redefine what being a Christian is. Your views represent a distorted view of what Christianity is. Your views as you represent them on this forum are not reflective of the Gospels and anything which Jesus preached. It's frustrating seeing how Christianity has been co-opted by the GOP and made to what it is today where you have so called church leaders supporting a man such as Trump.
Matthew 23:23 NIV “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
You know my stand on this. PM me or don't bring it up at all.
Excellent post. The democrats lost by focusing on "identity politics" - AKA going for the LGBT or minority demographics as bad strategy. Meanwhile the Republicans sound the war drums for the evangelicals and nationalists. That well may dry up at some point for them.
We're getting pulled into a war that we didn't want and being forced into 1 of 2 sides that are far too narrow for many of our views any more.
And I'll keep telling you to PM me. You should stop wasting your time.How bout I just keep bringing it up?
Really, so you can threadshit all over a discussion claiming evolution is faith, but as soon as someone gets the tiniest bit close to what you hold important, what props up your tiny, tiny view of the world, you demand it to exit the pubic stage?And I'll keep telling you to PM me. You should stop wasting your time.
Really, so you can threadshit all over a discussion claiming evolution is faith, but as soon as someone gets the tiniest bit close to what you hold important, what props up your tiny, tiny view of the world, you demand it to exit the pubic stage?
Nay, sir. You are a faithless coward for not standing your ground.
get bent, bucky.You know my stand on this. PM me or don't bring it up at all.
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Excellent post. The democrats lost by focusing on "identity politics" - AKA going for the LGBT or minority demographics as bad strategy. Meanwhile the Republicans sound the war drums for the evangelicals and nationalists. That well may dry up at some point for them.
We're getting pulled into a war that we didn't want and being forced into 1 of 2 sides that are far too narrow for many of our views any more.
I agree that the left's emphasis on identity politics has been to its political detriment in recent years. The left should continue to support civil rights and oppose bigotry, but with certain people on the left, it goes much further than that. Into an authoritarian form of hyper-political correctness which is likely what motivated a sizeable number of white voters to side with Trump. The left has an excellent message of economic populism, which is real populism, not the phony version on the right which is masking their favoritism of the wealthy over everyone else. This is the message that the left and the democratic party should emphasize most strongly in upcoming elections.
Believing that a microbe could turn to people via genetic copying errors and selection is blind faith, absolutely. I will not debate theology with a professed Christian publicly on this forum. Ok with you? I think I've proven that I will stand my ground in that other thread which makes this just bizarre.Really, so you can threadshit all over a discussion claiming evolution is faith, but as soon as someone gets the tiniest bit close to what you hold important, what props up your tiny, tiny view of the world, you demand it to exit the pubic stage?
Nay, sir. You are a faithless coward for not standing your ground.
You know my stand on this. PM me or don't bring it up at all.
How low will this sink, we're not even 6 months into his Presidency. I really don't know what to say other than why does her face lift have anything to do with an interview, what was the President trying to accomplish?
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/29/media/mika-brzezinski-donald-trump-tweet/index.html
I don't know how to embed tweets but they are in the link.
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I think the minor difference here is that he's the President of the United States... He sort of needs to be held to a higher standard than people on a forum...What I find absurd is everybody is here blasting the president about what he said in a tweet and over in that child molestation thread everybody is making light of it and making jokes about it.