ozso said:

One shouldn't have to go beyond what's contained in the OP.

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And yet, that's exactly what you did when you wrote this:

Which is just one guy's way of wanting to do things in his family.

So it seems to me there's some definite straw grasping going on with this.

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The CNN narrator claimed (accurately) that Wilson held these views, but opted to use footage of his associates describing those views. You went beyond the OP by making claims that amount to accusing the CNN report of being dishonest about Wilson's position on the matter and, essentially, finding him guilty by association.

I didn’t know they were at war with each other.

Fantine said:

Trump's cabinet is so incompetent it's hard to pick out the worst one, but this certainly moves Hegseth up in the ratings.Kr

RFK, Jr. Kristi Noem

We have Linda McMahon, Education Secretary, touring, and all the comments I've seen are things like "Is she bringing the AI steak sauce? Looking for the next Hulk Hogan?"

I can't quite figure it out, but the president is shrewd if nothing else. Maybe he chooses these people for two reasons: 1) to make himself look good (or more likely, not as awful) by comparison and 2) Cabinet members like them are easy to shift blame to and scapegoat.

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The left and Democratic Party often repeat the same error: attributing every policy or action they disagree with to President Trump personally. In reality, the actions of the Trump administration represent the preferences of approximately 40% of Americans, rather than solely being the fault of President Trump.

Many Americans believe that women should not have the right to vote. There is a book by Ann Coulter, written prior to President Trump's involvement in politics, that discusses this perspective. Some American churches claim that societal issues stem from women working outside the home, arguing that women should focus on raising children instead. They are wrong. but that is the reality. Many Americans has such view.

A New Dawn said:

I respond that way because the left is so hypocritical when it comes to requiring that the right be perfect while the horrible stuff their side of the aisle passes off as normal goes unmentioned. And they do that because they have some misguided sense of superiority even while clinging to the worst practices humanly possible. As long as their two-facedness is on obvious display, I will point it out. If you are requiring me to be perfect, then you bloody well must be perfect, too.

Does Trump act like a child sometimes? Yes, and I will call that out. And I’ll call out something I believe is a bad policy, too. But if someone is so biased and filled with hate that they cannot call out the nasty, nasty stuff their own side does, often to the detriment of the country, THEY are the ones who shouldn’t be in political discussions. THEY are the ones who would rather see the country go down the tubes rather than admit that their guys have problems, too, or, heaven forbid, the other guy has some good ideas.

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Tell you what, as soon as President Biden is convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud, as well as other guilty verdicts for fraud, AND defamation (as well as being liable for sexual assault), then I'll accept the two are the same.

Deal?

-- A2SG, until then, they're simply not....

stevevw said:

Media should report what's happening in Gaza, not run Hamas propaganda

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Israel would first have to allow independent journalists into Gaza for them to be able to directly report what is happening.

They're trying to make Christianity 'cool.' You can't make Christianity 'cool'. Christianity is what it is

I agree/ the article as well

Always in His Presence said:

You know more about what the country went through the novitiate on behind congress and the President dedicating the monument to promote reconciliation?

Why are you standing against a monument that stood for a century promoting reconciliation and unity?


Why is the left resigning the past that was buried 109 years ago?

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Rewarding action of treason do not unite the country but encourages others to act similarly.

SimplyMe said:

"Captain Lovell, a former Navy test pilot, flew for some 715 hours in space, the most of any astronaut in the pioneering Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs forged by the United States as it vied with the Soviet Union to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.

"He took part in two Gemini missions that orbited Earth and was one of the three astronauts aboard Apollo 8, the first spaceflight to orbit the moon, before he was chosen by NASA for Apollo 13." link

We lost a great American and we are quickly reaching a point where no person living will have been to the moon. Of the 24 men who have orbited the moon, only 5 are still alive today.

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RIP to Lovell for sure. He was an American who inspired all. I like to think though and most of all astronauts thought this way that going to the Moon, wasn't the achievements of just the individuals who walked on the Moon but the hundreds and thousands of technicians and manufacturers who made it all possible. I think people of the future will be looking back asking what generation is the one who pulled this off and it was the one of the 1960's. It was an amazing incredible feat.

Bradskii said:

I'm still waiting for you to tell me if you wouldn't mind if your wife lost her vote. It wasn't a hypothetical question.

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I answered the question.

Congratulations to President Trump, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

I hope President Trump's meeting with Putin leads to a solution for Ukraine.

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

This is the second time you have stated that the President and Congress possess greater knowledge than an ordinary citizen like myself. If that is your genuine belief, I encourage you to refrain from criticizing or initiating discussions about President Biden, President Obama, or the Democratic Party, and instead consider following your own reasoning that the President and Congress are correct and well-informed, while you may not be.

For me , I believe no such thing.
In a democracy, it's important to criticize leaders, debate issues, participate in civic processes, and change laws when needed.

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You know more about what the country went through the novitiate on behind congress and the President dedicating the monument to promote reconciliation?

Why are you standing against a monument that stood for a century promoting reconciliation and unity?

“My privilege is this, ladies and gentlemen: To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do with the contests of the past…” — Woodrow Wilson, 1914

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Why is the left resigning the past that was buried 109 years ago?

Also, a side question, but relevant to the promise. What would happen if things were to go "wrong"? I don't have theological knowledge on the matter, but from my understanding, people are judged differently by God. Those that sin after the truth has been revealed, are judged and punished much more harshly than those that don't know the truth. Could be curses involved as well (automatic-curses as I like to call them), based on actions formed after the truth. (But by that logic, there should also be automatic-blessings, right?) .
I know better - that's the problem. And the promise pf God, I suspect is much more than a promise. It could be a warning to me - either you keep it, or... (something will happen).
It's this "or" that frightens me. And in all this time, the serpent is watching.
What do you know about holy people that fallen astray? What happened to them? There may also be two categories here: holy by your own decision, and holy by God's decision. The former is a restraint, you crucify yourself. The latter would be the case where God crucifies you, and so.. you are able to withstand passions, traps, see through lies, because of His intervention.
What do you know of all this?

DaisyDay said:

Reality is the liberal point of view. Alternate facts are not actual facts.

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Enjoy the ride, the actual facts are coming out and it is not good for liberals. When the dust settles on this we will just see where truth lies.

The first seal is meant to show us the fake Christ arrives first on the scene. Yes, he is similar. But that's the point. He will mimic the Messiah. But we are shown the differences. If people are not careful they could fall away to the fake believing he is the true Christ. Especially those waiting on Christ to arrive first. (foolish Virgins, etc..)

The Liturgist said:

I don’t see that that’s a problem; that merely means that AI systems will have completed annexing all accessible human knowledge. That being said I believe an estimate of 2026 for this figure is hopelessly unrealistic as there remains so much good data sitting in library shelves and in ancient, well-curated manuscripts that has not been provided to AI systems.

OpenAI last updated their training data in 2024 by the way, but this hasn’t stopped them from releasing a major version upgrade (chatGPT 5) and a new graphics processing engine and other details.

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Wouldn’t AI be using text and images generated by Al for modeling? It would be a loop or like Xeroxing a Xerox over and over again.

A New Dawn said:

It’s hardly a concentration camp. It is nothing more than a place lace to hold them for a few weeks till they are deported. No one is starving them. No one is beating them. No one is experimenting on them. There aren’t really alligators there. They aren’t in solitary confinement tanks the way the J6ers were. They are just there awaiting deportation.

And where was your ounce of compassion for the J6ers, whom you have lost your humanity for because of a legal designation? It must be sad to hate your country so much that you prefer crime and chaos over law and order, and prop up criminals in our country illegally over American citizens that just happen to disagree with you politically.

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Are individuals placed there after receiving due process and access to legal representation during their stay? If not, it can be considered a concentration camp regardless of their living conditions.

Never heard of CREC before, but then I don't spend a lot of time in Reformed circles. The little bit of looking around I did led me to a lot of conversations between Reformed folk who don't have a lot of nice things to say about CREC.

-CryptoLutheran

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The south was wrong on many levels. Nobody has said differently.

This is not germane to my post. What I said stands.

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If the actions of the South were worn, then commemorating or celebrating those actions would not be appropriate.

As conservatives, we claim not to reward bad behavior but instead punish it to prevent recurrence. So why do we support rewarding the South for initiating a war against the United States?

AV1611VET said:

I've said many times that science lights fires, then puts them out.

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So do cooks.

Apple Sky said:

In the Old Testament, Sheol is the place of the souls of the dead, both the righteous (like Jacob, Genesis 37:35, and Samuel, 1 Samuel 28:13–14) and the wicked (Psalm 31:17). In the New Testament, the Hebrew word Sheol is translated as Hades, and the description of Sheol in the Old and New Testaments bears some resemblance to the Hades of Greek mythology. It is under the earth (Numbers 16:30–33)

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Agreed. But as I said, hell is eternal and earth isn't, so hell cannot be part of earth:

““And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”” (Mt 25:46 NKJV)

“The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet [are]. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” (Re 20:10 NKJV)

Hans Blaster said:

Except that the American made alternative will absolutely be priced at $110 matching the imported good. There is no reason to give consumers lower prices than you must.

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I agree.

Of course, the consumer might not be willing to pay $110 for the product. He may substitute. If someone is willing to pay $30,000 for a care, it does not follow that he will be willing to pay $35,000 just because $5,000 of the cost is tax. I just bought a car. I was willing what I was willing to pay, including all costs. If a manufacturer chose to charge an extra $10K because of the Trump tax, that wouldn't affect what I was willing to pay. I would have bought a different car.

Always in His Presence said:

Are you not reading anything else that is posted?

No one is denying that the war happened.

No one is denying that the south and attack the north

No one is denying that the country separated

Noah is denying that the north one

So can we get past that

Read the president’s own statement at the commemoration of the monument and tell me where he’s wrong. Then tell me why you have more knowledge of it than he and the Congress


This is getting ridiculous.

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This is the second time you have stated that the President and Congress possess greater knowledge than an ordinary citizen like myself. If that is your genuine belief, I encourage you to refrain from criticizing or initiating discussions about President Biden, President Obama, or the Democratic Party, and instead consider following your own reasoning that the President and Congress are correct and well-informed, while you may not be.

For me , I believe no such thing.
In a democracy, it's important to criticize leaders, debate issues, participate in civic processes, and change laws when needed.

Pommer said:

I’ve always found it strange how the Nation with the most money elected a person who had the absolute audacity to assert that we were getting bested at doing capitalism.
And, a part of his “solution” to make things more expensive.
We’re already numero uno, wealth doesn’t flow any higher than the pinnacle.

Trying to remain number-one will be a lot harder if we provoke the rest of the world’s nations from wanting to continue to deal with us as the richest country.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The top 10% pay 72% of income taxes (and yes, I do believe that their marginal rates should go up).
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I do NOT oppose raising income tax rates (for all of us). I do oppose increased sales taxes. The issue is not that we pay too much tax. We have lower rates than most developed countries. The issue is that the government doesn't give us enough services and is grossly inefficient in the spending of money, especially the federal government. Defense is an obvious example of a department with gross inefficiencies.

This white horse rider in Revelation 6:2 "went forth conquering and to conquer". This is reminiscent of the verse which tells us "We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us..." (Romans 8:37).

Didn't the ascending Christ tell His disciples in Matthew 28:18-19 just before He left, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations..." The "conquering" that Christ the white horse rider in Rev. 6:2 was pictured as doing was the evangelistic work being done with Christ's power starting with the early church in Jerusalem, and spreading out from there to the nations.

The single crown given to this Rev. 6:2 white horse rider was the crown of His high priesthood. This high priest crown was given to Christ by the Ancient of Days on the morning of His resurrection-day ascension to heaven. The Son of Man was brought near before the Ancient of Days, and was given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom.

The "many crowns" given to the white horse rider Christ in Revelation 19:12 were going to be confiscated later from a defeated Satan who had once boasted to Christ in the wilderness temptation about his having the power and glory of all the kingdoms of this world (Luke 4:5-6).