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Trump signs order to impose a 10% global tariff above the normal tariffs already being charged under Section 122."

All administrations have different ideas of what should be funded. Human fetal-tissue research, using tissue from abortions, is immoral. Research based on DEI was much more political than scientific. LGBTQ related research was also more political than scientific. They decided so much COVID research was not necessary because the pandemic is over. Other programs were decided upon on an individual basis, some could be better funded by states, others had risky research. The bottom line was to focus on research aimed at improving the overall health of the American people. If Nancy Pelosi or the Obamas or Clintons or Bill Gates believe worthwhile funding of research was cut they have the right to donate to the cause of their choice.

Biden and the Democrats in Congress promoted economic policies that boosted the prices, inflation rose to 11%, don't you remember the price of eggs? Wages were not keeping up with inflation. Trump has reversed that.
And that's why we have measles epidemics all over the country. He has replaced renowned scientists with a quack who bottom fished for other quacks to help him.

Wow, most of us go by our grocery bills, not puppet news networks. I challenge you to get your groceries and say prices have stabilized.
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NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs, water is wet

Of course we must not forget the over 900,000 non existent jobs counted up to March 2025 to patch up the 2024 reelection for the democrats. Of course rediscovering these lost jobs & shifting them to the next administration helped the democrats in the fall 2025 elections.


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Is this who should be the target of deportation?

I don’t need to tell myself that. I have been watching him and he is only getting worse. His policies were bad in 2017, now I don’t even believe he is mentally competent.
What did you think of Biden? Was he mentally competent?
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Cupid from Valentines day, and where he comes from, Biblically.

I'd encourage you to do some deep dive exegesis.

Start with looking at the biblical texts that explicitly mention "baptism with the Holy Spirit".

Baptism with the Holy Spirit is not just another term for receiving the Holy Spirit, or having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, or getting saved, or conversion, or regeneration, etc. It refers to something very specific that happened in the Book of Acts.

There is absolutely no reason to assume that when the Bible says "Baptism" that it means something other than baptism. Words matter, especially when it comes to God's word. What you are doing, essentially, is saying "The Bible doesn't mean what it says".

Quite true. Also what you said applies to an equal extent to those who contradict the teaching of Luther, the high church Anglicans and many other Protestants, and the Orthodox and all other ancient churches, concerning the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, in that the Zwinglian, Memorialist and Receptionist positions literally contradict what Christ our True God says (in the case of Memorialism, the situation becomes even more untenable, since the verse they rely on “this do ye in remembrance of me,” aside from the fact that the original Greek word anamensis has the sense of implying participation in the moment rather than passive recollection, is only present with respect to both the bread and the wine in 1 Corinthians 11, which, because of v. 27-34, is also the text least friendly to a memorialist interpretation, ceteris paribus. But the text is present in St. Luke only with regards to the blood of our Lord, not His precious Body, and is missing from the Institution Narratives in St. Matthew and St. Mark entirely (in addition, the Eucharistic exhortation in St. John ch. 6 also lacks it; by the way, I cannot fathom why members of some denominations deny that John ch. 6 is referring to the Eucharist.
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Do atheists constantly change the goalposts?

And besides, existentially speaking, I'm looking for the "Big Mouth" that has the final or absolute authority to tell me by which criteria I should be prescriptively evaluating the merits of other people's ethical suggestions. Do you know where I might find such a Big Mouth?
It'll be you. No-one can make decisions for you on the merits of ethical matters. Even if you accept someone else's suggestions then it's you that makes the decision to accept them. You'll be the one having the internal debate on whether they are valid. Else...what? Accept someone else's view regardless of whether you think they are right or wrong?
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Trump administration pushing aggressive expansion of sports betting

But per the stats I posted before, why would it be hypocrisy for people who are okay with gambling, to not call him out for expanding gambling?

If you look at the charts and links I posted before, there's not a single demographic group where over half think gambling is morally wrong.

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Who, exactly, is this group that's supposed to be calling him out for lack of consistency?

Even the "nearly weekly" church group, fewer than 1/3 think it's morally wrong.

The Falwell/Dobson types of have been a dwindling breed for quite some time.

That can also be evidenced by how red states have voted on other issues (that never would have flown back in the 80's). Like the deep red states that have voted to legalized pot, or the number of red states that, after the overturning of Roe, voted to officially legalize abortion.

Trying to claim that modern day republicans are hypocrites because they're not as die-hard as Jerry Falwell was back in the 80's isn't a fair critique.

You should be thankful they're not. If social attitudes among the GOP were the same now as they were back in the 80s, and given how Trump likes to pander to his base, you should be glad they've shifted on some of those issues. In an alternate timeline, we could be having a discussion about Trump trying to outlaw rated-R movies.
The religious right. That's who I am calling out in rank hypocrisy. Sorry you had to do so much work to critique a point I am not making.
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Zohran Mamdani Gets Ruthlessly Mocked for Requiring 5 Forms of ID to Be an ‘Emergency Snow Shoveler’: ‘This is Jim SNOW 2.0'

This attempt at finding hypocracy in your political opponent is even more desperate than most.
It is strange that democrats are against using ID for voting. Remember when they said black people didn't know how to get an id? That wasnt true
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Disclosure Is Not Going To Be Fun & Games

Because *some* people tried to contact whatever is out there, are you saying they're not intelligent?

Are you saying they're stupid?

What's really stupid is not being prepared when something did come through and whoever received the message wants to get over here.
You misunderstand. @prodromos
saying if you were intelligent life would you contact us? I’m not sure I would seeing everything we see now.
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Classical guitar instrumentals played on Harold Camping Family Radio WFME

What are the names of the most common classical guitar instrumentals played on Family Radio when Harold Camping owned the station? I listened from about 1980s to early 1990's, these guitar pieces I recall were usually played at end, or maybe beginning of some of the programs that ran on this station (I think the call letters were WFME). These are magnificent guitar pieces, similar to the sound that an Andres Segovia would have, and I'd like to hear them again but don't know names of the instrumentals. Just recently I found out that one is called Spanish Romance (Romanz). There are at least one or two other remarkable pieces I hope someone can remember the titles from.

Also, are there any online forums/websites specific to Camping's Family Radio station where I could post a question to others who are interested in this time period of Family Radio's history? I thought of posting a question on PuritanForum.com, but to post it is required you fill out some information stating you are of the Reformed Faith, of which I am not. Because Family Radio taught at least some of the doctrines of John Calvin, and Harold Camping was of the Reformed Faith, my thought is that Family Radio under Camping's tenure would by nature attract a good number of Reformed Faith listeners that might remember these guitar classics.

Is enforcement of immigration laws wrong?

You think the US doesn't partake in any humanitarian efforts?
The US leads the world in charitable contributions and humanitarian efforts.

“In total dollars spent, the United States was the world’s largest foreign aid donor in 2023. It gave $62 billion, about the same as the next three largest donors combined: Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.”

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WHEN WAS THE LAW TAKEN AWAY. AND GRACE BEGAN. ??

Colossians 2:13-15:

13 When you were dead in your sinsand in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[a] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

This is to illustrate that through faith in Christ the law is dead. The LAW brings death but the spirit brings life.
Galatians 5:22-24:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness and self-control.Against such things there is no law.24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
So we have a higher calling…living by the Spirit…so we uphold the Law in this way. The LAW stands as a witness in judgement. A rule and a curb.
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Red state residents lead growing rebellion against data centers that Trump loves

I've seen the "features" the add to apps I use (like Zoom) add AI "features". Never touched one. I always skip past the AI summary on my google searches. (Slow and don't trust. I want a link, silly search engine.)
"Business verticals". LOL. Sounds like powerpoint blather.
Read that article. Don't use em.

Again, it's not just the user-facing web-enabled applications.

Have you received mail?
Have you shopped in a retail store?
Have you ever used GPS?
Do you have any credit cards that have fraud detection enabled?
(the list goes on)

If the answer to any of those is "yes"...hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you've indirectly used AI. USPS uses AI as part of their routing logistics, retail stores use it for supply chain logistics, GPS uses it, Chase/Citi/Amex use it as part of their fraud detection algorithms.
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