lifepsyop said:

This hypothesis doesn't seem to hold much water because Trump still got 74 million votes, and still did significantly better with minority groups than past Republicans. The supposed anti-Trump sentiment was not reflected in his numbers.

Then there's this little doozy...


From 1980 to 2016, 19 counties voted for the winner of the presidential election every single time. The most impressive of those was Valencia County, New Mexico, which voted for the victor in every presidential election from 1952 to 2016.
But in 2020, 18 of these 19 “bellwether counties” voted for former President Donald Trump. Just one — Clallam County, Washington — voted for President Joe Biden."

Where Did All The Bellwether Counties Go?

Many counties used to vote for every presidential winner. What's changed?

fivethirtyeight.com

Let that sink in.... for the past forty years 19 counties have voted for the winner every single time... It just so happens in 2020, almost all of them voted for the loser.


Is it really that hard to believe that people cheated in order to "save democracy" ?


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From the charts in my previous post, there were 16 million more people who voted in 2020 vs 2024, is the quibbling over the other 4 million?

based on the math however, taking 168 million and cutting it in half does explain why Biden got more votes that election. However, for the non-Trump fans, there was a factor of provocation to counter the voter apathy that was setting in prior.

The real failure of democracy is in comparing the number of eligible voters vs how many tend to show up.

Lord have mercy!

Lord have mercy

rjs330 said:

Can I join you? We'll eat and drink while democracy burns.

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Indeed, while the radical liberal version of democracy burns.

notreligus said:

The Restoration Movement began in Scotland in the late 1700s. Look for references concerning John Glas and Robert Sandeman. Sandeman migrated to northeastern America and brought New Presbyterian followers with him.

The "Resoration Movement" that is thought of in reference to Independent Christian Churches, Disciples of Christ churches, and Churches of Christ began when Walter Scott came to Alexander Campbell with the idea that "the ancient order with water baptism for the remission of sins" needed to be restored.

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Actually, Campbell had made the acquaintance of those early Scottish reformers Glas and Sandeman, as well as a related movement formed by James and Robert Haldane, while a seminary student in Scotland.

Acts2:38 said:

There isn't one account of worship in the NT that supports music in worship.

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And therein is the basis of the split between the Independent Christian Churches and the Churches of Christ.
David Lipscomb and other leaders saw the absence of such mention as prohibiting musical instruments in worship.
Others in the RM took that lack of mention as "well, the Bible didn't say we COULDN'T use them..."

May God give blessings to the children of Jacob ✝

May God guide all of our leaders so that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives

hislegacy said:

There is also nothing Trump about Project 2025 - repeating the lie does not make it real.

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Project 2025 is not the place you need to look for what to expect. P2025 is the Heritage Foundation's Christmas list. They put some version of this out every election cycle and have done so since Reagan was in office.
Where you really should look is a much shorter manifesto put out by the America First Policy Institute,

and a website called "Agenda 47"

that was posted by the Trump campaign after P2025 became such a talking point. Compare the two and you'll find they're roughly identical. This would appear to be what the new Administration's priorities would be.

You can thank me later for saving you reading 900+ pages of REALLY BORING POLICY WONK language. All Project 2025 is good for is relieving insomnia.

tonychanyt said:

Caesarea was not in Galilee.

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You're right; thanks. I was thinking Capernaum and wrote Caesarea. It was at the intersection of important trade routes. The amphitheater was naturally formed, lending itself to rhetorical events.

Tinker Grey said:

And the Yankees; don't forget the Yankees.

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What about them?

Nithavela said:

Fiat justitia ruat caelum.

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Wonder what Obama would look like in prison garb?


Looks nice on him......

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Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company.

According to RBC’s sources, Google began accumulating daily penalties of 100,000 rubles in 2020 after the pro-government media outlets Tsargrad and RIA FAN won lawsuits against the company for blocking their YouTube channels. Those daily penalties have doubled each week, leading to the current overall fine of around 2 undecillion rubles.

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Given the state of Russia's currency that comes to what......about $.50$ ?

essentialsaltes said:

Kari Lake fails yet again to convince court that she’s rightful Arizona governor​

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake has lost yet another appeal in her effort to overturn the 2022 election for Arizona governor.

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AZ Supreme Court rejects Kari Lake’s last remaining bid to overturn her 2022 loss​

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Kari Lake has lost yet another appeal in her effort to overturn the 2022 election for Arizona governor.


Still not clear whether she will follow this up with a two-year battle to overturn her 2024 Senate loss.

Glory to God!

Praying the eastern Catholic Churches have many more vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and for the Church as a whole

Lord have mercy

The re-election of President Donald Trump held many surprises to pollsters, including that 56% of Catholic voters supported Trump, while only 41% supported Harris. According to the Washington Post, 52% of Catholics supported President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, compared to 47% for President Trump. This is a notable shift, and as Catholics, we shouldn’t just wonder “why” it happened; we should consider what this trend is revealing about the needs of our people and how the Church can better engage our culture.

A call for virtuous masculinity​

One of the most visible trends in this election has been the support Trump garnered from young men. Men between the ages of 18 and 29 turned to Trump decisively this election. This demographic voted by a 15% margin for Joe Biden in 2020. In 2024, young men shifted 30 percentage points to the right, going for Trump by a margin of 16%, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This generation is searching for something they aren’t finding in the broader culture. In an era where masculinity is often criticized or misunderstood, young men are looking for models of strength and purpose. Many were drawn to Donald Trump’s platform for his message of confidence and boldness. And while the Church’s vision of masculinity differs from political displays of power, it’s clear that young men are hungry for strong leadership — and this is a need we should take seriously.


As a Church, we have an opportunity and a responsibility to guide young men toward a vision of masculinity that is rooted in virtue and sacrifice. The saints, virtuous fathers, and selfless leaders in our history have shown us what it means to be men who image Christ. We need to model this for our young men, giving them examples that they can look up to, not only as followers but as leaders called to defend and protect their families, their faith and their parish communities. Our youth programs and seminaries have to respond to this need by preparing men to be loving fathers, strong protectors and holy priests and religious who embrace true leadership. The search for confidence and boldness among young men is a powerful sign that the Church must step forward and nurture virtuous masculinity.

Refocusing the pro-life movement​

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There were at least six ancient Greek words for the English word "love". Two and a half of them appeared in the Bible:

1. G25, ἀγαπάω, agapaó: The verb form of agape appeared 142 times. The noun form appeared 117 times, for a total of 259 times.
2. G5359, G5360, G5368, phileo: Brotherly love appeared a total of 33 times.
3. Storge (στοργή) familial love appeared 0 times. Its related adjective φιλόστοργος (G5387) appeared once.
4. Eros (ἔρως) sexual love appeared 0 times.

Jesus said in John 13:

34 “A new command I give you: Love [G25] one another. As I have loved [G25] you, so you must love [G25] one another.

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Paul wrote in (ESV) Ro 12:

9 Let love [G25] be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love [G5387] one another with brotherly affection [G5360].

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Do we love one another with agape-love or brotherly love?

A prominent Catholic anti-death penalty group is urging outgoing President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of the 40 people currently on federal death row in anticipation of the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, who strongly favors capital punishment.

Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), an advocacy group founded in 2009, said in a statement posted Nov. 6 that the federal death penalty is a “broken” system that “does not deter crime or make communities safer.”

In light of the upcoming jubilee year in the Catholic Church — a special holy year of grace and pilgrimage, emphasizing God’s mercy, that takes place every quarter-century — Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, CMN’s executive director, noted that Pope Francis has emphasized forgiveness and an end to the death penalty.

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Hazelelponi said:

It's just sheer arrogance as if they have any ground to stand on whatsoever. The hubris is just beyond imagining.

I vote for a Palestine free from Hamas.

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Amen, sister. I also vote for a Palestine that is completely FREE FROM Hamas. The Hamas leaders and the Hamas terrorists soldiers should be taken completely out of Palestinian territory, in my opinion.

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