Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Yeah, well, folks aren't into making deals at the moment. I'm not sure what deal the left could make on it, or would want to make. I don't get the sense the current situation is all that disagreeable to the left.

 

Fuck this disease, part whatever.

 

I’m under the impression that Christ expects his people to mirror his church, and in a country where the power rests in the hands of the people, the government should mirror the people.

 

Dragoncon starts next week in Atlanta. If you are not familiar with it, think San Diego Comic Con, East. They have cut the number of available tickets this year but have not announced by how many, other than that there will be no one day tickets sold for Saturday of Labor Day weekend, the most crowded day of the con. They are also requiring members to either have proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test within three days of the con in pursuit of safety.

We're not going this year, both because we don't have a couple of grand to drop over the weekend and because my wife is immune impaired, and no matter how well meaning they are, it's still going to be a giant 50,000 person Petri dish. More than that, while the con can require those precautions for its members, others in the various participating downtown hotels don't have to. In this case, I am principally referring to the college football fans who flood downtown for the week one kickoff games. This year that means fans from Alabama, Miami, Ole Miss, and Louisville. Atlanta requires masks, but cooperation is spotty for the citizens there, let alone some of those fan's reactions. Mercedes-Benz stadium requires masks in enclosed areas, but the plan is to leave the roof open for air to circulate. If the roof must be closed due to rain masks are required.

Alabama. Miami. Mississippi. Kentucky. Yeah, uh, no, thank you, guys. Maybe next year.

 

Cucks!

: Important Announcement: NRA Annual Meeting Cancellation

 

Fans of the Houston Colt .45s are inconsolable. Too bad the NRA didn't just shoot its mouth off anyway.

 

I'm attending a four-day conference in Frisco in November. Hopefully this shit is under control by then.

 

So...yes?

The trick, of course, is assuming Christ's people know how Christianity intersects with all of these political issues. They had a hard enough time managing the church back in the day. My sense is Christians are called to love worldwide, beyond borders, and share the gospel of Christ. The border issue, IMO, is much closer to a render unto Caesar matter. We'd be called to love the stranger in our midst (and stranger is more than a geopolitically-defined thing) and be faithful to the calling. And, if called to design a system of immigration, I'm not sure it'd look anything like this board's shitty-lazy-Americans/all-the-great-people-from-elsewhere dichotomy.

 

Do you think it would look more like, "Let's round up all the illegals and throw them out of the country because they're stealing all our money by being on welfare and taking all of our jobs, and most of them are drug dealers and criminals and I'm sure some of them are fine people, too"?

 

I don’t know about the rest of the Left. I only know myself, and I want almost instantaneous citizenship for those in the country for non-felons, a deal on border security and increased immigration.

I just know that when the deal was blown up by the GOPin 2013, many on the “Left” gave up and embraced opening the floodgates. I don’t know what the other option was.

I believe Obama was deporting to gain leverage in negotiations. And because added security along the border is long overdue. But like his negotiations on healthcare, he was trying to hammer out a deal with people who don’t believe in EVER making a deal on immigration.

Because they’re out and out racists or make money off this system (that latter part goes for both sides of the aisle). So a guy like Rubio gets stranded in no man’s land and has to become a raving lunatic.

And I don’t know how we get back to 2013. But I won’t change my position on it.