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BTExpress · Oct 27, 2023

dixiehack said: ↑

Lost six Iron Bowls in a row to this motherfucker. I want to kick Mike Shula’ ass, but there’s none left to kick.
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(Mike) Shula vs. (Derek) Dooley.

The coaching apple fell about 3 light years from the tree.

Alma · Oct 27, 2023

qtlaw said: ↑

Did you ask that very same question during 2016-2020? How about 1992-2000? 1980-1988? No
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Obviously you're trying to say something about me as a person, so I'm curious what not asking that question during the Clinton years would say about me.

The 80s were an awful financial mess for millions of Americans - especially farmers - and I have no hesitation saying so.

What do you think?

wicked · Oct 27, 2023

Alma said: ↑

Obviously you're trying to say something about me as a person, so I'm curious what not asking that question during the Clinton years would say about me.

The 80s were an awful financial mess for millions of Americans - especially farmers - and I have no hesitation saying so.

What do you think?
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It was all "the left's" fault.

wicked · Oct 27, 2023

More eyerolling.

Republicans and Democrats share blame for the speaker fiasco

garrow · Oct 27, 2023

This twerp might look like someone Tom Cruise argues with after the opening credits of a Mission Impossible movie, but he's a MAGA demon.

HanSenSE · Oct 27, 2023

garrow said: ↑

This twerp might look like someone Tom Cruise argues with after the opening credits of a Mission Impossible movie, but he's a MAGA demon.

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If only one of us were to ever get into the Oval Office. All the world's problems would clearly be blamed on soccer.

X-Hack · Oct 27, 2023

Corky Ramirez up on 94th St. said: ↑

Or a ska band that played at Toad’s Place in New Haven circa 1997.
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1995.

They were onto "swing" by 1997.

Octave · Oct 27, 2023

lowest unemployment rate in modern American history and Alme is 'concerned' (knitted eyebrows like the nimrod host Jesse Watters)

goalmouth · Oct 27, 2023

When's the next GQP bowling night?

dixiehack · Oct 27, 2023

This Politico interview is the best explanation I have seen about what Christian nationalism entails. If you did not grow up in evangelical and/or fundamentalist circles, I think you will find this helpful to explain some of the popular buzz phrases and philosophy bubbling up from the religious right.

‘He Seems to Be Saying His Commitment Is to Minority Rule’

As he understands it, this country was founded as a Christian nation. And he stands in a long tradition of conservative white evangelicals, particularly inside the Southern Baptist Convention, who have a distinct understanding of what that means. And this is where evangelical author and activist David Barton comes in.

Johnson has said that Barton’s ideas and teachings have been extremely influential on him, and that is essentially rooting him in this longer tradition of Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism essentially posits the idea that America is founded on God’s laws, and that the Constitution is a reflection of God’s laws. Therefore, any interpretation of the Constitution must align with Christian nationalists’ understanding of God’s laws. Freedom for them means freedom to obey God’s law, not freedom to do what you want. So really, Christian supremacy and a particular type of conservative Christianity is at the heart of Johnson’s understanding of the Constitution and an understanding of our government.
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But he goes much deeper than that, and really roots that in what he would call a biblical worldview: The core principles of our nation reflect these biblical truths and biblical principles. He has gone on record saying things like, for him, this biblical worldview means that all authority comes from God and that there are distinct realms of God-ordained authority, and that is the family, the church and the government.

Now, all this authority, of course, is under this broader understanding of God-given authority. So it’s not the right of any parents to decide what’s best for their kids; it’s the right of parents to decide what’s best for their kids in alignment with his understanding of biblical law. Same thing with the church’s role: It is to spread Christianity but also to care for the poor. That’s not the government’s job.
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I think that’s really important here: His commitment is not to democracy. He’s not committed to majority rule; he seems to be saying he’s committed to minority rule, if that’s what it takes to ensure that we stay on the Christian foundation that the founders have set up.

Now, he would say that there’s really no tension here — that, again, if the Constitution represents this kind of biblical worldview that he suggests the founders embraced, then there’s going to really be no conflict. But he’s on record repeatedly talking about our nation being a republic, and in one case explicitly saying this isn’t a democracy, and that also is a very common theme in Christian nationalist circles and in conservative evangelical circles generally.
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It’s really during the Obama presidency that you see the escalation of not just rhetoric, but a kind of desperation, urgency, ruthlessness in pursuing this agenda. Religious freedom was at the center of that. And it was, again, not a religious freedom for all Americans; it was religious freedom to ensure that conservative Christians could live according to their values. Because they could see this kind of sea change on LGBTQ rights, they could see the demographic changes, and inside their spaces, they have really played up this language of fear that liberals are out to get you, and you cannot raise your children anymore.

This kind of radicalizing rhetoric has very much taken root through conservative media echo chambers. So I really see Johnson as very much a part of this moment. But he is also somebody who is offering to rise above it and to stand in and to restore the nation to its Christian principles. When he uses the rhetoric of being anointed by God, for this moment, that’s really the context.
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garrow · Oct 27, 2023

HanSenSE · Oct 27, 2023

outofplace said: ↑

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-dean-phillips-challenge-biden-013811929.html

This doofus claims he is mounting a primary challenge against Joe Biden because he thinks Biden would lose, but he can beat Trump. lol
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And he's young!

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