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lifeguard at the cement pond
It's more when they post non-nonsense illegally stolen from one side....
what, like assange?
and if an action isn't illegal in the jurisdiction in which it originates, what do you do?
It's more when they post non-nonsense illegally stolen from one side....
Rust belt blue collar folk are rubes. Black men are lazy. Same evil spirit.
what, like assange?
and if an action isn't illegal in the jurisdiction in which it originates, what do you do?
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That they're as unprepared, factually deficient, and emotionally driven as he typically is?1. This isn't "social media."
2. It's hilarious that he "feels" that "some people on TOL" are paid, rather than just having an interest in politics and in facts.
3. It's more hilarious that because these "some people" are "way too thorough and detailed" and provide "ready links" that he "feels" they're "trolls."
What does that say about the ones he "feels" are not trolls?:rotfl:
Good job missing the point.
Do you think rust belt blue collar workers are rubes or not?
Whoever reported this as racist misses my point more severely than I supposedly missed yours.
I got your point. But you also exposed your hatred of blue collar folks from Pennsylvania etc...
Bitter clingers
Bitter clingers
Then why say rubes at all in reference to a group of people who share a common culture?Some of them. Those who bought Don's con about "make America great again", for sure. Certainly not limited to the rust belt though.
Wasn't me.
If you think that's what I did, then you didn't get the point.
Do you think rust belt blue collar workers are rubes or not?
Whoever reported this as racist misses my point more severely than I supposedly missed yours.
I got your point. But you also exposed your hatred of blue collar folks from Pennsylvania etc...
Bitter clingers
Bitter clingers
America is great again in so far s bringing back some of what was lost. Sure there is a long way to go but the elimination of the progressive power and MSM influence would almost finish the task.
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Praise for Trump: The Deals and the Downfall
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"Donald Trump surprises us again. Wayne Barrett's Trump is a fresh, detailed, and vivid account of the tangled connections of money, politics, and power in our times." —(D.Note: Investigative Organized Crime Reporter) Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (D. Note: Pileggi's book is a True Account of Life in a New York Organized Crime Family, and was the book the movie Goodfellas, was largely based on).
http://www.nationinstitute.org/featuredwork/books/1283/trump:_the_deals_and_the_downfall/
Nietzsche provides a way to being more than merely a collection of ideas that belong to someone else. I'm currently reading " beyond good and evil" by him in order to further this end. Here is a video with more of the same:
https://youtu.be/gfyCzLbcAvk
Wow, some heavy sitting on the beach reading.
A bit of humour...
Amusingly, CR (to me at least) your actual point was missed by the same reading into a thing absent of consideration the whole of the context you said it in, not only that you yourself apparantly applied the absence of some time ago, when you concluded I was asserting you were racist, when you read my words out of their context, but that the individual who just recently banned you, apparently read your remark absent of.
The chickens have come home to roost on the heads of the far too long coddled on TOL.
If but for an accidental moment.
:chuckle:
The resulting hurt, expected, nevertheless. It goes with the privilege of being coddled. It is its resulting cost.
I warned Sherman that coddling you guys was actually hurting you.
For only "tribulation worketh patience."
First, STP, over in the Flat Earth thread on the Religion forum has been basically punched right in the mouth.
Just as I repeatedly warned him some of his "friends" on here might turn on him, in their misread of his intent, one day.
Here we are.
Now you.
Its best if you just take such moments with a....
:chuckle:
That it's resulting unintended "tribulation" as one of the coddled on here, nevertheless work it obviously equally unintended "patience."
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
There, in those words, is found the Believer's comfort during such moments, whether such moments are intebded, or not.
Not in some hoped for fairness from people Christ had to die for, to begin with - we are so imperfect.
And not in the uncertainty of strangers as "friends" on one site or another, on the ever uncertain world wide web.
Rather, in a focus on...in memory of Romans 5:6-8, CR - in each...our stead - whether or not, things go our way at the hands of another.
The Cross alone...is certain.
Or as Paul put all that, in his day...
Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Now that...is certain.
:thumb:
You actually believe the individual so aptly described in the following, so long ago, has your best interests...at heart:
But there is no reasoning with the typical Trump supoorter.
Thank God then, for the only certainty in this life - the certainty that is Romans 5:6-9.
Might as well make use such wilful indifference to the truth about Trump, as a means of pointing others to the only certainty - the Cross of Christ.
Conservatives may not be what you assume they are when it comes to thinking.