Sickophants

[Ulysses]

I don't know that I would have answered those particular questions with "I agree", but I can certainly see why some groups would do so. It's hard to explain to even some educated people how it is that giving any preference at all for minorities doesn't discriminate against white people. And Christianity of some types is "under attack", but mostly that type that engages in pedophilia or does other stuff not in keeping with the normal mores of society.

What is with this reasonable approach?

[Vrede too]

The litany of criminality, corruption, deception and incompetence is never ending.

White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges

The Saudi royal family
Donald Trump and his entourage
Trump’s political appointees
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
another State Department official
Karen Pence
Jared Kushner
Qatari official
As Trump political appointees in the State Department’s protocol office
Steven Mnuchin, the former Treasury secretary
John Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser

[GoCubsGo]

Does Bellevue have an opening in it's mental health wing?

It's time.

[GoCubsGo]

Back to the Future we go.

[Vrede too]

Back to the Future we go.

Whiny House Republicans need remedial English. Maybe they're outsourcing. The very first response tweet:

Mmkay

Still playing the oldies, I see

Republicans are insane

"is"

We truly live in the stupidest era ever. For half the country stupidity is a virtue.

[GoCubsGo]

What a great country.

[GoCubsGo]

Merica!

[Vrede too]

Merica!

You beat me to it again.

MAGA, A!

[GoCubsGo]

Merica!

You beat me to it again.

MAGA, A!

Speaking of not winning.

Opps.
The non concession concession.
Trump concedes to being 'former president' in Capitol riot lawsuit

[Ulysses]

Would you believe I still have this album?

[Vrede too]

Would you believe I still have this album?

Yes. So?

[Vrede too]

I'm always impressed how people will pop up out of obscurity only to say something really stupid. It's not like they didn't have the time to contemplate something wiser.

Sean Spicer Rips Joe Biden For Something Donald Trump Did Many, Many Times

It was called an election.

When did anyone ask that you Make America Great Again?
FYI: America was already great until Trump the disgraced, twice impeached, one term former president came along.

No one asked you to lie, but you still did it.

Many more tweets trashing Spicy at the link.

[GoCubsGo]

Kellyanne briefly emerges.

Time for her to go back to her hidey hole.

[neoplacebo]

I've never really tried it, but lying must be super fucking addictive. Especially if a lot of folks believe your lies. Take the old peaceful partier who briefly shamed him or herself here by asserting that trump had never lied as an example. She or he probably still believes it and even to a more extreme degree. tragic stupid

[Ulysses]

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[GoCubsGo]

Fast approaching nazism.

[billy.pilgrim]

Fast approaching nazism.

Pretty insane. Great list of also on the ticket


https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-n ... ty-2021-11

[O Really]

That's too scary to be funny, except that it's not really new. But let's consider the question asked. What to do about the 35% of US population that does not claim to be Christian? OK, so we just amend the Constitution to give "freedom of religion" only to Christians and make practice of any other religion illegal. But wait - all Christians don't agree on what "Christianity" is. Do we all become Protestants or Catholics? And assuming Flynn want the Protestants to be prevalent, then we carve out another 22% of the population. Now we've carved out a total of 57%, leaving 43%% being the chosen ones. But wait - there are still major differences among the chosen Protestants. A lot of the Flynn-type Protestants wouldn't want the Episcopalians, either. And the Methodists who hate gays wouldn't want to include the Methodists who include everybody. So probably after you've carved out the non-Flynns, you're likely down to 30%. Or who knows, maybe Flynn wants everybody to be Muslim. That would be more in keeping with his views.

[billy.pilgrim]

Wasn't Maryland once all catholic and Virginia didn't allow catholics?
Or so I remember from Mitchner's Chesapeake.

[Vrede too]

Wasn't Maryland once all catholic and Virginia didn't allow catholics?
Or so I remember from Mitchner's Chesapeake.

I don't remember being taught much about Maryland's history in school, certainly nothing about religious strife. Wiki says:

Persecution of Catholics

Maryland was founded to provide a haven for England's Roman Catholic minority. Although Maryland was the most heavily Catholic of the English mainland colonies, the religion was still in the minority, consisting of less than 10% of the total population.

In 1642, a number of Puritans left Virginia for Maryland and founded Providence (now called Annapolis) on the western shore of the upper Chesapeake Bay. A dispute with traders from Virginia over Kent Island in the Chesapeake led to armed conflict. In 1644, William Claiborne, a Puritan, seized Kent Island while his associate, the pro-Parliament Puritan Richard Ingle, took over St. Mary's. Both used religion as a tool to gain popular support. The two years from 1644 to 1646 when Claiborne and his Puritan associates held sway were known as "The Plundering Time". They captured Jesuit priests, imprisoned them, then sent them back to England.

In 1646 Leonard Calvert returned with troops, recaptured St. Mary's City, and restored order. The House of Delegates passed the "Act concerning Religion" in 1649 granting religious liberty to all Trinitarian Christians.

In 1650, the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government. "Protestants swept the Catholics out of the legislature ... and religious strife returned." The Puritans set up a new government prohibiting both Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism. The Puritan revolutionary government persecuted Maryland Catholics during its reign, known as the "plundering time". Mobs burned down all the original Catholic churches of southern Maryland. The Puritan rule lasted until 1658 when the Calvert family and Lord Baltimore regained proprietary control and re-enacted the Toleration Act.

After England's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, Maryland outlawed Catholicism. In 1704, the Maryland General Assembly prohibited Catholics from operating schools, limited the corporate ownership of property to hamper religious orders from expanding or supporting themselves, and encouraged the conversion of Catholic children. The celebration of the Catholic sacraments was also officially restricted. This state of affairs lasted until after the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Wealthy Catholic planters built chapels on their land to practice their religion in relative secrecy....

So, never all catholic, and they were pretty heavily repressed at times. I'll leave Virginia for you to confirm or debunk.