Another brain-dead religious fool who evidently thinks he gets to decide what is or isn't true, and facts don't matter. Neither this massively screwed up country nor the wider world faces a single problem that has a religious solution. Fools like this guy will aid and abet the Heritage Foundation in it's efforts to destroy democracy in this country. America is in for a rough ride, and I do not think the republic we've known is going to survive it. There is no situation so bad it cannot be made worse by religion.
"America is in for a rough ride" Agreed, North, Central and South America with all 36 American countries. MAGA is a religious cult with Trump as its Lord and Savior. In Trump We Trust?
"There is only one title that is given to women in all of Scripture."
Horseshit.
Sarah is considered a prophet.
Hagar is the mother of nations, given the same promise as Abraham by Jehovah for her longsuffering under Abraham and Sarah.
Miriam is a prophet.
Deborah was a judge/elder/warlord.
Esther was a queen.
Mary is the theotokos,. the mother of God.
Junia is one of the apostles of Christ.
Think of how many more women would have excelled in poetry, writing, leadership, and science were it not for misogynistic assholes like you who want to take the billions of women throughout history and reduce them to one title in the name of the misogynist deity you've created and your shit isn't even supported in your scriptures.
Mary Magdalene was the chief apostle of Christ, a person he considered his equal and to whom he gave authority to teach in his name. The fact that her story was buried by the church takes nothing away from her. It only shows the weakness and misogyny of the early church and its leaders.
I remember hearing the same stories when I was in RCC parochial school. It wasn't until just a few years ago that the RCC finally admitted that Mary Magdalene was never a prostitute. Gee thanks, guys. Feel better now?
You sound a lot like me and many others who de-converted after being raised in some version of christianity. It wasn't an event, it was a process, and it took years to finally break free from it.
Mark Harris hear me loud and hear me clear: this woman is no man's helper/ slave/ servant or (God forbid) wife. I stand on my own two feet and so do all women in this world. Women stand on their own two feet first and foremost. I take full responsibility for my actions. I also voted for Kamala Harris but it was A Man who stole the election from her. So please go toot your fking horn in someone else's ear!
Mark Harris, hear me loud and clear: If you were a real man, you wouldn't need to stand on women's backs to feel big. You would value partnership not submission. But you're weak and pathetic, and the only way you can feel strong is beating other people down. That doesn't make you strong, it only advertises your weakness. Real women like me see right through you to the cringing little boy you are, and we want nothing to do with weaklings. We're fine standing on our own feet.
His precious magic book has spawned the most factionalized religion on the planet, so what it means isn't exactly clear. It is nothing if not flexible. There is no independent corroboration for any part of the Jesus story. No contemporary historian noticed the guy.
The one guy who should've noticed and remarked on Jesus...didn't. He was Philo of Alexandria and he never even mentioned Christianity itself, let alone Jesus...
Nope, and he perfectly overlaps the Jesus saga. Born twenty BC, and died fifty AD. His writings are nearly equal in volume to the Bible itself. He was the Walter Cronkite of his age.
Then the toots from his rear-end will sound more intelligent than he does. Hopefully that would be a new republican fad and trump would do it too. So then we'd have President Tootin' being friends with President Putin.
And then even the MAGAs will tell him to shut the f up.
King Solomon. Queen of Sheba. Queen Esther. Mary Mother of God. Moses, the Man of God. Governor Pontius Pilate. Render (un)to Caesar (both a name and a title). Rabbi (multiple). Prophet (multiple). Judge AND Prophetess, Deborah. Phoebe, Deacon.
These people don't read their own holy book, do they?
No, they don't! I was telling one (on another site) to read his own damn book. I wish I had NOGODZ on speed-dial. I couldn't remember where it said life begins at first breath. He was an anti-abortion weirdo.
Terrific. Not only do we have the return of the Orange Nightmare, we have a chauvinistic, atavistic, bigoted, and generally ... gad, what general adjective do I throw in here?!? ... idiot-child now representing North Carolina. Worse, considering the overall outcome of the 2024 elections, he's likely not alone.
I can already feel the US sliding back toward the 1950s ... and probably not stopping there. Fuck.
Modern christianity has become nothing but a refuge for small men who can only feel big by standing on the backs of others. They're weak, perpetual victims who try to hide their fears by attacking the people they're most afraid of. Confident, independent women turn their bowels to water. Their biggest nightmare is waking up in a world where women don't need them and think they're irrelevant.
What christian nationalism is doing now is a repeat of what christianity has done almost from its inception - what they can't accomplish by persuasion, they'll implement by force. That's not evidence of core conviction. If they were really convinced of their stated beliefs, it wouldn't matter how many others believe it, too. Forcing their beliefs on others is a lame attempt at bolstering their own weak faith. Just as it's always been. And it's why they're losing ground.
I don't think we have come to grip with what the Trump victory means. Like what Mark Harris is, people knew exactly who Trump was. He did not hide it in the slightest. And people voted for him. And they did this not in spite of what he is, but because of what his is. When given the choice between fascism and calling out fascism, the majority of Americans decided that calling out fascism was worse. The majority of Americans have decided that rounding up millions of people is right. They have decided that racism, misogyny and vitriol are not vices but virtues. They have decided that hate is right, and that tolerance is weakness and sin.
It reminds me of the “Chick-fil-a” kerfuffle a few years ago. For those of you who don’t remember, Chil-fil-a was sending money to Scott Lively to promote an anti-LGBT bill in Uganda. People said that this bill would result in gay people being killed, and started boycotting Chick-fil-a. The right flipped out and accused the left of trying to silence Chil-fil-a. And that Chick-fil-a was a good company with good American values. And they were doing a good fight. There are pictures of republicans smiling with holding up their chicken sandwiches. Well, in the end, Chick-fil-a is doing well. The bill passed. And people were killed. The LGBT community in Uganda lives under constant threat. A lot have died or been thrown in jail. Some have managed to flee, but not all. And yet after all of that, here’s a sitting senator proud defending Chick-fil-a (https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/lindsey-graham-chick-fil-a/index.html) and saying it was patriotic and brave. And that it was offensive that people would even dare protest them.
And now, we are supposed to be pretend that these people are good. And I have pretended that maybe appealing to the better side of their humanity would make a difference. Now, I feel silly that I thought that was a possibility.
I want to say in two years we can vote to limit his power. And in four we can vote him out of power. But I am not sure, we will have the opportunity. But even if we have the opportunity, I am doubtful we as a people will choose to. Thing are and will get worse.
I do not want to give up. I want to say hey, people are good. They will see. But I can’t pretend anymore. Trump is America. It will not end well.
I just want to end this by saying this to the younger generation. “We had a chance. We knew exactly what was at stake. We failed. I am sorry. We chose to fail. So if you ever have a chance, be better than we were. Maybe by that time, we will really see the horrors that we made. And maybe by that time, we’ll say ‘We didn’t know…’ Don’t believe us. We knew. Don’t ever forget. And don’t ever forgive.”
I'm not sure they knew exactly what they were voting for. They will expect him to be hurting the people they don't like, but many of them will be included in the 'face eating'. There was/is an unmatched level of ignorance among many Trump voters it seemed to me. We can only hope they change their minds once they find out who's going to be hurt. When they lose their medical coverage, when their source of vegetables dries up because the workers have been "sent home". (I have my doubts about that by the way – the farm lobby is quite strong it seems to me, and they don't want to have to pay American workers higher wages, or even invest in automation.) But if that does happen they may well find themselves working long hours in the fields for fuck all, because Trump doesn't believe in decent wages. At least judging by what he paid his illegal Polish workers that were working on his hotel.
Further to the ignorance thing – I just found this. Apparently the more ignorant you are the more you vote Trump.
And that is the reason for their war on education: the more ignorant people are, the easier they are to rule. Even when they're reduced to serfdom, they'll still be praising their king for his beneficence in allowing them to keep their sad little lives- and for keeping the barbarians from the gates (after all, if the barbarians never come, who's to say the king didn't stop them?).
It doesn't matter whether or not there are more of us than there are of them. It matters that there weren't enough of us who gave enough of a shit to 𝘥𝘰 something about them. All those people who make up the difference in that popular vote? They're people who found fascism less odious than getting off their apathetic asses and voting, or who found fascism an acceptable price for thumbing their noses at the Democrats for... honestly, their reasons don't matter. When history books get written about this, they will be lumped in with the villains. They are the ones who did not speak.
Watch your backs, folks. Your neighbors are not your friends if they did not stand up for you at the ballot box. Their silent complicity in what the Nazis intend to do can be bought- and their price is disgustingly low.
"Watch your backs, folks. Your neighbors are not your friends..."
It's not that what you've said is not true, but we would do better to look to ourselves to make sure we don't become the enemy of what we believe in. Every American is going to face a moment when they have to choose between human decency and self-preservation. It's time to start figuring out which values we're willing to die for, so that we can choose our battles wisely.
It's true that we shouldn't become suspicious of 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦- no one is going to get through this alone, if worse comes to worst- but we'd also do well to remember that authoritarian regimes love paying off weak-willed cowards and neighborhood busybodies to become snitches. They're already giving their rewards system a test-drive: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/odessa-tx-just-put-10000-bounties (Texas has been trying the same idea out with regards to abortion, too.)
Any 'election' that is held in the coming years will be of the same stripe as elections now held in Hong Kong. All the candidates are preselected by the regime and only the most loyal to the regime will 'win'.
(I thought I remembered his son being the one who turned him in, but I can't find an article from then saying such. Maybe I misremembered that detail.)
To the black Nazi/porn lover who endorsed Harris...
What would you do if Harris followed his (and your) bible and decided that those of dark skin should be returned to slave status? Jesus never freed a slave and never spoke out against it. He gave instructions on how slaves should be beaten.
Yes my aunt was dying painfully from cancer that had spread to her bones. Her shit evangelical pastor of a husband guilted her until she died about taking pain medication. “Life is painful.” And all kinds of other BS. Being an RN at the time, myself and my husband strongly encouraged her to treat her pain. After she passed I never saw him again, but hoped furiously that he died in the longest, most painful, and drawn out “natural death.” He did die less than 5 years later. Massive heart attack so he likely didn’t suffer much. However, I found solace in the knowledge that none of what he spent his life spewing was true or going to happen to him.
WAY OT: My gal and I are off on a cruise from now until November 17th. Depending on availability (AND COST!!!) of internet access, I may or may not be around much for the next eight days. Y'all have a good time, and I look forward to seeing you a week from Monday.
You don't get free Wi-Fi on the cruise? Mind you, the last time – the only time – I ever took a cruise was when my wife won one in a quiz, and that was well before Wi-Fi.
Food – let's say on our cruise it was ... Plentiful. I put on 7 pounds in a week, in spite of exercising every day. First time I'd ever had pommes frites for breakfast. It was "free", accessible 24 hours a day, and you didn't even have to cook it.
I just got back from the Wally World three miles south of me, and even though their website said they carry Toblerone, they didn't have any. 😠 But I did discover they carry Tony's Chocolonely. 🙂
My first memory of the Marx Bros. was "Duck Soup." And I saw their final film "Love Happy" on TV. Marilyn Monroe AND Raymond Burr were in that one (Harpo got story credit).
Or, sex slave. There’s no other interpretation for that phrase. If there’s any other definition of servant, it involves payment and therefore, coerced prostitute is acceptable, but yet still a sex slave. That’s all men think of women in the grand old party, free labor and sex.
Noticed that as well. The term "servant" in the bible is code for slave. When Christians call Jesus their Lord and Master, what do they think 'Lord' and 'Master' mean?
Another brain-dead religious fool who evidently thinks he gets to decide what is or isn't true, and facts don't matter. Neither this massively screwed up country nor the wider world faces a single problem that has a religious solution. Fools like this guy will aid and abet the Heritage Foundation in it's efforts to destroy democracy in this country. America is in for a rough ride, and I do not think the republic we've known is going to survive it. There is no situation so bad it cannot be made worse by religion.
"America is in for a rough ride" Agreed, North, Central and South America with all 36 American countries. MAGA is a religious cult with Trump as its Lord and Savior. In Trump We Trust?
"There is only one title that is given to women in all of Scripture."
Horseshit.
Sarah is considered a prophet.
Hagar is the mother of nations, given the same promise as Abraham by Jehovah for her longsuffering under Abraham and Sarah.
Miriam is a prophet.
Deborah was a judge/elder/warlord.
Esther was a queen.
Mary is the theotokos,. the mother of God.
Junia is one of the apostles of Christ.
Think of how many more women would have excelled in poetry, writing, leadership, and science were it not for misogynistic assholes like you who want to take the billions of women throughout history and reduce them to one title in the name of the misogynist deity you've created and your shit isn't even supported in your scriptures.
Mary Magdalene was the chief apostle of Christ, a person he considered his equal and to whom he gave authority to teach in his name. The fact that her story was buried by the church takes nothing away from her. It only shows the weakness and misogyny of the early church and its leaders.
I remember hearing the same stories when I was in RCC parochial school. It wasn't until just a few years ago that the RCC finally admitted that Mary Magdalene was never a prostitute. Gee thanks, guys. Feel better now?
Yep some damn misogynist made it up!
You sound a lot like me and many others who de-converted after being raised in some version of christianity. It wasn't an event, it was a process, and it took years to finally break free from it.
They’re more bad asses than badasses.
We have no idea who wrote the Song of Songs (or any love/erotic poem in Egyptian New Kingdom). Who can affirm their authors were men ?
Mark Harris hear me loud and hear me clear: this woman is no man's helper/ slave/ servant or (God forbid) wife. I stand on my own two feet and so do all women in this world. Women stand on their own two feet first and foremost. I take full responsibility for my actions. I also voted for Kamala Harris but it was A Man who stole the election from her. So please go toot your fking horn in someone else's ear!
Mark Harris, hear me loud and clear: If you were a real man, you wouldn't need to stand on women's backs to feel big. You would value partnership not submission. But you're weak and pathetic, and the only way you can feel strong is beating other people down. That doesn't make you strong, it only advertises your weakness. Real women like me see right through you to the cringing little boy you are, and we want nothing to do with weaklings. We're fine standing on our own feet.
That's very true. Religion was always a men's game. There's nothing in it for women.
More often than not, when a man gets religion one of the first things he does is claim a right to control women.
Yah. Because it's in The Bible written by men as the Word of God ( who is also a man)
I hope Kamala Harris goes on record as saying" So Not related to this guy"
His precious magic book has spawned the most factionalized religion on the planet, so what it means isn't exactly clear. It is nothing if not flexible. There is no independent corroboration for any part of the Jesus story. No contemporary historian noticed the guy.
The one guy who should've noticed and remarked on Jesus...didn't. He was Philo of Alexandria and he never even mentioned Christianity itself, let alone Jesus...
jesusneverexisted.com/philo/
Nope, and he perfectly overlaps the Jesus saga. Born twenty BC, and died fifty AD. His writings are nearly equal in volume to the Bible itself. He was the Walter Cronkite of his age.
...Or a better option would be, to shove said horn, up his posterior.
Then the toots from his rear-end will sound more intelligent than he does. Hopefully that would be a new republican fad and trump would do it too. So then we'd have President Tootin' being friends with President Putin.
And then even the MAGAs will tell him to shut the f up.
"It turned out one of his own staffers had been charged with absentee-ballot fraud. "
THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛.
King Solomon. Queen of Sheba. Queen Esther. Mary Mother of God. Moses, the Man of God. Governor Pontius Pilate. Render (un)to Caesar (both a name and a title). Rabbi (multiple). Prophet (multiple). Judge AND Prophetess, Deborah. Phoebe, Deacon.
These people don't read their own holy book, do they?
No, they don't! I was telling one (on another site) to read his own damn book. I wish I had NOGODZ on speed-dial. I couldn't remember where it said life begins at first breath. He was an anti-abortion weirdo.
“I will proudly vote to certify the results of any election that was conducted fairly and legally.”
If this is true, he will refuse to certify the election of someone who organised an insurrection against the United States 4 years ago.
Terrific. Not only do we have the return of the Orange Nightmare, we have a chauvinistic, atavistic, bigoted, and generally ... gad, what general adjective do I throw in here?!? ... idiot-child now representing North Carolina. Worse, considering the overall outcome of the 2024 elections, he's likely not alone.
I can already feel the US sliding back toward the 1950s ... and probably not stopping there. Fuck.
1850s.
Why would go back to a time when we couldn't burn witches? 1650 or bust!
Modern christianity has become nothing but a refuge for small men who can only feel big by standing on the backs of others. They're weak, perpetual victims who try to hide their fears by attacking the people they're most afraid of. Confident, independent women turn their bowels to water. Their biggest nightmare is waking up in a world where women don't need them and think they're irrelevant.
What christian nationalism is doing now is a repeat of what christianity has done almost from its inception - what they can't accomplish by persuasion, they'll implement by force. That's not evidence of core conviction. If they were really convinced of their stated beliefs, it wouldn't matter how many others believe it, too. Forcing their beliefs on others is a lame attempt at bolstering their own weak faith. Just as it's always been. And it's why they're losing ground.
I had to take a shower after reading this. Ugh.
I feel like I not only have to take a shower, I need to move out of this insane country before it gets even stupider.
I think I need two showers. Mark Harris? Yah. Nope
I don't think we have come to grip with what the Trump victory means. Like what Mark Harris is, people knew exactly who Trump was. He did not hide it in the slightest. And people voted for him. And they did this not in spite of what he is, but because of what his is. When given the choice between fascism and calling out fascism, the majority of Americans decided that calling out fascism was worse. The majority of Americans have decided that rounding up millions of people is right. They have decided that racism, misogyny and vitriol are not vices but virtues. They have decided that hate is right, and that tolerance is weakness and sin.
It reminds me of the “Chick-fil-a” kerfuffle a few years ago. For those of you who don’t remember, Chil-fil-a was sending money to Scott Lively to promote an anti-LGBT bill in Uganda. People said that this bill would result in gay people being killed, and started boycotting Chick-fil-a. The right flipped out and accused the left of trying to silence Chil-fil-a. And that Chick-fil-a was a good company with good American values. And they were doing a good fight. There are pictures of republicans smiling with holding up their chicken sandwiches. Well, in the end, Chick-fil-a is doing well. The bill passed. And people were killed. The LGBT community in Uganda lives under constant threat. A lot have died or been thrown in jail. Some have managed to flee, but not all. And yet after all of that, here’s a sitting senator proud defending Chick-fil-a (https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/lindsey-graham-chick-fil-a/index.html) and saying it was patriotic and brave. And that it was offensive that people would even dare protest them.
And now, we are supposed to be pretend that these people are good. And I have pretended that maybe appealing to the better side of their humanity would make a difference. Now, I feel silly that I thought that was a possibility.
I want to say in two years we can vote to limit his power. And in four we can vote him out of power. But I am not sure, we will have the opportunity. But even if we have the opportunity, I am doubtful we as a people will choose to. Thing are and will get worse.
I do not want to give up. I want to say hey, people are good. They will see. But I can’t pretend anymore. Trump is America. It will not end well.
I just want to end this by saying this to the younger generation. “We had a chance. We knew exactly what was at stake. We failed. I am sorry. We chose to fail. So if you ever have a chance, be better than we were. Maybe by that time, we will really see the horrors that we made. And maybe by that time, we’ll say ‘We didn’t know…’ Don’t believe us. We knew. Don’t ever forget. And don’t ever forgive.”
I'm not sure they knew exactly what they were voting for. They will expect him to be hurting the people they don't like, but many of them will be included in the 'face eating'. There was/is an unmatched level of ignorance among many Trump voters it seemed to me. We can only hope they change their minds once they find out who's going to be hurt. When they lose their medical coverage, when their source of vegetables dries up because the workers have been "sent home". (I have my doubts about that by the way – the farm lobby is quite strong it seems to me, and they don't want to have to pay American workers higher wages, or even invest in automation.) But if that does happen they may well find themselves working long hours in the fields for fuck all, because Trump doesn't believe in decent wages. At least judging by what he paid his illegal Polish workers that were working on his hotel.
Further to the ignorance thing – I just found this. Apparently the more ignorant you are the more you vote Trump.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Gbzq3_0bQAATylt.jpg
And that is the reason for their war on education: the more ignorant people are, the easier they are to rule. Even when they're reduced to serfdom, they'll still be praising their king for his beneficence in allowing them to keep their sad little lives- and for keeping the barbarians from the gates (after all, if the barbarians never come, who's to say the king didn't stop them?).
As if they could find native born Americans to work in the fields.
It will probably be compulsory slave labour.
The women who can’t give birth and won’t follow orders will be doing it.
As far as the regime is concerned the vegetable picking problem is going to be solved by sending the n****ers back to the fields where they 'belong'.
Well put.
It doesn't matter whether or not there are more of us than there are of them. It matters that there weren't enough of us who gave enough of a shit to 𝘥𝘰 something about them. All those people who make up the difference in that popular vote? They're people who found fascism less odious than getting off their apathetic asses and voting, or who found fascism an acceptable price for thumbing their noses at the Democrats for... honestly, their reasons don't matter. When history books get written about this, they will be lumped in with the villains. They are the ones who did not speak.
Watch your backs, folks. Your neighbors are not your friends if they did not stand up for you at the ballot box. Their silent complicity in what the Nazis intend to do can be bought- and their price is disgustingly low.
"Watch your backs, folks. Your neighbors are not your friends..."
It's not that what you've said is not true, but we would do better to look to ourselves to make sure we don't become the enemy of what we believe in. Every American is going to face a moment when they have to choose between human decency and self-preservation. It's time to start figuring out which values we're willing to die for, so that we can choose our battles wisely.
It's true that we shouldn't become suspicious of 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦- no one is going to get through this alone, if worse comes to worst- but we'd also do well to remember that authoritarian regimes love paying off weak-willed cowards and neighborhood busybodies to become snitches. They're already giving their rewards system a test-drive: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/odessa-tx-just-put-10000-bounties (Texas has been trying the same idea out with regards to abortion, too.)
I reposted this with this addendum.
Welcome to the united states of jesus with its superstitious malice and hatreds. Fuck you very much, jesus. And the meme below.
Fascist states of jeebus.
Trumpistan.
*Massive applause*
Any 'election' that is held in the coming years will be of the same stripe as elections now held in Hong Kong. All the candidates are preselected by the regime and only the most loyal to the regime will 'win'.
https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/466045753_488351077565929_956050213804761961_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p180x540&_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=8xUSC6t6E5kQ7kNvgHSZp_R&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&_nc_gid=AIAtGvCMukeBlqx9l029spX&oh=00_AYD6TxDOzzJK9N64XMBM5aKu-jAa9XR1TcPBvYqNxoZs0A&oe=67343DA3
You left out my favorite detail from that whole debacle after the 2018 election in NC 9: Mark Harris's son testified against him! https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/695996806/in-north-carolina-election-investigation-hearing-focus-turns-to-gop-candidate
(I thought I remembered his son being the one who turned him in, but I can't find an article from then saying such. Maybe I misremembered that detail.)
Nowadays Republicans consider that a badge of honor.
To the black Nazi/porn lover who endorsed Harris...
What would you do if Harris followed his (and your) bible and decided that those of dark skin should be returned to slave status? Jesus never freed a slave and never spoke out against it. He gave instructions on how slaves should be beaten.
I've started the countdown for when Harris is finally caught diddling kids.
"...from conception to natural end." Yeah, almost no way a North Carolina Republican opposes the death penalty ("natural end"). (Probable) lying liar.
"Natural end" means no assisted suicide for terminally ill patients who desperately WANT to die rather than keep on suffering.
Yes my aunt was dying painfully from cancer that had spread to her bones. Her shit evangelical pastor of a husband guilted her until she died about taking pain medication. “Life is painful.” And all kinds of other BS. Being an RN at the time, myself and my husband strongly encouraged her to treat her pain. After she passed I never saw him again, but hoped furiously that he died in the longest, most painful, and drawn out “natural death.” He did die less than 5 years later. Massive heart attack so he likely didn’t suffer much. However, I found solace in the knowledge that none of what he spent his life spewing was true or going to happen to him.
Minuscule sliver of a silver lining knowing that if Heaven does exist, these people are most definitely headed towards Hell.
I wish for him and his kind, and all who voted and enabled The Fucking Gasbag, to be permanently dosed with platypus venom.
I think improperly prepared fugu should be the appitizer served during the victory banquet.
No, that’s too quick for them.
Platypus venom causes pain, that no known painkiller is able to alleviate.
WAY OT: My gal and I are off on a cruise from now until November 17th. Depending on availability (AND COST!!!) of internet access, I may or may not be around much for the next eight days. Y'all have a good time, and I look forward to seeing you a week from Monday.
All the best!
Aha! Pulling a Ted Cruz on us, eh? 😉
Have a great time at sea.
Would I do that to you guys?!? HELL NO!!! Thanks for the good wishes. 😁
You don't get free Wi-Fi on the cruise? Mind you, the last time – the only time – I ever took a cruise was when my wife won one in a quiz, and that was well before Wi-Fi.
Honestly don't know. Guess we'll find out!
STJ did one cruise*, maybe you should watch the video again.
* I don't think he will do another, unless he can bring several suitcases full of water and food.
Food – let's say on our cruise it was ... Plentiful. I put on 7 pounds in a week, in spite of exercising every day. First time I'd ever had pommes frites for breakfast. It was "free", accessible 24 hours a day, and you didn't even have to cook it.
How many decades ago ?
My worst travel was Turkey, plenty of food, with cheese and butter everywhere.
I wouldn't call it worst. More likely wurst. It must've been some time in the 80s or early 90s. Way before Wi-Fi as I said.
Is that how you curry flavor ?
May or may not still be here.
I hear you, and I hope you hang around. This place wouldn't be the same without your input ... seriously.
The problem with cruises is yu have to return to reality.
Yeah, but any kind of break never hurts, especially when you can do a whole lot of NOTHING for a while.
I hope the both of you have a great time and that you're on a ship of intelligent people, not fools! *smiles*
Molte grazie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzW-z48uRQ
I haven't seen the movie version, but I just finished reading the novel of the same name a few weeks ago. Good, not great.
Amusez-vous bien. And don't forget my birthday gift.
He'll still be on the cruise on the 15th.
Justement.
Toblerone? It's always Toblerone because they forget until they reach the airport on the way home.
I think you forget something.
No, you often have to fly to the port where your cruise ship leaves from. :)
Unless there is a bitter dark chocolate vegan version with chili pepper or ginger, the chance for me eating Toblerone are null.
A pity – because it needs culling. It seems to breed in airport shops.
I just got back from the Wally World three miles south of me, and even though their website said they carry Toblerone, they didn't have any. 😠 But I did discover they carry Tony's Chocolonely. 🙂
I saw Tony's C White Chocolate just the other day. 😋
What about the Gingerbread Bar?
Seen it on their website
us.tonyschocolonely.com
(be sure to scroll down for all the goodies)
Say hi to Capt. Stubing for us. 🛳
Would rather it were Captain Spaulding.
"Would rather it were Captain Spaulding."
🎵Hooray hooray hooray!🎵
The African Explorer!
Groucho or Rob Zombie?
Honestly, I had no idea of the existence of the Rob Zombie character until looking up the Groucho one to ensure I had the spelling correct.
(Did someone call me shnoror?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMtqqHRvB8
When I binged Capt. Spaulding, Rob Zombie was the first listed. I'm sure I saw 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 as a kid, but I don't remember any of it.
Same...and it came as a surprise. Apparently Zombie named his character after Marx's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Spaulding_(Rob_Zombie_character)#Concept_and_characteristics
My first memory of the Marx Bros. was "Duck Soup." And I saw their final film "Love Happy" on TV. Marilyn Monroe AND Raymond Burr were in that one (Harpo got story credit).
"Groucho or Rob Zombie?"
youtu.be/PKwN1bW15YI
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐞?
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-much-will-international-data-roaming-cost-me/
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Thanks! We'll do our best!
A servant lover, huh?
Or, sex slave. There’s no other interpretation for that phrase. If there’s any other definition of servant, it involves payment and therefore, coerced prostitute is acceptable, but yet still a sex slave. That’s all men think of women in the grand old party, free labor and sex.
Noticed that as well. The term "servant" in the bible is code for slave. When Christians call Jesus their Lord and Master, what do they think 'Lord' and 'Master' mean?