Part of the conversation that interested me, btw, is that of Cultural Christians... those who live by Jesus' parables of morals and ethics without identifying as believers.

Those sayings only seem like common sense to them.

"I mean, I think basically that most of
us in this country are cultural
Christians just instinctively.

Uh, and I
think there is no one who's more
culturally Christian than the atheist...

who says, "I don't need some, you know,
bronze age sky [music] fairy telling me
how to behave because I just know how to
behave. I'm a good person.

I don't need
the Bible to tell me to care for the
weak and the poor and the refugee...
manifesting the fact that they are the
result of centuries worth of biblical
weathering.

So in a sense, [applause]
in a sense to be a cultural Christian is
still to believe stuff.

It's still to believe stuff that to say
a Roman, a pre-Christian Roman would
have seemed mad and not at all
self-evident."

- Tom Holland (about 5 mins in)

Thread link is a short video... excerpts from a brilliant conversation at the below link:

"In 2024"2025, American political ideology is relatively evenly split, with about 35% identifying as moderate, 35% as conservative, and 27"28% as liberal. While conservative and liberal shares have remained consistent, the proportion of moderates declined from over 40% in the early 1990s to 33"35% recently."

#14

Literally 100's of thousands, most of starvation and disease.

But hey, tax cuts for Oligarchs has it's acceptable losses according to Trumpers.

Come you masters of war

You that build all the guns

You that build the death planes

You that build the big bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

When the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

As young people's blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

How much do I know

To talk out of turn

You might say that I'm young

You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know

Though I'm younger than you

Even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good

Will it buy you forgiveness

Do you think that it could

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die

And your death'll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand o'er your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Masters of War
Written by: Bob Dylan
Copyright 1963

No paywall version:

Donald Trump dies and goes the Hell....

"This is the question of the of the day in this lawsuit. Where does she live?
They are either going to have to prove that they live in Florida, or accept the fact that she lives in New York.

The first lady does not live with the president of the United States.

Their relationship is remote at best, and I think we can probably say,
well, certainly of a different nature than any, president and first lady has ever had.

Not to mention that, that, to our point, the nature of this is that she lives in New York and he lives somewhere else." - Michael Wolff

;;

Oh, wait... is this what the new voting requirements are all about; he doesn't want her as an illegal immigrant with no driver's license because a changed name to be able to vote?

And who's his main squeeze (yuck!) in the WH?

This guy?:

00:00 - Where Does Melania Live?
04:25 - Why This Case Matters: Trump, Epstein & Legal Leverage
08:50 - Anti-SLAPP Laws and Fighting Back Against the White House
13:15 - Turning the Tables: Suing Melania and the Residency Strategy
17:40 - Trump Tower Living: Separate Apartments and NYC Evidence
22:05 - Florida vs. New York: Driver's Licenses, Voting & Legal Definitions

26:30 - Mar-a-Lago Exile and the Rise of the Election Deniers
30:55 - Kurt Olsen: From "Crazy" Election Lawyer to White House Insider
35:20 - Loyalty Over Competence: The Second Trump Administration
39:45 - Pam Bondi Under Fire: Congress, Contempt & Political Theater
44:10 - Nasty Women, Trump Loyalty & Power Dynamics
48:35 - What Comes Next: Courts, Consequences & Political Fallout

How many John_Savages does the world really need? I already have 2 of them killfiled where I can't smell them.

And isn't that kind of a gay name in Trumper circles anyway? Like some ------------, high heeled, whip-wielding German SS Officer?

- Let moderates decide whether they want a democracy or a kleptocracy.

Yeah, we did that... see what happened?

- the one-size-fits-all solution for Democrats everywhere is foolish at best

Exactly; a more liberal candidate can win in NY and LA, but not in flyover country where the Electoral College votes are... Hillary wasn't liberal enough for some hands-sitters, but even though she won the popular vote, she was too liberal for the Electoral College.

The far far left needs to decide if they want to be politically correct, or if they want to be in power.

As James Talarico notes, real politics isn't left vs right, it's top vs bottom, and that's a message that can win.

That wasn't just to Laura... and:

"Nikki Fried: The pendulum is swinging' towards Democrats' after victory in Miami election

Eileen Higgins became the first Democrat to take the Miami mayor's seat in decades on Tuesday night."

Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea
Then watch the ripples that unfold into me
My face spills so gently into your eyes
Disturbing the waters of our lives

Shreds of our memories are lying on your grass
Wounded words of laughter are graveyards of the past
Photographs are grey and torn, scattered in your fields
Letters of your memories are not real

Well, sadness on your shoulders like a wornout overcoat
In pockets creased and tattered hang the rags of your hope
The daybreak is your midnight, the colours have all died
Disturbing the waters of our lives,
Of our lives, lives, lives

Songwriters: Gregory Lake

RFK Jr will now be recommending epibatidine as an acne cure.

"Lawfare!" - Jeffy Turley

"The president will be impeached promptly if Democrats retake control of the House after the November midterms, an outcome his abuses of power have also made highly likely," McCarthy wrote in a column published in the National Review Wednesday.

"That will be the legacy of yesterday's reported failed attempt by the Trump Justice Department to criminally charge the Seditious Six,' as the Democrats in question were labeled by Trump supporters."

McCarthy personally characterized Trump's attacks on the six Democrats as "intolerable" and "impeachable."

He wrote that there was "no plausible justification for the proposed indictment" against Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Reps. Jason Crow (Colo.), Maggie Goodlander (N.H.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.) and Chris Deluzio (Pa.)."

Trumpers are such willing tools for the Oligarchs.

Jeffy still thinks those billions in profit are going to Tinkle Down on him one day.

"Yulia Navalnaya, the Russian dissident's widow, appeared at a press conference on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich to announce the discovery, flanked by the foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.

The four countries and France have been working together to establish how Mr Navalny, 47, died."

It was not immediately clear how they were able to obtain samples from Mr Navalny's body to test for the toxin, though Ms Navalnaya has previously said they were smuggled out of Russia.

The opposition leader was buried in the suburbs of Moscow in March 2024.

"As a result of the work of the UK, Sweden and other partners, we have confirmed that a deadly toxin was found in Alexei Navalny's body," Ms Cooper told journalists,

"And that toxin has been identified as a toxin that is found in Ecuadorian Dart Frogs."

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy is spent

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion

Songwriters: Graham Edge

Anyone who votes FOR his tariffs will suffer the consequences if the dumbasses in their Districts ever figure out that THEY are paying for 90 percent the Tariffs, not other countries.

Of course, I suppose they may never figure that out; none of them on these pages has.

#2

So true. He can't afford to have a clean, legal election that it looks like he could well lose.

That's not what Gangster Bosses do. They have the troops hit the matrasses in Blue Cities and take over the Elections.

#2

Are you saying you were a Frat Boy? ;-)

I was a hippy at the time, but we had Frats on campus... also the Air Force ROTC recruiting station, where one of our tripping friends who, after mistakenly taking 4 hits of acid that had frozen together in his fridge, went and signed up while he was high the whole week!

;;

Per the lyric above, it's too bad things haven't changed much since then... other than getting worse as far as Oligarch control I mean.

S'riously... is there ANYTHING that 1NoNuts isn't an expert on? Anything at all?

related:

"Trump threatens to impose photo ID for voters for midterm elections

President insists he will also restrict mail-in voting, even if Congress fails to pass the Save America Act

"There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" Trump posted in one of a series of missives sent while onboard Air Force One on Friday afternoon after speaking to troops at Fort Bragg.

"Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel," the president added, falsely, since there is no popular majority for banning vote by mail.

In fact, polling conducted last year showed the exact opposite: 58% of Americans favor allowing any voter to cast their ballot by mail if they want to.

Trump's efforts to impose voter ID requirements are likely to face immediate legal challenges, as the US constitution leaves the conduct of elections to the states."

Moody Blues - Question (1970)