Well, I just don't know who to believe on ancient history, the OT scholar and the ancient history NT scholar... or Lab Boy.

Well, therein lies your problem - you need somebody to believe.

It seems you're after a confirmation bias fix, not really anything else because all the blathering in this article doesn't amount to an ounce of actual evidence.

As much as you deny it, he's one of the best ancient scholars we have, with facts and documents galore to prove it.

Your best effort is, "Nu-uh!".

#55 | Posted by Corky

This is still nothing more than an argument from authority. And I've not seen anything to suggest he has the chops you claim he has.

You're desperate for this to be "evidence" because you're equally desperate for something to support your already deeply held beliefs.

"Nu-uh" is a perfectly sound rebuttal to that because there's no real facts or objective information to be found.

It's a magic act, and that magic act is getting the party people that talk to much to shut the ---- up already.

#78 | Posted by sitzkrieg

The major take away from the recent electoral blowouts was, IIRC, to run a candidate who matches the district. Running some CA librul preaching pink hair for all, they/them birthing people who produce eggs reparations while also giving everyone all the free s*&^ they want isn't going to work in a district in suburban Kansas or Texas or Michigan...

But I'm sure that message will be ignored and a bunch of progressive fruit loops will take it as a sign that "not Trump" is a viable strategy again and will do anything but STFU.

Those are the 33%- > 50% of Americans who are eligible to vote, but fail to show up when it counts.

Failing to show up in 2024 was inexcusable because they allowed complacency to blind them to the unique nature of the threat. They assumed it was all systems nominal normalcy.

Pre-Trump, the most frequent driver of those folks staying home was the fact that both parties often turned them off and they didn't find either side compelling enough to earn their vote.

Progressive to want our tax dollars to pay for healthcare, education and our communities rather than the obscenely wealthy, the military complex, the police state.

I got bad news for you.

Most of the middle wants this stuff too. Why do you think these topics usually poll well within the electorate at large?

You don't have to find the middle. It's right in front of your face.

What happens to make "the left" lose the middle is they go beyond those core issues and start pushing social issues ahead of the core issues.

That is when people turn off and either stay home or vote for someone else.

If I didn't know this was a literal true story, I would have thought it a metaphor for this administration.

The "center" is a myth that supports the status quo, not changes it.

No, it's not.

You're selectively latching on to the few places and cases where an out of the norm candidate could work and want to act like it will apply outside of those spaces.

The worst thing progressives do EVERY TIME is think they're just on the cusp of acceptance because [insert highly interpretative reason here], only to find nope, they're not and they lose hard.

The real myth is that progressivism is the winning ticket held back by the middle.

but just can't seem to get it through his thick skull how often people in his party lies about Trump and his administration.

Onelumpofs*&^ isn't even trying to hide his foreign paid agitator status anymore.

The only person saying this with a straight face are those with an interest in propagating the false narrative.

Lumpers support systemic racism.

#50 | Posted by oneironaut

Wow. Shocker.

Onelumpofs*&^ presents the administration's bulls*&^ rationalizations (which themselves rely on targeting Trump critics...) as valid and anything more than government censorship.

F*&^ off, idiot.

I've done none of those things, moron.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger

You've done it at multiple instances where the administration was doing something blatantly illegal to normalize the behavior.

You've shown your "constitutional" principles to be nonexistent like the rest of MAGA world.

Too much stuff claimed as fact that cannot be verified, only speculated.

Yeah. Watched it all just now.

While they keep harping on his supposed status as a "secular" historian, the entire mini-Ted talk is little more than three believers spinning logic circles supported by bald assertions of fact or authenticity without anything but desire or wishful thinking to warrant it.

Nothing will come of this.

Career destroying scandals are simply run of the mill corruption today that will result in nothing because the very people who are supposed to be preventing this and charging people for this are the very ones partaking in it.

I'm denouncing this precisely because I have actual standards unlike an unprincipled hack like yourself.

#21 | Posted by BellRinger

You aren't denouncing this.

You're running your usual play book - give some mealy mouthed, couched "denunciation" up front, then defend, deflect and ignore the actual practice of the concept.

You've done this multiple times over the last year.

You cheered it when it was being done by Democrats.

Which didn't happen, dips*&^.

You continue to fall for and fail to recognize the pattern of the GOP getting out ahead of their own poor behavior by accusing the Dems of it and convincing their idiot base it's not a big deal because "the Dems do it too!"

You fall for it. Every. Time.

And continue to believe it even after it's clear that that's the real narrative.

Was he really THE Reverend?

No surprise you're still clinging to the giant flop known as the Twitter files.

Turley is a giant hack yet you can't seem to bring yourself to stop ------- his leg.

Here numbnutz, this all stems from Trump's FCC changing rules to target late shows.

A change that I don't even see how it arrives at a complete suppression of this interview.

But go ahead, act as if this is different and, therefore, why your incessant puling about non existent censorship is suddenly unnecessary when actual censorship is happening right under your nose.

It's called responsible journalism. Something that is beyond your capacity to understand.

It is nice seeing lefties denounce censorship for a change even though it's totally situational.
#12 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Then this idiot tried to act all high and mighty as if he's not a giant hypocrite and walking know gobbling reach around.

You're a pathetic fool with zero consistency or standards, no matter what lies you tell yourself.

Wow, this news article ONLY quotes Colbert. No other perspective is given and no mention of even reaching out to CBS execs for comment.

#5 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Hey dumbf*^#, what possible information could you hear from CBS that would make this OK?

I knew your stupid ass would dodge the obvious. After whining out "duhhhhh PrAvDAz!!" for years when it wasn't true, suddenly you're giving the MSM the benefit of the doubt when it is true.

What a pathetic sack of unprincipled, disingenuous s^*%.

This is like saying we should ban ---------- because JPW will suck any c*c$ that comes through the hole. It's not the hole's fault, it's JPW for being there.

#49 | POSTED BY BOAZ

This tool bag shows everyday why he shouldn't be allowed to own weapons.

Dude is more mentally f*^%ed up than any poster here.

Seek help.

Spoke to a higher up in my company about moving to a position in Europe.

I can always come back here if this nonsense ends.

But I suspect the clock is ticking on getting out before it really goes off the rails.

A "gun" only sits on a table and can do nothing by itself. My S&W 40 M&P I have sitting next to me hasnt done a thing all morning..

Are you really that stupid?

#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ

lol of course you own that.

The only stupid one is you, sport. You don't have a single principal or value in your body that you stand on besides "me me me me."

Another trans killed someone. That's the news.

#4 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Only to bigoted pieces of s*%% like you.

To everyone else, it's just another mass shooting.

As long as this is here it doesn't matter who posted it.

Keep pushing that red line in front of them and see who finally breaks and who doesn't.

Hey ballwasher, time to dust off your Pravda digs for this one, eh?

/s yeah right

The funniest thing about it is that it was entirely self-inflicted.

They weaponized it hoping it would work as some bad reverse psychology thing and it backfired.