Nice! Inflation is going to eat a chunk of it as that is a raw dollar, not an adjusted dollar, calculation but still it is good.
Yep, it always does. inflation sucks but is a constant unfortunately
**** ya!
Making the warden of the prison in the Shawshank Redemption, speaker of the House, probably wasn’t a great move. This guy is so out of touch with mainstream aka Real America. A lot of what he says is even too conservative for my LDS ward, and that’s saying something.Bill Maher Slams GOP Theocrats: ‘Does Anyone in That Party Remember What F–ing Country You’re Living in?’ | Video
In a Christmas-themed "New Rules," Maher calls out the increasing number of Republicans who endorse forcing their religion on other Americans The post Bill Maher Slams GOP Theocrats: ‘Does Anyone in That Party Remember What F–ing Country You’re Living in?’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.www.yahoo.com
Maher noted that Johnson falsely claims “the separation of church and state is a misnomer. And Congresswoman Lauren Boebert concurred, saying she’s ‘tired of this separation of church and state junk.’ So too Marjorie Taylor Greene who says, ‘I say it proudly, we should all be Christian nationalists.'”
“Now I know it may seem like this is just a few crazies,” Maher said, acknowledging a common response from people who don’t take the threat seriously, “but I gotta tell you, dumbass Republicans who believe horrible ideas are like ants. There’s always more than you can see.”
“Republicans,” Maher continued, “Jesus f–king Christ. First you stopped believing in democracy. Senator Mike Lee said it, among others. Trump lives the idea every day. And here we have the speaker of the House saying it, and now Republicans also don’t believe in the separation of church and state. Does anyone in that party remember what f–king country you’re living in?”
“We’re the place that stakes so much of our greatness on being the first to specifically prohibit having a state religion. There are dozens of countries that have an official religion. There’s 13, where being an atheist is punishable by death.”
right now I’ve got my hands full with Mike Johnson,” Maher said. “Johnson has the power to actually make laws, and I don’t want my global warming policy decided by someone who was rooting for the end of the world so we can get on with the Rapture.”
“Mike says we began as a Christian nation,” Maher continued. “We didn’t. Did you miss that day in homeschool Mike? If you don’t know that the Pilgrims came here to get away from the Church of England, then you don’t know literally the first thing about our country.”
“Mike says being a Christian nation is our tradition and it’s who we are as a people. It’s not,” Maher said as he neared his conclusion. “We’re the people who have a First Amendment which says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. And we have an Article Six, which says no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office.”
“So I take these people at their word when they say that they think we should be Christian nationalists. But then they have to take John Adams at his word, when he wrote, ‘The government of the United States of America is not in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.’
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Here’s an excellent read. Chilling, because it’s just not hard to realize this “blood and soil Christian nationalism” isn’t Christian, and is fertile ground for American fascism, it’s the cultural substrate, American version, that supports the growth of fascism, while preventing many from realizing that, from seeing it, since they’ve embedded their nationalism in their “religion” and literally “don’t know what they do”, meaning they will support the cruelties that fascism can spawn. And Trump is as effective a mad leader as any in recent history. All happening before our eyes, while so many are totally blind.
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Yes. The founders were quite insightful, but that quote is being misused. It isn't a warning against Trump per se but a warning against democracy, or what Hamilton more artfully termed the "hobby horse of popularity". It is democracy that Hamilton sees as a "danger to liberty". What Hamilton is trying to say is easier to understand if you don't pull the quote from its context and include the line three sentences earlier which starts "The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is..."
Trump's ego is hurt that you said that.Yes. The founders were quite insightful, but that quote is being misused. It isn't a warning against Trump per se but a warning against democracy, or what Hamilton more artfully termed the "hobby horse of popularity". It is democracy that Hamilton sees as a "danger to liberty". What Hamilton is trying to say is easier to understand if you don't pull the quote from its context and include the line three sentences earlier which starts "The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is..."
The United States is a republic. We are not a democracy which the founders viewed as a danger to liberty. Hamilton really drives his point home by adding "No popular Government was ever without its Catalines & its Cæsars."
Founders Online: Enclosure: [Objections and Answers Respecting the Administrati …
Enclosure: [Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration], [18 August 1792]founders.archives.gov
Bill Maher Slams GOP Theocrats: ‘Does Anyone in That Party Remember What F–ing Country You’re Living in?’ | Video
In a Christmas-themed "New Rules," Maher calls out the increasing number of Republicans who endorse forcing their religion on other Americans The post Bill Maher Slams GOP Theocrats: ‘Does Anyone in That Party Remember What F–ing Country You’re Living in?’ | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
Maher noted that Johnson falsely claims “the separation of church and state is a misnomer. And Congresswoman Lauren Boebert concurred, saying she’s ‘tired of this separation of church and state junk.’ So too Marjorie Taylor Greene who says, ‘I say it proudly, we should all be Christian nationalists.'”
“Now I know it may seem like this is just a few crazies,” Maher said, acknowledging a common response from people who don’t take the threat seriously, “but I gotta tell you, dumbass Republicans who believe horrible ideas are like ants. There’s always more than you can see.”
“Republicans,” Maher continued, “Jesus f–king Christ. First you stopped believing in democracy. Senator Mike Lee said it, among others. Trump lives the idea every day. And here we have the speaker of the House saying it, and now Republicans also don’t believe in the separation of church and state. Does anyone in that party remember what f–king country you’re living in?”
“We’re the place that stakes so much of our greatness on being the first to specifically prohibit having a state religion. There are dozens of countries that have an official religion. There’s 13, where being an atheist is punishable by death.”
right now I’ve got my hands full with Mike Johnson,” Maher said. “Johnson has the power to actually make laws, and I don’t want my global warming policy decided by someone who was rooting for the end of the world so we can get on with the Rapture.”
“Mike says we began as a Christian nation,” Maher continued. “We didn’t. Did you miss that day in homeschool Mike? If you don’t know that the Pilgrims came here to get away from the Church of England, then you don’t know literally the first thing about our country.”
“Mike says being a Christian nation is our tradition and it’s who we are as a people. It’s not,” Maher said as he neared his conclusion. “We’re the people who have a First Amendment which says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. And we have an Article Six, which says no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office.”
“So I take these people at their word when they say that they think we should be Christian nationalists. But then they have to take John Adams at his word, when he wrote, ‘The government of the United States of America is not in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.’
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No one cares about any of those issues except for abortion, but abortion is huge. That one issue is swinging elections. I'm sad because I'm on the other side of that argument but I can't deny the sheer power that one issue has in crushing everyone to the right of center politically.
Many people to the right of center support abortion rights, even to the point that it will impact their vote.
Would have been really easy for him to simply use the word democracy.Yes. The founders were quite insightful, but that quote is being misused. It isn't a warning against Trump per se but a warning against democracy, or what Hamilton more artfully termed the "hobby horse of popularity". It is democracy that Hamilton sees as a "danger to liberty". What Hamilton is trying to say is easier to understand if you don't pull the quote from its context and include the line three sentences earlier which starts "The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is..."
The United States is a republic. We are not a democracy which the founders viewed as a danger to liberty. Hamilton really drives his point home by adding "No popular Government was ever without its Catalines & its Cæsars."
Founders Online: Enclosure: [Objections and Answers Respecting the Administrati …
Enclosure: [Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration], [18 August 1792]
