@sonhouse said
@Suzianne
The one thing I see is the possibility after such defeat is what kind of monster will take Putin's place? Or will democracy rise up in Russia like it should?

Before you rejoice at the fall of a dictator, make sure that comes after him is not worse. Remember what came after Saddam Hussein?

@Phranny

Trump is a pathological liar. It is hardly surprising that he lies about his trials, too. The prosecution will have a field day if he takes the stand.

I'm researching nudist colonies; bare with me.

@suzianne said
Let's hope so.

Ms. Lake's lawsuit was denied every step of the way, but she didn't care, she just kept pushing up to the next court.

Let's also hope her supporters are tired of throwing their money away on idiotic lawsuits.

It's phishing. One more example of how Republican'ts are trying to stay in power, despite their shrinking mandate in the general population. Stay alert there, Americans! -- democracy is being legislated away, inch by inch.

@suzianne said
Yeah, Trump is a real 'salt of the earth' type.

More like saltpeter.






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@suzianne said
I'm getting tired of every lawsuit, no matter how self-serving and frivolous, gets shoved all the way to the SC simply because people think they are too important to take 'no' for an answer.

I guess the SCOTUS is tired of it, too.

More frivolous litigation by Republican'ts, attempting to cast doubt on voting machines:


https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/kari-lake-arizona-republican-supreme-court/index.html


The SCOTUS dismissed the case without comment. Bravo. Let's look at real crime, not waste the court's time on unfounded conspiracy theories.

@cliff-mashburn said
Where did you get your medical degree at?

My wife's a neuroradiologist, she got her degree from the University of Heidelberg. She looks at CT scans all day every day. Stroke's her specialty. I asked her whether physical stress due to exposure to life-threatening violence can provoke a stroke. The answer is "yes."

@rajk999 said
There are several kinds of love in the bible ..
- the kind between man and woman
- the kind between family members
- the kind between friends aka brotherly love
- the kind God has for mankind. [Agape]

This passage in John refers to agape, which is the greatest kind. Paul in 1 Cor 13 has a very detailed description of agape but the word is translated 'charity'.

Cha ...[text shortened]... would be an unreasonable God to expect his creation to dispense with the 'hatred' which he created.

KJ is yet another Evangelical self-proclaimed 'expert' on Scripture, with no knowledge of classical languages, exegesis, or theology.



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@spruce112358 said
OK, AverageJoe. You Google my guy's lies as a public official, and I'll Google your guy's lies as a public official. Let's start with one each and go from there, OK? Give me Biden's Biggest Lie, and I'll give you Trump's.

I'll start:

Trump's Lie #1: That he "won the 2020 election." There is no question he said this, of course, because he repeats it all the time. It's a hard-boiled, in-your-face lie.

Now you go.

Not meaning to get ahead of the game here, but don’t forget the infamous case of the storm due to make landfall with The Donald standing in front of a weather map clearly showing the storm’s path and HE saying on live tv that it’s going somewhere else !

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@AverageJoe1

This is the sort of people who support Trump; a 19-yr old boy from KY, home schooled, never left his farm til he was 16, had no idea what the Confederate flag stands for. You really ought to be associating with other people, people who understand what’s going on around them, instead of backwoods morons.

https://apnews.com/article/isreal-easterday-confederate-flag-capitol-riot-c415036515508a9e28e9561e901c74f7

It's scary that people this stupid are allowed to own guns, make babies, obtain passports, and vote.

The nadir of MAGA stupidity— I suppose we won’t see that until Nov 2024 when we see how many people still believe Trump’s lies.

@averagejoe1 said
I try to agree with all that you lemmings preach, but certainly you must understand that your never having once made any negative statement about anything having to do with Joe Biden makes it very difficult.
so, tell us some things that Joe Biden has been corrupt about and make yourself more believable. How about answering the most simple question, that the Biden fami ...[text shortened]... to make all my questions easy so that liberals will understand them.
But they will not answer them.

Oh, tell us again about Hunter's laptop and Hillary's emails. Jared Kushner receiving 2 billion dollars from the Saudis for unknown 'services rendered' knocks Hunter's puny malfeasances into a cocked hat.

@cliff-mashburn said
Again with the killed police officers nonsense.
NO police officer was killed on Jan 6.
The rest is just as dishonest but I'm not going to bother.

Officer Sicknick died the following day of stress-related stroke sustained during the 6th January riot. But for the riot, he would be alive today.

@mchill

In order to understand Trump's oft-repeated charge that he's the victim (of a "witch-hunt" ), it helps to know something about who his mentor was.

His mentor was Roy Cohn.

Now, for those who are too young for that name to resonate, he was Senator Joe McCarthy's 'rotweiller', right-hand man, and legal counsel. Yes, that Senator McCarthy -- the one who instigated a 'witch-hunt' in the the 1950s. Everything Trump does in and around courtrooms , he learned from Roy Cohn: delay, prevaricate, intimidate witnesses and judges, accuse your accuser of what you did (e.g. rig an election), turn the charges upside-down and cry 'I'm the victim here! not my accuser', avoid the facts, deny responsibility, blame someone else, decry the procedure, decry the evidence, deflect, deny-deny-deny, distort the legal system against itself, automatically appeal any decision you don't like, counter-sue your accusers for quadruple the sum because they can't afford the legal fees to defend themselves against spurious charges, but under no circumstances address the facts or ever admit defeat (even when the sentence is unequivocally "you did it and you're guilty as Cain" ). All these tactics are straight out of Roy Cohn's playbook, and the whole 'witch-hunt' narrative dates to Sen. McCarthy himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

@rajk999 said
Good Idea, but about half of the US population do not have a garden. Of those that do about half of them have only flowers and other inedible plants. Even less have chickens running around. The average family in the US have only dogs and cats. These stats are similar in most first world countries.

In fact having a garden that produces food or contains animals for food ...[text shortened]... nned in some residential areas, as the priority is preserving the market value of the neighbourhood.

Luxury problems. Like, ‘my Truth Social stocks just lost 35% of their imaginary value.’