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Mar 19, 2024 18:03:20   #
publican wrote:
If you have a bloodless method of defeating Putin I would love to hear it.


Essentially, the same way Reagan defeated the Soviet Union - money.

There is a way to stop Putin’s Ukrainian adventure that has nothing to do with military intervention. That is to go after his money.
https://time.com/6143645/how-to-stop-putin-invastion-ukraine/

A second way for Ukraine to win would be through a diplomatic agreement.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/18/how-to-end-ukraine-war-00111752

How to deploy economic tools against Putin’s aggression
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to-deploy-economic-tools-against-putins-aggression/
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Mar 19, 2024 17:41:56   #
proud republican wrote:
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia-ukraine-u-s/2024/03/19/id/1157842/


I cannot believe they would target NYC or SanFran or LA - they do a lot of damage they way thay are now.

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Mar 19, 2024 17:30:49   #
AuntiE wrote:
Peter believes he is the smartest person “in the room”. For years, he has had an exaggerated perception of himself.


LOL

"Exaggerated" is an understatement.......

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Mar 19, 2024 17:29:03   #
[quote=publican]The border "crisis": here's a few links
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/facts-not-fear-how-welcoming-immigrants-benefits-new-york-city/
https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/mobilizing-against-ine******y/post/five-ways-undocumented-immigrants-are-powering-american-economy
https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/north-american-century/benefits-of-immigration-outweigh-costs

https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/facts-not-fear-how-welcoming-immigrants-benefits-new-york-city/
Seems that many disagree with your link - including the mayor of NYC - and describe it as a crisis.

NYC mayor puts $12 billion cost on migrant crisis, blames ‘broken’ national immigration system
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/eric-adams-new-york-migrants-cost-00110472

NYC Migrant Crisis Hits Breaking Point in Midtown Manhattan
Crowds have waited for shelter in the Roosevelt Hotel for days
Mayor Adams says city needs help, situation is going downhill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-01/nyc-s-migrant-crisis-reaches-breaking-point-in-midtown-manhattan

Yes, Immigration Hurts American Workers
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinton-immigration-economy-unemployment-jobs-214216/


Censorship: yes, there was some noise about the administration's clumsy attempts to shut down some of the more egregious cases of mis- or dis-information. And they were shot down for doing so. Hooray for the American system! That's how it is supposed to work. Nevertheless, it is not so simple as "free speech good, censorship bad". We are in a new world where misinformation can spread so rapidly as to distort reality in dangerous ways. It is not obvious how to deal with this unprecedented situation, but simple minded shouting about first amendment rights is not sufficient.
Yes: Shouting about the First Amendment is not only sufficient - but needs to be done more. Letting the government decide what is "disinformation" is akin to what tyrants have done throughout history.

Intervention in Ukraine: there is nothing debatable here, unless you are a Russian agent. Are you a Russion agent?
Yes, it is debatable. Are you a bloody war monger? There are ways to defeat Putin - and some do not require k*****g. Unfortunately, that is not profitable nor does it make "good press" for the biden cabal.
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Mar 19, 2024 15:45:55   #
fullspinzoo wrote:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-texas-enforce-immigration-law-rcna142971 A historic landmark decision!!!! Texas has the right to defend themselves against the invasion of i******s, terrorists, and the worst of the worst, period. The Supreme Court comes through again. Those crossing illegally have a choice to go back if not on the terrorist watch list....go back to their origin or spend six months in jail. That's the way I understand it. If the other border states were to do the same, we wouldn't have all these problems including pot farming cartels growing marijuana in California on purchased property right on our backyard.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/sup... (show quote)


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Mar 19, 2024 15:44:32   #
NotMAGA wrote:
Ask the NATO country closest to Russia.

‘Alarm bells are ringing’: Poland’s president says NATO must urgently ramp up defense spending
PUBLISHED TUE, MAR 19 2024 2:15 AM EDT
UPDATED TUE, MAR 19 2024 3:44 AM EDT


Poland now spends 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defense — up from 3% last year and more than even the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/russia-ukraine-poland-says-nato-must-urgently-ramp-spending.html

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/19/polish-president-says-nato-must-urgently-ramp-up-defense-spending/
Ask the NATO country closest to Russia. br br ‘Al... (show quote)


Good. The Europeans need to step up to the plate if they believe Russia is such a threat.
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Mar 19, 2024 15:42:23   #
[quote=publican]I haven't the time to address all your talking points so I will just do a few:

The border "crisis": it has been around for a long time and was hardly created by Biden or the Democrats. it doesn't cost $150 billion per year - quite the opposite, these "i******s" are a net plus to the economy.
This falls under the heading of "I say so - so it is a fact. Given that you are not trustworthy, you need to provide links/evidence of this.

Censorship: I have no clue wtf you are talking about. I haven't noticed any. I am still drowning in right-wing talking points filling up the air all the time.

Apparently you don't have a clue - it was all over the news.

A federal judge’s order Tuesday prohibiting various Biden administration agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies about certain content thrust an under-the-radar lawsuit into the national spotlight.

The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana ordered a slew of federal agencies and more than a dozen top officials not to communicate with social media companies about taking down “content containing protected free speech” that’s posted on the platforms.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/politics/social-media-misinformation-biden-administration-injunction-explainer/index.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/09/08/biden-administration-coerced-facebook-court-rules/70800723007/

Two federal courts have ruled that the Biden Administration unduly influenced social media moderation during the C****-** p******c
https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/02/25/c***d-censorship-yes-biden-admin-suppressed-free-speech-during-p******c-17678

biden's "Ministry of Disinformation"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-establishes-a-ministry-of-t***h-disinformation-governance-board-partisan-11651432312

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61502509


Intervention in Ukraine: have you ever heard about defending the West? have you ever heard of WWII? I we allow Ukraine to fall to Putin, guess what happens next.
Debatable.

The other things you mentioned are just fever dreams taken from who knows where, but it is not reality.
According to you.
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Mar 19, 2024 15:24:25   #
publican wrote:
None, so far as I can tell. Everything you have said is false.


Then feel free to prove they are false.
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Mar 19, 2024 15:22:32   #
Kevyn wrote:
What specifically is bad about it? And why do you think it won’t improve the situation?


The Senate’s immigration bill gives the executive branch emergency authority to bar most migrants from seeking asylum if unauthorized immigration at the border reaches an average of 5,000 encounters a day during seven consecutive days.
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Mar 19, 2024 15:19:47   #
publican wrote:
I see your point. When I state a "fact", it is not a fact. But when you state a fact, it is a fact. Got it.


And what "facts" have I stated?
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Mar 19, 2024 15:19:12   #
billlingle wrote:
Looks like Abbott's assessment that everyone in Texas and every banana slug in a red hat everywhere else was as cruel and underhanded as he was. .


What is "cruel and underhanded" about sending i*****l a***ns to sanctuary cities that welcome them and have indicated they will care for them?
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Mar 19, 2024 15:17:11   #
publican wrote:
You will find it more enlightening if you provide such a proof yourself. If I spoon-feed it to you, you will just go on believing the crap the VDH is spewing.


Again, you dance around because you are unable to refute the items.
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Mar 19, 2024 15:16:20   #
publican wrote:
Of course I have. I have stated some facts.


LOL

Just because you "state" something doesn't mean it is a "fact". That seems to be a common issue amongst ELWNJs.
So, no, you have not stated a "fact".
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Mar 19, 2024 14:41:43   #
[quote=publican]I already have.

No, you have not. You simply fabricated something and expect it to be accepted. That is not proof/evidence/data. When you produce it, I will refute it. 
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Mar 19, 2024 14:37:24   #
AuntiE wrote:
Christian Nationalism Is Not What the Left Says It Is

Jerry Wilson

In the Democrats’ desperate attempt to deflect attention from their increasingly senile P**********l candidate, one of the favorite strawmen arguments has become attempting to interject “Christian nationalism” into the debate as an a*********n demanding avoidance at all cost. The left portrays Christian nationalism as white Angle-Saxon Protestantism on steroids; the automatic assumption that each of these elements by itself is evil and, when all brought together, make up a hideous force that demands stopping by all means necessary.

The more hysterical shrieking reactions, such as what MSNBC’s Joy Reid came up with in February 2024, are easily laughed off.

Some liberal commentators try to liken Christian nationalism to w***e s*******y and argue, as MSNBC's Joy Reid suggested on Feb. 20, that Christian nationalism means “shooting migrants at the border, full immunity for police to k**l at-will ... terminating the Constitution, bombing Mexico,” and “stripping women of all of their personal rights.”
This is refuted by both Jesus’ words in John 14:

On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
And by Paul in his letter to the Colossians:

Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, s***e or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
Over-the-top statements by Reid and the like, aside from providing blue meat to the faithful, are designed to trickle down through the public consciousness and are cemented into dogma. This is by design. The media screechers know their audience is minuscule. They are dependent on word of mouth to spread their false evangelism.

It's one of the many reasons conservatives must remain engaged in the world at large, seizing every opportunity to tell the t***h so those who otherwise would remain ill-informed might at least have the opportunity to hear that which is accurate.

With that noted, back to the immediate topic.

To illustrate true Christian nationalism, here are two Scriptural passages not often considered in this context. Both are in the eighth chapter of Luke. The first is Jesus casting a multitude of demons out of a man and how the locals reacted.

It wasn’t favorably.

When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured. Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.
While chastising the locals for reacting with such a high fright to the miraculous is easy, it is also understandable. Before them was a man seen as incurable, one whose demonic possession was so powerful he could break chains; a man untamable and irredeemable. Now, here he was before them, healed.

Those whose knowledge of Christian nationalism comes solely from trickled-down misinformation will react with fear unless presented with the t***h. Christian nationalism reflects not a legal mandate of Christianity’s fundamentals but rather a nation whose populace reflects Jesus’ teachings put into action.

Christian nationalism is honesty. It’s treating others how you want them to treat you. Christian nationalism is accepting responsibility for yourself and your actions. It is taking care of the poor and needy directly, not through perpetually overfunded and underperforming government efforts. Christian nationalism responds to the naysayers insisting it seeks to limit freedoms by pointing at the nation around us, with its societal decay and respect for others ever diminishing, saying, “You call this better?” Christian nationalism is not oppression or restrictions of individual freedoms. It is the wholehearted embrace of freedom.

As Jesus Himself said:

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
The second illustration from Luke 8 is where Jesus raises a synagogue leader’s 12-year-old daughter from the dead. Note the difference in how Jesus tells those involved to respond to this miracle compared to casting out the demons from the possessed man. He tells the demon-possessed man to tell everyone what He has done for the man. He tells the girl’s parents to tell no one. Doubtless, the assembled mourners, who the Scripture tells us laughed at Jesus when He said she wasn’t dead but rather asleep, for they knew she was dead, were quite astonished when they saw the girl quite alive and doing what comes naturally to a 12 year old - namely eating.

This also conveniently dispelled any notion of her being a ghost. The incident doubtless led one and all to question their observational powers, if not their sanity. Why the different approaches?

Jesus told the demon-possessed man to tell everyone so they would learn their initial fears regarding Jesus were groundless. Jesus told the girl’s parents not to tell anyone because He didn’t want the people to know. Except for Lazarus, whose return to the living took place a few days before Jesus’ crucifixion, those He brought back to life had just died. This offered the possible explanation — not a correct one, but a possible one — that those He raised from the dead were not actually dead but unconscious or in a coma.

Jesus knowingly gave His detractors a reason to scoff. Had He walked into the local burial ground and cleaned house, it would have been quite difficult for the Pharisees to explain away. Jesus is the God of the living, as He said in Matthew 22:29-32.

Another possible reason relates to earlier in Luke when an imprisoned John the Baptist sent his disciples to Jesus so they could ask Him a question to which John already knew the answer: Are You the Messiah?

One suspects that even though he knew Jesus was the Messiah, John was hoping for a military leader in addition to a spiritual leader, one who would lead the people in driving out the h**ed Romans. Jesus told John’s disciples, after they had seen Him in action, to report back to John what they had seen. He knew John would get the picture.

Jesus isn’t in the nation-building or nation-saving business. Soul-saving, yes. Church building, most definitely. But that is as far as it goes. The nation is up to us. We are the ones who need to reestablish and preserve America’s heritage and freedoms. Christian nationalism is about us, as individuals, coming together in Jesus to make our country better than it is at present by putting His teachings into action. That is all.
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Good article - thanks
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