SaintsInDome2006

Yeah, FFT was of great enjoyment after Katrina and since. I think what Mike has created here is great. Thanks.

I wasn’t pro-ACA, but fwiw Obama did raise this. The idea was to shift emphasis towards testing, screening, access, better pre-care. I’m pretty sure that’s what Michelle Obama’s school nutrition program was tied in to as well. This is all part of a holistic discussion I agree with but (1) there’s *always a cost & (2) should government be doing any of this. But maga seems perfectly fine with both factors.

Also stole Fox,’s imagery but here’s guessing Murdoch has no objection.

The president of the United States & his daughter in law, the chairwoman of the Republican Party, selling is name, image & likeness for profit in a snake oil scheme.

Trump is still deranged, so no.

I think I’ve seen this reposted (won’t open for me in IG). I believe this is the one that features Trump as a golden idol / Saddam Hussein style golden statue towering over a New Gaza. It’s just continuing weirdness to see people who think of this kind of authoritarianism (in that region it’s called Baathism) as conservative or Republican advocating this stuff.

I’m a Catholic. What denomination are you?

I said the American edifice, not the Christian one. As to Christianity he’s an apostate. Right now his social media feed features an image of himself as a massive golden statue in Gaza.

If you’re making a point about the American psyche (some argue the Ferris character is Cameron’s I’d) I’m only going to agree with you.

I’m being very serious. The issue of celebrities as political leaders was raised. Trump wouldn’t be where he is without Mark Burnett & his TV show.

Sure, while you posit a debaucherous felon at the top of it all, like some King Kong Bourbon Street barker perched on top of the American edifice.

Then stop raising Christianity. Maga doesn’t care about Christianity in policy or politics, it’s about raw power.

No one serious in business respected him. In business circles he was viewed with ridicule. His business model was a series of pass through entities dependent on liquidity. His brother, who kept the old family business, was respected in NYC.

If you really believe that you should be arguing for ‘none of the above’.

Trump was a pitchman & reality TV host before he got elected. He used to use his Twitter account to sell cookies & peanut butter.

It is funny, since the Republican Party is supposed to represent limited government.

This is so odd. Trump himself is antithetical to Christian values, but if that is raised we are told morality in politics doesn’t matter.

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer.” - D. H. Lawrence, 1923

While we as a nation continue to have these horrific events one after the other, sometimes more than one at once (Utah, Co shootings the same day), the left & the right go after each others’ throats. Who gains by this? The measures that *might solve these problems could easily appeal to the non-extreme left & right both. But we’re immobilized because we attack each other.

The FBI has fired up to 22 agents who knelt at a protest. >>The three sources who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity put the number of terminations at between 15 and 22, with an unspecified portion being among those who came under fierce criticism from right-wing commentators for taking a knee during the demonstration. The agents in question, pictured in photographs and videos of the incident that went viral, were not kneeling in a display of sympathy for the Black Lives Matter movement, as critics have suggested, but did so in a gesture to ease tensions between protesters and law enforcement, the sources said.<<

A lot has changed here. I know some liberals (or whoever) will complain (& I get it) but things used to be much worse around here.

The revolution will not be televised. However, there will be good beer.

I understand - now why are Bondi, Patel & Bongino covering for him?

I’m only agreeing with you that was the subtext of his statement.

Exactly, he’s fully conscious of what people were saying about him, which is an ok takeaway about that clip.