Honestly, I’d be somewhat relieved if there were a supernatural explanation for how they were tricked into supporting Trump. Because Christ made a very clear list on how people would be judged in Matthew 25 31-46 (“The Judgement of the Nations”)
Treatment of the poor
Treatment of the sick
3.Treatment of the foreigner
This nation isn’t doing great by that measurement.
The antichrist is supposed to trick Christians into supporting him, so that tracks.
He’s also supposed to survive an assassination attempt with a headwound.
They’ve murdered the planet and they’re trying to buy the survival of their descendants. They’re perfectly okay letting everyone else die and for their companies to collapse, so long as they get their place in the bunker/spaceship/whatever.
Isreal stopping it’s assault on Lebanon was one of Iran’s conditions of the 10 point-plan to end the war in 2 weeks, so Israel decided to accelerate the bombing to wipe them out before the 2 weeks is up.
Honestly, it’s especially troubling with a cease fire. The lesson taken from there is that openly threatening the mass-murder of civilians is a legitimate strategy.
Congress can and should have her ass dragged in there by force if she refuses to appear.
He wants Trump to die January 21, 2027.
If you’re setting up a joint service for the holiday, which do you pick? The one that has restrictions limiting the participation of most people, or the one that allows anyone to participate fully?
You just specifically described how they aren’t allowed to take part in the Eucharist. Most Protestant services have an open table, where anybody can take part in the sacrament.
Fuck Heslgsetu with a hot poker and all, but this is not as bad as it sounds.
It’s just saying there’s only 1 Christian service for Good Friday, and it’s Protestant. The reason for that is probably because Catholic Mass is less inclusive than Protestant. For instance: you have to been through Catholic Confirmation to take part in Communion in a Catholic Mass, whereas Protestant churches typically have open communion allowing anyone - including Catholics - to take part.
There’s a lot of rot, but they’ve been depending on a cluster of personality. Those often collapse when the personality dies without a sucessor with popular support, which requires the cult leader to groom the public to their sucessor.
The thing with Trump is he has too much ego for that, and Vance doesn’t have the loyalty of the MAGA militant.
Claudius wasn’t 2nd in command. He was way down the list.
And the first thing he did as emperor was execute some of the Praetorians for being overzealous when cleaning house.
I mean… the first instance of that was replacing Caligula with Claudius. It just kinda went south after that.
I feel like you really don’t need Lego to depict Trumpnas a war-hungry pedophile.
That’s what the news and objective reality are for.
Sometimes economic damage ends up being deadlier than bombs. I don’t care about billionaires, but I do care about people who suddenly can’t afford to travel to their job or pay for groceries or healthcare.
They also made amazing computerized wire rigs for the actors they used in conjunction with motion-controlled cameras. The production of the show was super impressive.
Also - everyone should read the books. They’re fantastic.
Ty Frank, one of the authors and the Amos actor Wes Chatham had a really fun podcast (“Ty and That Guy”) that did lots of fun deep dives on genre stuff.
It’s been really weird coming to terms with th3 fact that I actively want him to die. I’ve never hoped for anyone’s death ever. It’s s a weird, scary feeling that I hope dies with him.
Soon.
I didn’t fully understand the glory of working from home until I did it on a snow day.
Removing the commute was an obvious, expected benefit. But turning off the camera and doing laundry or cooking lunch while in one of my multiple daily conference calls was amazing. I just had the meeting in my headphones and chimed in when needed. And it annoys me that can’t be my regular routine.
I drive 3-4 hours a day in traffic to sit in a (very nice) office where 95% of my work is remote work using cloud-based software and attending Teams meetings.
But because once a week or so someone may walk into city hall and ask for me instead of sending an email or making a phone call I’m expected to be in the office. Which is doubly annoying since most of the time they get turned away because I’m already in a separate online meeting when they show up.
I do legitimately have to attend public meetings a few evenings a month. I’d be so happy to compromise and go into the office on days with public hearings or when I need to visit a site, but work remote the remaining 80-90% of the time. Hell - I’d even trade working an extra hour a day while remote to do it. It’ll still save me time versus driving.
Anyone saying he plays 3D chess needs to understand that’s a stupid thing to do when the game is checkers.
He had nephew he had been the legal guardian of he cut contact with when was 19 and Harlan Crowe stopped paying for his tuition.
He’s literally an Uncle Tom.