Trump 2025 - Resuming The National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity (Part 1)

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For another example of anti-Christian discrimination I’ve observed, we can look at funding for homeless shelters. Lewiston has a very well-established shelter that’s been operating for over 40 years as a quasi-independent part of the Portland Catholic Diocese.

https://princeofpeace.me/outreachservice

They have the best track record in the area on a per resident basis, and it isn’t even close.

$2.5 million dollars was recently awarded to combat homelessness in Lewiston. St. Martins received $0.00 of that. Stipulations on the funding, passed by Maine Democrats, required that the funds could only be spent on “low barrier” homeless shelters.

St. Martins does not practice the low barrier model, as they believe it is a poor use of their limited resources and has incompatibilities with Catholicism.

“Low barrier” means full incorporation of all so-called “harm reduction” principles of the Democratic Socialist religion. It means de-facto legalizing public drug use, which has been a complete disaster for Lewiston’s public spaces.

Every single person who starts destroying themselves on the streets of Lewiston is a potential revenue stream for a constellation of nonprofits, often funded entirely through tax dollars.

Our low-barrier homeless shelter found a convenient home on the site of our former pool hall that was subjected to a mass shooting in October of 2023.

The owner of that business received $0.00 from the Maine Community Foundation’s “Broad Recovery Fund” that they collected from people eager to help those affected.

$2 million was awarded to completely and totally unrelated immigrant and prisoner nonprofits. Principles of “equity” as explained on their website required this to be.

I share the belief that the government has become unnecessarily hostile towards Christians in ways like the two local examples I just described. As long as no religious purity tests become imposed on Americans, I’m good with this kind of scrutiny.

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I’m partial for socialism now!! I say partially as in for seniors who have worked for 40years and I’m not talking about SS because that is a joke.

I’m talking everyone pays into this for this group.

I don’t give two craps about the youth, I’m talking seniors who have worked on paper.

This would be limited to food and housing only. Not meds.

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I’m not following much of this crap, but if the headline is true that T is having YOU ESS to take over GAA ZAA………

This is the wrong thing and very much the same crap the swamp thinking of the previous swamp creatures, I’m thinking. Stay the F out of this crap.

@twojarslave and your thoughts on OMC hitting the mats and all your sugar coating about how they try to talk to the young men who want to wear the colors-

Why do these guys need a club (gang that’s what colors represent) anyway, why can’t they just ride and ride with other bike enthusiasts……

Notice I don’t have a question mark, cause I have my answer.

@twojarslave I will say, while I don’t care for the “Stones” and I think Mick acts like a fairy (not gay, literally a little fairy here) They never sounded better than this night IMO, Keith’s geetar was hitting awesome hard sound!!! The HA were hired to keep the crowd in line, and the crowd were highly Fed-up.

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This is what I’m saying. I wasn’t talking about ANY of this. It was entirely non-political (in the sense of taking a side), and nothing to do with Christian influence on politics. Just a critique of how they are not consistent in their beliefs.

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I understand what you were saying and agree. There is no shortage of theological and ideological inconsistencies to be found among Christians.

I am contending that it is actually a good thing for most Christians to have their political influence diminished in the Republican Party, when it comes to setting theological public policy priorities.

It’s looking like we’ve got some pretty big fish to fry before we get back into a debate about biology curriculum.

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(paraphrase) “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon…”, posts angelic high school photo…

You know how giant, massive rivers get traced to “the source”, and it’s some tiny little trickle in the middle of nowhere? Well, that’s ^^ the trickle in my humble opinion.

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If Pat Mahomes doesn’t win his 3rd consecutive SB, I will be all over social media proclaiming that he’s over the hill, and also expounding on how I could’ve done it better.

Count on it.

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I think you’re on to something with your high-elevation source theory.

Obama was a lot of things, but I don’t see his consensus historical “ranking” rising in the ranks over time. One thing he definitely achieved was rekindling race-based political thought in the USA.

I’m not sure how you felt back in the 90’s and before, but it seemed like we were getting so far past all of that as a society, especially in pop culture. Racism was so far out of the mainstream and manifestly uncool. You’d get shunned in nearly any social group if you used the word “nigger”.

As an aside, I’ll also add that Michael Jordan probably got more racists to give up racism in Indiana than all anti-racist activists combined. Perhaps not in their heart of hearts, but I could give two shits about that.

Jordan, who did not talk about race at all, excelled and became unbelievably popular for all the right reasons. That puts a lot of social pressure on actual racists who want to say things like black people are inferior.

It is hard to describe how manifestly uncool racism was by the 1980’s and 1990’s in my 99 percent white rural Indiana school district.

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Jordan was 100% bull, the only color he saw was Red.

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Tyrus prediction for SB was 37-13 Eagles.

Since it’s 24-0, I think I’ll jinx him by posting that now, and hopefully make it a closer game.

In any case, the obvious conclusion is that Republicans are just smarter at everything.

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A Mahomes comeback victory would definitely place him in the GOAT conversation.

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Oh yeah. I’ve done that a few times, finding little baby brook trout along the way.

And also yes to the analogy.

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As a doorman, that was absolutely none of my business and I certainly wasn’t going to interrogate customers who were behaving just fine.

Other apparent gang members were treated the same.

As far as hitting the mats, it would be good for OMCs for the same reason it is good for most men.

There is an inverse relationship between how dangerous a man is and how stupid he tends to act.

Similar dynamics can be observed in geopolitics.

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For a quick morning essay with my coffee, I’d like to talk a little more about the woke subversion of previously apolitical aspects of western culture.

LEGOs being harmfully heteronormative might be the latest and most ridiculous iteration of this, but this kind of stuff is happening all over the place. This party infiltration of all aspects of public life is absolutely characteristic of every previous socialist movement, whether it happened in Russia, Germany, Cambodia or China.

They come for EVERYTHING, and it is always imposed on people through fear. It is never an organic movement that simply springs up, not for the last century at least.

Luckily go woke, go broke is a very real phenomenon and will be the key to this movement slowly petering out in the USA. I’m not sure how much money Amazon lost on Rings of Power, but it was a lot. So much of this woke crap keeps losing money, and eventually investors will get sick of it.

Video games are perhaps the most egregious example of socialist infiltration into our culture. A very high-budget game called “Dragon Age: Veilguard” totally bombed and fans were clear in their opinions. The actual consumers of these games don’t play them to be subjected to an onslaught of political and religious messaging. I played the first Dragon Age back in the 00’s when it came out and it was a pretty good game. It’s a shame the wokies had to set their torches to the franchise.

My favorite recently produced game was Baldur’s Gate III, which I recently finished. It was an incredibly well-designed and well-supported game that I still think catered to the woke crowd too much, but not to the point where the game rammed those politics down your throat.

It was just a bit odd to realize that every single character in the camp is a total slut who wants to have sex with the main character.

Over on reddit, which I don’t often visit, woke moderators have actually banned the designers of the games from the reddits discussing the games.

This happened to one of the creators of the Fallout universe some years ago when he had the audacity to say that Fallout wasn’t anti-capitalist. This week it happened to the CEO of CI games, who had the audacity to directly poll the people interested in his game about what they would like to see in the game without presenting a woke option.

They come for EVERYTHING.

Part of Tolkien’s greatness in authoring fiction was his ability to transport readers into a different universe and make it feel like a real place. He achieved this without incorporating heavy-handed messaging reflective of the politics of his era, without a single word of profanity and without any graphic descriptions of lewd sex acts.

His clarity on good and evil is particularly problematic for the worldview of socialists, and that’s where the entire notion of a “good orc” had to come from, along with simply being racist by declaring that orcs represent black people, when nothing Tolkien ever wrote would suggest such a thing.

Somehow, Amazon decided it could bring more “equity” into the world by demoting Galadriel. In the books she was a regal elf queen, older than the sun, more fair than all other creatures and wise beyond comprehension. She was never described as wielding a sword. She was described as one of the most powerful beings in Middle Earth.

Amazon demoted her to an immature scouting party leader, despite her being many thousands of years old. They girl-bossed Galadriel, then got mad at everyone who didn’t like it and called us the usual words like sexist and racist.

Nobody owes it to socialists to buy artwork with their religious message any more than a Christian rapper is entitled to album sales.

I’ll be grabbing the popcorn to observe history’s latest collapse of socialist thought as it plays out across our cultural landscape.

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The destruction from woke is via power, the same thing happens in capitalism, its power and money.

The socialists need capitalism for this power, cause they can’t succeed without money.

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@Cretin78 I actually mostly agree with your post and am just about to make a follow up going into more depth about this idea. Here it is.

I’ll keep this train of thought rolling for a bit, as I love all things Tolkien. It has been said that Tolkien invented a language, then wrote a story about it. It is truly a remarkable creation, representing the best of what humans can achieve and bring into the world.

Tolkien’s cultural output is intrinsically good, in other words.

Tolkien incorporated many different conceptions of good and evil in his works, but let’s take a look at the two bad guys. Melkor was a member of the Valar, who are sort of a combination of angels and Greek/Roman gods. They were brought into existence by God, who is called “Eru” or “Illuvatar” in Tolkien’s mythology. A lower order of angels also exists called the Maiar. Gandalf, Saruman and Sauron were this type of being.

The Valar and Maiar “sang” all of our universe into existence in their song of creation, before time could even be measured. Melkor, the most gifted of the Valar, sought to bring discord into this song from the very beginning.

Melkor’s intentions were good in his own heart, but ultimately all evil in Middle Earth stems from his wish to subvert and ultimately destroy the creation of God.

By the time of Lord of the Rings, Melkor has been defeated in a sort of Gotterdammerung event and his lieutenant Sauron has become The Dark Lord on earth. Sauron’s motivations were quite different than Melkor’s. Sauron didn’t want to destroy per se, he wanted to control all of creation and bend it to his will.

Why is there no woke Lord of the Rings, built from the ground-up as socialist artwork incorporating all of the elements socialists want to see in art?

It is because the ideas suck and people don’t like them, so they must be imposed, as we see them being all around us.

It is also because the entire ideology of socialism is evil at the root. It cannot create, it can only take what someone else has created and bend it to its own will and purposes.

Like Melkor, socialists seek to introduce discord at every opportunity. They do this through all kinds of methods, but mostly through fear and intimidation. That’s why the core of their rhetoric involves accusing non-believers of being evil racists, evil sexists, evil homophobes, etc. Gaslighting is also a standard tactic, where they seek to sow doubt and manipulate people’s perceptions of reality.

Like Sauron, socialists seek to control EVERYTHING.

Amazon’s Rings of Power is the work of Melkor and Sauron in our own world. Forces who cannot create on their own, but can only take the creation of others and bend it to their own twisted purposes.

It is no coincidence that Tolkien has been in the crosshairs for so long, just as it is no coincidence that there is no woke equivalent to Lord of The Rings.

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as opposed to the oligarchs currently in control? It’s similar but oligarchs want a distinct class system where wealth accumulation sits at the top. Socialists (generally, not politicians who just want power regardless of party) wants a more even playing field.

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Yes, it is quite different. Socialists don’t just want profits, they want to control how you think.

The hostility towards the first amendment and embrace of heavy-handed censorship is a good example of this.

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You don’t need to drop bombs to destroy a society.
But bombs will be needed to maintain the power.

A democracy is only as good as the brains of the society.

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Ok, this made me laugh. I fully agree.