CardinalBacker

Right.... there's no difference between Maxine Waters telling people to give Trump staffers a hard time and Trump telling his faithful to overthrow our government. None whatsoever. Eyeroll emoji.

I'm afraid all of those old statues will be gone before that.

Once they become protected, yes....

"B-b-b-b-but..... Maxine Waters said....."

They didn’t until conservatives stormed congress.

Not so much under Obama. There was that huge sell-off in ‘09 that was already under way when Obama was sworn in. You can’t blame all of that drop on him as it was already underway, but you have to believe that some of it is attributable to the markets being wary of him. The rebound from that collapse was tepid at best. It took all eight years to slowly crawl back to respectability. Compare that to the market’s performance under Trump... the growth was fantastic, and when the markets were challenged by the pandemic earlier this year, they bounced back within a few months... not years. You have to give Trump’s admin credit for not being anti-business... that’s something the Ds could have picked up on. We’ll just have to see if they push hard for more regulations and higher corporate taxes.... if so, they’ll stall our growth.

Honestly, because the workers of America have been steadily pumping money into their 401ks while the pandemic moves along. Most of the non-essential unemployed aren’t the type to contribute to retirement plans. They’re the ones that were making 400/week at sonic and have been netting 6-900 week on unemployment. That’s why you see “help wanted” signs at all of the places that pay lower wages w/o retirement plans right now. I don’t think you’ll see the big indexes take a hit until the major corps start having major layoffs. It’s gonna be an interesting first 100 days, for sure.

My point is this. If you were raised in a church-going family in Southeast Texas in the 60s and 70s, you were taught that interracial relationships were sinful in the eyes of God, most likely. They used the admonition in the scripture about being “unequally yoked” as the basis for this teaching. I only know of a few churches that still feel this way in 2021... but they exist. Most of us have long since decided that those relationships should not be illegal, aren’t immoral, and even if some find them distasteful, that’s about it. What changed? Did the Word of God change? I don’t think so. Gay marriages or whatever will be looked at the same way in time. Who can justify refusing to bake a wedding cake for an interracial couple? None of us, I’m sure. But some of us will stand firm upon our religious beliefs and refuse to bake one for a gay couple. Really? Do you also refuse to bake them for people who are getting married for the second time? Do you ask them if they had an annulment of their first marriage, or if there were Biblical grounds for their first divorce? Nope. You’re just a homophobe and trying to find a Biblical basis for not baking their cake. But I do believe that homosexuality is sinful. My beliefs are all over the place.

You were the one that said “God’s word is not behind the times.” I would just like to know how to apply that passage in modern times. I know that there’s an argument to be made about the Old Testament not applying under the new covenant, but I think Luke is in the New Testament, is it not. It’s somewhere before “One Corinthians” as Trump calls it.

I can’t believe that no one has announced a mutual fund that won’t include tech stocks. They’d be flooded with with willing investors, I believe. Maybe they have and it’s all been censored. 😂🤣

No, I disagree. The “owner” of a platform (say, Twitter) doesn’t provide or screen their content. On the other hand, a publisher of a newspaper DOES screen and edit the content that they put out for for the masses. Or at at least a portion of the info that’s out there. When 230 was written, there weren’t websites and pages like setxsports.com or rivals.com. Should those sites (which publish articles accompanied by comments sections) which are by definition “publishers” be responsible for the things posted in their comments sections? They are publishers, after all. More importantly, stripping big tech of their protections will lead to MORE censorship, not less. Those guys would be forced to strip anything even remotely controversial in fear of litigation. Sites like this one would vanish. The editors here wouldn’t be able to risk being punished for my postings. The question is how do we convince big tech to give both sides a voice, not just the lefties? Twitter hasn’t bounced back from their losses on Monday. I’m thinking that there needs to be a rush of people going to their investment firms that handle their retirement accounts and demanding to be invested in funds that DONT include Apple/Google/Amazon/Twitter. Be willing to take the hit for dumping their stock now, but it only works if we all do it, combined with a complete deleting of accounts by angry users. A drop in users combined with a drop in stock price might force those guys to rethink their business plans. Once we start the downward push on their stock prices, others who aren’t affected by their censorship will also bail... because it’s no longer a good investment. The real threat is antitrust penalties, up to and including government forced breakups of the giants. I think the fear of that is what kept them kinda honest (or at least pretending to be) up until we lost the Senate last week. THAT’S what led to their actions last week, not the riots. What they did to Parler is reason enough to bust ‘em up, but nobody in power has a problem with it right now because they’re doing the work of the Left. in my opinion, of course.

Luke 12:47-48. Let’s hear that in a modern context. I’ll wait.

Do you want me to discuss how that particular section was created to address online behavior in chatrooms? Because that’s what it was created for. Those regulations are totally outdated and practically useless. But if you want to discuss them, okay. What was your question. I don’t feel like looking back.

Oh, I’m well aware of the differences between sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLPs, PCs, and LLCs. The only problem is that the same rules apply to all businesses, regardless of ownership structure. If it can be proven that you withheld service to someone because of their race, color, sex, etc... you’re in trouble. The distinction is that the cake scenario was based on a person’s sexual preference (or orientation or whatever they call it these days) and that’s not a class that’s federally protected.... yet. But that is a promise that Biden had made to the LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 community. Trust me... refuse to serve a customer because of their race and you’ll bear the full weight of the federal government. Some people get it twisted, thinking that “you can’t refuse to serve me, I’m black (or brown... whatever)”. Wrong. They can’t refuse to serve you because of your skin color... but they can refuse to serve you for any other reason, as long as it isn’t a reason protected by the Civil Rights Act(s). The real question is what happens when your right to practice your religion comes into conflict with another’s civil rights? We saw it a few years ago with gay marriages. Many people quit performing marriages all together so that they wouldn’t be obligated to perform same-sex marriages. Sometimes our beliefs are just behind the times. It wasn’t long ago that people were just as opposed to interracial marriages in the same way that they are opposed to gay marriages.

No, I've done no such of thing. I was ridiculing HIS point that somehow big companies have to follow laws that small companies don't. I'm sorry if irony was lost on you.

Source, then consider this fact. Biden won 12.5 % of the total votes cast in predominantly Republican Hardin County. But Biden/Harris won 38% of the mail-in votes cast. I don't think that there was any fraud here in 2020. But Dick Morris would look at those results as proof of fraud by mail-in ballots. [Hidden Content] Cumulative Results-11-16-2020 08-17-50 AM.pdf

Have you actually watched Trump's speech from Wednesday? I posted a link to a condensed version... just the worse stuff, of course. But the whole thing is available on Youtube. Also watch Donald Trump Jrs and Rudy Guiliani's "trial by combat" speech that happened immediately before the attack on our capitol. If you say "we've got to go down there and stop this.... I'll be right there with you" and people immediately go down the street and stop it... that's textbook incitement. Honestly, my opinion matters less and less in real time. The house impeached him. The only question that remains is whether or not the Senate will have the 60 votes to convict. Trump should have resigned, honestly. Maybe Pence would agree to pardon him. Trump is in a bad spot now. A really bad spot. Without a pardon t's not outside the realm of possibility for federal prosecutors to criminally charge Trump for incitement when this is all over. I'll bet you wouldn't have trouble getting a conviction in New York or even DC. NYC cut ties with the Trump Org today. That's 30 mil a year, allegedly, to operate the carousel in Central Park, a golf course, and a couple of other things. They're fixing to run him through the mill.

I was criticizing Realville who stated: "Religious beliefs of a Baker being singular versus a Tech Company is no comparison. Try again" When both are private companies and subject to the same protections afforded under the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1990. My statement was sarcasm/irony.

No, last time the impeachment was a sham... the only R support came from Mitt Romney came in the Senate. No other Rs were on board. It's long been understood that impeachment should be bi-partisan, not just the majority party coming down on the minority. That's what happened the last time, but this time there is bipartisan support for impeachment. Probably because Trump didn't just send his "patriots" to attack Dem politicians, but also attack Republicans who he felt were betraying him. He's getting his just desserts, I'm afraid.

No. Civil rights laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex, and, in some cases, religion. There is a push to include LGBTQ and I suspect that we'll see that in near future, but as of yet it hasn't happened.

I do.

All he managed to do was give the presidency and both chambers to the Dems while simultaneously getting himself impeached on two separate occasions. I'd like to point out for the record that 10 republicans joined the Dems in support of impeachment. More would have, but they were worried tha trump supporters would harm them and their families as promised.

Because Trump keeps telling us it was?

Way back when Trump was insulting people from both parties way back in the 16 primaries, sound minded people from the right should have found a different candidate. Even if we'd lost the presidency in '16, we'd still be in a better position than we are today. There's no arguing with that.

I like that word. Revenge. For a party to seek revenge, they must have been wronged first. You just admitted that Trump sent his minions up Capitol Hill to threaten, intimidate, kidnap, or possibly kill members of Congress from both parties. Those guys with zip ties weren't there to do maintenance. They didn't build that gallows for the heck of it. They were chanting "hang Mike Pence." Trump is screwed.