Musk giving a little speech about elected officials.
Also, am I hearing things, or does that kid ask Trump to “protect him” around 13 seconds in?
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Not sure how that is a US politics comment? I don’t disagree, although I disliked his father a great deal as well. It amazes me to think that a very large percentage of adult taxpayer life will have been spent paying off the foibles of one narcissistic family.
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Again, nope. Criminal Code is Federal, administration of it is Provincial. The fact that he was out on bail is on…the Provincial Progressive Conservatives. One has to wonder why the TPA is putting this out during a provincial election.
And the TAN rule is: you are allowed to talk about Canadian infrastructure in any thread, it is never off topic to talk about Canadian infrastructure. But Canadian politics don’t belong here except where they directly intersect with US politics.
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Only the second person to make my ignore list.
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The far left Pope criticizes America for not engaging in extremist left wing open border woke ideology while living behind giant walls that surround the Vatican.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1889476612174827590?s=46&t=o3XUPKxiqJH7KZYdWMCtqg
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Why did Trump pardon 1400 criminals, many of whom were violent offenders? That’s an American thing to talk about.
I don’t get what Toronto has to do with American politics, or American law and order? Seems a false construct is being set up.
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The Pope is spot on in what he is saying about deportations, too. He is trying to speak up for the poor and the marginalized. America is turning into a more vicious, dark place, due to how it is treating some of the ‘least of these’.
Strategically speaking, if MAGA goes too hard against the Pope, it will eat into the Catholic vote it has benefitted from.
It’s a bad old world when caring about the poor and the marginalized is now seen as an extreme left wing woke thing to do.
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Did we really just have an honest to god’s “the Pope has gone woke” moment?
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Maybe the Vice President invoking Catholic doctrine was not the best rhetorical strategy?
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The spiral was incredibly quick but Toro is simply a troll at this point and should be ignored as such.
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JD Vance is being criticized by the Democrats for saying that the administration can just ignore the courts. Yet less than two years ago, the Democrats’ shining star was saying the exact same thing.
Feel free to rebut my posts rather than engaging in ad hominems.
The non-trivial distinction there is that Vance is in the executive branch these days. AOC is a legislator not actually in a position to ignore the courts, and was expressing personal views. Vance as a VP is part of producing a constitutional crisis, AOC was simply cheering from the sidelines at the concept (over a much smaller matter).
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I don’t agree with either of them.
But AOC is a popular legislator in the Democratic Party, and clearly represents the same disdain towards judicial rulings she disagrees with that Vance does.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1889517383695696326
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1889513143711256693
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True dat. We all know that Commies, Anarchists, Marxists, etc are devout Catholics and vice-versa.
Seriously though, when you start posting stuff like this, it might be a good idea to step back and start wondering wtf is wrong with you.
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Liberation theology, which has its roots in Marxist intellectual thought, has been around the Catholic Church in Latin America for decades. And even though Pope Francis has been critical of Liberation theology, sometimes he sounds sympathetic to it. Here’s what one Cardinal thinks.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, an anti-communism activist in Hong Kong, who has been arrested by the Chinese Communist Party, is a devout supporter of Pope Francis but has openly wondered if the pope sees communists as “the good guys.”
“Pope Francis comes from South America, where the communists are the good guys defending the poor from the oppression of military regimes in collusion with the rich, so he may have sympathy for them,” Zen speculated. “He doesn’t have direct experience of communists in power, oppressors of peoples.”
Just like hostility to all immigration is a far right concept, open borders is a far left concept embraced by progressive politicians and activists, one that certainly appeared to be embraced by the Biden administration in its first three years (as opposed to the Obama administration). So I don’t think that describing a policy that allows the for the effects of an open border as “far left” is inaccurate.
Immigration was a big part of the election. Americans want the border fixed. It was a big reason why Kamala lost.
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Or “The Bible” as it is also known.
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