In all seriousness, isn't the Bible pretty clear that there is a "sleep" after death until the end times judgement? I've only been reading about Christianity recently and that seemed sort of clear and ot baffled me that so many people think you go straight to heaven or hell upon death.
Revelation is pretty unclear about a lot of things and is taken out of context all the time. One thing is guaranteed though that Christ promises eternal life if you trust in Him.
I'm trying. It's very hard to come to believe when you live in current year. Injustice reigns supreme and everyone seems to have gone mad. Why not just end it! Shit is crazy.
No need to end it either, pede, :). There are so many good things in this world. The best thing to realize is that you yourself are just, or are at least striving to be. You my friend will be judged by your heart, and that’s what makes life worth living. Even if this world does turn to shit, you can know that you did your best and put in honest work to the best of your ability. Take time to enjoy the simple things and remindee yourself of the things that you find fun and exciting. Good will win. If you keep reading the Bible, you know that God will take care of the wickedness in the world once and for all while we stand with Him and enjoy the new life he has to offer.
Regain your perspective, take a breathe, and get back to life the way confident you would.
I know someone who is a big gambler and he says he definitely believes in God, because the odds say if God exists, you better have been one of his believers. If he does not exist, then so what. No win on the no God side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26nJjNDsbmk
Well you don’t really need that much trust. So many things don’t make sense, but I believe good is winning. Jesus said all you need is faith the grain of a mustard seed. My faith is that it will all work out in the end. Faith in Jesus, if you choose to got that path of life, will change and guide you. Don’t let things get over complicated. Christians love to over complicate things.
I always cause a stir when I bring up "Be thankful in everything, for this is Gods will concerning you" We are to love God, and love our neighbors. Pretty simple.
Agreed. We have the ability to choose, and many times people choose to do evil. Perhaps God could take our choice away and leave us all as some kind of programmed organic robots, never allowed to act outside our parameters. What significance would that kind of life have though?
Learn your bible. 30% of the Bible is prophecy. It not just revelation. It’s all clear enough to be aware. Nobody knows the day or hour but world events are spoken of and it’s clear things are on the move. Prepare your hearts as the stage is being set my friends.
I beg to differ. The Bible can be constantly taken out of context and the last thing I want to do is vainly believe something that isn’t there. As far as my understanding goes, most of the prophecy in Revelation was fulfilled hundreds of years ago. I’m not denying the Gospel or even the return of Christ. I’m saying that I’m tired of Christians taking things from Revelation that aren’t there. Can’t we just say we don’t know? There is a definitive meaning in that book that most don’t understand. Also, what difference does it make if we are in the end times or not? Should we not follow the Lord’s command and great commission anyway? Also what is the purpose of believing we are in the end times, especially if we find out we are wrong? You end up putting your passions in the wrong places where instead we should be putting our passions into God, virtues, and helping others grasp the Gospel.
Like Trump, promises made, promises kept. John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Judas knew Christ as well and yet God said it would be better for him had he never existed. One can know Jesus and yet choose Satan and his lies anyhow.
Be watchful and stay focused on God, repenting of any and all sins.
Keeping the Natural Law (eg, what God proposed in the commandments and to Israel in the first Covenant) is nigh impossible for fallen Human beings.
I mean, look at what Jesus says “ You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew 5:27-28).
We have to fulfil the Law perfectly to merit Heaven, and even then we will only have done the bare minimum, because the LORD expects perfect obedience from us.
The only way to get to heaven is to believe in Jesus, repent of your sins, and pray for the grace to keep following him.
I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but that isn’t Biblical. Jesus said that “if you believe I am the Son of Man (Messiah), you will have eternal life. Your beliefs about good go against the Biblical teachings that man is naturally flawed and cursed. We aren’t savages but certainly are unable to earn right standing with God. Instead He hands it over.
We measure everything in time. A beginning and an end. It is difficult for us to understand the concept of existing without first being created, of being without a beginning or an end. The great mystery of I am.
I had an experience that answered the question "if God created us, then who created Him?"
The experience is such a cliché -- too much of a psychedelic that sent me on a bad trip, for hours, where I experienced eternity (not hell, just a repetitive scene in my head that would not end, and in the trip I thought I'd broken my brain and I would be stuck like that forever, literally not die).
I'll never forget that feeling, that knowing. Although the trip was absolutely terrifying, I knew that it was a key to something important. When I came to Christ, a little over a year after that experience, I'd already answered the question about who created God. Nobody, nothing. He exists. In the pure meaning of the word. No beginning and no end. God is the Great I am.
Sorry for the ramble. Your post touched my brain and I felt compelled to over share.
Of interesting note, the Ancient Greeks were the first to reach the concept that there must be One for whom existence is non conditional, and from Whom everything else depends for continued existence. They reached this through natural reason alone and reached it nearly a thousand years after Moses heard “I AM WHO AM”
Thinking about that is very very very important because contains the essential fact that God is the only being who IS in a perfect sense of the word. There is no past or future for the almighty only the eternal present.
In comparison, we may say “I am” but our existence is fragile and continually susceptible to massive change or even ceasing.
In all seriousness, isn't the Bible pretty clear that there is a "sleep" after death until the end times judgement? I've only been reading about Christianity recently and that seemed sort of clear and ot baffled me that so many people think you go straight to heaven or hell upon death.
I'll try to keep this decently short and simple, haha... it can go quite deep and complex. But here is my belief based on the Scriptures...
To your question about "sleep" after death. Yes, Jesus spoke of people who were dead as "asleep." Such examples are Mark 5:39 and John 11:11. Paul also speaks of sleeping as well such as in 1 Corinthians 15:51. What they speak of is true in a sense, and this is why...
We humans have both a physical body and a spirit. Yes, when a person dies, their body goes to "sleep." But only their body. Their spirit goes elsewhere (I'll explain later). Their body lies asleep, waiting for the Day of Resurrection. When that day comes, the bodies of the righteous dead will "awake," and will rise to meet their spirits in the clouds, then the righteous who are still alive will rise up afterwards. This can be seen in both 1 Corinthians 15 (again) and also 1 Thessalonians 4.
Now, why do I say that only the body sleeps, but not the spirit? I'll let a story from Jesus Himself make my case, but first I will give some context... the big picture...
At the end of Creation, God said all was good. God is a spirit, so He reigns from His spiritual city of Heaven. This is Heaven proper... the holy city of light that you think of. It was meant only for God and His angels because mankind (and every other being on Earth) was meant to live forever. Earth itself was a paradise (notice I'm using a lower-case "p" as a generic description). Though there isn't confirmation in the Bible, many do believe that God walked the Earth with Adam and Eve. So it was a pure and innocent world.
At some point, Lucifer rebelled against God, and was removed from Heaven. He came to Earth and tempted Adam and Eve, and you know the story. They sinned against God, and became cursed to live under sin. The world was also corrupted. It was no longer pure, it was stained. And because God is a holy God, He cannot bear to be in the presence of unholy sin, so God and man were eternally divided... man could no longer be in the presence of God (this is why God almost exclusively limited His actual presence on Earth to the Ark of the Covenant). But not only did sin divide man from God in life, but it also brought death. Now, man's body would die, but his spirit would still "live." Because sin stained the spirit, not just the body, man's spirit (his actual being) was also unable to be in the presence of God, so he could not go to be in Heaven because of that impurity. But his spirit had to go somewhere...
In those days, the spirit of every man and woman who died went to a place called Sheol (Hades/Hell). Every single person, whether wicked or righteous, went there. However, God is just and merciful, and He does not judge the righteous as the wicked (Genesis 18). So He divided the souls of the righteous from those of the wicked. The wicked went to Hades proper, where there is constant and eternal torment, but the righteous were carried to a place there that was separated from Hades by a great gulf or chasm. This place was called Abraham's Bosom, also known as Paradise (capital "P" this time, the name of a specific place). It is a place of peace and fellowship with the saints of old.
Jesus speaks of this is Luke 16 when He tells the story of Lazarus and the rich man (a true story, not a parable). He told of the angels carrying Lazarus' spirit to Abraham's Bosom. He told of the rich man being tormented by flame in Hades. He told of Father Abraham being with Lazarus, and Lazarus being comforted. All of this happened before Jesus told the story, so it was certainly before the Day of Resurrection. So it proves that spirits do not sleep... they are always awake somewhere.
So what happened? Jesus' sacrifice. Jesus came to save mankind from the curse of sin, making a way for man and God to be reunited. When Jesus died, His pure blood washed away the sins of the world. Man's spirit was no longer bound to the penalty of sin (which is death). Man, if he accepted the gift of redemption, was now free to be with God after his earthly life ended. So now, when a righteous person dies, their body falls "asleep," but their spirit goes to be with God in Heaven.
But what about Paradise and the righteous spirits in it? When Jesus was hanging on the cross along with two thieves, one thief mocked Him, but the other asked Jesus to remember him. Jesus told that man, "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."
So when Jesus died, His body slept in the tomb. But His spirit went to Paradise in Hades (Ephesians 4). While He was there, He also took the keys to Hell and Death (Revelations 1). After three days, Jesus' spirit rose from Sheol to be reunited with His body. According to John 20:17, Jesus had not yet returned to His Father in Heaven whenever Mary Magdalene saw Him. He had been in Hades the whole time.
But Jesus did not rise from Hades alone. He also took Paradise and all the righteous spirits with Him. Now, Paradise is located in Heaven proper along with all of the saints (Abraham, David, Adam, Moses, the Prophets, every righteous soul). Paul mentions this in 2 Corinthians 12.
Haha, I guess I didn't make it so short. Sorry about that! But yes... when a person dies, their body sleeps, but their spirit goes to either Hades or Paradise. Paradise used to be in Hades, but now, it is in Heaven in the presence of God. And it is now possible for man's spirit to be in the presence of God in Heaven because Jesus washed our sins away.
Glory be to God in the highest! Amen! :-D
P.S. I know that Dr. David Jeremiah also believes this, and I'm sure he knows much more than I do, so you can listen to him if you wish to learn more. He has a full video series (and a book) on the subject of Heaven. He sticks to Scripture itself, and that's extremely important to me. May God bless you, all who read this, and everyone... especially the United States of America!
Yes, it's hard to imagine living/dying in the time before Jesus redeemed us. Even just talking with God was difficult. I'm sure living under the Law was no fun, because nobody could do so without fail.
But thank God, He made a way to change all of that! :-D
Some things in Scripture fascinate me more than others. Pre-Redemption Paradise is one of those things. Instead of dying and being in the presence of God, talking with Him, the righteous were in the presence of the tormented wicked, talking with them.
Haha, come to think about it, maybe I can relate... living in the good, ol' South during an election year, while the West Coast is on fire both literally and figuratively with RBG passing and Corona lockdowns. I may not be in Heaven, but at least I'm not going through Hell.
Amen! And he sticks to the Word... unlike many even more famous preachers/evangelists who compromise black and white Scripture with man-made theories and flawed logic. In some places, Scripture can be vague and easy to misinterpret (Revelation)... but much of Scripture is as clear and simple as 2+2=4.
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1 Peter 4:6
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
The apostle Peter describes what Christ was doing between his death on the cross and his resurrection. He was visiting people who had died in their sins to teach them his gospel and invite them to repent. Specifically Peter says he visited and taught those that died at the time of the flood. Implication here is that when we die, our bodies remain in the grave awaiting the resurrection while our spirits go somewhere else. The wicked receive the opportunity to learn about Christ and his gospel and to accept him. God has a plan to save all his children and guide them to return to our heavenly home. Hope this helps!
McCain is not doing to good down there, he is trying to win 'fire points' from the devils, with his Thumb Down Trick, but he 'don't impress them much'..
Biggest silver lining by far is that GEOTUS finally has the ability to completely destroy China with impunity. This year is not fun, but A LOT of good will come from it.
They really thought they'd never lose another election so they did this. Trump was the ultimate wrench in their gears. They gave the executive branch insane power because The Thought She Would Win and they'd be able to abuse it to set up their utopia. They never anticipated the People actually standing up.
Part of me does worry what does happen when we do eventually lose power (the pendulum does tend to swing) but for now, it feels good
Marius savior of the Roman Republic, a novus homo "new man" from non-senatorial stock. Reformed the Roman army from a citizen brigade to the methodic machine most people envision it as. Hated by the Senate for being a populist, and for seeking land reforms to redistribute wealth gained in wars to his soliders and lower classes. Also came back from Africa while on campaign in the Numidian wars to save Rome from a Germanic invasion after everyone else failed. He had a lieutenant named Lucius Sulla that helped him when many victories but never gave enough credit to.
After that the Social Wars where Italians considered aliens and 2nd class citizens by Rome, fought a war to be considered citizens. Marius an Italian fought on behalf of Rome with Sulla a true Roman from the senatorial class. This is the last time these two would be on the same side, as Marius is oddly forced to retire mid-war (perhaps having too many sympathies for the aliens).
After this Sulla was elected consul and sent to deal with the Pontic threat in the east. During this time Marius (pisses Sulla off) and gets himself exiled to Africa, and then later gets recalled to Rome to help purge some of the greedy senatorial faction loyal to Sulla by Cinna (another populist). Marius is elected consul for 7th time, more than any other Roman before and then promptly dies of old age.
Sulla comes back to Rome from the East after a couple years with a vengeance and yeets all the Marian loyalists out of Rome before giving power back to the Senate. And by yeet I mean he digs up Marius' corpse and throws him in the Tiber river.
One of those people he tried to murder but was hidden away was the nephew of Marius by marriage, and the highest priest of Rome named...
I'm sorry, but if the Republican party has proven anything over the years it's that they are inept at stopping the liberal swing of the country. They get walked all over as Dems play dirty...and I mean DIRTY. And the Repubs just let it go all through.
The liberal of 20 years ago is the Republican today, and the Dems of today are marching to marxist, socialist, commie beats.
Hell, we already have Senators saying they'll vote against any conservative Supreme Court pick thinking we need some kind of balance? WtF? What playbook do you have, because your the ONLY side thinking there should be any balance and any fairness. You are trying to throw them bones as they encourage riots in the streets while having the media call your racists, nazis, and rapist like every 5 minutes.
I'll state it again, Repubs are sitting here pretending to play gentlemen's chess while Dems are a bunch of rabid dogs tearing throughout the country. Dems WILL eventually get past that magical limit they need to never fail another election again... or they will over time just morph the right into being Marxist Light.
Everyone knows if this was the other way around they would get their nominee through and the media would probably jump for joy over it. Republicans need to stop acting like mitt romney and more like trump. I’m sick of them cowering to everyone
This is coming from someone that always believed in balance and political decorum. My eyes have been opened and I see the imminent danger of the Democratic party. They fight dirty AF and don't care whatsoever about our Nation's history or it's continuation. I agree 100%.. The time for balance and appeasing them is over. Their willingness to destroy American lives by using BLM and the Exaggerona Virus to push their political agenda should be a reason for every American to vote them all out.
As you implied.. We are practically there already when it comes to the Dems OWNING the US. While Conservatives were busy building up the nation, they were chipping away at Culture, Media, and Entertainment. Their ideas are like filthy waste water slowly leaking into the foundation, ensuring it's only a matter of time until everything comes crashing down.
We're sort of already in a state similar to ancient Rome prior to empire.
What was happening then is whomever became Consul would basically rewrite the constitution to "restore" the republic. But every new consul kept rewriting it, so effectively there was no constitution, only the executive.
What Obama set in motion was a pattern of electing a president to rule by decree with the goal of "restoring" the republic. While Trump has undone Obama's actions, the next democrat president will undoubtedly work to undo all of Trump's accomplishments.
Honestly no one saw him coming. Did they really think they had a chance with Jeb! Fucking BUSH?
If there was no Trump I think Cruz had the chance to be the nominee but he would have been eaten alive by Hillary and apologizing every second of the day. He probably would have been who I voted for if trump never came on the scene. He needed to get slapped around a little by the donald to become LION ted
Their polling was atrocious. They don't know how to poll middle America and they've already admitted it. They weren't aware of this flaw in 2016 though. All the polling showed that she would win in a landslide. They had no clue Trump was so close, and that made them over confident and lazy. That lackadaisical attitude prevented them from instituting much of their cheating program, because why take the risk and put forth the effort if she's gonna win anyway...amiright?
Once the results came in, they didn't know what to do. They had no plan for a Trump victory. That's why she capitulated, and why the RESIST! movement was started.
They quickly figured out how to game the system though and the 2018 election was a dry run for what they would have done this election. COVID changed that up a little, but much of it is still part of the plan.
Republicans are "sports entertainers" in the District of Columbia Wrestling Federation. McCain, Romney and Jeb were jobbers (hired and scripted to lose) for Obama and Hillary.
Trump was like an MMA fighter who busted into the DCWF and actually beat the shit out of all the performers. That's why DC hates him so much, not his moderate policies.
This explains the end of ISIS, Soleimani, ending the endless wars, replacing NAFTA nixing the TPP, ending 1619, scores of judges, 3 conservative supreme court justices, saving us from China, BTFO coup and impeachment, peace in the middle east, 2 legit Nobel peace prize nominations, TWO SCOOPS, seriously, I can keep going... like no president has even tried since WWII?
I was never a fan of Cruz in 2015, but I'd be all for Cruz 2024. As long as he maintains Trump's fantastic foreign policy that has brought peace to the American people. I don't want his replacement to be another war hawk.
Ted was extremely unlikeable in 2015/16. Even his insults were lame af. Remember when he called trump a sniveling coward? I do like Ted a lot more now but I’m not sure he can necessarily be trusted. But he’s a lot better than 98 percent of others at this point
They thought they were going to have a milquetoast election in 2016 with a standard swamp D (Clinton) and a standard swamp R (Jeb), throwing some light punches and debate back and forth, and gutting the country even further and eventually landing the death blow to the country. Trump really threw a wrench into that. I'm not sure they would have tried to destroy Cruz the same way they try to destroy Trump.
A Jeb/Hillary debate would have been the biggest snooze fest of all time.
I don’t think they would have pulled out the big guns like they did for trump for Cruz but imagine if they did? Imagine if Ted had the equivalent of the pussy tape leak? Any of them would have dropped out immediately. Instead trump calls the press conference and has bills accusers just sitting there. Fucking insane lol
No other president has had to face this level of media coordinated attacks. Even Reagan would have retired by the time of the impeachment vote at least.
Personally I'm hoping the combination of absolute bonkers chaos and sweeping indictments of Democrat leadership leads to the essential collapse of the Democrat party.
I'm really seeing most of my Democrat friends going the "Fool me twice, shame on me" route after the second Bernie hoax and going socialist libertarian. Yeah, I know its an oxymoron but they believe in it. Once they give up and realize there's four more years of Trump and the Trump thing is "basically over" they are going to ditch the freakazoid Democrats and go with classical liberal libertarianism. Legal weed and no wars. Maybe social safety net but, like, don't tell me what to do.
I'm seeing a third party in 2024 that has about 2/3 of the Democrat party in it and is significantly less threatening and corrupt because all the Deep State Democrats and the DNC Crime Machine will be waiting in LOOONG lines for their trials and decades-long sentences. Maybe a few executions for Sedition and High Treason for some lulz.
I would agree with your conclusion except for the fact that their base is eagerly drinking in the deception and wallowing in it right now. Even the Soviet Union had to largely force it on everyone and they limped along for 70 years. I don't think they even had a phase where most of the people were enthusiastic.
I mean to say, you are absolutely right but that doesn't mean the timeline is a collapse in this generation, especially when this generation is the most self-assured in human history and least truly educated in 1st world history.
That's why I see a shift from a terrible idea to a much less bad idea but where they can still think they are intellectually superior and that the Right is still totally wrong and hateful. But at least a grassroots libertarian socialist party without the DNC/Deep State War Machine will be far less dangerous and easier to work with normally.
A lot of their base is flaking off. Look at #WalkAway. Look at their dropping Latino numbers. Look at their dropping black numbers. Look at Jimmy Dore - He's got a million subscribers, He's a progressive, and he's constantly roasting the Dems, even frothing at the mouth sometimes.
Think about all your family members who vote Democrat because they think they "care". Remember the Democrats who just "cared"? They just cared about the poor. They just cared about peace? They just cared about the environment? They just cared about not hating other people?
I think about people I know who just want to be nice and see the drug war end and be friends with all the countries of the world and try to imagine them really supporting this hard marxist revolution Democrat party.
If a libertarian manages to capture that Democrat voter and create a viable political movement things could change overnight.
Honestly while we go after Bernie as a socialist he's pretty much old school "nice" Democrat. He's not a hard marxist revolutionary type and if the Democrat Deep State Machine goes down under Trump he's gonna BE the Democrat party.
No, he's an outsider. Look at how the DNC treated him. I've got some direct experience with him and while I disagree with him on socialism he's pretty genuine and doesn't exude the fake/radical hiding in the bushes aura that most other Democrats do. I don't want him president but I would take him over a Biden/Harris manchurian Deep State administration any day.
There's probably going to be a party split. There are plenty of moderate liberals out there, but they effectively do not have a voice in the current democrat party.
By then the rules will have been changed to ensure no one can do it anymore. Just needs enough votes in the house and senate and why the next midterms are just as important as this election.
In April 2017, Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell extended the nuclear option to Supreme Court nominations in order to end debate on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch.
That's kind of the point. They set the precedent with revoking cloture for lifetime judicial nominations, not that much justification applying it to Supreme Court vs other lifetime appointments, especially when the Dems would have dragged out the stonewalling throughout Trump's entire presidency.
I remember McConnell was very fire and brimstone when he was the minority leader in 2012/14 and Harry Reid introduced the nuclear option.
The nuclear option was a decision to approve judicial nominees/cabinet appointments with a simple Senate majority rather than the traditional 2/3 necessary.
I’m almost certain when Reid paved the way for this, McConnell warned him: You will regret this decision sooner rather than later. You won’t be the majority forever.
In 2017, Republicans used The nuclear option to approve Gorsuch. They will likely do the same to fill the RBG seat.
Of course the Republicans will, they literally have no reason to hold back, it’s an election year and everyone has eyes on the Republicans in Congress.
This is one of the few areas where we actually can rely on RINOs to vote along party lines (I mean if they voted for Kav. why not do it again)
They make my blood boil. How can you sit back and see all the treason, riots and dirty tactics of the left and do anything but fight them with everything you have?
Romney is still seething over that uncouth thrice-married reality star/casino mogul doing what Romney's lantern-jawed white-picket-fence missionary ass couldn't: win. (And teach Republicans how to win.)
I honestly don't know if McCain and Romney would have been worse presidents than Obama or not. They are slimy as fuck and the electorate sniffed it out right away. Hell, McCain might have been worse than Hillary.
Do you think Collins will have any remote chance of keeping that seat if she refuses to vote? Do you think Maine Republicans will cast a vote for her after that? No fuckign way. No way. McConnell knows it.
No. Parties are not binding, but its unlikely any of the Republicans will actually break rank, despite what they have said. There is also the possibility Democrats could break rank.
McConnell promised to put them on the spot to vote. If any of them, including Susan Collins, would dare to not vote, or vote against the nominee, they can say goodbye to their re-election bid.
What's even more dangerous than letting the Dems have the Nuke option is not having any amendment or article in the constitution that limits the amount of justices that are on the Supreme Court. That was a serious over site by the founders.
I fully expect the next Dem House+Senate+President to add at least three more justices so they can flip the court without waiting for anyone to die or retire.
Murkowski has already said that she won't vote to confirm a SCOTUS pick before the election. She won't be the only never-Trumper to stand in the way. Mittens, Collins, Gardner, Rubio, Lee, several others.
Looks like Mitch is sounding tough, knowing that other repug senators will carry the establishment water and not confirm anpther Trump pick before the ekection.
I know Rubio is a POS but you think he's gonna join the Murkowskis?
Also how many of them are up for re-election. I know Collins is and with the Trump enthusiasm some of these thin-ice RINOs might decide its not worth it. We don't have the same teeth as the left-wing mob but we're gaining power and we've rattled some RINO cages who made noise about fucking around and finding out.
The sad part is this is a chance for the rinos to break free from Democrats, because with a clear majority in SCOTUS, they can use it as leverage on the Democrats, rather than be leveraged by Democrats. Putting a new SCJ in position now would put the court in the right direction of constitutional rulings for the next few decades, which would massively quell all the fuckery from Democrats because they can cry all they want, but if they know SCOTUS will rule against them, there's no point in even trying to skirt the constitution and blame things on Republicans stopping them, because we can simply say "Let's take it to SCOTUS then", and then they're shot down with no one in the Republican party to point fingers at, because it's technically out of Republican hands and they're just merely following the limitations of the constitution. At that point all Democrats will be able to do is huff and puff at a blank wall.
Though it should be noted that some pressure can be brought to bear when something needs to get done. Technically, you can be a loose cannon but it'll cost you down the line. Hopefully we'll see some of these people brought into line.
Symbolism I guess, probably something to do with “muh first woman president” and maybe Hillary exerting her party leverage so she can make her legacy look better when it’s finally “her turn”.
Conservatives can't get past the tiniest bit of "muh fairness" and "muh principles".
Now, I'm not talking about real principles. But so many of our real principles have been replaced with "microprinciples" and the liberals are experts at manipulating those to get around the real ones.
Like all my "republican" friends who are getting their panties in a knot over how it might be "hypocrisy" for Mitch to confirm a justice now when he wouldn't confirm Garland.
Totally forgetting their real principles which are:
A) The senate can do whatever the fuck they want under their Constitutional authoritah
B) The entire point is making sure the SCOTUS stays stocked with Constitutional justices to fight the evil from the left.
But nope.....we gotta hem and haw over whether its not gentlemanlike.
Instead of a judge being hyper partisan conservative, I'd prefer we impeach or otherwise remove the Obama appointees who can't even spell 'constitution' and couldn't put a thought together without the help of CNN or critical race theory
Now they're even more scared cause there ain't nothing they can do about it. Nothing Pelosi can do about it.
They know this nominee is gonna be starting down from the bench at their election fraud cases as they ask permission to count ballots they found in their printer and the Conservative majority asks if they want their case just dismissed or if they want felony charges.
The tortoise has a plan, slow and steady. The hare rushes to achieve quick results, and doesn't think of the long term ramifications. Now, a cocaine turtle....holy shitballs....watch out for that mofo.
I don’t understand. It seems that your source and this source both specifically state that the nuclear option does not apply to Supreme Court nominations.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday started the process of invoking the nuclear option, saying he wanted to change Senate rules to prevent the minority from filibustering any nominations other than those to the Supreme Court.”
With what they did to Kavanaugh it is insane that they think we would play by those rules now. If any republican doesn’t vote to confirm Trump’s nominee we need to physically remove them from office.
democrats never think they will lose because they are so cocksure of themselves. RBG could have stepped down almost anytime during obamas presidency but it was clintons turn and she wanted to be replaced by the first woman president. Liberals are always undone by their hubris. That's what's so great.
These lunatics are now walking to his house to protest there, but he had police presence so they thought better of it. We have to do this. We must demoralize them. If they riot, who cares? It will hurt them in the polls.
That's what the Dems are best at, making up rules as it suits their current wants/needs and not having the forethought to think it may one day be used against them. The tards on reddit were even talking about biden appointing 15 scj's if he were to win. The pendulum swings both ways democrats, remember that next time you try to fuck us over.
Exactly. I don’t see the shit I see here on the news. I do have two conservative acquaintances that I introduced to The Donald and they share stuff on FB now. But I don’t see it come from anywhere else unless you count the messaging from the Young Conservatives group.
Whatever hgappens in November (and I expect the Dems to do everything possible to steal this one) at least our President has had a chance to properly re-orient the Supreme Court.
Imagine how fucking satisfying it is for the turtle to be able to remind Democrats practically everyday about this. It's satisfying just for us but he must be loving it.
Democrats just try to feign it means that, because the precedent they set involved that situation. But technically, there were no stipulations that it must only be for lower appointments.
Fillibuster opened the door to be used on every and any situation, but again, Democrats try to make up limiting rules after the fact. Just like they tried to pull that crap that Trump couldn't put in Kavanaugh because it was the midterms. They will make up anything on the fly to try to abuse a power for their own gain, while later trying to limit it when the tables are turned. That's why Democrats should simply be ignored.
Because otherwise, what always happens, what has always happened in history, is Democrats set a precedent of something they previously said you couldn't do, getting to fire the first shot.
Like for example, if Biden actually became president, guess what would happen? He'd install a new SCOTUS immediately. Despite the fact that when Trump was elected, they said he couldn't replace Scalia. Then 2 years later they told him he still couldn't do it because it was the midterms. And now they'll tell him he can't do it again. Which means they're essentially trying to make it so that at any time in a Republican presidents term, whether beginning middle or end, they can't put a new SCJ on SCOTUS. It's all manipulation to obstruct and maintain power.
I was once a young agnostic know it all pede brethren, but life straightened me out. I had a very hard time believing in the concept of a God, of Intelligent Design. Life showed me that there was pure evil walking the Earth, pure unadulterated evil lives amongst us pedes. We fight for our children/grandchildren/those who come after us, until God has had enough and decides to straighten things out permanently and forever. Only through the Lord Jesus can you have life everlasting and I could not believe that anymore than I do. I've had the opportunity to serve several tours in violent regions of the world and I've seen firsthand how evil man can be to one another it's disgusting and stomach turning.
I regretted my life. Hell is hot af
Name checks out. Say hi to McCain
prob sucking his dick right now
Satan hasn't had his fun yet
In all seriousness, isn't the Bible pretty clear that there is a "sleep" after death until the end times judgement? I've only been reading about Christianity recently and that seemed sort of clear and ot baffled me that so many people think you go straight to heaven or hell upon death.
Revelation is pretty unclear about a lot of things and is taken out of context all the time. One thing is guaranteed though that Christ promises eternal life if you trust in Him.
I'm trying. It's very hard to come to believe when you live in current year. Injustice reigns supreme and everyone seems to have gone mad. Why not just end it! Shit is crazy.
This world is nothing. Don't worry about the nonsense in this nasty rhelm .. and definitely do not store up your treasures here.
If this world is nothing, why fight for it?
I fight because I do not want to live my days here under communist rule in a labor camp. 🤷♂️
Except for killing Commies.
No need to end it either, pede, :). There are so many good things in this world. The best thing to realize is that you yourself are just, or are at least striving to be. You my friend will be judged by your heart, and that’s what makes life worth living. Even if this world does turn to shit, you can know that you did your best and put in honest work to the best of your ability. Take time to enjoy the simple things and remindee yourself of the things that you find fun and exciting. Good will win. If you keep reading the Bible, you know that God will take care of the wickedness in the world once and for all while we stand with Him and enjoy the new life he has to offer. Regain your perspective, take a breathe, and get back to life the way confident you would.
Thanks.
I have been an unhappy person my entire life, but I try to do right by others even in my own generalized despair.
I am trying to be happier...or at least content. Hell of a time to try that out...lol...
Well my friend, you're not the first to think that. It's called Pascal' s Wager, if you want to look it up.
I know someone who is a big gambler and he says he definitely believes in God, because the odds say if God exists, you better have been one of his believers. If he does not exist, then so what. No win on the no God side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26nJjNDsbmk
Well you don’t really need that much trust. So many things don’t make sense, but I believe good is winning. Jesus said all you need is faith the grain of a mustard seed. My faith is that it will all work out in the end. Faith in Jesus, if you choose to got that path of life, will change and guide you. Don’t let things get over complicated. Christians love to over complicate things.
I always cause a stir when I bring up "Be thankful in everything, for this is Gods will concerning you" We are to love God, and love our neighbors. Pretty simple.
The love of God never fails. Period. We are more than conquerors through him that loves us.
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Agreed. We have the ability to choose, and many times people choose to do evil. Perhaps God could take our choice away and leave us all as some kind of programmed organic robots, never allowed to act outside our parameters. What significance would that kind of life have though?
Learn your bible. 30% of the Bible is prophecy. It not just revelation. It’s all clear enough to be aware. Nobody knows the day or hour but world events are spoken of and it’s clear things are on the move. Prepare your hearts as the stage is being set my friends.
I beg to differ. The Bible can be constantly taken out of context and the last thing I want to do is vainly believe something that isn’t there. As far as my understanding goes, most of the prophecy in Revelation was fulfilled hundreds of years ago. I’m not denying the Gospel or even the return of Christ. I’m saying that I’m tired of Christians taking things from Revelation that aren’t there. Can’t we just say we don’t know? There is a definitive meaning in that book that most don’t understand. Also, what difference does it make if we are in the end times or not? Should we not follow the Lord’s command and great commission anyway? Also what is the purpose of believing we are in the end times, especially if we find out we are wrong? You end up putting your passions in the wrong places where instead we should be putting our passions into God, virtues, and helping others grasp the Gospel.
Like Trump, promises made, promises kept. John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Judas knew Christ as well and yet God said it would be better for him had he never existed. One can know Jesus and yet choose Satan and his lies anyhow.
Be watchful and stay focused on God, repenting of any and all sins.
Keeping the Natural Law (eg, what God proposed in the commandments and to Israel in the first Covenant) is nigh impossible for fallen Human beings.
I mean, look at what Jesus says “ You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew 5:27-28).
We have to fulfil the Law perfectly to merit Heaven, and even then we will only have done the bare minimum, because the LORD expects perfect obedience from us.
The only way to get to heaven is to believe in Jesus, repent of your sins, and pray for the grace to keep following him.
I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but that isn’t Biblical. Jesus said that “if you believe I am the Son of Man (Messiah), you will have eternal life. Your beliefs about good go against the Biblical teachings that man is naturally flawed and cursed. We aren’t savages but certainly are unable to earn right standing with God. Instead He hands it over.
I'm giving you a million upvotes.
We measure everything in time. A beginning and an end. It is difficult for us to understand the concept of existing without first being created, of being without a beginning or an end. The great mystery of I am.
I had an experience that answered the question "if God created us, then who created Him?"
The experience is such a cliché -- too much of a psychedelic that sent me on a bad trip, for hours, where I experienced eternity (not hell, just a repetitive scene in my head that would not end, and in the trip I thought I'd broken my brain and I would be stuck like that forever, literally not die).
I'll never forget that feeling, that knowing. Although the trip was absolutely terrifying, I knew that it was a key to something important. When I came to Christ, a little over a year after that experience, I'd already answered the question about who created God. Nobody, nothing. He exists. In the pure meaning of the word. No beginning and no end. God is the Great I am.
Sorry for the ramble. Your post touched my brain and I felt compelled to over share.
Of interesting note, the Ancient Greeks were the first to reach the concept that there must be One for whom existence is non conditional, and from Whom everything else depends for continued existence. They reached this through natural reason alone and reached it nearly a thousand years after Moses heard “I AM WHO AM”
Thinking about that is very very very important because contains the essential fact that God is the only being who IS in a perfect sense of the word. There is no past or future for the almighty only the eternal present.
In comparison, we may say “I am” but our existence is fragile and continually susceptible to massive change or even ceasing.
Maybe hell is just restless sleep for eternity.
Are you aware of the time you're asleep normally? Wouldn't by your perspective it happen instantly anyways?
I'll try to keep this decently short and simple, haha... it can go quite deep and complex. But here is my belief based on the Scriptures...
To your question about "sleep" after death. Yes, Jesus spoke of people who were dead as "asleep." Such examples are Mark 5:39 and John 11:11. Paul also speaks of sleeping as well such as in 1 Corinthians 15:51. What they speak of is true in a sense, and this is why...
We humans have both a physical body and a spirit. Yes, when a person dies, their body goes to "sleep." But only their body. Their spirit goes elsewhere (I'll explain later). Their body lies asleep, waiting for the Day of Resurrection. When that day comes, the bodies of the righteous dead will "awake," and will rise to meet their spirits in the clouds, then the righteous who are still alive will rise up afterwards. This can be seen in both 1 Corinthians 15 (again) and also 1 Thessalonians 4.
Now, why do I say that only the body sleeps, but not the spirit? I'll let a story from Jesus Himself make my case, but first I will give some context... the big picture...
At the end of Creation, God said all was good. God is a spirit, so He reigns from His spiritual city of Heaven. This is Heaven proper... the holy city of light that you think of. It was meant only for God and His angels because mankind (and every other being on Earth) was meant to live forever. Earth itself was a paradise (notice I'm using a lower-case "p" as a generic description). Though there isn't confirmation in the Bible, many do believe that God walked the Earth with Adam and Eve. So it was a pure and innocent world.
At some point, Lucifer rebelled against God, and was removed from Heaven. He came to Earth and tempted Adam and Eve, and you know the story. They sinned against God, and became cursed to live under sin. The world was also corrupted. It was no longer pure, it was stained. And because God is a holy God, He cannot bear to be in the presence of unholy sin, so God and man were eternally divided... man could no longer be in the presence of God (this is why God almost exclusively limited His actual presence on Earth to the Ark of the Covenant). But not only did sin divide man from God in life, but it also brought death. Now, man's body would die, but his spirit would still "live." Because sin stained the spirit, not just the body, man's spirit (his actual being) was also unable to be in the presence of God, so he could not go to be in Heaven because of that impurity. But his spirit had to go somewhere...
In those days, the spirit of every man and woman who died went to a place called Sheol (Hades/Hell). Every single person, whether wicked or righteous, went there. However, God is just and merciful, and He does not judge the righteous as the wicked (Genesis 18). So He divided the souls of the righteous from those of the wicked. The wicked went to Hades proper, where there is constant and eternal torment, but the righteous were carried to a place there that was separated from Hades by a great gulf or chasm. This place was called Abraham's Bosom, also known as Paradise (capital "P" this time, the name of a specific place). It is a place of peace and fellowship with the saints of old.
Jesus speaks of this is Luke 16 when He tells the story of Lazarus and the rich man (a true story, not a parable). He told of the angels carrying Lazarus' spirit to Abraham's Bosom. He told of the rich man being tormented by flame in Hades. He told of Father Abraham being with Lazarus, and Lazarus being comforted. All of this happened before Jesus told the story, so it was certainly before the Day of Resurrection. So it proves that spirits do not sleep... they are always awake somewhere.
So what happened? Jesus' sacrifice. Jesus came to save mankind from the curse of sin, making a way for man and God to be reunited. When Jesus died, His pure blood washed away the sins of the world. Man's spirit was no longer bound to the penalty of sin (which is death). Man, if he accepted the gift of redemption, was now free to be with God after his earthly life ended. So now, when a righteous person dies, their body falls "asleep," but their spirit goes to be with God in Heaven.
But what about Paradise and the righteous spirits in it? When Jesus was hanging on the cross along with two thieves, one thief mocked Him, but the other asked Jesus to remember him. Jesus told that man, "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."
So when Jesus died, His body slept in the tomb. But His spirit went to Paradise in Hades (Ephesians 4). While He was there, He also took the keys to Hell and Death (Revelations 1). After three days, Jesus' spirit rose from Sheol to be reunited with His body. According to John 20:17, Jesus had not yet returned to His Father in Heaven whenever Mary Magdalene saw Him. He had been in Hades the whole time.
But Jesus did not rise from Hades alone. He also took Paradise and all the righteous spirits with Him. Now, Paradise is located in Heaven proper along with all of the saints (Abraham, David, Adam, Moses, the Prophets, every righteous soul). Paul mentions this in 2 Corinthians 12.
Haha, I guess I didn't make it so short. Sorry about that! But yes... when a person dies, their body sleeps, but their spirit goes to either Hades or Paradise. Paradise used to be in Hades, but now, it is in Heaven in the presence of God. And it is now possible for man's spirit to be in the presence of God in Heaven because Jesus washed our sins away.
Glory be to God in the highest! Amen! :-D
P.S. I know that Dr. David Jeremiah also believes this, and I'm sure he knows much more than I do, so you can listen to him if you wish to learn more. He has a full video series (and a book) on the subject of Heaven. He sticks to Scripture itself, and that's extremely important to me. May God bless you, all who read this, and everyone... especially the United States of America!
Thank you for you time, effort, and heart to write this.
I'm literally in tears thinking about us being separated from God.
You're very welcome!
Yes, it's hard to imagine living/dying in the time before Jesus redeemed us. Even just talking with God was difficult. I'm sure living under the Law was no fun, because nobody could do so without fail.
But thank God, He made a way to change all of that! :-D
You're welcome! I hope it helps! :-)
Some things in Scripture fascinate me more than others. Pre-Redemption Paradise is one of those things. Instead of dying and being in the presence of God, talking with Him, the righteous were in the presence of the tormented wicked, talking with them.
Haha, come to think about it, maybe I can relate... living in the good, ol' South during an election year, while the West Coast is on fire both literally and figuratively with RBG passing and Corona lockdowns. I may not be in Heaven, but at least I'm not going through Hell.
Dr David Jeremiah has great indepth teaching with zero condemnation. He is a wonderful speaker and writer.
Amen! And he sticks to the Word... unlike many even more famous preachers/evangelists who compromise black and white Scripture with man-made theories and flawed logic. In some places, Scripture can be vague and easy to misinterpret (Revelation)... but much of Scripture is as clear and simple as 2+2=4.
1 Peter 3:18-20
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1 Peter 4:6 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
The apostle Peter describes what Christ was doing between his death on the cross and his resurrection. He was visiting people who had died in their sins to teach them his gospel and invite them to repent. Specifically Peter says he visited and taught those that died at the time of the flood. Implication here is that when we die, our bodies remain in the grave awaiting the resurrection while our spirits go somewhere else. The wicked receive the opportunity to learn about Christ and his gospel and to accept him. God has a plan to save all his children and guide them to return to our heavenly home. Hope this helps!
Dude...
feminists don't perform oral sex, bc "the patriarchy."
before or after anal?
Some do, some don't. But almost all of them like to be dominated in bed, which makes sense if their point is to enjoy whatever they want in life.
And GHWB.
We'll give Cheney his regards.
Man I wish we were this relevant again 😕
Tell her "Hi' back.
fyi hell is unimaginably cold because hell is absence of all light, much like the notorious RBG's feminist countenance
It would be funny if she found out they don't say McCain's name, even in hell.
He's crashing a fighter plane over and over again.
Oh Lawdy! Like groundhound day but worse.
McStain ;-)
McCain is not doing to good down there, he is trying to win 'fire points' from the devils, with his Thumb Down Trick, but he 'don't impress them much'..
How the hell was this name not taken before 10 minutes ago lmao
yeah that one was certainly taken already
We always win in the end.
Trump always wins in the end. His name literally means “to win”.
B-b-but meritocracy is racist, so if you win I win, and then by winning, I then lose and you win, and then if you win, then I win and
It's the only silver lining of the year so far for me.
Biggest silver lining by far is that GEOTUS finally has the ability to completely destroy China with impunity. This year is not fun, but A LOT of good will come from it.
Hey man, if you are in need of silver linings, Leo Terrell 2.0 is a product of 2020.
I love Leo!
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Did he actually say this? What's the context? Kavanaugh?
Harry Reid invoking the 'nuclear option' and banning Senate fillibuster on confirmations.
They really thought they'd never lose another election so they did this. Trump was the ultimate wrench in their gears. They gave the executive branch insane power because The Thought She Would Win and they'd be able to abuse it to set up their utopia. They never anticipated the People actually standing up.
Part of me does worry what does happen when we do eventually lose power (the pendulum does tend to swing) but for now, it feels good
At this point, if the republic is dead and an autocracy is inevitable, might as well ensure that the autocrat is Trump and not some Chinese puppet.
The masses loved Julius.
Not the nobility, however.
Remember Sulla saw many a Marius in Gaius.
Who were Sulla, Marius, and Gaius?
Marius savior of the Roman Republic, a novus homo "new man" from non-senatorial stock. Reformed the Roman army from a citizen brigade to the methodic machine most people envision it as. Hated by the Senate for being a populist, and for seeking land reforms to redistribute wealth gained in wars to his soliders and lower classes. Also came back from Africa while on campaign in the Numidian wars to save Rome from a Germanic invasion after everyone else failed. He had a lieutenant named Lucius Sulla that helped him when many victories but never gave enough credit to.
After that the Social Wars where Italians considered aliens and 2nd class citizens by Rome, fought a war to be considered citizens. Marius an Italian fought on behalf of Rome with Sulla a true Roman from the senatorial class. This is the last time these two would be on the same side, as Marius is oddly forced to retire mid-war (perhaps having too many sympathies for the aliens).
After this Sulla was elected consul and sent to deal with the Pontic threat in the east. During this time Marius (pisses Sulla off) and gets himself exiled to Africa, and then later gets recalled to Rome to help purge some of the greedy senatorial faction loyal to Sulla by Cinna (another populist). Marius is elected consul for 7th time, more than any other Roman before and then promptly dies of old age.
Sulla comes back to Rome from the East after a couple years with a vengeance and yeets all the Marian loyalists out of Rome before giving power back to the Senate. And by yeet I mean he digs up Marius' corpse and throws him in the Tiber river.
One of those people he tried to murder but was hidden away was the nephew of Marius by marriage, and the highest priest of Rome named...
Gaius Julius Caesar.
I'm sorry, but if the Republican party has proven anything over the years it's that they are inept at stopping the liberal swing of the country. They get walked all over as Dems play dirty...and I mean DIRTY. And the Repubs just let it go all through.
The liberal of 20 years ago is the Republican today, and the Dems of today are marching to marxist, socialist, commie beats.
Hell, we already have Senators saying they'll vote against any conservative Supreme Court pick thinking we need some kind of balance? WtF? What playbook do you have, because your the ONLY side thinking there should be any balance and any fairness. You are trying to throw them bones as they encourage riots in the streets while having the media call your racists, nazis, and rapist like every 5 minutes.
I'll state it again, Repubs are sitting here pretending to play gentlemen's chess while Dems are a bunch of rabid dogs tearing throughout the country. Dems WILL eventually get past that magical limit they need to never fail another election again... or they will over time just morph the right into being Marxist Light.
Everyone knows if this was the other way around they would get their nominee through and the media would probably jump for joy over it. Republicans need to stop acting like mitt romney and more like trump. I’m sick of them cowering to everyone
They already tried it with Garland. If they had the Senate they would have succeeded too.
Really? Which virtue signaling moronic cuckservatives are saying we "need" insane lefties on the Supreme Court?
Seems like it is just the typical two RINOS: Cunt Collins and Retarded Romney.
Edit: And Moron Murkowski.
I think he's saying the left does that, and conservatives don't fight back and instead compromise on judges.
This is coming from someone that always believed in balance and political decorum. My eyes have been opened and I see the imminent danger of the Democratic party. They fight dirty AF and don't care whatsoever about our Nation's history or it's continuation. I agree 100%.. The time for balance and appeasing them is over. Their willingness to destroy American lives by using BLM and the Exaggerona Virus to push their political agenda should be a reason for every American to vote them all out.
As you implied.. We are practically there already when it comes to the Dems OWNING the US. While Conservatives were busy building up the nation, they were chipping away at Culture, Media, and Entertainment. Their ideas are like filthy waste water slowly leaking into the foundation, ensuring it's only a matter of time until everything comes crashing down.
Thank you. Don’t give those fuckers an inch because they’ll turn it in to a mile in no time flat.
democrats demand republicans play Queensbury rules while they burn, loot, murder with impunity
We're sort of already in a state similar to ancient Rome prior to empire.
What was happening then is whomever became Consul would basically rewrite the constitution to "restore" the republic. But every new consul kept rewriting it, so effectively there was no constitution, only the executive.
What Obama set in motion was a pattern of electing a president to rule by decree with the goal of "restoring" the republic. While Trump has undone Obama's actions, the next democrat president will undoubtedly work to undo all of Trump's accomplishments.
I don't think we should consider the republic dead. It's just going through a rebirth or refocus now.
Honestly no one saw him coming. Did they really think they had a chance with Jeb! Fucking BUSH?
If there was no Trump I think Cruz had the chance to be the nominee but he would have been eaten alive by Hillary and apologizing every second of the day. He probably would have been who I voted for if trump never came on the scene. He needed to get slapped around a little by the donald to become LION ted
Their plan was you get to pick between a Bush or a Clinton.
Its like when your parents told you to could decide to do your homework before or after diner and you thought that was a choice.
The plan was to give the people the choice between two globalist.
I can’t believe trump pulled it off. Hillary had to have pulled a veruca salt style meltdown on election night
Naw. Here's what I think happened.
Their polling was atrocious. They don't know how to poll middle America and they've already admitted it. They weren't aware of this flaw in 2016 though. All the polling showed that she would win in a landslide. They had no clue Trump was so close, and that made them over confident and lazy. That lackadaisical attitude prevented them from instituting much of their cheating program, because why take the risk and put forth the effort if she's gonna win anyway...amiright?
Once the results came in, they didn't know what to do. They had no plan for a Trump victory. That's why she capitulated, and why the RESIST! movement was started.
They quickly figured out how to game the system though and the 2018 election was a dry run for what they would have done this election. COVID changed that up a little, but much of it is still part of the plan.
Military intel
That’s why Trump went so heavy on attacking Jeb Bush. He was the establishments chosen one, remove him and the establishment had nothing.
It was pretty funny to watch the establishment latch on to the next candidate after candidate after they kept dropping out
She cried uncontrollably for at least 45 minutes and threw objects at her staff while cursing them.
What is a veruca salt meltdown?
She was the huge spoiled brat from Willy wonka lol
Republicans are "sports entertainers" in the District of Columbia Wrestling Federation. McCain, Romney and Jeb were jobbers (hired and scripted to lose) for Obama and Hillary.
Trump was like an MMA fighter who busted into the DCWF and actually beat the shit out of all the performers. That's why DC hates him so much, not his moderate policies.
This explains the end of ISIS, Soleimani, ending the endless wars, replacing NAFTA nixing the TPP, ending 1619, scores of judges, 3 conservative supreme court justices, saving us from China, BTFO coup and impeachment, peace in the middle east, 2 legit Nobel peace prize nominations, TWO SCOOPS, seriously, I can keep going... like no president has even tried since WWII?
Edit: THE WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I could take back my vote for Romney. It was my first ever vote too. Makes my skin CRAWL.
I mean this dude cowered to fat ass CANDY CROWLEY
It’s the power of the beard
He’s a strange looking dude and the beard is definitely an improvement. Just looked like a total dweeb before
Our salt and pepper lion prince
I was never a fan of Cruz in 2015, but I'd be all for Cruz 2024. As long as he maintains Trump's fantastic foreign policy that has brought peace to the American people. I don't want his replacement to be another war hawk.
Ted was extremely unlikeable in 2015/16. Even his insults were lame af. Remember when he called trump a sniveling coward? I do like Ted a lot more now but I’m not sure he can necessarily be trusted. But he’s a lot better than 98 percent of others at this point
The beard really changed him.
He learned from his mistakes and saw the power of the internet and Meme culture.
I will teach them to win
They thought they were going to have a milquetoast election in 2016 with a standard swamp D (Clinton) and a standard swamp R (Jeb), throwing some light punches and debate back and forth, and gutting the country even further and eventually landing the death blow to the country. Trump really threw a wrench into that. I'm not sure they would have tried to destroy Cruz the same way they try to destroy Trump.
A Jeb/Hillary debate would have been the biggest snooze fest of all time.
I don’t think they would have pulled out the big guns like they did for trump for Cruz but imagine if they did? Imagine if Ted had the equivalent of the pussy tape leak? Any of them would have dropped out immediately. Instead trump calls the press conference and has bills accusers just sitting there. Fucking insane lol
No other president has had to face this level of media coordinated attacks. Even Reagan would have retired by the time of the impeachment vote at least.
Personally I'm hoping the combination of absolute bonkers chaos and sweeping indictments of Democrat leadership leads to the essential collapse of the Democrat party.
I'm really seeing most of my Democrat friends going the "Fool me twice, shame on me" route after the second Bernie hoax and going socialist libertarian. Yeah, I know its an oxymoron but they believe in it. Once they give up and realize there's four more years of Trump and the Trump thing is "basically over" they are going to ditch the freakazoid Democrats and go with classical liberal libertarianism. Legal weed and no wars. Maybe social safety net but, like, don't tell me what to do.
I'm seeing a third party in 2024 that has about 2/3 of the Democrat party in it and is significantly less threatening and corrupt because all the Deep State Democrats and the DNC Crime Machine will be waiting in LOOONG lines for their trials and decades-long sentences. Maybe a few executions for Sedition and High Treason for some lulz.
This is a good comment bro.
I would agree with your conclusion except for the fact that their base is eagerly drinking in the deception and wallowing in it right now. Even the Soviet Union had to largely force it on everyone and they limped along for 70 years. I don't think they even had a phase where most of the people were enthusiastic.
I mean to say, you are absolutely right but that doesn't mean the timeline is a collapse in this generation, especially when this generation is the most self-assured in human history and least truly educated in 1st world history.
That's why I see a shift from a terrible idea to a much less bad idea but where they can still think they are intellectually superior and that the Right is still totally wrong and hateful. But at least a grassroots libertarian socialist party without the DNC/Deep State War Machine will be far less dangerous and easier to work with normally.
The Legacy Media and the Universities must be gutted.
A lot of their base is flaking off. Look at #WalkAway. Look at their dropping Latino numbers. Look at their dropping black numbers. Look at Jimmy Dore - He's got a million subscribers, He's a progressive, and he's constantly roasting the Dems, even frothing at the mouth sometimes.
I yearn for the rapid implosion of the D’s, and the forceful conversion of the R’s into the Lion Party.
The visible Dems are all the wackjobs though.
Think about all your family members who vote Democrat because they think they "care". Remember the Democrats who just "cared"? They just cared about the poor. They just cared about peace? They just cared about the environment? They just cared about not hating other people?
I think about people I know who just want to be nice and see the drug war end and be friends with all the countries of the world and try to imagine them really supporting this hard marxist revolution Democrat party.
If a libertarian manages to capture that Democrat voter and create a viable political movement things could change overnight.
Honestly while we go after Bernie as a socialist he's pretty much old school "nice" Democrat. He's not a hard marxist revolutionary type and if the Democrat Deep State Machine goes down under Trump he's gonna BE the Democrat party.
The system corrupted him - which is quite easy for a socialist.
No, he's an outsider. Look at how the DNC treated him. I've got some direct experience with him and while I disagree with him on socialism he's pretty genuine and doesn't exude the fake/radical hiding in the bushes aura that most other Democrats do. I don't want him president but I would take him over a Biden/Harris manchurian Deep State administration any day.
There's probably going to be a party split. There are plenty of moderate liberals out there, but they effectively do not have a voice in the current democrat party.
It's the new Kasich-Romney party, baby!
🤮
By then the rules will have been changed to ensure no one can do it anymore. Just needs enough votes in the house and senate and why the next midterms are just as important as this election.
Can you imagine how fucked we'd be right now if Shillary had won?
It specifically does not apply to Supreme Court nominations it only applies to nominations below the Supreme Court
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
That's kind of the point. They set the precedent with revoking cloture for lifetime judicial nominations, not that much justification applying it to Supreme Court vs other lifetime appointments, especially when the Dems would have dragged out the stonewalling throughout Trump's entire presidency.
Interesting
I remember McConnell was very fire and brimstone when he was the minority leader in 2012/14 and Harry Reid introduced the nuclear option.
The nuclear option was a decision to approve judicial nominees/cabinet appointments with a simple Senate majority rather than the traditional 2/3 necessary.
I’m almost certain when Reid paved the way for this, McConnell warned him: You will regret this decision sooner rather than later. You won’t be the majority forever.
In 2017, Republicans used The nuclear option to approve Gorsuch. They will likely do the same to fill the RBG seat.
Of course the Republicans will, they literally have no reason to hold back, it’s an election year and everyone has eyes on the Republicans in Congress.
This is one of the few areas where we actually can rely on RINOs to vote along party lines (I mean if they voted for Kav. why not do it again)
Collins, murkowski and Romney already said they wouldn’t.
They make my blood boil. How can you sit back and see all the treason, riots and dirty tactics of the left and do anything but fight them with everything you have?
Romney is still seething over that uncouth thrice-married reality star/casino mogul doing what Romney's lantern-jawed white-picket-fence missionary ass couldn't: win. (And teach Republicans how to win.)
I'm glad Obama beat him, for obvious reasons.
He was such a basic bitch vanilla candidate that he made Obama look hip and cool by comparison.
He is also just as much a RINO as McCain. He only won because the Media colluded to remove all his competition.
He's worse than McCain, who at least never voted to impeach GEOTUS.
Romney: "If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished."
GEOTUS: "Choke artist."
One of them was right.
I honestly don't know if McCain and Romney would have been worse presidents than Obama or not. They are slimy as fuck and the electorate sniffed it out right away. Hell, McCain might have been worse than Hillary.
thank god Romney didn't burn up the Republicans turn in office.
Romney is party to the treason.
Do you think Collins will have any remote chance of keeping that seat if she refuses to vote? Do you think Maine Republicans will cast a vote for her after that? No fuckign way. No way. McConnell knows it.
No. Parties are not binding, but its unlikely any of the Republicans will actually break rank, despite what they have said. There is also the possibility Democrats could break rank.
Source? I haven't seen that. I would be very surprised if he votes against a pro-life justice. I mean, he does represent Utah.
Edit: Romney's communications director disagrees
Yea I have not seen Collins or romney say that yet. We can lose 3 anyways with pence being the tie breaker
It's Romney
Wrong. Romney denied it after his spokesperson jumped the gun and said he wouldnt support it.
McConnell promised to put them on the spot to vote. If any of them, including Susan Collins, would dare to not vote, or vote against the nominee, they can say goodbye to their re-election bid.
Actually not an exception to 2/3 but exception to filibuster 60 vote requirement.
Your comments still stand of course. Apologize in advance for nitpicking.
I always welcome better info and constructive criticism. Thanks pede!
Pay attention trolls, this is how two civilized people talk to another outside of Reddit.
The Rs need to cram a replacement in asap, then win big, and remove the Nuke Option
What's even more dangerous than letting the Dems have the Nuke option is not having any amendment or article in the constitution that limits the amount of justices that are on the Supreme Court. That was a serious over site by the founders.
I fully expect the next Dem House+Senate+President to add at least three more justices so they can flip the court without waiting for anyone to die or retire.
Murkowski has already said that she won't vote to confirm a SCOTUS pick before the election. She won't be the only never-Trumper to stand in the way. Mittens, Collins, Gardner, Rubio, Lee, several others.
Looks like Mitch is sounding tough, knowing that other repug senators will carry the establishment water and not confirm anpther Trump pick before the ekection.
I know Rubio is a POS but you think he's gonna join the Murkowskis?
Also how many of them are up for re-election. I know Collins is and with the Trump enthusiasm some of these thin-ice RINOs might decide its not worth it. We don't have the same teeth as the left-wing mob but we're gaining power and we've rattled some RINO cages who made noise about fucking around and finding out.
There's a lot of Trump, Collins, and someone else combo signs in Maine right now.
Collins has definitely hitched her horse to the Trump train with Maine teetering on going hard blue with all the "new Mainers" from Somalia.
The sad part is this is a chance for the rinos to break free from Democrats, because with a clear majority in SCOTUS, they can use it as leverage on the Democrats, rather than be leveraged by Democrats. Putting a new SCJ in position now would put the court in the right direction of constitutional rulings for the next few decades, which would massively quell all the fuckery from Democrats because they can cry all they want, but if they know SCOTUS will rule against them, there's no point in even trying to skirt the constitution and blame things on Republicans stopping them, because we can simply say "Let's take it to SCOTUS then", and then they're shot down with no one in the Republican party to point fingers at, because it's technically out of Republican hands and they're just merely following the limitations of the constitution. At that point all Democrats will be able to do is huff and puff at a blank wall.
Time for us to write our senators
Though it should be noted that some pressure can be brought to bear when something needs to get done. Technically, you can be a loose cannon but it'll cost you down the line. Hopefully we'll see some of these people brought into line.
Turtle is very good at his job. Don't underestimate him.
I don't underestimate Mitch .. I just don't trust the slippery bastard.
Yes, but he's OUR slippery bastard.
The nuclear option. The gift of Harry Reid to the Republicans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
lol.
Dems: “We’re amending the rules, you need a simple majority for anything except a Supreme Court nomination.”
Republicans: “we’re using a simple majority to remove the exception.”
He said it when Harry Ried pushed through Obamas agenda.
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/191057-mcconnell-youll-regret-this
You come for the king, you best not miss
~ Cocaine Mitch
"Say hello to my little friend."
Creepy Joe Biden
I know he’s a turd but he has been solid as a wall getting these judges confirmed plus that nickname is so fucking funny.
His quick and efficient way he has systematically filled out our federal courts is nothing short of extraordinary.
Even if his inaction on certain topics has been disappointing, you can’t deny his mastery of the courts.
Judges seem to make cocaine Mitch shit himself with joy. Whatever floats his turtle boat lol
Yeah you can talk a lot of shit about Mitch... but 50 judges in 1 day... damn
I never understood why Obama kept so many seats vacant. Good for us but seems like a major political mistake for the libs.
Symbolism I guess, probably something to do with “muh first woman president” and maybe Hillary exerting her party leverage so she can make her legacy look better when it’s finally “her turn”.
No senate majority maybe?
And guess what, they missed
Big time
BIGLY
Hell has no fury like a coked up turtle scorned.
God dammit, posts like this are why I keep coming back to this place
the titanium turtle
"hehe" - Mitch McConnell showing the most emotion he's ever shown
It's gonna be hard to top this
Bahaha, that's incredible.
that is obscene.
I can go to bed tonight. This is best thing I've seen all week.
Schumer gon get it. Fuck him up Mitch.
it’s payback time motherfuckers. put another white male in there to really piss em off
They should put a far-right twenty-five year old in the spot. Guaranteed conservative opinions for 60+ years.
There don’t seem to be permanent reliable conservative judges. But lefties go hard left, and stay there.
Conservatives can't get past the tiniest bit of "muh fairness" and "muh principles".
Now, I'm not talking about real principles. But so many of our real principles have been replaced with "microprinciples" and the liberals are experts at manipulating those to get around the real ones.
Like all my "republican" friends who are getting their panties in a knot over how it might be "hypocrisy" for Mitch to confirm a justice now when he wouldn't confirm Garland.
Totally forgetting their real principles which are:
A) The senate can do whatever the fuck they want under their Constitutional authoritah
B) The entire point is making sure the SCOTUS stays stocked with Constitutional justices to fight the evil from the left.
But nope.....we gotta hem and haw over whether its not gentlemanlike.
Microprinciples.
Know what's not gentlemanlike? LOSING. God I hate spineless fags.
Not to mention double standards.
Instead of a judge being hyper partisan conservative, I'd prefer we impeach or otherwise remove the Obama appointees who can't even spell 'constitution' and couldn't put a thought together without the help of CNN or critical race theory
We can jettison Roberts too. Spineless hack.
Absolutely. Roberts is compromised and should be catapulted out
If they're so concerned about the principles, look here.
Basically this whole thing about confirming justices in an election year can be traced back to Biden. He broke the rule first.
Except Clarence Thomas, god among men.
Excellent point. I have always appreciated his opinions. A simply amazing man!
Get the kid in the wheelchair who won the republican primary in NC for maximum REEEEEEEEE
If only Nick Sandmann wer out of law school already.
REEEEEEEEEEEE
Biden used the second half of his rbg speech to explain why the senate shouldn’t replace her. Pretty disgusting.
"We must not play politics", he said, playing politics.
They're scared.
Now they're even more scared cause there ain't nothing they can do about it. Nothing Pelosi can do about it.
They know this nominee is gonna be starting down from the bench at their election fraud cases as they ask permission to count ballots they found in their printer and the Conservative majority asks if they want their case just dismissed or if they want felony charges.
Yes, when Biden's the one who broke his own rule first.
🐢 Snapping Turtle 🐢
The Democrats can't stop losing. They're a party of losers for losers.
The tortoise has a plan, slow and steady. The hare rushes to achieve quick results, and doesn't think of the long term ramifications. Now, a cocaine turtle....holy shitballs....watch out for that mofo.
What’s the context? I forget
Nuclear option, directed at Harry Reid. https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/191057-mcconnell-youll-regret-this
Just visited the comments section on that Hill article. Seems like a lot more Republicans were commenting 7 years ago.
I don’t understand. It seems that your source and this source both specifically state that the nuclear option does not apply to Supreme Court nominations.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday started the process of invoking the nuclear option, saying he wanted to change Senate rules to prevent the minority from filibustering any nominations other than those to the Supreme Court.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/democrats-trump-cabinet-senate/513782/
Then later the republicans nuked the exception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
https://youtu.be/lnNHI7B0SHo
https://youtu.be/reAM4U2vzOo
Cocaine Mitch will get it done before the election. Count on it.
"Surprise, motherfuckers!"
With what they did to Kavanaugh it is insane that they think we would play by those rules now. If any republican doesn’t vote to confirm Trump’s nominee we need to physically remove them from office.
Mitt “I love the twilight movies” Romney would like a word with you
Wonder what moral high ground mittens is going to die on
so long as he dies, i’ll be satisfied...
Every person in Utah should be lighting up his phone lines every day from the nominee announcement until the vote. Every. Fucking. Day.
The turtle speaks the truth.
"Never interrupt your opponent when they're getting their hair did." - Long Duk Dong probably
Sleepy Joe’s three sheets to the wind!
L9k
She voted for limited religious gatherings while BLM is tearing up our cities. That's a huge strike against our Constitution.
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/553524774-appeals-court-pritzker-ok-to-limit-or-not-limit-religious-political-gatherings-to-combat-covid-19
Democrats never think of the long term.
Be warned though, Pedes... Its going to take a loooot of ass kissing to get a pick through.
democrats never think they will lose because they are so cocksure of themselves. RBG could have stepped down almost anytime during obamas presidency but it was clintons turn and she wanted to be replaced by the first woman president. Liberals are always undone by their hubris. That's what's so great.
to think hillary would have put in that shrill cunt from the impeachment inquiry. shudder
These lunatics are now walking to his house to protest there, but he had police presence so they thought better of it. We have to do this. We must demoralize them. If they riot, who cares? It will hurt them in the polls.
When the Dems killed the filibuster requirement Mustang Mitch warned them that it might come back to haunt them.
Edit: I’m 78% sure this is what the quote is from
That's what the Dems are best at, making up rules as it suits their current wants/needs and not having the forethought to think it may one day be used against them. The tards on reddit were even talking about biden appointing 15 scj's if he were to win. The pendulum swings both ways democrats, remember that next time you try to fuck us over.
That happens to me when I leave for a few hours.
If only I could browse while sleeping.
Just woke up and holy shit what did I miss?!
Kek comes at you fast
Exactly. I don’t see the shit I see here on the news. I do have two conservative acquaintances that I introduced to The Donald and they share stuff on FB now. But I don’t see it come from anywhere else unless you count the messaging from the Young Conservatives group.
And that was towards a Senator from the GREAT STATE OF NEVADA (fuck, is he dead yet?)
I'll take a sip of bourbon for this
Cocaine Mitch go brrrrrrrr
Someone give this man a Benjamin to do another line with
This is it, boys. 50 years of MAGA ahead of us if the Senate can do the job!
DO IT BEFORE THE LEFT TRIES TO STEAL THE ELECTION AND THE SENATE WITH IT
The best part is , if this goes through, then Trumps 3rd pick is replacing slick willy's rbg.
KEK KEK KEK KEK KEK KEK KEK KEK
Nuke em Mitch, nov 4 win or lose shove it in dry and let them scream about it.
BASED COCAINE MERCHANT
Ominous, foreshadowing, and prophetic.
Baby voice Ford needs to be strung up by the FUCKing neck. That fucking lying cunt is an abomination to the human race.
"Elections have consequences" Barrack Hussain Barry Sortero Obama?
Put the turd in their mockingbird.😂
He had better not hold this up. Get the vote started before She is in the grave. Operation Scotus warp speed!
Whatever hgappens in November (and I expect the Dems to do everything possible to steal this one) at least our President has had a chance to properly re-orient the Supreme Court.
That is still my favorite floor speech from Mitch ever.
What was this quote about. Should add context.
Democrats made is so a simple majority was required instead of 2/3rds like it was before. It backfired hard af on them.
Ahh okay. So he said this on the nuclear rule.
Dunking on corrupt Harry Reid
Democrats regret nothing. They just change the rules when the next hurdle presents itself.
Trump has to fill this spot ASAP. It can't be an election issue.
The turtle has spoken and the left keeps asking to "burn it down". Radicals.
When you're losing the game, flip the board.
Over the counter grenades when?
I have ham grenades! 🍖
Romney, Murkowski, and at least two other assholes will vote no.
Or Abstain...
Susan Collins, Lamar Alexander
Imagine how fucking satisfying it is for the turtle to be able to remind Democrats practically everyday about this. It's satisfying just for us but he must be loving it.
Take that bitches!!!!! Democrats thought they owned the country LMAOO
Democrats just try to feign it means that, because the precedent they set involved that situation. But technically, there were no stipulations that it must only be for lower appointments.
Fillibuster opened the door to be used on every and any situation, but again, Democrats try to make up limiting rules after the fact. Just like they tried to pull that crap that Trump couldn't put in Kavanaugh because it was the midterms. They will make up anything on the fly to try to abuse a power for their own gain, while later trying to limit it when the tables are turned. That's why Democrats should simply be ignored.
Because otherwise, what always happens, what has always happened in history, is Democrats set a precedent of something they previously said you couldn't do, getting to fire the first shot.
Like for example, if Biden actually became president, guess what would happen? He'd install a new SCOTUS immediately. Despite the fact that when Trump was elected, they said he couldn't replace Scalia. Then 2 years later they told him he still couldn't do it because it was the midterms. And now they'll tell him he can't do it again. Which means they're essentially trying to make it so that at any time in a Republican presidents term, whether beginning middle or end, they can't put a new SCJ on SCOTUS. It's all manipulation to obstruct and maintain power.
They used the nuclear option to get rid of that rule. SCOTUS picks need only simple majority
To the Democrats who supported the nuclear option when it was first introduced
YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!
I was once a young agnostic know it all pede brethren, but life straightened me out. I had a very hard time believing in the concept of a God, of Intelligent Design. Life showed me that there was pure evil walking the Earth, pure unadulterated evil lives amongst us pedes. We fight for our children/grandchildren/those who come after us, until God has had enough and decides to straighten things out permanently and forever. Only through the Lord Jesus can you have life everlasting and I could not believe that anymore than I do. I've had the opportunity to serve several tours in violent regions of the world and I've seen firsthand how evil man can be to one another it's disgusting and stomach turning.
Keep the faith Team Pede...fight the good fight.