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Post by Merge on Feb 25, 2024 0:26:38 GMT
Let me know when people of your profession, whatever that is, are singled out by certain politicians as Marxists, indoctrinators, sexual groomers, and purveyors of pornography to children. Let me know when your profession is targeted and maligned on a daily basis by your government's leaders and becomes the subject of negative propaganda designed to sow hatred and distrust. Simply for being members of that profession. Biden and mainstream Democrats have never leveled an attack on a huge subset of the innocent American population like that. Don't want teachers and schools being labeled as groomers? Then stop allowing teachers and school districts to keep parents OUT OF their own child's mental health issues, by transitioning them at school and actively hiding it from parents. Stop silencing objection to school counselors handing out chest binders behind parents' back. Stop silencing objection to teachers teaching about anal sex, strap on dildos and other sex toys in school. Stop silencing people who believe that isn't what they send their children to school to learn. Stop silencing parental AND child objection to allowing males to undress and shower with females and START putting the mental health of female teenagers EQUAL to trans female teenagers. Stop introducing books on child rape, incest, pedophilia. Stop silencing parents for objecting to introducing their child to books on child rape, incest, pedophilia. Stop allowing children access to books you won't even allow to be read to adults in a school board meeting. Stop silencing objection to child access to a book that even the author says is not for children. Stop silencing a parent from speaking up at a school board meeting about his daughter being raped in the bathroom. Where the Superintendent was not only completely covering it up, but then he lied about it at the school board meeting, causing her father to be physically RESTRAINED and SILENCED from speaking up during the meeting (then becoming the poster boy for "see how violent the objecting parents are"🙄) The superintendent not only covered it up, but lied about it too. Then the evil piece of shit sent the boy to another school where he could do it there too. Stop silencing objection to all of these by smearing and demonizing anyone that disagrees with allowing age inappropriate things. Otherwise it looks like grooming and you should expect to be called out for it if you do it or support it. I see you’ve bought the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Do you get a prize? A pair of gold Trump shoes?
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 16:04:20 GMT
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 14:57:52 GMT
Ha! Yes. The new uniforms are gross. They will have to be replaced, I'm sure, at huge expense and with a lot of waste.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 14:54:33 GMT
Counting down to the "But what he meant was..." post. Yeah. Just like with the shark vs. electrocution death quip, there is no context that makes this something a normal person would say in a speech.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 14:32:35 GMT
He wants to get rid of the Dept of Education??? ![:confused:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/gFcgIuKyZogcCNuz36nO.jpg) But one person is going to sit at a desk and make sure 'everyone' speaks English ![:blink:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/pd7N3dneptLj3pbgz5Gd.jpg) Well that sounds like a sound plan These Republican dumbasses HATE the U.S. Department of Education. They want to hand all standards back to the states, so the red states can continue their downhill slide into a 4th grade education for all. States can already set their own standards. Texas' standards are actually right on par with the national/common core ones ... which are actually too stringent at the primary level in most teachers' opinions. The loss of the DOE would mean the loss of any enforcement for SpEd and disability protections in public schools.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 14:27:38 GMT
So the Maine case was interesting. Voucher bois like to use it to prop up their attempts to make vouchers happen in Texas, but the fact is that in Maine the opportunity to use vouchers for private religious schools only applies in very remote parts of the state where there are no public schools. Of course, the goal in Texas and other red states is to destroy public schools so they can claim the same benefit here, but rural Texans are not going to let their public schools go without a fight. Abbott wasn't counting on the pushback he'd get from rural Republicans on vouchers. Four special sessions last year and he couldn't make it happen. True. Fortunately, Maine hasn’t gone overboard with vouchers and probably won’t because there are reliably blue parts of the state. Still, it’s a step too far. Taxpayers should not have to fund religious schools. The obvious solution is to open public schools in those areas.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 14:25:18 GMT
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 14:20:03 GMT
The Supreme Court has had a lot of terrible rulings lately. Allowing school vouchers at religious schools, the Maine case is one of the worst. The Republican Party has been completely taken over by MAGA and the religious zealots like Mike Johnson. So the Maine case was interesting. Voucher bois like to use it to prop up their attempts to make vouchers happen in Texas, but the fact is that in Maine the opportunity to use vouchers for private religious schools only applies in very remote parts of the state where there are no public schools. Of course, the goal in Texas and other red states is to destroy public schools so they can claim the same benefit here, but rural Texans are not going to let their public schools go without a fight. Abbott wasn't counting on the pushback he'd get from rural Republicans on vouchers. Four special sessions last year and he couldn't make it happen.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 13:43:43 GMT
Definitely books, followed by shoes (mine) and guitars (DH's). I am married to a packrat.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 13:21:34 GMT
I have often said check out those churches, pastors and priests for who is really grooming and assaulting kids. It IS curious that so many sexual predators seem to be affiliated with religion. 🤔🤨 Toxic patriarchy.
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Post by Merge on Feb 24, 2024 13:06:17 GMT
No, Biden called Trump out as a threat to democracy, which he is. As far as I know, President Biden has not called Trump supporters dangerous or the greatest threat to our country. Yes, he has. "Trump and the MAGA Republican S"If you recognize it as a major problem when Trump does it, I'm sure you're honest enough 🙄 to recognize it's a major problem when Biden does it too. Let me know when people of your profession, whatever that is, are singled out by certain politicians as Marxists, indoctrinators, sexual groomers, and purveyors of pornography to children. Let me know when your profession is targeted and maligned on a daily basis by your government's leaders and becomes the subject of negative propaganda designed to sow hatred and distrust. Simply for being members of that profession. Biden and mainstream Democrats have never leveled an attack on a huge subset of the innocent American population like that.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 17:56:43 GMT
I like the wide leg trouser-style jeans and chinos, but I’m completely over the raw hem style.
Fave thing I’ve seen for spring is navy-striped boatneck tees, as mentioned on another thread. But I’m probably going to have to settle for a similar striped regular tee as there is just too much fuss in keeping my bra straps from view.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 17:52:59 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/texas-woman-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion/An ectopic pregnancy put her life at risk. A Texas hospital refused to treat her. The 25-year-old woman and her mother blame the state’s abortion ban for a delay in care that doctors say put her “in extreme danger of losing her life”
ARLINGTON, Tex. — Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz tried not to cry as the doctor in the emergency room delivered one of the most frightening diagnoses a pregnant woman can receive.
The 25-year-old college senior was told she likely had an ectopic pregnancy, a highly dangerous condition where the embryo implants outside of the uterus. Without immediate treatment, the fallopian tube can rupture — and the patient can die.
The law that has prohibited abortions in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned now explicitly allows doctors to treat ectopic pregnancies. But when doctors at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital evaluated Norris-De La Cruz last week, they refused to terminate the pregnancy, saying there was some chance the pregnancy was still viable, Norris-De La Cruz recalled. Instead, they advised her and her mother to go home and wait, according to medical records reviewed by The Washington Post.
Norris-De La Cruz ultimately received emergency surgery about 24 hours later at a different hospital in the area, at which point her ectopic pregnancy had already started to rupture. The OB/GYN who performed the procedure said that, if Norris-De La Cruz had waited much longer, she would have been “in extreme danger of losing her life.” “I was scared I was going to ... lose my entire reproductive system if they waited too long,” Norris-De La Cruz said in an interview two days after her surgery. “I knew it could happen at any moment.”
Her case highlights a chilling reality of post-Roe America: Medical exceptions to abortion bans have not stopped doctors from turning away patients with significant pregnancy complications, often with harrowing consequences. Their stories underscore the messy collision between abortion laws and medical diagnoses — and the struggles of doctors and hospitals to navigate what many say are inadequate legal protections to treat women with life-threatening conditions.
In the nearly two years since Roe fell, dozens of women have come forward with stories of medical care denied because of abortion bans, with the changes in treatment bringing some close to death or affecting patients’ future fertility. Several dozen women across the country who experienced pregnancy complications have challenged their state abortion bans in court.
Two friends were denied care after Florida banned abortion. One almost died.
The Post learned of Norris-De La Cruz’s case when her mother, seeking advice, called a Houston reproductive health clinic when a reporter was present. To corroborate Norris-De La Cruz’s account, The Post reviewed dozens of pages of medical records, sonogram images, photos and text messages, and conducted interviews with many of the people involved in the case.
Four OB/GYNs who reviewed Norris-De La Cruz’s medical records for The Post, with Norris-De La Cruz’s permission, said she should have been offered emergency surgery. They said they suspected Texas’s abortion ban played a role in how she was advised.
“That should have been a bread and butter slam dunk diagnosis,” said Clayton Alfonso, an OB/GYN at Duke University. “It doesn’t make sense to me that they would send her away, unless they had a fear that the surgery … could be perceived as causing an abortion.”
Kimberly Walton, the director of media relations for Texas Health, said the hospital’s top priority is “providing our patients with safe, high-quality care.”
“Treatment decisions are individualized based on a patient’s clinical condition and we believe the care provided to the patient in this case was appropriate,” she wrote in a statement.
Walton did not answer a written question about whether the delay in Norris’s care was related to the abortion law. The doctors who sent Norris home did not respond to requests for comment.
A Republican state senator who has spearheaded much of Texas’s antiabortion legislation said he was surprised and frustrated to hear about Norris-De La Cruz’s case. “I don’t know what the excuse would be for a Texas doctor not treating an ectopic pregnancy, because that’s not the law,” said Sen. Bryan Hughes, who sponsored a law last year specifying that Texas doctors are permitted to treat ectopic pregnancies, a follow-up to Texas’s abortion ban meant to prevent cases like this one.
But many doctors consider even Hughes’s follow-up law, which took effect in September, to be an inadequate tool for treating patients like Norris-De La Cruz amid a complicated post-Roe landscape. Ectopic pregnancies in the fallopian tube, which never survive to term, can be hard to diagnose on an ultrasound with 100 percent certainty, several doctors said — and if the diagnosis is wrong, a doctor might fear potential legal repercussions for terminating a viable pregnancy.
After the first of two OB/GYNs at Arlington Memorial refused to treat Norris-De La Cruz, her mother, Stephanie Lloyd, immediately thought about Texas’s abortion ban. “Does this have anything to do with the abortion law?” she remembered asking the doctor.
When he didn’t answer, Lloyd recalled, she had to restrain Norris-De La Cruz as her daughter tried to launch herself at him. “Whenever I f---ing rupture,” Norris-De La Cruz said, “I’m giving my lawyers your f---ing name.”
Norris-De La Cruz had not wanted to lose her pregnancy.
When she got a positive test in early January, she said, she and her boyfriend immediately started to imagine who their child might become.
“We made jokes all the time like, ‘Maybe he’ll be a competitive chess player,’” Norris-De La Cruz said. “We thought the possibility of creating something that was a unity of us was really beautiful."
It was just one week later that Norris-De La Cruz started to cramp and bleed.
She went straight to the emergency room on Jan. 14, where doctors measured her pregnancy hormone levels, performed an ultrasound and told her to return in 48 hours. By her second appointment two days later, her pregnancy hormone levels had dropped precipitously, according to medical records — leading the doctors to suspect a “failed early pregnancy,” although they acknowledged in the records that they could not entirely rule out the possibility of an ectopic.
Over the next few weeks, Norris-De La Cruz said, she still didn’t feel well — experiencing bouts of abdominal pain so severe that she struggled to stand. Thinking she might have appendicitis or a urinary tract infection, she went to the health center on her campus at the University of Texas at Arlington, around noon on Feb. 12, where a nurse told her to go straight to the emergency room.
Then came the frightening diagnosis at the Arlington Memorial ER.
After her confrontation that day with the OB/GYN, Norris-De La Cruz spoke with a different doctor on call who specialized in emergency medicine and had also reviewed her tests and ultrasound scans. He disagreed with the OB/GYN’s decision to discharge her, according to medical records. While he said he was not permitted to do the surgery himself — that required an OB/GYN — he recommended she remain in the hospital overnight.
“I do not feel comfortable discharging her home and do not think that is in her best interest,” the emergency room doctor wrote in her records.
The following morning, Norris-De La Cruz was turned away by a second OB/GYN, who determined that there was “no operation warranted,” according to records. The OB/GYN discharged her and told her to follow up in 48 hours.
As Norris-De La Cruz prepared to leave the hospital around 10 a.m. on Feb. 13, her mother was standing outside in the parking lot, begging a woman at a New Mexico abortion clinic over the phone to help terminate her daughter’s ectopic pregnancy.
The woman seemed confused, Lloyd said.
“Texas should be able to help you,” Lloyd recalled the clinic staff member saying. “Why do you want to come here?”
She gave Lloyd the number for another office — a former abortion clinic in Houston that provides ultrasounds and out-of-state referrals. But they didn’t know what to say, either.
“You could come to a Houston hospital but they might tell you the same thing,” Marjorie Eisen, a patient advocate at Houston Women’s Reproductive Services, told Lloyd when she called, in an exchange observed by The Post. “We’ve had luck with our county hospitals sometimes and sometimes not.”
Houston Women’s Reproductive Services has consulted with three other patients in similar situations since Jan. 1, said Kathy Kleinfeld, the clinic’s administrator — all women who she said have been turned away from hospitals with ectopic pregnancies.
Eisen suggested Lloyd talk to a doctor she knew in Dallas.
“I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this,” Eisen said. “It’s a nightmare.”
Lloyd started to panic, pacing back and forth as she tried to figure out what to do next. Her daughter was going to die, she recalled thinking to herself: Why wouldn’t anyone help her?
Back inside the hospital, Norris-De La Cruz got a call from her best friend, Monica Perez, whom she’d been texting with updates throughout the night. “I’m on my way to my OB/GYN,” Perez recalled saying as she drove to one of her regular appointments. “Do you want me to tell the nurses and see if they can squeeze you in?”
Norris-De La Cruz immediately texted her friend a picture of her sonogram, hoping the image would be enough to convince them.
Perez called back 20 minutes later.
“They can see you at 2 o’clock,” she said.
As soon as Perez’s OB/GYN, Jeffery Morgan, reviewed Norris-De La Cruz’s ultrasound scans, he immediately identified an ectopic pregnancy.
All the textbook signs were there, he said in an interview a week after the consultation: A large mass on the right side of her pelvis. Elevated levels of pregnancy hormone with no visible pregnancy inside the uterus. Fluid in the abdomen.
“There are times when it’s really early in the process when it can be hard to know if it’s ectopic — but that honestly would have been weeks before where she was in the pregnancy,” Morgan said, adding that he was 98 percent sure Norris-De La Cruz had an ectopic when he initially examined her.
At his clinic, Morgan told Norris-De La Cruz and her mother that he recommended surgery as soon as possible.
As soon as they heard that, they both started to sob.
“Wow,” Norris-De La Cruz recalled thinking as she looked up at the doctor. “I don’t have to make my case. You see it. You understand that this is an emergency.” Norris-De La Cruz was scheduled for surgery at Medical City hospital in Arlington three hours later.
Morgan was able to remove the ectopic pregnancy, according to records.
But the mass had grown so large he also had to take most of her right fallopian tube, a loss that could affect her future fertility.
That outcome was likely inevitable, according to most of the OB/GYNs consulted for this story. Norris-De La Cruz probably would have lost her tube even if she had been treated immediately at Arlington Memorial, they said.
Morgan said he never considered delaying or withholding treatment because of the abortion ban, which he says clearly allows Texas doctors to treat ectopic pregnancies. He said he was shocked to learn that Norris-De La Cruz had been turned away.
“Honestly, it baffles me,” Morgan said. “Any kind of ectopic, anything like that is excluded.”
In the days since the surgery, Norris-De La Cruz and Lloyd have thought a lot about Texas’s abortion law, which they both believe factored into the delay in Norris-De La Cruz’s care.
When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the two had argued fiercely about what a near-total abortion ban would mean for women in the state — with Norris-De La Cruz fearing a loss of personal freedoms, and Lloyd welcoming new protections for babies who couldn’t speak up for themselves.
Initially, Lloyd said, she thought the Texas abortion law would only affect people who decided they didn’t want to be pregnant — never imagining it could prevent women from accessing lifesaving care. Now, she said, she has completely changed her mind about abortion bans.
“I didn’t realize how far it had gone,” she said. “But it has happened to my life now, with my daughter." “Her life has been in danger and affected by someone who was too afraid to help.” I can’t put into words the rage I feel at people who were too stupid and arrogant to imagine exactly this scenario.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 17:41:45 GMT
I'm a non-Christian who spent 34 years in the Catholic church, raised in a very conservative Catholic family. I also "freelanced" in other denominations when taking church music jobs to support myself. Based on that experience, I don't see any meaningful difference in terms of the fundamental beliefs of Catholics and other denominations when it comes to the divinity of Jesus Christ, which seems to me to be the defining attribute of Christianity. The difference is in how they express those beliefs, apply them to their daily lives, and expect (or not) others to apply them as well. But I remember an evangelical friend from high school taking me aside one day to invite me to be "saved" at his church. He told me that Catholics are not Christian and I could expect to go to hell if I didn't leave the church. My mom, on the other hand, was of the opinion that all non-Catholics were likely headed for hell. So I know those kinds of people are out there. I appreciate your perspective. I grew up Catholic, although I will not say overly conservative Catholic…French Canadian Catholic. I am not really religious but always considered Catholics Christians. I was told by someone, in a general conversation, that they were moving their kid to the catholic school even though they were Christian because it was a better fit than the public school. I am just curious if this is a common thought among religious denominations that identify as Christian. ETA- sorry if it is a duplicate question. I never searched to see if there was a previous thread. In my experience, people who say something like that mean that they’re non-denominational Christian as opposed to Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic or whatever. Not necessarily that they don’t believe Catholics are Christians.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 17:38:17 GMT
My other reason for asking is I forced myself to watch Trump’s speech at the National Religious Broadcasters convention (holy crap on a cracker, let’s not go there 😄) and he mentioned the persecution of Catholics specifically. There was not as much reaction in the room as there was with so many of his other buzz word phrases and opinions. He also asked how many Catholics were there and he said oh there are a few. So they were not overly represented there and I was wondering why. My mother (and many other family members) is a pretty devout practicing anti Trump Catholic . I would say she probably has voted Republican more in her life than not. While not perfect, she is pretty accepting and open to those that believe differently than she does. However we do have some family members that love Trump. From the responses so far that makes me feel better that it isn’t a common belief. And as far as those identifying as a Christian but not actually living a Christian life…that is in any and all religions and denominations. The same with non religious people…there are many who identify as moral that really are not. Even though certain things have not officially changed, the Catholic Church is a lot more open to change than other Christian faiths. The newer generations are more focused on good deeds than in the rules. While abortion is not condoned birth control is not attacked and anyone who goes to church and sees the families there can attest that it is being used. I occasionally attend events organized by the nuns that worked at my HS, the Sisters of Saint Joseph. They are very much involved in social justice, the idea that love is all inclusive and serving others. I can’t imagine that any of them are Trump supporters. It must have been very tough to listen to #45, my admiration for your fortitude. Um, that is true among the Catholic faithful but the church itself definitely still opposes birth control. My family growing up had a lot to say about “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose what they want to follow. The church teaches that all birth control is wrong, and that any form of birth control that prevents implantation is an abortifacient - which is why conservative Catholics are right there on the bandwagon with evangelicals wanting to ban birth control.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 15:18:16 GMT
I'm a non-Christian who spent 34 years in the Catholic church, raised in a very conservative Catholic family. I also "freelanced" in other denominations when taking church music jobs to support myself. Based on that experience, I don't see any meaningful difference in terms of the fundamental beliefs of Catholics and other denominations when it comes to the divinity of Jesus Christ, which seems to me to be the defining attribute of Christianity.
The difference is in how they express those beliefs, apply them to their daily lives, and expect (or not) others to apply them as well.
But I remember an evangelical friend from high school taking me aside one day to invite me to be "saved" at his church. He told me that Catholics are not Christian and I could expect to go to hell if I didn't leave the church. My mom, on the other hand, was of the opinion that all non-Catholics were likely headed for hell. So I know those kinds of people are out there.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 14:19:14 GMT
Great news!
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 5:34:36 GMT
I probably have eaten stuff when I was a young child that I would not consider eating today. An early memory was the butchering of a hog on a big butcher table that was in the big kitchen in the old farm house (1964ish). I remember getting the pig tail to play with. Also, my grandfather blowing out the intestines as this was the casing for the homemade sausages that were made the next day. I was the youngest and my siblings were in school. Who knows what was hidden in what Are you Laura Ingalls Wilder? 😂
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 5:27:22 GMT
I’m going to have to plead the 5th on that one.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 2:19:37 GMT
Anyone else keep reading this as "Padres are coming to San Diego?" I'm so confused ... aren't they already there? ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Pandas are good, though.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 2:18:02 GMT
Look for a shirt with a less exaggerated boat/bateau neck. They are out there, but you have to dig. The one I like is this one from Talbots. Never have had a problem with my bra straps showing. But I want the jaunty navy stripes so I look French. Haha.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 2:17:25 GMT
Hey, it's the 20s. We are liberated. Go without one ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) Girl, I'm 51 and have a G cup. That's not happening.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 1:46:29 GMT
Honestly, I’m at the point where women like this who are willing to betray other women for their own political gain are just dead to me. Sit down, Serena Joy. We don’t need your kind here.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 1:16:03 GMT
I'm seeing a lot of boat neck tees in stores this spring, and as they cycle in and out of popularity this has been an ongoing question for me: what kind of bra do you wear with one?
It seems, IDK, overkill to wear a strapless bra with a t-shirt. But otherwise, your straps show. Do you kind of shove them to the edge of your shoulder and hope for the best? Wear the strapless?
Some other solution I haven't thought of?
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 0:34:41 GMT
Complete nonsense. The Bible states that humans are given free will, meaning we always have a choice about the actions we take, and bear the consequences of our choices. That includes men. Many religions are based where the men have all the say and women are simply chattel. Look at the Muslim religion, where women must wear burkas, so as not to tempt men. Men have no responsibility to control their sexual behavior. I would have walked out of the church forever. Not all Muslim women wear burkas. Some just wear a headscarf and some dress totally ‘normally’ so you wouldn’t even know they are Muslim. Yeah, that’s a hallmark of very conservative sects. I recently saw a photo of female representatives in the Iranian parliament in the 70s, and they were dressed just like western women would have been at the time. It’s the conservatives who came to power who took away women’s rights and made them cover from head to toe. A similar removal of rights can happen here, and if Trump comes to power again, it almost certainly will happen. It boggles the mind that we have women here whining about Biden this or that when the alternative is the loss of women’s autonomy and a dangerous partnership with Russia. Priorities, people.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2024 0:31:57 GMT
We’ve never had a Biden convoy full of trucks with Biden flags on them here in Texas, but for a while there the Trump convoys were pretty common. And don’t forget the Trump boat parades! That’s some weird shit right there. During the election, my blue neighborhood had a fair number of Biden signs in yards. One sign per yard. The few Trump supporters who put out a sign chose to hang giant banners, fly flags, or put a dozen or more Trump signs in their yard. Weird AF. I used to enjoy flipping those houses off as I walked by with my dogs in the hopes that their Ring camera would catch it. 😂 Yeah, no convoys for Biden here. But I am also in the heart of Trump land unfortunately. It is very common around here to see people wearing MAGA hats, tshirts with Trump's face on them. Giant banners in people's front yards, hanging from their porch, flags in the ground, tons of Let's Go Brandon bumpers stickers, etc. If that's not cult behavior, I don't know what is. I’ve never been serenaded with any pro-Biden chants at non-political events, but at a concert a while back women in the bathroom were chanting Let’s Go Brandon. Cult.
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Post by Merge on Feb 22, 2024 21:44:07 GMT
Then why didn’t the investigator recommend charges? You seem not to understand the difference between bad practice and a crime. This has been said here before, but the report said a jury would find Biden "a well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" That it would be "difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him --by then a former president well into his eighties-- of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfullness. "just won't "because his diminished faculties and faulty memory he showed in our interview with him." Mmmhmmm. Also because he cooperated and returned the documents. Unlike other people we could name.
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Post by Merge on Feb 22, 2024 20:27:37 GMT
And yet they did a whole big investigation and found nothing to charge him for. That is absolutely not true. Report said: "Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and DISCLOSED classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen." Biden’s practices “present serious risks to national security”. Then why didn’t the investigator recommend charges? You seem not to understand the difference between bad practice and a crime.
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Post by Merge on Feb 22, 2024 18:29:28 GMT
Exactly. I just can’t imagine wearing a hat or item of clothing with a politicians name in it or flags with anything political. I regular flag yes. It’s their right to do so but I just don’t get the total admiration and god like fawning over him to me that’s sacrilegious 🤦♀️ especially considering how ungodly he is. Flaunting his many wives and boasting about how wonderful he is 🤮 It's beyond ridiculous at this point. I can't believe that people call Biden supporters cultists. Around where I live, I have seen freaking CARS wrapped like Nascar cars with Trumps picture the flag, etc. Entire cars and trucks. I have never seen one of those for Biden. Or Obama. Or George Bush. Or any president ever. To my thinking, that is total cult behavior. We’ve never had a Biden convoy full of trucks with Biden flags on them here in Texas, but for a while there the Trump convoys were pretty common. And don’t forget the Trump boat parades! That’s some weird shit right there. During the election, my blue neighborhood had a fair number of Biden signs in yards. One sign per yard. The few Trump supporters who put out a sign chose to hang giant banners, fly flags, or put a dozen or more Trump signs in their yard. Weird AF. I used to enjoy flipping those houses off as I walked by with my dogs in the hopes that their Ring camera would catch it. 😂
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Post by Merge on Feb 22, 2024 18:20:01 GMT
Held accountable for what exactly? He had classified documents from when he was a senator that he was not allowed to have. Also from when he was VP that he was not allowed to have. He had them, KNEW he had them in 2017, AND showed them to at least one person. And yet they did a whole big investigation and found nothing to charge him for.
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