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Mercy! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/ “The idea that wreckage from one small boat in a vast ocean is a hazard to marine traffic is patently absurd, and killing survivors is blatantly illegal,” said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts), a Marine Corps veteran and vocal Trump critic who received a classified briefing from Pentagon officials on the strikes in late October with other members of the House Armed Services Committee. “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
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No, it was fine, a good reminder to the troops under a commander who you admit can't keep his mouth shut. Maybe that mouth gives an unlawful order..again, like to Pence to not vote on doing what the American people decided. That was an illegal order that Pence did not follow. Good example and well worth reminding others about.
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https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/jobs-report-manufacturing-reshoring-tariffs-factor-job-loss/ The jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last week found that while nonfarm payrolls increased by 119,000, there were 6,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, adding to the tally of 59,000 lost factory jobs since Trump’s April vows to ignite domestic manufacturing. The Labor Bureau’s data is consistent with the Institute for Supply Management November report, which indicated an eighth consecutive month of contracting manufacturing jobs. “The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic…as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out,” economic commentator Joseph Politano noted in a LinkedIn post last week. Ullrich attributes the contracting manufacturing sector in part to the uncertainty tariffs have brought, which has disincentivized companies from growing their workforce. In a September note to clients, Pantheon Macroeconomics analysts Samuel Tombs and Oliver Allen attributed shrinking wage growth in the U.S. to tariff-struck companies trying to maintain margins by trimming labor costs. Similarly, Ullrich argued, companies trying to navigate new variables are usually less concerned with growth. “Oftentimes when there is heightened uncertainty, it’s just difficult for businesses and people to make decisions in real time,” she said. “And so that slows down employment. It slows down all those processes.”
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My cat is dying right now, but he seems mostly fine. Clear headed, still a happy little guy but cancer in his ear is taking him away and I just feel horrible that I have to put him down. Just doesn't feel right with him being mentally fine. My last cat was just pretty much done when I took him so though it was tough, I got it. But this cat is just so alive I can't really accept that as I'm holding him that I have to put him down. He's starting to be in more pain so I gave him a pain pill last night which is strange. I do not want him in pain but the pain pills turn him into a zombie. I just can't get my head around the fact I will have to put him down.
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Oh, one other thing. Those Puritans came across the ocean and one of the very first things they did was create Harvard University. It was initially there to train ministers but the fact they opened an educational institution says a lot. The Puritans get tarred with the brush of narrow mindedness but they did so much to expand the idea of eduaction, thought and higher discourse.
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This is a great topic! Why was the king in charge? Because God made him king! Same with the pope in the Reformation. Seems to me like a pretty direct historical connection. The Reformation started a long conversation about the meaning of God and society and the individual. Of course that boiled over into the secular realm. People listened to their preachers, analyzed their sermons and talked about them, they were like the opinion columns of the day. Many people did get kicked out of colonial New England for pushing their ideas too far, like Anne Hutchinson. Not so long ago the English Civil War(s) were called the Puritan Revolution. Of course, that war was fought to restrain a monarch seen as out of control and very much played a role in creating a direct historial narrative our founding fathers followed. If anyone has ever read about the history of Quakerism its hard to not also note the deep historical connections to our revolution.
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Just a guess here, but the Calvinist stress on literacy strongly connects it to the idealized version of a republican citizen. The school house is such an American thing, and it was very Protestant in origin. Through the New England churches local governmental decisions were argued over and voted on. Self government. Though other colonies had less democratic colonial governments, I know. The historical narrative of a fight against the great centralized power of Rome, which inspired many to even greater flights of freedom from Calvinism itself which was a continuing drama in American Protestantism. So that legacy inspired. Federalism is many ways reflects the way Protestant churches were themselves organized. I think Calvinism strongly influenced the ideas behind republicanism. Let’s remember the first great awakening had already taken place, and it reflected so many issues in religion that were fought over for secular reasons later, freedom of thought and freedom to organize as many saw fit. So Calvinism was “relaxed” by 1788, but its influence in many ways weighed on the founders, imo
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Both side?, you’re so simple. Trump ordered Pence not to do his constitutional duty in certifying the election. He has pardoned violent criminals, so yes, he has illegal orders in him. If you are actually saying Dems should not remind the military to follow the law with this criminal in the White House then you are just being blindly partisan. How dare the Dems offer a reminder! Do you actually think they committed treason? Again, you jump to attack Dems for their reminder to follow the law but nothing about your prez issuing death threats.
