Trump_is_Mentally_fit

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.

When was the last time you were in NYC? Seems pretty safe to me. Crime is actually lower now in most places

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.

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.

No, they are being targeted for rightly speaking out.

And deploying troops to cities has been found to be illegal. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/court-finds-trumps-use-soldiers-los-angeles-illegal

Calvinism was in its own way “democratic” in the idea that all believers had a personal relationship with God that no worldly institution should interfere with. Sorry, this topic got me thinking…

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

But a reminder wouldn’t have killed you. A reminder to live by the law is not treason and shouldn’t be treated as so, you can agree with that, right?

The Roman’s too! Cicero was a person many of the founders deeply admired

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.

And Trump and Hegseth the drunk are bums.

You lose

Oh ya, you guys will get him next time!! 🤣

Yes, but in fairness...Biden and that Laptop, so, ya know...or something 🤷‍♂️

Well, not much different from Trump paying welfare to the farmers his policies ruined with tariffs

What do you think of Trump doing this? Oh Yup

Student loan forgiveness is a really good idea, so good even Trump has to acknowledge it.

Dems will take the House and she doesn't want to defend the jack ass for his crimes. Right?

She made a decent argument that its all so stupid, the president was going to spend millions of dollars against her in a primary while the GOP was probably going down in flames.

Oh, the crowd that voted for the clown that said Mexico would pay for the wall is claiming someone is saying something stupid?

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You are welcome