@ThrillaRilla369 Prayer may not always lead to the result you would choose, but it will strengthen your spirit and help you make peace with all of life’s unknowables/uncontrollables.
@Deluded4@itsme_urstruly I remember the weird taste even now! I would steal her Ayds when I couldn’t get my chocolate fix from that pudding you made by shaking powder and milk. 🙃
@glennbeck I know Bezos with his big yacht, jacked bod & new wife is annoying, but Putin and his friends need to RELAX, enjoy some decadence. Stop focusing on conquering the US and regaining empire. Even Trump plays golf and chills. There is enough money and power to satisfy if they let it.
When you stand against Israel, you drift away from standing for America.
I am not saying this because the Mossad pays me. I am not saying it because I began as a supporter of Israel and then bent my other positions to fit. I had no such loyalty.
I arrived at this conclusion the way you arrive at a wall in the dark, by walking straight into it.
I am an apostate from the Middle East. I left Islam and still managed to live in the region for fifteen years afterward, under threat, yes, but quiet enough to survive.
Leaving Islam is a death-level offense there.
I moved to the United States a couple of months before October 7. I had no plan to stand publicly with Israel. None.
Because in the world I come from, standing with Israel is not merely a sin, it is the sin above all sins, heavier even than apostasy.
A man can leave Islam in secret. Standing with the Jews is open treason against the whole order.
My plan was to build a platform, comment on Islam, use the freedom of speech I could never touch back home. That was all.
Then October 7 happened, and I understood that the monster I had fled was already here. It had crossed into the West ahead of me.
The same force that erased the Christian civilizations of the Middle East, that strangled and stagnated the region for fourteen centuries packaged itself inside a product the West was already eager to buy.
Anti-Zionism is easy to sell, and so people are buying the thing that will dismantle their own civilization while believing they are buying a popular cause.
They think the box says “anti-Zionism.” They do not know what is inside it.
You can't be anti-Zionist today without serving the cause of Islam, because Islam is what is inside the box.
And you can't serve the cause of Islam without working against America, because America is the next civilization on the list.
Against Israel, for Islam, against America, it is one line.
@RealTraderJill@chicksonright Very enlightening. I will return to spending zero time thinking about her but pray for her family. Tucker’s another one gone off the rails but, like CO, he’s not worth my attention.
Calif ballots are long justifying mailing - but Trump is correct that controls are needed on return process. Either via envelope code or voter enters into machine reader & gets a return receipt tracking voter’s tabulated choices. Silicon Valley should be turned loose on solution.
People ask why the CA vote-counting process takes so long.
@Elex_Michaelson of @CNN explains it clearly here.
But the short answer is the state values participation plus thorough scrutiny of ballots over speed.
@JamieWhistle Type of question that IMO makes the teacher a voyeur into psyche of kid(s). I hate it. Encourage deep thought and vehicle for expression, but avoid personalization w implicit judgment as to quality of kid(s) character.
@feelsdesperate@lachancenaomi27 Hopefully, we this helps blow the lid off fake veteran’s disability. All for compensating real & true damages (akin to Worker’s Comp). Otherwise, pass a lifetime UBI supplement as a perk of military service and end the fake paperwork.