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My lower back hurts just thinking of picking up all that lumber.

2

Of the D candidates, I think Pete Buttigieg is the smartest and probably the best but just imagine how mean and ugly the Trump campaign will get if he wins the nomination.

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2
Surprised?
Mean & Ugly is what Republicans DO.

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One could say climate change is becoming a concern for national security, but it won't matter since everyone is more interested in one-upping each other.

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@ 2, There’s nothing associated with tRump, Dense, and the Republican party that isn’t grotesquely mean and ugly, as well as abjectly stupid.

They’re already running an explicitly racist and xenophobic campaign based on lies and ethnic cleansing. It’s gonna continue to be a total shitshow until these sociopaths are voted out for good.

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@2,

Ha ha, I wonder if he'd create one of those generic nicknames ("Corrupt Pete," or some such nonsense) or if he'd have the balls to go raunchy. Pete Butt-Judger, would probably be the most obvious choice if so, though I'd like to see him get a bit more creative.

8

Stop using that bald twerp's vanity shot over and over again.
He put on his warm puffy vest in order to look tough....

9

Just as a new Bomb winter storm hits the Midwest (more flooding to come):

[D]evastating floods will force workers to leave the Midwest in droves

Jobs in agriculture, one of the top industries in the region, bore the brunt of hiring slowdowns: the agriculture industry saw hiring drop 16.7% over the last two months.
[..]

As a result of the flooding, LinkedIn expects a net migration out of the area. After Hurricane Irma devastated Miami, migration out of the city increased 62.9% in the same calendar year. LinkedIn predicts just as significant of a migration out of the Midwest in the coming months to Southwest and West Coast cities like Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth, Seattle, and Phoenix.

https://www.businessinsider.com/workers-are-expected-to-flee-the-midwest-linkedin-reports-2019-4

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[Pence] doubled down and said, “I'm a Bible-believing Christian. I draw my truth from God's word." That feels like code for, “yes, being gay is a sin.”
The overt inanity is that yes he does believe his god wants him to hate fags, but even though this dictum comes directly from an ersatz Supreme Being he is afraid to divulge that truth to other humans.
He must protect the delicate dignity of his supreme being.

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How does that fvcker's god feel about thrice-married adulterous presidentes?

Nvm, i know the answer to that one.

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There’s a spelling error in the article. You intended to described a “lumber truck”, and spellcheck rendered that as “lumbar truck”.

Lumbar indicates the vertebrae of the lower spinal column between the thorax and the sacrum.

I will grant that sitting at a desk writing article for the Slog no doubt feels like a truck is running over the lower back, however, it would be incredibly messy if a load of vertebral bones spilled onto I-5.

Believable, but messy,

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@11

Have the schools stopped teaching the differences between Catholicism and protestant sects?

They really made a meal of it in the history classes back when I was a wee robot. I know they've changed the curricula over the years but I didn't realize it might have drifted that far...

14

Can't wait till it's Earth, Wind and Fire day. (Let's make it a week!)

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I have news for Pence, Jesus was (is?) gay, just ask John.

@11 Yes. More to the point Christians like Pence don't understand the differences between the various Christian sects and don't consider Catholics to be Christian anyway. It is their version of Christianity or heresy.

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In my personal experience, I've found that most christians know very little about christianity.

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We will see what god truly thinks of this Buttigieg guy once the primaries begin.

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@12: I noticed that too. I giggled a bit, imagining a truck full of spines emptying on the highway. "Yeah... I'm gonna get into the office a little late today. You won't believe why."

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@12, 18,

I glossed right over it, but am now thinking ol' Theo Giraffe there @1 likely caught it and made a funny.

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@16: Knowing Christianity in the academic and theological sense is different than "accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior", with the latter being what actually defines a Christian.

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@20 Right Christianity reduced to a trite slog. No work required let alone good works. Religion reduced to slogan is hollow, lazy, and fearful.

22

Fuck how the hell did the first "slogan" get turned into "slog"?

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@20: Yes, that's a secular view. But relax, in America religion is optional and therefore can be included in the celebration of our diversity.

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"ButtPlug" seems nice...

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@24:

Except the folks running the GOP these days are Hell-bent on making it mandatory - but only if it's the "correct" Evangelical Protestant kind.

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@26 Examples?

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@24 Not only one can both celebrate diversity and be alarmed that some are using religion as a fig leaf for their bigotry but it seems like one follow from the other.

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@27,

Wasn't this entire topic precipitated by the laughably naive and ignorant public ramblings of the Vice President of the United States?

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@26: No such bloviating at CPAC this year about that, or in past few years as I recall. The GOP reference for divine providence is as superficial as it has ever been.

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@27,
Putting in god we trust on currency
Swearing on bibles in court
Putting up ten commandments signs on government property
Making laws prohibiting alcohol sales on sunday
Denying gays and lesbians marriage
Denying lgbtq military service
Banning abortion
Banning contraception

Shall I continue?

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@31: As arcane and odious as those are, none of them require worshiping the Christian religion.

33

Mike, just come out. Once you do it, you'll be surprised how little it really mattered. And then you and Karen and her boyfriend can be good friends, and laugh about that turkey baster you used to conceive the girls.

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@32 Yet all of them were and are promoted by the Christian right. Go figure.

Squirm all you want Raindrop the truth is the Christian right has taken "the Son of God who became the Son of Man so that Man could become the sons of God" and made him a slave of hate.

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@32 - I stated a fact, and you added a parenthetical "yet". You're the one that's squirming dude.

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@34, 31 -- so true.

If they're gonna take The Jesus out of Xtianity,
they need to take the X out of it, too....

As the weapons manufacturers hi-jacked the NRA, so too have Verminazis, fascists, corporatists, Billionaires and Rupert Fucking Murdoch hijacked the Republican Party.


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