US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Absolutely - it's one of the first things union officials will demand during contract negotiations. If they don't get this, as we're seeing here, a substantial % of membership will "forget" to pay, not be able to pay (money's tight this month!), or outright refuse to pay. Unions are a business and need to protect their cash flow.
I believe this is the so-called "check-off" provision/process. From experience, the union office sends a list of members and their dues for the month to the company HR department so they can be deducted from the upcoming paycheck just like taxes, 401(k), etc. Its far easier for the unions to get the dues money that way than to expect members to do on the honor system or want to withhold money if they aren't too keen about their union membership.

At a point unions were needed. They were still hopelessly corrupt at heart but they did some good. Now they just bleed workers and work to benefit themselves above all.
An older guy I knew shared a similar sentiment a long time ago that I can still quote verbatim today: "The unions had their purpose when workers were treated poorly, but now all they do is protect the screw-offs!" Sad part is that he's been proven right countless times ever since he first said that to me.

I'm all for college athletes, at least up to the point where they are deliberately graded far easier, are all given first dibs on a cherry-picked list of piss easy classes, or have outright academic fraud committed by signing them up for bullshit classes they are given high grades for that never even took place. I think part of the reason behind the proliferation of total bullshit majors was partially a pretext to keep athletes with zero academic inclinations enrolled in good standing.
I feel similarly. I support college athletes and athletics if they're held to the same standards as the general student body. Sadly, the athletes playing in NCAA Division 1 schools care more about turning pro or making millions under the new NIL (name, image, and likeness) framework to the point they pursue material worth instead of their supposed degree programs. During the NCAA D-1 basketball tournament, for example, players were using the transfer portal to leave their teams even though they were still competing in the tournament. That's not exactly the sign of a student committed to their coursework (or anything else for that matter).

As long as colleges are incentivized to fill their slots with students that either pay full price (foreign ones) or generate revenue for them at all costs (D1 athletes), US colleges and universities - especially the bigger name ones - will continue to be a big mess when it comes to actually educating the student body.

Has that Tim Walz mouth.
It that a sea hag or an FTM tranny?
 
Wonder if this puts an end to ICE playing nice with the judges.

"Don't go in these private areas, and wait until we have a chance to give him a trial."

"No, we're arresting him right now and yeeting him from the country immediately. If you want to give him a trial we'll allow him to teleconference from a detention cell at the embassy in Mexico."

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Probably not that far, as my understanding is that the allowance of the standing trials is not for the illegal, but for the victim who deserves justice. It'd take some serious fuckery from a judge on the level of arming an illegal to facilitate an escape.

Rather, it'll probably be used as justification for why ICE needs an agent inside the courtroom with eyes on the Illegal at all times during such proceedings, to avoid any further bullshit. Just a plainclothes guy at the back of the audience to keep eyes on, but enough to make stupid escapes like this impractical.
 
In 1920 Hispanics were usually classified as White. Masses used Latin for services, so there would not be a Spanish mass.

Where did you find data showing zero percent Hispanics in churches during the early 20th century? Spain notably built churches and missions in the US Southwest.

In 1920, there had been hardly any immigration from Latin America. The Mexican Cession resulted in a grand total of 80 thousand Mexicans being absorbed in to the US population, which was around 23,000 thousand, making Hispanics less than half a percent of the US population. Hispanics just aren't that big a part of US history. It's a massive retcon by the modern Hispanic movement to pretend they are.

I said "zero" mostly as a joke, but the truth is it was a single-digit percentage until the massive migration of field hands after WW2.
 
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In 1920, there had been hardly any immigration from Latin America. The Mexican Cession resulted in a grand total of 80 thousand Mexicans being absorbed in to the US population, which was around 23,000 thousand, making Hispanics less than half a percent of the US population. Hispanics just aren't that big a part of US history. It's a massive retcon by the modern Hispanic movement to pretend they are.
The Hart-Celler Act And Its Consequences.

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along with some conceit that "An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door."
Ooooh, I like this line of thinking. It's wrong, of course, but it'll encourage idiot activist judges to misbehave and start openly violating federal law, and start removing themselves! Saves us a lot of work impeaching or voting out these dipshits.
 
This is a bit of derail but I just read/listened to a dude talk about the "long house" and women subverted church leadership starting with having women speak to women.
Longhouse? What does this guy have to say about the butt fucking bathhouse that the Roman Catholic Church has become? There is so much subversion and sinfulness happening in the Church and it’s men who are in charge.

Anyone who thinks women are retarded should read Saints Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Ávila, and Thérèse of Lisieux. All are Doctors of the Church and their writings are brilliantly holy. Women can't be priests but they can be extraordinary teachers and a blessing to the faithful. It saddens me to hear people talking about women being some kind of problem or contamination.
I'm seriously confused. What the hell was going on? Self-mortification? Trying to earn some indulgences?
It was mortification of the flesh; even though it has a long and legitimate tradition in the Church it can easily get out of hand and become something very dysfunctional, even demonic.

Obviously, my friend didn’t like seeing a bunch of retarded brownoids hurting themselves and crying. It’s not something children (or child-like nons in this case), the mentally ill, etc should be allowed to do. In his mind, these people should have been comforted by the Church and redirected to a more appropriate form of penance.
 
the Church has been declining rapidly for some time now.
I have noticed a steady downtrend continuously. The tradcath is trendy on TikTok but I haven’t seen signs of revival in smaller areas where it counts.

The church needs to let priests marry. That would decrease the pedo problem risk and increase interest. The vows of the olden days were not a time when men lived to their 80s.

The church can modernize without going globohomo.
 
According to the 1970 census the U.S was 88.7% non Hispanic white. What in the absolute fuck are you talking about?
It was 83.5% which, last time I checked, is well below 90%. Exaggerating undermines your arguments.
He said while the 250th anniversary of the founding was still in the future.
The records go back to 1610, so the US and/or the colonies if you prefer.
 
I have noticed a steady downtrend continuously. The tradcath is trendy on TikTok but I haven’t seen signs of revival in smaller areas where it counts.

The church needs to let priests marry. That would decrease the pedo problem risk and increase interest. The vows of the olden days were not a time when men lived to their 80s.

The church can modernize without going globohomo.
We also live in age where inheriting a church position from your father sounds absurd instead of normal arguably the biggest problem that celibacy was intended to solve is also gone
 
I guess the Great Lakes must have lovecraftian Deep Ones also.
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No longer a Lovecraft fan, but I find this comparison interesting given the subtext of The Shadow over Innsmouth is Lovecraft speaking out against both immigration and miscegenation. That being said, makes me think of what the Dems (and left-liberal Hollyweird types) have been all about in recent years.
 
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They keep saying these things and I don't think they realize how insane it sounds. No one's going to vote for a party whose first priority would be to undo 4 years of progress and arrest everyone they don't like.
They would argue that Trump's platform was at the start and continued to be about locking up his opponents and people voted for him nearly 3 times.
 
I have noticed a steady downtrend continuously. The tradcath is trendy on TikTok but I haven’t seen signs of revival in smaller areas where it counts.

The church needs to let priests marry. That would decrease the pedo problem risk and increase interest. The vows of the olden days were not a time when men lived to their 80s.

The church can modernize without going globohomo.
I don't think they're ever going to change that because of this. Celibate/eunuch priests go waaaaaaaaaaaaay back, long before Christianity.
It was very different in the Mormon church, they encouraged you to marry inside the church and always hinted at polygamy when they were talking to us about the girls of the church.
  • "For there are some eunuchs who were born that way, and some who have been made eunuchs by others, and some who have chosen to live as eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who can accept this instruction accept it."
 
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