Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life (thehill.com) 158
According to Lara Trump, Donald Trump has prepared but not yet delivered a speech about extraterrestrial life, though the White House says such a speech would be "news to me." White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt continued: "I'll have to check in with our speech writing team. Uh, and that would be of great interest to me personally, and I'm sure all of you in this room and apparently former President Obama, too." The Hill reports: Lara Trump, speaking on the Pod Force One podcast, said the president has played coy when she and her husband Eric have asked about the existence of UFO's and aliens. "We've kind of asked my father-in-law about this... we all want to know about the UFOs... and he played a little coy with us," Lara Trump said. "I've heard kind of around, I think my father-in-law has actually said it, that there is some speech that he has, that I guess at the right time, I don't know when the right time is, he's going to break out and talk about and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life."
Obama has clarified in recent days that he has seen no evidence that aliens are real, after comments he made on a podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen seeming to confirm his knowledge of extraterrestrial life went viral. "They're real but I haven't seen them," Obama said on the podcast. "And they're not being kept in... what is it? Area 51. There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."
Later, in a post on Instagram, Obama clarified that he was trying to answer in the light-hearted spirit of a speed round of questions and that, "Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there." "But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
Obama has clarified in recent days that he has seen no evidence that aliens are real, after comments he made on a podcast with Brian Tyler Cohen seeming to confirm his knowledge of extraterrestrial life went viral. "They're real but I haven't seen them," Obama said on the podcast. "And they're not being kept in... what is it? Area 51. There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."
Later, in a post on Instagram, Obama clarified that he was trying to answer in the light-hearted spirit of a speed round of questions and that, "Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there." "But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
Yeah, that was pretty clear to me (Score:4, Insightful)
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He's looking for things that can get his name in the history books. Naming things after himself, statues, resolving long running conflicts, and being the guy who announced that the US had discovered aliens. He will lean on DOD to say that some UFO is definitely aliens next.
Re:Yeah, that was pretty clear to me (Score:5, Informative)
This is all misdirection from the Epstein files and who knows what else. It's a CIA tactic that the White House has learned. People are here talking about aliens and Nancy Guthrie not arresting people for their involvement in Epstein's depravity.
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I can be both. Fortunately the arrest of that nonce Andrew Windsor should shift attention back to Epstein.
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I can be both. Fortunately the arrest of that nonce Andrew Windsor should shift attention back to Epstein.
Here maybe, but probably not so much in America.
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Weirdly enough, though, a bunch of my fellow Americans are absolutely fascinated with British royalty.
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Things should get very interesting. Bruce Springsteen is in the list of celebrities tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
Now we probably know what Bruce Springsteenâ(TM)s song "Iâ(TM)m On Fire" was about.
Verse one goes like:
'Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire, Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire."
Hey Bruce, still demanding everything be r
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Re: Yeah, that was pretty clear to me (Score:2)
re: Epstein; in 2009, there was a Mexican model "ranting" about satanic rituals, human trafficking, and cannibalism she witnessed.
https://youtu.be/8cIAU8R73Sc?s... [youtu.be]
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He's looking for things that can get his name in the history books. Naming things after himself
Ah but you see that is all part of the grift. After the airport is named after him he forces them to pay for his trademarked name. https://www.news10.com/news/na... [news10.com]
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Everything's a grift with that guy. Everything.
If Trump really has such a speech... (Score:5, Insightful)
I guarantee it includes at least one mention of Iron Dome, and probably also some rambling mention of how he's much smarter than the aliens are.
Re: If Trump really has such a speech... (Score:3)
Will jewish space lasers make an appearance ?
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Re: If Trump really has such a speech... (Score:5, Funny)
At a recent Cabinet meeting, the usual circle jerk was at hand.
Kristi Noem: Sire, no one has the excellent leadership of you.(tears in her eyes)..sniff.
Kash Patel: Sire, you are immense. No one is immenser than you. Your immenseness makes the Universe envious!!
Scott Bessent: Gee Sire, I only wish I could be as smart as you, how do you do it?
La Presidenta: I don’t know, just call me “I am”!!!
Rev. Paula White (in for the meeting, gets excited, starts speaking in tongues): Habba labba spooky bee, havenah wannabe soundalike Isaacca Sidneywah Caesarean. *
Tulsi Gabbard (gets off her knees to speak): You make me orgasmic, Sire!!!
Secret Service Agent (in an aside to his boss): I don’t believe this is real.
Boss (whispering): It isn’t!
SSA: How do you know?
Boss: Hehehehehe..come by my office later and I’ll show you.
Later
SSA: Well boss, you were going to show me something?
Boss: Get in the car, we’ll take a little trip.
Unfortunately, Kash Patel runs into them in the hallway and demands to go with them on a real live mission. He’s VERY excited.
They drive to a secret location.
SSA (whispers to his boss): Shouldn’t he have a blindfold on?
Boss: it won’t matter, you’ll see.
They arrive, get out of the car, and go down an elevator 80 stories. They get out and enter a lab.
Chief Scientist: Why Boss, this is a pleasant surprise, do you need replacements?
Boss: No, they are working just as we ordered.
SSA: What a weird place. What’s in those sarcophagi?
CS: Uh..you don’t want to look in one. Many people find it..disturbing.
Boss: Oh go ahead and show him, he’s got a strong stomach.
Kash Patel nearly wets himself with excitement.
CS: Well okay, which should I show him?
Boss: This one has a green light blinking on top.
CS: That means it is ready.
CS opens the nearest sarcophagus. A puff of blue smoke issues forth. And Kristi Noem is standing there in a Wonder Woman costume.
Boss: Wow!! Well done!! I see you have corrected the psycho eyes.
SSA takes a closer look.
SSA: Yeah, I can see the difference, there’s a bit more effervescence in these.
Kash Patel (peering a bit further down): They look so real.
CS: And they feel real too, touch one.
Kash Patel: Wow (squeeze, squeeze).
Kriski Noem floors him with a punch.
Kash gets up breathless.
Kash: That was Wonderful!!
CS: We had to be bit careful with the Pete Hegseths. If anyone says the wrong word around him, his right arm does a Dr. Strangelove salute. Although for your application, this should not be a problem.
Kash: Errrmmm..do they walk and talk?
CS: You betcha. Recall those amazing AI-Pets they have in Japan? Those were only our export models, we didn’t make those nearly as complete as these.
CS (now nearly beside himself with enthusiasm): We have the entire Cabinet!!! That’s why the circle jerks are so lively. We store the spares in our warehouse.
Kash: I just came from a Cabinet Meeting, they looked so real! Doesn’t anyone notice?
CS (now snickering): They were never real people to begin with. We like to think of them as Our Little Chia Pets.
Kash: Hey.wait a minute, have you got one of me too?
CS: Yup!!
Kash: So you could replace me at any time?
CS (breaks out laughing): We already have!
Kash: But I’m here and I’ve never seen another of me running around the White House.
CS: Think Sherlock!!
Kash: You mean!?!
CS: Damn, I hate when they become self-aware. Boss, we’ll need to replace this unit right away, we cannot send him back like this.
Kash: What?? Replace me? But you can’t!! I’m, I’m the h-h-hhead of the FBI. I’m important!
Boss: I’m sorry you have to see this, SSA.
Boss pulls out an evil looking de
Re: If Trump really has such a speech... (Score:2)
Kash Patel can see everything, everywhere, all at once.
Re: bored speech writers (Score:5, Informative)
Poor speech writers have nothing serious to do since he mangles most their work they may as well write more fiction...
The guy can't read a speech unless forced which is obvious since he reads the prompter like a moron.
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“You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets, I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Trump said.
“So, you know, the elevators come up in the new carriers—I think I’m going to change it, by the way—they have magnets. Every tractor has hydraulic, every excavator, every excavating machine of any kind has hydraulic. But somebody decided to use magnets.”
“I’m going to sign an executive order. When we build aircraft carriers, it’s steam for the catapults and it’s hydraulic for the elevators. We’ll never have a problem,” Trump said. “He agrees. Everybody agrees. But, ahh, these people in Washington.”
“You know, China intelligently went and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets, and nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, ‘Let’s all do magnets,’” Trump said. “There were many other ways that the world could have gone.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/art... [yahoo.com]
AI makes more sense than this dementia patient.
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F*cking magnets, how do they work?
I hate to be a nerd on this but... it's /. right? (Score:2)
Trump's magnet idiocy; I finally figured it out: He's just had a moronic attention span when somebody explained the geopolitical magnet problem to him. Rare earth magnets are chemically "ruined" by water in their chemistry which is extremely costly to crack and refine into the chemistry needed for working magnets. If you can describe the process of expensive refining of difficult minerals using sex (even better, with children) THEN Trump would have payed better attention. He describes it confidently like
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and probably also some rambling mention of how he's much smarter than the aliens are.
I'm sure even if it was explained to him at length and repeated to him right before he makes his speech - he'll still confuse space aliens with the border crossing kind.
Re:If Trump really has such a speech... (Score:5, Interesting)
Maybe the article title should be "trump's attention seeking daughter gets attention by saying he has written a speech about aliens"?
although... it probably would be a great way to distract people from those epstein files... if its that or a war with Iran, why not tell everyone that Rosewell was a real deal thing?
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The most bullshit-riddled part of your post, was where you never mentioned that Democrats could ever be just as complicit if not more in criminal activity.
The Clintons said they would welcome a hearing on their names being in the files if the hearing was public. https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
Guess who is now stalling?
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another calling the current administration a bunch of nazis,
Let's do a little thought experiment.
Think back in time. A country elects a right wing leader. This leader starts blaming the ills and problems of the country on a specific minority. For the good of the country they decide to have armed men round up these undesirables and send them away. The government starts controlling the media https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u... [nbcnews.com]
The government begins to punish citizens who speak out against it's tactics https://www.military.com/daily... [military.com]
The government encourages citizens to
Re: If Trump really has such a speech... (Score:2)
If Trump has the speech I'm sure well hear it when they start coming to arrest him for diddling kids.
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And yet, somehow everyone can guarantee that would be more coherent than any speech coming from President Autopen.
Do you really think the orange turd pardoned 1600 January 6th criminals with 1600 individual sharpie signatures? Here is that fat tub of shit admitting on camera he uses the autopen, but only for non important tasks. https://www.ms.now/morning-joe... [ms.now]
Shut the fuck up you kool aid drinking simp.
There is nothing in the Epstein files. Look a UFO. (Score:4, Insightful)
There is nothing in the Epstein files. Look a UFO.
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Oh my goodness (Score:3)
I'm going to shit bricks if the UFO conspiracy theorists were right all along. LOL
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There's better secrecy surrounding the Epstein files than any evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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They're also right about a global cabal of pedophiles running the country.
Definitely (Score:4, Insightful)
He should definitely give a speech about how there are terabytes of government files on extraterrestrials, and that people should be demanding to see them instead of the Trump-Epstein files. It would be a distraction, and it might work for a week or so! Unless there are alien files. I'm sure that Trump would release those too, to distract from his pedophile and rape issues.
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Don't we already believe in extraterrestrial life? (Score:2)
Isn't God and the Devil and angels and all that hogwash all extra-terrestrial? It's not like they're all living in Malibu...
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throwing out the baby with the bath water
just because you don't understand something does not mean it cannot exist, to dismiss out of hand what one does not understand is called fundamentalism
higher realties are not extraterrestrial they are extradimensional or transdimensional beings who exist on a more profound, higher or more fundamental level of reality, it's called metaphysics and spirituality
both science and philosophy deal with this
try thinking above your box for a change
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No that's incorrect. If a being or species originates outside of earth and it's atmosphere it is extra-terrestrial by definition. It may be extra-dimensional too but not necessarily (and I'm not sure where you're even getting that).
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no, if the earth exists multidimensionally, then the beings here at every level of existence also inhabit the higher dimensional modes we coexist within, the Many Worlds Theory for example, there's nothing extraterrestrial about it
i also noticed you can't reply without being insulting can you?
The DoD has a plan in case of everything (Score:5, Informative)
Remember, the DoD has a plan in case of the girl scouts performing a full up insurrection.
Some speech writer at the white house doing up some sort of speech in case of the discovery of extraterrestrial life is not unexpected, though I'll note that there are many possible levels, from not very impactive to very impactive, but incredibly unlikely.
Low impact: We've discovered and verified some sort of microscopic life on Mars, Europa, or such.
Medium impact: We've found signs of life on a planet orbiting a different star
High impact: We've found signs of intelligent tool using life in a different solar system
Extreme impact: We've discovered ET, and they're visiting.
Re:The DoD has a plan in case of everything (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm reminded of Apollo 13. Nixon had a speech prepared for their successful return. He also had a speech for their death in space. Probably more than one.
So, yeah, Trump has a speech for aliens contact. Probably more than one, for friendly aliens, hostile aliens, attacking aliens, refugee aliens running from their enemies, and any other scenario science fiction has thought of for the last hundred years.
They're probably the same speeches Biden had, and Obama, and every other President for decades, at most, polished for this delivery style.
Really minor (Score:2)
That's been almost expected for decades though, so might not even merit an official POTUS speech in response.
He's an alien (Score:2)
Just look at that orange face. For generstions we've thought tha Martians are green. Now even one of them is telling us we're wrong.
Great (Score:2)
Because that's exactly what we need - more official incentive for whackadoodles to start praying to aliens now.
Of course, there must be aliens (Score:2)
for two reasons, the stats tell us so as in the drake equation
we know the evil people in power are lying
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One thing I'll guess - everybody who does believe that there are aliens - which is not unreasonable given the size and scale of the universe - are people whose support/votes he can add to the ones he already has
Weapon of Mass Destruction. (Score:2)
Here’s something to chew on. If the US Government has knowledge of UFOs or aliens, that knowledge is decades old.
When Governments abuse tools like social media, it’s known as a Weapon of Mass Distraction. The Epstein files dribbling out slower than a 90-year old man taking a piss is a perfect example of that weaponization.
Now back to the point about UFOs. At a time when a planet is arguably entering a Recession of sorts, perhaps now is NOT the time for any Government to start talking about a
Desperate for attention (Score:4, Interesting)
The ONLY reason this is even being mentioned is because Obama said it first. Had he not said anything the dementia-adled pumpkin and his minions wouldn't have a reason to say anything. It's only because the first black president, one who is looked upon far more favorably than the current goon-in-chief, that anything is even being mentioned.
Give it a week. You'll never hear anything about it again.
Remain on Alpha Centauri IV ! (Score:4, Informative)
Why is it we only take beings from shithole planets, right? Why can't we have some beings from Betelgeuse, Canis Major, just a few ? Let us have a few from Barnard's Star. Do you mind sending a few beings ? Send us some nice beings . Do you mind?
But we always take people from Alpha Centauri. Places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, high gravity, acidic atmosphere.
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When Alpha Centauri IV sends its beings, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.
I've read that book. Or, rather, several of those books. Most of the movies based on that premise aren't very good, though.
Remain buried on Planet Mass Ignorance. (Score:2)
When Alpha Centauri IV sends its beings, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. Why is it we only take beings from shithole planets, right? Why can't we have some beings from Betelgeuse, Canis Major, just a few ? Let us have a few from Barnard's Star. Do you mind sending a few beings ? Send us some nice beings . Do you mind? But we always take people from Alpha Centauri. Places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, high gravity, acidic atmosphere.
It's been at least deeper-in-the-sands-of-time-than-we-humans-have-discovered time ago since the last visit to this planet from alien life.
Given human history discovering the equivalent of new continents and several thousand Gods with many claiming to be The Creator, one can assume that any alien finding us now, is either drunk or looking to conquistador our collective ass by way of a new intergalactic superhighway.
Either way, start cracking open that bottle you were saving for a "special" occasion. This i
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I'll bet you $100 that he would muck up just about all of those star names (if he remembered them at all) and would probably make up a couple.
Additionally, he'd veer off in a rambling semi-coherent way and start talking about how stars are being named after him.
NBD (Score:2)
and at the end of the speech... (Score:2)
will he take off the mask and show his orange lizard skin?
Trump prepared a speech. Ya, you already lost me. (Score:2)
Trump prepared a speech. Ya, you already lost me.
You should be talking about the stock market (Score:2)
You should be talking about the stock market! Err, I mean, aliens! Something else. Anything else, just not raping children. Why the fuck would you want to talk about raping children when we could be talking about aliens? I never raped an alien.
Cover up! (Score:2)
MAGA are conspiracy lovers, if Trump does this and then doesn't confirm the Greys have visited us, then they're going to lose their shit. Possibly claim that Trump is "compromised" and now part of the cover up.
My guess is that this is an old man that is looking for attention and for a distraction. He'll release the Roswell files but not the Epstein files. Or his tax returns.
The dude is a con man. And I don't understand why millions of people keep falling for it.
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We're at the point where there's really no credible argument against the existence of UAPs (as in, not necessarily alien but exhibit behaviour WAY beyond the possibility of our current tech). There is now just too many highly credible witnesses and more importantly, highly credible data (including stuff the US and other governments have themselves declassfied/released) to actually put that genie back in the bottle, like the US and other western governments have always been trying to do, since at least 1952
well there is likely a speech for Trump resigning (Score:2)
Emergency speeches do not mean anything (Score:3)
The US has emergency plans for everything.
1) What to do if Canada invades Maine.
2) What to do if NYC has an earthquake.
3) What to do if Aliens show up.
This does not mean there is any evidence of any of these things already happening (Note, NYC earthquake is the most likely of those 3 scenarios).
I would not be surprised if Trump has a speech for being crowned King of America.
That does not mean any of these ridiculous events are about to happen.
A modern myth of things seen in the skies (Score:3)
‘Jung’s main claim was that UFOs function as projections of unconscious contents onto ambiguous stimuli in the sky: people “see outside” what is actually going on inside the psyche.’
He has to justify allowing saucers (Score:3)
to land so he can get fresh tribbles for his toupee.
As far as Obama goes... (Score:2)
Same answer every president, vice president, or any other gov. official has given in the last 15-20 years. The biggest thing that's changed is even the acknowledgement that Area 51 exists, and that's mostly due to a lawsuit from workers that were poisoned by trash fires there...
Take our Trump, please! (Score:2)
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This will be fun (Score:2)
...and? (Score:2)
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Not that it matters. As soon as the Extraterrestrial Aliens landed, Trump would have them deported.
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I kinda wanna see the saucer boys marching into the white house with their anal mesh probes proclaiming "I'll show you what a REAL illegal alien looks like"
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I kinda wanna see the saucer boys marching into the white house with their anal mesh probes proclaiming "I'll show you what a REAL illegal alien looks like"
The rest of America would be more-than-a-supermajority happy to offer up the MAGA-shaming divisive ones as standard sacrifice to the anal-probing overlords looking to be satiated.
How ironic we would ALL find peace and prosperity if that was the only request.
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Those Alpha Centurions, they're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs!
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Not that it matters. As soon as the Extraterrestrial Aliens landed, Trump would have them deported.
Won't happen. Trump will build a force-field around the earth, and make the aliens pay for it.
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...Deporter in Chief...
Also known as that “racist” black guy who “hates” our “refugees” so much he deported hundreds of thousands of them, with a mainstream media showing nothing but praise.
Given that the "Deporter in Chief nickname was given to Obama by people on the left who were unhappy with his quite right wing approach to immigration, there seems to be a logical issue with... whatever it is you're trying to argue here.
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But it wasn't even just Trump or Obama. Even Bill Clinton back in the 90s had a pretty tough stance on immigration, similar to Trump's, and at the time, this was one of the issues on which there generally was bipartisan agreement. Also, Trump's stances on trade and tariffs today are what Dick Gephardt and David Bonior used to voice in Congress in the 90s, whereas at that time, you had fossilized Republicans just yammering away about free trade, tariffs being taxes, blah blah blah. In fact, the way Trump
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neo-Communists - people who believe in state control of wealth redistribution
Like... demanding the US Government have a stake in businesses like Intel, for example?
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I have mixed opinions on this one. Normally, I wouldn't have been in favor of it, but in this case, just letting Intel collapse would mean that all significant semiconductor manufacturing would happen in Taiwan and South Korea. Both of which are vulnerable to Beijing, should the latter become even more belligerent than it has always been. Usually, national security is a valid reason for government to do something, since private companies can't go to war against countries like China. But had Intel been a
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The government shouldn't have ownership of any company except in extreme instances such as what happened with the Great Recession where certain companies completely collapsing would bring too many others down, and then only long enough to stabilize it and get it back in private hands. Now, every time Intel gets a government contract, there's going to be questions about whether it was a fair competition. Every time they get a grant, there will be questions about favoritism. Every time the board bends to gove
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...Deporter in Chief...
Also known as that “racist” black guy who “hates” our “refugees” so much he deported hundreds of thousands of them, with a mainstream media showing nothing but praise.
Given that the "Deporter in Chief nickname was given to Obama by people on the left who were unhappy with his quite right wing approach to immigration, there seems to be a logical issue with... whatever it is you're trying to argue here.
There's nothing logical about the fact that Democrats conveniently and completely forgot about that "right-wing" approach to immigration and that whole Deporter in Chief nickname when they voted for a second term.
Tends to align with the double-down DEI-infused "logic" that ultimately created President Trump.
Twice.
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Even with Obama it's generally about voting for the lesser evil. In many regards Obama, like most mainstream Democrats was generally center-right policy wise.
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Re:aliens (Score:4, Insightful)
No, if he states that, he will be lying and looking behind the scenes will be a trail of McNuggets back to his pockets. If he state the opposite of that, he will be lying and looking behind the scenes will be a trail of McNuggets back to his pockets. He isn't difficult to understand.
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Actual aliens? He will send ICE to deport them to some South American regime.
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then be prepared for discussions on whether or not they have souls and if so, whether or not Yaweh/Jehova had his son (/ himself) Jesus brutally tortured and killed to save these alien souls as well.
Whether they have souls really depends on how good they taste on a bun with tomato, lettuce, and cheese.
In all seriousness, the dogma that 'Jesus died to save sinners' wasn't developed until 400-500 years after Jesus's time, and there are plenty of theologians and Christians who don't believe that was why Jesus died.
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oh do tell what these 'Christians' believe if they don't believe Jesus died to fulfill Old Testimate prophecy keeping God's word intact while also opening a path out of death/destruction? This out to be some epic heresy, give me time to make popcorn though.
Jesus never said he was going to die to redeem the sins of the world. The notion of Jesus's death as atonement came about later, probably Paul, but there does not seem to be evidence in the Gospels for this line of argument. Many theologians throughout history have debated the issue and there remains a broad spectrum of ideas about it. See a few examples here: https://www.thegospelcoalition... [thegospelcoalition.org]
Calling anyone who doesn't agree with your particular dogma a 'heretic' is unhelpful and quite rude and ignorant,
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Why would Christians from ~33 AD to 400-500 AD die for their beliefs if they thought Jesus was just some dude, and His death and resurrection didn't save sinners
People have given their lives for others, particularly thought or religious leaders - Hitler, Stalin, emperors, the King, etc., as examples - that doesn't make those people divine beings. Many of the disciples clearly hated the Roman government and the religious leaders of their time, and opposing those in power put them in harm's way.
Are the epistles like "Romans" fakes from 500 AD?
Romans was written by Paul (probably), and his writing created the basis for what would later become variations of atonement theory. The Gospels don't mention it at all, and t
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Why would Christians from ~33 AD to 400-500 AD die for their beliefs if they thought Jesus was just some dude, and His death and resurrection didn't save sinners?
Perhaps because they were deceived by a story that wasn't true?
Why would the apostles write letters saying things like Jesus died due to sin, and holds the keys to death and Hades?
See above.
Are the epistles like "Romans" fakes from 500 AD?
Probably not. There are 13 letters allegedly written by Paul. Only 7 are considered authentic, and Romans is one of them. Now, whether the claims made in any of the letters are true ... well, that's a matter of faith. Historical corroboration is scant to nonexistent, and good luck convincing historians of any of the miraculous claims they contain.
Look, I know that the point here is that fropenn is wrong: the doctrine of Jesus dying to
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Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (15:3), written 20 or 30 years after Jesus' death, says 'Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures'. But Paul's words reflect a belief that was in the Christian community before his arrival. Again, that doesn't mean it's true.
Yes, that's what Paul's letter says, but it could be interpreted in a wide variety of ways - and it has been interpreted in a wide variety of ways, and the theology and dogma that is often associated with it is much more recent than Paul's era. [Personally, I don't think Paul's letters should be in the Bible - he was an influential early Christian theologian, but many of his letters cause more problems than solutions and his theology is dense and somewhat vague.]
Specifically, the earliest interpretation of
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The apostles who knew Jesus didn't write letters, or at least any that survived. There's a very strong chance that most or even all except Matthew were illiterate, which was common at the time. (As a tax collector, Matthew would have needed to read and write.) Paul wrote letters, as did someone claiming to be Paul. But there are no known, confirmed surviving writings from any of the apostles who personally knew Jesus. The Gospel of Luke may have been written or at least dictated by Luke, but we have no way
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I don't think Trump will have anything to do with the "religious" side of it - he doesn't have a religious bone in his body.
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Because morons would literally drop dead before voting for a democrat. Cults and dogma are a hell of a drug.