The Era of Trump?

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Yes and more. Dated June 2024.

Quote:
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma – All Oklahoma schools are required to teach the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their curriculums as of Thursday evening.

If it's being taught (indoctrination anyone?) there will be tests. What happens to the underachievers? Will they be cast out?

[finnbow]

What's interesting is that the most religious states have the worst level of educational attainment and those that are the least religious the highest.

[Pio1980]

https://substack.com/app-link/post?p...3GM98U0iAdZIg4

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by finnbow

What's interesting is that the most religious states have the worst level of educational attainment and those that are the least religious the highest.

I once heard a Christian preacher say this (paraphrasing): Accept Christ as your lord and savior now because once you are dead, it will be too late. Anyone falling for this line, how bright can they be?

[Rajoo]

Elon Musk Is Now Cyberbullying Government Employees

Elon Musk is so excited to start his new gig ruining the federal government that he’s getting an early start by goading his millions of followers to cyberbully government employees.

And here is the punchline.

Speaking of fake jobs, last week, Donald Trump announced that Musk would be co-heading the Department of Government Efficiency, an advisory board set on slashing the government budget by a trillion dollars, hoping to cut personnel and essential government services … so they can be snatched up by government contractors or outsourced to private companies … owned by billionaires … like Musk.

The problem is that it will not be that easy to fire government employees like it is in private enterprise, so the bullying is an alternative tactic. Soon every Federal government employee will be branded part of the deep state.

https://newrepublic.com/post/188773/...oyees-call-out

[RickeyM]

Reading that a scary thought just occurred to me. At some point should trump not follow Musk's wishes would he conspire with Vance to move trump out of the way to give Vance the presidency. Would Vance then be more amenable to Musk for putting him in the Oval Office?
Crazy talk? Once upon a time a convicted felon attaining the highest office in the land was crazy talk too.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Reading that a scary thought just occurred to me. At some point should trump not follow Musk's wishes would he conspire with Vance to move trump out of the way to give Vance the presidency. Would Vance then be more amenable to Musk for putting him in the Oval Office?
Crazy talk? Once upon a time a convicted felon attaining the highest office in the land was crazy talk too.

For Vance and Musk (and Thiel, among others), Trump is just the vehicle for their own ambitions and dreams for the country (essentially a modern-day monarchy propped up by tech oligarchs). Here's a good take on it.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...ement-00177203

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

I once heard a Christian preacher say this (paraphrasing): Accept Christ as your lord and savior now because once you are dead, it will be too late. Anyone falling for this line, how bright can they be?

If they want to me to believe that teaching about God in schools will improve morality, they'll first need to explain why it doesn't seem to work in churches.

[BigElCat]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

I once heard a Christian preacher say this (paraphrasing): Accept Christ as your lord and savior now because once you are dead, it will be too late. Anyone falling for this line, how bright can they be?

errr...that would be me. IQ 126, Eight years of college (but only a 4 year degree).

[Oerets]

Whoever tells you they know what to expect when we pass on.
Is guessing and hoping.

For some it makes the inevitable easier to handle thinking and doing what they do in life.

I do not need the fear of what may or may not be after death. To be a good person here and now is what feels right for me. It sure seems for some it takes a constant fear and pier pressure to keep them doing what I do freely.