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Really? Pope criticizes politicians for stoking racism over immigration Pope Francis on Friday excoriated politicians who foment fear of migrants, saying they were sowing violence and racism, and urged them to "practice the virtue of prudence" to help them integrate. The pope, who has made defense of migrants and refugees a major plank of his papacy, made his comments in a message prepared for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Peace, which is celebrated on Jan. 1 each year. he message, whose title for 2018 is "Migrants and Refugees: Men and Women in Search of Peace", is traditionally sent to heads of state and government and international institutions. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-peace-idUKKBN1DO1DS/

On the other hand. Qatar Shocked, Shocked to Learn It Accidentally Bailed Out Jared Kushner Doha insists it was an “unwitting” partner in the deal. Eleven years after a young Jared Kushner purchased an aging skyscraper that would become an albatross around his family’s neck, and six months before the Kushners would have to cough up the $1.4 billion that was due on the mortgage for 666 Fifth Avenue, a Canadian asset-management company swooped in and agreed to take a 99-year lease on the building, paying a near-century’s worth of rent upfront. The bailout was surprising for a few reasons, chief among them being comments by the Kushners’ previous partner that 666 Fifth “would be worth a lot more if it was just dirt,” plus the fact that the family had spent two years trying to get new partners or financing to no avail. Also, there was the matter of the Qatar Investment Authority being a major investor in the company, Brookfield Asset Management, and Kushner’s support of a Saudi- and U.A.E.-led blockade of Qatar. https://archive.ph/DCZ96#selection-691.42-707.1 And now Trump wants to make Kushner's lowlife father the ambassador to France.

Re the pope reference: no way of telling whether or not you are feigning being obtuse. As for rest, the kind of mind-reading act resorted to by those who find facts daunting..

Why do you want to know? Are you looking for somebody to pray for you?

The Pope has spoken and all the true believers fall into line.

" I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program,” added Trump, who restricted access to foreign worker visas in his first administration and has been critical of the program in the past." https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/donald-trump-backs-h-1b-visa-program-supported-by-elon-musk/ The Pope has spoken.

“H-1B visas? That’s not what it’s about. It’s about taking American jobs and bringing over essentially what have become indentured servants at lower wages,” the former Trump adviser turned pundit said, referring to the visa program that allows immigrants in specialized fields to work in the United States temporarily. https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-bannon-joins-war-against-173537804.html

Tech billionaire Elon Musk labeled a section of President-elect Trump supporters as “contemptible fools” as the online debate around visas for highly skilled workers on the right intensifies... On Friday, right-leaning “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams chimed in on the debate, which has largely taken place on the social media platform X, arguing that “MAGA is taking a page from Democrats on how to lose elections while feeling good about themselves.”... Musk, who has defended foreign-born engineers, agreed with Adams and said “those contemptible fools must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem.” https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5058355-elon-musk-visa-debate/

So, apparently, your interaction wasn't over. And "senile might be an insult"?

An insult as a goodbye is just your way of waving a white flag. You've got nothing.

You don't give a ....? Yet you bothered to come up with this? Clearly you do give one, and it's particularly foul smelling.

I didn't reference Trump. The issue I addressed was whether or not the riot at the Capitol could be classified as in insurrection, Clearly, the intent of many there was to stop the transfer of power from one administration to the next, Attempting to stop the Constitutionally mandated transfer of power looks to me like an insurrection. And of course, as I noted before, there were also some truly bizarre beliefs behind it as well.

In other words, you've got nothing.

The issue of insurrection goes to intent. It was clearly unrealistic but then there was a time when QAnon's pronouncement were widely believed on the right. And the Christian Dominionists are no better.

It could be that he thought Trump was going to win so no need to reveal - if that's the right word for someone so obviously in the bag for the right - his own preferences. But now he's alarmed and decided to openly support Trump even if it means he loses his facade of being non-partisan.

Well, in the deranged minds of many of the participants it was an insurrection. Remember QAnon? It was prophesied that the taking of the capitol would lead to Trump retaining the Presidency. And there were also the Christian Dominionists present, the one who carry the Gadsden flag and believe that the Democratic party is literally demonic,. They were there to purify the capitol of the Democrats' demonic infestation and clear the way for God's will to prevail.

You mean this? Trump tax returns made public after lengthy legal battle The culmination of a three-year court fight comes just as Democrats' window of opportunity was set to close https://rollcall.com/2022/12/30/trump-tax-returns-made-public-after-lengthy-legal-battle/

On Aug 9, 2024, Reuters published an extensive investigation of political violence in America since Biden's inauguration. Political violence in polarized U.S. at its worst since 1970s "Of the 14 fatal political attacks since the Capitol riot in which the perpetrator or suspect had a clear partisan leaning, 13 were right-wing assailants. One was on the left." https://archive.ph/QievU#selection-2609.147-2609.321 I note that evenkeel's post only expresses concern for Trump supporters even though it's clear that Democratic voters are more at risk.

I noticed that but understood what he meant and let it go. I didn't need to go there. He clearly was ignoring the actual effects that restrictive abortion laws have not just on women's health but their very lives.

We don't know what he will do. But we do know that in the past he broke his promise. So he has form.

He tried to do it when he was President. And Medicare and Medicaid as well. Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget breaks one of his biggest campaign promises to voters: that he would leave Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare untouched. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015. Over the next 10 years, Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid — instead allocating $1.2 trillion in a block-grant program to states — $25 billion less on Social Security, and $845 billion less on Medicare (some of that is reclassified to a different department). https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

Apparently, the sharp rise in the death rate of pregnant women in Texas after it enacted harsh abortions laws didn't tell you anything either.

The 'killing" as you call it, can be allowed even in the third trimester if either the life or the health of the mother is in danger or the fetus isn't viable. At least in theory. But when you have states threatening doctors with fines and imprisonment if it disagrees with their judgement, claiming simply that they allow abortions is either a function of ones ignorance or dishonesty.

It turns out that the so-called electoral lottery that Musk was offering is actually nothing of the sort "With one day to go before the tightly contested U.S. presidential election between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, lawyers for Musk's pro-Trump America PAC sought to persuade Judge Angelo Foglietta that the contest was not an "illegal lottery," as Philadelphia's top prosecutor alleged... "In trying to persuade Foglietta that the giveaway was not an illegal lottery, Musk's lawyers said the giveaway was not a prize but rather compensation for those chosen to serve as spokespeople for America PAC's pro-Trump agenda. Young, America PAC's director, testified that he selected winners out of a pool of candidates who appeared in videos for the group and allowed it to use their images after reviewing their social media and meeting them outside event venues." https://archive.ph/pBCo5

Thanks for guessing about what those who watch MSM think. If you ever tire of guessing or supposing, here's a link to a fact-based source: https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-abortion-bans#:~:text=shortly after birth.-,Highlights,bans based on gestational duration.