Close Minded Podcast

This entire interview is incredible. @neiltyson is the KING 👑 of circular reasoning. All he does is appeal to authority--to the "consensus"--but then immediately dismisses any who challenge said consensus on the basis of them not being in it. /1

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Am I the only one thinking that Stephen Colbert shouldn’t be involved in anything that has to do with Lord of The Rings?

@David_J_Bier You are a demonic subversive

To be clear, DHS's 100 million deportations ethnic cleansing agenda is spreading throughout the right-wing echo chamber as it intended. It is only a matter of time before this extremism becomes standard rhetoric for GOP candidates.

My take on the current discourse about the Christian man with the formerly “promiscuous” wife is that many of the comments towards the man and his wife have been uncharitable, cruel, and certainly un-Christian, but also that Christians these days often tend to be far too eager to tell the entire world about their past sins, which in most cases shows a lack of discretion and a certain lack of the sort of shame one should feel even for repented sins. Also, as a parent, I strongly believe that you generally should avoid telling your kids about your own wayward youth, because the kids will take such stories as an indication that they too can go off and have fun sinning and things will turn out okay, just as they did for you. Also you undermine your own moral authority when you instruct your children not to do the very things you have admitted to having done yourself. Finally, the man’s line about how his wife “is more pure than most virgins” is prideful and shows a kind of competitiveness and vanity that should simply not ever appear in any Prodigal Son style testimony. Imagine if the Prodigal Son had returned and announced himself not only repentant but “more pure” than the brother who stayed? It would kind of destroy the point of the story. So in summary I basically disagree with everyone on this.

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made" J.R.R. Tolkien #RespectForTolkien 🩶🩶

The fact that Colbert is a Tolkien encyclopedia and knows a lot of lore, yet it has clearly had ZERO impact on his own politics or personal virtue, indicates that merely enjoying and geeking out on the High Stories is insufficient.

Incandescent light bulbs are back. That’s a win! 🤗

NEW: Now-retired Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino says he developed a plan designed to support the deportation of up to 100 MILLION people out of the United States. That number sounds impossible until you realize it’s not just illegal border crossings that would be looked at. It includes visa overstays, fraudulent asylum claims, fake marriages, and people who ignored final deportation orders. The *TRUE* number of immigration violators is far higher than most people think.

The western mind still struggles to comprehend the basic concept that equality is a myth, a globohomo psyop to deceive and obscure the simple fact that third world exists because it's filled with people incapable creating civilized society. This is why mass immigration is such a disaster.

I want Trump to change ICE to NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement) so the media has to say NICE agents all day everyday

If ICE can just show their face at an airport and the crowd immediately clears out then slow TSA lines aren’t the main problem. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what the problem is.

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It’s utterly absurd that people can show up in our country uninvited and force us to pay for their kid’s education.

Apparently it’s going to be about the Tom Bombadil chapters left out of the Peter Jackson films: My prediction is Sam’s daughter stumbles upon some section of the Red Book that describes the experience and they go back in time. Bookmark this. Admittedly, this concept is interesting to me, and Stephen Colbert’s passion for LOTR and his personal Catholic faith (although it doesn’t seem to penetrate his public beliefs at all) seems to be the only things he doesn’t have brain worms about so maybe he could tell a faithful adaptation. My outlook though is grim because nothing that comes out of Hollywood for the most part has the ability to properly capture Light and Truth unless it’s by accident.

Every single part of your life would get better if we deported 100 million people who don’t belong here. Prices on everything would go down, wages would go up, homes would be available, everywhere would be safer, traffic and air travel would be quicker. The list never ends.

ITS WORKING

> you download a therapy app because youre struggling > you tell it your darkest fears, your trauma, your diagnosis > you pay $360 a month to keep it private > 2 million people do the same > betterhelp sells your mental health data to facebook and snapchat > your therapist was supposed to keep secrets > the ftc fined them $7.8 million > but betterhelp is still the most downloaded mental health app on earth > you were never the customer. you were the inventory.

@GregTSargent This is an EXCELLENT idea. Totally based.

Awful: Stephen Miller is privately floating the idea of restricting funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New: newrepublic.com/article/208114…