Josh Young

I just want my wife to look at my package with the same enthusiasm as the ones she gets from Amazon.

@oldstockfonzie @Wokma @mde1 @MikeNellis And then what happens in the New Testament? You know, the part of the bible that Christianity is based on?

@Wokma @mde1 @MikeNellis I don’t even know what the fuck a Trump Bible is. 🤣 But literally most of the Old Testament is the story of how Israel came to be - including war and wiping out invaders. Have you never read the Bible or did you just come to troll?

If you’re leaving the Catholic Church because Pope Leo is calling for peace, then you probably weren’t much of a Catholic to begin with. Looking at you, Sean Hannity.

The persian carpet store by my place has been having a "going out of business" 80% off clearance sale for the last 10 years.

@EricRontero @JamesMartinSJ @GrantSmithEllis What has the Pope said that is hyper-partisan that is not repeated in the bible?

The Pope is not the preaching the gospel, he’s pushing a hyper-partisan political narrative. These Pre-Pope receipts from Robert Prevost are a small sample of his mindset. If he’s just going to be another arm of the DNC, he might as well step down, and run for office. You can take the Pope out of Chicago, but you can’t take the Chicago Politics out of the Pope🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤡 The Pope is not the “Vicar of Christ,” he is a man elected by a corrupt institution. As a Non-Denominational Christian, I’ve Never Been a Fan of the Catholic Church, its Structure, Hierarchy, or the Pope, especially their failure to address internal and public controversies, and attempts to attract more followers by becoming more secular, and largely catering to views antithetical to the bible…but here we are…with some of the receipts.

Dear friends: I don’t know any Catholic in the United States, from the most traditional to the most progressive, who does not have strong feelings about the comments from President Trump and Vice President Vance about Pope Leo XIV. These include not only President Trump’s initial disrespectful Truth Social post about the Holy Father, but also Vice President Vance’s similarly disrespectful comments about Pope Leo having to be “careful” when he speaks about theology. Let me share some of my own feelings. First of all, it is shocking that a President and Vice President would treat such a good, holy and learned man with such disdain. Imagine telling a man with the Holy Father’s learning and experience (and authority) that he doesn’t understand theology sufficiently. What’s more, imagine attacking him as, ridiculously, “weak on crime” or somehow not understanding foreign policy. Second, I’m edified by Pope Leo’s charitable and courageous response to all this. Charitable because he has not responded in any way other than with charity and respect. As some of you may know, I know the Holy Father slightly, thanks to our being seated together at the Synod for two weeks, and know him to be a kind, reserved, discerning and highly intelligent person. In a word, holy. But courageous too: as we have seen during his time in Algeria and Cameroon, Pope Leo has not shied away from continuing to preach the Gospel, and speaking out in favor of peace (and yes, he understands St. Augustine’s concept of the “just war”) and against, as he said today, tyrants and those who would use God’s name to support violence of bloodshed. So, where will this all end? It’s hard to say. But I would imagine that now that the taboo has been broken, politicians will continue to denigrate him and thus try to persuade people, without saying it explicitly, to think that the Pope’s words do not need to be listened to. But this will be in vain for two reasons. First, Pope Leo is clearly fearless. A few hours after he was elected as pope, I spoke with a fellow Augustinian priest who had known “Bob” for decades. “He’s a great listener, very kind and much loved.” Then he paused. “But he’s no pushover.” But the main reason that the Pope’s words will be heard is less about Robert Prevost’s own many virtues but something else: the Vicar of Christ will be heard because he is preaching the Gospel. As Jesus told his disciples, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words will never pass away.” So, in these strange times, fear not.

@9781118555927_ @hackagibson @sarobertsonca That's 2-3% net profit after things like stock buybacks, shareholder dividends and executive bonuses. Their gross profit is around 30%

The classic leftists argument style. Dispersion, attack - but never talking to the actual point. The profit that the grocery companies make is 2-3 percent - they proved it by opening their books and showing Canadians. I've worked as a consultant. We made our clients know we make 15 percent profit on hardware equipment that we sourced for them. We would even provide proof if they asked - only one had in 10 years. When we showed the owner and their finance manager that numbers they were shocked. Shocked we were transparent. Shocked they allowed their staff to tell the clients the truth. They never questioned it again, nor did they ever question any of our recommendations again. Because being honest and transparent was our core motto. If anyone thinks government can run a business and make it work, that is one them. I am sure they think the millions going to Canada post is government efficiency.

Doug Ford on city-run grocery stores: "This is the craziest idea I've ever heard... the Costcos, the Walmarts, the Loblaws, they make 2-3%... it's crazy. That's socialism."

@ButlerLonney @steadystateyyc @MaritStiles Yep. And executive bonuses and raises. Gaelan Weston's salary went from $3.5 million in 2020 to $8.4 million in 2022, with total compensation exceeding $11 million.

@_joshyoung @steadystateyyc @MaritStiles Stock returns are where they hide the money. How much company stock does Galen Weston own? Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart alone are huge.

Grocery prices are up 30% in five years. Families are spending $1,000 more just to buy the same food. And now grocery giants and tech companies are teaming up to use AI-powered algorithms and electronic shelf labels to charge you even more for the same carton of eggs, based on your data, your searches, what you click. This is called surveillance pricing, and I'm bringing a vote to ban it in Ontario. Manitoba's NDP government banned it. Doug Ford can too. He just has to choose people over corporations.

@steadystateyyc @MaritStiles Net profit is about 4% Gross profit is up 30%.

@MaritStiles People struggling with the cost of food aren't shopping for food online and having it delivered. The price in the store is the price displayed in the aisles and on the counters - the same for every one. Grocery store profit margins are relatively low.

@FatinGuirguis @johnpavlovitz Yes. Yes he does. I'm not religious but I think yhe point of Jesus's teachings is that we are not just the sum of our past transgressions, but we are also the constant potential to be better, to learn, to grow, and to love (and to welcome love) with open arms.

@johnpavlovitz Jesus has no empathy for the Muslims who kill Iranian Christians or rape Coptic women or blow Nigerian Church’s

The Pope is not woke. MAGA professed Christians are just offended by the empathy of Jesus.

@ThomasE11269854 @johnpavlovitz There's always peace in an empty room

@johnpavlovitz Then what is wrong with the Pope? Trump is bringing peace to the world

@KenTFoss @bruce_arthur NATO would enact a total trade embargo; seize all your military bases on allied soil; end all access to foreign intelligence; send all your citizens working overseas back home; remove the USD as the default currency and call in all U.S. debt they own. That sound like nothing?

@_joshyoung @bruce_arthur The US outspends the world by a lot in military, Italy is no threat, and NATO would do nothing. Let's be real here. The world has leaned on the US to be their military. They are entirely pants off here.

You can't tariff the Pope; you can't invade the Vatican, probably. And Pope Leo is a legitimately righteous man who is taking his role as a global moral force very seriously, which means Donald Trump's fight with the Pope is one he's going to lose. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…

@KenTFoss @bruce_arthur The Vatican is protected by Italy, which is a member of NATO, so it would be the exact same as if Trump attacked any other NATO member (which is to say, it would not end well for the U.S.)

@bruce_arthur Who says you can't, Bruce? What army is going to stop Trump if he decides he wants to bomb the Vatican and depose the pope? People are going to say bad words about him afterwards? I don't see the funny dressed men with the pikes doing much.

@goat13luffy @BGNHoops @Wonovan1 Raptors best player is Scottie Barnes. Go ahead and name 7 players on the Cavs that are better than him.

@BGNHoops @Wonovan1 The first round only "Brandon Ingram" is better than a vital championship caliber player? stop it, Raptors best player is at best the Cavs 7th or 8th rotation player 😹✌️

Harden > Quickley Mitchell > Barrett Strus < Ingram Mobley > Barnes Allen > Poeltl Raptors are cooked lmao

@BobRoy22759501 @sarobertsonca He also ran the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. That's not real-world enough?

@sarobertsonca Education doesn’t mean ethical, nor does it mean real world competence. Carney lacks in both of these areas. He likes to talk big and deliver very little!

"There's one thing that's worse than being uneducated and it's being badly educated. And Mr. Carney is very badly educated on economics." -- Pierre Poilievre says, as water dribbles down his chin

@James9513824711 @Davemac2362 @Deus_xmac @sarobertsonca You don't vote for monorities or majorities. You vote for people. Those people agreed to work together and form a majority.

@Davemac2362 @Deus_xmac @sarobertsonca No one voted for that majority you fucking goof. You’d be pretty upset if it were the other way around

@chelsealeite @william_lou Compare this in NBA terms

BREAKING NEWS: Kia Nurse will be signing with the Toronto Tempo, per sources.

@KPower3 @BrodateZbiry @JesusisChristX The Bible is a collection of moral laws that governs its followers. It is inherently political.

@BrodateZbiry @JesusisChristX You’re right - We don’t follow politics with the Pope , who should stay out of it .

Follow Jesus, not the Pope. Do you agree with me?

@Zack_AKA_Da_Miz @PreKillick @mattyglesias No, I think it's due to rule changes that prioritized outside shooting over everything else. Today, 3 point shots account for nearly 40% of all fga taken. That's nearly double what it was back in 2011.

@_joshyoung @PreKillick @mattyglesias Every team has a guy on the starting 5 or bench who can shoot like 35% from 3. Do you think that's due to a lack of fundamentals

The crisis of the NBA regular season is a lot more than “tanking” — the whole thing is constructed to feel low stakes and frustrating because neither home court advantage for contenders nor barely making the playoffs for middling teams is very valuable. slowboring.com/p/the-nbas-pro…

@MVLI11 @johnpavlovitz The Shah of Iran had declared a fatwa on nuclear weapons, and they had a binding agreement to not produce them. Unril Trump tore up the agreement. That's when they began to enrich uranium. Having the ability to do something is not the same as doing something.

@_joshyoung @johnpavlovitz They had hundreds of kilo's of uranium enriched to ~60%. At ~90% for a nuke, they were on the brink. What do you think they were gathering that and all the other materials for??

If you’re a Catholic and you’re siding with the genocidal rapist and not the spiritual leader quoting Jesus and opposing war, you’re a lousy Catholic.

@MVLI11 @johnpavlovitz They weren't building them. Iran stopped trying to build nuclear weapons in the early 2000's. The chief things stopping Iran from persuing nuclear armament since then was the Shah, the person Trump had killed, and the agreement they had with the U.S. that Trump ripped up.

@_joshyoung @johnpavlovitz They hadn't built them because we stopped them. And you really need Iran to come out and say that they were going to use them on us? Really? They've wanted us all dead for a long time. It's obvious who they'd use it on.

@FoxNews Was he supposed to bring his own cups? I don't know if that's allowed at Coachella.

Plastic bans for Canada… plastic cups for Coachella. Former Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is being labeled a hypocrite for partying with red solo cups at Coachella alongside girlfriend Katy Perry after he led a nationwide effort to ban single-use plastics in Canada while he was in office.

@MVLI11 @johnpavlovitz The Pope has made it clear that he does not support nuclear weapons being deployed anywhere, and has called for nuclear disarmament, and global peace. Iran has not built nuclear weapons, nor has it threatented to use nuclear weapons on another country. The United States has.

@_joshyoung @johnpavlovitz If he has said that, then I change my tune. I just hadn't seen it but I'll take your word for it. But it was odd that he decided to only address the US on the situation with Iran instead of addressing Iran for building nukes to destroy us.