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Actually I'm very much into genealogy. My DNA is mostly Anglo-Scot with a small amount of Welsh and Irish thrown in. My mother and father, though born oceans apart had very similar DNA profiles. I suspect New World Hispanics with Spanish mothers might have similar results except they would be more likely to have indigenous American DNA also.

@dane_cobb @RepFine Hacete un examen de ADN Dane... Para estar seguro .... Que tal tu padre era migrante? Imagínate que era Ruso...? Serías Ruso Británico y la ley de Trump te deportarian... mejor no te lo hagas pero tampoco podemos afirmar nada de tu padre...

Armenians should not serve in Congress. Neither should Somalis. Or Guatemalans. Or — wait for it— Israelis. If you are a citizen of a foreign country, you shouldn’t serve in ours. We need to pass my bill to stop the invasion of dual citizens in Congress. NOW.

@robbi_fahey @RealJamesWoods Not one case was dismissed on merits, all were dismissed on the issue of 'standing.'

We are sick of this crap. It’s time to move the hell on. This is going to hurt Republicans going forward. I followed all this relentlessly over the years. Grok is accurate. I fact checked him personally and he’s correct on his assessment: Verified evidence shows isolated fraud cases in every election (per Heritage Foundation database), but none proven at scale sufficient to flip the national outcome. Over 60 lawsuits were dismissed (many by Trump-appointed judges) for lack of evidence; Trump’s AG Barr and CISA (his admin) stated no fraud changed results; AZ/GA audits and recounts confirmed Biden’s wins.

I’m not big on the rhetoric, but completely support the cause. Democrats can never be allowed to cheat in elections on the scale they have done since Kennedy in 1960. They are a crime cartel and absolutely cannot be allowed to take the reins of government ever again.

@lsferguson The ability to enrich uranium was destroyed, the already enriched uranium wasn't.

Last June, the amazing operation "Midnight Hammer" was conducted against Iran's nuclear sites. President Trump told us their nuclear capability was "obliterated". We were told it would takes years, if ever to recover. Now we are at war with Iran less than a year later because Iran was days away from getting a nuclear bomb. Both can't be true

Not deceptively. There are two things at work across the synoptics. You also see it in the epistle of Peter. One is Jesus using the temple as a metaphor for his body. The other is the disappointment that Christians no doubt felt when the destruction of the temple didn't bring on 'the Kingdom.'. The gospels were not biographies of Jesus, they were written for purposes that suited the audiences they addressed. For instance Mark was keen to explain why things that were being declared about Jesus after his death were not said while he was alive among them. So it's not deception... Jesus probably did use the temple as a metaphor as he is indeed described doing... that this teaching was repurposed to use as a prophesy of the temples destruction after that event took place is not deception, it's interpretation.

@dane_cobb @thinkingwest So you hold to the view that the Gospels deceptively claimed to predict the destruction...

Early Christians had a complete Bible by the 4th century — but that’s not the only thing they were reading to deepen their faith. If you want a true connection to ancient Christianity, you need to read these 8 books:

Actually...the gospel tradition was BECAUSE the temple was destroyed. Early Christians believed in the imminent return of Christ,... not 2000 years from now but today or tomorrow. Paul was very clear about this, especially in the latter part of Romans. The destruction of the temple in 70 AD was almost certainly seen by Christians everywhere as a sign that 'the time was at hand.' When Jesus failed to return and with the destruction of the church of Jerusalem these gospel writers saw the need to document or memorialize Jesus, Before they hadn't even thought about it because they thought he would soon be with them.

@dane_cobb @thinkingwest Temple was destroyed in 70AD. The Gospels predict the destruction because they witnessed it, thereby deceptively claiming previous knowledge. OR The Gospels predict it accurately (This is the correct position to hold). All books were written prior to the temple destroyed.

This is not the generally held opinion on the years these were written. You are right that the Pauline epistles are the oldest works. Next would be Mark, written around 70AD. Both Luke and Matthew used Mark as a sort of template... they added sayings from a document called 'Q' which was likely a book containing sayings attributed to Jesus. I believe Matthew came after Luke as he seems to be correcting Lucan interpretations, particularly of the Beatitudes. Acts was part of the original Lucan work but was divided from it for structural reasons. John was much later...close to the 2nd century.

@thinkingwest All of the individual books were written within 35 years of Christ crucified. Amazing to even think about!

@seanonolennon Even crazier would be neither option. A tubular spiral cosmos where every turn is novelty and thoroughly dualistic. In other words, not a 'universe' at all.

The only thing crazier than an infinite universe, is a finite universe.

@RepDonBacon Actually it's happening 30 years too late.

The history will be written. Destroying NATO will be seen as a disgrace for centuries to come.

@RadioFreeTom I agree. Much better to withdraw all our troops from the Islamic States of Europe.

No strategy. No rational purpose. Pure idiocy.

@XMartinsMusicX Dylan was wrong on this one. He also completely misrepresented what happened in the case of William Zantzinger (Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll). Being a great songwriter doesn't make you a great evaluator of facts.

the song detailing the wrongful conviction of Boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter Nobody does a protest song like Dylan 👏 Bob Dylan - Hurricane (Live in 1975) ▶️

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@LauraLoomer Actually you don't want to shoot assassins unless you have to. You need to question them to rule out conspiracy.

It’s too bad they didn’t kill the shooter. What ever happened to shooting to kill?

@BrandonStraka To be fair, there have been three attempts and all failed. In attempts two and three they got nowhere near POTUS.

How is it even possible to continue having security failures like this after repeated assassination attempts on the president? Enough about the damn ballroom. This isn’t supposed to be a marketing moment. The only message that influencers should be echoing in unison is: How is it possible that security around the most powerful man in the world continues to be an amateurish failure?

@MattWalshBlog Makes sense.

I’m officially convinced. It was a hoax. The Trump Administration recruited a leftist Kamala Harris voting Trump hater to participate in a staged assassination that would include the shooter getting shot at and then locked in federal prison for the rest of his life. The Kamala Harris voter agreed to this plan, that works against his political and personal interests, because he’s just like a really generous guy. Meanwhile the Trump Administration, despite dastardly planning multiple assassination hoaxes, decided to keep their patsy alive and a permanent liability to them, rather than just killing him like they could have easily done. They did this because they also are really strangely generous in a very odd and specific way. So in summary we have a plot where all parties involved are working against their own interests with no real discernible benefit to any of them. There is no evidence of this plan and it doesn’t even make any intuitive sense and the motives for everyone are unclear if not insane, but still I believe it because I’m a very smart person.

@CynicalPublius If this is the way 'average democrats' believe (and I believe it is) then civil war is inevitable. When Trump no longer has power they will come after all of us.

Cole Allen is the Dunning-Kruger Assassin. Allen is not some random nut job from the fringes of society. He’s a very articulate graduate of Caltech, which means he has a high degree of native intelligence. He’s in the education profession. He is on BlueSky. He goes to No Kings protests. He’s your basic rank-and-file Democrat. But it’s that high native intellect that led him astray. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is, at its simplest level, people thinking they know more that they do. People who are high achievers in one area often mistakenly believe their native abilities make them experts in all areas. So you get a super-smart guy like Allen, he excels in one narrow area, and extrapolates that excellence into thinking he knows more than he does in other areas. He goes into Blue Sky, he goes to No Kings protests, and he is easily swayed into believing all of the insane, violent lies those sorts of intellectual cesspools foster. All of a sudden this computer science expert is a national political policy expert too, except that latter expertise is derived from insane propaganda. The man with the intellectual skill to write code is not smart enough to recognize when he himself has fallen prey to propaganda, so he KNOWS that Donald Trump is Hitler and must be stopped. And when you KNOW that someone is Hitler, what’s the right thing to do? That’s what is so scary at this very moment—the sheer number of ostensibly educated Democrats who KNOW so many things are “true" that are actually so very, very untrue. In many ways, Cole Allen is just an average Democrat, and like most average Democrats, he fell prey to credentialism and Dunning-Kruger. But Cole took it to the next level; let’s pray more do not.

@girltummyfan @CollinRugg Go fuck a monkey you absolute pos!

@CollinRugg Not defending the boy’s reaction, but have we considered that she may have refused to go on a date with him due to implicit bias/racism?

NEW: New York City teen arrested after he body slammed a girl before stomping on her head because she didn't give him her number. The 15-year-old girl was seen trying to avoid the thug in East Harlem as he pushed her, harassed her, and assaulted her. The 14-year-old thug was later arrested and charged with assault. The girl was sent to the hospital. She suffered a concussion and is in stable condition. Never let this freak out of prison.

@amanpour @TimothyDSnyder But it's perfectly okay for Iran to yell 'death to America' as that is a goal the mullahs share with the democrats.

“As Americans, we have to be able to say it's not normal to wish for the destruction of an entire civilization.” Historian @TimothyDSnyder tells me why, when President Trump threatens to eradicate Iranian civilization, he "taints" all Americans by publicly using genocidal rhetoric.

@sarobertsonca A WEF puppet. His installation as PM is a cautionary tale. Canada is now an enemy of the United States and we should treat them as such.

CARNEY: "There are some who say there's no need for a comprehensive plan. They believe we should wait it out in the hope that the United States will return to normal. That the good old days will come back. But hope isn't a plan and nostalgia is not a strategy."