Richard B Kolm

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Richard B Kolm

Richard B Kolm

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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@hdpayens Papal primacy caused all the major schisms in Christianity. The Christian world agreed on the Nicene Creed as a unifying statement of faith, then the Roman community just changed it arbitrarily by adding the filoque. So Rome caused the Great Schism and is the schismatic faction.
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Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿@hdpayens·
Papal primacy does not appear in the Middle Ages. It appears in the first three generations after the apostles. Three writers. Three different locations. Three different decades. All treating Rome's authority as an established fact. Clement of Rome wrote to the church in Corinth to correct disorder there. Nobody invited him. No Corinthian council asked Rome to weigh in. He simply wrote with the tone of someone who had standing to do so, and commanded the restoration of deposed presbyters. That assumption of jurisdiction is the evidence. Ignatius of Antioch wrote seven letters on his way to martyrdom. Six of them correct local problems. The letter to Rome corrects nothing. He also singles Rome out with honorific language he uses for no other church, calling her the one that "presides in love" over the rest. That phrase appears nowhere in his other six letters. Irenaeus of Lyon, writing from Gaul against the Gnostics, needed a test for apostolic truth. He chose Rome. Not Jerusalem. Not Antioch. Not Alexandria. Rome, because of what he calls her "more powerful principality" and her unbroken succession from Peter and Paul. Italy. Syria. Gaul. Three different regions of the ancient world. No coordinated project connecting them. Their convergence is independent attestation, not a Roman propaganda campaign. This is not a medieval invention. This is the record of the first post-apostolic generations. The question worth asking: if Rome's primacy was a later power grab, why did three of the earliest writers outside the New Testament treat it as already given?
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@Rationalityokay @EchoesofWarYT “RationaReality” eh? You are unacquainted with either rationality or reality. Every patriot knows that the Revolution was only won with the aid of the French fleet (& this Spanish footnote guy). “3 good ole boys” at Bunker Hill who killed so many Brits made it all possible, tho.
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RationalityReally@Rationalityokay·
@EchoesofWarYT Never heard this story. In most US posts the revolution was won by 3 good ole boys in raccoon skin with a shared musket capturing 20,000 British redcoats.
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Echoes of War@EchoesofWarYT·
245 years ago today, a 35-year-old Spanish nobleman fired a single artillery shell that redrew the map of North America, broke British power in the Gulf of Mexico, and arguably saved the American Revolution. His name was Bernardo de Gálvez. He's not in your textbook. He should be. When Spain entered the war against Britain in June 1779, the American cause was bleeding out. Washington's army was unpaid and shrinking. The Continental dollar was worth pennies. The British had taken Savannah and were preparing to take Charleston. France was helping, but France alone couldn't bankrupt the British Empire. Spain could. And in New Orleans sat the man who would prove it. Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid was 33 years old, the governor of Spanish Louisiana, a battle-scarred career officer who had been wounded fighting Apaches in northern Mexico and Algerians in North Africa. The day he learned Spain had declared war, he didn't wait for orders from Madrid. He raised an army of Spanish regulars, Louisiana Creoles, free Black militia from New Orleans, Acadian refugees, German settlers, and Choctaw scouts, and he went on the attack. In three months he took Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez. The next year he took Mobile. The British presence on the Gulf shrank to one last fortress. Pensacola, the capital of British West Florida, defended by Major General John Campbell with 1,500 redcoats, the 3rd Waldeck Regiment of German mercenaries, loyalist battalions from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and a powerful alliance of Creek and Choctaw warriors led by the brilliant mixed-race chief Alexander McGillivray. Gálvez arrived off Pensacola in March 1781 with 7,000 men and a fleet. The Spanish naval commander, Admiral Calbo de Irazábal, refused to enter Pensacola Bay. The entrance was narrow, raked by British guns at Fort Barrancas Coloradas, and treacherous with sandbars. So Gálvez did something insane. He boarded his own little brig, the Galveztown, hoisted his personal pennant, and sailed her into the bay alone, in full view of the British batteries, daring the Royal Navy to sink him. The British fired and missed. The Spanish fleet, shamed, followed him in. For this he was awarded the right to put the words "Yo Solo," meaning "I alone," on his coat of arms by the King of Spain. The siege ground on for two months. Gálvez was shot in the abdomen and the finger directing artillery and refused to leave the field. The British defenses at the Queen's Redoubt, also called the Crescent, held against everything thrown at them. And then, on the morning of May 8, 1781, a Spanish howitzer crew lofted a shell over the parapet. It dropped, by pure luck or perfect skill, directly into the open powder magazine. The explosion killed roughly 100 defenders in a single instant. Waldeck grenadiers, British regulars, loyalists, all gone. The blast tore the redoubt's wall open like paper. Spanish grenadiers and Louisiana militia poured through the breach within minutes and turned the captured British guns on the inner works. Campbell knew it was over. The next morning, May 9, white flags went up. By May 10 the entire province of West Florida belonged to Spain. Over 1,100 British troops marched out as prisoners of war. The strategic consequences were catastrophic for Britain. The Gulf Coast was lost. The Mississippi was a Spanish river from source to sea. Britain could no longer reinforce its southern armies by sea from the Caribbean, and the Royal Navy's Caribbean squadron had to be redeployed. Five months later, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, in a siege funded in part by 500,000 silver pesos that Gálvez and the people of Havana raised in a matter of days to pay French Admiral de Grasse's fleet to come north. Without that money, no French fleet. Without the French fleet, no Yorktown. Without Yorktown, no independence on those terms. Gálvez was made Count of Gálvez and Viscount of Galveztown. The bay he charted in Texas still bears his name, Galveston. His portrait hangs in the United States Capitol by act of Congress. In 2014, he was made an honorary citizen of the United States, an honor given to only eight people in American history, including Lafayette, Churchill, and Mother Teresa. He died of yellow fever in Mexico City at 40 years old, three years after the war ended. Most Americans have never heard his name.
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@Oilfield_Rando @WesternLensman It is humorous to see Obama the Drone Assassination King talking about the rule of law. The man personally green lighted the extra-judicial killing of more individuals than all other US presidents combined, including a lethal drone strike on a US citizen. Some rule of law.
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@Nikopolos @brivael @elonmusk Andrey, your analogy missed the point that all the other kids could get the cards from the teacher. In all cases like SpaceX, Tesla, etc. subsidies were available to all players. Boeing, GM, Ford, Mercedes, VW just chose not to play, not to produce much that qualified.
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Andrey Sergeenkov
Andrey Sergeenkov@Nikopolos·
But @elonmusk took at least 38 billion cards from the teacher. How does this affect the motivation of all the other kids? The rest stop seeing the point in mowing lawns and start learning how to talk to the teacher. The market keeps working, but now it no longer selects the best candy producer, it selects the best lobbyist. And Musk in this story isn't proof of the market's strength, he's proof that when the teacher has the power to redistribute cards and a printing press, the market stops working for Leo and starts working for her.
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Brivael Le Pogam
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael·
Elon Musk a validé hier mon post sur l'allocation de ressources. Et honnêtement, je pense qu'on devrait collectivement assimiler ce point, parce que le monde s'en porterait beaucoup mieux. Y compris, et surtout, les plus pauvres et les plus démunis. C'est comme ça que le système devient efficient pour tout le monde. Aujourd'hui je veux parler du corollaire direct. L'inflation. Et de ce qui se passe quand on laisse des bureaucrates gérer la monnaie. Reprenons la cour de récré. Cette fois, c'est une kermesse. Les enfants ont 100 pièces en circulation, qu'ils gagnent en rendant des services. Tondre la pelouse de la maîtresse, ranger les chaises, aider les plus jeunes. Et avec ces pièces, ils achètent des bonbons à un petit stand. Il y a 100 bonbons, 100 pièces. Un bonbon vaut une pièce. Tout le monde sait combien vaut son effort, tout le monde sait ce qu'il peut s'offrir. Le système est sain. Léo bosse dur, il a 20 pièces. Tom préfère jouer, il en a 2. La maîtresse trouve ça injuste. Mais cette fois elle a appris, elle ne va pas confisquer directement. Elle a une idée plus subtile. Elle va imprimer des pièces. Discrètement. Elle en distribue 100 de plus, en priorité à ceux qui en ont peu. Voilà, problème résolu, plus d'égalité, et personne ne s'est plaint. Sauf que. Il y a toujours 100 bonbons. Mais maintenant 200 pièces. Le marchand de bonbons, qui n'est pas idiot, double son prix. Un bonbon vaut deux pièces. Les 20 pièces de Léo valent désormais 10 bonbons au lieu de 20. Les 2 pièces de Tom valent toujours 1 bonbon. Personne n'a été plus riche. Mais Léo, qui avait épargné, a perdu la moitié de son travail. Silencieusement. Sans débat, sans vote, sans qu'il ait rien fait de mal. Voilà ce qu'est l'inflation. Pas une fatalité, pas un phénomène naturel, pas la faute de Poutine ou des supermarchés. C'est un transfert de richesse organisé par celui qui imprime la monnaie, vers ceux qui la reçoivent en premier, au détriment de ceux qui l'ont gagnée et épargnée. C'est ce que Cantillon avait compris en 1730. La monnaie nouvelle ne se diffuse pas uniformément. Le premier qui la reçoit achète aux anciens prix. Le dernier paie les nouveaux. Entre les deux, un transfert silencieux. Aujourd'hui les premiers servis, ce sont les États surendettés et les banques. Les derniers, ce sont les salariés et les épargnants. C'est-à-dire toi. Et la maîtresse trouve ça génial. Parce qu'elle peut promettre des bonbons sans jamais avoir à dire qu'elle les prend dans la poche des autres. Elle appelle ça politique monétaire accommodante. Quand tu cumules les déficits depuis 50 ans sans jamais rembourser, tu n'as que deux options. Faire défaut officiellement, ou imprimer pour rembourser en monnaie dégradée. Tous les États choisissent la deuxième. Toujours. Le pire c'est que l'inflation casse aussi le système d'allocation. Les prix sont des signaux. Ils disent où sont les ressources rares, où va la demande, où il faut produire. Quand la maîtresse manipule la quantité de pièces, les prix ne reflètent plus la réalité. Les entrepreneurs investissent dans les mauvais projets, les épargnants fuient vers l'immobilier ou les actions par défaut, le calcul économique devient impossible. C'est exactement ce que Mises décrivait en 1920 sur l'URSS, version soft. Regarde ce qui s'est passé depuis 2020. La BCE a créé 5000 milliards d'euros ex nihilo. Résultat. Inflation cumulée d'environ 20% en zone euro en 4 ans. Tes économies ont perdu 20% de leur pouvoir d'achat. Personne ne te l'a annoncé. Personne ne t'a demandé ton avis. Les premiers servis, États et banques, ont eu de l'argent gratuit. Toi, tu paies l'addition à chaque passage en caisse. Et qui contrôle ça ? Christine Lagarde, Jerome Powell. Des bureaucrates non élus, qui n'ont jamais créé une entreprise, jamais pris un risque personnel, jamais été sanctionnés par un échec. Ils décident de la valeur de la monnaie de 800 millions de personnes. Avec un track record consternant. Inflation mal anticipée, taux maintenus trop bas trop longtemps, bulles encouragées, krachs gérés par plus d'impression encore. L'inflation n'est pas une politique économique. C'est une taxe cachée sur les pauvres et les classes moyennes, qui ne peuvent pas se protéger en achetant de l'or, de l'immobilier locatif ou des actions. Le riche a des actifs, ils gonflent. Le pauvre a un salaire, il fond. L'inflation est le mécanisme le plus régressif jamais inventé, et c'est exactement la même bureaucratie qui prétend redistribuer aux pauvres qui leur prend leur épargne par derrière. La leçon est la même qu'hier. Aucun bureaucrate, aussi intelligent soit-il, n'a l'information pour décider à la place de millions d'acteurs. La maîtresse ne sait pas combien doivent valoir les bonbons. Personne ne le sait. Seul le marché, par milliards d'échanges décentralisés, le découvre en temps réel. La monnaie devrait être une mesure stable, pas un levier politique. Tant qu'on laissera des fonctionnaires non élus contrôler la quantité de monnaie, on continuera à transférer la richesse des productifs vers les rentiers de la bureaucratie. Et on continuera à appeler ça progrès social.
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@Acyn Also "If it wasn't for the French we'd still be a British colony", no? Brits helped against the French some, but the French won the Revolutionary War for us. Thank God, otherwise the British would still be putting down American revolts by burning churches with people in them.
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Acyn@Acyn·
A lot of jokes from King Charles tonight. “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”
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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@AndrewYesudian @MahyarTousi Hey Andrew, don’t insult the Iranian people who have risen up against the monsters many times. No outsider “told them” now or ever. They rose up because the monsters destroyed the economy after destroying the water resources and farmland to build nukes and IRGC Swiss accounts.
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Andrew Yesudian@AndrewYesudian·
@MahyarTousi Trump is laughing about how he told the Iranian people to rise up and then watched them being slaughtered by the dictatorship.
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@ByronYork The takeaway of the poll on the Iran war is that 90%+ of Democrats mark Disapprove because they hate Trump and read too much Dem propaganda. Republicans, many of whom don’t like Trump, vote 70% Approve because they read too much history and know the war is a just response.
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RacerX@RacerX593984485·
@shiningsweu With Leo, there is no left or right, only truth. You reveal yourself as an accuser & apostate. Cringe.
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Catholic Christendom
Catholic Christendom@shiningsweu·
Trump and Leo XIV share a similar pattern. Trump seems to believe that defeating Kamala Harris gives him license to act on impulse, while Leo XIV, shaped by a distorted understanding of papal infallibility much like Francis, moves unpredictably between right and left, as if lacking a clear compass. In his case, “north” appears to be wherever he happens to stand at a given moment.
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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@tylavender777 @snowyxq1 Try looking up how many time Sideshow Bob Pervost attacked Vance and Trump before this latest controversy. Or maybe take a look at the blasphemous and heretical statements he has made about participating in the just war against the evil murderous fanatics ruling Iran.
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Ty@tylavender777·
Why do you have to decide? Because this Pope hurt trumps fragile little ego, not to mention the image of himself as Jesus, but because your dear leader was called out by one of the most if not the most influential person in the world. You say either Jesus or the Pope like there's a choice. Pope Leo XIV is Christs' representative on earth as the Vicor of Christ and Bishop of Rome in direct succession from St. Peter.
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snowy@snowyxq1·
Catholics will have to choose between Jesus and the pope. Who are you going to choose? A).Pope. Or B).Jesus Christ
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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@TheDemSlayer Catholic teaching on Luke 17:2 says little ones are those immature in faith, like Catholic military. So Bob gets this: It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
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🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱
🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱@TheDemSlayer·
Exactly WHERE did Jesus say this, Bob? I’d really love to know. Oh, that’s right. Jesus didn’t! THIS is what’s called BLASPHEMY! You want to know HOW the Catholic Pope can put these disgusting, lying words of leftist ideology directly into the mouth of the Messiah and get away with it? Because the audience he’s speaking to never reads the Holy Bible. They are clueless about what Jesus did and didn’t say.
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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@nuijten_rob @WimdenOudsten Wow, way to rewrite history. The Russian branch of your murdering European Marxist movement killed, raped, and looted their way into Afghanistan. The US supplied arms to help the Afghans expel the European monsters.
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Rob Nuijten@nuijten_rob·
@WimdenOudsten Het zijn de Britten en de Amerikanen geweest die Afghanistan van een vrouwenrechten beschermende sociale samenleving naar een Allahu Akbar-regime hebben teruggebracht door financiering en wapenleveranties aan fundamentalistische sunni's.
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Wim den Oudsten@WimdenOudsten·
Ik hoor en lees steeds meer dat de Amerikanen en vooral Trump de duivels zijn en misschien klopt dat ook want het zijn de Amerikanen wie iedereen vermoorden over de hele wereld en allah akbar roepen het zijn de Amerikanen wie gif gas gooien op kinderen en het zijn ook de Amerikanen wie homo's van gebouwen af gooien het zijn de Amerikanen wie schreeuwend naar hun profeet mensen onthoofden het zijn Amerikanen wie in heel Europa terreuraanslagen plegen en het zijn Amerikanen wie in alle wijken in Nederland voor onrust zorgen stelen verkrachten en totaal geen respect hebben voor elk gezag. Maar voor iedereen wie het vergeten is op de foto dat zijn Amerikanen jonge jongens rond de 18 jaar wie met duizenden begraven liggen in Nederland en gestorven zijn voor onze vrijheid die vrijheid wie we nu laf weg geven aan de beesten wie ik hier boven beschrijf 😢😢😢 Johnny van den Berg
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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@PVanmaldeghem @WimdenOudsten Even a rabid Marxist like you must admit that most Americans don’t want to think for you or do the fighting for your cowardly ass. We have been forced to do your fighting for you because you don’t seem to be able to stop true tyrants like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.
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Paul Vanmaldeghem@PVanmaldeghem·
@WimdenOudsten Amerikanen zijn naïef, dom en denken dat God Amerika heeft uitgekozen om de wereld te leiden. Maar ze beseffen niet dat ze zich omwille van hun imperialisme overal gehaat en onbegrepen maken. Zij denken te mogen denken in onze plaats.
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Wutangflan@Wutangflan23·
@irishpatriot91 Im off Trump Everything wrong happening in the world starts with jews Yes Trump is fixing surface problems. But the core issue is jews and israel. As long as Trump is a wall kisser nothing really changes
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IRISH PATRIOT@irishpatriot91·
President Trump: “Do antidepressants work?”
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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@MyHandleNo @EricLDaugh So true! The Church has to do something about all those vans they bought to earn millions helping Biden with human trafficking.
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MAGA ME@MyHandleNo·
@EricLDaugh Follow the money. This is all about reduced tax dollars going to Catholic Charities for migration services. He’s big mad the money is being reduced & migration has stopped.
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Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 UPDATE: Pope Leo says he is NOT debating President Trump or getting involved in the political arena "It was looked at as if I was trying to debate again the president, which is NOT my interest at all." "Because of the political situation created when on the first day of the trip, President of the United States made some comments about myself." "Much of what has been written since then has been more commentary and commentary trying to interpret what has been said." "Just one little example, the talk that I gave at the prayer meeting for peace a couple days ago was prepared two weeks ago, well before the president had ever commented on myself and on the message of peace that I am promoting."
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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@Kevinlit1Watson @TaraServatius The crowds in the streets were there because the mullahs destroyed the economy and natural resources. Trump said help is on the way but stay home for now. Evil is telling Christians not to fear Islam while it is killing Christians all over the world as well as Jews & Muslims.
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Kevin Watson@Kevinlit1Watson·
@TaraServatius You have the moral obligation as a citizen of the United States to consider the possibility that you have installed evil into the government. As to those murdered in Iran: "Stay in the streets. Help is on the way!" The next week 42,000 died. Bombs dropped 40 days later.
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Tara Servatius@TaraServatius·
As devout Catholics we must begin to cosider the possibility that Pope Leo is evil. He has yet to condemn or acknowledge Iran's mass murder of 42,000. HUNDREDS in Iran were executed this week in Iran. Zero condemnation from Pope Leo. We knew 2 days before it happened the executions of 4 innocent protesters was coming. Leo could have told them not to. He didn't. JD Vance isn't the problem here.
Catholic Answers@catholiccom

This was rough to hear from a public Catholic. The pope has every right to speak on politics and public affairs, because politics concerns man and the common good, and every facet of those realities belongs under the judgment of God.

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Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@trevor_ewen @TheDamaniFelder @realDonaldTrump What you meant, I guess, is that Donald Trump has the courage to do the right thing in Iran despite great political risk? He did the thing that all presidents said needed doing, knowing that he might be destroyed by the hypocritical partisan fanatics.
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Trevor Ewen@trevor_ewen·
@TheDamaniFelder @realDonaldTrump Is perfectly capable of ending his own career. This war in Iran is a poison pill, and most of his supporters know it. So I will accept your empty protests, but recognize he is DOA and will destroy his party. Great legacy... art of the deal.
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Damani Felder@TheDamaniFelder·
Imagine watching the Deep State torpedo Eric Swalwell in less than 7 days, and still thinking there's a magical career-ending bombshell they've had on Trump but not released over the past 11 years.
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@formerlyed @TheDamaniFelder Maybe wait to see if Swalwell’s accusers are at all credible? Maybe unlike Trump’s accusers they’ll remember actual dates, times, & locations or have any evidence or corroboration? Also, did you forgot the crucial distinction that Swalwell’s accused of doing this in office?
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🥴🥴🥴@formerlyed·
@TheDamaniFelder Are you for real? If the "deep state" dropped THE EXACT SAME INFO about Trump that came out about Swalwell it would not end Trump's career. It would be in the news cycle for a day or two. You know this is correct. Not sure if you missed this in your post or are just a grifter!!
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@amir_kurdi34563 @Osint613 I understand your jealousy. Trump is a courageous elected leader, winning Electoral College and popular vote. His courage allows the Muslim world to throw off the yoke of the heretical terrorists mullahs of Iran without facing the nuclear threat. So sad you have no such leader.
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Amir Kurdi
Amir Kurdi@amir_kurdi34563·
@Osint613 I'm not surprised by his statements. Trump and his administration hate democracy and human rights. Trump himself wishes he were a dictator like the Arab leaders.
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Open Source Intel@Osint613·
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack: "The only thing that's worked are these powerful leadership regimes: either benevolent monarchies, the kind of a monarchical republic. Everything else, this Arab Spring, just faded away and evaporated. Countries that have put on this cloak of democracy, or that we've gone after for human rights, have failed."
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@Gail654353 @CynicalPublius Axelrod is a former fundraiser and close confidante of Barack Obama, the only possible reason he would get to see the pope. He isn’t Catholic, and isn’t currently employed in government or any other organization that would get him a meeting. What’s your explanation?
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FactOrFiction99
FactOrFiction99@Gail654353·
@CynicalPublius Not everything requires a media stakeout. Axelrod isn’t a government official, and private citizens are allowed to have private conversations.
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
If we had a functioning media, David Axelrod would have reporters waiting outside his house to ask him what he and the Pope discussed.
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Richard B Kolm
Richard B Kolm@rbkolm·
@Knesix Amen brother. The American Catholic Church in particular has no moral authority to lecture Trump about immigration after taking huge profits on human trafficking for the Federal government. I wonder if the quid pro quo was Axelrod promising to resume those payments.
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Jesús Enrique Rosas@Knesix·
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left. And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing. All organically, I'm sure. I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne. This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports. But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity. Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm. The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue. OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing. But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president. The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.
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