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Nov 10, 2023·edited Nov 10, 2023Author

I just added to the article the new effort by the Ohio GOP to ignore the constitutional amendment by enacting legislation to strip the courts of the power to enforce it. These are alarming times!!!

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Yeah Dean! I do get terribly tired of hearing about how God this and God that.

Maybe there is a htline you can contact to check?

The number is supposedly 1-800-CALL-GOD And you can fact check Him/or Her.

The one time I checked the line was "not in service at this time".

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One of the first things I thought when I heard about the vote in Ohio was - good luck getting it implemented. As long as GOP are in charge, it doesn’t matter what people vote for.

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If the white evangelical Christian view of the afterlife, the righteous in Heaven with Jesus, the unrighteous in Hell with Satan. They are in for a rude shock when they discover that the price of admission to heaven was love for the poor, the immigrant, the child (born, life begins at breath), the downtrodden, the stranger and the abused. You know "As you do unto the least of these, you do unto me" Just one of the Jesus parts of Christianity that is unknown to them.

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That has nothing to do with restoring the Republic and a #ConstitutionalReaffirmation. Or, more importantly, the complete failure of “We the people“ in reforming our duty.

(purposeful lowercase)

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These are the kind of threats that should be met with arrests! These are speeches in favor of coups! I think the American public has seen enough of privileging of these racist-fascist terrorizers and seditionists. The president can call out the National Guard and should.

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While we all try to help our families, take care of one another. I realized I cannot be right about everything. I love ppl and want to leave this world that I did not make ppl weary, that I listened to those who feel differently than me, that I loved the word democracy and love and that it is possible to live w those where we differ.

I hope to God I’m on the right track.

Our world is so confusing at times. I’m just one person. If we want to live together we must work together.

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Don't agree with these right wing and fundamentalist Bozo's but embedded in their contempt for the "will of the People" is one important point that it took us one whole century following the civil war to understand: some societal values like equal justice and non-discrimination in public accommodations must override popular support for segregation and Lynch-mob justice.

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It’s terrible that we have sitting congressmen, senators and a house speaker that all tried to overturn our democracy. That they are still in government is as big a mistake as allowing Trump to come back.

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Isn't that the definition of Insanity?

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Christian people need to be careful about following these beliefs because these nationalists will go back and justify slavery segregation for everyone in the name of white supremacy. Tim Scott is a hard pill to swallow.

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Everyone wants the easy way. No one LIKES killing animals and fetuses. At this time, economic factors are pushing people hard. Free day care, free contraceptives, free healthcare: then people can consider anti-abortion.

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Nov 11, 2023·edited Nov 11, 2023

The brilliance of abortion is it is self-selected darwinism.

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By that logic, god must’ve been against trump because a plague happened on his watch. Or maybe god has also chooses choice because the referendum went against them. They seem to believe their side is God’s side. And that is Scary stuff Dean.

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I calls 'em as I see's 'em.....Evilgenitals! Sue me. LOL.

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Sinclair Lewis famously wrote "It Can't Happen Here," which showed how it very much COULD happen here.

Rome fell thanks to barbarians at the gate. We have tyrants at our gate.

https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/tyrants-at-the-gate

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Our continual consent to things that are an affront to a free society on a weekly basis is not worthy of the Framers, and everyone who has worn a uniform, or fought for the ideal that is America since.

Entire governments have lost their heads over single acts we have consented to hundreds upon hundreds of times. Rightly so. Cesar would have lined the mall from the capital to the Memorial and back with heads on pikes. Perfectly equidistance for effect!!

Good Lord fellow citizen....They left us instructions!!!!

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Here are those instructions per the Declaration of Independence . We are quite a long time derelict in our #Duty.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Jefferson in Franklin would hang the lot of us....

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Why does anyone support the GOP because the statistically significant difference between the parties is NIL! The proletariat does not have an opportunity of class advancement, no matter the party in power. There’s a reason that the number of registered non-voters has exceeded the popular vote total winner of the Presidential cycle since World War II other than 2020.

Pete Townshend said it clearly. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”

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