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    I was wrong. I should have looked into the parent companies.

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    Ted Cruz can't even market his campaign legally



    https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/D.../htm/PE.32.htm

    Sec. 32.48. SIMULATING LEGAL PROCESS. (a) A person commits an offense if the person recklessly causes to be delivered to another any document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, or other court process with the intent to:

    (1) induce payment of a claim from another person; or

    (2) cause another to:

    (A) submit to the putative authority of the document; or

    (B) take any action or refrain from taking any action in response to the document, in compliance with the document, or on the basis of the document.

    (b) Proof that the document was mailed to any person with the intent that it be forwarded to the intended recipient is a sufficient showing that the document was delivered.

    (c) It is not a defense to prosecution under this section that the simulating document:

    (1) states that it is not legal process
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    laws are for cucks
    social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.

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    Oh look, a brand new dog whistle for the WisGOP.

    https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/...em/1337241002/

    If you don't think this is about race I'd be curious to hear a different take.
    Ever so many citizens of this republic think they ought to believe that the Universe is a monarchy, and therefore they are always at odds with the republic. -Alan Watts

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    Build the wall.

    Make America great again.


    endeavor to persevere.......

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    trump thinks he should have fired comey before he was president: https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/40...ng-achievement
    social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by going_home View Post
    Build the wall.

    Make America great again.


    why don't you say what you actually think? be honest for once in your life. don't use the dog whistle, say what you actually mean.
    social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.

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    here is where i am at:

    https://johnpavlovitz.com/page/6/

    There*s an old saying: *When the horse is dead*dismount.*

    It*s time to stop beating that horse, America. It*s not going anywhere.

    I*ve tried for three years now.
    I*ve tried to understand them.
    I*ve tried to listen to them.

    I*ve tried not to assign motive to them, not to speculate as to why they voted the way they voted, not to believe they consented to every cruel thing their vote birthed and enabled.
    I*ve tried not to caricaturize them; not to make them into one-dimensional stereotypes, not to treat them as some fictional other whose presence posed a threat.

    I*ve tried appealing to their sense of decency, to their capacity for compassion, to their faith in Jesus.

    I*ve quietly endured thousands of their racist outbursts and homophobic rants on Twitter and at neighborhood picnics and across the Thanksgiving dinner table*in the hopes that I could find some vulnerable place beneath their fear to access later.

    I*ve tried buoying pep talks and firm tough love and expressions of kindness and straight-talking challenge and attempts at affirmation.

    I*ve tried discussing theology, tried sharing stories of oppressed communities, tried to offer facts in the face of a million lies generated by their President, tried to show the lessons History has already taught us about the slope we*re currently sliding precipitously down.

    They have all failed to reach fertile ground.
    Nothing has worked.
    It*s all been fruitless.

    I think it*s time to stop saying that we need to understand these people. I think we do understand them:

    We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything*not facts or data or truth or their own eyes.
    We understand that there is no political scandal massive enough, no President*s Tweet reckless enough, no legislation predatory enough to alter their allegiance.
    We understand that the past two years of viciousness and ineptitude haven*t tempered their passions but ignited them.
    We understand that the image of an angry white, American male God is so burned into their brains, that they see no conflict with a religion devoid of love or a world absent diversity or a theology made of malice.
    We understand that infidelity, dishonesty, obscenity, and cruelty are no longer liabilities to those they would have lead them.
    We understand that the FoxNews poison has so fully circulated through their systems that truth is no longer necessary.
    We understand that white supremacists in the Cabinet and Russian infiltration in our elections and children separated from their parents are acceptable collateral damage to winning.
    We understand that their capacity to rationalize away human rights atrocities now borders on complete delusion.

    People have warned that we should treat these people with kid gloves; that explicitly expressing anger or pointing out criminality or vocally opposing injustice right now will only drive them deeper into their entrenched positions. That*s a fairly dire assessment.

    If adults are that fragile in the face of reality, that willing to deny country and humanity simply because they*re offended, that thin-skinned and prone to mutiny*their dispositions aren*t really a burden the rest of us should or could bear.

    We don*t come to this understanding with any joy or self-satisfaction*we come to it with sober despair and the deepest grief, because we know practically speaking that right now they are unreachable.

    It*s one thing to have held out hope for them on November 9th, 2016, but at this point, I*m not sure any miraculous moral awakening or conversion of the heart is possible.

    If their consciences and compassion and reason have not been accessed and unearthed by now, I*m concerned those things will never be forthcoming.

    And since these people will not be moved, the rest of us need to move together.

    Democrat, Republican, and Independent,
    the deeply devout and the passionately irreligious,
    people of every pigmentation and persuasion*we need to move in concert, to affirm our shared regard for one another, and to vote to restore balance in something we all love that is teetering wildly.



    This isn*t a battle to change the minds of the few who refuse to be changed. That horse is dead.

    It also isn*t a test to see if we can manufacture the same hatred and vitriol for them as they dispense toward us.

    This is a golden moment for the vast, sprawling army of good people who believe in the beauty of diversity and in a fully accessible America to speak unequivocally*on our social media profiles, at family gatherings, in our church meetings*and most of all, in the voting booth.

    We don*t need to convince or coddle or win over hatred, and we don*t need to outdo it either.

    We need to outnumber it.
    We need to outlast it.
    We need to outlove it.
    We need to outvote it.
    social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cockerpunk View Post
    why don't you say what you actually think? be honest for once in your life. don't use the dog whistle, say what you actually mean.
    C'mon, thats all you got ?

    endeavor to persevere.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by going_home View Post
    Build the wall.

    Make America great again.
    Quote Originally Posted by going_home View Post
    C'mon, thats all you got ?
    That was essentially Gordon's point.
    Ever so many citizens of this republic think they ought to believe that the Universe is a monarchy, and therefore they are always at odds with the republic. -Alan Watts

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