There still must be a lot of Republicans out in California!

"The Republicans Can't Handle the Truth"

"You shouldn’t be surprised that they’re still backing Trump."

https://tinyurl.com/y4vfs2og

Mike Adams wrote:
“In legal adult use cannabis states,” the analysts wrote, “the number binge drinking sessions per month (for states legal through 2016) was -9% below the national average.”

What’s more is legal marijuana states, where adults 21 and older can walk into a dispensary and purchase a variety of cannabis products, experienced 13 percent less binge drinking than areas of prohibition. The writing is on the wall – people with legal access to recreational marijuana are opting to spend either all or a portion of their booze budget on a substance that has been deemed “a safer alternative.”

https://tinyurl.com/yyn4rbvn

Debra Killalea wrote:
DONALD Trump’s executive order banning the citizens of seven countries from entering the United States is supposed to protect the nation from “radical Islamic terrorists”.

But conspicuously, the order does not apply to several other Muslim-majority countries that suffer from well documented problems with terrorism.

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Pakistan is not on the banned list despite a wave of terror attacks there, and long-running accusations that it’s been a state sponsor of terrorism.

The San Bernardino massacre, in which 14 people were killed, was perpetrated by Syed Rizwan Farook, who is of Pakistani descent, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, who grew up in Saudi Arabia....

Spencer S. Hsu and Ann E. Marimow wrote:
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In formally ending Flynn’s three-year legal saga, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said he probably would have denied the Justice Department’s controversial effort this year to drop the case, ...
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“President Trump’s decision to pardon Mr. Flynn is a political decision, not a legal one. Because the law recognizes the President’s political power to pardon, the appropriate course is to dismiss this case as moot,” Sullivan wrote, adding: “However, the pardon ‘does not, standing alone, render [Mr. Flynn] innocent of the alleged violation.’ ”

The 43-page ruling delivered the court’s final say in the politically charged case, ...

https://tinyurl.com/y6hlu88u

But I think if you look up Russell Moore and his link for the 2016 election he will point out that evangelicals are hypocritical when they used to attack presidential candidates for morals failings, while Trump moral failings are completely good

Of course, such behavior is driving out young people especially from the Evangelical churches anyway

George Will has always been a conservative, not one of convenience like Mr. Trump. if you have any doubts go read a whole bunch of his commentaries which are easily found here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/syndication/columnists/george-f-will/

Tish Durkin wrote:
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Joe Biden or Donald Trump: Who’s the better Catholic? If this seems like an odd question to raise in the context of a race for the highest secular office in America—and a race in which one of the two candidates is Protestant—never mind. Both campaigns, and their surrogates, are hotly contesting the answer....

Of course, every presidential race since Roe v. Wade has featured tension between single-issue anti-abortion-rights Catholic voters and the more liberal, “social justice” Catholics who consider abortion just one issue of many. This time, though, the Catholic wars have greatly expanded....

https://tinyurl.com/y4y7npa2

Cameron Doody wrote:
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“By patching together bits of unverified information, repeating banal and deceptively persuasive arguments, sending strident and hateful messages, we do not help to weave human history, but instead strip others of their dignity”, the Pope wrote....

https://tinyurl.com/y35dt42w

No doubt, one of the better articles on how Critical Race Theory came to be and what it is

"President Trump Has Attacked Critical Race Theory. Here's What to Know About the Intellectual Movement"

By the way,

"Pope Francis congratulates Biden for winning presidential election"

Emma Green wrote:
...Since at least 1995, the church has been publicly repenting for its history of racial discrimination. Arguably, it has made progress; minority participation in Southern Baptist congregations has blossomed. Yet after two decades, the public-policy arm of the church is still focused almost exclusively on conservative social issues, rather than topics like poverty and mass incarceration, which have a significant impact on racial disparities in America....
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“Most of my white brothers and sisters place a great emphasis on individualism and meritocracy,” said Thabiti Anyabwile, a black pastor who heads a church in southeast D.C. “Most of my African American brothers and sisters, we've had a group experience. Our experience in this country has been defined first and foremost by this pigment that we share. So when we have these conversations about how to make progress, African Americans go to group experience pretty quickly. We speak in ‘we.’ And white Americans go pretty quickly to individual and speak of ‘I.’”

https://tinyurl.com/yaz3aphs

The Laura Loomer mentioned in the article below I believe even one a congressional seat ❗👎

Adam Gabbatt wrote:
While Loomer may espouse the most dangerous beliefs of all the Republicans to win primaries this year, it’s a tight contest.

Media Matters, a not-for-profit progressive research center which monitors misinformation, has counted 67 current or former rightwing congressional candidates who have embraced QAnon, a conspiracy theory based in antisemitic tropes which has incited supporters to violence and is popular among Trump supporters.

Angela Stanton King, a QAnon believer who claimed Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter were a screen “for pedophilia and human trafficking”, won an uncontested primary in Georgia in July.

People want the facts Now that wasn't particularly obvious at Mr. Trump's rally❗👎

Michael Dulaney and Alex Lollback wrote:
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A retired teacher, Kasey's mother was an involved parent who called once a week, sometimes more, and tutored her granddaughters in maths over the phone.

Kasey let her mum talk about her theories and occasionally asked probing questions, but otherwise didn't engage.

She didn't know it at the time, but the flat Earth poster was the first sign her mother was drifting away from her friends and family....

https://tinyurl.com/y629zhu6

Aaron Hanlon wrote:
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For several years now, I’ve cautioned against the tendency to hastily extrapolate sweeping national trends and dire outcomes from a handful of headline-grabbing campus controversies. The first relevant data I came across on millennials’ attitudes toward free speech was a 2015 Pew Center study showing that while millennials (ages 18-34) were more likely than other generations to favor government prevention of offensive public statements about minorities, people with college degrees also were the most likely to support an individual's right to say offensive things publicly....
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Today we have even better data. As Acadia University political science professor Jeffrey Sachs points out, according to a General Social Survey (GSS) dataset, “young people aged 18-34 are the most tolerant of potentially offensive speech and trending upward,” meaning not only that young people are already the most tolerant of offensive speech, but that they’re getting more tolerant. (Sachs points out one exception, which is tolerance for racist speech, where the 18-34 age group is about 4 percent below the national average)....

David Brooks wrote:
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Well, 77 percent of Republicans or Trump backers say the election was stolen by fraud, according to a Monmouth poll. A lot of those same people don't believe in manmade climate change. A lot of those same people don't believe that masks can save your life.

So, there's a section of a country that's become detached from reality and, under Trump paranoia, has become a style, a resurgent style.

I wrote a column about this a week ago....

[See my comment before the Serenity Prayer one❗The one about David Brooks column--and read the transcript to Shields and Brooks or watch the 12 minute video]

https://tinyurl.com/yxdsqttr

https://tinyurl.com/y5lw7mv2

Apparently sanctions are going to have to come from state bar associations

Jade Lawson wrote:
Instead of saying, 'I voted for Barack,' it'll be, 'I voted for Biden and against Trump,' as the new measuring stick for saying that one is not racist,...Going back to normal for Black people looks a lot different than it might look like for other folks in the sense that they're not reminded daily through the president's tweets or comments of America's very close connections to racism and white supremacy.

"'Normal' is a wealth and wage gap, health disparities, extrajudicial killings by police officers. That is the baseline of 'normal' for Black people in America---Erika Wilson, an associate professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

https://tinyurl.com/y2uskp78

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote:
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My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”...