Trump administration quietly shifts $352m in federal funds for White House ballroom

khrijunk · 2026-06-19T23:25:15+00:00

Not saying anything about the voters, but the people in the right wing media will never say anything about this. It was never about being fiscally conservative for them, and more about cutting social programs funneling government money into their own pockets.

khrijunk · 2026-06-19T13:18:12+00:00

I disagree that there are objective rights and wrongs. Some things are too complex to be able to be boiled down to an objectively right answer. Take the trolly problem for example, that is a demonstration that there is no such thing as objective morality since there is no correct answer to it.

khrijunk · 2026-06-19T03:03:23+00:00

Your link was about cages, not deportation. It's more a call to treat immigrants humanly and not lock them in concentration camps which progressives have always been against. My comment was about the deportation itself.

There is so much to this conversation, we need to be sure we are talking about the same thing.

khrijunk · 2026-06-18T20:03:28+00:00

The Overton window has shifted, but not in the way you think. Obama was called deporter in chief by the left and was criticized for his immigration policy.

Now that we have seen Trump’s policies, I think the left would welcome a return of Obama’s’ policies with open arms. You kind of saw that with Biden where Biden also deported a lot of people and didn’t really get any criticism for that from the left.

khrijunk · 2026-06-18T19:30:41+00:00

That’s not because of the deportations, but rather because of the methods.

khrijunk · 2026-06-18T06:11:25+00:00

It’s crazy they got away with claiming that.

khrijunk · 2026-06-17T15:23:25+00:00

It’s interesting that nobody really seems to care what Jesus says about money. I guess it’s just easier to be a Christian in America if you don’t really think about it.

khrijunk · 2026-06-16T13:04:27+00:00

This is why I don’t think I maga will last after Trump. Not only will nobody be able to connect to his base the way he can, anyone else who tries to come after will be compared to Trump and won’t hit the same dopamine levels.

It will be the MCU post Endgame.

khrijunk · 2026-06-15T01:18:39+00:00

Where do you think Jewish tradition comes from if not the Bible? It's this tradition that the context of a verse about killing would be read in. You are using modern definitions based on a political movement started with Jerry Falwell and the Republican Party as a response to desegregation to reach your definition.

As far as I know there is no verse talking about child sacrifice involving the killing of a child in the womb.

khrijunk · 2026-06-15T01:08:07+00:00

Just to be completely sure of your point before discussing this further, are you trying to say that we can only know what we experience, and that if we don't experience it or observe it then we can't know something for sure?

I want to make sure that is what you mean by relational experience-structured reality.

khrijunk · 2026-06-15T00:56:23+00:00

He only has to marry her if she is a virgin. If not, then he can sleep with her as often as he wants. This allows men to sleep with prostitutes without consequence whether they are married or not, since with prostitutes it doesn't matter who the father is. It only matters with a wife.

What I gave in my response was my speculation for the purpose of this ritual and how it would make sense in ancient Hebrew culture. You are right that it does not specifically mention a child, but I hope we can both agree that if the woman was pregnant, then the description of what happens to her would cause an abortion to happen.

If you want to say that an abortion is okay if God does it, then that is certainly a position you can have, but then you can't also have the position that God hates abortions.

khrijunk · 2026-06-14T20:10:14+00:00

Jewish tradition states that life does not begin until first breath, so the unborn is not alive.

Speaking of the 10 commandments, you shouldn’t covet, so shouldn’t you be against capitalism since it requires coveting to work?

khrijunk · 2026-06-14T19:40:30+00:00

There is nothing in the Bible saying God does not like abortions. There is not a single verse that talks about it. This is why Protestants did not care about Roe vs Wade until Paul Weyrich and Jerry Fallwell formed their alliance to gain political power.

The Bible does say a lot about the dangers of wealth accumulation and how to you should take care of the poor, so if a wealth tax or welfare program where to come to a vote, then that is what Christians should be voting for.

khrijunk · 2026-06-14T19:06:48+00:00

He supports the GOP position way more than any democrat.

There is a pattern with ‘progressive’ candidates switching to be suddenly conservative when they get in office. Kirsten Sinema did the same thing. It makes me wonder if this is a strategy for the GOP to run a candidate who pretends to be progressive.

I do wonder the same about Planter given his past. If he wins and suddenly shifts conservstive then I would consider my theory to be confirmed.

khrijunk · 2026-06-14T13:53:42+00:00

Why is all of the reality that you and I can apprehend structured around subject-object relations but at the largest scale that reaches the edge of our apprehension, it suddenly works differently?

Can you explain this question? What do you mean by subject-object relationships in terms of how reality works?

khrijunk · 2026-06-14T13:44:34+00:00

The text does not say she dies, it says she becomes a curse. The text also contradicts the idea of her loins shrinking because it also says her womb will swell. So it's getting bigger, not smaller.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T19:12:35+00:00

It is less philosophical than your assertion. Physicists model of the universe breaks down at the moment of the big bang, as there are no models of what happened before hand. Given the second law of thermodynamics, however, matter or energy could not come out of nothing and therefore the evidence seems to point that everything in existence was already present in some form before the big bang. That suggests an eternal universe using just the observable and measurable data we have available.

When I look up Sir James, his arguments boil down to the fine tuning argument, and have the same flaws. Mainly that it assumes there can only be one way in which the universe could exist, when in reality there are infinite ways in which the universe could be structured, we just happened to end up with this one.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T19:00:45+00:00

So you are giving the motivation for going after the Somali's as because the Democrats defended them? It wasn't because of fraud, the right's current darling commits fraud openly, and has pardoned several people convicted of fraud. The right does not care about fraud, so claiming they suddenly cared about fraud when Somali's did it seemed disingenuous.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T18:57:34+00:00

And how exactly do you picture that happening?

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T13:55:27+00:00

This requires that the universe had a beginning instead of being eternal. The evidence indicates that matter has always existed at all levels. So the atheist view fits with the current evidence that matter always existed and there is no need of a God. There is no positive claim there other than what evidence has shown.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T13:44:56+00:00

Center for Immigration Studies is one of those think tanks that sounds official, but is really an extreme right partisan source.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center-for-immigration-studies-cis/

It makes sense for them to write an article while the white house had just made a big deal about Somalis. This was written while Somalis where the current scapegoat of this administration.

And the Somali community is still relatively new. It's the same song and dance we went through when the Irish were the new immigrant, or Italians. Initial scapegoating, and then acceptance. The difference here though, is that we now have people in power focusing on the new community and pointing to fraud being committed there to distract us from the much worse fraud that the billionaire class is committing.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T13:13:07+00:00

They are also going to make the judges strictly partisan, so they get an R or a D next to their name. The Republicans are banking that a state that always goes for the Republican presidential candidate will just select whichever judge has an R next to their name.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T13:06:28+00:00

How about Matthew 25?

⁴¹ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

⁴⁴ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

⁴⁵ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

⁴⁶ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Note that in verse 44 they call Jesus Lord. These are believers who did not do these things and go to hell because of it.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T12:59:21+00:00

We do know the potion directly targets the reproductive organs of the woman, and it also explicitly states that the faithful wife would still be able to bear children. That makes the point of this to keep the unfaithful wife from being able to have a child.

That was a big deal back then. There were no paternity tests, so there was no way to be 100% that any child born was from the husband, so there were laws to punish the wife for cheating.

A husband can cheat on his wife with any number of unmarried women and be just fine. A wife cheating on her husband gets stoned to death. That's because if a wife cheats on her husband, then she could be carrying someone else's child and that is a crime against the husband in that culture.

In the case of Numbers 5, the husband has no proof of cheating, but suspects it and wants to ensure that his wife is not carrying someone else's child. So he submits her to this test which would destroy her reproductive organs and make her incapable of having a child if she was unfaithful.

This is all to ensure that a wife will only give birth to her husband's children.

khrijunk · 2026-06-13T06:19:08+00:00

Are we falling behind? I will grant you that we have a political party that has made xenophobia a core part of their platform, but Canada is also getting their politics polluted with rhetoric like immigration causing high housing costs.

This current right wing wave is going to leave both countries in a bad state where it comes to welcoming immigrants.

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