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Patrick J. Murphy's avatar

Appreciate the comments. No excuse for political violence on either side. Absolutely heartbreaking.

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Lucy's avatar

Wow! Another great article with the perfect summarization of our messy democracy, constitutional ideas, and most of all our nation of immigrants!

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Robin Dumler's avatar

So much unbeleivable Trump bullshit that my head wants to explode. Who would vote for such a butt plug???

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Calen C Chrzan's avatar

Trump and the people surrounding him are just outright cruel and do not represent the best of America or most Americans. I served two tours in Thailand during the Vietnam War. There are 58,000 plus names on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall in DC. I knew one personally who was a pilot from my first tour. I was reminded of his service and accident at a military reunion this past weekend. Some of those names on that wall were probably resident aliens. Let's not forget our history. We are a nation of immigrants. We need to treat people with dignity and respect and give people due process as our Constitution demands and which every servicemember takes an oath to uphold and defend.

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Matković Lazarov Branka's avatar

OMG !!!! This is more than aggression !!! You are right when you explain in detail..250 years of the Army is for all Americans who serve and have served and defended the country...You are also right about the "dirty people" ...unfortunately. So be fair and continue to advocate. Support ..🇺🇸💪🇺🇸💪

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Satish Chohan's avatar

Yes, the lawlessness and cruelty is the message. The response has to be collective resistance across the nation which is beginning to happen. The Trojan Hirse is truly the republican party and the foot soldiers are the Rober barons of modern era, The Heritage Foundation, The Federalist Society, ALEC, Citizens United, and the Right-Wing media network. Want to see more facts? Read the book,

"Trojan Horse - Democracy Hijacked". It will be out in two weeks.

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Beth Jane Freeman's avatar

Smacks of the original Easter story without the supernatural elements. If you take that story as a parable, it is a recipe to create a martyr. Let’s hope this fellow only gets arrested.

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phelpsmediation's avatar

What a BS headline. Very little evidence that there was a Jesus and absolutely NO evidence that he was divine. All the New Testament writings were decades after his alleged death and resurrection. All four Gospels have factually different and contradictory stories about the crucifixion and resurrection. And none of it is credible enough to be admitted as valid evidence in court. Great fiction used to control the masses then and now. So many children are indoctrinated before they are old enough to question and almost all inherited their religion from their family/community. When they get old enough to question they realize that there are penalties for too many questions, from expulsion to shunning to death, depending on where you live.

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phelpsmediation's avatar

Many of the stories are not nice. Women treated as 2nd class citizens or property. Entire tribes slaughtered, including children (sometimes it was ok to keep and enslave the virgin women) slavery is approved Exodus 21, Leviticus 25:45-47. Etc have you read the entire Bible?

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Calen C Chrzan's avatar

The Bible is a nice collection of short stories but shouldn't be taken literally as we just do not know about the history and as you said several parts are contradictory. We also do not know much about Jesus's personal life. Was he married. Did he have children. For all we know he could have been gay which would be a shocker for the Christian Right.

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Robin Dumler's avatar

All a bunch of stories to explain things to people who are unaware of Darwin. Like how did Noah collect a mating pair of animals from all continents, build an arc, gather food and know when the flood was coming? Like Stevie Wonder says " Very superstitious", Very good writing "on the Wall".

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Kate's avatar

WWJD. Do better Cingress.

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Vickie Cummings's avatar

Thank you

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James A Clark Jr's avatar

trump always does this! he stirs things up and says "look OMG there is a fire or something" Never claims responsibility it's always :those other guys started it"

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Maima Jones's avatar

What a great insightful, informative, and inspirational article! And it also encourages us not to give up on Democracy, no matter how messy it gets at times . Thanks for this article Senator Patrick J. Murphy! Thanks for being here!

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Joseph McPhillips's avatar

Trump & Co demand we abandon reality & threatens prosecution/retribution for challenging fabricated evidence & propaganda.

BTW, Migrant day laborers at Home Depot & overwhelmingly peaceful protesters are not the enemy within. #Resist MAGA corruption & authoritarianism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMUXyBx-_KM

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