I’m so shocked and saddened to hear about the many people
gunned down at prayer in their mosque.

Their killers are pathetic, weak and evil.

@executioner-brand said
Mark Taylor joined this religion went to Syria, joined isis and believed he was entitled to buy wives of little kidnapped Iraqi girls. But he could only afford rubbish. When your religion does shyt like that you are entitled to this.

Attempting to follow your reasoning here: in order to deter some wanna-be Islamist from traveling to Syria, joining the ISIS jihad, and raping some under-age Iraqi girl, Mr. Tarrant goes to two mosques in NZ, murders Mucad Ibrahim, age 3, and 48 others. Have I got that right? Killing a 3-year old child in NZ is somehow going to stop or prevent an underage girl kidnapped from Iraq from being raped!?

Does it not strike you that many of the NZ mosque victims were refugees fleeing ISIS? Precisely because they do not agree with ISIS's programme or interpretation of Islam.

There's much bashing of the Spirituality of others. On a different note, I thought to create this thread. In here, you have an opportunity to share how your spiritual practice has brought you peace.

I'll provide an example. I have had moments, after meditation, when I was fully accepting of the world as it was. That is the most peace I have ever felt in my time of existence.

@wolfgang59 said
Every day is different depending on what my daughters' schedule is for the day.
The only constant in my life is double egg on toast for breakfast!

nice , I get up 5 am 10 K run then breakfast Double eggs on toast then shower , sort the wife out, shower again, 1 hr work out in gym half hour swim then catch the 7 am train to newcastle........all lies except the eggs.

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@divegeester said
Is it now ok in America to make personal attacks on dead opponents in order (try) to gain political points?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/donald-trump-john-mccain-dead/index.html

Trump is nothing but a lazy thieving loser punk who has made all his money off the sweat of other hard working individuals. The five time draft dodger has the nerve to say that McCain is not a war hero after him being shot down and spending five years being tortured as a prisoner of war. Trump says he was not a war hero because he was captured; does that tell one how he feels about those killed in service? Mr. five time draft dodger said his Vietnam was not to get VD during the 1960s early 70s. He is a worthless to God and America piece of scum and always will be; that goes for those that still support the lying draft dodger POS who dishonors true America war heroes who actually served. Remember, McCain had enough money in his family to dodge the draft also; however, he was a unselfish man, unlike Dump.

Ok we get it.
A lot of white people don't like other races.
That will never change.
All this racial talk in the media is creating more division.
You are wasting your time and your life worrying about it.
If you were unbiased it would stimulate conversation but you are biased.
You never talk about other races when they are being racist.

You Duchess64 are no different than a white supremacist. You just play on a different team.

You are wasting your life.

@gareth-cobb
I concur. It is likely that the Muslim refugees in NZ fled ISIS-controlled or ISIS-threatened regions in order to protect their daughters from forced marriages to jihadists and their sons from conscription into jihadist militias. Tarrant's stupidity and toxic ideology completely misidentified his targets.

If he wanted to do something useful, he should have joined the Kurdish forces fighting ISIS on the ground in Syria; at least then, his perverse trigger-lust would have vented itself against legitimate targets.

Tarrant is a failed human on all levels: emotional, intellectual, social, and moral. I hope the NZ justice system confines him for the rest of his days; I wish him many long years to reflect on the waste, error, and stupidity of his life so far. It is probably too much to expect him ever to recognize or rue what suffering he has caused to others.

@averagejoe1 said
What would a Republican, who steps up and runs against Trump for the 2020 nomination, run on?

Having a Heart
Brain
Compasion
Personality
I rest my case.

@humy said
Duchess64

Nothing you said there about me is true and you state it all without showing evidence.

And you are racist against white people. -Who here will say they agree with that assertion?

Completely agree. Her racism towards white people is blatant and constant across multiple forums. She has made casual comment that I am racist, though is unable to locate a single post where I have said anything remotely so. In contrast, her own racism is plastered daily across the site.

@divegeester

When Trump came into office, the Republican Party gave up any fig-leaf or pretense of dignity. A brace of top Republicans all held their collective noses and walked back their earlier comments that were disparaging honest and direct and overnight became his cheer squad.

Any given week just ask the question, what if Obama had done that, and imagine the paroxysms of dire warnings and portents of doom that would have issued from Fox News......but with Trump....nada, niks, not a thing! what does that tell you of his party other than being a mob of spineless sycophants???

@kmax87 said
@divegeester
When Trump came into office, the Republican Party gave up any fig-leaf or pretense of dignity. A brace of top Republicans all held their collective noses and walked back their earlier comments that were disparaging honest and direct and overnight became his cheer squad.

It’s quite awful that he is tolerated by a party just because he draws a particular vote, and bizarre that the party leadership don’t see the longer term damage being done to a reputation which will need deep cleansing of the stench of this man once he dies, gets assassinated or finally loses office.

@shallow-blue said
No, McCain was a Republican. Trump is a Libertarian who parasitising the Republican Party.

"Libertarian" is a political ideology. Trump doesn't have a political ideology, his statements are an incoherent soup of bigotry, ignorance, projection, vanity and personal vendettas.

@whodey said

And yea, I know he is dead and I really don't give a damn because he was all set to throw those dying veterans under the bus.

There is nothing in either of your links to support this heinous accusation. All either of them say, quite loosely actually, is that someone accused McCain’s staff of being slow to react. Perhaps they were, that hardly constitutes McCain himself “throwing Vets under the bus”. And this is your reason for “turning on” McCain?

Your preambled bitching about McCain’s privileged upbringing is laughable considering your man Trump’s upbringing. Wouldn’t you agree?

Sanders on Trump's tax gift to the rich:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bernie-sanders-hits-trail-again-time-fight-gop-tax-bill-n824311

The bill is expected to raise the deficit by $1.4 trillion, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently say could trigger an obscure budget rule that Democrats warn could force Medicare cuts.

"This legislation goes well beyond taxes," Sanders wrote in an email that will be sent to supporters Monday. "Mark my words. If passed, the Republicans will then rediscover the 'deficit crisis,' and push aggressively for massive cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts

President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget breaks one of his biggest campaign promises to voters: that he would leave Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare untouched.

“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015.

Over the next 10 years, Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid

1.4 trillion in tax cuts to the rich; 1.4 trillion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

To the conservatives here: not only do we have (yet even more) proof of Trump being a liar, Trump has openly robbed from the poor and given it to the rich.

Why do you conservatives not condemn Trump for doing such a thing? Will you conservatives STILL vote for him rather than a Democrat, given the myriad lies from this guy?