The Conservative Cave

I'm not sure that Christianity is dying so much as church membership is declining and I firmly believe that those aren't the same thing. A lot of people attended church merely out of habit because that is the way they were raised. The youth of our nation aren't as devout about their faith so many aren't continuing in their church attendance as they age. They are not filling in the pew space that is vacated when their elders pass away.

With that said, I believe the truly faithful are remaining and probably at the same numbers we've seen in the past. Just because someone claims to be a Christian doesn't mean that they are. What is happening is that the ratio of the truly faithful to the marginal believers is shifting as people decide it is better to sleep in on Sundays.

They will issue a correction on the 12th of never

I believe this is called grasping at straws 

Their fearless leader is a walking dead man and they refuse to see or accept that. Plus they don’t dare complain and the economy or the way he is mishandling the country 

peggysue2 (10,891 posts)

Broken Brain Syndrome
I've seen this before.

Though I don't think Donald Trump's latest rally mishap was a McConnell-like freeze, Trump is definitely having increasing dementia problems. As one of the doctors from the Duty to Warn Coalition has noted, Donald Trump's brain is broken. His mental capacity is a mere shadow of what it was in 2016 and his cognitive functions are seriously impaired.

My father went through this as did my sister. You can have plateaus during the early stages of the disease where function evens out and a patient has moments of clarity. But as the disease progresses (and it always progresses), those moments become infrequent, and then disappear altogether.

Trump is very close to the abyss.

Stress worsens the symptoms and I truly believe that's what we're witnessing. Falling asleep in the courtroom is a good example of advanced dementia-related behavior. My father would sleep a lot during the day, and then be on the prowl throughout the night.

Sound familiar?

All the language glitches and slurs, the language of violence and paranoia? It's all part of it as the brain damage worsens. Even his body movement--that forward tilt, the leg dragging could be attributed to his neurological decline.

I recall watching my father as he went through this process comparing him to a diver. In the early stages, he would dive beneath the water and resurface, sputtering, making excuses, citing reasons for a poor or unexpected dive. As time went on, his inability to resurface entirely or even make reasonable excuses/explanations became painfully clear. Weirdly enough, my youngest son was having his own struggles after a traumatic brain injury. He started deeply submerged beneath the water, then slowly--in fits and starts--resurfaced, sometimes briefly, then permanently (but with what the medical community refers to as 'deficits').

I watched the whole process in reverse.

Agent Orange is at the point where normal families would seek care and medical advice.

None of this is normal. Not the man, the family, not his frenzied supporters (who are willfully blind to the evidence) and certainly not his enablers, those eager to use Trump as their vehicle to raw power.

Trump's brain is broken. We see it every day and will continue to see it in evermore harrowing dimensions because this is who the GOP is pushing to occupy the Oval Office.

Donald Trump has thus far outrun accountability. But he cannot, will not outrun this disease process.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218961667

Projecting about Biden again??

East Palestine resident says whistleblower is 'tip of the iceberg' for disaster response 'cover-up'
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/east-palestine-resident-whistleblower-tip-iceberg-disaster-response-cover-up

East Palestine, Ohio, residents are expressing frustration after learning that the emergency response to the toxic train derailment last year was riddled with mistakes.

"We're just hanging in there. It's all we can do," East Palestine local Linda Murphy said on "The Bottom Line" Thursday.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is disputing whistleblower claims of mistakes and "no confidence" in early data collected from the site where a Norfolk-Southern train hauling caustic materials derailed along the Pennsylvania-Ohio border.

A person who said he helped craft the technology and interpret data from advanced radiological sensors on a high-tech EPA plane used to survey the damage and take hazmat readings told The Associated Press the aircraft was enlisted too late. In turn, the whistleblower told the outlet, it may have been unnecessary to burn off toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars in a controlled release.

What happened in East Palestine is one giant Cluster F***.