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The DUmpster / Re: I think I'm done here...at least for awhile
« Last post by DefiantSix on May 22, 2026, 12:50:01 PM »
Ummm DUmp'Rat???



(Especially when we know you just going to be lurking in the background for all the comments telling you to stay.)
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/22
« Last post by enslaved1 on May 22, 2026, 12:37:39 PM »


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Allie Beth Stuckey slammed the rerelease of Avalon’s classic song “Testify to Love” as an “LGBTQ-affirming anthem,” emphasizing that Christians cannot claim to be “nicer than God” by rejecting biblical teachings on sin and sexuality.

In a May 18 episode of her “Relatable” podcast, the 34-year-old conservative author and speaker addressed the rerelease of the 1997 song, newly recorded by Michael Passons, Melissa Greene and outspoken gay country artist Ty Herndon.

“For years, I sang these words while hiding who I truly was,” Passons said in a statement to GLAAD announcing the re-release of the song. “To record this now with Ty, Melissa, and this incredible group of artists — standing fully in my truth — is a full-circle moment I once thought impossible. It serves as a testimony that love does not exclude.”

Kicking off her podcast, Stuckey called Passons' announcement “bad news,” adding: “Now we are being told retroactively that ‘Testify to Love’ by the CCM band Avalon is actually an anthem of queer love. Yes, I am not joking that this is now an LGBTQ-affirming anthem.”

“[There's this idea that] passages that positively affirm the holiness of marriage between one man and one woman and the exclusive holiness of sexual activity within that marriage between one man and one woman, it's just too much to bear and actually, we as these fallible people, we have a better answer. We have a better and bigger and wiser and more loving perspective on how humans should behave and what sin is and what it’s not," she said.

Obvious problems aside, I find it interesting how when any other group does things like this, leftists get all up in arms about "cultural appropriation".  If someone's history is not my Halloween costume, why is my worship song your sinful anthem?   
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The DUmpster / Re: A brief Iran rant for DU lurkers
« Last post by Old n Grumpy on May 22, 2026, 12:21:42 PM »
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If you finally grew some testicles and decided to do something about it, would you be doing it “unprovoked”? Or would it depend on the party letter behind your name?

If you are a true died in the wall liberal bleeding heart you would just give all the stuff to that gang and say I feel sorry for you guys because you had a rough time growing up :thatsright: :mental:
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The DUmpster / Re: I think I'm done here...at least for awhile
« Last post by ADsOutburst on May 22, 2026, 12:08:53 PM »
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Billionaires are antithetical to a functional society.

What functional societies today don't have billionaires?

Even the Scandinavian countries that the left would like us emulate have quite a few billionaires per capita.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/22
« Last post by SVPete on May 22, 2026, 11:52:36 AM »
Minnesota hunger non-profit leader gets 41 years in prison for $250 million fraud scheme

https://srnnews.com/minnesota-hunger-non-profit-leader-gets-41-years-in-prison-for-250-million-fraud-scheme/

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May 19 (Reuters) – The leader of a Minnesota non-profit group was sentenced to 41 years in prison on Thursday after she was convicted last year of being the ringleader of a $250 million scheme to defraud a federally funded child nutrition program.

Aimee Bock, 45, was charged in 2022 with using her non-profit group Feeding Our Future to enact what the Justice Department said was the largest known fraud against the U.S. government’s relief programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 70 other people have been charged alongside Bock. The fraud has been often invoked by U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, as part of his rationale for targeting Minnesota, led by Democrats, for an aggressive surge in arresting and deporting immigrants earlier this year. On the same day as Bock’s sentencing, the U.S. Department of Justice announced new charges against 15 people accused of defrauding Medicaid and other welfare programs in Minnesota of $90 million.

$90M of fraud, and Walz and Ellison Sergeant-Schultzed it.
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Black mom, attorney ordered to pay $3.2 million to white student whose life they tried to ruin with fake hate allegations

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-mom-attorney-ordered-to-pay-3-2-million-to-white-student-whose-life-they-tried-to-ruin-with-fake-hate-allegations/ar-AA1VPwgO

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A white youth who was falsely accused of committing a hate crime against his black classmate has been awarded $3.2 million after a Texas jury determined the incident was a hoax fabricated by the classmate's money-grubbing mother and her race-hustling attorney.

The scam unfolded in 2021, when Summer Smith — the mother of then-middle school student SeMarion Humphrey — and her lawyer, Kim T. Cole, accused Humphrey's white classmate, Asher Vann, and his friends of shooting Humphrey with BB guns and forcing him to drink urine during a sleepover at Vann's house in Plano, Texas, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
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"Major media outlets, including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Dallas Morning News, pounced on the story as Humphrey, his mother Summer Smith, and their attorney Kim Cole, embarked on a media tour where they called Vann 'evil,'" the Free Beacon reported.

"The trio appeared on 'Good Morning America,' where ABC host Linsey Davis promoted a GoFundMe account that raised nearly $120,000 to help pay for Humphrey’s 'therapy and private schooling.'"
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"It was scary," Vann said. "These were adults, and I was in middle school at the time. Full-grown adults were rushing my house and causing harm to it. What if I was home and they saw me? They could have ripped me from my home and beaten me. It was very scary."

In October 2025, a jury concluded Smith and Cole "cooked up the scheme to raise their public profiles during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement and to rake in money through GoFundMe," the Free Beacon reported.

"Court records show that Smith put less than $1,000 of the nearly $120,000 GoFundMe windfall toward her son’s schooling," the Free Beacon reported.

"Account statements reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show the remaining funds were spent on luxuries, including a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent."

A judge issued the $3.2 million order for damages on Jan. 22, according to the news outlet.

For reference, the racially diverse jury had four black members.
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The DUmpster / Re: I think I'm done here...at least for awhile
« Last post by SVPete on May 22, 2026, 11:11:49 AM »
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Last thoughts before I leave:

Progressives are Democrats.1.
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon.2.
Healthcare is a human right.3.
Billionaires are antithetical to a functional society.4.

1. In the real world, for 4 or 5 decades Dems have been destructive wherever and whenever they ruled. And I'm ignoring the Dem-created KKK and Jim Crow laws.

2. In the real world, the Arab populations in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon have been burgeoning. What kind of "genocide" causes/allows the supposed target people group to increase in number? Significantly?

3. Could you cite support for your claim in the US Constitution? Declaration of Independence? English Bill of Rights? English Declaration of Right? You are not God or Captain Picard, so your, "Make it so," means approximately zero.

4. In the real world, those billionaires became that by creating products and/or services that people want and employ many people to produce those products/services. How many social program dependents have created anything more than children taught to be social program dependents?
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The DUmpster / Re: A brief Iran rant for DU lurkers
« Last post by SVPete on May 22, 2026, 10:53:17 AM »
 :hi5:

Of course, realities such as history are Reich-Wing.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 5/22
« Last post by DefiantSix on May 22, 2026, 10:49:03 AM »
If only Stephen Colbert had figured out how to be ridiculously, hilariously funny like Don Lemon here.

Oh wait...
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The "D" of "_DS" may or may not be over-used, but it definitely is not hyperbole or exaggeration. Bush broke those who thought him an idiot and prepared the way for the even more hysterical TDS.
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