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As of 2025–2026, Japan’s suicide rate, while historically very high, is actually slightly lower than that of the United States (approx. 15.3 vs. 16.1 per 100,000). Both countries face significant challenges, with Japan’s rates driven by economic pressures and cultural factors, and US rates often linked to firearm access.

Access to firearms is a major risk factor for suicide in the U.S., with homes containing guns seeing roughly 300% higher risk of suicide death. Firearms are used in over 50% of all US suicides due to their high lethality, as 90% of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal.

Actually it is the billionaires and dependency on the US government by Israel who maintains a robust, tax-funded social welfare system overseen by the National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi). Core programs include universal health insurance, old-age and survivor pensions, disability allowances, unemployment benefits, child allowances, income support, work injury compensation, and specialized services for the elderly, disabled, and victims of violence.

Israel is heavily dependent on the U.S. government for military, financial, and diplomatic support, Right?

Dependency on the US government like US corporate subsidies, often termed "corporate welfare," cost taxpayers an estimated $100 billion to over $181 billion?

Social programs in Europe largely "work" by reducing poverty, improving health outcomes, and providing high quality-of-life safety nets, often halving the number of people at risk of poverty.

Instead the US has several U.S. billionaires have net worths exceeding the annual GDP of various countries. As of 2025, Elon Musk's roughly $342 billion fortune exceeds Finland's GDP, while Mark Zuckerberg ($216B) and Jeff Bezos ($215B) outpace countries like Algeria and Hungary, with top US billionaires contributing to a $5.7 trillion collective wealth.

The total wealth of U.S. billionaires surpasses the GDP of every country in the world except for the U.S. itself and China.

The US has created farrow pharaohs like Elon Musk who donated at least $288 million (pocket change) to support Trump and other Republican candidates in the 2024 election cycle.

Most importantly, because the wealthy and ultra-wealthy can and do buy media outlets, with well-known examples including Jeff Bezos' purchase of The Washington Post and Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. And they have access to accountants, lawyers, and can and do buy Think Tanks like the Heritage Foundation.

They also fund groups like PragerU (Prager University Foundation) who has received significant funding from individuals who made their fortunes in the oil and gas industry.

People who want to use the Government to control you:
Right-wing Christians often interpret Matthew 25:31-46—the parable of the sheep and the goats, which dictates caring for "the least of these"—as a personal, voluntary, and church-based duty rather than a mandate for state-run welfare systems.
This perspective argues that caring for the poor, sick, and imprisoned is meant to be a direct, faith-driven action by individuals rather than a bureaucratic function of government.

Yet right-wing Christian groups, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, advocate for government regulation of marriage to align with traditional definitions of one man and one woman. These groups argue that lawmakers are accountable to biblical standards, leading to calls for reversing gay marriage legalization and restricting LGBTQ+ rights.

So controlling other individuals' actions by law and tax dollars, a bureaucratic function of government is fine but caring for the poor, sick, and imprisoned with tax dollars is a sin?

Since the 1930s and 1940s, a coalition of wealthy business leaders, industrialist families, and conservative clergy purposefully funded, organized, and promoted a form of "Christian libertarianism" to oppose the New Deal's expansion of government, conflating free-market capitalism with divine will.

1930s-1940s Conservative business leaders, such as those at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil, began funding organizations like "Spiritual Mobilization" to fight the New Deal.
Creating "Christian Libertarianism": Led by figures such as James W. Fifield Jr., these groups argued that the New Deal was a "godless" and socialist takeover. They promoted the idea that the "individual rights" of businessmen were synonymous with religious freedom.
The "American Liberty League" in 1934, wealthy industrial families (such as the Du Ponts) bankrolled a movement to fight Roosevelt's policies, bringing together conservative politicians and religious leaders.
The campaign successfully rebranded "unfettered capitalism" not just as an economic system, but as a crucial component of religious faith, argues historian Kevin Kruse.

While many working-class people initially supported the New Deal, this long-term, well-funded PR effort helped shift the cultural and political allegiance of a segment of the working class (particularly evangelicals) toward the Republican party and libertarian economic views over the following decades.

The primary aim was to discredit government regulation of the economy and social safety nets by arguing that "godly" individuals should rely on personal faith rather than government assistance.

By framing the "working poor" as individuals whose moral character was damaged by reliance on the state, they argued that government welfare was a sinful, immoral, or anti-Christian concept.
Conservatives successfully used this religious framework to leverage social issues, shifting focus away from economic inequality towards cultural battles, notes research.

Trump’s time in office so far:
Trump in just over five years -2.719 Million jobs, only costing $10.05 Trillion!!! Or

-$3,696,212 per job destroyed.

Between January 20, 2017, and January 20, 2021 (the term of the 1st Trump regime), the U.S. national debt increased by approximately $7.8 trillion. The economy saw a net loss of roughly 2.9 million jobs.

A net loss of 2.9 million jobs and debt increased by $7.8 trillion.

2nd Trump regime, January 2025 to April 2026, approximately $2.25 trillion was added to the national debt. The national debt surpassed $38.4 trillion as of January 2026. The national debt was $20 trillion when President Barack Obama left office on January 20, 2017.

Revisions by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 181,000 net new jobs created during the entire 2025 year.

Only 181,000 net new jobs were created during the entire year and $2.25 trillion was added to the total national debt.

Just over five years -2.9 million jobs plus 181,000 jobs = -2.719 million jobs!
$7.8 trillion plus $2.25 trillion = $10.05 trillion.

Trump in just over five years -2.719 Million jobs, only costing $10.05 Trillion!!!

But “I Alone Can Fix It” Trump had to handle Covid! Right?
Studies show 40% of COVID deaths were the result of his incompetent response. His corrupt PPP hands outs, mismanaging covid causing massive supply chain disruptions and cutting oil production to fund Putin's war and please his donors caused inflation.
Trump fired the US viral disease experts in Wuhan, China two months before Covid hit. They were put there by Obama as part of a global early warning system for virus outbreaks. Trump fired them as part of his jealousy campaign to undo everything Obama did. Like when Trump withdrew the US from the Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to bomb schools of children and add shipping cost to shipping through the straits of Hormuz.

Trump demanded to "slow the testing down" because the COVID infection rates were making him look bad. Throughout the late winter and early spring, as Covid was exploding, Trump refused to order, or even suggest, common sense public health measures which doctors were urging. He worried about the effect on his re-election campaign.

Trump repeatedly downplayed the severity of Covid calling it a "hoax" while telling Bob Woodward it was a “killer” that “rips you apart.”
Trump praised his BFF Maoist Xi's CCP 15 times as COVID was spreading worldwide.
He suggested ultraviolet or "just very powerful light" as one. After that, he went on to raise "disinfectant" as a potential solution.

"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that?" Trump said.

"By injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that, so that you're going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me."

Biden sleeping:
The Biden-Harris economy added approximately 16.2 million jobs with over 775,000 being manufacturing jobs.

The Biden-Harris administration generally managed COVID-19 inflation better than many other advanced economies, navigating a quicker reduction in inflation while simultaneously experiencing faster economic growth. While US inflation was initially higher in 2021-2022, it peaked earlier and dropped faster, resulting in lower core inflation than in the Euro area and the U.K. as of early 2023.

The total U.S. national debt rose from approximately $27.8 trillion in January 2021 to $36.2 trillion by January 2025. This represents an increase of roughly $8.4 trillion over the four-year period, driven by pandemic-era relief, legislation, and interest payments.

A net gain of over 14 million jobs (as of early 2026 data covering the Biden term).
$8.4 trillion in total debt.

Biden with four years created 14 million jobs spending $8.4 trillion. If buying jobs it would be $600,000 per job created.

Trump in just over five years -2.719 Million jobs, only costing $10.05 Trillion!!! Or if buying jobs -$3,696,212 per job destroyed.

$0.6 million per job created or -$3.7 million per job destroyed.

The George Floyd challenge

4 minutes, 48 seconds
Brian: He was already in handcuffs. He was on his stomach. There were two You You agree with me though that George Floyd was murdered?
You agree with me though that George Floyd was murdered? Can we agree on that?
TP clown: No Autopsy doesn't show it. They showed there was lethal fentanyl in his system.

Sure TP clown it is very easy for you to prove that lethal fentanyl was the cause of his death by taking the George Floyd challenge:
Former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds while handcuffed.
The challenge is to be handcuffed and allow someone the size of Derek Chauvin to kneel on your neck 9 minutes and 29 seconds.
Take a drug test first.

Any TP or MAGA volunteers?

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If Christian apologists use the willingness of the apostles to die for their belief in the Resurrection as evidence to support the truth of Christianity, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica religions must be true.

In pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the sacrificial maxim was based on the concept of debt payment and reciprocity to the gods, often expressed by the Aztecs as nextlahualli. The fundamental belief was that gods had sacrificed themselves, including shedding their own blood, to create the world and humanity, meaning humans were indebted and required to offer "food for the gods" to sustain the cosmos and prevent destruction.

People did volunteer for, or willingly accept, ritual sacrifice in pre-Columbian American cultures, though this was only one part of a much broader and more complex system of human sacrifice. While many sacrifices were unwilling prisoners of war or slaves, voluntary sacrifice was seen as the pinnacle of nobility, piety, and honor, with individuals believing they would become gods or live with them.

While captives were common, people from high-status families could be offered (or offer themselves) to the gods for specific rituals, particularly during times of crisis like severe droughts.