You mean another psychopath

I'm sure Colin Allred wishes he had waited a couple years so he could run against Paxton instead of Cruz... but he'd still lose.

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Aston 91 said:

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The only failure was in the Senate Republicans to put principle over party. There was plenty of evidence to prove the allegations.

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There was zero evidence.

ZERO

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Is this the one where all the witnesses were talking **** then promptly shut up under oath?

The Dems could have run a real pastor against Paxton perhaps, and it might have been a threat. But a real pastor would be against too many of their sacrosanct beliefs

Greener Acres said:

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This is not an endorsement of the fake vegan preacher. This comes from working with many families suffering from one spouse's adultery.

I wonder how many people who support Paxton and say the adultery doesn't matter, have either been in a marriage with adultery, or been really close to somebody who has gone through that? The act (not the physical or emotional part with the other party, but the lying to a spouse on such a deep level) is severe. It isn't something people handle easily, unless they've so adjusted their lifestyle to deceit and dishonesty.

The person being cheated on is often completely demoralized and hurt. The family around them suffers the pain as well. The adulterer suffers beyond just whatever happens in their marriage. If they aren't accustomed to such a deceitful lifestyle, the initial excitement gives way to paranoia, anxiety, and other stresses. Its an all around horrible situation and everybody suffers. The only real joy are the encounters with the affair partner. Which, when you think about the context of a marriage is just horrible. The only joy in the life of an adulterer and his/her spouse, is when the adulterer is doing the act that causes all the pain to the other person. Your joy is hurting the person you swore to love and care for in front of God, your friends, family - and that person.

In politics its easy to dismiss such acts because the other side is so bad. But in order to be the type of person who commits adultery multiple times and continue on with life, has such a lack of character and respect for the sanctity of marriage, a person to whom he/she pledged to be with for life, and the obligations we have to be honest and forthright. To be such a deceitful and dishonest person is hard. If its not hard, to me, that's even worse.

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Sometimes, the scenario you describe is absolutely true. Sometimes, it's not.

Many things happen inside a relationship that may cause the relationship to break down. There may be physical or mental abuse, there may be substance abuse, in some cases, people just grow apart.

Point is, we don't know the complete ins and outs of the Paxton marriage and why it failed. At least I don't know, and I have no reason to know. I do know it failed, and that is very unfortunate. And I know it had been on the rocks and they had been living apart for a year before the infidelity accusations arose. But I don't think we have enough information to break it down much further than that.

Too much estrogen bruh.

Never cheated.

Don't like cheaters.

Most are voting against Talarico. Period. It's not hard. Not even close. And to not vote over it is wild. They're judging a politician by his actions in politics. Much as they judge an artist by his work.

Maybe the artist cheats too.

But that doesn't take away from his art.

Greener Acres said:

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This is not an endorsement of the fake vegan preacher. This comes from working with many families suffering from one spouse's adultery.

I wonder how many people who support Paxton and say the adultery doesn't matter, have either been in a marriage with adultery, or been really close to somebody who has gone through that? The act (not the physical or emotional part with the other party, but the lying to a spouse on such a deep level) is severe. It isn't something people handle easily, unless they've so adjusted their lifestyle to deceit and dishonesty.

The person being cheated on is often completely demoralized and hurt. The family around them suffers the pain as well. The adulterer suffers beyond just whatever happens in their marriage. If they aren't accustomed to such a deceitful lifestyle, the initial excitement gives way to paranoia, anxiety, and other stresses. Its an all around horrible situation and everybody suffers. The only real joy are the encounters with the affair partner. Which, when you think about the context of a marriage is just horrible. The only joy in the life of an adulterer and his/her spouse, is when the adulterer is doing the act that causes all the pain to the other person. Your joy is hurting the person you swore to love and care for in front of God, your friends, family - and that person.

In politics its easy to dismiss such acts because the other side is so bad. But in order to be the type of person who commits adultery multiple times and continue on with life, has such a lack of character and respect for the sanctity of marriage, a person to whom he/she pledged to be with for life, and the obligations we have to be honest and forthright. To be such a deceitful and dishonest person is hard. If its not hard, to me, that's even worse.

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He's a senator. His only job is to put conservatives judges on courts, vote for conservative policy, and obstruct Democrats.

Where he sticks his junk matters not in that regard.

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You mean another psychopath

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Yes... no... maybe?

Consider that the political world is one where psychopaths predominate and yet this talarico freak show's pathology stands out like a neon sign on a moonless night. He really is that bad.

agent-maroon said:

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oh no said:

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Talarco is totally straight with that totally legit long time girlfriend/soulmate though

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico's "social justice" church in Austin doesn't preach Pauline epistles because the apostle Paul was "homophobic" and they've ordained several gay men and lesbians at the church. Definitely a gay-friendly place of worship. pic.twitter.com/EHG51wZk31

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You can't deny the teachings of Paul and still consider yourself to be teaching Christian principles. The man was literally converted by Jesus Himself and was guided by the Holy Spirit. It's heresy to say that you can ignore his teachings just because you think he was "homophobic" (whatever that means on this fine Wednesday afternoon).

You can't just cancel one of the 12 Apostles because you disagree with them. talarico is a false prophet, heretic, and any synonym you want to attach to him.


ETA - although Paul wasn't one of the original 12, he was very much an influential Apostle of the early Christian church. Will leave OP uncorrected for informative purposes

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Jesus taught us what it is like to love man and love God and live by Godly principles.

But, Paul wrote the instructions on how to be a Christian. I dont know how one intellectually justifies believing Jesus but not Paul unless they decide they just don't like what Paul has to say.

Talerico cheated on one of his partners… not sure if it was his boyfriend or his girlfriend.. but one of them

Good point. We are buying a vote, not a friend, partner, etc. We want a politician who will maximize our own personal outcomes, and I have no issue with that as I feel the same way.

But I do think it's funny when politicians change sides out of political opportunity (Gabbard, Cheney, RFK Jr, etc.). The people who once hated them become their supporters. The people who once loved them now hate them.

However, I also realize that the reason for the newfound love or hate is due to how they will vote/govern, which is consistent with what is being said here.

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You should probably put church in quotations when referring to anything affiliated with the PCUSA.

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There. Fixed it for you. The rest of us true Presbyterians are just fine. (ECO, PCA, EPC, and the 22 other Presbyterian denominations). The PCUSA, like the ELCA Lutherans and United Methodists, are the problem.

Don't paint all of us with the same brush!

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Talerico cheated on one of his partners… not sure if it was his boyfriend or his girlfriend.. but one of them

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I know almost nothing about him except the whole Richie Cunningham persona they seem to be crafting, which seems fairly fake. But he's a politician, and as I've been taught in this space.....character does not matter.

Hypothetically speaking, if both Talarico and Paxton were convicted of jointly running an international espionage ring that sold secrets to China, neither would lose a single vote from their supporters because only their positions matter haha.

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Where are you seeing capitalism? All I've seen the last few decades is "my socialism is better than your socialism."

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Hate you thought about checking into an Amish community? They seem to share the same type of head-in-the-sand "principles are way more important than practicality" mindset as you.

Urban Ag said:

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I have a cousin who married a career AF officer/pilot. At some point in the marriage she cut him off completely as a protest to his continued military service. This eventually led to him having an affair and ultimately leaving her. While he did quite well in his career he was miserable on the homefront for many years.

The family genuinely liked the guy. His MIL (my aunt) loved him. And he is a good dad, good friend, and good associate in the workplace (in his case, the AF). He eventually married the gal he had the affair with and they have two kids together.

My point is that none of us really know what the Paxton's marriage was like. Many marriages collapse in time for a multitude of reasons. Some couples stay together, until they don't, for reasons that aren't selfish.

Neither Paxton nor Cornyn were desirable outcomes, IMO. But as so many have already said, we are so beyond having the luxury of perfect candidates.

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Well said.

Unfortunately for us, Jesus is not literally on the ballot.

Some people think that voting for someone who is less perfect than Jesus is somehow hypocrisy. It's strange.

Aston 91 said:

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The only failure was in the Senate Republicans to put principle over party. There was plenty of evidence to prove the allegations.

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What evidence?

An overheard conversation?

Which eye witness gave what testimony?

All I read about was a bunch of second hand hearsay.

Much less evidence than, say, a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

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Greener Acres said:

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This is not an endorsement of the fake vegan preacher. This comes from working with many families suffering from one spouse's adultery.

I wonder how many people who support Paxton and say the adultery doesn't matter, have either been in a marriage with adultery, or been really close to somebody who has gone through that? The act (not the physical or emotional part with the other party, but the lying to a spouse on such a deep level) is severe. It isn't something people handle easily, unless they've so adjusted their lifestyle to deceit and dishonesty.

The person being cheated on is often completely demoralized and hurt. The family around them suffers the pain as well. The adulterer suffers beyond just whatever happens in their marriage. If they aren't accustomed to such a deceitful lifestyle, the initial excitement gives way to paranoia, anxiety, and other stresses. Its an all around horrible situation and everybody suffers. The only real joy are the encounters with the affair partner. Which, when you think about the context of a marriage is just horrible. The only joy in the life of an adulterer and his/her spouse, is when the adulterer is doing the act that causes all the pain to the other person. Your joy is hurting the person you swore to love and care for in front of God, your friends, family - and that person.

In politics its easy to dismiss such acts because the other side is so bad. But in order to be the type of person who commits adultery multiple times and continue on with life, has such a lack of character and respect for the sanctity of marriage, a person to whom he/she pledged to be with for life, and the obligations we have to be honest and forthright. To be such a deceitful and dishonest person is hard. If its not hard, to me, that's even worse.

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He's a senator. His only job is to put conservatives judges on courts, vote for conservative policy, and obstruct Democrats.

Where he sticks his junk matters not in that regard.

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Unfortunately, we are learning that is does. I generally agree with your point, but it can be taken too far.

Too many RINOs apparently stuck their junk into illegal places and are now compromised.

A man who has complete disregard for sexual deviancy is not an ideal candidate. However, that is not what is being thrown at Paxton. He's not the type of guy to steal a woman's luggage and wear her dress and panties to a press conference, for example.

I think there's levels to imperfection, which is where it gets more interesting.

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I think there's levels to imperfection, which is where it gets more interesting.

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The major problem is that for many people the measuring stick when it comes to levels of imperfection are microns long versus lightyears long depending on what letter is beside the subject's name, and the measurer wants to pretend like that is not the case.

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James Talarico is someone that Republicans in Texas will go out of their way to vote against. He’s that repellant to conservative voters in Texas. Yes, I’m not from Texas but I’m echoing what I hear Texans say. I am a conservative Christian and his fake pastor act is not just… https://t.co/Zvz89w3Umn

— Chris (@chriswithans) May 31, 2026

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Funny how the gap widened after Paxton started his Talarico ads.

Paxton certainly has his baggage, but this is the best the Dems could do to contrast that?

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Prosperdick said:

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James Talarico is someone that Republicans in Texas will go out of their way to vote against. He’s that repellant to conservative voters in Texas. Yes, I’m not from Texas but I’m echoing what I hear Texans say. I am a conservative Christian and his fake pastor act is not just… https://t.co/Zvz89w3Umn

— Chris (@chriswithans) May 31, 2026

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Funny how the gap widened after Paxton started his Talarico ads.

Paxton certainly has his baggage, but this is the best the Dems could do to contrast that?

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The polls and the betting markets have a yuge spread. The truth is somewhere in the middle. These statewide elections are getting closer and closer unfortunately. Because we have no incumbent and because Paxton is void of charisma this is going to be the toughest battle yet.

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Gigem314 said:

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Prosperdick said:

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James Talarico is someone that Republicans in Texas will go out of their way to vote against. He’s that repellant to conservative voters in Texas. Yes, I’m not from Texas but I’m echoing what I hear Texans say. I am a conservative Christian and his fake pastor act is not just… https://t.co/Zvz89w3Umn

— Chris (@chriswithans) May 31, 2026

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Funny how the gap widened after Paxton started his Talarico ads.

Paxton certainly has his baggage, but this is the best the Dems could do to contrast that?

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The polls and the betting markets have a yuge spread. The truth is somewhere in the middle. These statewide elections are getting closer and closer unfortunately. Because we have no incumbent and because Paxton is void of charisma this is going to be the toughest battle yet.

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Paxton is flawed but still has more charisma than Cornyn ever did. But what he lacks there he will make up for in being aggressive over Talarico's fringe-left views that contradict what the majority of Texans believe in. I don't expect him to run away with it, but I'm not buying the other end of the spectrum that claims this will be Beto 2.0 either.

Yeah, that's definitely accurate.

On a side note, it's interesting watching some of the Platner stuff play out in Maine.

Saw that he issued some apologies for some past things, while some new things are coming out. No clue as to who is right and who is wrong....but in this day and age where only policies and voting records matter, I can't fathom why any politician would ever apologize for anything (I mean anything outside of voting record).

If personal behaviors/incidents aren't important to voters, why even address them in public???

platner - sick posts on reddit about jerking off in portable toilets, wishing death to purple heart recipient, etc. ...admitted to marriage counseling for adultery.. long time profile on app for teen hookups.. ex girlfriends all traumatized. knew exactly what his nazi tatoo was and what it meant the whole time and was proud of it. keeps an ar around to "kill fascists"... as if the people leftists call fascists are threatening at all or even anything close to Hitler or Mussolini's actual fascist parties- they were both socialists like he is. that dude is a messed up piece of work that should be no where near the US Senate.

and yet... Tellrico is probably even worse.

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agent-maroon said:

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oh no said:

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Talarco is totally straight with that totally legit long time girlfriend/soulmate though

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico's "social justice" church in Austin doesn't preach Pauline epistles because the apostle Paul was "homophobic" and they've ordained several gay men and lesbians at the church. Definitely a gay-friendly place of worship. pic.twitter.com/EHG51wZk31

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) June 3, 2026

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You can't deny the teachings of Paul and still consider yourself to be teaching Christian principles. The man was literally converted by Jesus Himself and was guided by the Holy Spirit. It's heresy to say that you can ignore his teachings just because you think he was "homophobic" (whatever that means on this fine Wednesday afternoon).

You can't just cancel one of the 12 Apostles because you disagree with them. talarico is a false prophet, heretic, and any synonym you want to attach to him.


ETA - although Paul wasn't one of the original 12, he was very much an influential Apostle of the early Christian church. Will leave OP uncorrected for informative purposes

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Jesus taught us what it is like to love man and love God and live by Godly principles.

But, Paul wrote the instructions on how to be a Christian. I dont know how one intellectually justifies believing Jesus but not Paul unless they decide they just don't like what Paul has to say.

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It's simple, it's called willful disobedience...but Talerico has decided it's his job to spread this disobediance cloqued in false scripture. He's almost exactly what I always imagined Randall Flagg was like when I read the Stand as a young man.

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Prosperdick said:

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James Talarico is someone that Republicans in Texas will go out of their way to vote against. He’s that repellant to conservative voters in Texas. Yes, I’m not from Texas but I’m echoing what I hear Texans say. I am a conservative Christian and his fake pastor act is not just… https://t.co/Zvz89w3Umn

— Chris (@chriswithans) May 31, 2026

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Funny how the gap widened after Paxton started his Talarico ads.

Paxton certainly has his baggage, but this is the best the Dems could do to contrast that?

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The polls and the betting markets have a yuge spread. The truth is somewhere in the middle. These statewide elections are getting closer and closer unfortunately. Because we have no incumbent and because Paxton is void of charisma this is going to be the toughest battle yet.

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No, they're not. Republcians, Paxton included, will win comfortably in November.

ts5641 said:

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Gigem314 said:

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Prosperdick said:

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James Talarico is someone that Republicans in Texas will go out of their way to vote against. He’s that repellant to conservative voters in Texas. Yes, I’m not from Texas but I’m echoing what I hear Texans say. I am a conservative Christian and his fake pastor act is not just… https://t.co/Zvz89w3Umn

— Chris (@chriswithans) May 31, 2026

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Funny how the gap widened after Paxton started his Talarico ads.

Paxton certainly has his baggage, but this is the best the Dems could do to contrast that?

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The polls and the betting markets have a yuge spread. The truth is somewhere in the middle. These statewide elections are getting closer and closer unfortunately. Because we have no incumbent and because Paxton is void of charisma this is going to be the toughest battle yet.

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Paxton is a household name at this time, probably more than Cornyn, because Cornyn dude didn't do **** for Texans (other than his cronies). Paxton is going to destroy fake preacher. It won't be close, even though the media and the useful idiots will parrot that Texas is "turning blue"

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Funny how the gap widened after Paxton started his Talarico ads.

Paxton certainly has his baggage, but this is the best the Dems could do to contrast that?

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Also funny how Cornyn supporters were lying and telling us that Cornyn was the only candidate who could beat the freak.

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The Bible is chock full of flawed and sinful leaders being elevated by God and used for His purposes…even some who did exactly what Paxton is accused of doing. In this case, between the two candidates, one will carry out God's mission and message WAY more than the other, though he may be flawed. Christians should support that candidate.

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Yep, not to mention what some of the Bible All Stars are guilty of. King David has his friend killed in the front lines so he could fornicate with his wife. Solomon was money woshiping hedonist who engaged in countless orgies and slept with far more women thatn Wilt Chamberlain. These men came back to God eventually, but their shenanigans put Trump and Paxton's to shame.

Seeing what is going on in California (and many other places) it makes me nervous. The dems are professional cheaters.

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Gigem314 said:

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Funny how the gap widened after Paxton started his Talarico ads.

Paxton certainly has his baggage, but this is the best the Dems could do to contrast that?

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Also funny how Cornyn supporters were lying and telling us that Cornyn was the only candidate who could beat the freak.

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Is there any indication dem groups are dumping real soft money into this loss for their soy boy since Paxton won the primary? I sort of stopped paying attention but am curious.

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Enviroag02 said:

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The Bible is chock full of flawed and sinful leaders being elevated by God and used for His purposes…even some who did exactly what Paxton is accused of doing. In this case, between the two candidates, one will carry out God's mission and message WAY more than the other, though he may be flawed. Christians should support that candidate.

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Yep, not to mention what some of the Bible All Stars are guilty of. King David has his friend killed in the front lines so he could fornicate with his wife. Solomon was money woshiping hedonist who engaged in countless orgies and slept with far more women thatn Wilt Chamberlain. These men came back to God eventually, but their shenanigans put Trump and Paxton's to shame.

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David killed Uriah out of shame. Vanity, not lust, was his sin that lad to murder.