The Pope
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#FrancisBacon /predatorial moral nihilism: "men of corrupt understanding, that have lost all sound discerning of good & evil, come possest with this prejudicate opinion, that... all honesty & goodness proceeds out of a simplicity of manners &...want of experience...with the affairs of the world."

Paul: "Bc it will not be unless the apostasy shall have come first, and the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, is revealed. He opposes & exalts himself above every...god & object of worship & declares himself to be God." Hey MAGAS, this describes the bad guy. Spoiler alert.

Just wow. When will America reclaim its dignity? The rest of the world is amazed this can happen. No one mention suffering the children to come to him-the man is accused of crimes agyminors. What a terrible world we’re witnessing.

Judges done giving Trump DOJ benefit of the doubt after major errors caught: report An eye-popping detail buried in a new Bloomberg report may explain why the Justice Department keeps getting caught making errors in federal court: Pam Bondi told her lawyers to treat the president as their client — and now they're afraid to push back on anything. A February 2025 memo from Bondi directed DOJ attorneys to "vigorously" defend Trump's ...

"A February 2025 memo from Bondi directed DOJ attorneys to "vigorously" defend Trump's policies and referred to them as "his" counsel, according to a former Justice Department attorney who spoke anonymously to Bloomberg." Surreal. www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...

The Bright Eye and the Gleaming Coat? A Stoic Challenge to
Haybron on Wellbeing and the Preconditions of Happiness link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Aus Murdoch media sane washing the mad king Donald: 'acting like madman'. Method acting. There is no basement on where this sycophancy leads, history suggests. We have been warned 100 times.
www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...

"pple alwys believe > readily what they prefer ...
reject difficulties 4 want of patience ...; sobriety, bc it limits their hopes; the depths of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance & pride..."
- Francis #Bacon / how commercial social media has destroyed US democracy.

Voltaire the “postmodernist” avant la lettre A case study in how badly academic pieties can get things wrong

#philosophy #enlightenment #voltaire medium.com/p/532e962854...

What the world can’t understand about American liberalism and all the ‘law and order’ civics

The Comprehensive 2024 Election Theft Fact Check Let’s prosecute the election and see where it takes us.

Normalcy bias has not served US democracy well since 2015 medium.com/@carmitage/t...

#trump #iran #war #stoneage #news

Bondi's legacy is monumental....

also known as The Great Bamboozlement....

The case for a Trump Nobel.

I love when he accidentally tells the truth!

Why did liberal academe gentrify #Nietzsche? "Many too many live and they hang on their branches far too long. I wish a storm would come and shake all this rottenness and worm-eatenness from the tree! I wish preachers of speedy death would come! [Thus Spake Zarathustra]" Just astonishing stupidity.

Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout The case was the first of its kind. But it won’t be the last.

Could it be possible that sanity remains possible in the US's public life? Money will prevail, but perhaps this will slow the complete collapse.
theconversation.com/meta-and-goo...

Stoicism as philosophy of well-being and happiness: Making the case for an academic, as well as wider, Stoic renaissance By Matt Sharpe

Stoicism, not broicism, is the subject of this. Anyone who uses the word "bro" need not apply. stoicismtoday.substack.com/p/stoicism-a...

Chump Kneecapping Our Poor
Farmers AGAIN ! STOP VOTING
AGAINST YOUR INTERESTS......

Trump can't understand why our NATO allies, who he has made a habit of bullying and trashing over the years, aren't eager to help him in his unprovoked war with Iran. #IranWar #Iran #Trump #StraitOfHormuz #oil #GasPrices #NATO #war #Russia

Donald Trump's FCC is threatening broadcast networks for reporting actual war news. #Trump #FCC #BrendanCarr #BaghdadBob

It is so surreal. He’s like a 6 year old. Yet no one will stop him.

I am old enough to remember when promises and consistency still mattered. It is surreal to watch how power and impunity can challenge the most basic of human norms under dictatorships.