When the church abandons its rightful role as the conscience of the state and instead seeks to curry favor with the state, there is a real-world consequence. If you take an already grandiose man and fill him with a sense of divine purpose, you can uncage a tyrant. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
Never has a sobriquet so perfectly captured its subject.
I had to read multiple reports to confirm that this was indeed not an Onion satire.
The last 10 years was by far the hardest decade of my life, and Trump is largely responsible for that.
When karma comes back around, the schadenfruede will be some of the greatest ever.
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Thanks for the link! Done!👍
Mad Magazine wasn’t just fun to read, it was fun to share with my friends. I have such fond nostalgia thinking about us cracking up over them.
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We interrupt your Doomscrolling to bring you reason for hope.
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Part of the point of the Constitution is that it will be tested. If we stand by and do nothing, then indeed there is no point.
But if its endangerment shocks us into truly understanding how precious it is, woe to those who don’t understand how hard we’ll fight for it.
We are proud of our Texas blues legends. 💙
As a career educator, I approve this message. 👏👍
“Because they’re crooks and everybody knows it.”
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Me either, especially coming from a high school in an economically disadvantaged district in Fort Worth. It was definitely a wake up call as to how the other half lived, but very influential in inspiring me to study psychology and sociology and eventually going into criminal justice.
100%. The more deeply I dove into narcissism research after seeing its destructiveness first hand, the more I realized it’s a cultural epidemic that has hit our political and economic institutions the hardest.
That’s why we have to label it, call it out, and stand up to it every chance we get.
I wonder what it would take for Trump defenders to finally admit out loud that he’s lost the plot. Those goalposts are on ACME rocket skates.
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I couldn’t tell if it was SMU specifically either. It’s been too long and, unlike you, I don’t have the faculty perspective. I did work at a religious themed private university similar to SMU in size and clientele, and “odd” would describe it pretty well. The conservatism was stifling, though.
It took encountering malignant narcissists in my personal and professional lives to wake me up to how destructive they are. But because of that now I can see how they infiltrate politics and make life miserable for us all.
I have bittersweet memories of my undergrad years there. I loved my psychology professors and friends but felt like a fish out of water around all that affluence.
Traitorous cowards, the whole lot of ‘em.
Narcissism is the root of all political evil. Politics attracts narcissists and encourages these narcissistic behaviors:
Self-aggrandizement
Blameshifting/whataboutism
Pathological lying
Gaslighting
Smearing
Word salad
Projection
Reversing victim/offender
Crisis manufacturing
Sound familiar?
These greedy, shortsighted fools are burning the whole planet down around us.
Just one more shining example of why we need accountability reform of the SCOTUS as soon as Dems get back in the White House.
“All we have to fear, is fear itself”
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”
“What the hell is a corner store?”
Great Presidential quotes of our time
Despite RFK, Jr.’s deflection to the contrary, questions about Trump’s fitness will only intensify.
That also goes for questioning the fitness of those who refuse to acknowledge Trump’s obvious cognitive decline. Either they can’t see it or they won’t see it, but either way it’s dangerous.
The human mind is frustratingly adept at confusing confidence and strength with arrogance and weakness.
Patel has no insight that his behaviors are indicative of insecurity and moral weakness. It’s an obvious vulnerability that can be easily exploited. Is this what we want in a FBI Director?
We would’ve been totally cooked. Without their wealth and influence they’d be petty criminals with lengthy records because they wouldn’t be smart enough to get away with it and the system would actually try to hold them accountable.
There will come a day in the not so distant future where we look back on the Trump administration and thank our lucky stars that the only thing worse than their corruption was their incompetence.
Mamdani: Democratic socialism viable anywhere. “...this is a politics that can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country – that’s the working class, and it’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of [public policy]..." www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...
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Haha. That was a good story. Bonus points I still have that issue of Amazing Spider-Man.
Trump jumping out of an elephant’s stomach like alien.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more apt metaphor in my entire life.
“Pentagon sermon” puts the “moron” in oxymoron.
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