"You cannot follow both Christ and the cruelty of kings. A leader who mocks the weak, exalts himself, and preys on the innocent is not sent by God. He is sent to test you, and many are failing." — Pope Leo XIV
TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”
POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”
Hey, woke is good, huh?!
I've lived all over the US and the world, including two theocracies: Utah and Saudi Arabia. One is just as ideologically restrictive as the other, especially for women.
Now I breathe free in SoCal. It's a lot better place than the Maga people make it out to be. Long live the 1st Amendment!
I can understand that. Being told what you must think is stultifying. We were a military family, with attendance at military chapels.
I became an agnostic (the existence of gods is undecidable). I used to discuss religious belief, but I haven't even been interested in doing so for decades.
Abraham had TWO sons: Ishmael and Isaac.
So an "anti-Semite" must really be someone who is against Jews AND Arabs.
Yes. I'm content with that. But my brother is a converted super-Christian. I have no problem entertaining neutrality; he has a problem accepting that. I prefer not to engage, but he's always praising Trump and calling Obama a "criminal."
I once gave him a subscription to NYT - he never read it.
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"Overhaul"? He's an expert at destroying lives. The guy who was addicted to heroin for 14 years knows nothing re 'prevention'. The man whose multiple sexual affairs and abuse led to his previous wife losing her life to suicide is not a person who *anyone* should seek advice re 'preventive medicine'.
And he thinks windmills are an eyesore?!???
Damn straight! 🎯
Yeah, wouldn't it just!!
@POTUS and Pistol Pete:
For heaven's sake, FEED OUR NAVY!!!
PBJs get really, really old after a few days and nights.
I have. A family member. I've learned it doesn't work. We always end up having "reality races," where we accuse each other of not living in reality.
How does one get around that?!!
Maga will believe anything to keep non-white people in their place:
Dixiecrats, KKK, today's racists all push the false idea that helping the immigrant and the poor is "socialism" because it redistributes wealth thru taxes.
"Leave it to the states," they say.
What is wrong with this picture?!! 😱
I've been thinking about what you said. Strange, then, that Congress treats Maga as a single force. Maybe if Congress people realized this, they'd break up into similar factions? Or just shrug off Maga all the way around?
I always figured Trump had blackmail on Congress.
Thanks, Julie J! 😍
Trump on golf course under dark cloudy sky, being struck by lightning.
Borowitz this morning: "TRUMP LOSES FIGHT WITH POPE"
Yes they did, but saying it and doing it are still two things.
Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?
People are so worried about whether people on food stamps are “cheating the system,” but they don’t seem concerned at all that so many people (1 in 8!) in the richest country in the history of the world don’t have enough food to eat. Doesn’t that seem like a problem we could solve if we wanted to?
Whew!
Hillary Clinton this morning on the US-Iran talks that fell apart:
“This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”
Ukraine's Defense Minister Fedorov announced that Belgium and Spain will each provide €1 billion in aid to Ukraine, along with additional F-16s.
I thought impeaching Trump and convicting him in the Senate was a pipe dream.
Not anymore. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-impeach-the-bas...
