Recent Catholic convert to maximize this theocratic cred while owing his political career to demons:

Reporters can, and should, point to obvious lies and call them out, but the bigger picture is so much more disturbing. The entire MAGA universe is a fugue state where conventional reporting doesn't have the tools to adequately describe the disassociation with observable reality.

I found a NA IPA and have started mixing the NA with another IPA to get a low 3-ish% ABV beer. Tastes good and leaves very little sense of intoxication. I can have one or two of those a night with nearly imperceptible impact—certainly not the case when I was buying 9% VooDoo Ranger.

The Pope should understand the proper role of religion in politics:

Text from article about Swalwell: "Swalwell, as my unimpressed friend texted after I met him, just never had it. Even with the forced charisma, there was something dead-eyed and rote about him."

While it's nothing to do with the abuse allegations that have come out against him, this is exactly the feeling I get from Swalwell, and it's an eerily similar feeling I get from Jeffries:

As the violence of the attack after 10/7 began escalating to a monstrous scale, my ability to find a suitable excuse for the horror was cut off by the years of settler violence in the WB. It became clear it was all of a piece.

"The Boys" is an over-the-top, gory, comic book interpretation of a dystopian alternative reality that has to be made even more over-the-top with each episode to keep up with Republicans.

Governments don't reach for religious justification to do what's right; they parse centuries old doctrine in their transparent attempt to rationalize doing the abhorent.

Politicians don't need to parse religious text to find an excuse to do something moral; it's only when they're doing the profanely immoral that it's time to whip out the Good Book and litigate 1st century beliefs on sheep fucking.

Yes. I'm sure the Founders had no compelling recent history on which to base the Establishment Clause to keep religion out of government:

McDonald's arches logo

In that case, I would expect a design more like the one below. Also, it wouldn't be an actual restaurant, more like a marker for a public restroom:

Very true, but my larger point is morality isn't a religious doctrine; it's an innate responsibility we assume with sentience.

It's great to have the Pope state the Church's stance and reach some number of marginally to fully attached MAGA faithful, but it would also be nice to just speak to the obvious immorality of bombing a nation when negotiations were a viable option. We don't need a 4th-century doctrine for that.

The damage was done when the JPCOA was abandoned. If there were credible faults in the agreement, the only valid first step was to renegotiate. By simply walking away, our legitimacy on the world stage—already compromised by the hubris of the Bush II—was flushed. #ETTD

The candidate who rolls out a guillotine at their 2028 announcement rally is going to see a surge of support unequaled in the history of campaigning.

Oil is a systemic resource that impacts nearly all economic activity. Dumping money into an economy facing a systemic resource constraint is a textbook inflationary pressure. Nationalize oil and use that money for rebates and to accelerate EVs.

Everything old is new again:

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Yup. He found a mismatched sail Tom and I could use on an abandoned sailboat we found by the lake. There was a Sid and Marty Krofft thing at the Omni:

Wow, 96! I guess mushrooms must be a relatively safe pastime.

To preach compassion and humility while demanding fealty and worship kinda gives the game away. Organized religion is the Amway of politicized power centers.

Just give the Rs and Dems their own ballot-counting machines and use the dual count to confirm the outcome. Counting ballots by hand is not only time-consuming, it's also considerably less accurate.

Tweet from 11/2019: "What if the whole rapture thing is a massive catfishing operation by God to identify anyone that would promote an agenda the would lead to untold suffering so He could vacuum them off the planet and leave the rest of us in peace."

To live under a God that would sanction the horrors surrounding the Rapture is to worship sociopathy:

Rubio holding up hands in "305" sign for Miami area code at UFC event.

Full picture shows a "305" sign for Miami:

It's impossible for me to imagine the depth of ignorance it would take to find true inspiration from that post, so it just goes into the trolling bucket:

I have an idea: How about we do away with the concept of Heaven and Hell and just replace it with an afterlife in the image you wished upon others while among the living.

The wheels started getting seriously loose with the hubris of Bush II's horrific upending of the ME after 9/11, yet the only lesson learned by the right is that we need to be more aggressively malicious to be truly dominant. Thankfully, the world appears to be learning from our failures:

Both wisdom and morality rest on the capacity for humility, and Trump’s transparent narcissistic lunacy may be the lesson that saves us.

but if we can avoid WWIII and/or troops in the street to overturn our elections, becoming a partner with our fellow Western nations as opposed to the belligerent overseer could be the foundation for a stronger common voice for decency and sanity moving forward.

But the US has always been a nation of the world, and as such, we should now feel uplifted by the world’s growing rejection of Trumpism. There will be long-term costs to pay for the ignorance and hubris we’ve let go unchecked for far too long,