12/31/22 – 2022 was a good year in a strange way! Our hearts break for Ukraine and its people. That said. It was the year Ukrainians reminded the world of the value of freedom and democracy and showed us all how resilient we can be. It was the year we emerged from the pandemic having learned the value of relationships and communities. It was the year the world’s emperors, from tech titans to dictators, showed us that they wear no clothes. The world learned a lot about ourselves and each other. May God bless you and keep you in 2023.
12/31/22 – All Russia has to offer is terrorism: death and destruction. What a waste of a country.
12/31/22 – May he rest in peace. It’s interesting he said it in Latin. Perhaps he knew it would come as a shock and psychologically it was easier for him to say it in this relatively “neutral” language. (It’s also such a great language.) “Many people at the meeting did not understand Latin…. Pope Benedict, 95, died Saturday in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. His death was announced by the Vatican. The first resignation of the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church in 600 years would crystallize the full weight of the crises then battering the world’s largest Christian denomination. An intellectual giant and rock of moral certitude who had spent a lifetime defending the faith from outside forces, Pope Benedict would ultimately see his tenure as pope undone in large part by a rot within.”
Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned the papacy, dies at 95
12/30/22 – Younger people aren’t always better than older people. A more reasonable assessment is that they might be better in certain respects but worse in others.
12/30/22 – “Quiet quitting” has been going on for a long time, likely since the concept of work began. Would also say it’s the default approach for the labor force, many of whom hate their jobs but need the income and/or benefits. What’s arguably new is prostituting your personal life to make a buck, which is truly a pathetic way to live. “[T]his new generation embraced a voyeuristic digital vérité, characterized by the short video of a subject talking straight to camera about both everything and nothing at all.… For this generation, the personal had become intertwined with the economic.” Healthy, productive people live rather mundane lives. Take even Michelangelo, a genius who lived during a turbulent period, his daily life was likely quite boring and routine. He would never have wanted to film his every waking minute, and the world is better off for it. Your life is not your work, but your life is also not a body of work. His body of work is his legacy. This type of “work,” voyeuristic digital verité, is totally worthless.
The Year in Quiet Quitting
12/30/22 – Small dick energy needs to be put behind bars for the rest of his life.
Andrew Tate, brother charged in Romania with human trafficking
12/30/22 – Grade inflation and coddling students need to stop.
12/30/22 – The Midwest is definitely the warm center of the country at least. Nowhere better to live. The important thing is to keep your feet on the ground, put your heads down and do the work. Serve your communities. People talk too much. Just do the work. “[T]he Midwest when it was seen as (in the words of Minnesotan F. Scott Fitzgerald) [the] ‘warm center of the world.’”
In unsettled times, look to Midwestern values
12/30/22 – Obvious statements that still need to be made. Power is powerful. Be careful to whom you give it.
12/30/22 – The world’s warriors. God bless them. “We are fighting for Ukraine, for the values that unite Europe and the democratic world, for the global value of life. For everything that the terrorist state is trying to destroy.
It is not easy, it is hard, but I am confident that we will pull through and Russian aggression will fail so that all other potential aggressors of the world do not dare to repeat what russism does.”
Zelensky – The World’s Warriors
12/30/22 – The deranged lunatic who should be charged with war crimes and executed needs to get the f—k out of Ukraine. “He has gone no further than saying conditions in the four Ukrainian territories that he claims to have annexed, illegally, are ‘extremely difficult,’ and that his government would try to end the conflict ‘the faster, the better.’” And those who “want to escalate” are f—king psychotic morons.
Putin, unaccustomed to losing, is increasingly isolated as war falters
12/30/22 – The GOP likes liars. They got another pathological one. “They pledged only to enact whatever policies President Donald Trump might propose, ceding their political philosophy to a man who, by Post count, told more than 30,000 lies during his four years in the White House…. If you can ‘own the libs’ on Fox News and on Twitter, you can raise a lot of campaign cash; and if you can raise tons of money, you can have tons of power.” GOP voters like being conned. As long as they hear what they want to hear, they’re good. There’s a lot of money to be made with a base like that.
In George Santos, the GOP gets the representative-elect it deserves
12/30/22 – Overall, Boomers are the worst generation in recent American history. They did make good music though. Millennials and Gen Z listen to and have made the worst music in recent American history. Could they fix this? It’s embarrassing for us as a country.
America’s genius lies in its respect for rebellion
12/29/22 – Fella.
12/29/22 – Apparently, the GOP wants to back the blue while attacking the blue. The complete contradiction is entirely on point for them.
12/29/22 – We should accept more migrants, and empty buildings, such as offices, hotels/motels, restaurants, religious structures, etc., should be turned into housing for them and for other homeless people. If for no other reason, such as it’s the right thing to do, our economy needs the people, and we need to house all people.
12/29/22 – The great irony is that Musk bought Twitter thinking he could use it to make himself richer. He’s ending up considerably poorer because of the purchase. Also, if you want to stay a healthy, happy person, don’t become super rich. “Sifting through the desiccated wreckage of Twitter is raising endless questions about the fate of the platform and what it means for us all. But one question we don’t need to ask is how we got here. For that, we have Exhibit H.”
Elon Musk’s Text Messages Explain Everything
12/28/22 – As a thought experiment, if a state has say 500 people, what about 50, what about 5, should it still get 2 senators?
12/28/22 – Ken Griffin is an American parasite.
12/28/22 – Just because Christmas is over, doesn’t mean one can’t still get gifts. Is Tuckyorose still wetting himself with jealous rage about Zelensky? If so, please do share.
12/28/22 – So true! “Our warriors are not just servicemen. Not just soldiers and sailors, not just sergeants, not just officers and generals. They are the hope of millions of people for life. They are Europe’s hope for peace. They are the hope of the world that the era of empires cannot return.”
Zelensky – Warriors are not just servicemen.
12/28/22 – They showed everybody! Love those people. “Thanks to our unity, we have achieved what almost no one in the world believed possible. Hardly anyone except us. Ukraine has become one of the global leaders.
Our national colors are today an international symbol of courage and indomitability of the whole world. In any country, on any continent, when they see blue and yellow, they know that it is about freedom. About the people who did not give up, who endured, who united the world. And who will win.
Thanks to Ukraine, the world believed that values give strength. This belief emerged following our struggle. The world became convinced that tyranny will lose. Following our faith. The world saw that freedom can be victorious. Following our achievements on the battlefield. And all our warriors. It will definitely happen. Ukraine will definitely win.”
Zelensky – Ukraine is a leader.
12/28/22 – “Wanderlust,” such a great word. “[T]he desire to explore — ‘to lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies,’ as Kerouac wrote — is the American impulse that dominates…. Ozden told us, his voice urgent. ‘Our common traits are way, way bigger and more fundamental than our differences.’”
Millions of Americans have left the country. Where are they going, and why?
12/28/22 – If all you have to offer the world is hate, just sit the f—k down.
12/28/22 – All Americans (with legit exemptions) should have some military training. It will be good for us a nation. Discipline and patriotism are important.
12/28/22 – Cheney and Thompson showed why one should never bet against the USA. If war comes to us, we will never surrender, and we will annihilate you.
Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney are the Jan. 6 committee’s unusual dynamic duo
12/28/22 – Russia is a terrorist and barbaric state. Psycho, the evil Russian sh-t needs to be taken out.
12/28/22 – Is anybody (hello, international organizations whose job it is to deal with this!) going to do anything at all about these horrific war crimes, or are they completely impotent? In that case, why pay a bunch of worthless bureaucrats’ salaries? “While the number of children taken is not clear, Daria Herasymchuk, Ukraine’s top children’s rights official, has estimated that nearly 11,000 Ukrainian children have been taken by Russia without their parents…. This is specifically prohibited by the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
Russia’s abductions of Ukrainian children are a genocidal crime
12/28/22 – The evil monsters keep targeting maternity hospitals. Is the west going to continue to allow this madness? “President’s Office: Russia shells maternity hospital in Kherson. Russian forces have shelled a hospital maternity ward in the liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a deputy head of the President’s Office, reported on Dec. 27. ‘They shelled a place where two children were born today. Before the attack, doctors managed to complete a caesarean section. There are five women after childbirth at the institution,’ he said, adding that ‘miraculously’ there were no casualties.”
Kyiv Independent – Maternity Hospitals
12/27/22 – The evil one, trump, needs to get one or the other punishment. “If the 14th Amendment had been rejected, he would almost certainly have been convicted of treason and immediately executed.”
Criminal prosecution is the wrong idea. Use the 14th Amendment on Trump.
12/27/22 – Such a great guy! Can’t wait to watch it. “‘Happiness happens when you mix different people and different colors and different places all in one plate,’ José Andrés says onscreen. In another moment, he offers this wonderful challenge: ‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.’”
José Andrés and his daughters eat their way through Spain
12/27/22 – “Ukraine holds its lines and will never surrender,” Zelensky said.
12/27/22 – “Vladimir Putin is counting on America and NATO to tire and to falter. It is up to us to prove him wrong, and to warn the other dictators on the planet that they will never extinguish human liberty while America and its allies in this great battle—including Ukraine—are still standing.”
Ukraine’s Fate and America’s Destiny
12/27/22 – Just because the Republican Party has a high number of MAGA morons, that doesn’t mean the average American voter is a moron. “I’ve never really believed the president, no matter who it is … ever really controlled the inflation. They may have had an effect on it, but they didn’t really control it one way or the other.” Exactly. Does the right have anything but hate and fear to sell? No, it doesn’t.
GOP stumbles with independents contributed to midterm woes
12/26/22 – The west needs to give Ukraine the best weapons and all the weapons it needs to win completely. The west also needs to decapitate the Russian poop.
12/26/22 – Wow! It reads like fiction, but it’s real life. Reminded me of Hemingway. Incredible reporting and photography. They are so brave. “More than any other foreign volunteer I met, Doc seemed to be genuinely motivated by a conviction that the conflict was ‘a clear case of right and wrong.’”
Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine
12/26/22 – Boebert didn’t learn anything because she’s not about learning. She’s also not about governing. She’s just about having power to have power. MAGA are an embarrassment to humankind.
Boebert ‘learned absolutely nothing’ – The Durango Herald
12/26/22 – Really hope advancements in AI, such as ChatGPT, lead to the revival of bluebook exams. They are hard, and that’s great. We need to be a nation that values and nurtures academic excellence.
12/26/22 – You would think Abbott, who’s in a wheelchair, would understand something about vulnerability. These migrants are vulnerable, and even on Christmas Eve, he treated them as Herod would and definitely not as Jesus would. Without putting their lives in danger, these cruel Republican governors can keep sending the migrants to the northern states. We have inclusive, caring communities. We will train and educate them, and they will contribute greatly to our communities, our culture and our economy.
More migrants dropped off outside vice president’s home in freezing weather on Christmas Eve
12/26/22 – This definitely should happen. “Ukraine has called on United Nations member states to deprive Russia of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to expel it from the UN, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Dec. 26.”
Ukraine seeks to have Russia expelled from UN.
12/26/22 – Obvious fact that still needs to be said. White people have enslaved other white people throughout history. Simply being white does not protect white people from enslavement by their own people.
12/26/22 – Apparently, it needs to be said. Y’all, don’t travel in extreme weather conditions, such as a blizzard. Exercise some commonsense. You just hunker down. If you live in the northern states, invest in warm clothing, wear layers, and have food, bottled water, candles, and if you have a house, firewood, on hand. You can always collect snow or rain for water. Previous generations didn’t have electricity or running water. Prepare and plan, and toughen up. We can’t become a decadent nation of lazy whiners. We are Americans. We need to be disciplined, tough, hardworking and positive.
12/26/22 – “Shalom” and “inshallah” are such great words. Just because you have one mother tongue doesn’t mean you can’t incorporate words from other languages into your own. All languages, including English, does this. Free feel to make your mother tongue your own. God made us free so that we can fully express ourselves.
12/26/22 – Christians have the creeds for a reason. If you can say the Nicene or Apostles’ Creed and believe it, you can be a Christian. And there is nothing in them about abortion, homosexuality, etc. Just find a church that works for you. People love Jesus because Jesus knows how to love. Don’t give him up because others don’t know how to love.
Transgender or devoutly Christian? An Iowa teen refuses to choose.
12/26/22 – From poopy, the Russian sh-t, look at how unreasonable the west is. I want to negotiate, meaning give me all of Ukraine and let me enslave its people, and they won’t negotiate. I will keep repeating the word “negotiate,” like liberals keep repeating the word “science,” as if the word itself is an argument.
12/26/22 – “[T]he identity of the alternative is less important than the existence of an alternative.” The existence and identity of the alternative should be clear to all Christians. If you’re going to actually practice Christianity, your hope needs to reside in one person, Jesus Christ. Placing hope in anyone else is going to be misplaced. I see Christians of both parties doing this. Certain politicians, the narcissistic, AOC to the evil one, Trump, develop a cultlike following based on personality and promises. What does it mean to place your hope in Jesus? It means actually following him and doing what he asked of us.
How Much Longer Can Trump’s Con Endure?
12/26/22 – It’s cold and snowy, but people have to deal with it. The snow has been a Christmas gift. It will melt and give our land much needed water. God is great.
12/25/22 – If you are blessed to have a genuine conversion, it’s the most powerful thing in the world.
12/25/22 – One God, One Church, One Family.
Christmas Around the World
12/25/22 – If you’ve never gone to a Christian service in another language or a different rite and language, really recommend it. You will better understand the breadth and depth of the universal church. One God, One Church, One Family.
12/25/22 – Very popular series. I run into people all the time who love it. (Bigger cities aren’t as godless as the elites on the coasts like to pretend they are.) It’s crowd-funded. Episode 3 of Season 3 will be playing tonight. “The Chosen is the first-ever multi-season series about the life of Christ. It’s the free show that tens of millions of people won’t stop talking about.”
12/25/22 – From a Christian in the persecuted church where they have to celebrate Christmas secretly. If they are caught, they could be put to death. “It’s important that just as we received the greatest gift of God to save mankind, we should also have a giving heart, and love and serve. Thank you for praying for us—your prayers mean so much, knowing that you’re standing with our church. We pray for you, too. This season, I pray you will experience Christ’s love and peace anew. Elahe in Iran”
12/25/22 – “If we want it to be Christmas, the Birth of Jesus and of peace, let us look to Bethlehem and contemplate the face of the Child who is born for us! And in that small and innocent face, let us see the faces of all those children who, everywhere in the world, long for peace.
Let us also see the faces of our Ukrainian brothers and sisters who are experiencing this Christmas in the dark and cold, far from their homes due to the devastation caused by ten months of war. May the Lord inspire us to offer concrete gestures of solidarity to assist all those who are suffering, and may he enlighten the minds of those who have the power to silence the thunder of weapons and put an immediate end to this senseless war!” Pope Francis.
12/25/22 – Christianity has never belonged to the west, and it will never belong to the west. It’s God’s gift to the whole world, to all people of all backgrounds. People love the story of Jesus’s birth because it’s beautiful and moving. It’s a story of humble beginnings and God’s goodness and greatness. Today, our savior is born. Merry Christmas to all, and may God bless the persecuted church today and every day.
12/25/22 – Why is this considered an “inclusive approach”? They’re specifically choosing a Nordic holiday (so inclusive…), whose origins are in one of the most genocidal countries on the planet, Germany. Why not Hannukah with its beautiful symbolism, which would also help combat antisemitism, or is that too religious for them? No wait, maybe it’s just not cool enough. European pagans, you know those warring barbarians with no value for human life, are so much cooler! Also, I have no interest in “blurred imagery” (what does that even mean), and it has nothing to do with inclusion. Buy hey, who needs to make sense when you’re so cool. And please spare us the BS. There are many liberals and atheists who hate Christmas because they are religious bigots. It has nothing to do with their inclusion or exclusion and has everything to do with hate.
The war on ‘Happy Holidays’ isn’t about Christmas
12/24/22 – The Latin Rite at the Vatican. Urbi and Orbi is at noon Vatican City time. Merry Christmas!
12/24/22 – To the Russians, leave all Ukrainian land, including Crimea. It is not your land. You have a big country, with more than enough land. Go back to it, get rid of putin, and build a nation that’s actually worthy of your lives.
12/24/22 – To the Russians, stop listening to the evil voices of your leaders, and start listening to the divine voice of the Holy Spirit. Listen to the pleas of children, to the weeping of Rachel. Lay down your arms. Give yourself to the Lord, to the Prince of Peace.
12/24/22 – To refugees and migrants throughout the world, including our Ukrainian brothers and sisters, Jesus was also a refugee. God is with you.
12/24/22 – “Creche” is from Latin, meaning nativity scene. (In French, it also means nursery.) They are wearing Jerusalem crosses. (There are many different crosses.)
12/24/22 – From the comments, “Praying that everyone around the world may have a blessed Christmas, and that love, compassion, and peace may win over evil.”
12/24/22 – It’s OK to cry, even weep. God understands, and we understand. It’s been a hard few years, but the Lord has not forsaken us, and we have not forsaken each other.
12/24/22 – For the people who can’t go to church for whatever reason, Christmas Eve – Lessons and Carols at Washington National Cathedral. There are many other gatherings around the world of the universal church this Christmas 2022, and as always, our churches are open to all. Welcome, and peace be with you, friends!
12/24/22 – Seeing images of terrorism is always hard, but on Christmas Eve, it’s really hard. “Wherever we are, we will be together today. We make a wish. One for all. And we will feel joy. One for all. And we will understand the truth. One for all. We will celebrate our holidays! As always. We will smile and be happy. As always. The difference is one. We will not wait for a miracle. After all, we create it ourselves. Christ is born! Let’s praise Him!”
Merry Christmas to Western Rite Orthodox Christians!
12/24/22 – This Christmas eve, let’s pray that every Russian soldier surrenders to the Ukrainians and that the Ukrainians respect their humanity and treat them, their enemies who have waged an unjust war against them, with compassion.
12/24/22 – “Hitler followed his father’s religious path straight into infamy. He hated Judaism, gleefully murdering 6 million Jews. But he loathed Christianity, too. In Hitler’s eyes Christianity was a religion fit only for slaves.” The greatest honor one could bestow on true Christians is to say that we are God’s slaves. Only a godless, evil man wouldn’t understand this.
Hitler hated Judaism. But he loathed Christianity, too.
12/24/22 – To the pagans, atheists and other detractors, the world isn’t celebrating a bacchanalia pagan holiday. It practices that, debaucherous hedonism, most of the rest of the year to disastrous effects on the world, such as war and climate change. If you want to take away this gift of joy to the world that is Christmas simply because it’s associated with Christianity, then you’re seriously f—ked up, and I feel sorry for you.
12/24/22 – “Nearly universal association of Christmas with love, generosity and compassionate community.” Let that sink in. If Christians are “losing,” a terminology better suited to war than to faith, then what does “winning” look like? “[T]he unpopularity of these grumblers and naysayers speaks to the nearly universal association of Christmas with love, generosity and compassionate community — and the consensus that these should be embraced.” The whole world “won” by the birth of this baby in a manger. Emmanuel, God is with us whether or not we deserve it or believe it.
The wise men who helped me understand Christmas
12/24/22 – What is incredible is not the “secularization of Christmas.” It’s that a religious holiday associated with a small Jewish sect who later came to be known as Christians is celebrated the world over by people of various religious backgrounds and non-religious people alike because it is joyful. It’s the only holiday I can think of that fits this description. I would like to ask Christians: What is the point of saying that you believe in our Christian God, but then not acting like it? If you are worried about the decline in the numbers of practicing Christians, then you have no real faith in our God. Faith expressed is trust. There are Christians, right now and all over the world, the persecuted church, who are risking their lives to practice our faith and celebrate our holidays with us. They have put their faith and trust in our God, and you are worried about the power of our religion. Stop worrying. Start trusting.
The War on Christmas Is Winning
12/24/22 – And if people could remind the NatKKKons as much as possible that Zelensky is a Jew and draw comparisons to David, that would be the bow on this year’s Christmas present.
12/24/22 – This Christmas, let us keep our Ukrainian sisters and brothers in our prayers and hearts. Let us remember that Jesus, the Son of God, was born in a humble manger. Light up Ukraine. Donate generously to them. Pray for them.
EU buildings turned lights off in solidarity with Ukraine
Light Up Ukraine
After missile strikes, Ukrainians persist without electricity, water, heat
12/24/22 – Ah, no. This would put the evil one, Trump, above the law. “But banning him from seeking the presidency now could turn him into a martyr and benefit his cause, just as growing numbers of Republicans are showing a willingness to turn the page.” The only consideration is: Did he violate Section 3 of the 14th Amendment? He clearly did. And in a nation of laws that applies them without fear or favor, his punishment, which in this case is to never hold any public office again, must be applied. The WaPo Editorial Board is superimposing their political considerations where there should be the simple application of the law.
Jan. 6 committee recommendations would (mostly) help preserve democracy
12/23/22 – If someone could read all of these articles and endless words of praise of Zelensky to the NatKKKons and record their rage, it would be quite edifying, well actually quite entertaining, for the rest of us. He made history in the best way. They are making history in the worst way. And 99.9% of the world, oh wait, who are we now, the sanity party, no wait, the uniparty, right because unity, it’s so normie, who would want unity when you can have KKKrazy, well, the boring monolith that we are, we’re here for it.
Rising to a historic destiny, Zelensky embodies America’s values
12/23/22 – Don’t watch TV, so had no idea that the deranged rage of the what are they called now NatKKKons was so deep and broad. As a gift to ourselves this Christmas, we get to own the KKKons and the KKKonned. If the reporters could provide more details about how their hate affected them physically, we’d much appreciate it. Did their makeup artists need to wipe the froth away from their mouths? Perhaps their hair became ablaze and fell to the ground? Did horns grow out of their heads? Did they have any accidents? Nothing would be too much for us to handle. Please share. In any case, thank you all for this reporting. Such a hot gift at an otherwise cold Christmas time.
The Oddly Intense Anger Against Zelensky, Explained
12/23/22 – Cassidy Hutchinson’s attorney should be disbarred. He was definitely not acting ethically or in her (his client’s) interests.
Tapper: Hutchinson’s transformation from MAGA supporter to whistleblower is historic
12/23/22 – Clarence Thomas is the Kanye West of the Supreme KKKourt.
12/23/22 – Curious minds want to know: What are the ties between Eastman and Thomas?
12/23/22 – Put in the category of obvious things that are nice to get around Christmas: “This just in: McConnell says Trump’s political clout has ‘diminished’….’The former president may have other things to do,’” translated, f—k off, loser. (WaPo)
12/23/22 – Would Congress actually do something this practical? “It absolutely should be done. And at some point, the administration might simply announce that the Constitution obligates us to guarantee debts, so a congressional vote is superflous. It’s pure madness to allow Republicans to hold the national debt hostage, risking an economic calamity.”
WaPo, Rubin, QA
12/23/22 – The evil one, Trump, is never going to come right out and say, “Hey MAGA, I want to be a dictator and enslave you,” although that is what he wants. Instead, he appeals to their vanity by saying, “I will subjugate only the inferior people and elevate only you, superior people.” Understandably, reasonable people find MAGA revolting for finding this ploy appealing. However, they should keep in mind that MAGA is the one that is being manipulated, not the people who find the ploy (and MAGA) revolting. E.g., who is in a worse situation: the stupid Russians who believe Putin’s lies or the smart Russians who can’t stand him but are stuck with him because of the stupid Russians?
12/23/22 – Tucker Carlson, aka Tuckyorose, is a Kremlin sympathizer who should be arrested and tried for treason. In addition to many of the valid points in the article and aside from being on Russia’s payroll, as is the evil one, Trump, it’s also plain jealousy. Zelensky got everything the evil one and Tuckyo want – the world’s adoration. He was Time magazine’s man of the year. He is admired for his leadership. Jealous people make ridiculous characterizations of the person they are jealous of. (The irony is that this makes their jealousy entirely transparent.) Where I somewhat disagree is that Tuckyo and the evil one are not actually against something, “wokeness” or even immigration, as being for something – autocracy. They want absolute power. That’s what America first has been about all along. It’s a ploy intended to use hatred to rise to power only to subjugate the people who put them in power, the white racists and bigots who think they will benefit. They will turn them into slaves as dictators always do.
Tucker Carlson’s rage at Zelensky caps a year of getting things wrong
12/23/22 – To the Europeans who are complaining about their energy bills and other inconveniences, screw you. You were short-sighted, selfish and naïve, and now, you’re paying the price for your foolish choices. You have no one to blame but yourselves. You should thank God that the Ukrainians aren’t like you, or you’d be in an even worse situation than you’re in now.
12/23/22 – Dictators of the world unite!
12/23/22 – So that means that poopy is planning to annex Belarus. “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belarus on Dec. 19 didn’t deliver any particular results. Routine statements about joint exercises, a new round of nuclear blackmail, and assurances that Russia will not annex Belarus were among the key talking points during Putin’s press conference in Minsk. Russia again began increasing its military presence in the country, delivering more than 100 pieces of equipment to Belarus’ where Russian troops are stationed as part of the joint military command.”
Belarus Weekly: Russia transfers more military equipment to Belarus, deploys closer to Ukrainian border
12/23/22 – Are Russia, China, Iran and North Korea the new axis of evil? In any case, they are likely planning to wage war on the west. Stop worrying about provoking them. Start defending us. We must get rid of the evil one and his enablers now. Quit f—king around.
12/22/22 – How did American greatness come to be? We were a mere colonial outpost in an unforgiving climate. (Do we need to be reminded of the weather right now?) It’s not technology, industry, innovation, commercial enterprise, etc. It’s simply our people – all of our people in our glorious diversity. It’s the people who wake up every day and do their jobs well, jobs we need to function as a nation. It’s the people who serve their communities without fanfare. It’s the people who believe in and practice basic values like honesty and compassion. It’s the people who give their time, talent and treasure because they know it’s the right thing to do. Just the other day, I thought to myself how blessed I am to live in a place with so many good people. Some among us have given in to the forces of darkness. They think that this will “make America great again.” It won’t. If we’re going to stay a great nation, we need to be a great people. It’s as simple as that.
12/22/22 – The Federalist Papers sometimes feels like a crystal ball from the past looking into our present. “By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.” Do we as Americans aspire to this position of arbiter? Personally, I do not, but arguably, this is the role Americans have found ourselves in. I would like to say to Hamilton, be careful what you wish for, what you strategize for, but also, if there must be a world arbiter, biased as I am, I trust America more than any other country because I have faith that its people, flawed as we are, can exercise a generosity of spirit and a sense of sacrifice that would be required of a country in this role.
Federalist Nos. 11-20
12/22/22 – I was (and still am) sick of Europe’s dependency on us, but I have fully supported Ukraine from day one. What’s different? They genuinely need us and deserve our help. In return, Ukrainians rekindled Americans’ fighting spirit. Let’s admit it. The years of the evil one exhausted us, but if we had given up, he would have won. Even though it’s not stated explicitly, the election outcomes are in part a reflection of Ukrainians’ positive effect on us. We fought for our own democracy because their existential fight for it reminded us, at least subconsciously, to never take it for granted. “‘So much in the world depends on you.’ Sometimes, Americans forget that. Zelensky reminded us. He came to say thank you. It’s a little embarrassing to hear that thanks, because what Americans gave, fundamentally, was just money. Zelensky’s people have given blood, home, comfort, and security—every precious thing that human beings can sacrifice. The answer we owe Zelensky, the answer Zelensky should hear from this country, revived by his visit, his cause, and his country’s heroic fight, is: No, no, no—thank you.”
Zelensky Recalled Us to Ourselves
12/22/22 – Not a war strategist, but it seems to me if you can’t figure out how to get blankets and basics to your troops, you might want to quit the war (before it quits you).
12/22/22 – Just when you think MAGA are the biggest chumps on the planet, they get stiff competition. Not only did poisonous poopy (alliteration is my thing) steal almost all of their money, engage them in a war that has cost them whatever national reputation they had and won them the world’s ire, a war in which they have become cannon fodder, but now, he has conned them into spending their own money to fund the war. They are funding their own deaths. Truly pathetic and sad.
Russians buy boots and body armor for the troops
12/22/22 – March to the beat of your own drummer. Do justice to the individuality God gave you.
12/22/22 – Elites of both parties, are you better than this man because of your status, profession or money? You’re not. Books saved and made him, as they did me. That’s the power of the written language. “‘To me, anything that starts to dominate everything about you — when you can only interact with an ideal instead of have a conversation — I’m skeptical.’ But what was most insulting to him of all was the assumption that he would go along with all of it because of how he looked and where he lived…. And that was who Cody Johnson had become by the time he rolled up to Beulahland Baptist Church on the day of the midterm elections: an Emerson-reading troublemaker who was not going to let things slide, and instead was going to cast a ballot for only the second time in his life.” The country owes people like them (him and his wife) a debt of gratitude. They are helping us save our democracy.
In rural Georgia, an unlikely rebel against Trumpism
12/22/22 – It is clearly genocide. “AP: At least 10,300 new graves dug in occupied Mariupol since March. The total area occupied by the new graves is more than 51,500 square meters, according to AP estimates. The video footage reviewed showed that Russian occupying authorities used heavy machinery to dig long trenches there, which were then backfilled.”
Genocide of the Ukrainian people
12/22/22 – This is now a great Christmas tradition that the next Pope should maintain. “Francis has long used his Christmas address for an annual dressing down of Vatican bureaucrats, taking them through a typical Jesuit-style ‘examination of conscience’ to help them repent in the run-up to Christmas.” And where are the atheists’ corrective mechanism, or do they not need it because they are holier-than-thou, because they are so superior and evolved? Spare us the BS. They are and have always been sinners too. The main difference is that they make no effort to acknowledge or atone for their sins. They are effectively devoid of a process for an examination of conscience or repentance, and they fill that vacuum with an insatiable and unhealthy self-love.
Pope warns Vatican staff an ‘elegant demon’ lurks among them
12/22/22 – Power Engineers Day! Who knew. Poetic timing. Such a tough people! Slava Ukraini!
12/22/22 – Apparently, the SEC is not going to do anything about the institutional investors who are clearly manipulating the market and likely window dressing.
12/22/22 – Absolutely! If you care at all about future generations, you will support Ukraine until they and we are victorious. “[Zelensky] may be saying thank you, but it is the free world that should be thanking Ukraine. Ukrainians are fighting a battle for freedom, democracy and the very notion of national sovereignty…. If Americans get tired of supporting Ukraine, if they listen to the ugly voices disparaging Zelensky, Russia could ultimately win, and the world as we know it would change. It would be a victory for autocracy and a grievous loss for democracy.”
Opinion: Zelensky’s powerful message to Putin
12/22/22 – Many atheists, especially the militant ones, like to hate religious people because atheists are just as likely to be immoral and sinful as anybody else. It is part of the human condition. The fact is that the Nazis were opposed to all religions, including Christianity. This is why they also murdered Christians. They were not Christian nationalists. They were a godless people who worshipped a false god, the evil one, Hitler, much like MAGA worships a false god, the evil one, Trump, now. The fact is that many of the people who defeated fascism in Europe were Christians who did so in part because they felt a moral obligation based on their religious convictions. They helped save the Jewish people, among other minorities, such as the Roma, who were neither Christian nor white. So, go ahead, hate religions all you want, atheists. It doesn’t change the facts, and the facts are not on your side.
12/22/22 – More important than the computer languages are the written languages. In this era, it’s vogue to think that a computer can write text. It can write text, but the quality of the text is primarily dependent on the quality of the ideas. And anyone who writes knows that coming up with original ideas is the hardest part. There are no real ideas in writing code. You write to execute a function or perform an action. You don’t write code to change the hearts and minds of people. Let us not deceive ourselves as to which type of writing matters more and what is harder to do.
What Elon Musk failed to understand about Twitter
12/22/22 – There are clearly many unethical atheists, and many of them work in technology. They do things they shouldn’t be doing because they, like Elon Musk, have thin skin, can’t handle the truth and want to control other people. They are also good at justifying their immoral actions. They should also be held accountable.
12/21/22 – Washington, like all people including the self-righteous atheists and other liberals who think they are perfect when they are not, was a complicated figure. He was a sinner like we all are. Being a slaveholder will remain a stain upon his character as it should be. “But in this case, the most esteemed American of his time plainly saw beyond the common prejudices of his era. For that reason, he earned a special place in the hearts of American Jews.” Like Zelensky is now, Washington put his life on the line for American freedom and democracy. Forget the degenerate “white Christian nationalist” crowd. They are crazy morons. How many liberal virtue-signalers are willing to do that? How many of them are willing to unequivocally support the Jewish people’s freedom of religion? The answer and the truth is: not that many.
Think America is a ‘Christian nation’? George Washington didn’t.
12/21/22 – History was made tonight. What a moment for the free world! So proud of our Ukrainian friends and President Zelensky.
Ukrainian President Zelensky visits the USA
12/21/22 – It’s in Americans’ interest to support Ukraine. Ukrainians’ sacrifice is saving democracy and freedom around the world. “President Volodymyr Zelensky profusely thanked the United States for its continued support in a brief but emotion-filled address to U.S. Congress. Speaking alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Capitol, Zelensky said the speech he’ll deliver before members of Congress on Dec. 21 is not only for lawmakers but for all Americans.”
Zelensky thanks Americans for their support in brief remarks to US Congress
12/21/22 – “‘[O]ur weapon is truth, and our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will defend all of this.’… As you watch Zelensky on the podium before Congress, imagine the rage that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be feeling: His bets are losing.” Oh, we’re watching with delight. It is particularly gratifying that his evil Manchurian candidate bet is also losing. They are such losers, and it’s delicious. What will be even more delicious is when their judgment comes, and it will come. They will lose then too. Betting against God is always a losing proposition.
Zelensky’s role on the Washington stage is Ukrainian fighter
12/21/22 – Tears, tears. Love of country, freedom and democracy. In the future, history will ask, what did you do to help Ukraine in their time of need, and Americans can say, we did more than any other country. Such a great people! Slava Ukraini!
Stand with Ukraine.
Americans are inspired by Ukrainians.
12/21/22 – God’s plans are always greater. “At long last, Zelensky gets his White House meeting,” CNN. Granted the circumstances are hard, but this is way better than meeting with the evil one.
12/21/22 – Notes from prison. “‘Do you think you just printed leftist money? – the detective shouted. – No! You, bitch, got into Putin’s pocket!’ Poor Putin.”
12/21/22 – Most rich people would have been better off if they had lived simpler, more wholesome lives.
12/20/22 – Always keep in mind that most rich people are stupid and crazy.
12/20/22 – Elon Musk says that he can’t find someone who can keep Twitter alive who wants the job, implying that the only people who would want the job couldn’t keep Twitter alive. Perhaps he’s forgotten that he wanted the job before he didn’t want it, but now, he owns it. What does that say? Maybe it says that if Twitter weren’t doomed before, it’s doomed now.
12/20/22 – “Do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
12/20/22 – The evil one, Trump’s empleomania nearly cost Americans their democracy.
12/20/22 – Learning different languages, including learning more about one’s own native tongue, is one of the most enriching things to do. Don’t listen to the people who push nothing but STEM. Love them, study them, use them. They are never a waste of time.
Beautiful, useless, obscure-words
12/20/22 – While pussy pooty tries to deflect responsibility, in Zelensky we have a profile in courage and leadership. “President Volodymyr Zelensky greets Ukrainian fighters on the front line in Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast during an unannounced visit on Dec. 20.” He and other Ukrainians are helping save democracy, and the world owes them a debt of gratitude for it.
President Volodymyr Zelensky greets Ukrainian fighters on the front line in Bakhmut
12/20/22 – Semantic bleaching, what an awesome term.
12/20/22 – Will they, no, but every day, MAGA should thank the Lord above, our Founding Fathers, and Democrats for saving their a—es from becoming slaves in Trumpistan.
12/19/22 – What’s sadder: the MAGA morons who actually gave the evil grifter money or the pretend “White House” at Mar-a-Lago with the lonely, crazy evil one?
“[T]he $99 that each gullible purchaser sent in went not to any political cause but to Trump himself.”
‘Conspiracy to defraud’ is the perfect charge against the grifter Trump
“A longtime Trump confidant termed his Mar-a-Lago existence, where he has tried to re-create the trappings of the presidency, as ‘sad.’ Comparing it to life at the White House, this person added, ‘It’s like a Barbie Dream House miniature.’”
How Trump jettisoned restraints at Mar-a-Lago and prompted legal peril
12/19/22 – Gee, where are the capital inflows coming from? “But it has tripled its trade with Russia, and capital inflows from unknown sources to Central Bank coffers — in the vicinity of $28 billion — have prevented an expected balance-of-payments crisis. That, in turn, has enabled the government to disburse new handouts to the public.”
Erdogan may have just made the biggest mistake of his political career
12/19/22 – MAGA are a disgrace to humankind. They will be remembered in history as traitors to the United States of America.
12/19/22 – The evil one, Trump, is unfit for any office.
WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings – The Final Report
12/18/22 – Henry Kissinger is a menace to mankind, and when that monster, who terrorized innocent people in Southeast Asia, finally dies, the world will be a better place. F—k him and what he thinks about anything. The war criminal’s “wisdom” is worthless or even worse.
12/18/22 – The American education system – at all levels – has an administration problem. There is far too much of it. Can we focus on learning and on the people who actually make that happen?
12/18/22 – Union strong. Union proud. (FYI, being a professor is a s—t ton of work, and it’s hard, so f—k the colleges and universities for their exploitation of highly educated labor. Also, f—k prestige. They can take their elitism and shove it. Prestige and elitism don’t pay the bills.) “Labor victories managed to organize more than 43,000 workers — ‘more than double the number of workers organized in first-half 2021,’ Bloomberg Law said.”
Distinguished persons: Unions break through in 2022
12/18/22 – Elon Musk, I am now conducting a poll. Be careful what you say: Do you think I have thin skin?
After backlash, Elon Musk is staking his leadership on a Twitter poll
12/18/22 – Jealousy and love are incompatible. God is never jealous of you. Give yourself to God. He knows how to love. Happy final Sunday of Advent.
12/18/22 – May the devil’s abettor burn in hell. “Pavone had been laicized — he can no longer present himself as a priest — after being found guilty in a canonical proceeding ‘of blasphemous communications on social media and of persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.’”
Anti-abortion priest Pavone defrocked for blasphemous posts
12/18/22 – Republicans who speak out against the evil one, Trump, aren’t “RINOs.” They are simply not totally crazy and unpatriotic. MAGA morons are not more “conservative.” They are f—king crazy traitors. “‘I have heard from many, many formerly very pro-Trump voters that they think it’s time for our party to move on,’ Toomey told CNN’s Jake Tapper on ‘State of the Union.’”
Retiring GOP senator says Trump’s influence on party is ‘waning’
12/18/22 – Like much of the Middle East, the Qataris don’t give a s—t about human beings and human rights. F—k them, and f—k FIFA. Oh and f—k you too for watching the World Cup and being total hypocrites.
12/18/22 – “As the 2022 World Cup wraps up, there is an overarching takeaway: Holding it in Qatar was a huge mistake. FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, had numerous chances to take a stand for basic human dignities. It didn’t.”
This was a World Cup of human rights horrors
12/18/22 – FIFA is a corrupt organization.
12/18/22 – On this International Migrants Day, remember that people died so that you could scream stupidly for your team while you were being entertained. How different is this from screaming as Christians or others were being eaten alive by lions in Rome’s colosseum? Tell us again about human evolution. You are so evolved! Sign the petition.
12/18/22 – Russia, a nation that once contributed to arts and culture, has become nothing more than a terrorist state and has humiliated itself on the world stage.
12/17/22 – The Federal Reserve wants to plunge our economy into a recession because it wants to help the plutocrats enslave the American people.
US recession a growing fear as Fed plans to keep rates high
12/17/22 – Once we don’t need these terrible countries’ fossil fuels any longer, a day that will come sooner than some might think, they will have nothing the majority of the world wants. Stop buying their drugs, which hurts not just them, but also you, and they will be forced to find better ways to engage economically and otherwise with the world. “The elements needed are available in seawater. It’s also a process that doesn’t produce the radioactive waste of nuclear fission, Kammen said.”
EXPLAINER: Why fusion could be a clean-energy breakthrough
12/17/22 – Everywhere one looks, democracy is under attack. “She said the Parliament and European democracies were ‘under attack’ by ‘malign actors, linked to autocratic third countries.’… [P]olice in Belgium’s capital carried out multiple raids as part of the investigation and reported seizing cash, computer equipment and mobile telephones…. ‘There has never been such a massive corruption scandal hitting the Parliament’.”
Police raid more EU Parliament offices in corruption probe
12/16/22 – Integrity. Patriot. “Our democracy is not functioning…. Americans deserve a democracy that values truthful leaders and real dialogue between our parties.”
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) Farewell Speech
12/16/22 – It’s not about 2024. It’s all about 2042.
12/16/22 – White people are superior at sociopathology, and that’s it.
12/16/22 – And the Oscar goes to…. “I have already applied to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation so that it initiates the procedure for declaring France a state sponsor of terrorism, as well as conducting a thorough investigation of the terrorist methods of France and its Western allies – the United States and others.”
Russian linked to Wagner badly hurt in assassination attempt in Central African Republic
12/16/22 – Basically, McCarthy is a marshmallow who just wants the House gavel and will grovel to get it. Spell that right, OK, did I? Moron.
Is Kevin McCarthy okay?
12/15/22 – Absolutely! “‘Let’s have a more humble Christmas, with more humble gifts, and send what we save to the Ukrainian people, who need it,’ [Pope Francis] said.”
Pope urges to spend less on Christmas, send difference to Ukrainians
12/15/22 – This is what the Russian people are indifferent to. This is what they support when they support the Kremlin. This is what MTG and other MAGA are supporting. “Ukrainian authorities discovered a room that Russians used to detain and torture children during the occupation of Kherson, Dmytro Lubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada, said on Dec. 14. According to testimonies from locals, other torture victims in the facility knew that Ukrainian children had been kept there by Russian security services, who had called the room ‘a children’s cell.’”
Children’s torture chamber found in liberated Kherson
12/15/22 – The British “monarchy” like all monarchies everywhere and across time are a lie and a farce. They should all end forever. “‘[R]eally what they’re doing is blocking a grandson from seeing his grandmother,’ added Meghan.” The only King is Jesus.
Prince Harry says William ‘screamed’ at him over royal split with Meghan, in final episodes of Netflix documentary
12/15/22 – Liberals are as guilty as conservatives of associating Christianity with white people. Fact: The first Christians were brown people, and there are millions of Christians who are not white.
12/15/22 – The global church, which includes persecuted Christians, is a gift from God. “‘[H]ere, (there are) different nationalities and then they have different cultures,’ Gonzaga said. ‘I could feel the real spirit of the church, the universal church,’ he said, adding the different communities learn from each other.” Human beings should never be treated as slaves. Their dignity must always be respected. “Pope Francis lamented that much labor can be ‘dehumanizing’ and encouraged the promotion of equal rights for workers.” “‘It gives more peace and happiness in my life,’ she said. ‘Christmas is coming and when this is going on, we should … beautify our hearts to receive our Jesus Christ.’”
At ‘Church City,’ a taste of Catholic life in Qatar
12/15/22 – In practice, laïcité is self-imposed government dependency and control and individual isolation.
12/15/22 – Americans, we are weird, a pain in the a-s, but also great. “In her remarks, Pelosi thanked Boehner, who was teary at times, and noted that she would have been ‘a little disappointed if he did not get emotional.’” (Catholics….) “Pelosi’s portrait was created by artist Ronald Sherr, who died last week.” May he rest in peace.
Boehner’s tears, Obama’s tribute highlight Pelosi’s Capitol portrait unveiling
12/14/22 – Twitter is a toxic cesspool. By staying on it, you’re legitimizing the illegitimate, and you’re part of the problem. “Since launching his $44 billion takeover of the company, Musk has become so popular in QAnon circles that some regard him, not Trump, as the savior-like figure they had been waiting on to usher in ‘the Storm,’ a quasi-biblical moment in which the cabal that runs the American government, media, technology industry and education system would be vanquished through public executions.”
QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter
12/14/22 – This is absolutely ridiculous and a violation of Americans’ rights. “As the county prosecutor, he said, he would be ‘proud’ to bring a case against someone caught violating the abortion ban, a felony punishable in Texas by up to life in prison.” These organizations are “violating the law” because the law is violating women’s rights.
Antiabortion movement seeks to jail people for ‘trafficking’ illegal pills
12/14/22 – This is obvious. “‘Because Russia won’t stop until big blood is spilled, until everyone dies. Soldiers are cannon fodder to them. They don’t respect them,’ he said.” The question is: Do Russians respect themselves? People who have self-respect don’t act like this. They do not support someone like Putin. They do not act as if other human beings don’t matter. They do not seek empire. They do not commit war crimes.
‘There are maniacs who enjoy killing,’ Russian defector says of his former unit accused of war crimes in Bucha
12/14/22 – If Putin had been winning in Ukraine, how would the Russians be reacting? How would the world be reacting? Food for thought.
12/14/22 – The Hindu caste system is institutionalized slavery. The Dalits are the most original to the land of India. Seizing the current Hindu Nationalist zeitgeist, they should kick the foreigners, all other castes, out of India, and liberate themselves from their foreign oppressors, the Aryan colonialists. They can move back to where they came from, the Middle East/Central Asia.
12/13/22 – Never take freedom and democracy for granted. Fight for it. “Indeed, on a continent poisoned by revanchism and polarization, Castillo pulled off something remarkable: uniting the entire country — against him. Compatriots on the left, right and center rallied to reject his ham-fisted coup attempt.”
More than a new government, Peru needs one that can last
12/13/22 – Like so many other things, the Boomers destroyed the American higher education system.
How progressive can a college be when instructors make poverty wages?
12/13/22 – Absolutely! “Gaining access to longer-range ‘fires’ will enable the Ukrainians to more effectively strike such military targets across the width and breadth of Russian-occupied territory. That includes Crimea, which remains out of HIMARS range. Such strikes, in turn, will enable future offensives that can bring this awful war to a conclusion.”
Give Ukraine the ability to strike every inch of Russian occupied territory
12/13/22 – Elon Musk is an a—hole, and if you like him, you’re an a—hole too.
12/12/22 – Emmer is not a congressman. He’s a lobbyist for the crypto industry. “A nonprofit known as the Coin Center, which is funded by crypto companies and investors, claimed to help lawmakers form the blockchain caucus in 2016. It previously described its input in chartering the group as ‘instrumental.’ Emmer became its co-chair two years later, promising then to help Congress ‘embrace and support’ cryptocurrency for ‘the next generation and beyond.’… Emmer also worked to make it easier for crypto allies to contribute — in digital tokens — to GOP campaigns.”
Meet Tom Emmer, a powerful crypto advocate in a crypto-wary Congress
12/12/22 – Keep your traditions alive, whether of African, Asian, European or whatever descent.
12/11/22 – Jesus is our Lord and our Redeemer.
12/11/22 – Nip India’s democratic backsliding now before it’s too late and much harder to fix. “At the same time, manufacturers trying to bolster vulnerable supply chains are turning to Vietnam or India instead of China. ‘There’s a huge shift going on,’ said Andrew Collier, an economist with GlobalSource Partners in Hong Kong.”
U.S.-China economic ties continue to fray, despite Biden-Xi meeting
12/11/22 – If you’re still on Twitter, you’re a fool.
12/11/22 – India’s plutocrats are conspiring with the Hindu Nationalists, headed by Modi, to ruin the country and turn it into Russia and China. They turn newsrooms into “lapdog media” to pump out propaganda. Is the west going to do anything? Hello, Biden administration! India is too important of a country to allow it to fall into authoritarianism. “‘India never had a golden period of journalism,’ Kumar continued in his message, which quickly accumulated some 6.7 million views. ‘But it also didn’t have a devastating period like there is today. Every good thing about this profession is being destroyed’…. ‘The violence against journalists, the politically partisan media and the concentration of media ownership all demonstrate that press freedom is in crisis in “the world’s largest democracy,”’ it read.”
In India, warnings that independent news media are teetering on a precipice
12/10/22 – The plutocrats own the technocrats, the Federal Reserve.
12/10/22 – There is nothing more important for the world right now than Ukraine definitively winning this war. Go all out to help them and quit f—king around.
12/10/22 – Don’t be pennywise and pound-foolish. Not only is “slinking away” not the right thing to do morally speaking, but it would be a stupid thing to do practically speaking. We would be endangering ourselves. “While some in Congress contemplate penny-wise-and-pound-foolish economizing at Ukraine’s expense, Ukrainians are dying, freezing, starving, enduring torture and the targeting of civilians, and seeing their children kidnapped to Russia.”
Slinking away from aiding Ukraine would be a major strategic error
12/9/22 – Putin wants genocide. Instead, the world is learning Ukrainian and about its arts, culture, history and people. “Duolingo: Over 1.3 million people start learning Ukrainian after Russia invaded Ukraine. The number of people who started to learn the Ukrainian language has increased by over 1.3 million since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Duolingo, an American tech company with a language-learning app, said. The biggest trend of 2022 was the global spike in the number of people learning Ukrainian, according to the 2022 Duolingo Language Report. Duolingo said the number of people who learn Ukrainian in Germany and Poland has increased by over 16 times this year, compared to last year.”
Duolingo: Over 1.3 million people start learning Ukrainian
12/9/22 – Ukrainians, what a people! Congratulations to them, and thank you for reminding the world of the value of freedom and democracy and not to take them for granted. “TIME names Spirit of Ukraine and Zelensky ‘person of the year.’ President Volodymyr Zelensky was named Time magazine’s person of the year on Dec. 7, acknowledging his leadership amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, the magazine recognized the ‘spirit of Ukraine,’ which was embodied by countless individuals contributing to the fight against Russian aggression.”
TIME names Spirit of Ukraine and Zelensky ‘person of the year
12/8/22 – Whether it is the Bible or secular law, liberals tend to take a big picture approach while “conservatives” like to cherry-pick the text to support their personal views.
Supreme Court majority questions massive shift of election authority
12/7/22 – Our founding documents are a thing of beauty. God bless America.
12/7/22 – White people are so superior that they have evolved beyond procreation.
12/6/22 – The evil one is just showing the world more of who he has been all along. If this kind of person got “conservatives” the policies and the people they want, why aren’t they questioning the quality of those policies and people?
With his call to ‘terminate’ the Constitution, Trump is spinning out of control
12/6/22 – The Russians are abducting Ukrainian children. It is pure evil. Russia is not just a terrorist state, but it is also a barbaric state. Human beings, especially children, are not spoils of war.
Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation
12/6/22 – So well-deserved! “‘The president of Ukraine embodies the resilience of his people and has become a standard bearer for liberal democracy,’ Financial Times wrote. ‘The 44-year-old Zelensky has earned a place in history for his extraordinary display of leadership and fortitude,’ the newspaper added.”
Financial Times names Zelensky ‘person of the year
12/5/22 – This Christmas, donate to Ukraine. “The famous Ukrainian carol ‘Shchedryk,’ also known as ‘Carol of the Bells,’ was performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Dec. 4.”
Shchedryk
12/5/22 – Amazon’s best product is the simple Kindle, which is still second to printed books and local bookstores, and the only thing the rest of the company is good for is finding hard-to-find items by connecting buyers and sellers. Does everything have to be a relentless march to more and more consumerism, or can we just be content with simple improvements to our lives?
12/5/22 – Netflix started out as a revolutionary company. Now, it’s just another s—t corporation like all the rest.
12/5/22 – The evil one, Trump, should be arrested and given the maximum penalty for treason.
12/5/22 – Was the Jan 6 “chaos” glorious too? “‘I love Elon Twitter so far,’ tweeted a user who goes by the name Some Dude. ‘The chaos is glorious!’”
As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job
12/4/22 – The preferred gauge of inflation should almost always be core PCE. It’s not supposed to be PCE. Some members of the Fed board seem to have been using alternative measures to justify their likely politically motivated decisions. (Also, there has long been talk about raising the inflation target to give policymakers more room.)
BEA – Core PCE
12/4/22 – So the supposedly apolitical Fed doesn’t expect to reach its inflation target until after the election. Right. “The central bank does not expect to reach its inflation goal until 2025.” Is the Fed’s interest rate setting related to this? “The cost of sending a standard 40-foot container from China to the U.S. West Coast is $1,935 — down more than 90 percent from its September 2021 peak of $20,586, according to the online freight marketplace Freightos.” All the Fed did was cause poor people who were already paying more for goods and services to pay more in interest. They just unnecessarily inflicted more economic pain on poor people when they could least afford it. Class warfare to help the rich. Was it also intended to affect the 2022 elections in Republicans’ favor?
From chicken wings to used cars, inflation begins to ease its grip
12/4/22 – The economics profession is narcissistic white men being overpaid to come up with bad theories that hide behind unnecessarily complicated math to hide the enslavement of the masses. The domination of white men in the profession isn’t really about Me Too. It’s about class domination, in which rich parasites control and oppress the working class. The sexism and the racism in the profession are just a natural extension of this entrenched enslavement of the working class.
Harassment in Economics Doesn’t Stay in Economics
12/4/22 – All countries need to make protecting democracy the first priority.
12/4/22 – The trend is your friend. The trend is up.
12/4/22 – A blank paper can say everything.
12/4/22 – That’s just what our democracy needs. “‘The bottom line is the impact of this fringe theory would be terrible,’ said former Attorney General Eric Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. ‘It could unleash a wave of gerrymandering from both parties.’”
Supreme Court weighs ‘most important case’ on democracy
12/3/22 – The evil one – the leader of the Republican Party – suggests that Americans throw out the document that our military, our leaders and all naturalized citizens swore an oath to – that little thing called our Constitution.
Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post
12/3/22 – He’s kidding, right? Of the three branches of government, every single one of them reflects minority rule. For the Legislative branch, let’s set aside the House with its gerrymandering, the Senate: two senators for every state no matter the population; the Executive branch: electoral college, and the Judicial, which is affected by the Senate: nothing more needs to be said about it.
The midterms have busted the myth of conservative ‘minority rule’
12/3/22 – It’s not censoring. It’s sensible. It’s the right thing to do. “It all leads back to the same pathetic belief that abstract prejudices (usually rooted in personal grudges) are righteous and deserve to be enforced. A civilized society minimizes such ideas not just because they are displeasing but because they get people killed.”
Kanye West Finally Says What He Means
12/3/22 – People also listen to the godless Communists who worship themselves.
12/3/22 – The Christian God was the Jewish people’s God, and his son was a Jew. If you hate the Jewish people, you hate the Christian God. The GOP hates the Christian God. “Everything that happened to the Jews of Europe, to the African-Americans during the lynching terrors of Jim Crow, to Native Americans as their land was plundered and their numbers decimated, to Dalits considered so low that their very shadow polluted those deemed above them – happened because a big enough majority had been persuaded, centuries ago or in the recent past, that these groups were ordained by God as beneath them, subhuman, deserving of their fate.” (Caste, I. Wilkerson) That wasn’t God speaking. That was the devil, and these people listened.
12/2/22 – White people can’t get over the fact that the greatest man who’s ever walked the earth was a brown Jew, Jesus. Yes, God chose to take on human form as a Jew. At least subconsciously, this is one of the reasons they are jealous of the Jewish people. “His conclusion: ‘I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it.’”
The GOP is stuck in a doom loop begun 30 years ago
12/1/22 – A who’s who in degenerate morons. “Lake, Finchem, Dershowitz and other attorneys involved in the case did not respond to requests for comment. The case was financed largely by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who has promoted debunked claims about voter fraud.”
Ariz. county ordered to certify election as GOP lawyers are sanctioned