Tag: November

11/6/24 – We are surprised by the popular vote, but then again, the polls were misleading and unhelpful.

11/6/24 – To the brilliant people saying the Harris Walz campaign shouldn’t have told voters that a certain evil person is a fascist. Campaign strategy is not our thing. We are in the business of telling the truth as we see it, and that is the truth. We have a moral obligation to warn people of where things are heading. We care about all of our fellow Americans, and we are not going to withhold highly important information for some cynical political calculation. The Democratic Party made numerous mistakes, and once decisions have been made, you have to make the best of them to try to win the election against someone who is entirely unfit for the presidency. There are limits to this though. One of those red lines is withholding information about the dangers the other candidate poses. If the correct campaign strategy were to withhold this information, we still would have focused on it. Also, others can dissect the data, but from the exit polls, that message (protecting democracy) turned out her voters. It just wasn’t enough to convince the other voters who prioritized other things. You could sense that the Democrats were losing this battle, especially with certain segments of the electorate, if you paid any attention to voter sentiment, which the Democratic Party is really good at not doing.

11/6/24 – By the way, if your takeaway from this is, we really should have pandered more to progressives, you really are f—king stupid, and there is no help for you or the Democratic Party. I became an Independent because it refused to have any form of primary, effectively giving its voters the middle finger. Well, the country has given the Democratic Party the middle finger now, hasn’t it.

11/6/24 – This was a foolish decision for those who voted for a certain evil person. However, the Democratic Party and the liberals were not listening to the people. We told you this numerous times, in numerous ways. When moderates and centrists are telling you that your policies are liberal excess and that you should have a primary, and things like that, you really should listen. In any case, you might want to create a plan to leave. It will get that bad…. Or you can stay and fight. It’s obviously a personal choice. Don’t feel bad. You did what you could. The country might not make it, but God is always with us wherever we end up. God loves you. Keep the faith.

11/6/24 – Remember this article. It came out yesterday morning. It infuriated us, but we didn’t have a chance to respond to it, this line in particular: “Then there was the crowd demanding an ‘open process’ to pick the nominee once Biden stepped down. The idea was daft from the start.” We were one of the “daft” ones. We’re not going to say anything more about it because that would be cruel. It is what it is.
Ignoring bad advice is a key to winning

11/5/24 – The Democrats will likely lose the presidential race. It was going to be a very tough election for them to win no matter the ticket, but their original sin was to not have an actual competitive primary and also to allow the progressive wing to have as much influence as it did. Please tell us how daft we are. Good night.

11/5/24 – We’re ready for this election to wrap up. Everybody is exhausted and stressed out. To everyone who did anything to help Harris Walz, thank you! To the people who did a lot, thank you very much! No matter the outcome, we can all hold our heads high. We did what we could, and we did our best. We want to thank, in particular, Kamala Harris. She was put in a tough spot. She worked hard, which is all we could ask. We are proud of her. She is a patriot. Anybody who voted for Harris Walz, on this point, is also a patriot. Let’s pray that God saves us from the evil one. God’s will be done.

11/4/24 – On this eve before election day, our closing argument is this. Sacrifice is sacred. Self-sabotage is stupid. We also understand that there are those who think if they vote for a certain person, they will “own the libs.” We ask you to reconsider the wisdom and the virtue of this goal, and the projection of events to come. Many liberals are well-educated, highly skilled people who can find work elsewhere or withhold their labor or taxes and bring the country to its knees. You only have to look at the brain drain that has occurred throughout the world as their best and brightest fled authoritarian regimes. However, if you’re poorly educated, as much of MAGA is, by definition, you’re more vulnerable to macroeconomic developments, and a certain evil person, who you likely intend to vote for, is more able to enslave you. You might think you’re voting to “own the libs,” when in reality, you’re voting to be owned. For this act of betrayal to your fellow Americans, to our country and to yourselves, you’ll have no one to blame but yourselves. We did our duty as your fellow Americans, and we told you the truth. You were warned.

11/4/24 – To all of the supporters and voters of a certain evil person, we care about you, and we did everything we could to help you see the light. You own your decision for the rest of your lives. Here are a few more articles that you can read and/or listen to and, if you haven’t voted already, we hope will convince you to vote for Harris Walz. They are from people who love our country, and who care about it and all Americans – including you.
Let’s not pretend Democrats don’t engage in culture war issues. They do, and it detracts from the economic issues on which their sense of morality is generally clear and correct. Wealthy Democrats are more likely to vote for higher taxes on higher income earners than Republicans of any class. Why would these Democrats do this, especially when some of their taxes go to the very people who want to “own the libs”? Because they value a society that takes care of its people.
America’s Class Politics Have Turned Upside Down
Why are our brave and patriotic members of the military, who risk their lives to protect us, not suckers and losers, as a certain evil person thinks of them? Because they value a society that protects its people.
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
Why are many conservatives unwilling to vote for a certain evil person, who has violated many if not all of their core tenets, and are even willing to vote for the presidential candidate of the opposing party? Because they value country over party.
How to Prevent the Worst from Happening
Sacrifice is sacred. Character takes on many forms, and a country is only as good as the character of its people.

11/3/24 – Democracy
They say democracy dies in darkness
Doublespeak with forked tongues in ancient rhymes
Beats into the hearts of misguided men
Foreign flags raised high, house roofbeams brought low
With broken glass, in hallowed halls there lies
Democracy defiled in broad daylight
From Cain and Abel to the end of time
Man cannot govern without divine light.

11/3/24 – The Second Coming

11/2/24 – Fascism
Turning and turning in the widening chasm
Americans cannot hear Americans
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold
Mere fascism is loosed upon the world
The flood of lies is loosed, and everywhere
The integrity of truth is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

11/2/24 – The American record continues: Clarence Thomas, traitor. Ginny Thomas, traitor. Samuel Alito, traitor.

11/2/24 – “Mr. Trump’s campaign rhetoric comes ever closer to a textbook definition of fascism, threatening to imprison political opponents and suggesting that unfriendly news outlets should have their broadcast licenses revoked. And as Ms. Cheney points out, the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this summer that Mr. Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for certain official actions he took while in office may embolden him to test his powers further than he did in his first term.”
Why is the presidential election so close? Here are five reasons.

11/2/24 – Could someone calculate the bills that a certain evil person hasn’t paid? For example, what is the total that his campaign hasn’t paid to the cities in which he holds rallies? Understand what this is. It’s the security and other personnel, ordinary residents, who are not being paid for their labor. Let’s read this again: They are not being paid for their labor. It is a form of wage theft. Do you know why he feels that this is his right? Because a certain person has no value for human beings. He thinks of himself as a king, and he thinks of the rest of us as his peasants and subjects.

11/2/24 – Some supposedly widely cited meme from 2015: “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.” Krugman says, “It’s hard to explain why this is perfect, but it is.” It is perfect, but it’s not hard to explain. It’s obvious. You just have to use your eyes, your ears and the thing that sits in your skull.
Leopards Are Telling You That They Will Eat YOUR Face

11/2/24 – Some more examples of self-sabotage. Reasons? See below. It’s the same reasons over and over and over again. When you don’t have your priorities in order, you’re f—ked. Please do have a nice day.
Revenge Voting Over Gaza Is a Mistake
Muslim American Support for Trump Is Self-Sabotage

11/1/24 – Save our democracy. We’ll fix everything else after that. We will. As God designed it, in the long-run, nature tends toward balance. Have some faith.

11/1/24 – Some more truths. “In the past, I might have written this essay asking fellow faithful Catholics to examine their consciences and figure out how we can best align our voting choices with our values, but instead, I will say only this: As a Catholic, I simply cannot in good conscience vote for Donald Trump…. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the annual number of abortions actually went up by 11 percent from 2020 to 2023, the first full year after Roe v. Wade was overturned. So rather than protecting the unborn, I would argue that this Supreme Court has done more to protect Mr. Trump.” Ouch. “Focusing on a person’s dignity and well-being through access to health care and education helps families thrive and has a trickle-down effect on the unborn. I call it ‘supply-side pro-life!’… This faith calls us to care for the marginalized and to uphold the dignity of every person. It calls us to work for a future that is rooted in love and justice. It calls us to insist on leadership that aligns with the values we hold sacred. While we are going to continue to advocate for the dignity of the unborn, let’s admit Ms. Harris has Catholic cred on other important issues. Advocating for policies that support working families, a big deal in Catholic social teaching? Check. Affordable health care? Check. Family leave? Yes, please. Her focus on environmental issues aligns nicely with Pope Francis’ call to care for our common home in ‘Laudato Si’. And on immigration, even though her primary campaign message on this has been cracking down on asylum claims, she’s been firm about providing humane policies and a pathway to citizenship, which the Catholic Church has long supported.”
Jeannie Gaffigan: Harris isn’t perfect. But as a Catholic and a mom, I cannot vote for Trump.

11/1/24 – The dominance of white liberals in the Democratic Party is ruining it. Those people are out there for many people, especially almost all minorities, not just black people, who are generally more socially conservative. Also, the simmering gender wars need to stop. It’s counterproductive. Men need women, and women need men. We have different strengths and weaknesses, and we complement each other as God designed it. The way to court men, black, white, whoever, is simply to tell them the truth. They have value as men, and we need them as they are. The problem is that white liberals have lost touch with some fundamental aspects of reality and human beings, such as gender differences are real and also helpful as they are. Instead of the culture wars crap, which are often the luxuries of bored well-to-do white people who desperately need attention to be focused on their “fragility” while other people are genuinely struggling to survive, there should be more focus on “kitchen table” issues, such as economic policies tailored to poor and lower middle-class people of all races. This is a moral imperative. The culture wars are not.

11/1/24 – Let’s speak some truths, shall we. Let’s start with something simple – self-sabotage is stupid. Anybody who is not a favored kleptocrat and votes for a certain evil person is effectively engaging in an act of personal self-destruction, not to mention destruction of our democracy. This is obvious on its face since once you lose free and fair elections, you become an oppressed slave. So, they can all justify their votes with some mirage of, “He cares about people like me…,” or “I was better under…,” but they will regret that inaccurate assessment once they realize that they got conned. The only thing that really matters is that the evil one is, well, evil, a fascist and will destroy our democracy. Everything else is moot. That’s the truth, no matter its political resonance. Some truths that must be spoken might not register because people are too focused on stupid s—t, but they still need to be spoken. More examples of self-sabotage are to come.
Of Course Black Men Are Drifting Toward Trump

11/28/23 – This needs to become a nation-wide policy. “‘What’s shocking to people often is not only how much we waste … but also the impact,’ said Emily Broad Leib, a Harvard University law professor and director of the school’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. ‘Food waste causes about 8% to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.’ Broad Leib says 20% of water in the U.S. is used to grow food ‘that we then just throw away, so we’re basically taking water and putting it directly into a landfill.’”
Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger: States recycle and donate food headed to landfills

11/28/23 – Wherever there is discrimination, in any shape or form, we must eliminate it.

11/28/23 – Europe has an antisemitism problem.

11/28/23 – The half-black Kamala Harris supported vetoing an anti-caste discrimination bill after wealthy upper-caste Hindus intervened to protect their interests. Why are wealthy, upper-caste Hindus opposing the bill? Well, why are racist white people opposing anti-discrimination bills? Why did Newsom veto the bill? The wealthy upper-caste Indians threatened to pull their funding and support. This is politics in America. It’s a disgusting game where revolting rich people use power and money to oppress others. They are all so corrupt.

11/26/23 – Happy Sunday! God bless the United States of America. Long live the Republic under God.

11/26/23 – Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment must be protected. It must not be watered down. It must be used now – against the evil one, trump, the most dangerous threat to the Republic in its history.

11/24/23 – In a Christian centering prayer practice, we try to connect with the divine, our God, with a focus on doing God’s will and releasing ourselves from our ego. A daily practice of connecting with the divine and other activities, such as a gratitude journal, promotes spirituality, a love of all creation, and mental health.
Giving thanks is good for you. Here’s how to make it a habit

11/24/23 – We should all try to incorporate features of the monastic life. It makes us all better. “Sannyasin Tillainathaswami, a monk who has lived here for more than a decade, said the ancient practice drew him in because it delves deep into the meaning of one’s existence.” Lovely sentiment, and beautiful temple!
How a massive all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple ended up on Hawaii’s lush Kauai Island

11/24/23 – India is a country that does not value or respect human life. The Hindu caste system treats some people as less than others and as slaves into familial perpetuity. It also treats women as objects to be abused, exploited and raped. India needs to value and respect all human life!

11/24/23 – White Evangelicals in America don’t love the Lord. They love their whiteness, power and money. They also love the evil one, Trump. They are agents of the devil. “It is a rather remarkable indictment of those who claim to be followers of Jesus that they would continue to show fealty to a man whose cruel ethic has always been antithetical to Jesus’s and becomes more so every day. Many of the same people who celebrate Christianity’s contributions to civilization—championing the belief that every human being has inherent rights and dignity, celebrating the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount and the parable of the Good Samaritan, and pointing to a ‘transcendent order of justice and hope that stands above politics,’ in the words of my late friend Michael Gerson—continue to stand foursquare behind a man who uses words that echo Mein Kampf.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Taking a stand for conscience, even long after one should have, is always the right thing to do.

‘When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric and promote dehumanizing images,’ the best-selling author Brené Brown has written, ‘we diminish our own humanity in the process.’ We are called to find the face of God in everyone we meet, she says, including those with whom we most deeply disagree. ‘When we desecrate their divinity, we desecrate our own, and we betray our humanity.’

Far too many Christians in America are not only betraying their humanity; they are betraying the Lord they claim to love and serve.”
Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?

11/23/23 – This and every Thanksgiving, we’re thankful for a planet that teems with life and for the God who created it. We pray that others are also thankful for this gift and will work to protect it.  

11/19/23 – God created all life – not just human beings. We need to respect all of his creation. Happy Sunday!

11/19/23 – People need to stop having children so our planet can recover. There are simply too many people.

11/18/23 – City slickers with their technology addiction have nothing on these people who live simple lives in rural America or around the world. These farmers and ranchers are connected to the land and to the food we eat. They deserve more respect and gratitude from the rest of us.

11/18/23 – Consumers should have choice in the matter also. Any rancher who puts this much care into their livestock and the environment should have the benefit of it being displayed prominently on the packaging.
Also, meat tastes good, but how can people actually digest this much beef? It’s harder on the digestive system than any other common meat product. If people would just eat smaller amounts, both they and the planet, which we need for our survival, would be healthier.
“That thinking eventually led her to the theories of regenerative ranching, which harken back to the 30 million bison that once thundered through the Plains states. Herds would seemingly annihilate grasslands by eating all the vegetation and pummeling the ground with their hoofs. The ground looked trashed, but those hoofs stimulated the soil, and the animals coated the ground with nitrogen-rich waste. Then, the animals left for months or even years, allowing grasses to grow and establish deep, sturdy roots.
Regenerative ranchers try to do roughly the same by moving cattle frequently. They’re kept in spaces where they can trample the grass and soil and then move on, allowing the land to recover for weeks or months. The goal is to produce more grass that will generate deep roots to take carbon from the air and permanently store it underground.”
Raising Better Beef

11/12/23 – From Christians to the Jewish people: thank you so much. We would have nothing if it weren’t for you. The faithful among us, the true followers of Jesus Christ, a Jew, will never abandon the Jewish people.

11/12/23 – “The Book of Job solves no problems. It gives no answers. It is a one long, poetic attempt to grapple with what ails many of us — all of us.” The Book of Job answers everything. We just don’t like the answer. The most important relationship we can have is with God. He gave us everything, and he asks us for everything that actually matters. We either love and trust him completely, no matter what happens to us, or we don’t. If we can love and trust him completely, we will have no more questions of him or of anything or anyone else. It is the choosing of our own free will his will. If we can do this, everything else becomes moot.

11/12/23 – If one reads one book in the Old Testament, let it be the Book of Job. It’s so illuminating! “The Book of Job is wildly disturbing — and that is the point.” “In effect, what God is saying is this: Even if you quote the Bible, you’re wrong. It’s completely subversive, and necessary.” “And Elie Wiesel himself asked for a volume of Talmud, so he could return to his Jewish learning. Like Job, he had suffered, but he was not about to turn away from God — he expected answers.” Wow!
What Elie Wiesel Taught Me About the Book of Job

11/11/23 – Maybe Hamas needs to stop using civilian Palestinians as human shields. Let’s face it. Like other terrorist organizations in the Middle East, the terrorist organization Hamas has no value for human life, including their own people.
The brutal calculus of war: Is the killing of civilians ever justified?

11/11/23 – Ukrainians, what a great people! Heart, heart, heart. It’s beautiful how people in the global veteran community help each other. We are put on this earth to make each other and all creation whole. We are not here to horde anything. Only inferior people with low intellects and morals give in to such base desires.
A program helps Ukraine’s veterans find sexual healing after the trauma of war

11/11/23 – The Department of Veterans Affairs is totally incompetent. Why are so many of our important institutions unable to function properly at the most basic levels?
Thousands of veterans face foreclosure and it’s not their fault. The VA could help

11/11/23 – Our service men and women sacrifice everything for the freedoms we take for granted. They are our frontline in protecting our democracy. We appreciate them so much!

11/11/23 – God bless our veterans. They are our best! We need to treat them much better than we do. Instead of allowing worthless rich people, who don’t sacrifice anything for our country, to horde wealth, we should redistribute their ill-begotten gains to veterans and others who make our country great. Happy Veterans Day!
Biden says America’s veterans are ‘the steel spine of this nation’ as he pays tribute at Arlington

11/11/23 – Many rich people, who have always been nuttier than the rest, have completely lost it, and in their psychosis, they flatter themselves by thinking this makes them smart. It doesn’t. Many rich people are not and have never been smart. They are greedy a—holes who have psychological problems, and they pose a danger to the rest of us. In their insanity, they are contributing to our destruction, who aren’t crazy like they are. We must create laws to prevent this extreme wealth and their threat to humankind.

11/11/23 – How to put this delicately? Peter Thiel, like many other Germans, is a f—king moronic nutcase. Also, Tolkien was a devout Catholic. Perhaps he could read Lord of the Rings again bearing that well-known fact in mind, and if has any brain cells in his skull, it might make more sense. When Thiel dies – and he will die – let’s hope he goes straight to hell.

11/11/23 – “He also seemed bewildered by the passions he arouses on the left. ‘I don’t think they should hate me this much,’ he said.” The left should hate him even more, not because of his political positions, but because he has no respect for God, for life, for anything in the order of the universe. Instead, he wants to be god.

11/11/23 – Being perpetually cynical, detached from everything and everyone, including reality, and having unrealistic expectations doesn’t make one cool or insulate them from others’ judgment. It just makes them crazy a—holes.

11/11/23 – Perfect description. “‘“Make America great again” was the most pessimistic slogan of any candidate in 100 years, because you were saying that we are no longer a great country,’ Thiel told me. ‘And that was a shocking slogan for a major presidential candidate.’ ‘Voting for Trump was like a not very articulate scream for help,’ Thiel told me. He fantasized that Trump’s election would somehow force a national reckoning. He believed somebody needed to tear things down—slash regulations, crush the administrative state—before the country could rebuild. He admits now that it was a bad bet.” It wasn’t a bad bet for Thiel because the evil one nearly destroyed our democracy. It was a bad bet for him because the nebular dystopian vision that he wears like a safety blanket around his infantile mind and absurd ego wasn’t realized according to his fluid and unrealistic expectations.
Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break from Democracy

11/7/23 – Governor Walz of MN should run for president. Biden should step aside.

11/7/23 – Biden’s ego might very well cost us our democracy.

11/7/23 – How is the evil one, trump, winning? How is ____ evil person winning? The world has gone mad. Yes, that likely includes you. Any other questions?

11/7/23 – To those who don’t believe God exists: Imagine today you find out that, in fact, you were wrong, and he does. Then what?

11/7/23 – Yes, the Jewish people are smart and successful, and the self-proclaimed superior white people can’t handle it. They can’t handle it when other people are objectively better than they are. It’s all about jealousy. That’s what it’s always been about. It’s not about Palestine. It’s not about justice. It’s not about righteousness. White people’s antisemitism on both the right and left is about ego. The left also hates God.

11/6/23 – Europe and much of the American left has an antisemitism problem.

11/6/23 – The evil one, trump, is unfit for any political office. That’s the truth.

11/6/23 – Almost everybody has lost it. They are detached from reality.

11/5/23 – Before we close out this sad and frustrating Sunday, please pray for the innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives lost. The world does not need any more hate, war or lies. It needs more love, compassion and truth. For us a human family to get through this dark period, we need to remember each other’s humanity and be honest with our past and who we are as a people. No side is more deserving of life than another. No side is more human than another. God made us all in his image.

11/5/23 – The left is getting played – again – because it’s stupid.

11/5/23 – It is entirely possible that Iran and other Middle Eastern countries, possibly even China and Russia, are behind this entire thing, funding Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations and even helping them plan these attacks. It is harder for these despicable regimes to maintain control of their people if their plight is getting international attention. If they create an international conflict, they can manufacture solidarity within the Islamic world, which doesn’t actually exist, and feign international outrage while they oppress and exploit their own people. It also distracts the world from these abuses, who will then focus on…well yes, of course, the Jewish people as the source of all of the world’s problems, the perpetual scapegoats.

11/5/23 – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, they are all Hebrew names. Why? Because they were all Hebrews, who became Israelites, Jews, you know the Jewish people who wrote their religious texts, the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament. They were not Christians, and they were not Muslims. These are the facts. The linguistics are part of the proof. None of them have names in Arabic, English or whatever other language because they were all Jews. It’s called history. It’s called linguistics. It’s called facts. Science. Deal with it.

11/5/23 – The only sane people left in this country are the Christian left. Happy Sunday!

11/5/23 – A Palestinian state should be created by the awful Muslim countries that do nothing but violate their citizens’ rights and that have rulers who don’t care about anything but money and power. They definitely don’t care about God or his creation. They should all contribute land or money to create a state for the Palestinian people.

11/5/23 – Jerusalem is a Hebrew name: Yerushalayim (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם‎). It is recorded in ancient Egyptian texts as well – 4,000 years ago, predating Islam by about 2,500 years. The Jewish people have been living on that land for millennia. It’s their land. People can say whatever they want. Show us a single piece of evidence that Islam existed as a religion before 610 AD.

11/4/23 – Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. There is absolutely no doubt that this is the case. It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks or says, not the Palestinians, not any Muslim country and especially not the loony left. It is absurd that the youngest of the Abrahamic religions thinks they can claim it as their own. Are they delusional? Do they live in some fiction? Even Christians don’t do that, and Christianity precedes Islam by over half a millennium. Go read the Bible – the Hebrew Bible, the one Christians call the Old Testament (because it’s really old). Get a grip on reality. You know actual f—king history, not the crazy stories you’ve made up in your brain.

11/4/23 – One of the temptations in a period such as this is to make seemingly neutral, anodyne statements. To say that one is on the side of peace in Russia’s war against Ukraine is an insult to the Ukrainian people who are fighting against evil and genocide. To be on the side of peace is to be on the side of Ukraine.

In the Israel-Hamas war, the same rules apply. If an organization chooses to engage in terrorist acts against a people, in this case, the state of Israel, the side of peace is the side of Israel. The confusion lies in equating Hamas with the Palestinian people. Are all Muslims the terrorists who attacked us, Americans, on 9/11? Are all Muslims the terrorists who carry out terrorist attacks throughout the world: Europe, Africa and Asia? How is this fair to Muslims, the vast majority of whom simply want to live in peace and have been the primary victims of the evil Islamic regimes that govern them?

Israel and the Jewish people have a right to exist and to their own state. There will be no compromise on this point. Muslims throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East, who have been suffering for decades under brutal regimes that have no value for their humanity also have a right to exist. A Palestinian state is a political discussion that needs to be had, but let us not deceive ourselves into thinking this is the primary problem in that region. It definitely is not.

People need to get their heads on straight and stops associating terrorists with broader groups to which they don’t belong. Also, if one doesn’t agree with Netanyahu, which is entirely fair game, or the Israeli strategy to deal with Hamas, then make those arguments. Stop with simplistic associations based on cults/tribes/political identities and with meaningless statements that prevent intellectual and moral clarity.

11/30/22 – The American people need to stop glorifying rich, stupid a—holes and start demanding better compensation. The US is the most anti-labor country in the western world, and that’s one of the key reasons we have so many problems. “The idea that a job is fundamentally a generous favor granted to you by your boss is woven deeply into American law and culture, and one president can’t unwind it completely. But Biden could give voice to the Americans who know there’s something deeply wrong with how we think about work.” (Also, the shallow, sell-out Boomers are the worst generation in recent American history.)
Biden is averting a railroad strike but missing an opportunity

11/30/22 – “It’s profit over people in America, and it’s very frustrating.” We must bring an end to the plutocracy.
Railway union organizer has a message for Biden

11/30/22 – So true! If the evil one, Trump, becomes the Republican nominee again (God-forbid), they will all fall behind him. “What’s really going on here is something once explained to me (in a different context) by a China-watcher: ‘They say that an official who has done wrong will lose power. But what really happens is that an official who loses power will be accused of doing wrong.’” They are just trying to get rid of him because they think he’s a political loser not because they are outraged by any of his outrageous actions. The GOP is morally bankrupt.
A Ploy, Not a Principle

11/30/22 – Absolutely! “Both the impulse and the means [to steal an election] remain alive. That should be cause for action. Trump’s brazen effort to overturn U.S. democracy has created fleeting and unusual bipartisan urgency for [ECA] reform. It would be the height of folly to let that slip away.”
New Trumpist threats in Arizona make electoral college reform urgent

11/29/22 – What the f—k?
Russia’s Wagner Group recruits prisoners in Africa to fight against Ukraine

11/29/22 – Of course, the evil monster Hitler used a sacred symbol for the profane. The Nazis also called themselves, “Aryans,” even though that term has been used to describe the Aryans (basically Persians) who invaded India. Don’t let Hitler destroy a religious symbol as he tried to destroy a religious people, the Jewish people. Don’t let him win anything. “‘You cannot call it a symbol of evil or (deny) other facts that have existed for hundreds [thousands, actually] of years, just because of Hitler,’ he said…. Jain wishes people would differentiate between their symbol of peace and Hitler’s swastika just as they do with the hateful burning cross symbol and Christianity’s sacred crucifix.”
Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler

11/29/22 – Wow, are these crazy people dumb! “If votes from this Republican stronghold somehow went uncounted, it could flip two races to Democrats.”
Rural Arizona county delays certifying midterm results as election disputes persist

11/28/22 – Fully agree! The West needs to give a full-throated defense of and material support to the Iranian protesters. “Now the talks are widely regarded as dead — and rightly so. Democratic leaders need to rethink their relationship with a barbaric regime that has no compunction about killing its own citizens. For too long, rather than placing the emphasis on Iranians’ human rights, the West has naively prioritized short-term goals of containing the Islamic republic’s nuclear ambitions through diplomacy.”
The West is finally waking up to the real problem in Iran

11/28/22 – Sanity is saving the Democrats and democracy.
Suburbanites are saving the Democrats in Georgia — and elsewhere

11/27/22 – Happy Advent! “China might not immediately come to mind when you think of Advent, but roughly 5.1% of the population of 1.41 billion is Christian. Chinese Christians light up their homes with colorful paper lanterns during Advent, and you might find red paper pagodas cut out and placed in windows. They follow many of the traditions that were brought by Western missionaries. An emerging Christmas tradition is the giving of apples, sometimes sold in stores wrapped in colored paper.”
What is Advent? And what traditions do people follow worldwide?

11/27/22 – Voter: What are you for? GOP: We’re for lower taxes for the rich, taking away your rights, and authoritarianism. Voting should be easy because that’s how democracies should work. Republicans want to suppress the vote because they know that when the people speak, it won’t be for this. “Griffin, a Republican, said she is concerned that the extra day will help Democrats. ‘I’m afraid it will. It is a fear, and Sunday also, because then they can bus the church people,’ she said.” If you’re afraid of the people’s voice, then your party and candidates have a problem. “‘We’ll do it again and again and again,’ said Robert Schofer, a Warnock supporter from Kennesaw. ‘And again.’” Vote blue Georgia, and shut out the crazy!
Early voters in Georgia head to the polls Saturday for Senate runoff

11/27/22 – Why are so many “conservatives” corrupt? SupremeKKKourt “Americans want the court to be above partisan politics…, but a growing number of voters think that the court is a partisan institution. Now, it seems the justices are not just delivering policy wins to one side of the aisle but have developed inside relationships with conservative organizations…. (The Code of Conduct for United States Judges provides ethical guidance for lower court judges but specifically does not cover Supreme Court justices.) The court seems convinced that it can continue on its current trajectory no matter how unhappy Americans are…[which] would be dangerous for American democracy.” Supreme Court justices should also be required to follow the Code of Conduct.
Opinion: Bombshell report deals another blow to the Supreme Court’s reputation

11/27/22 – Russia’s terror strategy is backfiring. Instead of reversing course, it’s doubling or tripling down. Genius. “But hope, resilience and defiance? Kyiv has all those in abundance. And perhaps more so now than at any time since Russia invaded Ukraine nine months ago…. ‘Anger turned into donations to charities to defeat the enemy as soon as possible,’ she says. ‘I plan to stay in Kyiv, work, study and donate to the armed forces.’… ‘The birth of a girl,’ says Mandrygol, ‘brings us peace and victory.’”
Hardship and hope: Winter, missile storms show Kyiv’s mettle

Never underestimate a group of people this tough.
Bombed, not beaten: Ukraine’s capital flips to survival mode

“He scoffed at Moscow’s attempts to intimidate Ukrainian civilians, saying that was the Russian military’s only option after a string of battlefield setbacks. ‘Either energy terror, or artillery terror, or missile terror — that’s all that Russia has dwindled to under its current leaders,’ Zelenskyy said.” Ukraine. Respect.
Europe scrambles to help Ukraine keep the heat and lights on

11/26/22 – Holodomor, 90th Anniversary “On Nov. 26, amid Russia’s war, Ukraine commemorated the victims of another tragedy: Holodomor, a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933.

Holodomor was imposed on Ukrainians, primarily Ukrainian villagers, by the Moscow-based Soviet authorities led by dictator Joseph Stalin. Ukraine has been fighting to get Holodomor recognized globally as an act of genocide against Ukrainians.

‘Ukraine has gone through one genocide,’ President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address on Nov. 26. ‘And today we are doing everything possible and impossible to stop Russia’s yet another genocidal policy – although a new one, it is so similar to the one that killed millions of people in the 20th century.'”

11/26/22 – White people in particular are drawn to atheism because they love worshipping themselves.

11/26/22 – If there’s one group of people you can count on to do the wrong thing, it’s Germans. They are the worst of the worst.
Too many German voters are gravitating to the political extremes

11/26/22 – No matter how the disgraceful Ilhan Omar, who is not a congresswoman but an opportunist with no principles or values, votes, the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians was also a genocide.

11/26/22 – Academic opinion can go f—k itself. Pope Francis is right. The Holodomor was a genocide. Russia’s current terrorism is also a genocide. “Saturday [today] marks the 90th anniversary of the start of the famine, which Ukraine commemorates every fourth Saturday of November with a Day of Memory.” Pray for Ukraine. Слава Україні
Pope links plight of Ukrainians today to Stalin’s ‘genocide’

11/25/22 – The plutocrats are an abomination.

11/25/22 – The evil one, Trump, needs to be treated like everyone else. Lock him up.
Legal experts in new report conclude there’s a ‘strong basis’ to charge Trump

11/25/22 – It’s just a matter of time before Elon Musk’s selfishness and irresponsibility gets someone killed if it hasn’t already.

11/25/22 – What kind of an ally is this? “He said that the United States has an ‘ethical responsibility to protect the Kurds from being ethnically cleansed from this region.’ He urged U.S. officials to pressure Turkey to de-escalate its attacks before there is a disaster.” The US absolutely has an obligation to protect the Kurds. Do your jobs, Gen. Mark A. Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, President Biden!
Turkey is playing with fire in northern Syria

11/25/22 – “Now a holiday has no connection with using a man either by beating or feeding him. When you give a man a holiday you give him back his body and soul.” G.K. Chesterton

11/24/22 – We’re thankful for freedom, democracy, and always and above all else, God. Happy Thanksgiving!

11/23/22 – “The French historian Ernest Renan said a nation is a ‘daily plebiscite.’ Ukrainians cast their votes daily by putting their lives in mortal peril. It does not diminish their individual heroism to note that they are well led. ‘In no field of man’s activities,’ Churchill wrote, ‘is the tendency to mass effects and the suppression of the individual more evident than in modern war.’ On this day, give thanks that you have lived to be reminded by Zelensky that some pugnacious individualism is magnificently resistant to suppression.”
Be thankful for the pugnacious Zelensky’s magnificent resistance to suppression

11/22/22 – “Musk’s ‘decisions over the last month have been erratic and alarming, but this decision is dangerous and a threat to American democracy,’ tweeted Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. ‘We need to ask — is it time for Twitter to go?’” Yes.
Advertisers are dropping Twitter. Musk can’t afford to lose any more.

11/21/22 – DeSantis is not as evil as the evil one, but DeSantis is an autocratic monster. This is also the state of the GOP. “DeSantis’s contempt for dissent and his crackdown on critics should not be discounted. This is the profile of a constitutional ignoramus, a bully and a strongman. Voters should be forewarned.”
Beware, DeSantis is as much a threat to America as Trump

11/21/22 – It wasn’t the racism, sexism, religious bigotry, extortion, treason, traitorousness, evilness, incitement of insurrection, calling on other politicians to be murdered, authoritarianism, or attack on our democracy. It was that he has been losing. All else equal, if he hadn’t been losing, Paul Ryan and other Republicans would still support the evil one, Trump. This is the state of the GOP.
Paul Ryan invents a new category of anti-Trumpism

11/20/22 – Until it touches the Russians personally, they don’t care. “Sokolova said that the relatives of mobilized men ‘realize what is going on but people whose relatives were not mobilized see the world through rose-colored glasses. They have no idea what’s going on and they’re not interested.’”
And even when it touches them, they still believe the lies. This is MAGA. “She said she fears for her husband’s life but said she does not blame Putin, ‘because he is a smart person.’ ‘We are absolutely confused, at a loss and we feel abandoned,’ she said. ‘We’re crying from morning till night.’”
Angry families say Russian conscripts thrown to front line unprepared

11/20/22 – Don’t be deceived by the lies. (See Josh Hawley et al.) The GOP wants to enslave American workers and undermine the power of labor and the labor movement.
How the pandemic ended America’s bad romance with work

11/20/22 – Democracy is threatened by MAGA and the GOP. It is Americans’ civic obligation to step up and save it.