I’m sure this will give the Bible-thumpers and stone-throwers fits, and they’ll double down on predictions of my scalding, torturous eternity, but I think me and Jesus are cool.
John Pavlovitz
We all need to stop trying to convince ourselves Trump's supporters have been fooled or manipulated by him, and admit that in far too many ways, they are him.
It was that moment a decade ago, watching that sickening video, feeling that certainty about his political fate, and soon feeling the gut punch of being wrong.
What if we no longer desire relational or physical proximity to people who have allowed our nation to be handed over to such a cancerous malevolence, and who did so with perverse joy and unrepentant cruelty?
The figurehead of the MAGA movement is an incredibly lonely human being who, by all accounts, lacks a single healthy relationship.
Right now, the task is simple: put aside our squabbling, throw out both-siding nonsense, ignore their gaslighting desperation, toss hopelessness into the toilet, and make our voices heard—every single one of us.
We need to show up now: in numbers that cannot be manipulated, in a show of strength and resolve that is simply unalterable, in a moment so immune from pollution that it will be undeniable.
Sure all those poor Canadians your guy stuck it to feel truly defeated, as they retreat to their peaceful nation where they have affordable groceries, excellent healthcare, a living wage...
Among the countless roles and titles at which Dolly Parton has so excelled, her single greatest performance was as a human being.
Conservative Christians neglected to predict the actual source of the great decimation they constantly warn about, and all they had to do was look in the mirror.
White evangelicals have misappropriated Jesus's likeness, hijacked his name, and weaponized his message into something grotesque and oppressive—and it is rightfully repelling good people.
Anthony Fauci is everything Donald Trump, his perpetually uninformed base, and sociopathic GOP politicians like Stephen Miller, Rand Paul, and Mike Johnson despise.
Regardless of what happens in the future what has been revealed about us is going to remain, and we’re going to have to deal with the unmasked, unearthed, illuminated hatred that we are this violently afflicted with.
Republicans are evil, and they’re treasonous, but they’re not stupid. They’re aware that Donald Trump’s approval rating is in the lowest depths of the toilet of history.
Fascists only win when good people give up; when they become too tired to push back, when apathy and hopelessness snuff out the spark inside them.
The kind of wealth and influence Lindsey Graham had access to probably seemed well worth the moral compromises and severed ties.
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