Underlying Conservative opposition to universal healthcare is ultimately selfishness: the belief that they are forever living in scarcity, that someone else’s gain must automatically be their loss.
John Pavlovitz
Republicans could have single-handedly emancipated this nation from a ten-year Constitutional crisis, but they chose to bend the knee, kiss the ring, and give a middle finger to our forbears and to the entire planet.
MAGAs never tire of saying they love God and love Country, but those are hollow declarations that exist only in theory and their Facebook bios.
We usually try to survive relational challenges and family gatherings during the holidays by picking one of three less-than-ideal options.
Every tiny concession paves the way for the next, and each capitulation preps the ground. With each passing moment, shame subsides, guilt slowly evaporates, and the abhorrent begins to feel normal.
"For Caucasian God did not so love the world, He so loved America—so much so, that he sent White Jesus to build walls, take away health insurance, ignore climate change, protect sexual predators, and make the one percent richer."
We are not cooked unless we who are here stop feeling and caring and working and fighting.
For decent, faithful, patriotic human beings who call this place home and who want to leave this place more compassionate and just than they found it, today is No Kings Day.
The current state of Republicans: no words are too repugnant, no violence is beyond the pale, and everything is excusable, as long as you keep the power you need to dismantle democracy.
We’re anti-fascist because fascism is a mortal threat to free speech, to freedom of expression, to body autonomy, to cultural diversity, to life, liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.
Bad Bunny is the literal embodiment of the American Dream that the GOP has spent decades waving in our faces. So, what’s the problem?
Congratulations, Trump supporters, you’ve thoroughly and completely owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability and prosperity.
MAGA Americans do love the Bible…. well, not reading it or studying it or learning its history or understanding its cultural context, or doing much of what it says...
Conservative Christians need to stop pretending Charlie Kirk was doing God’s work here, because his actual words and the actual words of Jesus are compelling testimony that he wasn’t.
Maybe it is time for conservatives to realize the irony of desperately seeking the kindness of empathy that they work tirelessly to withhold from others, a gentleness and decency they so often turn into a punchline.
America First, flag-waving alleged patriots who claim to believe in Law and Order and to treasure women’s rights are violating these survivors a second time.
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