Now we have an opportunity to bring Americans together, to embrace a collective and inclusive “us,” and to repudiate hate and “othering” as a political strategy.
When religious liberty is used as justification for discrimination or when it impedes the daily lives of those who don't share our convictions, we move from merely having freedom, we become a theocracy.
After four days, it was clear as day to any rational person, that Democrats stand up for Democracy. They have taken back "freedom," "patriotism" and the flag back from those who wrapped themselves in those ideals while attacking them.
What we are seeing directed at Gus Walz isn’t a mystery. It is the rotten, putrid fruit of generations of conservative toxic masculinity resulting in men who were never emotionally mature enough to show or receive love.
Trump proved the first time around that laws meant little to him. His recitation of the Presidential Oath of Office was just air passing over his vocal chords. If we are dumb enough as a nation to give him another chance, all bets are off.
Democrats just destroyed the GOP at the ballot box again Tuesday night, and are licking their chops to finish the job behind Kamala Harris in November.
Vance filled his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" with selections from the greatest hits of “poornography”—violence, drugs, sex, obscenity and filth. But Vance himself was never actually impoverished.
It’s time to turn the page on the dusty, antiquated sexism-disguised-as-strength that Trump represents and to reject the Evangelical/Republican/MAGA toxic masculinity once-and-for-all.
Contestants in the Weird Olympics will be scored on the shortness of time they hold ideological positions, a position’s outlandishness and the aesthetics of its total illogicality. Judges give bonus scores for bald-faced lying.