YES!!! I agree 100% with what you wrote and in my mind we are being confronted with pure evil. I was happily doing my 7th decade in a seniors' community with my 2 cats. I don't have much but I don't need much. I'm always grateful that I have enough. Gotta feed the squirrels and birds and kitties and donate to the needy in my community. I use only 1 tank of gas per month. My big worry has been the environment ... I won't even get started on losing hope for that. Now I see this evil unveiling itself daily to the whole globe and it scares me to the same point that an earlier commenter wrote ... I don't feel anymore that I want to live to a ripe old age. I'm very frightened and fear is the root of my 'eye for an eye' anger in a previous comment. I don't want fear or anger inside me. Global warming already had me way outside of my comfort zone. What you wrote in this essay, Mary, is what I see, think and feel and there are no guarantees that the future will be even tolerable. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men look on and do nothing" (Edmund Burke and, earlier, John Stuart Mill)
If there is a hell Sqeaker Mike Johnson is going to be surprised by the reception he gets. His special hell will be an eternity sitting with Stephen the Miller and Corporal Judy Vance whose only talking point will be the meaning of masculinity deep into eternity. Their rocking chairs will be without rockers and made of hot aluminum.
Well, now we are talking about the power of the female. Dr. Roy, in your professional opinion, if we had a female president and female SecDef, would we be in this hot mess? Ok, I'll tell you what I think: no fn way. We would be feeding our kids, and ministering to the children in Africa. We would be making sure the elderly are comfortable. We would have universal health care that does not include insurance companies. We would create a border policy that is humane and intelligent. We would have immigration laws that are humane and intelligent. We would make sure that women have the right to choose what they do with their bodies. We would have funds to help them with those things. We would be paying attention to the harm done by social media to our children and the future harm to be done by AI, to everybody by techbros. We would create regulation and we would make sure our kids are safe when on the phone. AND we would make billionaires pay for their fair share in taxes. Et cetera. Our secretary of state would be female.
Women hold up half the world and when we are disabled, the world is in a shitty place. Men have had their eternal time to f it up. Women must get in and fix the mess.
If it's not obvious by now, the two of them are both Algolagniacs. They derive sexual pleasure from inflicting violence on others. I think it goes beyond simple sadism. I also think it's them compensating for tiny mushrooms.
Do you think there will ever come a morning when one wakes up and doesn't immediately ask oneself what is the latest news - what senseless corrupt idiocy he has performed during the night that will have repercussions all over the world? I really feel that I can't concentrate on anything else in case I miss something that will turn out to be vitally important.
Trump-Miller work to put the ‘white’ in White Christian Nationalism via whichever sycophant is directing the buffoons at ICE and Boarder Patrol.
Hegseth has been tapped for the ‘christian’ piece of White Christian Nationalism. The fact that his vehicle of delivery is the deadliest armed forces in the history of the world is downright terrifying.
And in the end, after all is said and done, when this regime is struck down and the reckoning begins, Hegseth’s legacy will be a brand new generation of extremists fuelled by a different religion on the other side of the world. And the cycle of war and terror and destruction and hatred and violence just perpetuates.
I'm sorry but that picture of trained seal Hegseth with his tattoos made me want to gag on my first cup of Yorkshire Gold this morning.
As a practicing Episcopalian, I have to affirm that this message of violence and domination is entirely contradictory to Christ's life, words and being. These Christian nationalists never quote the "love your enemies, bless those who persecute you" line from the Sermon on the Mount. They don't demand that the Beatitudes be posted in public places.
The faith community in Portland is gathering on the afternoon of Palm Sunday (March 29) to protest Christian Nationalism. I will try to be there.
Trump and hogs breath are the frontmen for a deeper and dangerous group of so-called Christians who use god and Jesus to cloak themselves and their white robes. The pointy hats are faint outlines but you can see them if you squint. They have taken the rhetoric and parables from the Bible and twisted it to their own meanings. We know what they want. The question is, is there the will to stop them? If we fight fire with fire, do Dems need to put god and Jesus on our lawn signs? Will we succumb to their all-god, all-the-time form of government?
I grew up adjacent to the Reformed Dominion Theology Pete's Pastor evangelizes. It is positively post-millinarian, triumphant even. We must stop it, for everything we love about civilization's sake.
I think these photos of Hegseth combined with his vicious and gleeful press comments about the bombing and death as though we were in the era of the Crusades and gladiators truly terrify me
That video said nothing NEW that most of us haven't figured out, but it said it with amazing POWER. And that contrasts two kinds of power: the power to destroy and the power to persuade. Our "leaders" have totally abandoned the second in favor of the first; the art of the deal now the art of the steal. Line pockets and drool with what I have elsewhere called an Orbanism.
Oh Holy Hell.
YES!!! I agree 100% with what you wrote and in my mind we are being confronted with pure evil. I was happily doing my 7th decade in a seniors' community with my 2 cats. I don't have much but I don't need much. I'm always grateful that I have enough. Gotta feed the squirrels and birds and kitties and donate to the needy in my community. I use only 1 tank of gas per month. My big worry has been the environment ... I won't even get started on losing hope for that. Now I see this evil unveiling itself daily to the whole globe and it scares me to the same point that an earlier commenter wrote ... I don't feel anymore that I want to live to a ripe old age. I'm very frightened and fear is the root of my 'eye for an eye' anger in a previous comment. I don't want fear or anger inside me. Global warming already had me way outside of my comfort zone. What you wrote in this essay, Mary, is what I see, think and feel and there are no guarantees that the future will be even tolerable. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men look on and do nothing" (Edmund Burke and, earlier, John Stuart Mill)
“Look on and do nothing” that’s an accurate assessment of our legislative majority these days.
If there is a hell Sqeaker Mike Johnson is going to be surprised by the reception he gets. His special hell will be an eternity sitting with Stephen the Miller and Corporal Judy Vance whose only talking point will be the meaning of masculinity deep into eternity. Their rocking chairs will be without rockers and made of hot aluminum.
I totally agree with you! I’m scared as Shit we’ve gone to far and I need to move out of this country!
Canada welcomes all newcomers.🇨🇦💙
Brilliant! For me, reading your response was like looking in the mirror, also in my 7th decade. Thank you.
Leave it to Hegseth to invoke Jesus and the New Crusade. Yeah, that'll help...
If you have 500,000 pounds bombs, you are God.
The Indian goddess of destruction, Kali.
Well, now we are talking about the power of the female. Dr. Roy, in your professional opinion, if we had a female president and female SecDef, would we be in this hot mess? Ok, I'll tell you what I think: no fn way. We would be feeding our kids, and ministering to the children in Africa. We would be making sure the elderly are comfortable. We would have universal health care that does not include insurance companies. We would create a border policy that is humane and intelligent. We would have immigration laws that are humane and intelligent. We would make sure that women have the right to choose what they do with their bodies. We would have funds to help them with those things. We would be paying attention to the harm done by social media to our children and the future harm to be done by AI, to everybody by techbros. We would create regulation and we would make sure our kids are safe when on the phone. AND we would make billionaires pay for their fair share in taxes. Et cetera. Our secretary of state would be female.
Women hold up half the world and when we are disabled, the world is in a shitty place. Men have had their eternal time to f it up. Women must get in and fix the mess.
Kali, where are you?
If it's not obvious by now, the two of them are both Algolagniacs. They derive sexual pleasure from inflicting violence on others. I think it goes beyond simple sadism. I also think it's them compensating for tiny mushrooms.
Do you think there will ever come a morning when one wakes up and doesn't immediately ask oneself what is the latest news - what senseless corrupt idiocy he has performed during the night that will have repercussions all over the world? I really feel that I can't concentrate on anything else in case I miss something that will turn out to be vitally important.
I also feel this way and I’m in Canada! 💙🇨🇦
All the best fascist governments divide labour.
Trump-Miller work to put the ‘white’ in White Christian Nationalism via whichever sycophant is directing the buffoons at ICE and Boarder Patrol.
Hegseth has been tapped for the ‘christian’ piece of White Christian Nationalism. The fact that his vehicle of delivery is the deadliest armed forces in the history of the world is downright terrifying.
And in the end, after all is said and done, when this regime is struck down and the reckoning begins, Hegseth’s legacy will be a brand new generation of extremists fuelled by a different religion on the other side of the world. And the cycle of war and terror and destruction and hatred and violence just perpetuates.
I'm sorry but that picture of trained seal Hegseth with his tattoos made me want to gag on my first cup of Yorkshire Gold this morning.
As a practicing Episcopalian, I have to affirm that this message of violence and domination is entirely contradictory to Christ's life, words and being. These Christian nationalists never quote the "love your enemies, bless those who persecute you" line from the Sermon on the Mount. They don't demand that the Beatitudes be posted in public places.
The faith community in Portland is gathering on the afternoon of Palm Sunday (March 29) to protest Christian Nationalism. I will try to be there.
Trump and hogs breath are the frontmen for a deeper and dangerous group of so-called Christians who use god and Jesus to cloak themselves and their white robes. The pointy hats are faint outlines but you can see them if you squint. They have taken the rhetoric and parables from the Bible and twisted it to their own meanings. We know what they want. The question is, is there the will to stop them? If we fight fire with fire, do Dems need to put god and Jesus on our lawn signs? Will we succumb to their all-god, all-the-time form of government?
The Epstein Crusade
"pluralism becomes decadence"... thank you. I needed that turn of phrase in a dozen conversations I'm having right now.
I grew up adjacent to the Reformed Dominion Theology Pete's Pastor evangelizes. It is positively post-millinarian, triumphant even. We must stop it, for everything we love about civilization's sake.
When it all washes out everyone will have to live with the results.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/pete-hegseth-200-billion-war-funding-request?cid=eml_mda_20260322&user_email=6f21a5d4e7fb0224a705568c6116cd7fb79fce30a97b06813b41e9f96c31e6af
I think these photos of Hegseth combined with his vicious and gleeful press comments about the bombing and death as though we were in the era of the Crusades and gladiators truly terrify me
That video said nothing NEW that most of us haven't figured out, but it said it with amazing POWER. And that contrasts two kinds of power: the power to destroy and the power to persuade. Our "leaders" have totally abandoned the second in favor of the first; the art of the deal now the art of the steal. Line pockets and drool with what I have elsewhere called an Orbanism.
It is so scary, especially when MSM treats it as normal.