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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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People.
They’ll lose their minds over a delayed train, snap over a slow barista. Let a spilled coffee ruin their day.
But when it comes to the big stuff, staying in the wrong job, letting their dreams die quietly. Wasting years on auto pilot.
Nothing. No urgency. No reaction.
We treat small problems like emergencies and the real emergencies as background noise.
Why do we do that?
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
This scandal merely shows just how cynical is the membership of the GOP, to use such emotionally laden issues to stir up public outrage, while secretly practicing a lifestyle that they explicitly condemn. How they can look at themselves in the mirror every day is a mystery.
It's not a mystery at all how these " 'Christian conservative' in public, super kinky in private" Republicans look at themselves in the mirror and sleep (with various companions of various sexual persuasions) at night. They are all amoral, cynical, sociopathic opportunists.
I also think they make no association whatsoever between their own lifestyle and behavior in their private lives, and what they stoutly trumpet, and attempt to impose on others, in public. I think they view their public political stances and 'moral' outrage as just that: stances that are purely marketing, designed to manipulate the voting/buying public to give them more power, influence, and opportunities to grift by choosing their political 'product'--themselves or their party or their doctrin…
I'm not sure I can agree they're ALL that innocent. a few might be so unconscious they don't even SEE the obvious contradictions.
but christ, they sure can COMPARTMENTALIZE.
I certainly didn't intend to imply that any of them are innocent.
I meant innocent about the fact that their behavior contradicts their expressed "values."
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