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Steve Bannon is openly campaigning to destroy the American constitution. Why does anyone from MAGA pretend otherwise? They despise this country and all it stands for:
"President Trump is going to run for a 3rd term and President Trump is going to be elected again. On the afternoon of January 20th of 2029. He's going to be President of the United States."
That’s a treasonous sentiment.
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Super busy week! Drove out to Dallas to pick up my son’s friends so they could all go on a seminary visit from our diocese.
We’re so close paying off the big family van, but we started thinking about tariffs driving up the cost of cars and having two vehicles over 100,000 miles probably isn’t smart with all these kids. So I spent all day Friday negotiating to afford a small SUV (with the money we’ll save shortly once the van note is paid) so we at least have something we can use fo…
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I am planning to write about the reports suggesting that the Roman Catholic Church is surpassing the Anglican Church in England. I have a few ideas on why this may be happening, but I would love to hear from Substackers and others. Why do you think Anglicanism is losing membership in England?
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I'm reminded of the scene in 1984 where Winston and Julia hear a woman singing a machine-made song while hanging laundry. The song itself is soulless, but the woman is singing it without self-consciousness and imbues it with humanity anyway.
It's not that I think that the machine-song isn't a demeaning of the art it fed on, but I think when you feed anything through a human it came become art again. The machines are going to make a lot more goo and slop, but I don't worry about the human capacity -- compulsion even -- for turning whatever they encounter into something meaningful again.
