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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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Happy Mother's Day to the world's best Mom - and all the amazing mothers out there who shape this world for the better, one life at a time!
They want me arrested.
They want me silenced.
I'm not going anywhere.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
I cannot express how much I admire and respect this man. I supported him for president back in 2019 and will support him for ANY elected office in the future. He’s the real deal 💙💙
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A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by Senator Chris Murphy
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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
"And yet, that recent CNN/SSRS poll found that 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents think believing that Trump won the 2020 election is important to their identity as Republicans." Wow. So most Republicans base their identity on a lie. It has been proven over and over that there was no election fraud. Such a foundation is built of sand and cannot last. At least we hope so. The most challenging problem with gullible Republicans (and all of us, really) is their inability …
As the Jesuits taught me 60 years ago, every argument or debate has to have a foundation based on truth, anything else is built on sand, they were the most intellectually challenging people I have ever known. To have today, one of our 2 political parties, build the foundation of the argument for their primacy based on a demonstrable lie is unfathomable. Mark Twain seems to have gotten it right. God help us.
Yes, But you have to look at the reasons why they want to believe the lies. They have reasons for that regardless. That, to me, is the crux of the problem.
Anger is addictive. This addiction has been deliberately fed by Fox News, social media, talk radio and now our politicians.
If the death of their loved ones can’t snap them out of it, I don’t know what can.
I would add hate to the mix. Anger and hate are highly addictive. Humans generally don't like to examine their own beliefs & actions to make positive changes. It is far easier to blame someone else - a specific person or groups like immigrants, people of color, women, the poor, etc. Blame & anger turn into hatred pretty quick and indulging in all of that is all so much easier than taking the time & effort to examine one's own beliefs and to look beyond news & information sources that validate o…
Fear first.
Then a communal granting of a license to be angry because others in your world are afraid.
Then lies to create a concrete object to direct the anger at.
Then an escalation to hate and a similar licensing of that hate.
Then the liberating, very Southern, philosophy of life, “Fuck it. Nothing works out anyway.”
Then a willing of the mind and soul to surrender to anarchy, which is a return to childhood before one knew there was such a thing as rules.
We are at the Fuck it stage now.
