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This is a journey of finding who we are, not only the play itself but also the book club. I think the answers we find matter, and so do the questions. actuallyreadingthebook.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-we…

I spent yesterday learning about Futurism and its connection to Italian Fascism....now I wants to watch the new biopic on Mussolini with @JonahDispatch youtu.be/g_7GhfnSbzk?si…

@GregAbbott_TX Unusual that the party of "Diversity is not our strength" is celebrating the X-Men. There is some hypocrisy here.

I’ve finally decided on my Halloween costume. Everyone stay safe trick or treating. Happy Halloween!

Trump thinks American farmers are worth HALF of what Argentinians are worth. But “America First,” right?

I had viewed the post WW2 US relationship through the eyes of advisories. Soviet Union, China and Vietnam, but never through the eyes of an "Ally". De Gaulle was an unknown character to me, I was aware of his name but not much else. youtu.be/D0d8xlKvBf0?si…

Just started The Turn of the Screw and I am getting some Jane Eyre vibes. 😎 #bookclub

@PhilipDBunn Guess I'll just read the book. 🤷

My wife and I watched the Return recently. It was better than I expected, but I have many complaints. The persistent problem with Homer adaptations is that the gods are completely absent. The story doesn’t make sense without Poseidon, sorry.

@NancyRomm I am really finding it hard to believe that the President desires to solve any problems for Portlanders or Oregonias. 🤔

“Some made up problem in downtown Portland.” Governor Kotek just now at a press conference, on why Trump need not send troops and that the state has larger issues to deal with. Also said she told him the former and he said, “Let’s keep talking.”

Area pastor encouraging syncretism.

@JackPosobiec Doubtful, but you'll still be remembered for Comet Pizza. 💁

"A century from now, they will speak of the sacrifice of Charlie Kirk and how it saved Western Civilization from unspeakable evil by returning us to God"

The thing about Christian Nationalism is, how does it feel to be a Christian who doesn't support Christian Nationalism?

@JackPosobiec Oh hey. The Pizzagate guy.

The left will murder your friend in cold blood and then their hosts will go on TV and tell the country you did it This was not some slip of the tongue misspeak They know exactly what they’re doing Pay attention

@megynkelly Really pushing a very stark "us vs them" narrative. Give me the "For my friends everything, for my enemies the law". (Oscar R. Benavides) vibes. Kinda Carl Schmitty 🤔

We don’t trust you. We don’t trust the work of your president’s DOJ. We don’t trust the work of your president’s FBI. You indicted our presidential candidate 4x with made-up BS charges trying to put him in jail for life. You changed laws so he could be civilly sued by a woman who didn’t even remember what year her alleged “rape” by him was. You let an AG who ran for office promising to “get Trump” try to bankrupt him on a claim so specious even the NY appellate court scoffed at it & had to reverse the damage award. One of yours killed Charlie and then you laughed at our pain, protested our vigils & said Charlie was to blame and in hell. You lied about the killer’s motives & said he was MAGA when you knew he wasn’t. You put us all in danger by not admitting the truth and then not relenting on the lies you tell about us. You cried endless tears for Jimmy Kimmel but none for Charlie. You gleefully cancelled all of us for five+ years and danced when we suffered. You censored us & ruined careers of distinguished doctors & others who dared to say the truth during Covid and George Floyd. You cost our children years of learning during lockdowns and endangered them with deadly myocarditis by burying the risk disclosures and never apologized or owned it. Your govt tried to strong arm Fox into firing Tucker bc of his J6 coverage and you said not a peep about the first amendment. You changed Title IX with the stroke of a pen, without consent, and endangered and hurt our defenseless daughters. You sterilized and cut off the healthy body parts of children & want to keep doing it. You lied about a near-vegetative president being fine with the nuclear codes. You (personally) had Doug Emhoff on as the scandal of his alleged woman abuse and cheating broke and you didn’t ask him ONE Q about it, then tried to tell us you care about women. You opened the border and let in ten+ million illegals who killed Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray after they sexually assaulted her and threw her off a bridge, along with the countless other innocents they rape, murder and molest to this day. So no, we don’t care what you say about Tom Homan. We do not trust you. We only care about defeating you.

The "We" is what I find most interesting here. That Megyn represents a group whose philosophical moral framework she is advocating for, accepts that government officials should be excused from taking bribes.

Engaging the NewSpeak. Good for me but not for thee.

Everyone wants to win, no one wants to listen. Politics is a hyper-partisan team sport and party over country has been surpassed by power over principles. This week, Bret Stephens on nothing less than the changes needed to save American democracy: theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

"For my friends everything, for my enemies the law" Oscar R. Benavides

No when I vote for a candidate I vote for someone to represent me. Not an organization. Stephen is incorrect.

@StephenM Someone doesn't own a mirror.

In recent days we have learned just how many Americans in positions of authority—child services, law clerks, hospital nurses, teachers, gov’t workers, even DOD employees—have been deeply and violently radicalized. The consequence of a vast, organized ecosystem of indoctrination.

In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife - Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson - The assassination of Charlie Kirk Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all. The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.