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@DocLibertarian @JonahDispatch @grok Good comparison.

@JonahDispatch The relevant Bible story is not the calf but the Gold. Statue of Nebucanezer. @grok what happened to the three Hebrew who refused to worship the golden statue?

I guess they couldn’t actually make it a calf. Still…

@pythagoras999 @JonahDispatch I have wondered for a long time if he is the little boastful horn from Daniel...

@JonahDispatch I mean after years of many people wondering out loud of DJT is the beast mentioned in Revelation, a group of pastors dedicates a giant golden statue of him. It's a bit on the nose.

@BillWilde388919 @JonahDispatch Does it matter what _they_ consider themselves?

@JonahDispatch I wonder if the MAGAts still consider themselves Christians at all..

@JonahDispatch @HiawathaBray I've been reading Jonah for too long - my eyes skimmed over the picture caption and did a double-take because my brain first read "Pastor leads wild defecation ceremony..." ! (I guess "deification ceremony" would also be apt)

@HiawathaBray the-independent.com/news/world/ame…

@JonahDispatch It has two calves, one on each leg! 😀 But still ridiculous. And... is it really any surprise that the same religious leaders who cover up sex abuse (and their lightly-buried history of segregationism) also happily worship idols?

@nickineily Grading on personality and emotions + downgrading standardized testing (colleges not using SAT scores in admissions) => lots of very bright Aspy kids not getting to go to college (where they often would do just fine)

Schools are prioritizing emotional assessment, such as “empathy, self-awareness, and sense of belonging,” over academic courses, while parents are often left out of key curriculum conversations.  Transparency in education matters.

@Ric_RTP That's not what he said at all. He said he's 95 and isn't up on new companies/industries/technologies so he doesn't have a competitive advantage against younger investors. That's not the same as saying he doesn't understand the stock market today.

Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.

@charlescwcooke @GiancarloSopo Yes

@GiancarloSopo Clinton after 1994.

Honest question for my Republican followers: Who was the best Democratic president of the 20th century and why? Not limited to these, no wrong answers.

@TAKEEM83 @sciencegirl Yeah, I like how the grandpa behind is getting ready to catch that baby

@sciencegirl “Ho-Lee Shhheee..”

Probably the greatest individual male athletic performance ever recorded.

@thedispatch It was clearly a guy in a bear suit. Great stuff, Kevin W!

"U.S. Iran negotiations are being led by the Secretary of Wishful Thinking." | Kevin D. Williamson in Wanderland thedispatch.com/newsletter/wan…

@AdamKinzinger Why on earth does anyone still think of Franklin Graham as an important or reliable Christian leader or spokesperson? He has been self-aggrandizing and self-serving since well before Trumpism.

Franklin Graham today: the Pope should thank Trump. Let that sit for a second. My new piece on how the Trump movement uses faith as a costume — and what happens when real religious leaders push back. (Link in reply)

@Robert_E_Kelly President Trump went sometimes three times a week to Saturday and Sunday School and Kim Jong Un was born atop the sacred mountain under the light of a new star, with sightings of a unicorn. Amazing.

Post-Trump, a cottage industry of research will arise to explain how America's ostensibly most pious believers fell for someone so obviously unchurched and unobvservant America's evangelicals will never be taken seriously again after selling out like this. I hope it was worth it

@AdamKinzinger Befriending "now"? We have been befriending them on and off since Hillary pushed the Reset button. Trump seems to practically worship Putin. And look what we've gotten in return....

Largest air attack of the war against Ukraine yesterday. Russia is a terrorist state that we are befriending now

@dieter @dieter Why does it seem like the NBA wants to prevent the Warriors from being a competitive team? Is it as vindictive as it looks? Or is there some reason that makes sense? I would have thought Warriors are a cash cow for the league if they're willing to pay taxes for quality?

Kurtenbach: The Warriors might have the right pieces to be respectable next year. The NBA won’t let that happen trib.al/LF7Y0il

Maybe not just one song or even two. But maybe three or four. All these years on this journey of faith and I’m still astonished by the power that praising God has on the human heart. And not just the heart. The eyes, the way worship can clear the fog. The ears, the way praise can unlock our capacity to hear. Come to Jesus in your true condition. Praise his name then praise him still. Praise him till that hard shell on your heart cracks wide open and you are broken free.

@RadioFreeTom I can’t stand Trump but he has to wear something - he has skin cancer. That’s what the neck rash is about (I had to use that cream on my face, ouch!) White hat seems like a reasonable compromise? (i’m a random 50ish California mom with no military background.)

The president is wearing a white golf cap. At Dover.

@lukedsimmons “Funny! Funny and serious. And so kind.”

If you had the chance to go to coffee with Jesus… And I asked you after, “What was he like?”… What words or phrases would you likely use?

@brad_polumbo I think we would deserve to be governed by serious people if we took elections seriously enough as a nation to elect serious people. But we don't.

1000s of people are dead—including 6 U.S. servicemembers—and the White House is posting Call of Duty clips interlaced with actual footage of them killing people. War is not a meme. And we deserve to be governed by serious people, not social media trolls.

@revpaulwhite @JustinEGiboney was just reminding us on a podcast today that Ishmael's birth was the result of Abraham thinking this same way, that he needed to help God fulfill God's promise instead of waiting for God to work his will. (Sorry I don't have the actual quote!)

I have never claimed to be a theologian but I do have two degrees in theology and have been a priest for 17 years. NOWHERE in the bible or in any serious theology I have ever read are Christians told that we should start wars to hasten the return of Jesus. This is a perversion of our faith.