After winning his match, UFC fighter Josh Hokit claimed Jesus Christ as his savior and then called Michelle Obama a man, all in the same breath.
This happened at the White House, at an event to honor America’s 250th birthday. What a clown show. And people wonder how Rome fell.
Before you clutch your pearls, I’m not trying to cancel anyone. I support free speech. You can say what you want.
What I’m arguing for is a conservative value of mine—certain contexts ought to be serious, if not sacred. I think both Jesus Christ and the White House fit this bill.
I don’t care if you are a Republican, Democrat, or Independent.
What I care about is this: we desperately need kind, high-character, serious people.
I increasingly find myself thinking where have all the serious people gone? It’s as if there is selection bias for sociopaths in public life.
The word “character” comes from the Greek word charassein, which means to engrave or stamp upon. Character is a habit we stamp upon ourselves every day.
Nobody is perfect. But my God, we can do better than this.
Some of you may say “stay in your lane” or “now I’m not buying your book.”
Please, spare yourself the effort.
I write the books I do because I know we all have better angels and I know there are plenty of good and decent people out there doing their best to get things right.
This cannot become normalized. We can do better than this. We must do better than this.
Y’all—it’s really not that hard.
Don’t be an asshole. Do good work. Love good people.
The reported details of this Iran deal are so insulting to the 13 U.S. servicemen and women who died. We’ve accomplished nothing. Iran is reopening the Strait of Hormuz, not giving up its uranium, and Trump is going to give them $25 billion. That’s way worse than the deal Obama negotiated.
@LukeOS94@Geiger_Capital@RoKhanna Come back to me with the final terms of trumps Iran deal. Just make sure they don’t change every market open at 930am 😂
@Geiger_Capital@RoKhanna Like the 1.1 trillion dollar defense budget trying to be pushed through for 2027 ? Totally necessary when Iran is days away from a nuclear weapon for the last 20 years. 😂😂😂