@JoshEakle The MAGA playbook is really not difficult:
Step 1: Say literally whatever you think sounds good in the moment, no matter how flagrant the lie.
Step 2: Double down, never cede an inch of ground, never apologize.
Step 3: Trust that nobody cares enough for it to matter.
Trump: You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors. They're doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are slandering and attacking our future. We're not going to let that happen.
A country’s vitality is deeply tied to the value it affords to human life in every form and condition, acknowledging the dignity endowed upon every human person by virtue of their very existence. The moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to support, protect and cherish the lives of all, especially the most vulnerable and those whose worth is questioned.
@I_Choose_Wisdom@SarahIronside6 Trump has made approximately 17 times more money in the last year from this crypto stuff than Pelosi has made on stock trades in 37 years.
There was a multi-year campaign by Republicans, the media and the podcast manosphere to find some sort of corruption, ANYTHING on Hunter (and Joe Biden). Joe Rogan did entire episodes on it. In the end, all they came up with was that he got a job he was under-qualified for.
Meanwhile, Trump is doing the most brazen, unprecedented corruption on a massive scale and it gets reported on by the MSM one time and then everyone moves on. All the people who were obsessed with HUNTER BIDEN CORRUPTION (like Rogan and Glenn Greenwald) won't even mention it.
Unbelievably depressing.
Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!
There are a lot of people online who make a lot of noise about the death of innocent children, but have been very quiet about this. The unnecessary destruction of USAID may be the most anti-pro-life action taken by the US government in my lifetime.
USAID was not a perfect program and reform of international development is a legitimate policy discussion. That is a separate question from whether abruptly withdrawing medication and food a child depends on to survive causes that child's death.
Dobson-Hughes's answer is the correct one: if a child needs a specific medication or specific food to stay alive and you remove it without any way for them to obtain it elsewhere, you caused their death. That is not a complicated moral or epidemiological argument. It is the definition of proximate cause.
The documented figure: over 500,000 children are estimated to have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more lost parents. USAID saved an estimated 92 million lives over two decades including 30.4 million children under five. The positive trend in child mortality - halved since 1990, the first improvement in the numbers in thirty years - reversed in 2025. Around 200,000 more children are believed to have died in 2025 than in 2024. Every one of them had a name. Every one of them had someone who loved them.
USAID was not a perfect program and reform of international development is a legitimate policy discussion. That is a separate question from whether abruptly withdrawing medication and food a child depends on to survive causes that child's death.
Dobson-Hughes's answer is the correct one: if a child needs a specific medication or specific food to stay alive and you remove it without any way for them to obtain it elsewhere, you caused their death. That is not a complicated moral or epidemiological argument. It is the definition of proximate cause.
The documented figure: over 500,000 children are estimated to have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more lost parents. USAID saved an estimated 92 million lives over two decades including 30.4 million children under five. The positive trend in child mortality - halved since 1990, the first improvement in the numbers in thirty years - reversed in 2025. Around 200,000 more children are believed to have died in 2025 than in 2024. Every one of them had a name. Every one of them had someone who loved them.
The moral calculus here is simple.
For decades there was bipartisan congressional agreement to fund lifesaving programs. 80% of Americans agree with providing food and medical supplies to the worlds poorest people.
Elon was neither elected nor confirmed. He illegally and gleefully destroyed USAID, which did not save any money - in many cases he just disrupted distribution of supplies already purchased - but he did kill many children.
The closest analogy would be burning down a food bank causing people to die of starvation. It was an illegal act that was wasteful and caused harm. You can’t defend it by saying “what obligation do we have to fund food banks?”
I love how transparent people like Howerton are about how little they actually want to be a Christian and how much their entire grift is just Americanism in Goddrag, and I just wish people would listen when he tells you who he is.
Christian pastors are going to have to think deeper than “welcome the stranger” and “love the immigrant among you” for their thoughts on immigration policy in the coming years with huge swaths of Islamic socialists actively seeking to gain political power and fundamentally reshape significant parts of America.
I hope Megyn Kelly's grandchildren watch this video, on a school trip through the museum built to teach future generations of Americans about the moral depravity of the Trump era.
Maybe the only thing more damning than Kelly's willingness to eagerly perform cruelty is the fact that her audience laps it up. Audience capture has led her to strive to be as detestable and compassionless as possible, and that's just depressing to witness.
Megyn sends a message to the Haitians who lost their TPS today:
"Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That's because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us... GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!"
@revcjackson So what? My favorite band is an emo rock band, it doesn’t mean I’m secretly a depressed teenager. Hillsong’s music is popular for a reason.
@revcjackson Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the walking on water stories in the Bible could catch the references, “calling on the name,” “savior” language etc, these are all clear Xtian references. Saying it’s theologically shallow is fine, saying it’s about Varuna is ridiculous.