Cason Chappell

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[David French @DavidAFrench]

The issue with the Pentagon list excluding the LDS church from Christianity has nothing to do with theology and everything to do with the Establishment Clause.

I've spent my whole life around Christians who draw different lines around the faith. It's a 2,000 year-old argument that will continue for another 2,000 years or until Christ comes again. But that's a church argument, and it's none of the state's business.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is a heartbreaking day for my LDS friends and neighbors. In my experience, the LDS folks I know are among the kindest, most Christlike folks I've ever met. And now they've endured the loss of their president and a deadly attack on a church. Horrible. God bless you all.

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

This Masters commercial nails it.

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

It's called "checks and balances" and it's why we have 3co-equal branches of govt. it's done as an autocrat protection measure and to protect a minority of Americans by oppression by the majority (known as "the tyranny of the majority"). It's been a feature (not a bug) since 1787.

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

I wonder how many Americans who consider themselves politically aware could pass a civics test about how our government is supposed to function. I wonder how many Americans who ostensibly talk about politics as part of how they make a living could. Our anti-education/anti-knowledge culture has come for our constitutional society. And people who consider themselves "patriotic" celebrate dismantling the very aspects of our Framer's work that those exquisite-minded guys were most proud of. Co-equal branches of govt and checks and balances. Not bugs...but this system's greatest features. We are a politically hypocritical society and this will cost us. Can you imagine if the Biden/Harris/Hillary Clinton crowd were doing and saying the sort of things Trump is saying now? How many of you Trump fans would be ready to take to the streets? "That's what the 2d Amendment is for Dan"...how many times have I been told that by the "defenders of our Constitution"? For 40 years you've been saying it to me! So...it's only a problem if THEY'RE doing it? One side gets a pass at assaulting the constitutional wall that protects us all, and the other doesn't? How many of you would say "they're only joking" or "don't worry, it's a negotiation position" if Kamala Harris said these things? Serious question. You'd be just fine with it? No big deal? And I'm sure the right-wing talker's ecosystem would be too? All of this is going to come back to bite us. All of it. We are shortsighted, propagandized, political hypocrites. And we simply refuse to apply the same standards to both sides.
And while I'm ranting: half of this problem is the fault of the Democratic Party. I've never seen such a toothless, feckless, directionless, passion-free group of poor political candidates in my life (and I was of voting age in the Mondale/Dukakis years). Only their most radical wing shows any passion or life at all...and that's the group that absolutely, positively can't win a general election.
When the great historian in the sky writes about this era the "other party" in a two-party system deserves a ton of the blame too. Everyone over 70 years old in that party should resign right now. What Trump is trying to do in our system now is exactly what the Founders designed safeguards to prevent. And that's why Trump is targeting the safeguards.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Tucker Carlson calls President Zelensky a “dictator” in the same interview where he criticized Churchill, blamed him for WWII, and declared, “Putin isn’t my enemy.”

The fact that this man has the ear of the president and vice president of the U.S.—Tucker’s son is J.D. Vance’s deputy press secretary—should alarm every freedom-loving American.

[Justin Stapley @JustinWStapley]

Mitt Romney is a rare example of a true statesman. His treatment is an indictment of our civic culture. We don't want statesmen, we want demagogues. We want the pettiness, the backbiting, the grandstanding, the anger. We want the hate. And Romney, to quote another rare statesman of our time, is hated because he doesn't hate enough.

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

This from the main stage at tonight’s Trump rally in Madison Square Garden is one of the most disgusting and despicable things I’ve ever heard uttered at a modern American political rally—much less at a nationally televised official party gathering for a presidential candidate on the eve of an election.

This is a disgrace to our country and the Republican Party. For featured remarks in this type of moment, the Trump-Vance campaign would have read these remarks and would’ve known exactly what was going to be said—and they let him say this nastiness anyway. And none of the speakers after him apologized or corrected the record or pushed back on his remarks.

It isn’t Christian. It isn’t American. It isn’t decent. It’s ugly and racist. Period. The Republican Party today is completely unrecognizable and a totally different party than the one I joined in college. It has completely abandoned any values of classiness and decency and respect that it once had.

We are about to have a baby daughter and I can’t imagine her listening to this filth and then having to explain to her that one of our major political parties in this country and its voters actually support this rhetoric.

Shame on the Trump team for letting this happen and shame on every single Republican in that room and around the country who doesn’t condemn it. Because if you don’t condemn stuff like this and you’re on this team, it’s reasonable for every other decent person in this country to assume you’re sitting at home clapping along, too. I just can’t even believe it. A disgraceful and lasting shame on the United States.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I am a grown person, and I have a father and a mother and a God. I do not need whatever tf this is from some politician.

[EAPeek @eadampeek]

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[Cason Chappell @CasonChappell]

#takenote

[Kevin O'Connor @KevinOConnor]

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[Cason Chappell @CasonChappell]

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[UHSAA @UHSAAinfo]

Congrats to Duchesne High's Parker Crum, who recently broke a 27-year-old UHSAA baseball record for career stolen bases. His 110 steals surpasses the previous mark of 108, set by Wayne High's Beau Hunt from 1992-96.🏃 💨

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

Welcome to hell.

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

The Jazz are hell.

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

i believe.

[Dan Woike @DanWoikeSports]

Oh my god

[NFL Films @NFLFilms]

"One in a billion,' somebody's gotta be the one."

Andy Reid's left-hand man Porter Ellett knows how to face obstacles, and he's helping the @Chiefs do the same. #NFLFilmsPresents

[Collin 'Young Bull' Sexton @CollinSexton02]

UTAH what’s good!!!!!!!!!