@michaelshermer The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
- Werner Heisenberg
Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.
The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.
President Barack Obama (@BarackObama) writes about Abraham Lincoln and what held the Union together when everything was working to pull it apart.
At the center is Lincoln's argument that individual liberty and the common good aren't opposing forces, and that a democracy survives only when its citizens keep choosing to bind their fates together.
German Chancellor Merz: Tomorrow is June 6th, D-Day, when the Americans once ended a war in Europe
Trump: “That was not a pleasant day for you."
Merz: “This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship” (2025)
If you turned on the TV in another country and saw the leader's daughter-in-law giving him a softball interview on a major "news" channel, you would rightfully assume that country is a tinpot dictatorship.
Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England
Barack Obama has the most catalogued assassination attempts against him compared to the rest of U.S. presidents.
These people are weaponizing and monetizing your rage. They don’t care about truth, just personal power.