The most important thing I’ve learned from the World Cup is you can kick the ball into someone’s testicles and then score while they’re writhing on the ground but DO NOT cross that line that nobody knows where it is.
Performative patriotism always cares more about waving the flag and demanding that people show respect for it than it ever does about embodying what it actually stands for.
Performative Christianity does the exact same thing with God and the Bible.
In the past hour, the Trump admin has deleted their web page that recommended setting thermostats between 75-78 during heat waves, and 85 if you are not home, after the GOP learned that Mayor Mamdani was urging New Yorkers to follow White House guidance.
Left: JD Vance claiming he'd love "if Democrats were willing to work with us on lowering housing prices" to have some "real bipartisan compromise"
Right: Trump refusing to sign the bipartisan bill to lower housing prices, calling it "unimportant" and a "big yawn"
I like to think that the Founders would be more disturbed by the sort of person Americans are letting into the White House than they would be by the sort of people Americans are letting into the country.
Grief Is a Form of Patriotism, Too.
This 4th of July, many of us won't be waving flags or watching fireworks.
Not because we hate our country, but because we love it too much to pretend everything is fine.🧵
🇺🇸 Trump at 8:00 PM: "Unlike Obama and Biden, we had a historic victory in Iran."
🇺🇸 Biden at 9:00 PM: "Yeah Absolutely historic. You haven’t been able to open the Strait of Hormuz for 109 days, 17 hours, and 38 min. It was open when I was in office. What a Loser." 😂 🔥
Absolute cinema by Biden🔥
Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸
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!!!