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[Habeas Corpus Linguistics @HabCorpLinguist]

"He saved the Supreme Court is what he did. He was a brave Majority Leader. And in this house, Mitch McConnell is a hero. End of story."

[Simple @SimonSimplicio]

Do you fw G.K Chesterton? - Shia Laboeuf

[lucy @_lmh__]

@memeticsisyphus I think you misread this. He was making the opposite point in the Abolition of Man

[Chris Jackson @BigModernism]

Roe is dead because Donald Trump won in 2016 and then appointed three justices. That is the real world. That is the timeline. Everything else you wrote is garnish designed to soothe one psychological itch, the need to say “Actually, I hate Trump, so please don’t associate this victory with him.”

You can name Thomas and Alito until your keyboard melts. You can canonize Mitch McConnell. You can recite the entire history of the pro life movement like it’s the Martyrology. None of it changes the counterfactual that matters. If Hillary wins, she fills Scalia’s seat. If Hillary wins, she replaces Kennedy if he retires, and she replaces RBG when she dies. You do not get Dobbs. You get Roe fortified. You get Planned Parenthood gloating with the Supreme Court as its private security force. That is what you and every other “principled” NeverTrump scold were willing to risk so you could keep your moral manicure pristine.

Biden won and gave us an affirmative action pick who can’t tell us what a woman is! Now imagine Kamala stacking two more. Every case gets decided by the same ideology that cannot define “woman.”

So yes, Trump is the president under whom Roe fell. Cope.

Your whole post is a bait and switch. You start with “do away with the myth” then quietly drift into “Trump did harm to the pro life movement” then you land on the punchline, the real reason you typed all this. “Trump is only somewhat better than the Democrats on abortion.”

That line is not just wrong. It is deranged.

The Democrats are the party of abortion as a sacrament. Nationalized abortion. Codified abortion. Funded abortion. Abortion tourism. Abortion till birth. You can dress it up with euphemisms, you can run interference with “healthcare” slogans, you can pretend it’s compassion. The reality is an industrial scale slaughter backed by courts, corporations, and bureaucrats, with Catholics in the party leadership smiling through it.

Trump ended Roe. That is not a myth. It is the largest legal defeat the abortion regime has suffered in my lifetime. The side you keep minimizing would have enshrined Roe as permanent constitutional dogma.

Here is the game you’re playing. You grab every debate inside the post Dobbs world, pile it up, then use it to retroactively smear the single decisive act that made the post Dobbs world possible in the first place. You talk like someone who has never once stared at the actual forks in the road we faced.

One fork. Hillary/ Biden/ Kamala. The other fork. Trump.

Pick one. No third option. No escape hatch where you get the perfect candidate, the perfect platform, the perfect judges, the perfect rhetoric, and you never have to hear an orange man say something crass. Politics is not spiritual direction. It’s triage in a fallen world.

You people always do this. You demand a spotless instrument before you will support a good end. Then you guarantee the worst end. Then you write essays blaming the flawed instrument for not being flawless enough.

Trump did not “lull pro lifers.” Trump delivered what pro lifers prayed for and marched for and fought for while your camp wrote essays about how voting for him would stain your conscience. Your camp was wrong. History buried your argument on the courthouse steps.

Here is the blunt truth. Your rhetoric trains Catholics to think victories are embarrassing if Trump is attached to them. It trains them to feel shame about their own side winning. It trains them to talk like leftists. It makes them soft. It makes them unserious. It makes them useless in a fight that is not primarily about their personal refinement.

You can keep trying to launder your Trump hatred into a “pro life strategy.” Nobody should fall for it.

The Democrats would have preserved Roe and expanded it. The only “myth” here is the fantasy that your NeverTrump posturing has ever produced anything except Democratic power with a Catholic glaze.

Roe fell on Trump’s watch because he built the court that killed it.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: President Trump pardons Thanksgiving turkey ‘Gobble.’

[Blood Memory @AnemoiaAmerica]

Snoopy would never put Christmas decorations up before Thanksgiving because he is an American and a Patriot.

[Jack Whitcomb @jack_whitcomb_]

This is the realest thing a president has ever said.

[Helen Andrews @herandrews]

How I came to see the “Great Feminization” as the most significant event of our century—and a potential threat to civilization. https://t.co/6R9wwGvUVh

[The Catholic Herald @CatholicHerald]

At least 64 people have been killed in a brutal attack on a Catholic parish in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Read here ➡️ https://t.co/7P0fv43qoZ

#Catholic #Congo #Africa

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

The liberal need for an “objective graph” that is merely a reflection of their partisan preferences is a bizarre fetish we need to stop indulging

[Beachboy007 @ChrisWinig]

NO UNITY

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

This is the most important political speech I can recall in my lifetime. @JDVance understands the goal, the stakes, and what must be done. How lucky we are that he is our Vice President.

[Rudy W. Giuliani @RudyGiuliani]

@bakedalaska @restoreorderusa Thank you, Baked Alaska! God bless you.

[Republican Party of Louisiana @LAGOP]

For an @LSU student and chair of @sdsatlsu to rejoice in the violent death of Charlie Kirk is vile and morally bankrupt - an affront to basic human decency. University leaders must hold their students accountable - violence and the celebration of evil have no place on our campus.

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

It's not *all* leftists, it's just half of them.

[Anthony Esolen @AnthonyEsolen]

The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a national public figure for his words and his arguments and not for any public office, on a public campus, in the middle of engaging in gentlemanly public debate, is not like any assassination in my lifetime.

Because he was not a sitting president or premier, nor running for such an office, it was not like the assassinations of JFK, RFK, Anwar Sadat, or Aldo Moro. There, you have the obvious motive of cancelling out someone who by virtue of the office wields or might wield enormous power. You also have the motive of throwing a nation into confusion.

Because Kirk was a SPEAKER, and because it was only his speaking that made him a target, and nothing personal, his assassination was not like that of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

Because Kirk was not himself embroiled in a struggle for power, his assassination was not like that of Jock Yablonski and his family.

Because Kirk was not a leader in a Church whom political thugs were afraid of, his assassination was not like that of Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko. Because his assassin was not a tool of the powers that be, his assassination was not like that of Bishop Oscar Romero.

The assassination took aim directly at freedom of inquiry, speech, and argument, and in a place where those freedoms are supposed to be sacrosanct. But we know that college campuses seldom honor those freedoms now; men drinking beer at the counter of a bar enjoy more freedom of speech than does a student in an Introduction to Sociology class at Land Grant University. FAR more.

Our schools, right from the start, stoke political passions, the most unruly and unreasonable of them all, stronger in hating than in revering. Of course, given that the Left runs them, the passions come overwhelmingly from one side. But that is not what schools are for. People who are fuming or shouting can't learn -- they don't have the leisure for it. I've been a college professor since 1988, and I can say with flat confidence that I've never used my class as a soapbox for any political passion; it's not my job, and it would alienate a lot of young people to whom I want to introduce Dante, or Milton, or Homer, or Michelangelo, or Wordsworth, or Pascal... But professors who say, as I heard one such in 1991, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, that "Teaching is a political act," meaning not that teaching concerns the common good, but that teaching must be political in the narrower sense of political movements and political partisanship, are less interested in Dante than in The Cause. They do not do their jobs. I'll add that the poorest of professors lean that way, because they aren't very good at teaching literature, or whatever they are supposed to investigate, for its own sake.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

There is an ideology that has steadily been growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved. It is an ideology at war with family and nature. It is envious, malicious, and soulless. It is an ideology that looks upon the perfect family with bitter rage while embracing the serial criminal with tender warmth. Its adherents organize constantly to tear down and destroy every mark of grace and beauty while lifting up everything monstrous and foul. It is an ideology that leads, always, inevitably and willfully, to violence — violence against those uphold order, who uphold faith, who uphold family, who uphold all that is noble and virtuous in this world. It is an ideology whose one unifying thread is the insatiable thirst for destruction.

We see the workings of this ideology in every posting online cheering the evil assassination that cruelly robbed this nation of one of its greatest men. Postings from those in positions of institutional authority — educators, healthcare workers, therapists, government employees — reveling in the vile and the sinister with the most chilling glee.

The fate of millions depends upon the defeat of this wicked ideology. The fate of our children, our society, our civilization hinges on it.

Now we devote ourselves, with love and unyielding determination, to finishing the indispensable work to which Charlie bravely devoted his life and gave his last measure of devotion.