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[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

The greatest piece of political propaganda in our time was convincing millions of people that caring for others and the planet was somehow a threat to America.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

One of the most blatant forms of hypocrisy of our time is when Christians hold all ordinary people accountable to the most rigid moral standards, all while holding themselves and their preferred politicians accountable to no standards at all.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

The moral alteration in an unthinkable expanse of people who call this place home has been stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths. The worst part is that we can’t reach them in the ways reasonable human beings can be reached.

Before Fox News, we could meet the people around us on the common ground of our shared faith in Jesus, our respect for the Constitution, the clarity of objective truth, or shared compassion for vulnerable people. Now, they no longer have use or tolerance for such things.

Those of us who’ve lost people we love to this curated pestilence should file a class-action suit against Fox News for thirty years of malpractice and murder: for the relationships they’ve destroyed, the deaths they’ve been complicit in, the betrayal of the public trust, and for purposefully killing the goodness in human beings who will never be who they might have been otherwise.

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[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

“Socialism is the Republican word for anything that helps the people.”

~Harry Truman

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Capitalism ruined people's outlook on the world and made people think it's okay to be extremely selfish and greedy when it isn't.

It's not normal to think human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare if they have no money. it's so dystopian

[Owen @Owennfa]

BOOMER: "Just buy a house. Stop renting and build equity."

ME: "Houses are $450,000."

BOOMER: "So get a mortgage."

ME: "I need a $90,000 down payment."

BOOMER: "I bought my first house with $5,000 down."

ME: "What did your house cost?"

BOOMER: "$60,000."

ME: "So you put down 8% of the price. I need to put down 20%."

BOOMER: "Well your salary should be higher."

ME: "I make $70,000 a year. Banks say I can afford a $280,000 house max."

ME: "Everything in my area costs $400,000+."

BOOMER: "You should move somewhere cheaper."

ME: "All the jobs are here. If I move, I make $35,000 and houses still cost $250,000."

BOOMER: "It's about discipline and sacrifice."

ME: "You bought a house for 3 years of salary. I need 6 years of salary."

ME: "Plus I have $50,000 in student debt you didn't have."

BOOMER: "Well I worked hard."

ME: "So do I. I'm just playing a different game with worse odds."

BOOMER: *silent*

You didn't buy a house because you were smarter. You bought it because it was actually affordable.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[CRG @Cantrushit]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, ballouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive?

And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit.

The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here.

Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice.

You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action.

"Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism.

But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Socialism is the fire department putting out your fire.

Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Republicans claiming that Zohran’s Mamdani’s REQUEST asking people in NYC to set their thermostats to 78 degrees to conserve energy is “communism” is just so typically pathetic and weak. They revel in performative ignorance as their brand.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The magnitude of Trump's personal corruption and the monetizing of the presidency by him and his family have no precedent in US history.

It takes a total peasant mentality, or some weird cultish devotion, to defend or excuse this, especially if you objected to corrupt Biden transactions (as I did). It's on a completely different scale.

Trump set up a crypto company (World Liberty Financial) 4 days before his inauguration, then had the UAE pour hundreds of millions into his pockets for 49% of it, then gave rewards to the UAE. Jared getting $2 billion from the Saudis. On and on and on.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mockler: Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. He leveraged the hype of his inauguration to announce a cryptocurrency named Trump coin. But that wasn't enough because then he announced Melania coin. But that wasn't enough, because then he created this pardon economy where people can pay into his campaigns or his family and they get directly pardoned.

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

It's amazing to me how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY TRULY want to avoid paying relatively small slivers of tax money to their government to benefit a common good like social safety services for far less fortunate countrymen within the same society that made them billionaires.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.”

Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?”

Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.”

Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

The Bible Belt is also:

The divorce belt
The teen pregnancy belt
The obesity belt
The murder belt
The poverty belt
The high-school dropout belt
The uneducated belt
The MAGA belt
The prison belt
The disease belt

None of these are a coincidence. They are not simply correlation.

This is cause and effect.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.

Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.

So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.

1/ Here it is - in one🧵

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

America wake up!
My timeline is filled with the "idiocracy" of Donald Trump. It's humiliating that weeks from the 250th, this man has destroyed the WH interior/exterior. Destroyed the Reflecting pool. Lost #Iran cost US soldiers lives. And 168 Iranian children. His DOJ is a crime syndicate for ill-gotten pardons, revenge and covering up the #EpsteinFiles
His cabinet is utterly incompetent. And full of rich men. The man in charge of our national intel is a Trump stooge with ZERO national security experience. He has enriched himself, his son in law & sons. To the tune of billions! He insults former Presidents and their families. He puts his name on other presidents monuments. He has destroyed our NATO power and alliances. He has outsourced diplomacy and foreign policy to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff SOS Rubio is MIA. Europe hates him. Canada hates him. Most of America hates him. He's ruined the economy. He steals tax payers dollars and does what he wants with them for his vanity projects or "peace" institute. He rage tweets 24/7. He lies. He falls asleep on live TV. He can't speak in coherent sentences. He has anger problem insulting the press and world leaders. Did I mention he has the nuclear codes? What are we doing America?!! What?!!!

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Io e l’Italia non imploriamo mai.