The Reflecting Pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration:
- Ignore experts and science
- Overspend
- Declare early, historic victory
- "THE LEFT HATE THIS"
- Ends in total failure
- Unfounded conspiracies about sabotage
- MAGA pretends it doesn't actually matter
The European mind understands it perfectly. This is what imperial decadence looks like: public institutions converted into branded spectacle, civic memory replaced by adrenaline theater, and the People’s House turned into a content backdrop for regime propaganda.
The joke is not that Europe cannot comprehend it. The joke is that America no longer recognizes what it is becoming.
It’s the obvious, self evident death of the Warrenite/NGO left, a project that claimed to be an electoral compromise for socialists and ended up being way less electable than actual socialism in both primaries and generals. You can’t be highly ideological and highly technocratic.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
The fact that this is even being considered is a reflection of how the Democratic Party more closely resembles a professional advancement association than a competitive political party.
No you don’t get it when Trump says “a whole civilization will die tonight” he is being hyperbolic and posturing unlike when Iran says “death to America” which is actually a very serious threat and should definitely serve as the basis for an invasion
Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war. Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us.
0:00 Monologue
43:23 Paula White’s Strange Easter Sunday Service
51:17 Who Really Is Paula White?
57:24 How Did Paula Become Trump’s Spiritual Advisor?
1:00:03 The Exposed Megachurch Documents
1:09:52 Why Is Corruption So Prevalent in American Protestant Churches?
1:13:10 The Scam That’s Taken Over the Nonprofit Industry
1:27:14 The Mormon Church’s Investments in Weapons Manufacturing
1:28:52 How Much Money Does Franklin Graham’s Nonprofit Have?
1:33:11 How Do Megachurch Pastors Justify Owning Private Jets?
1:39:30 Graham's Bizarre Alaskan Hideout
1:52:42 The Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil
1:54:27 What Is Dispensationalism?
2:07:15 The Attempts to Usher in the Antichrist
2:13:00 Finding Contentment and Fulfillment in Christ
2:16:36 The Spiritual War Happening in the White House
Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.