John Haas

BA Temple; MDiv RES; ThM Princeton; MA/PhD (history) ND; offering irritable mental gestures seeking to resemble ideas since the 2d decade of the 21st c.

[John Haas @haas1235]

@charlescwcooke @foster_type And then, unwilling to truly repent, the urge to see someone punished for all that becomes irresistible, so they elect Trump to punish the nation. (And the nation deserves it, given all the blood on its hands.) Jeremiah warned us.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

@foster_type A conversation I’ve had quite a lot goes like this.
“We needed Trump.”
“Why?”
“The old GOP did bad things.”
“Such as?”
“Iraq.”
“So you opposed that?”
“No, I supported it!”

[John Haas @haas1235]

@DavidAFrench The Bible takes a dim view of anger actually, It's not a fruit of the spirit, but rather a danger to the individual's physical and spiritual health, and bad for the community. Some (initial) anger at wrong-doing is allowable, as Paul says in Ephesians, but it's not an imperative.

[John Haas @haas1235]

@WillSloanEsq Greatest American film ever--only The Searchers comes close.

[Will Sloan @WillSloanEsq]

Cried multiple times watching Casablanca today. Funnier than most comedies. So densely plotted, every scene is a joy to watch as the various characters are moving around the chessboard. Every single character is beautifully written and acted, right down to the extras.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

White supremacists successfully rewrote history after the Civil War, so much so that today people deny what the slave states had so proudly proclaimed back then: it was about slavery. And now this group is rewriting history today. They are lying. They are liars. They are liars.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

It’s so weird these “America Firsters” want to lump Russia in with us as a great power.

Why would Russia get Greenland? They are one of the biggest brokedick countries in the world. They have spent years trying to take Ukraine and made it about 47 feet.

[John Haas @haas1235]

There's not much reason to listen to people who don't take their own words seriously. For these folk, words are just context-specific instrumentalities to get certain things done in the moment. Here, he's saying "We're not the same as those folk in the past who disappointed you."

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

Pete Hegseth a month ago: "The War Department will not be distracted by democracy-building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change…and feckless nation-building."

[John Haas @haas1235]

@DavidAFrench What is an "inactive adulterous relationship"?

[John Haas @haas1235]

@kareem_carr Having a Ph.D. gets you to zero.

[John Haas @haas1235]

@EWErickson Just the "staff"? What about the decider?

[John Haas @haas1235]

"Moving on" is what we do. Heck, we moved on from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars while they were still in progress! A nation of Tom and Daisy Buchanans.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Frankly, and bluntly, a nation that moves on from mass school shootings within 48 hours cannot be expected to wring its hands every year on January 6th because Democrats want us to.

[John Haas @haas1235]

Ah, another Maggie Thatcher fan! Way to go!

[Shannon @gardengirl125]

I think it’s time to let the women take over and clean up this giant fucking global shitshow

[John Haas @haas1235]

@jeffreytucker You make Q-Anon sound sober.

[John Haas @haas1235]

@PascallPatrick @stephenwertheim This tweet is actually from April 2003.

[Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim]

By attacking Venezuela, Trump has thrown a country of 28 million people into uncertainty and tossed aside the most obvious, hard-won lesson of decades of U.S. foreign policy failures: regime-change wars are easy to start and hard to win, much less to turn into anything resembling genuine success.

My thoughts in @guardianopinion: https://t.co/rrtW8sYj2E

[John Haas @haas1235]

@samstein "greet"

[Sam Stein @samstein]

* the oil will pay for the operation
* standing up a government will be pretty easy
* It's vital to take on threats around us before they harm us at home
* The people in the country will great us as liberators

2002 or 2026?

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

Murders down in 2025! Celebrate. It's hard work, but it's not a "trend."
Why is in most places, but not all? Well, I did me another blog post!
https://t.co/0hvvDXKCj1
tl;dr: Hard work, focus, and good leadership in each and every one of those cities where lives have been saved.

[John Haas @haas1235]

@PeterMoskos In 2022, there were 25 murders in my town, South Bend, Indiana (pop. @ 100,000 last time I checked). In 2025, there were five. (I used Google's AI to get those numbers.)