Americans love their Canadian brothers and sisters. They are the greatest allies, friends, and neighbors any country could have. So proud of Buffalo Sabres fans. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
#canada#sabres
I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
Putin has been trying to seize control of Donbas since 2014, and still has not succeeded. So now he is begging Trump to give it to him. What an incredible achievement of Ukrainian warriors.
EXCLUSIVE: An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).
https://t.co/tRcFQSFZkz
BREAKING: MAGA in full meltdown mode over this Super Bowl ad 😡
It would be a shame if you shared it and it went Viral 💙💙💙
Drop a 💙 for the bravery of Epstein survivors!
BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just published highly disturbing Files about Trump and then DELETED them.
We screen captured them before they were deleted.
Please share these documents far and wide. Don’t let them cover THIS up!!
https://t.co/chzAokyod7
Real growth starts with self-awareness.
It’s hard to look in the mirror and admit, I’m part of the problem.
Easier to point fingers like the Wizard of Oz.
But when you own your mistakes, something shifts — you get more grounded, more empathetic, and people give you grace because you’re not hiding.
Three rules I live by: own it, stay self-aware, and remember there’s always a renewal button.
Focus on what’s working, learn from what isn’t.
That’s just being human.
I’ve been mistaken. I’ve been silent while the freedom and democracy of the greatest country in the history of mankind is being threatened. Silence no longer an option for any American. I believe Trump voters love our country too but must realize they’ve made a grievous error.