‘just comply’ is fascinating advice from people who tried to overthrow the government because they lost an election and threw a yearlong tantrum over being asked to wear cloth on their face
BREAKING: Maine Governor Janet Mills hits back hard at Donald Trump after he pathetically demands that she issue a "full throated apology" for daring to publicly challenge him at the White House.
This is how you put the MAGA bully in his place...
"If the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering miscarriages and dying because they can’t get basic, life-saving health care in states across this country," Mills said at an event in Bangor, Maine.
"If he truly cares about women and girls and people of this country, let’s see the economic plan. Let’s see the health care plan. Let’s see the education plan," she continued.
She took a shot at Trump's Truth Social habits by saying that she doesn't communicate with public officials "by social media" and that the Constitution does not permit Trump to "make laws out of gold cloth or by tweet or Instagram posts or press release or executive order.”
“That’s just fundamental law, and I stand for the rule of law and the separation of powers," she added. "Look, the issue isn’t about transgender sports. People in Maine and across the country are waiting for an economic plan from the current occupant of the White House, and so far we’ve seen none."
Trump's demand for an apology came in a Truth Social rant after Mills boldly challenged him during a meeting of governors at the White House. When the president threatened to slash federal funding to states to enforce his trans athlete ban, Mills shouted out "see you in court."
In addition to the apology, Trump asked for a promise that Governor Mills "will never make such an unlawful challenge to the Federal Government again, before this case can be settled."
Of course, there's nothing illegal about Mills voicing opposition to Trump's mounting fascism. His efforts to enforce his will on the states exposes the lie that Republicans support "states' rights."
In truth, they only support states' rights to do exactly what the MAGA cult leader demands.
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BREAKING: MAGA pressure builds but Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde stands strong — refusing to back down after calling Donald Trump out to his face at the National Cathedral stating: "I won't apologize."
She's killing them with kindness and it's driving Republicans insane...
"I don't hate the president, and I pray for him. I don't feel there's a need to apologize for a request for mercy," Budde told NPR's All Things Considered.
"I regret that it was something that has caused the kind of response that it has, in the sense that it actually confirmed the very thing that I was speaking of earlier, which is our tendency to jump to outrage and not speak to one another with respect," she added. "But no, I won't, I won't apologize for what I said."
She voiced similar sentiments on MSNBC—
"We’re in a particularly harsh moment now when it comes to conversations around immigrant populations in our midst," Budde told Rachel Maddow. "And so that was the reason for the … tone I took now, but it could’ve been a very different tone in a different context."
The fact that Trump and his MAGA supporters are so incensed about Budde's sermon says far more about them than it does her. These so-called "Christians" were exposed to a message of love and mercy from a real Christian love and it's breaking their brains.
"I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared. There are gay, lesbian, transgender children, Democratic, Republican, independent families — some who fear for their lives," the reverend said as Trump sat in the pews.
"The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals — they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals," she added.
Trump himself responded by attacking Budde as "nasty" and "not compelling or smart" after her moving sermon. This is the man that Evangelicals voted en masse to support. The hypocrisy is enough to churn your stomach.
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1/5 Elon Musk is attacking Wikipedia after failing to buy it in order to turn it into a Kremlin propaganda machine (he really doesn't want you to verify facts!)
I was walking in South Philly and I passed the most Italian grandpa Philly man in the world yelling about this on the sidewalk to his friend saying "I don't give a fuck if he had kids, even Hitler had kids"
“In America, we do not ki!! people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint”
The Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighbourhood in 1985 ki!!ing 11 people, including 5 children, destroying 61 homes and leaving 250 people homeless