THE MAGA AGENDA: protect the fetus, starve the child, honor the soldier, abandon the veteran, enrich the corporations, and fleece the worker, quote the Bible but ignore every single fucking verse.
Donald Trump thought he could score cheap political points by calling Bill LeRoy an “insult to Jesus” because the veteran catcher and captain of the Savannah Bananas is “beyond woke” and believes that God does not discriminate on the basis of gender.
Standing in front of a roaring, sold-out Banana Ball crowd, LeRoy didn’t just clap back — he delivered a powerful, no-nonsense response that shook the stadium.
“The president of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus,” LeRoy began, gripping the mic with calm intensity. “You want to know what’s a real insult to Jesus? Turning your back on people who need help while giving more to those who already have everything.”
“You know what insults Jesus?” he continued, gesturing toward the crowd. “Separating families, shutting doors on those in need, and forgetting what ‘love thy neighbor’ actually means. That’s not the message I stand for — and it’s not the message this team stands for.”
“You know what insults Jesus? Preaching values while ignoring compassion. Talking about faith while practicing division. That’s not faith — that’s politics dressed up as religion.”
“I’m not a perfect Christian,” he said, a small smile crossing his face. “There’s only been one perfect man, and I’m not him. I’m just a catcher who believes in treating people right.”
“Jesus told us to love our neighbors as ourselves… So why do we keep choosing hate, division, and fear instead?”
It's easy for the dead to tell you to fight, and maybe it's true, maybe fighting is useless. Perhaps it's too late. But I'll tell you this: if I could do it again, I'd wake up early and be fighting those bastards from the start!
I lost my job, oil is six dollars a gallon, my kids have measles, and secret police roam the streets, killing and imprisoning people at random. But at least now students at schools I've never heard of aren't heckling conservative speakers that I've never heard of.
Tony Gilroy says the 'clown car in Washington' appears to be using the same 'Fascism for Dummies' playbook he referenced when writing the Empire in 'Andor'
"it’s the same shit all the time. Get rid of truth, get rid of a free press, destroy communities, nationalize the businesses, find an arbitrary enemy that you can elevate and false flag them through propaganda. Flood the zone with as much gak and atrocity as you can so that nobody can pay attention to what just happened, and pray that you have an overwhelming majority of sheep that will follow you. It’s just tragically and sadly familiar. It’s on them; it’s not on us"
On AI regulation, he says 'there [couldn't] be a worse bunch of clowns in charge of it right now'
"You couldn’t set the bar any lower than where it’s being set in Washington right now"
(via @THR)
BREAKING: Here's the full release:
The Justice Department just released 3 million additional pages responsive to the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
More than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images are included.
https://t.co/hVZIBiZ77w
i haven’t spoken about this due to my visa status, but fuck it i don’t stand for this shit, never have and never will. the senseless violence in our current world is sickening. abolish ICE.
Harrison Ford on Donald Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history."
“[Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the sh*t out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history. He’s losing ground because everything he says is a lie. I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concentrate more fully on implementation of those policies. But we have to develop the political will and intellectual sophistication to realize that we human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times.”
(Source: The Guardian)
ANDOR star Stellan Skarsgård describes his worldview.
"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it.”
"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.”
(Source: @vulture)
Remember this: freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause.
ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy says “it’s their fault” that the show mirrors real life politics today.
“We’ve come to the conclusion now that it’s their fault….They’re matching the show…. Were they watching the show and saying, ‘Oh let’s rip Padilla out of the ICE meeting. Let’s invade the streets of Chicago. Let’s start nationalizing companies by bribery.’”
(Source: https://t.co/f7QraGhOak)
🚨 BREAKING: A Canadian man has died in ICE custody in Florida. His name was Johnny Noviello. He was 49.
ICE claims he was “found unresponsive” at a federal detention center in Miami. Medical staff tried to revive him. He was pronounced dead shortly after. The cause? Still “under investigation.”
Let’s be clear—ICE has a death toll. And it keeps climbing.
Now it’s not just immigrants from the Global South. Even a Canadian citizen didn’t make it out alive.
BREAKING:
Both the White House and RNCC have lashed out at the creators of this ad.
It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.
You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!
#MAGAKidnappers
I’m sorry. If you don’t get paid vacation from work, you live in a third world country.
If you don’t get basic healthcare free, you live in a third world country.
If you don’t get paid maternity and paternity leave, if you don’t get paid from work and the government when you’re off sick, then you live in a third world country.
If your government doesn’t force employers to give you a contract after a trial period so your employer has certain rights to uphold when it comes to loyalty back to you as a worker, so you feel safe and secure when you work hard, then you live in a third world country.
These are the very basics we come to expect In Europe and The U.K. This is the very least we will accept.
This year I have 52 paid vacation days off from work. This would not include paid sick days, time for doctor’s appointments or paid time off for looking after my child or taking them to the doctors. Some employees like mine pay a little extra for working from home, for electric, for internet and aditional money for food for when I work. We have very good free education. Americans travel to Europe just for the free universities to study without drowning in debt whilst living in the most beautiful cities. These universities that for some subjects are the best in the world.
It is physically illegal for my employer to contact me on my day off or outside of my contracted working hours.
Some of these things which can vary country to country in Europe are the very basics of what we expect living in a European country. The very minimum.
Yet we get told by MAGA that we live wrong, and we should change our values, and that America represents freedom. And we should follow what this government administration wants.
What is it to be free? Just to be allowed to have guns? To protect what? To protect yourself from your government?
The truth is sadly, that there is no Freedom in America. I say these things above so Americans know what you should demand from your leaders, because none of the above is taught to you.
Now this is the Truth you need to hear:
For education America is 13th in reading, 18th in science, 37th in math among 79 countries.
College debt is over $1.7 trillion and average borrower owes $30,000+.
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world….
You have around 25% of the whole world’s prisoners, but only 4% of the global population….
Over 2 million people currently incarcerated in the U.S.
You have the most expensive healthcare system globally, yet it ranks #30 in overall health care.
U.S. has higher infant mortality and lower life expectancy than many developed nations by far.
1 in 7 American children live in poverty. Roughly 11 million children
90% of your wealth is with 1% of people.
America has over 40,000 gun-related deaths annually.
And even for tech… The U.S. ranks 13th–20th in internet speed globally.
Why would they tell you what you are missing?
Why would they tell you what you should demand and expect as tax paying citizens…
Seek Freedom, Seek Real Freedom. Not the Freedom They Sold You.
The one they sold to you wasn’t free.