Welp. It's that time of year again. Time to start my "Books I've Read so Far" thread.
To kick off 2024, last week I read "The Love Chapter," which is a collection of St. John Chrysostom's sermons on 1 Corinthians 13. It was a nice, simple read.
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Trumpsters want to tweet
#RespectTheFirstLady
? After they called Michelle Obama a monkey and used transphobic dogwhistles against her to imply she was trans?
As a wise lady once said...
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It's baffling how much hate
@jk_rowling
gets. She's a billionaire who uses her wealth to help people in need and do some good in the world, yet she gets roasted on social media by emotionally-stunted Zoomers just because she disagrees with the mainstream narrative on gender.
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@MEPFuller
Blake Masters drove one of his mistresses to the abortion clinic. The abortion was performed by Dr. Oz. Ted Budd bought them dinner afterwards.
Yes?
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The most underrated story of this cycle is how Whitmer turned Michigan from the site of the MAGA upset six years ago into a solid blue state downballot. Won all the state races, kept the state supreme court, and gained the state legislature. Similar with Shapiro in Pennsylvania.
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Kamala Harris was born in late 1964, which means she was a freshman in the fall of 1983. Linsey Davis was born sometime in 1977, which means unless she was a super child genius who went to college when she was 6 years old...she was a freshman either in the fall of 1995 or 1996.
Kamalaโs sorority sister was the debate moderator
ABC = shameless
The leftโs near-complete domination of broadcast TV couldnโt be more obvious
Perhaps itโs time to re-examine the laws that make this possible
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Wrote about how nobody should ever have trusted John Fetterman, and how unsurprising it was that he repeatedly lied and betrayed his progressive supporters:
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@Johnny_Joey
If I were Lance-Bottoms, I'd give them an ultimatum:
"You have until 5 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, June 19, 2020 to come back to your shifts. If you do not report back with a valid reason or excuse, you are hereby terminated."
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Millennial here (born in 1989). The past 7 months have made me antipathetic to anything "progressive."
I was already shifting against progressivism before, but this sealed it.
I have noticed that when it came to the recent campus unrest, the most aggressive sentiments came from millenials. Boomers might have a more uniform lack of sympathy but nothing compared with millenials, especially liberals. I have a theory something big is happening
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@lacroicsz
@BrandonMShow
I remember when this whole trans thing was just supposed to be a few thousand people with an irreversible dysphoric condition, and surgeries and hormones were only meant to be used as a last resort.
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@KHiveQueenB
He's got two Black women working in prominent positions on his campaign. Maybe instead of getting into fights with other campaign surrogates on social media and on CNN, maybe they should have advised him that skipping out on a heavily Black state was a bad idea?!
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@stormrobinson
Canada will pretty much be the only place they can go. The UK, France, the Nordic nations, all of them are pushing back on the excesses of this movement.
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@Acyn
Jacksonville and SF have nearly the same population. Last year, the former had 168 murders, while the latter had 56.
Newsom is correct on this one.
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@GlennonDoyle
LOL, the irony of quoting "To Kill a Mockingbird," about a black man in the Jim Crow South accused of raping a woman with flimsy evidence, in order to justify a
#BelieveSurvivors
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@Shane_maps
Newsom especially. Sorry, Gavin, but trolling DeSantis, Youngkin, and Abbott all day doesn't translate to votes for Jay Chen or Christy Smith!
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@Catsorange1
@PeteButtigieg
Why? It's the truth. And it's about time the Mainline started to reclaim their spot in the American political-religious discussion.
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@VinceDaoTV
Most trans women are straight men. Why do you think they call themselves "lesbians"?
And even if your thesis were true, that's the fault of the conservative approach to same-sex relationships.
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@MatthewStrugar
@ElieNYC
How would a far-left policy like M4A stand constitutional scrutiny in a conservative court if the ACA, a policy to the RIGHT of M4A, is killed?!
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@Slatzism
If sex work is real work...why is it that nearly all sex workers come from lower-class backgrounds?! Very few of them come from stable lives.
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Oh, and you can forget about the following things:
1. Cancel Student Debt
2. Medicare for All
3. Green New Deal
If this SCOTUS won't respect a half-century's worth of precedent, what in the hell makes you think they'll respect some newly-passed law?
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@notcapnamerica
The GOP legislators don't want to seat a duly-elected Dem state senator. The LG tried to object to their actions, and they threw him out of the chambers.
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@libsoftiktok
Before I even turned the video on, I KNEW she was going to be non-binary.
HOW is it that I was able to predict it? (No sarcasm in this question.)
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@ReginaA1981
@lacadri34
This is why I think they're pissed.
99% of Trumpsters know Biden won fair and square deep down. They're just pissed he was able to win despite campaigning as a racial ally while having a woman of color on his ticket.
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@gwlauren
@staceyabrams
The main question many of us have is why she was *the only one* who chose to go maskless while the kids had to wear masks. Even the other adults in the room wore masks.
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@MeansNefarious
"Progressive" meant something different in 2004. It meant affordable healthcare, ending the Iraq War, and equality for gays and lesbians.
Nowadays, the "progressives" of 20 years ago are centrists or "Blue Dogs" today.