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honestly laughed out loud, as the saying goes
#maybe we could someday reach a compromise wherein we just pummel the fuck out of our relationship with China specifically#and leave#ya know#our allies alone#but we can't put conditions on or make petitions to Donald#cannot reason with Donald#he reigns as he and he alone sees fit
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hi friends
as some random bitch on the internet im not gonna sit here and speak just to say i did but if you are scared and hurt and upset by the election results, i know and i love you. it isn’t right and it isn’t fair and im so sorry a country that was meant to support you made you feel like you were unloved. i love you and i stand with you and i am always a safe space to take you as you are. im sorry others won’t do the same for you. please take care of yourselves and one another <3
#and i cannot stress this enough#from the deepest parts of me#fuck donald trump#and fuck anyone who voted for him for any reason#you are complicit and there will be the blood of thousands on your hands#tw politics#tw election
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Tossing on:
the Harvard Lawsuits
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been returned to the US but is getting arrested and sent to criminal trial
Ukraine's missile strikes on Russia and how that changes the US approach to negotiation of peace talks
Court battles over tariffs
Investigations unveiling how non-fraud-ridden the Social Security system is
Trump trying to tax foreigners (Section 899)
The bond yields situation
National Brain Drain
And certainly more!
What's frustrating about the Musk and Trump thing is that. Like.
It's a distraction.
Trump cancelling the subsidies to electric cars was a campaign promise. That was basically announced months ago, I think Musk just didn't expect Trump to go through with it
And Musk saying Trump is in the Epstein files, is like. We knew. The files are everyone that Epstein associated with, and Trump has photos with the guy. We all knew.
I mean, it's a lot of flash, but to me it does feel like a bit of a nothingburger?
It feels like a distraction.
Even if the emotions are genuine, Trump might be getting encouragement to blow up the relationship so that people are distracted from the many real problems of the Big Beautiful Bill. And also so that the Left feels like there's momentum on Damaging The Right As A Cohesive Block.
So we're distracted, instead of:
Noticing how many Republicans are saying "I wouldn't have voted yes if I'd actually read the BBB"
Paying attention to the new travel ban
Recognizing that this isn't really moving anything
Calling our senators about the insanely stupid tax breaks in the BBB
And any number of other government actions that are shaping up to have real and lasting impacts on us
#united states#politics#current events#donald trump#elon musk#phoenix politics#there is SO MUCH bullshit going on that we cannot reasonably expect to keep up with it normally#when something like the Brodivorce bullshit goes viral it means we see even less of it
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bong joon ho really said "here's a story about how capitalism is designed to exploit the weak however it can. we must break the machine. those at the top cannot be reasoned with and have to be stopped by force. i know you feel expendable. they don't care about you and will beat you into submission at a moment's notice. you're not expendable. our only way out is through compassion. im killing donald trump with a bomb. im showing you that someone will always love you. oh and here's robert pattinson having sex with himself as a treat."
#and he was so real for that#everyone else's critiques are more eloquent than mine#this movie was so good#i wanna read the book so bad#mickey 17#bong joon ho#robert pattinson#naomi ackie#mark ruffalo#toni collette#movies#oh shush
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In February, several Justice Department officials resigned rather than obey a directive to drop their corruption case against New York City Mayor Adams. After they did, another DOJ official signed the order to avoid people being fired.
Complying or resigning are not the only options. Federal employees sometimes have another: In the words of Mrs. Reagan, sometimes they can “just say ‘no.’” In fact, sometimes that’s their duty.
The Trump administration has begun a broad attack on many activities of the federal government it now controls. It has acted aggressively to implement its agendas, to stop programs it disagrees with, and to fire members of the civil service on allegations of “poor performance” without evidence. Some of these actions are lawful implementation of the president’s agenda. However, as various court decisions show, many are not.
Under federal law, employees who call out violations of law, fraud, waste, or abuse receive whistleblower protections. Agencies cannot legally fire them, demote them, or remove them. Those same statutes provide a “right to disobey.” They protect employees who refuse an order because doing so would violate the Constitution, laws, agency rules, or federal regulations. Federal employees need not resign or comply. They can just say “No.”
The law doesn’t permit civil servants to disobey solely because they disagree with a policy. However, when federal employees join the federal service, they sign an oath to “… well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office … So help me God.” That oath doesn’t change from administration to administration. It clearly includes complying with the nation’s laws. If directed to do something that violates the Administrative Procedures Act, federal personnel statutes, published federal procurement rules and regulations, or an appropriation enacted by Congress and signed into law, federal personnel may legally refuse to obey and, under their oath of office, arguably must.
That right to disobey was what Congress sought to protect when it unanimously passed the Follow the Rules Act during the first Trump administration. During the first Trump administration, Congress strengthened these protections—unanimously. The original statute covered only orders that would “violate a law.” In 2017, Congress expanded that protection to include refusal to obey “an order that would require the individual to violate a law, rule, or regulation.” President Donald J. Trump signed the Follow the Rules Act into law.
Some federal officials have taken the third option and just said “No.” Before Kash Patel was confirmed as FBI Director, then-acting Director Brian Driscoll refused to fire agents guilty of no offense, other than obeying an instruction to investigate Jan. 6 rioters.
What should federal employees do when faced with an order that would violate their oath and that they reasonably believe to be unlawful? Many advise consulting a lawyer. However, faced with an immediate order, most federal employees don’t have the time or money to consult legal counsel. They must rely on their own knowledge, experience, and reasoned judgment to decide for themselves.
This administration has proven that it will fire federal employees who disobey an instruction that would have them violate the law—even though that firing would be illegal. So, many will comply even when they know they should not. However, as Mr. Driscoll shows, some will stay true to their oaths. If their legal protection—the right to disobey—were better known, more might do so. Each person who did so would slow or stop implementation of unlawful orders.
Furthermore, law-abiding-but-fired federal employees have remedies. Career civil servants who were fired, demoted, or reassigned because they have refused an order can appeal to the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), created by Congress to investigate violations of personnel law and rules. In cases where OSC believes there has been an unlawful “prohibited personnel action,” it will advise the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). Congress chartered the MSPB to police the federal personnel system. It can require reinstatement into the job, retroactive back pay, and payment of legal fees.
These protections are more than just theory: Only a few days ago, the MSPB, acting on a recommendation from OSC, temporarily reinstated six provisional employees who had been fired in an apparent violation of federal rules. It’s worth noting that the Trump administration has attempted to undermine both the OSC and MSPB by removing their leaders. However, Congress by law required good cause before either can be removed, and thus far courts have overturned most of these dismissals.
So, why don’t more federal employees just say no? The main reason is that many employees cannot afford to lose their jobs and wait for reinstatement. The remedies for wrongful personnel actions can take months, even in normal times, and these are not normal times. It’s also important to note that some believe that it’s important they continue to do the other parts of their job.
But there are other reasons. Based on conversations with lawyers, advocacy groups, and public interviews, there are many:
Some who do disobey see no benefit in publicizing that fact, as public whistleblowers can and do become public targets.
Many don’t know they can say “No.” As of this writing, there are no descriptions of the right to disobey on the websites of major federal unions or the Partnership for Public Service.
Advocacy groups fear being seen as giving legal advice. Some educational webinars actually start with a notice that “this is not legal advice”.
Even some lawyers representing federal employees in wrongful personnel action cases are unaware of the law, focusing on the more widely discussed protections for whistleblowers who disclose rather than employees who refuse to act.
Federal employees confronted with orders they believe are illegal must make their own decisions—with or without legal counsel—about how to comply with their oath to the public they serve, despite the genuine personal risks. That’s a part of public service, too.
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guys i unironically wanna read invincible fics …
#invincible#invincible fanfic#invincible x reader#WHERES ALL THE OLDER/middle aged CHARACTER FICS?#debbie grayson#omni man#cecil stedman#because listen i love mark but hes a BABY to me ik es supposed to be like 18#whatever the reason i physically cannot simp for him lol ig its bc im old#i look at him and think “aww”#his mom however..#give me a chance debbie#the chance you never gave cecil#immortal invincible#cecil x donald#shhh who wrote in my tags guy wth#cecil invincible#donald invincible#anissa invincible#i need the invincible grownups lol#sampson invoncible#WHERE TF IS THE SAMSON TAG#samson invincible#invincible samson#howdoes that guy not have a tag waittt#hes literally samson ??? stronk hotguy??? he just doesnt havehair but other than tht hes ssamson guys cman#maybe dont read my tags lol#fangirling too much
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Being concerned about Donald Trump twisting a legitimate executive order illegally and for his own benefit is very reasonable.
But if you catch yourself thinking:
I don’t want Trump to enforce the legal rights of Jewish students because it might lead to leftist backlash…
You’ve gotta stop yourself:
You cannot ask other Jews (especially, in this case, children and young adults) to settle for fewer rights because you are afraid of backlash.
We’ve been over this. We’ve all heard the sad stories of pre-WWII antizionist Jews convinced the Zionists were going to get them all killed by speaking up. But we know that the Zionists did not secretly cause the Holocaust. The antisemites did.
Jews asserting their rights does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism.
Please, fight the problem at its source.
#jumblr#Donald trump#us politics#non Jews welcome to reblog too if you like#as always all good faith additions are welcome no matter who you are
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The intersection of male supremacy and white supremacy: Sperm donation corruption and rape by deception of women.

Jonathan Jacob Meijer.
(There is a Netflix documentary: Man with 1000 kids)
Several women went to this Norwegian man seeking a sperm donor. He had great hair. He had great teeth. He traveled and made Youtube blogs of everywhere he went, to all of these different countries. These women went through a private website as opposed to a clinic. He told these women that his intentions were to donate to a maximum of five families.
As they began getting pregnant and giving birth, some bumped into each other. And what a funny coincidence it was that they happened to share the same donor. And then more met and knew of each other. And some realized that their kids were in the same day camp together, and what were the odds of that?
And as it turns out, this man was operating under several different aliases and traveling internationally, donating to 11 different sperm banks under different names, providing sperm privately for women on the side. And he didn't just donate to five women, he donated to hundreds of women, many of whom connected with each other over social media and formed an online group where all were concerned with what he was doing. And this resulted in thousands of children directly related to this man internationally.
And he didn't just use his sperm, but would also meet up with his bald scarred friend and mix their sperm together in the sample bottle, so many of these women non-consensually conceived children with a man they had never even heard of without realizing it. And him and his buddy and other serial donors would "joke" that they were spreading their "white seed" when they would travel to places like Hong Kong and Kenya.
When he was finally tried in court he stated that if there was concern about incest, the children can all simply wear and use a social media symbol that brands them as his so they can recognize each other. And a female judge (who's name I cannot seem to find online) in a Dutch court, sentenced him to 100,000 euro fine for every time he donated if he was ever found donating again and required him to contact the donor banks and request his material be destroyed.

Donald Cline
(Also a Netflix documentary on this: Our Father)
A fertility (gynecology and obstetrics) doctor in the 1980s who welcomed women into his clinic before cryogenic freezing of sperm was a thing and it was freshly inseminated through a procedure. He let the women know that he was using the sperm of medical students and that there would be no more than three times sperm from the same student would be used. Some women, who weren't able to conceive with their husband for one reason or another, also came into the clinic wanting to use their own husband's sperm.
Years later a woman who grew up knowing that part of her DNA was from a sperm donor began wanting to connect with her potential siblings on 23&Me. She was shocked to discover at least 10 siblings she was related to. She got in touch with them.
It turns out that Dr. Cline proceeded to use his own sperm on the female patients, hiding somewhere in the clinic to produce it immediately before using it to inseminate unsuspecting women. This man covertly reproductively exploited several women and "fathered" 94 children. Whenever the children would try to meet with him, he would show up intentionally carrying a gun to intimidate them.
One of his biological daughters, who didn't realize Cline was her biological father until adulthood, even had him as her own gynecologist. He performed pap smears and breast exams on her. He knew that she was his biological offspring and she did not have the knowledge and therefore the option to decline being sexually examined by her biological father.
Dr. Cline was also tried in court by the victims; however, the judge was sympathetic to him.
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This form of sociopathy not only majorly creates significant consequences to the gene pool for our human species as these half siblings are at higher risk of incest, but the psychological harm done to the mothers and the children are horrific. Some of these (now adult) children have described an entire undoing of their self-identity, and many struggled in processing that the men who may have raised them was not their biological father. Some of these mothers are teaching their children to always ask whoever they date if they were ever conceived by a donor. These mothers now wrestle with conflicting emotions - the fact that they were betrayed, taken advantage of, and used to fulfill a man's god-complex, while also finally having a child or children that they love with all of their hearts who were a result of a violating situation.
These two men share two other things in common: they have both argued that they were "helping" these women. That these women came to them in need and that they were engaging in philanthropy and giving them what these women wanted. That they should be grateful.
And that they were interested in contributing to the white race. In addition to Meijer's comments in "spreading white seed", Jacoba, one of the child victims of fertility fraud/the reproductive rape of her mother by Donald Cline, described how he was using her mother as a pawn repeatedly to fulfill religious, male supremacist, and white supremacist ideals to spread the white race.
Now, look:
Presently there are little to no regulations or legal enforcement in preventing men from committing fertility fraud/this form of sexual violation and reproductive exploitation of women. There are little to no consequence for men substantially altering the genetic pool and using women as chattel and children as genetic products. In fact, Meijer was the first case in which a judge placed restrictions on male reproductive autonomy as a consequence for causing sexual, psychological, and evolutionary harm.
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There is a stark contrast between how high level Democratic officials and GOP officials are messaging around the attack. Democratic leaders have universally condemned the action and called for unity, while many in the GOP have sought to exploit the moment for politics and even leveled baseless accusations against Joe Biden. President Biden was out quickly with a statement: “I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information. Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.” In live remarks, President Biden repeated, “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence. It’s sick. It’s sick. That's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. You cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this.” But unity was far from the minds of many in the GOP. Top VP top contender JD Vance posted, without evidence or basis, Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination. It is the height of irony to claim that Biden campaign rhetoric, which has never called for violence, somehow led to an attack, when Trump himself has engaged in non-stop attacks upon his perceived enemies that have led directly to death threats, doxxing, and even judicial gag orders to put a stop to it. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) took things even further, calling for the Butler County, PA prosecutor to charge Joe Biden with inciting an assassination. He also claimed, without basis and to inflame his followers, that Joe Biden “sent the orders” for the attack.
2024 Isn’t Nearly Done With Us
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"Donald Trump is a fascist white supremacist."
"If he's a fascist white supremacist, why didn't he do fascist white supremacist things in the four years he was President?"
"I'm not interested in this kind of whataboutism from fascism defenders."
Watching people hold on to the flattering story of "Trump was a fascist white supremacist" is like watching someone succumb to dementia. It's not true, it's been proven wrong again and again, but they don't just hang on to it, it's like it's the only idea they can hang on to. Like they can't remember or understand anything else in the world.
Obviously not this dipshit alluded to above, but I've had friends who I had an extended conversation with about how Trump cannot be a fascist white supremacist, how all available information contradicts it, how white supremacy cannot possibly explain his victory by gaining more than any Republican among minorities, and they agree with all of the facts there, do not and can not offer any new facts to contradict them, and then like the Patrick meme, say "but white supremacy was the reason he won the election." They just go back to that idea as the default starting point for everything. It's the only thing they know in the world.
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No matter who someone votes for does not make them a bad person. If someone votes differently than you and you find that as a reason to not support them then you are part of the problem. I'm thankfully open-minded and glad I can have Democrat and Republican friends and we can all still be friends even with different beliefs and opinions. I don't understand how anyone can have that mindset.... You want Peace and love but are the first ones to throw someone under the bus if they think differently than you do.
And using Ewan to push your thoughts is shameful
Having friends on both sides of the aisle is fine. Having a difference in opinions is fine. I think it can be incredibly damaging for people to get caught in an echo chamber and be surrounded only by people who share their same viewpoint. And the fact that we can all have our own thoughts and opinions is what makes a free country like the U.S. so wonderful.
I even know a good number of Republicans and conservative-leaning people who didn't and wouldn't vote for Trump. And, you see, that's the difference.
Voting for Trump.
You cannot, in good conscience, look me in the eye and tell me that casting a vote for Donald Trump makes you a good person. I could have forgiven a Trump vote in 2016, but not in 2020 and certainly not in 2024.
Trump attempted to overturn a democratic election and was indicted for it. And on that day, he voiced support for the Capitol rioters who wanted to hang his vice president for failing to reject the electoral votes that proved Biden's win.
Trump nominated Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, a move that has already killed women and will continue killing people. In Texas alone, the maternal death rate rose by 56% between 2019 and 2022, the year that Roe was overturned. Since the reversal, the infant mortality rate has risen by 7% nationally - and by 13% in Texas alone.
Trump is unapologetically and unabashedly racist, displaying repeated and disturbing rhetoric aimed at immigrants, Mexicans, black Americans, Haitians, Muslims, and more. In his first term, he instituted new procedural barriers to prevent immigrants from seeking asylum in America. He put migrant children in cages. He has unjustly called for the death penalty for numerous people of color - remember the Central Park 5?
Trump has threatened to deploy the military and law enforcement to target his political opponents and left-leaning Americans.
Trump rolled back almost 100 policies focused on clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals in an era when mitigating climate change is more important than ever. And he plans on gutting even more.
Trump is a convicted felon with 34 felony counts under his belt.
Trump has shown time and time again that his views and policies align with fascist ideals. He wants very, very badly to turn the U.S. democracy into an authoritarian regime.
And if this isn't enough, Trump has been endorsed by the KKK since his 2016 campaign. He's the golden child of white supremacists and white nationalists everywhere.
So, yeah. If this is your guy, I don't want fucking anything to do with you.
I am so sick and tired of Trump supporters crying about peace and love and civility and "oh, but where are the tolerant left?" when they turn right around and vote for Donald Trump.
You don’t get to hold abhorrent views and beliefs and then be friends with us. You don’t get to be friendly to our faces all while supporting a man who wants us dead or oppressed. You can't profess to love your fellow Americans if you are condemning them.
I don't want to hang out with racists and fascists. Because if you choose to support and vote for a racist, fascist, misogynistic, dangerous person, then that makes you one, too.
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I know we're all tired of political posts telling us to call people to protect our rights, but this is a big one.
H.R. 633, The TAKE IT DOWN act, could be put through a House session as early as next week according to the schedule.
While this bill's intention is to make it easier to remove AI and deepfake pornography and other nonconsensual depictions of identifiable adults and minors, the way the bill is written poses a danger to free speech and the ability to post lawful content. As the way the bill's takedown system is written, there's a mandatory 48 hour takedown notice period with no way to appeal in the event of a wrongful report. Meaning this could just as easily be misused to report lawful content and speech that someone dislikes for any reason and have it removed without proper cause.
Indeed, Donald Trump has himself said that he blatantly intends to misuse the bill himself, which he has been touting alongside Melania Trump.
" "Once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law. And I'm going to use that bill for myself too if you don't mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody," Trump said, drawing laughs from the crowd at Congress. "
This is a blatant admission of the intent to misuse a law which could otherwise be used to help people who are victims of a serious crime in order to silence people he feels are not treating him properly online. Don't let him get his hands on that power in a time when he is already willfully putting the powers of checks and balances in a shredder for his own ends.
Call, email, and fax your House representatives to let them know just how dangerous this bill could be for America's already endangered free speech.
If you need a basic call or email script to base your words on, you may use the one I will add below. Thank you for taking the time to contact your representatives, and do your best.
"I would like to inform my representative about the dangers posed by H.R. 633, the TAKE IT DOWN act of 2025. While this bill is well-intentioned, the provisions provided in its takedown system and overly broad language are insufficient to prevent its measures from being abused by bad actors who would use it to remove speech, images, and information they disagree with rather than using it for its proper purpose of protecting others intimate images, both real and deepfaked, from being used to harm them.
The president has said himself that he intends to misuse this bill for its own purposes, and it should be in the interest of you as my representative to prevent such a blatant misuse of legal power to silence free speech. If the language of this bill cannot be altered, then it should be rejected at all costs to protect the free speech that is held so valuable in this country.
Vote NO ON H.R. 633, The TAKE IT DOWN act."
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POLITICAL DISCLAIMER:
If you are someone who found joy in yesterday’s assassination attempt, I am begging you to unfollow me and never look at my blog ever again. If you need a reason to cancel me, block me, I am a Conservative who comes from a small business family and I will absolutely be voting for Donald J. Trump or whoever the Republican nomination will be in November.
No matter how much people like me disagree with Joe Biden’s politics, I guarantee you that 99%+ of us do not wish him any harm, particularly to be shot. Posts like this above confirm my worst fears, that far more than 1% of Democrats wish that bullet yesterday either grazed an artery or landed right between his eyes.
You are celebrating an absolute stain on our country. Do not say that you are voting to protect democracy if you are willing to celebrate yesterday’s events. And those of you reasonable Democrats who were as horrified as I was, since y’all put it on us after January 6, you now have a responsibility to talk some sense into your fellow comrades who are wishing for the destruction of America.
I have been vigilant about keeping politics out of my blog, but after seeing this post earlier, if any of my people support such posts and I see it, I will be blocking you from my blog as we do not deserve each other and I don’t want to know anything about you. Block me first, I do not care as I only encourage it! If you cannot agree to disagree, it says much more about you than it says about me as I am not the problem - you are!
And yes, if the tables were turned yesterday, I would be saying the exact same thing if Joe Biden was the victim. Don’t tell me otherwise as if you know me better than I know myself. If law abiding, 2A supporting gun owners like myself were the problem, trust me, you’d fucking know it!
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Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum...
After one day and a half of suspense, we finally saw the Protodeacon of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Mamberti (FR), telling us that the Catholic world has a new Pope, the now former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 'who has taken the name Leo XIV'.
Technically at least, he is not the first 'American' Pope in history - that would be simply ignoring Pope Francis, who hailed from South America. But he is the first US-born (to a French/Italian father and a Spanish mother) Pope, which is great, somewhat unexpected news, given the long standing customary veto against the very idea. The reason was, at first, logical, in an era of steamboats and scarce contacts of any American contenders with the intricate games of the Roman Curia - they were simply at risk of reaching Rome too late, when summoned to a conclave! But the modern doctrine, tacitly formulated during the Cold War, was simply meant to avoid any suspicion of a Manchurian papabile, backed and instrumentalized by the CIA. It is, therefore, very interesting (and perhaps ironically serendipitous...) that this conclave ditches such an absurd remnant of an antagonistic geopolitical logic, on the 80th anniversary of V-E Day:

This is also a subtle slap on Donald Trump's cheek, given that atrocious, blasphematory AI-generated image portraying him in papal attire. That he chose to post it on his personal Truth Social account, implicitly bragging, is of course very poor taste and the useless provocation of an insensitive ignoramus. But Pope Leo XIV is also a former Prior General of the Order of Saint Augustine and I see this as poetic justice for JD Vance's shortsighted, tone-deaf interpretation of Saint Augustine's ordo amoris doctrine. To which Cardinal Provost reacted on a very firm tone, only to be told that it was 'enough to google it'. Fun fact: no, it's not and Vance had no business using one of the most beautifully logic theories on love and brotherhood of man to justify the current anti-immigration policy of the Trump administration.
While his attire (the red mozzetta cape, as opposed to Francis' white cassock) clearly signals a moderate approach, the choice of his new name is also a strong affirmation of what is probably going to be a pragmatic and pro-active, socially oriented papacy. The inspiration for this choice, Pope Leo XIII, was the author of 'Rerum Novarum', an encyclical on the value and ethics of labor (1891). This title has been widely translated as 'Of Revolutionary Change', which is not exactly meaning the Vatican was promoting a revolution, but that it was reacting to the emerging Marxist and socialist theories. Its aim was to propose a more balanced approach, that would recognize both the supreme value of private property and the need of an equitable repartition of the respective rights and duties of employers and employees. In the process, this important document stops demonizing trade unions and lays the ideological ground for the European Christian democracy (centrist) political movement.

While some of Pope Francis' legacy will very likely be continued, this much is clear: a younger Leo XIV will definitely want to put his own vision forward. It is too early to tell how he will do it, but we can safely bet the worst is behind us, with Cardinal Burke's failure to garner the conclave's support. The future role of women in a more synodal (not curial) Roman Catholic church, its relationship with the divorced Catholics and the Catholic gay communities around the world or the fight against child abuse are just some of the heaviest issues that cannot wait any longer.
Unlike Saint Francis of Assisi's irresistible appeal, Augustine is perceived as more intellectual, which is a pious way to call him dry. But perhaps two (well-known) quotes will endear him to you, as much as they did to me, a long time ago:
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
And, of course: Dillige et quod vis fac. Love and do what you will.
Any coincidence is, of course, coincidental. If I may say so 😉
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The Dilemma Bulletin: Tuesday February 4th, 2025
Keeping you informed about the daily events of the Trump Administration
President Donald Trump pauses tariffs for 1 month on Canada and Mexico after caving into initiatives that they were already in the process of being implemented.
House and Senate Democrats hold a news conference in front of the USAID building in Washington D.C after being denied entry to investigate why Elon Musk is illegally accessing and breaching the facility.
Rumors suggest the reason why Elon Musk is so adamant on ending USAID is because it had a hand in destroying apartheid in South Africa
It has been revealed that 6 college students are being employed by Elon Musk to weed through the American publics sensitive information. Those names have been shared all over across the internet.
Trump plans to halt any foreign aid to South Africa after he claims land is being stripped away from White South Africans. This was likely at the guidance of Elon Musk.
Trump and Elon are setting their sights on the Department of Education next with plans to end the Department via Executive Order. (Departments cannot be ended by Executive Order, only Congress can shut down a dept)
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Respect My Wife
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In the bustling corridors of the White House, where the echoes of history mingled with the pressing issues of the present, Vice President Kamala Harris stood with a fierce determination in her eyes. It was a day like any other, filled with meetings and briefings, but her mind was elsewhere—focused on Y/N, her beloved wife, who had recently found herself the target of unwarranted criticism from none other than Donald Trump.
Y/N had always been a beacon of strength, a voice of reason, and a source of unwavering support for Kamala. But in the wake of Trump's latest tirade, which had twisted Y/N's words and intentions, Kamala felt a protective instinct surge within her. She was not just the Vice President; she was a partner, and she would not stand idly by while the man who once occupied the highest office in the land hurled baseless accusations.
As the news broke, Kamala's phone buzzed with alerts, the headlines flashing across the screen. Trump’s comments dripped with condescension, belittling Y/N's contributions and character. It was a low blow, a tactic designed to undermine not just Y/N but the values they both stood for. With every word she read, Kamala's resolve hardened.
Gathering her staff, Kamala conveyed her thoughts with clarity and passion. "We cannot let this stand. Y/N deserves respect and support, not the petty attacks of a man who has proven time and again that he thrives on division and disrespect." Her voice resonated in the room, igniting a fire in the hearts of those around her.
Later that day, as the sun dipped below the horizon, casting a warm glow over the White House, Kamala found Y/N in their private quarters. Y/N looked up, a mixture of weariness and determination painted across their face. Kamala approached, her expression softening as she took Y/N's hands in hers. "I saw what he said," Y/N admitted, their voice steady but tinged with hurt. "It’s just noise, Kamala. I can handle it."
But Kamala shook her head, her brow furrowing with concern. "It's not just noise when it comes from someone like him. You’ve worked too hard, and you deserve better. I won't let him diminish what you’ve accomplished or who you are." There was a fierce light in her eyes, a protective fire that spoke volumes about her love and commitment.
In that moment, Y/N felt a swell of gratitude. Kamala’s strength had always been a source of inspiration, but this was different. It was a reminder that they were in this together, facing the storms of public scrutiny side by side.
“Let him throw his shade,” Kamala continued, her voice steady. “He’s just mad that he doesn’t have what we have. Love, integrity, and a vision for a better future.”
Y/N smiled, a warmth spreading through them as Kamala leaned in, pressing a gentle kiss to their forehead. “We’ll rise above this. Together.”
As the night deepened, Kamala knew that the political landscape could be tumultuous, but with Y/N by her side, she felt invincible. They would confront whatever challenges lay ahead, hand in hand, heart to heart, undeterred by the words of those who sought to tear them apart. Together, they would shine brighter than any shadow cast by the past.
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