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Pete Hegseth Promotes His Pastor’s CNN Spot – and His Call for ‘Christian Domination’ Hegseth openly touted his alignment with self-described Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, sharing a new interview that the pastor did with CNN.

To anybody who’s listening, to anybody who cares, I’m a Christian who is wholeheartedly against “Christian nationalism”. So was Jesus, who explicitly said “My kingdom is not of this world”.

’Reacher’s Alan Ritchson Gave A Scathing Takedown Of Trump — And Conservatives Are Not Happy Ritchson wondered why some Christians see Trump as their "poster child" in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

There’s a reason I haven’t been to a church in years even though I am a believer.

When Illinois gerrymanders for decades it’s crickets, when Texas gerrymanders it’s “rigging the midterms” according to Newsom, who then advocates doing exactly what he just called election rigging. Nobody but politicians win in a gerrymandering fight. It’s the D’s fault it’s this close anyway.

It’s the battle between the far right nationalist MAGA and the “Christian” MAGA.

The Constitution explicitly gives Congress, not the Executive, power over monetary policy.

Netflix Sets Jussie Smollett Documentary With ‘New Evidence’: Alleged Hate Crime Hoax ‘Might Just Be a True Story’ Netflix has announced a documentary about Jussie Smollett that promises 'new evidence' of his alleged hate crime hoax.

Justice for Juicy!

Linear TV is a dying medium and the late night talk show format created by Steve Allen makes less sense in the 21st century. People can get their celebrity fix from their phone, they're not going to wait for a time slot for a six-minute puff interview. Colbert will be back in podcast form.

You can believe, as I do, that Paramount paid Trump a $16 million bribe to approve their deal and still believe that 2 million nightly viewers ain't shit, and Colbert was cancelled legitimately. That's like half of what frickin' PewDiePie gets, only with far more overhead. Not to mention...

Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists say Quest to create viable human sex cells in lab progressing rapidly, with huge implications for reproduction

Icky. Sometimes nature says no and we should just accept it.

I really underestimated how much hatred for immigrants there was in this country. Even when I was a Republican (eons ago) I believed the "we're only against illegal immigration" rhetoric. But they don't even say that anymore. They're openly against non-white and poor immigrants, no sugar-coating.

Nice try but there’s no way I’d ever go to Oklahoma.

I mean, he was running against a known crook. Just like Trump in 2016, this was a “we don’t want the devil we know, we want a disruptor” election. This is how elections have been in America and Europe for a decade now.

The Trace Memory collection was fun but basically a remake that changed most of the puzzles (since they couldn't be done on non-DS hardware). I hope they can do a Hotel Dusk collection but with more faithfulness.

Just swallow your pride and admit you misdiagnosed me, geez. Digging in your heels is bad for your psyche and makes you look silly.

…if you want to attack Republicans for advocating welfare cuts then pick a different argument.

Not a good argument, since welfare benefits don’t lead to more kids. Almost all of the developed world has been basically paying people to have children and gives generous parental leave and other benefits to boost fertility. Hasn’t worked. So this is one thing Republicans aren’t hypocrites on….

Once again, nothing of substance from you. Read my post history and find the parts where I’m anti-immigrant and pro-Netanyahu. I’ll wait.

Banning replacement workers *is* intervening.

Look past the warped portrayal of the labor movement and other propaganda: unions are just rent-seeking special interests with political connections.

…fooling them into thinking he’s actually Getting Things Done. It’s frustrating.

…looks at J6 and shrugs because the damage is to our norms and institutions not something tangible like a storefront on fire. It takes intelligence and an understanding of history, civics, economics, etc. to understand why Trump is so dangerous. Meanwhile he gives them the theater they like…

One of the biggest problems with MAGA is that apart from tariffs (and possibly Fed policy) it mainly erodes things that are intangible and thus harder for the average person to see why it’s bad. Succession crises destroy countries, and have held Africa back for decades, but the average person…

You don’t have good arguments, that’s why you’re resorting to attacks.

Yes, people who want to suspend the rule of law to go after people they don’t like always have a rationale. Trump has one (though it constantly changes) and Mamdani has one.

Isn’t that essentially what Mamdani is advocating? The only difference is that illegal immigration is at the very least a civil violation, whereas Netanyahu hasn’t done anything he can legally be arrested for. I am for pretty open borders and don’t like Netanyahu, but I also like the rule of law.

If they haven’t committed a crime in our jurisdiction and the crime they committed was according to a QUANGO (not even a nation state) that we have no treaty with then arresting him is a purely political act. Like what Trump is doing. So is lawlessness okay when it’s against people we don’t like?

We don’t have an extradition treaty with the ICC. Such an arrest would be illegal. Or is that only bad when ICE does it?

What crime actually on the books in NYC would he be arrested for?

And Fox News had stories gloating about Democrats losing their minds over Trump's win. I hate this kind of "own the libs/cons" theater. It just amps up the hatred everybody has for each other.

“In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies.”

—Adam Smith

Donald Trump sounds like a Democrat from the 1980s One of the most entertaining recent social media love fests involved President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.). Warren wrote that

I agree with this article except on one point, Trump clings to the Reaganite notion that you can *always* grow your way out of a tax rate "cut" and that deficits don't matter. And he embraces some of the deregulatory *rhetoric*. But apart from that he's an 80s protectionist Democrat all the way.