Michael C. Stone

They can rule by fear or lead with respect. It cannot be both. If they rule by fear, there will be no respect, and living without respect is what any mere mortal should fear.
Your time on this planet is finite. The history you leave is not. Choose respect. Choose empathy. Leave fear behind.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

People who fantasize about all the potential "justifications" for applying lethal force should not be in any position that has historically, repeatedly allowed lethal force to occur without the threat of accountability.

First step to restoring order is to imprison the fraudulent regime that is occupying the White House.

Crossing the border undocumented is a misdemeanor, as well, so by this logic people who jaywalk or have a moving violation shouldn't have a right to healthcare, right?

And his BFF, err, uh, I mean newest, biggest enemy had to buy out a whole social network platform so he could spew unhinged diarrhea along with all of his racist friends, too!
Let's watch them burn each other down now!

You could have stopped at "Men are too emotional." Emotional regulation does not seem to be a strength of the "stronger" sex, LOL.

Dude thinks bananas are made on an assembly line, I guess?

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

Learn to recognize these. We have been steeped in them for a long time, and the current chaotic idiocy is the result.

They say "if you don't do politics, politics do YOU," but we ALL get DONE by politics when a large percentage of you don't care enough to look past your favorite, comfortable source. We are ALL soaking in the murky, fecal-contaminated waste-waters of the swamp that "man" claimed to want to drain.

Nancy Mace: the walking, talking equivalent of a genital wart.

The "lions not sheep" crowd is perpetually busy acting like every rustle in the tall grasses is a predator. You know, the evolutionary tendency of a sheep. It's as if their mythology never prepared them for the mental experiments that come with existing on a planet with many cultures.

Friendly reminder apropo of nothing in particular: changing the rules to the game you are playing so that you are no longer breaking the rules of the game is the tactic of despicable, shallow, hatefully-empty losers.
Just a random thought.
If this offends you, look within.

Why must the tone-deaf always practice their tone-deafness in public?

Habitual losers re-write rules rather than admit the fact that they are habitual losers. Why do better when you can just rage-quit and turn losing into "winning." I would also say "good luck," but they clearly have a track record of just shitting all over established convention without consequence.

It's so odd that Christian Nationalists are trying to stomp out *pretend* "anti-Christian bias" when their repudiation of everything Jesus ever said is the biggest example of *real* "anti-Christian bias" in the United States right now.

That "Due Process" is even a contentious issue now shows how our broken country has moved from the values of whose who wrote our Constitution. We are a country adrift.

being accused of a crime doesn't make you guilty of a crime
being accused of a crime doesn't make you guilty of a crime
being accused of a crime doesn't make you guilty of a crime
being accused of a crime doesn't make you guilty of a crime
being accused of a crime doesn't make you guilty of a crime

Retribution doesn't make victims whole, and punishment doesn't prevent crimes. But the worst of Americans are simply too invested in the idea that revenge is righteous, and even worse, that it is to be PROFITED from.

Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history.

They aren't even bothering to hide it.

Men who conflate fear and respect will use any atrocity to cultivate that fear. There is not a weaker man than he who wields a weapon where words could have swayed the subjects.

Abnormalize fake laughter.

Calling anything "woke" is a thought-ending cliche. It is currently the fastest way to show that one has nothing to offer that carries any intellectual value, whatsoever. But then, people who bleat "woke" also seem to think "intellectual" is a derogatory term.

In the very LEAST case, they surely don't want the American people to hear first-hand from someone who has suffered through their torture programs. There is no way to show this in any "kind light."

The last several generations saying "we don't discuss politics or religion" have led us to a world where we are incapable of discussing politics or religion. It has facilitated the very worst of humanity to work behind the scenes and give us a Christo-Fascist wet dream. I hope we can escape it.

"He's playing CHESS while everyone else is playing CHECKERS!"
You do realize that's a great way to lose at checkers, right?
-Paraphrased from unknown.

Kid Rock looks like the kind of guy who wants to "shoot cans" in the way Clayton Bigsby means it.

Context is everything, even though it is completely lost on such a large portion of the population.

The point is that this is a regime (not an administration) that acted like schoolyard bullies with Zelensky over his garb in the "sacred, hallowed" oval office with the most childish, simian boorishness, but they are welcoming this flag-code violation with glee?!