Eric the Red ✝️🌹

My latest on reflecting like Augustine on our current Imperial collapse, discussing Christian nationalism, bad theology, and our Lenten journey towards making and building a better world on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Sounds like someone got a phone call from Leo

Relieved @bradlander.bsky.social is safe, hoping the others will be released soon. But even when they are: Palestinians are still being detained, still attacked daily, still blocked from accessing their trees. Every leading candidate in the Israeli elections supports this intolerable status quo.

Trump is unable to name one issue voters care about in this clip. Not one.

the USA with its evangelical & pentecostal fanatics will support the razing of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. those movements & the mormons decided, against thousands of years of tradition, on a different site called “the garden tomb” as the site of Christ’s resurrection.

It's almost like if you cannot find Christ in the cries of the occupied and the sojourner, you will not find Him in the chalice.

Every 5 year old has tried this one 🙃

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, August 15 1914:

Ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity carried out, televised live - and most Western governments can't be bothered to even talk about it. This has always about erasing Palestinians in every way Israel can. Thousands of Palestinians forced out of their homes in Hebron, in the West Bank:

The vision of doctrinal and dogmatic purity portrayed by some folks who tell a fabled history of the church is illusory. Go read the Letters of Paul.

Despite its widespread popularity, the doctrine of the ‘rapture’ is younger than the Declaration of Independence.

At this point he’s just rambling about the things he sees in his head, which is mostly a stew of movies, TV, Fox News, and whatever slop Natalie feeds him.

Oh he really does think it’s a swimming pool

We should never forget that this is not just a Trump thing, it's a GOP thing - fantasizing about the occupation of American cities.

Is the moral compass what you consult when you're looking for an Afghan wedding to bomb

It's crazy to me that the right has succeeded in its propaganda war to make Covid seem like no big deal when over a million people fucking died from it in under two years

Trump lost touch with reality. It is one thing to lie and tell voters what they want to hear and believe in. It is another thing to lie and tell voters what they do not want to hear and do not believe in.

I suppose we can’t count it as an October Surprise that the leopards are indeed eating people’s faces, but it is kind of surprising they went for it in the run-up to the midterms

I'm internally contextualizing this by meditating on how insane with rage someone arguing we will need to preserve the tacky ballroom for reasons of historicity would make me

For those who celebrate it

Has he told this to Jeffries and Schumer?

I hope the people I met will be ok, Inshallah/Be’ezrat Hashem/God willing we’ll meet again after this is over

The corrupt billionaires ransacking our tax dollars and destroying our country are the same guys saying it’s the fault of immigrants, trans people and people of color. It’s never been more blatantly obvious.

New Mexico -- New America I New York -- New America II New Jersey -- New America III New Hampshire -- New America IV

the poverty of these peoples imaginations. they made something that can do some things and kind of also sucks a lot. they have to dream up reasons as to why this thing should and will make them trillionaires. and this is what they come up with. you can slave away in a factory in the matrix

this guy is single handedly going to end racism by just making everyone fucking sick of it

again: whatever we had here was all bought and paid for with blood. wars were fought. the slaveholders and the fascists lost. this soft handed pallid little worm and all his paper wealth extracted from your taxes is not permitted to just tip it over by writing some checks. sorry

organize. the only way out of this

important to remember: the only reason these guys are rushing headlong into this dangerous nonsense that they don't even fully understand is so that a few of them can beat the other ones to becoming trillionaires. that's why livelihoods, lives, and the entire current order is being put at risk

if you nationalize spacex and deport musk, turn over hegseth to iran, nationalize palantir and deport thiel, the rest of them will start cutting any deal they can

kushner, the trump sons, send miller to minnesota to answer for the murders there -- make an example of even a small handful of high profile unlikeable ghouls, the message will be out

correct. it's wild to remember that so much of this could have been stopped cold by 5 or 6 people deciding they cared about our society. and their whole thing could be stripped down to the studs by dealing with maybe 70 guys

i can see an argument that at some point mass prosecutions of these guys might actually engender a backlash effect. i think you can just start with a peace deal with iran that involves turning over hegseth to them to answer for the children he killed and then going from there. it will have an effect