"Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him." 2 Samuel 14:14
"Such an island may be the dream of those who still talk and vote as isolationists. Such an island represents to me and to the overwhelming majority of Americans today a helpless nightmare of a people without freedom." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
I wish I could say I was surprised, but it looks like the state of Republican youth organization has deteriorated atrociously from what I remember in college. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
"...We should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples....The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come." sites.miamioh.edu/empire/files...
That Badenoch cites ICE, now a fascist paramilitary used to terrorize domestic political opponents, as some kind of model to emulate, really shows you just how little the Tories care about freedom. x.com/KemiBadenoch...
Every day I see footage of innocent people attacked by the state, and people speaking the same way I do being abused, and so many of you act like everything's normal to the extent that I question whether or not you will actually protect those in community with you.
If federal agents want to have an expectation of safety, they have to obey the law and not harm others. I expect to not be attacked, but that's because I don't go around assaulting people.
I want every single person to be safe, but I don't want to hear a single word of grousing about concern for the safety of the people terrorizing civilians from people who support the regime.
When unaccountable government agents are attacking, harassing, and assaulting nonviolent civilians at the behest of the administration in power, I really run out of patience for the people who continue to arrogantly insinuate that real Christians should be Republicans.
If ICE is going to attack people including American citizens in violation of their rights, and face no legal consequences because the law doesn't protect us, then the law shouldn't protect them either. If someone as institutionalist as me is saying that, things are bad.
I feel like ICE are kind of leaving law-abiding moderate Americans of good will no space to defend people against human rights abuses in any of the ways one would want in a civil society, and that's really bad.
ICE are breaking into homes without warrants, detaining citizens without due process, and killing people and then lying about the circumstances. No one seems to be holding them legally accountable. They need to be physically stopped, and I don't think that's a radical view now.
I am honestly not even sure what to say to some of you any more, and I'm sure that's true of many others, and that is a very dark place for us to be in as a society.
