John Pilgrim
@john-pilgrim.bsky.social
We're all on a journey through life. Some of us are walking, some of us are carrying others, some of us are dragging others. Everyone's got a burden. We may be on different paths, but we will run into each other now and again. I don't really eat cats.
Tubi has the movie "The Most Reluctant Convert" now, so I finally got to see it. It's the story of C.S. Lewis's conversion to Christianity, and the mental steps he had to go through to give in to the faith. His story's not an unfamiliar one to me, but to see it like this was pretty awesome.
December 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tubi has the movie "The Most Reluctant Convert" now, so I finally got to see it. It's the story of C.S. Lewis's conversion to Christianity, and the mental steps he had to go through to give in to the faith. His story's not an unfamiliar one to me, but to see it like this was pretty awesome.
This reminds me of so many dumb arguments I've had. You challenge someone on a point, and after some frustrating back and forth, you realize the problem is they don't understand something basic that you took for granted... like in this case, how math works.
Fox host presses Lutnick on Trump’s 600% drug price cut claim
Roberts: A 600% cut would mean drug companies are paying you to take their product
Lutnick: If a drug was $100 & you bring the drug down to $13…it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700%
Roberts: A 600% cut would mean drug companies are paying you to take their product
Lutnick: If a drug was $100 & you bring the drug down to $13…it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700%
December 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This reminds me of so many dumb arguments I've had. You challenge someone on a point, and after some frustrating back and forth, you realize the problem is they don't understand something basic that you took for granted... like in this case, how math works.
I don't know how I'm going to be able to go to sleep after that game. 🐻⬇️
December 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I don't know how I'm going to be able to go to sleep after that game. 🐻⬇️
Watching the CFP and thinking about all the screaming about who's in/who's out. A wrinkle I've noticed lately is about those people who criticize Tulane and JMU getting in, which just seems awful to me, esp. as it's coming from people mad about their team not getting in.
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Watching the CFP and thinking about all the screaming about who's in/who's out. A wrinkle I've noticed lately is about those people who criticize Tulane and JMU getting in, which just seems awful to me, esp. as it's coming from people mad about their team not getting in.
One interesting thing about social media: people try so hard to show you their best, and yet sooner or later somehow end up showing you their absolute worst.
December 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One interesting thing about social media: people try so hard to show you their best, and yet sooner or later somehow end up showing you their absolute worst.
The DOJ Epstein Files: Redacted to protect the names of the people holding power.
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The DOJ Epstein Files: Redacted to protect the names of the people holding power.
Trumpers claiming that the Dems "cherry-picked" these pictures.
That doesn't explain why the pics exist in the first place. And even if true the pics would have been released in a week.
Trumpers really aren't good at this argument.
That doesn't explain why the pics exist in the first place. And even if true the pics would have been released in a week.
Trumpers really aren't good at this argument.
Trump appears 4 times in newly released Epstein photos released by House Democrats. Here they are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Trumpers claiming that the Dems "cherry-picked" these pictures.
That doesn't explain why the pics exist in the first place. And even if true the pics would have been released in a week.
Trumpers really aren't good at this argument.
That doesn't explain why the pics exist in the first place. And even if true the pics would have been released in a week.
Trumpers really aren't good at this argument.
At least on the economy... I agree. 👇
A week ago, he said affordability was a “hoax. Two days ago, he said inflation was “nonexistent.” Yesterday, he told American parents to “buy fewer pencils & dolls” for their kids.
Yes, he’s an ignorant ass, but gosh, I want him to keep speaking.
Yes, he’s an ignorant ass, but gosh, I want him to keep speaking.
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
At least on the economy... I agree. 👇
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Good. Damn good.
December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Good. Damn good.
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
Noem: We have not deported military veterans.
Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
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“Under the Republican plan, the big idea is essentially to hand people about $80 a month and wish them good luck.”
US Senate unable to prevent health premium surge as senators reject competing health bills | Arizona Mirror
Senate fails to advance Republican or Democratic health care bills, leaving no solution to rising insurance premiums
azmirror.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Under the Republican plan, the big idea is essentially to hand people about $80 a month and wish them good luck.”
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The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The US government is now a mafia organization.
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Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Trump is always focused on his enemies - which is just another way of saying he's always focused on himself.
Trump last night in Pennsylvania:
“Which is better, sleepy Joe or crooked Joe?…To me he’s a sleepy son of a bitch”
“Which is better, sleepy Joe or crooked Joe?…To me he’s a sleepy son of a bitch”
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Trump is always focused on his enemies - which is just another way of saying he's always focused on himself.
MTG presents a weak argument, and a typical one for Trumpers. Anytime Trump or one of their pols is called out for bad behavior, so often it turns into a ridiculous bothsidesism. She couldn't handle a tough question from Stahl so she jumps to that.
She may be trying to change but she hasn't yet.
She may be trying to change but she hasn't yet.
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
MTG presents a weak argument, and a typical one for Trumpers. Anytime Trump or one of their pols is called out for bad behavior, so often it turns into a ridiculous bothsidesism. She couldn't handle a tough question from Stahl so she jumps to that.
She may be trying to change but she hasn't yet.
She may be trying to change but she hasn't yet.
*Biden, looking normal*
Trumpers: TEST HIM FOR DRUGS
*Trump, looking normal*
Trumpers: SEE HE'S FINE LIBS SHUT UP!
Trumpers: TEST HIM FOR DRUGS
*Trump, looking normal*
Trumpers: SEE HE'S FINE LIBS SHUT UP!
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
*Biden, looking normal*
Trumpers: TEST HIM FOR DRUGS
*Trump, looking normal*
Trumpers: SEE HE'S FINE LIBS SHUT UP!
Trumpers: TEST HIM FOR DRUGS
*Trump, looking normal*
Trumpers: SEE HE'S FINE LIBS SHUT UP!
The whole point of a playoff is to determine a champion. If you're 10-2 and down there on the "bubble" and you don't get in, I understand the disappointment, but you weren't in serious contention for a championship anyway. I get so sick of this sort of whining. CFP's almost as bad as the Dance.
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The whole point of a playoff is to determine a champion. If you're 10-2 and down there on the "bubble" and you don't get in, I understand the disappointment, but you weren't in serious contention for a championship anyway. I get so sick of this sort of whining. CFP's almost as bad as the Dance.
Two things: I don't know how many times I've heard people say what MTG is saying about Republicans hating Trump privately. Lots of times, I guess. But Trumpers need to hear it. And it doesn't make me think better of them. They're cowards. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells ’60 Minutes’ That ‘It Would Shock People’ to Hear How Congressional Republicans Talk About Trump in Private
Marjorie Taylor Greene told "60 Minutes" "it would shock people" to hear how Congressional Republicans talk about the president behind his back.
www.yahoo.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Two things: I don't know how many times I've heard people say what MTG is saying about Republicans hating Trump privately. Lots of times, I guess. But Trumpers need to hear it. And it doesn't make me think better of them. They're cowards. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
A "con job", he says...
Donald Trump has never cared about anybody but himself. I doubt he even has the capacity to care about anyone else. And more than anything else, this is why he's unsuited for the POTUS job.
Donald Trump has never cared about anybody but himself. I doubt he even has the capacity to care about anyone else. And more than anything else, this is why he's unsuited for the POTUS job.
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A "con job", he says...
Donald Trump has never cared about anybody but himself. I doubt he even has the capacity to care about anyone else. And more than anything else, this is why he's unsuited for the POTUS job.
Donald Trump has never cared about anybody but himself. I doubt he even has the capacity to care about anyone else. And more than anything else, this is why he's unsuited for the POTUS job.
So much institutional knowledge lost. America is undeniably less safe because Donald Trump is a spoiled brat.
December 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
So much institutional knowledge lost. America is undeniably less safe because Donald Trump is a spoiled brat.
I'm not rooting for an apocalypse to happen or anything, but if it does happen I hope it happens when I'm low on toilet paper. It'd be such a waste to have a full shelf of it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I'm not rooting for an apocalypse to happen or anything, but if it does happen I hope it happens when I'm low on toilet paper. It'd be such a waste to have a full shelf of it.
Capitalism doesn't really work when there isn't a level playing field. All the good things it's supposed to bring us as citizens disappear in this environment. Businesses no longer fear their own customers because they don't believe you have another choice. The same thing goes for democracy, btw.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Netflix's $83 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery would mean more corporate consolidation.
Netflix, by far the #1 streamer, would take over HBO Max, the #3 streaming service.
This giant merger could violate antitrust law and hurt consumers.
Netflix, by far the #1 streamer, would take over HBO Max, the #3 streaming service.
This giant merger could violate antitrust law and hurt consumers.
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Capitalism doesn't really work when there isn't a level playing field. All the good things it's supposed to bring us as citizens disappear in this environment. Businesses no longer fear their own customers because they don't believe you have another choice. The same thing goes for democracy, btw.
Apropos of nothing...
Every year at this time I think of a nativity set my family had growing up, and sometimes I even think maybe I can find one like it. I have no nativity scene myself, mainly because I can't find one that satisfies me.
Every year at this time I think of a nativity set my family had growing up, and sometimes I even think maybe I can find one like it. I have no nativity scene myself, mainly because I can't find one that satisfies me.
December 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Apropos of nothing...
Every year at this time I think of a nativity set my family had growing up, and sometimes I even think maybe I can find one like it. I have no nativity scene myself, mainly because I can't find one that satisfies me.
Every year at this time I think of a nativity set my family had growing up, and sometimes I even think maybe I can find one like it. I have no nativity scene myself, mainly because I can't find one that satisfies me.