Clifton Lee

You got to have some R & R after lighting the fuse for WWII.

Subpoena all of it. And him, too. The FBI found this witness credible enough to interview her four times. Enough with this cover up.

He really is as detached from reality as his evil Christian evangelical acolytes like Albert Mohler, Robert Jeffress, and Franklin Graham that put him in power. Fundamentalism, like fascism, destroys everything in its path. Both have the final aim of destruction itself.

"...and military service he sees principally, indeed exclusively, in terms of a training to achieve maximum physical potential.

"For Hitler, the development of character quite explicitly has to take second place..."

- Victor Klemperer, Language of The Third Reich, Introduction, 1946

So much for Saint Augustine's just war requirements.

Boy, Tom Holland, you really nailed that one with Dominion, didn't you? (This is sarcasm.)

It is a truth not universally acknowledged, but nevertheless factually so, that without Rupert Murdoch's evil media empire, the sequence of events and personalities that have led to the current US madness would not exist at all.

Yep , for all of the limp cock bluster, this is spot on.

Also nuclear is an anagram of unclear.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

I once hiked 200 miles over ten days without food, drinking only water, and sleeping on the ground with only an emergency blanket as shelter.

In ‘33 there might be an *as if*, by ‘36, after the Olympics, it’s GTFO

Place yourself in 1933 Germany. You are isolated and alone, because your relatives and some former friends support the man in power who you know is as close to evil incarnate as anyone has ever been. Do you interact with them as if nothing is amiss?

In your mind, dress these guys — Johnson, Trump, Hegseth, etc. — in 12th century English villager attire. Then their comments and their appearance begin to seem of a piece. And their comments then make a sort of fucked up 12th century sense.

Two books: Norman Cohn's Pursuit of the Millennium and @medievaljay.bsky.social's Armies of Heaven. We've been here before. Just not with nuclear weapons.

Multiple choice & essay:

What country is ruled by a theo-authoritarian/fascistic regime propped up by a radical reactionary fundamentalist minority who believe their messiah is soon returning for his chosen few? Discuss.

A. Iran
B. United States
C. Both of the above.

#evangelicals #Iran

The similarity between the apocalyptic world views of the US Magaist evangelicals and Iran's radical Shiite clerics is jaw dropping. And since both sides believe their Messiah is coming soon to destroy evil, it's going to make one hell of a Marvel movie.

Our world just got a lot more dangerous.

I hate feeling relevant

Also @joelbaden.bsky.social and John Collins from Yale discussing the book of Daniel. Astounding, or maybe not, the Idiocy (theodicy? ;) of modern Peter the Hermits who reject what is known about ancient texts.

I have been thinking about you the last few days, while re-listening to a colloquium series in honor of Norman Cohn from 2012, and wondering if his son Nick, the music critic, reads his father's work...

Two books: Norman Cohn's Pursuit of the Millennium and @medievaljay.bsky.social's Armies of Heaven. We've been here before. Just not with nuclear weapons.

Photo of a wall, c 2m tall: an original broken stone wall, recompleted with a new upper section,done w concrete, plaster and paint, in different but somehow v complementary colours

clever, elegant repair job

The similarity between the apocalyptic world views of the US Magaist evangelicals and Iran's radical Shiite clerics is jaw dropping. And since both sides believe their Messiah is coming soon to destroy evil, it's going to make one hell of a Marvel movie.

Our world just got a lot more dangerous.

This is not a joke. Both believe in their messiah returning soon. Both believe this messiah will conquer the forces of evil in the world.

Given both sides believe their messiah is going to conquer evil, it is going to be a helluva Marvel movie in the multiverse.

Multiple choice & essay:

What country is ruled by a theo-authoritarian/fascistic regime propped up by a radical reactionary fundamentalist minority who believe their messiah is soon returning for his chosen few? Discuss.

A. Iran
B. United States
C. Both of the above.

#evangelicals #Iran

Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?

Watching the best of humanity, David Attenborough, present a doc on the oceans while thinking about the worst of humanity that rule the US and much of the rest of the world. This is one fucked up Earth.

“...the extreme case of Germany is instructive of the general mechanism...

"The implausibility of their [Nazi] actions made it easy to disbelieve what nobody, for the sake of precious peace, wanted to believe, while at the same time capitulating to it.”

—Theodor Adorno, Minimal Moralia, 1951

Also, Donald Trump is the first alleged pedophile president. #EpsteinFiles full transparency.

The evangelicals are grabbing their crotches this morning. Yay, war! Yay, rapture (a 19th century invention)! Yay, end of the world!

Also, you wanna go to Applebee's after church?

We assume a common language in the US, but in reality there are two lexicons: one used by those who believe in pluralistic democracy and a second used by Magaist fascists.

Word for word these lexicons are exactly the same, but also word for word these lexicons employ very different definitions.