Want to see a decent debate over the weekend? You should try this. Yes, I know a lot of people don’t care for Piers Morgan. I do. I like the panels (well, most of them) that he assembles for his shows. This one I think is especially poignant. It’s less than an hour.
That’s the headline(sans the question mark). It seems like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is rising in some presidential pick polls, and leading in at least one. That’s right, the woman that became the youngest female member of Congress (ever), that beat a 10 term incumbent for her seat, is now a possibility for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028. How is this possible?
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I saw a story today I at first didn’t believe, because it seems like this threat occurs all the time. Well, during presidential election year. But as the story continued, I finally accepted that it was indeed true. It’s nothing I hadn’t really heard before, well, except in this case, the threat was actually carried out. It seems ike every 4 years we hear from people that say if a Republican is elected, they are going to leave the country. Well, maybe that’s only been since the trump era, but it seems longer to me. In fact, at least 2 celebrities I can think of did in fact leave the country in 2025 due to their Trump Derangement Syndrome. I have now discovered that there were a whole lot more. For instance, some 245 Americans fled to Canada seeking asylum or some other form of protection fearing polices implemented by the newly elected Trump administration might adversely affect them. The Netherlands had 76 Americans show up specifically looking for asylum. Of those that fled to the Netherlands, none have been granted asylum to date and unlike the U.S. which takes the persons information and releases them into the interior of the country, the Netherlands places those people in confinement behind barbed wire fences and in tents. I think Canada is mostly like the U.S., releasing people into the country until their claim can be processed. So far, out of the original 245, less 20 were approved. Most seem to have been either abandoned or withdrawn. Some of those staying are discovering they are not better off than they were in the U.S. Regrets are coming hard. I can’t imagine what those tent dwellers think after a year or more in the Netherlands.
I recently watched a video on YouTube of this young woman questioning an established evangelical pastor about Christian belief and the afterlife.the young woman identified herself as an atheist which didn’t seem to affect the pastor one way or another but her claim of belief in nothing after death did drive him to a level of frustration. I found it interesting that she told him that it was comforting for her to believe that there was nothing after death: no blissful heaven or threat of eternal fire of hell. she said that if she were a believer, the thought of someone she knew, not a believer, was suffering in eternal fire while she was in heavenly bliss, was not a comfort to her at ll and she thought it strange that anyone would think it was comforting. For course the pastor kept repeating the same old tired (but tried and true for them) gaslighting techniques they’ve used, developed, and perfected, for centuries. But people are wiser to these swindles in the last few decades because the availability of other points of view not just on the credibility of any religious belief, but on almost every subject known to human kind. Suffice to say that this brought back to me the idea of that comfort of nothingness and the strributed quite of Mark t=wain when asked about his thought of dying where he said, “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” We should all pay attention to ourselves rather than depend on what others think of us when being confronted by those who have other intentions. At the end of the video, the pastor has become trusted enough with the young woman to tell her, definitely, that she was going to hell.
How nice. And comforting.
I’m not a fan of the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBA). That being said, I can’t help. like most people, noticing how much the league has beenin the news lately, and it’s not because the league has suddenly become an overnight success. It’s mainly due to a single player that came out of the college ranks and has taken the WNBA by storm She by far the highest paid, most endorsed, women’s player in the world right now and, according to those that a regular purveyors of the sport, well deserved.
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