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When trust is gone between two people

When trust is replaced by fear and defensiveness, your relationship is moribund, dead or starkly inauthentic.

Superficial friendship may be the best many people can do. It has its virtues. It rarely, if ever, hurts, it can be easily walked away from, should the need arise. Only a troubled friendship that felt like mutual trust and love over a long time can rip your heart apart.

“You broke my heart,” says one, feeling unfairly blamed for everything bad that happened between them.

“I did not, you just want to blame me and end our friendship.”

Set and match, if the stakes involve anger and a shudder of humiliation that makes honesty way too dangerous.

Support democratic ideals? The yeas are 361 the nays are 63, the resolution passes

Historian and American hero Heather Cox Richardson:

Today, as we learned of more atrocities by Russian troops in Ukraine, the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution that called on the U.S. government to uphold the founding democratic principles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): “individual liberty, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.” Since those values “face external threats from authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China and internal threats from proponents of illiberalism,” and since NATO countries have called for a recommitment to the founding values of the alliance, the resolution supports the establishment of a Center for Democratic Resilience within NATO headquarters. The resolution reaffirmed the House’s “unequivocal support” for NATO.

The resolution was introduced by Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who sits on both the Foreign Affairs and Government Oversight Committees, and had 35 other cosponsors from both parties. The vote in favor was bipartisan, with 219 Democrats and 142 Republicans voting yes. After all, what’s there to oppose in a nod to democratic values and diplomacy, when Ukraine is locked in a deadly battle to defend itself against an invasion and brutal occupation by Russian forces directed by authoritarian Russian president Vladimir Putin?

Sixty-three Republicans—those who tend to support former president Trump—voted against the resolution.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2022?r=74gv9&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Profile in Courage

Cowardly sidekick takes a break from licking his master’s boots to state the obvious, only thirteen months too late.

I suppose this also qualifies as “legitimate political discourse.”

Trump-enabler Pence, pious, orthodox homophobe, famed champion of so-called Gay Conversion Therapy (subsidized by Indiana taxpayers), ought to enroll in Ambitious Sycophant Conversion Therapy. Both therapies are no doubt equally effective.

The truth is one thing, and essential, but outgassing from a costive asshole, it takes on a disgusting aspect.