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My fear is that with this regime’s continuing attacks on Venezuelan boats on the high seas, is the regime’s efforts to provoke the U.S. into another war! It certainly will be one that the U. S. Started by acts of aggression with no proof that the boats attacked are drug runners! Where is the transparency touted by this regime?
As of this post, 9:18pm, I do not see ANY transcripts available. That is a very unusual state of events. Perhaps try again tomorrow. Perhaps Contrarian staff will have got around to providing transcripts by then.
I just can't believe how for down the road of the exact opposite of what these so-called Maga christians claim. How can they seriously say that they believe in the teachings of the Bible and Jesus and also support and deify a person like Kirk?!?!? It simply shows the hypocrisy in this whole, relatively new, Maga "christianity". This may not be the proper place for this post but what's going on just sickens me and to think someone like Mike Johnson, for one, who purports to be a "christian" can support someone as depraved as trump or Kirk!?!? To think they held a "religious" vigil for Kirk who was blatantly racist is beyond the pale
RACHEL MADDOW asked the question about why cancer research was being trashed and not even replaced with something else--to whose advantage? Does somebody love cancer? First, she thought perhaps Trump doesn't know about it, like the South Korean/ICE debacle. But second, she seems to think in status quo terms e.g., democratic, namely, that there'll be another election and democrats can "run" on the claim that Trump must love cancer.
But perhaps the problem is how WE are thinking about THEM. If you consider a combination of MOB BOSS and CRUEL, CARELESS, VINDICTIVE DICTATOR, with moral moron sycophants manipulating the strings, it's easy to see how someone or some small group of hacks as stupid as the great leader has been assigned the task of SIMPLY SAVING MONEY by diverting all of our taxes (including cancer research) to, for instance, Don Junior's bank account and, again, with the idea that there will be no more elections to worry about.
Also, the heartless oil people and other Great Polluters of the World, like those in plastic and chemicals, don't want researchers to find out the inevitable link between cross-generational cancers and their pollutants. That's the "lesson" they took from tobacco. And they are all still miffed about a black person becoming president--for two terms, have you!
And BTW, "transparency" is a twist on Orwellian double-speak for "impunity," i.e., "we can do anything we want with impunity and right in front of your faces." Everything else is just diversion against finding out about rich crony-sex crimes. Could it be that simple? My guess is: yes.
It's difficult to recognize monsters, Rachel, when they are all dressed up in our presuppositions.
Hello Norm and Jen, I saw your merch store and would request next time around you offer a Vee neck t-shirt for women? I would definitely purchase one. Also-besides subscribing, where can we make donations?
A great discussion ensued on Coffee with Contrarians with Jen and Norm on political violence. In addition both had excellent columns over the weekend and this morning. An exceptional day for all The Contrarians! Cheers 🥂
My fear is that with this regime’s continuing attacks on Venezuelan boats on the high seas, is the regime’s efforts to provoke the U.S. into another war! It certainly will be one that the U. S. Started by acts of aggression with no proof that the boats attacked are drug runners! Where is the transparency touted by this regime?
Is there a transcript of this, please? And if so, how do I access it?
As of this post, 9:18pm, I do not see ANY transcripts available. That is a very unusual state of events. Perhaps try again tomorrow. Perhaps Contrarian staff will have got around to providing transcripts by then.
I just can't believe how for down the road of the exact opposite of what these so-called Maga christians claim. How can they seriously say that they believe in the teachings of the Bible and Jesus and also support and deify a person like Kirk?!?!? It simply shows the hypocrisy in this whole, relatively new, Maga "christianity". This may not be the proper place for this post but what's going on just sickens me and to think someone like Mike Johnson, for one, who purports to be a "christian" can support someone as depraved as trump or Kirk!?!? To think they held a "religious" vigil for Kirk who was blatantly racist is beyond the pale
Dennis: Ditto. And Marco Rubio is also Catholic. Everything is so upside down and inside out.
RACHEL MADDOW asked the question about why cancer research was being trashed and not even replaced with something else--to whose advantage? Does somebody love cancer? First, she thought perhaps Trump doesn't know about it, like the South Korean/ICE debacle. But second, she seems to think in status quo terms e.g., democratic, namely, that there'll be another election and democrats can "run" on the claim that Trump must love cancer.
But perhaps the problem is how WE are thinking about THEM. If you consider a combination of MOB BOSS and CRUEL, CARELESS, VINDICTIVE DICTATOR, with moral moron sycophants manipulating the strings, it's easy to see how someone or some small group of hacks as stupid as the great leader has been assigned the task of SIMPLY SAVING MONEY by diverting all of our taxes (including cancer research) to, for instance, Don Junior's bank account and, again, with the idea that there will be no more elections to worry about.
Also, the heartless oil people and other Great Polluters of the World, like those in plastic and chemicals, don't want researchers to find out the inevitable link between cross-generational cancers and their pollutants. That's the "lesson" they took from tobacco. And they are all still miffed about a black person becoming president--for two terms, have you!
And BTW, "transparency" is a twist on Orwellian double-speak for "impunity," i.e., "we can do anything we want with impunity and right in front of your faces." Everything else is just diversion against finding out about rich crony-sex crimes. Could it be that simple? My guess is: yes.
It's difficult to recognize monsters, Rachel, when they are all dressed up in our presuppositions.
Hello Norm and Jen, I saw your merch store and would request next time around you offer a Vee neck t-shirt for women? I would definitely purchase one. Also-besides subscribing, where can we make donations?
A great discussion ensued on Coffee with Contrarians with Jen and Norm on political violence. In addition both had excellent columns over the weekend and this morning. An exceptional day for all The Contrarians! Cheers 🥂
I am a subscriber. When I click “read this story” I get a video. I want to read, not watch video. How?
Is America Ruptured?
"…the beginning and the end in each other's arms…."
The why of the what…
Ruptured—like a ligament torn mid-stride.
The story still runs, but the cadence is off.
The civic square echoes, but the ritual is missing.
We do not mourn a nation.
We mourn its forgetting the ritual…its habits!
From waking-up to reciprocity….ruptured!
No coffee in the cupboard ……….ruptured!
We live within rupture.
America is ruptured—not just by debt or division, but by the erosion of meaning.
The founding myths no longer hold.
The rituals of democracy have become performance.
Silence in public comment is no longer reverent—it is imposed.
Rupture is not merely a break. It is a threshold.
A discontinuity that reorders meaning.
A moment when the old story forgets its ending—and something raw, unmasked, begins.
In philosophy, rupture marks the collapse of dominant systems of thought.
In geology, it’s the Earth’s native tongue—tectonic shifts, molten beginnings.
In myth, it’s the veil torn, the silence broken, the ritual begun.
"I stand on the terrible threshold, and I see
The end and the beginning in each other's arms."
~Stanley Kunitz
Apollo gave us words to describe rupture, but it took the Dionysian poet to provide the song.
Is America Ruptured?
"…the beginning and the end in each other's arms…."
The why of the what…
Ruptured—like a ligament torn mid-stride.
The story still runs, but the cadence is off.
The civic square echoes, but the ritual is missing.
We do not mourn a nation.
We mourn its forgetting the ritual…its habits!
From waking-up to reciprocity….ruptured!
No coffee in the cupboard ……….ruptured!
We live within rupture.
America is ruptured—not just by debt or division, but by the erosion of meaning.
The founding myths no longer hold.
The rituals of democracy have become performance.
Silence in public comment is no longer reverent—it is imposed.
Rupture is not merely a break. It is a threshold.
A discontinuity that reorders meaning.
A moment when the old story forgets its ending—and something raw, unmasked, begins.
In philosophy, rupture marks the collapse of dominant systems of thought.
In geology, it’s the Earth’s native tongue—tectonic shifts, molten beginnings.
In myth, it’s the veil torn, the silence broken, the ritual begun.
"I stand on the terrible threshold, and I see
The end and the beginning in each other's arms."
~Stanley Kunitz
Apollo gave us words to describe rupture, but it took the Dionysian poet to provide the song.