TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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Chicago’s most fearless Catholic priest just EVISCERATED Trump and his authoritarian threats to militarily invade the city in a fiery sermon for the ages. The priest did NOT hold back, and it was BEAUTIFUL! See for yourself:
Donald Trump just got dragged straight to church—and not in the way he ever imagined. At a massive “Faith Over Fear” rally in Chicago, Father Michael Pfleger, one of the city’s most courageous priests, grabbed a bullhorn and lit up the disgraced ex-president with a sermon so blistering it could melt the fake gold off Trump’s tacky Oval Office decor.
From the very first words, Pfleger made it clear that Trump’s reign of fear would not go unchallenged: “The real criminal with 34 felonies is sitting behind a golden desk ordering chaos. Mr. Trump, you have met your match.” The crowd erupted, and Pfleger poured gasoline on the fire.
Pfleger called out Trump’s illegal and un-American threats to deploy the National Guard against his own people. His voice thundered across Daley Plaza: “Your threats to invade Chicago…to declare war on the rights and freedoms of citizens by ordering masked men in unmarked cars and kidnapping men, women and children… WILL be challenged!”
But what makes Pfleger’s firebomb so devastating is that he didn’t just resist Trump—he united the country against him. With scripture in his mouth and steel in his voice, he proclaimed: “Your insanity and intimidation will NOT intimidate us or frighten us; rather, it’s stirred up our faith and it’s rallying us together like the valley of dry bones.”
He painted a vision that Trump’s divided America could never see: “It’s connecting Black and white, brown and yellow, Muslims, Christians and Jews, young and old. We’re coming together as an army of faith, and we will NOT sit still, and we will NOT sit down. We WILL rise up, stand up and speak up for the most vulnerable and those at risk.”
And then—like a prophet staring straight at a false king—Pfleger brought down the hammer of history: “Just as God destroyed the golden calf of our ancestors… he destroyed the golden calf of tyranny and fascism. You may control your incompetent cabinet… you may control the pawns and weak-minded members of Congress… you may even control the spineless Supreme Court Justices, but you do NOT control the God we serve!”
“The people of faith who are gathered here and rising up across this country want you to know you have met your match," he added.
Finally, in one of the most defiant rebukes ever delivered to Trump, Pfleger ended with the line that should be printed on every protest sign in America: “Yes, Mr. Trump, you have met your match!”
BOOM. In one electrifying speech, Father Pfleger exposed Trump as the weak, scared bully he is—and reminded Americans that no strongman, no matter how loud or lawless, can stand against a people —of every faith, color and creed — united for justice, and truth.
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I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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