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2/ ... not short-term pleasure. Among those virtues were the habits of industry, temperance, moderation, and sincerity, which the Founders viewed as part of a daily struggle for self-improvement, character development, and calm self-mastery.
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
1/ The book is Jeffrey Rosen's "The Pursuit of Happiness." It's not on the Trump wish list. The classical Greek/Roman moral philosophers inspired the Founders, Rosen shows. They understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for being good, not feeling good, the pursuit of lifelong virtue, ...
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
2/ ... not short-term pleasure. Among those virtues were the habits of industry, temperance, moderation, and sincerity, which the Founders viewed as part of a daily struggle for self-improvement, character development, and calm self-mastery.
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
You forgot to include this in your article why??? bsky.app/profile/asht...
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I guess Weiss doesn't want to offend the remaining viewers, mostly MAGA. I sure don't watch national or local CBS anymore.
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We need to plan a Phoenician Scheme to rid the world of this sick schmuck.
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
December 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Did trump die?????
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Does anyone know what kind of substance would likely be injected into his hand veins? (All of the swelling, bruising, bandaging on the back of his hand). What could it be?
December 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The most sickening photo. Note the extended finger on the child's cheek. It's not a natural position for the finger. It is being extended there to suggest, probably mostly to trump, a sexual act.
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Wait til you see the sculpture of a trump head, at least 2x the size of Kennedy's.
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In September 2022, networks declined to give the Biden White House a prime-time slot for a speech the then-president gave about democracy because it was viewed as too political.
December 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
thanks.
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I'll be moving my hands back and forth in a clapping simulacrum.
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
who is he?
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I'm going to not watch it even more than you are!
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Not with meat, btw. Just raisins, sultanas, apples, candied lemon peel, etc.
December 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM