American. Conservative. Utah resident.
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The last week has been a challenge for a lot of us, I think, but some of the things that have happened have hit me far harder than I expected. For that reason, I think I just need to state my expectations of behavior around here. Most of you already meet these and have nothing to worry about; this is mainly a “declaration of principles” so you can understand who and where I am.
So, because life is just too darn short, if you fall into any of the following categories or further these notions on Twitter, I would strongly suggest you either unfollow me or prepare for me to block you:
1. Genuinely evil people. My bar for this is really high, but recent events have shown it’s not impossible to meet. Examples of statements that reveal deep, evil intent include “Charlie Kirk had it coming,” “Thomas Crooks should have aimed better,” “Lindsay Clancy did nothing wrong,” and anything with sole intent of destroying someone else. God may choose to have mercy on your soul if you believe these things, but I ain’t gonna look at it on Twitter.
2. Racists. I loathe how the vital debate around immigration has been twisted by many on the left (and certain parts of the right, alas) as being wholly motivated by racism. But as much as I believe that an anti-illegal-immigration stance is not inherently racist, I have noticed there’s a fine line with regards to a tiny minority of people. I do not tolerate such things; if you believe that the color of a human being’s skin, whether it’s black, brown, red, yellow, or, yes, white makes that person less than you are, you are racist. Go away.
3. Grifters. I care about what people believe, not what they’re willing to say to make money. If you routinely post things you don’t believe just for engagement, clicks, or money, you can try to get them from someone else, because you won’t get them from me. (Litmus test: If it sounds like something Richard Hanania would say, you shouldn’t say it.)
4. Leftists masquerading as conservatives. If you believe to your very core that leftist policies will improve the U.S. and/or the world, fine. But if you are unwilling to say that and instead pretend to be a conservative who wants to reform the Republican Party by ensuring they lose every election for the next 500 years, you are not fooling—or entertaining—anyone. (See the previous item, too.)
5. September 11 truthers. I was in New York City on September 11, 2001. It happened, it was not an inside job, and it was worse than you can possibly imagine. Criticizing the city’s or the country’s government over the response in the short, medium, and/or long terms is one thing, but peddle your garbage conspiracy theories elsewhere, please.
6. One-dimensional anti-LDS zealots. I am 100% in favor of substantive, thoughtful, and informed debates about differing religious philosophies, beliefs, or denominations. What I do have a problem with are the people like John Dehlin (obvious) or the Protestant/Catholic “influencers” who have done no research into the LDS Church and just bleat out memorized attacks to obliterate faith and dismantle hope without understanding what their words or citations mean. If you care about your religion and want to promote it, you owe it to yourself and others to study the LDS Church and its actual scriptures and teachings, not the many published lies about it. And, no, “Galatians 1:8” and “Joseph Smith was a pedophile” are not arguments. They are at best lazy, and at worst counterproductive for both sides.
7. Long COVID deniers. One of my best friends is a brilliant, gifted artist who contracted COVID-19 in early 2020 and has never fully recovered. Long COVID is not imaginary. I don’t care if you’ve never seen it or had it affect your life, but if you try to score points by pretending it isn’t a debilitating condition that causes previously healthy people to wither over the course of years, you need to do real research and investigation to learn the truth—and stay away from my timeline until you do.
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I may have to bust this out several more times in the next few days.
The Republican Party does not own your vote.
The GOP is not automatically entitled to a straight ticket vote because they exist.
The Democrats being worse is irrelevant in many cases.
These conservatives are insane.
They think communism wouldn’t be worse than the Republicans in Utah.
My entire mom’s side of the family was executed by the Bolsheviks in Ukraine.
My great uncle, the only one who survived besides my great grandmother, sent a letter from a labor camp that was so heavily censored and redacted you could barely read it.
These dumbasses don’t understand that communism IS death.
It’s mass graves. It’s engineered starvation. It’s the state murdering its own people and calling it progress.
It’s the worst shit human beings have ever done to each other.
Vote Republican.
Believing immigration laws should be enforced means I’m not a human being? Uh… okay.
(Also, only cowards taunt and ask questions from behind a block. Grow a spine, please.)
The fact that the left and right in this country cannot even agree that illegal immigration is bad just makes me think there is no way we can ever truly live together.
“He’s been in the country illegally for 25 years, but he deserves to stay forever” is a completely incoherent and incomprehensible position to me. Yet so many on the left hold it.
Suppose I just decided to stop paying my taxes. Would anyone on the left say I shouldn’t be punished for it?
If we can’t all even agree on what the laws are and whether they should be enforced, what can we agree on?
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Got a lot of flak for this, I just wanna say a few things.
1. Me not voting for Blake Moore will have zero impact on anything. That colossal embarrassment is still going to win, so the only thing me voting for him accomplishes is basically throwing away my self respect and morals by voting for a horrendously unqualified candidate.
2. I participated extensively in the convention and primary as a duly designated delegate to the Utah GOP convention. I voted in every contest as a delegate at the convention. I actively supported Karianne Lisonbee in my own district and Phil Lyman in another. It cannot be said I didn't do everything within my extraordinarily limited capability to make a difference and send a message.
3. Voting for candidates you know are not unqualified or behave badly is intellectually and democratically stupid. This simplistic view of "but the democrats are worse" is unconvincing. Yes. The democrats are worse. But rewarding bad behavior gives those behaving badly no incentive to change. They'll go right on behaving badly. So we gotta send them another kind of message so they will either change how they behave or, ideally, make way for a better candidate the next time around.
4. The Utah Second Congressional District is the only race of consequence on my ballot. There are not races for Senator or Governor. If there were, and there were acceptable alternatives than the unimpressive Spencer Cox types, I wouldn't be sitting this one out. But there's not. And withholding my vote for all Republicans in this election is my final option to voice my displeasure in the direction our country and state are heading.
5. Calling me stupid is not an effective argument and will not compel me to vote for Blake Moore.
Why I will be withholding my votes for all Republican candidates in the 2026 midterms in protest.
1. Donald Trump publicly reversed his immigration policy in 2025, saying he will allow agriculture, construction, hospitality, and restaurants to continue to employ illegal labor and specially not go after them or their employees even though all parties are knowingly committing felonies and harming the American workforce on a daily basis.
This is not disputable. This is his publicly announced position.
Instead of making America great again, he chose to side against Americans and with the very people who are harming the people who voted for him.
This is indefensible and unforgivable.
2. Donald Trump also has defended the indefensible abuse of the h1-b program, saying that American workers are too dumb to be employed in positions these companies are bringing over, and therefore foreign workers must be brought in.
3. Donald Trump has publicly stated that he has no interest in bringing home prices down because doing so will make boomers not “feel wealthy.”
4. My congressman, Blake Moore, is an objective embarrassment and failure on every level and I will not cast my vote to send him back to congress.
5. The Republican Party is producing messaging attacking white male workers as lazy slobs on welfare, and when called out, double down.
6. We have a vice president who is won’t qualified for his job, let alone able to take over should, god forbid, anything happen to president trump. He refuses to denounce the Nazi apologist, Tucker Carlson. And he is slated to take the reins of party leadership in 2028. This is utterly unacceptable.
We have serious problems in the Republican Party, and they won’t be solved by rewarding their failures and betrayals.
I therefore cannot in good conscience vote for any Republican listed on my ballot.
I will not vote for any democrat or any other party either.
My vote is my vote. The Republican Party is not entitled it. Their behavior has actively harmed me and my interests these past two years. I would be a fool to reward them for it.
I am therefore abstaining on November 3rd.
It’s time to start looking beyond Donald Trump should we ever want a bright future in this country.
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As a strong liberal who voted for Obama and Biden three times each, I am very concerned about the radicalism of many Democrat candidates and will, for the first time ever, vote for the Republicans all up and down my ballot.
I didn't want to but I feel my principles leave me with no choice.
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Just completed my rewatch of Babylon 5’s first season.
My thoughts…
It was interesting revisiting this show after 20 years, especially on the heels of watching Deep Space Nine for the first time. Like DS9, the first year growing pains are evident as it lays the groundwork for what would become one of the genre’s most ambitious series. Its strengths lie in its dense and intricate world building as well as its characters and their oft-complicated relationships. The writing is strong overall, at its best when it raises difficult questions but refuses to offer tidy resolutions. At times, the themes land more bluntly than subtly, and the humor is hit-or-miss: some moments had me laughing out loud while others just felt forced. The ship designs are wonderfully inventive but their color palette and early-90s CGI can make the visuals feel a little more dated than DS9's. Lead performances are excellent and there are some guest turns by the likes of June Lockhart, Walter Koenig, and David McCallum, even if some of the smaller supporting roles are uneven. The portrayal of alien culture and “otherness” is superb; the romantic elements less engaging.
Characters I loved: Londo Mollari and G’Kar - two of science fiction’s finest.
Characters I liked: On this viewing, I appreciated Michael O’Hare's steady presence as Sinclair more than I did the first time around. Garibaldi, Ivanova, and Delenn are already strong and headed for richer development. Dr. Franklin grew on me upon further review, and I liked Talia even if she was underused. Supporting players - Lennier, Na’Toth, and Vir Cotto - are also well-drawn.
Characters that have me on the fence or didn’t do it for me: None, which is a testament to the character work on this show.
Favorite guest star: Quite a few very good ones, but for me the standout was Tim Choate as Zathras in “Babylon Squared”. Absolutely brilliant, and I look forward to his return in seasons 3 and 4.
Favorite episode: Several episodes stood out (Signs and Portents, Babylon Squared, Chrysalis), but the one that surprised me most was “Believers” - a sharp, unsettling piece of writing.
Least favorite episode: “War Prayer” felt the most didactic in its social commentary, especially next to the more nuanced handling of similar ideas elsewhere in the season.
Overall, I enjoyed Babylon 5 even more on rewatch. Its world-building and character depth feel richer than Deep Space 9’s first season, though DS9 has a warmer sense of place and emerging community that B5 (by design) doesn’t emphasize in this early going. That difference has me looking forward to checking out Deep Space 9’s second season next.
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Not once, in any way, as the Republicans have gotten worse, have the Democrats responded by getting any better.
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This deserves a longer, more thoughtful response. Jaxon, from the very bottom of my heart, I think your political party has embraced sheer lunacy on multiple levels. So much so, I am constantly astounded at how many normal people seemingly can't perceive it. It reminds of the book Darkness at Noon.
But I recognize that party affiliation is, at root, an emotional thing, and not necessarily a rational thing. It shares many of the same characteristics as religious affiliation. We all know how that goes.
We have Democrats ON TAPE talking about revolution. We have evidence of foreign money flowing into ActBlue. We see veto-proof state governments in blue states passing third-trimester abortion protections. I have a file of Democrat quotes a mile long talking about how they want to take my guns away, abridge my religious liberty, and proscribe my viewpoints in the public square.
I could go on, and on, and on. Me providing proof would not move your needle.
So, that's my heartfelt take on it. Do I share a pew with you? I have no choice in that. I don't do politics at church—at all. That's not why I attend. But this idea that the Democrat Party is just some benign political thing in the universe is absolute balderdash. The current values of the Democrat Party couldn't be further from the values of truth, family, patriotism, constitutionalism, etc. They have embraced socialism on a scale to dwarf anything before. I have zero interest in pretending otherwise.
Hi @LDSLaw, I’m a faithful and active member who is a registered Democrat. Which political values of mine are either communist or fascistic?
I sit next to my fellow church members in the pews to partake of the Lord’s Supper each Sunday. Am I a danger to them?
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What I'm about to say is going to bother some people, anger others. But I've spent a long, long time on this.
I believe the current iteration of the Democrat Party is a communo-fascist party of evil proportions. A "Red-Brown" fusion that has happened numerous times before. They represent a danger to our nation. A real danger.
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I have long maintained that any vote to expand the Court should not take effect for 2 years at minimum.
You want to pack the Court? Fine.
But the voters get to decide who picks, with a whole election cycle.
I mean, that would never happen.
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John Cornyn betrayed his voters on their most important issues. Repeatedly. With nothing gained in exchange from the Democrats he betrayed them to.
When they finally stopped letting him do that to them, he calls them “extremists”.
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Nobody called you about Albania, Adolf.
Over the last few days, I’ve gotten a bunch of concerned calls from Michiganders about the escalating violence in Albania, among other European countries.
The Albanian people have the right to protest peacefully and hold their elected officials accountable. Likewise, the Albanian government has a duty to uphold the rule of law, protect protestors against the excessive use of police force, clean up corruption, and respond to citizens’ concerns. I urge both sides to do all they can to deescalate and find a peaceful way to move forward.
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Free loaders who commit fraud never stop figuring out how to freeload and scam more.
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Oh this story is delicious. Some choice parts for you:
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
Do you imagine you would be seeing a statement like this if he had come out for his curtain call, say, wearing a MAGA hat?
There is a political dimension to art, for sure, but to pretend that means any political statement is appropriate and/or necessary at any time during the presentation of that art is lunacy.
We are disturbed to learn that @CalgaryOpera has removed bass-baritone Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega from future performances of "Tosca" after he unveiled a Palestinian flag during the curtain call on opening night. Art is political, and artists should not be punished for expressing support for the Palestinian people as they face a genocide. This decision must be reversed.
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As far as anyone saying such a tax will be one time and only ever apply to billionaires:
Californians are currently voting on a one-time 5% billionaire tax: Proposition 40.
This is a unique opportunity to start addressing one of the great absurdities of our time —that billionaires pay so little in taxes.
If it passes, it could kickstart the movement for a national billionaire tax and inspire similar initiatives other countries.
This is how we move from 19th century charity to 21st century democracy.
It seems as though no one in Washington is on our side.
What is even the point anymore?
Interesting.
For the last day or so, X has been filled with people saying things to the effect of “the time to fight republicans is in the primary, in the general, we have to vote for them.”
Others have said, that we need to vote for the GOP now and hold their feet to the fire.
Well, this is what happens when you try to hold an Utah Republican’s feet to the fire. 👇🏻
Poor form, Senator.
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The freedom to have her and her friends decide whether you get medical care.
No thanks.
