"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"

PLUS: I joined The Daily Beast podcast to discuss "A Royal Warning" and more

With a few exceptions the Super Bowl ads were awful.

What used to be a showcase for creativity has become a poster board for celebrity endorsements that remind me of the Democratic Party’s approach to communication and connection during the Trump era.

Fame is not an antidote for incoherence.

There was no incoherence in the halftime show, which was perfectly understandable even if a great many Americans couldn’t understand a word.

The message was about human dignity, which of course offended the most brittle man and vile man in the Americas, Donald Trump.

Here was his response:

“…especially for young children…”

What about the little boy to whom Bad Bunny handed his Grammy?

Credit: NBC

Was it “disgusting” for him?

I thought about all of the little black boys and girls in America who received an abject lesson in hate this past week from America’s racist president who taught them a hard lesson about evil.

What they learned is a powerful black couple who served as president of the United States and first lady with grace and dignity are, in the end, just two apes in the polluted minds of million Americans.

I worry that they are too young to know that they are fully American and beautiful, perfect creations in the image of God who are not less than any person.

I worry that they think that every white American is a cancer in the image of Donald Trump.

I know that Donald Trump is depraved and venomous, irredeemably evil and disgustingly cruel. He is unworthy of his office, and a blight on decency, but I worry that millions of our children are being marinated in his sins.

It is grotesque and shameful.

Yet, even the racism was outbid by the sick reality that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s close friend, who is mentioned more than 38,000 times in the child rape files dared to suggest that children were endangered by a musical performance in Spanish.

Think about that.

Donald Trump, America’s great protector of the children.

Some people say we are living through a second gilded age.

Wrong.

We are living in the age of gilded filth.

The Google Gemini ad, featuring a child, seemed more than a little sinister. What is certain about Google is that the promise to “do know evil“ long ago faded to black. It is always troubling to see predators exploiting their victims and calling the abuse love.

Love vs hate.

The eternal battle between the two opposing forces was on full display last night.

In the end, love cannot be conquered by hate, but it can yield to hate.

Hate is a great seducer. Amongst its greatest tricks is to convince someone that it can only be conquered with a hotter hatred.

This is one of humanity’s most vicious and dangerous lies.

Hate begets more hate begets more and more until there is nothing but fear and death left.

Last night, love won the day, but there are many miles to go in the long struggle to defeat the MAGA obscenity and consign it to the ash heap of history.

Never forget that love of our country and each other is our most powerful weapon.

We must love freedom, liberty and the concept of human dignity with our whole hearts in order to face down the MAGA evil.

Make no mistake, Trump’s reaction to a halftime show was neither funny nor entertaining. It was evil, and evil alway announces itself before it acts.

Always.

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“A Royal Warning:” my conversation with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast

Here’s the conversation description from The Daily Beast:

Steve Schmidt (political strategist and founder of The Warning) joins Joanna Coles and dives into Donald Trump’s monomaniacal urge to name the nation after himself, and pin down the long reckoning Schmidt says is coming for Trump’s cabinet, enablers, and allies. Schmidt, political strategist and co-founder of The Save America Movement, argues Trumpism will be scraped from the walls of American life, predicts collapsing approval numbers, and warns that the real danger isn’t Trump’s lies but the media and political class selling helplessness as destiny. From the Epstein files metastasizing across multiple countries to Tulsi Gabbard’s alleged election meddling to a startling ultimatum aimed at King Charles to legitimize Trump, Schmidt frames this moment as a constitutional emergency—and an awakening. Is Trump’s grip already slipping, or is the bill for a decade of depravity only just coming due?

I hope you’ll tune in either by watching the video below, or you can check it out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred podcast platform:

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