The Seattle Times reports:
Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism, is in a small town in Poland with more than 60 Ukrainian children, trying to facilitate their adoption in America.
Shea has said his group helped rescue 62 children and their two adult caregivers from an orphanage in Mariupol, the city in southeastern Ukraine that has been bombarded by Russian forces.
“I asked him many times, ‘What are you going to do with these children?’ and he told me that it’s not my business,’” Weronika Ziarnicka, an aide to the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said of Shea. “I got the feeling in my gut that something’s wrong with this guy; he didn’t want to tell me his last name.”
Read the full article.
Shea first earned national headlines in 2019 when leaked chats showed his violent fantasies about executing non-Christians and when it was learned that he had participated in militia drills to train young men for “biblical warfare.”
Shea advocates for the creation of a 51st US state based on “biblical law.” He has also said that all American men who fail to avow allegiance to Jesus should be executed.
He was expelled by the Washington state Republican caucus but refused to resign even after the feds found that he had “participated in an act of domestic terrorism against the United States” by helping plan the armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016.
He did not seek reelection in 2020 and is now the pastor of Covenant Christian Church in Spokane.
In the clip below from this weekend, he appears on a Polish right wing outlet.
Category: Anger
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Ukraine should give up
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/17/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-ukraine-should-give-up_partner/
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference in Washington on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. The House voted 230 to 199 on Thursday evening to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from committee assignments over her remarks about QAnon and other conspiracy theories. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Wednesday slammed President Joe Biden for sending more military aid to Ukraine, and said that things would be better off if Ukrainians just gave up their efforts to resist the Russian invasion.
In a Facebook address to her supporters, Greene laid out the case against helping the Ukrainians with more weapons.
“If we truly care about suffering and death on our television screens, we cannot fund more of it by sending money and weaponry to fight a war they cannot possibly win!” she said. “The only effect of more arms and more money from America will be to prolong the war!”
Greene went on to say that America was giving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his people “false hope about a war they can’t win.”
In fact, many military experts think that Russia’s invasion has broadly stalled, and Ukraine reports that it has killed four different Russian generals after less than a month of fighting, which suggests that the possibility for victory by the Ukrainians is far from hopeless.
Greene concluded by saying that she wanted to stop the Ukrainain arms shipments because “as Christians” she didn’t want to produce “any more human suffering.”
Watch the video below.
Notice that she never mentioned that Russia should pull back or stop but that all her Christian love of life was directed at the Ukrainians stopping defending themself. I wonder which one is her reason, the white supremacy of Russia, the religious takeover of public life, or the hateful attempt to erase the LGBTQ+. Is she a paid sponsor of Putin’s or just a useful idiot like her beloved cult leader tRump?
Pat Robertson: Biden Should Threaten To Nuke Russia
“We have the firepower to wipe out every Russia city – just one Trident submarine – and of course we aren’t using it and have no intention of using it.
“But why doesn’t somebody in the administration call Putin’s bluff? He’s bluffing! And every time he says, ‘Well, if you do that, we’re going to escalate.’
“Oh no you’re not, old buddy. We’re gonna do you if you try to do us and we’ll make it worse and you know it.
“Putin knows we’re really powerful. He doesn’t have much of an army. He doesn’t have much of an economy. It’s a tiny economy and he’s playing a bluff.
“But unfortunately we have a man in charge in Washington who doesn’t like to stand up to bluffs. He folds his winning hand every single time.” – Pat Robertson, on today’s The 700 Club.
Let’s talk about foreign policy’s new normal and anti-Russian sentiment….
Tony Perkins: LGBTs Are Controlled By “Demonic Spirits” And Are The “Zenith Of Rebellion Against God” [VIDEO]
“This whole thing with LGBT is the zenith of man’s rebellion against God. The Creator who created us in his own image, we’re saying, ‘No, we will decide—not biology, not science—we will decide what our gender is.’
“That is the only explanation for how people are surrendering to this agenda, how adamant the advocates of this agenda are, and why we as believers in Jesus Christ who love people and do not want to see our children condemned to confusion for the rest of their lives must speak the truth of God’s word.
“Jesus made very clear there are two genders, not 52. We can never accommodate darkness. I’m going to be very clear about this tonight: Those that are opposing us on these issues are not our enemies.
“We know that our enemies are spiritual. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. Our enemies are not flesh and blood; they’re the spirits, the demonic spirits that control so much.” – Tony Perkins, speaking at a Washington church.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why is the US the only developed country with a for profit medical system that only the more well off can afford and the poor just have to suffer in sickness.
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And now some for fun
Republicans TRAMPLE On Women’s Rights AGAIN
Madison Cawthorn had a rough week
Fox Host: Zelensky Is Controlled By “Occult” Nazis
Media Matters has the transcript:
What Russia has done from the very beginning has been very strategic. They didn’t go straight to Kyiv. They went to all those bioweapons laboratories that are scattered all over the country. Some of them they built. So they know where they are.
They’ve known where they are since the Soviet Union, because under the defense threat reduction program, we went in after the fall of the Soviet Union, and supposedly they turned those facilities from bioweapons labs into public health labs.
Although, you know, these days, it’s hard to believe anything that our leaders tell us because they’ve lied about COVID. They lied about Russia collusion. They lied about the Ukraine impeachment trial. And there’s so much more going on in Ukraine that nobody is talking about.
You see such dishonesty when it comes to the history of Ukraine. You see dishonesty when it comes to the Azov Battalion, which is funded by the U.S. and NATO. I mean, you can find pictures of them online holding up the NATO flag and the swastika.
And at the same time, their own emblem contains the black sun of the occult, which was a Nazi SS emblem. And it also contains the sideways, you know, lightning insignia of the SS.
I mean, this is on throughout the Ukrainian military you can see that black sun of the occult on their body armor, even on the female soldiers who are paraded in front of the world as being, you know, such an example of Ukraine’s independence and spirit and nobility. Even they are wearing the black sun of the occult.
As you’ll see in the clip, there’s much more. Logan even brings up a decade-old comedy bit by Zelensky, claiming that his parody of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” video is a “satanic, occult type of music video.”
Fox is desperate to find something that will stick against Ukraine and Zelensky. Why the Fox network and its hosts are promoting the deception of a world pariah who is attacking a sovereign nation and helping Putin destroy the lives of women / children / men who were not combatants but people going about their lives. Why does Fox give comfort and aid to the enemy? This is an enemy of the US nation, the US people. Is the desire to get a political point or two over the other party worth the supporting of child killers? Are they really pro-life? They disgust me today more than ever.
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Growing up in the 1970s, we had sex education in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grades. We talked about sex, reproduction, contraception, drugs and alcohol, and many other “adult” topics. I don’t recall anyone ever feeling uncomfortable. Republicans are soooo repressed.
The truth is these laws will try to erase LGBTQ+ people from classrooms, school, the public, and the media. I posted today how in the intent section of the bill it stresses it is to prevent discussion of anything dealing with these subjects in schools, most definitely in the younger grades. To the point that a teacher in a same sex marriage can not display their family as straight people can, can not talk about their spouse. Kids with two dads or two moms can not talk about their families. It creates a second class not as good as the straight families situation.
I’d have some understanding of this cartoon if it weren’t for the fact that 1) Biden has approved more permits to drill on federal land since becoming president than the orange one, and, 2) the gas companies are sitting on 9,000 previously approved permits to drill on government owned land that they have not so much as parked a drilling rig on to date, and, 3) the oil companies just launched the largest drilling rig in the Gulf to date. Let’s cut through the mid-term bull$hit and focus on actual data and not the rhetoric of the right or left. Thank you.
/s The best thing we Americans can possibly do, is to pump all the oil available within our borders out of the ground as fast as humanly possible (and get it into the air as quick as we can) because that way we will never be dependent on foreign oil. Because we have unlimited oil within the United States and it will not only never run out, it will never even become more scarce. /s