Category: MAGA / Republican
TAKE ‘EM ALL DOWN, FANI – A Parody | Cohen & Caron
We Wish Donald Trump A Long Life!
What’s Happening In Ṯexas Is Insane
Let’s talk about Kansas and the GOP not giving up….
Gov Abbott And The Only Thing They’re Not Doing At The Border
Let’s talk about Texas and chains of command….
The Text Messages Between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows
Thanks to https://poodyheads.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/the-text-messages-between-ginni-thomas-and-mark-meadows/ for the link. Hugs. Scottie
TX GOP Chair Worked For Funder Of Extremist Group
This goes along with my last post, Christian take over of the US pushed by Churches, leaders with money, and wealthy older people who see it as a way to enforce their bigotry to remain a white cis straight 1950s society. I really want to emphasize the hard right bigotry and hate these billionaires have and the changes they are making to society. They fund the very rabid right wing media that is trying hard to change all of our society and political leanings, increasing hate for LGBTQIA and hate against blacks / brown people. They push a pro Christian white cis straight male in charge of society. Dunn & Wilks also control influential legal, policy, & advocacy organizations. One of those orgs argued in court that pharmacies shouldn’t sell birth control. The lawyer who argued that case later became a federal judge. He banned the abortion pill. And they’ve even created their own right-wing media bubble. Dunn & Wilks fund Texas Scorecard, the top far-right publication. Wilks owns the Daily Wire and bankrolls PragerU, a right-wing “education” platform they’re trying to force into our schools. Prager U is now being used in red state public schools as instruction materials. Florida pushes their message hard. There is a serious push by really wealthy old Christian bigots to turn the US into a Christian Iran, a Christian Saudi Arabia, a Christian Afghanistan. Do we the poor majority want to allow this? Hugs. Scottie
January 13, 2024
The Texas Tribune reports:
For more than three months, Republican Party of Texas Chair Matt Rinaldi has vigorously attacked critics of Defend Texas Liberty, and rebuffed calls to distance the state party from the powerful group over its ties to white supremacists. As he did so, Rinaldi was also working as an attorney for one of the group’s two billionaire funders, Farris Wilks, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Since 2021, Wilks has given nearly $5 million to Defend Texas Liberty, which last year was the state party’s largest financial supporter. With Rinaldi’s help, the group has sought to purge the Texas GOP of more moderate voices by bankrolling far-right causes and primary candidates. Publicly, Rinaldi has also been silent about Defend Texas Liberty as the Tribune extensively reported on ties between the group and other white supremacists and Nick Fuentes acolytes.
Read the full article. There’s much more. Give the tweets below a minute to fully load because they illuminate how deep this goes. The final tweet links to a grimly fascinating deep dive into Defend Texas Liberty’s leader.
Sen. Josh Hawley Goes Full Christian Nationalist
By my dogs that love gravy, we must stop this Christian attack on the secular state of our country. This people are desperately misinformed yet have worked their way into power and money. They want a minority Christian rule over the majority using moral police and a Christian Taliban. This is a full out take over of the US by a driven religious group who are starting from the wrong premise and building a movement out of it. We have already seen how they want to base our laws on medical care on their religion, even if they don’t know what their religion says about the subject. I am talking about banning abortion, but also marriage, adoption, gender affirming care for trans people, and yes even what materials can be read by your students and what can be taught them. Hugs. Scottie
January 13, 2024
Sen. Josh Hawley writes for First Things:
America as a Christian nation—that’s a heretical notion by today’s lights. We are a secular country, the experts have insisted—demanded—for decades. But that was never true. The Founders read Roman historians, yes. Some were influenced by Enlightenment philosophies.
But the Bible has been the main source of our national ideals. From the age of the New England Puritans to the Great Awakening that prepared the ground for revolution, Scripture has molded our common life from the first. Consider:
Our ideal of the individual has Christian roots. So too does our constitutionalism. Our great traditions of progressive reform were animated by an ardent Christian spirit—as was conservative resistance to their excesses. Even in our most bitter conflicts, Christian culture has been America’s common ground.
Read the full essay.
It goes on for several thousand words.
From the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams
“the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
I’m really starting to HATE christians. I’ve known very few who actually walk the walk, and you sure don’t need a religion to do the right thing. In fact religious people will do the WRONG thing because of their religion.
I avoid them completely. Conversation starters like ‘tell me about your relationship with Jesus’, or any phrase that includes ‘sharing the good news’ have me running for the hills. There are good christians out there, they just don’t announce it to everyone because they are too busy being good christians. Wish there were more of them.
Of all the bullshit lines I’ve got hit with, my fave was “What’s YOUR form of worship?” asked in a tone making it very obvious her assumption was that of course no one is without a form of worship.
it’s interesting — even Joe Scarbourough, brought up S. Baptist has been saying for awhile now how that church, and other evangelical ones coopted the abortion issue in the Carter presidency … and turned those churches into the political (.. i’ll call them “clubs” ) that they are —devoid of any real Christian meaning.
Yes, it was the 1973 Supreme Court decision on tax exemption of religious organizations (Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v Nyquist) that got all of this rolling. It has always been about money and power.
That’s b/c the republican establishment knew that their platform of tax cuts for millionaires/billionaires along with corporations was a losing strategy. They knew that by renewing the horrid “southern strategy” that nixon made use of while allowing evangelicals a voice in dictating social wedge issues (abortion, gay rights), republicans would remain popular amongst low-info as well as suburban voters.
And make the churches pay for it!
It’s for its own protection, after all.
Minor quibble: That wall was built over 200 years ago.
Ya, and they’ve been trying to tear it down ever since!
I’m just going to post this. Someone might have done this before me but just in case…..
