“You cannot preach the Bible without the United States Constitution. Period,” Michael Flynn announced to a crowded hall on stage of the QAnon-infused evangelical “ReAwaken America” July tour stop in Virginia Beach. Thousands were in attendance, and Flynn’s speech was full of fire and brimstone, espousing a Christian nationalist ideology about how the church should be at the heart of all aspects of American society.
During Flynn’s speech, dozens of pastors stood right behind him; in total, 150 pastors had just signed a pledge to become part of the regiment. Flynn’s group was founded by Virginia pastor William Cook. This new iteration of the group wants pastors to preach the gospel of Trump, actively spread conspiracies about COVID vaccines and stolen elections. Many of the pastors aligned with the movement were involved in the Capitol riot.
Pastor David MacLellan proudly identifies himself as a far-right, extremist pastor and a Christian nationalist, someone that believes American politics should reflect fundamentalist Christian values. (1/7) https://t.co/rVXOUp7syS
MacLellan is part of a growing religious political movement called the Black Robe Regiment, a modern day group inspired by a myth of a group of militant pastors during the American Revolution who took up arms to lead their flock into battle. (2/7) https://t.co/n1iwcSqpkx
The modern movement, with support from far-right political activists like Michael Flynn, wants pastors to play a central role in not only preaching politics from the pulpit, but actively getting their congregations to rise up and claim election fraud (3/7) https://t.co/n1iwcS8NVX
Power, naked power over others. Ideally, the power to put others to death. That is the symbolism of the axe blade surrounding the rods – the Etruscan fasces.
“You cannot preach the Bible without the United States Constitution. Period,”
Except maybe in England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Nigeria, Liberia, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Brazil, South Africa, Austrailia, Hungary, Slovakia, and about 200 other countries. Just Sayin’
These people are the first ones to try to overthrow the Constitution and now they’re just using the word “Constitution”, because they obviously don’t know what’s in it or what it means, the same as they call themselves Christians but they don’t seem to have ever read the Gospels, just enough parts of the book of Revelations and Leviticus to make them violently deranged,
They neither know nor care about the experiences of other countries. They think God has singled out America for his love and can’t imagine being a country that is actually run well and provides a decent life for its citizens.
There are two mentions of religion in the Constitution. One is in the body of the Constitution and states that there will be no religious test to run for or hold office. The other is in the first amendment and states that congress shall make no law respecting a religion. Anyone who says that the constitution is based on the buybull has read and understood neither.
Took wife to our local polling place here in Lee County FL only to find it closed and locked up tight. We were forced to go to a local veteran’s park and stand in a long line at 8am. Pissed me off no end.
Both these guys are anti-trans. Walsh makes up a ridiculously large number to claim children are being rushed into puberty blockers. When told the true number is less than 1,000 a year Rogan laughs about it because he loved the idea scaring people on the idea that millions of kids were transitioning. Tomorrow I will read stories all over right wing media how millions of kids are being forced to use puberty blockers as they are forced to transition. This is the sort of dirty tricks and made up false information that the right loves to use against trans people and the rest of the LGBTQ+. Facts don’t matter to these people. Also not mentioned here but Walsh has a recorded show where he said girls at the age of 12 should be married and have sex and by 14 should be having babies because they reach their peak sexuality by 16. Yet it is the gays and teachers he calls groomers. Hugs
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh claimed “millions” of kids have now been put on hormone blockers before getting fact checked by Joe Rogan’s producer. “How many people have had this done?” Rogan asked. “Depends on what — I don’t think we have exact numbers, but it’s — if we’re talking about the drugs, it’s, I mean, millions,” Walsh replied in reference to hormone medication given to those who are transitioning.
The projection screen in front of Rogan and Walsh lit up and producer Jamie Vernon interjected with a fact check from a Reuters article. “That’s a very small number if that’s right,” Vernon said referencing the article, published October 6, 2022, which said only 4,780 children had been placed on puberty blockers within the last five years. “Less than a thousand people a year,” Vernon reiterated. “A million sounds great,” Rogan laughed.
Walsh, who has called for charging adults who bring kids to drag show as pedophiles, recently appeared on JMG when he declared that Disney’s black mermaid is “unscientific.”
The previous month he appeared here when he blamed the Buffalo mass shooting on pandemic lockdowns.
Earlier this year, we heard from him when he declared that lesbians will cease to exist over the next 30 years.
Before that, he appeared here when he called for banning adoption by LGBT people. And before that, he appeared here when he called for dissolving the United States.
Walsh also claims that shooting people “is not against the law.” Walsh has declared that “everybody would be happier” if arranged marriages were mandatory.
Matt Walsh Tells Joe Rogan Millions of Kids Have Now Been Put on Hormone Blockers Before Being Corrected By Producer https://t.co/DTodVA7N3M
I’m just finishing up the agenda for the next Gay Conspiracy Meeting. Once we’ve made everyone get gay married, all children will be switched to the opposite sex, then we’ll make them switch back. Just, you know, because that’s how we roll.
Repost just because the only value folks like Walsh have is fun in mocking them.
Walsh, who has called for charging adults who bring kids to drag show as pedophiles, recently appeared on JMG when he declared that Disney’s black mermaid is “unscientific.”
Ask yourself why the right is so taken with this issue and why they are pushing it so hard. Furries are a stand in for trans kids and litter boxes are the stand in for trans kids in bathrooms. It is a way to attack trans kids / students without mentioning the word trans. The attacks on trans kids have run out of steam and people are starting to fight back making the bigots lose. So just as they switched from gays to trans, they are switching to code words. That is why some of these bigots say the furries are trying to change their species, licking themselves meaning they are unclean, dirty, gross and are infecting your holy child. They talk about furries taking poops in a classroom full of other students, which is code for a trans kid being in the same class as your kid is like someone shitting in the classroom. It is stinky and unsanitary and gross is what they are saying. Think about it and how stupid what they are saying is. If you don’t know it is code for hating trans you would wonder at the idea that a student drops their pants in front of all the other kids and goes to the bathroom. That would be exposing themselves to the entire class. That is what they claim having a trans kid in a class is like, having their genitals exposed for your kid to look at. Get real and fight back against this bigotry. Hugs
“It’s really frustrating,” one superintendent said after the health department investigated a school in his district for litter boxes.
Joe Rogan just admitted that his claim last month that he knew of a student who forced a school to install a litter box so that she could defecate in it was false. The urban myth is still spreading like wildfire, and more and more schools are being forced to deny that they’re letting kids use litter boxes.
“My friend, his wife is a school teacher, and she works at a school that had to install a litter box in the girls’ room because there’s a girl who’s a furry, who identifies as an animal and her mother badgered the school until they agreed to put a litter box in one of the stalls,” Rogan told former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii on his podcast last month. “So this girl goes into the litter room or to the girl’s room and urinates or whatever — I don’t know if she poops in it, that’s pretty gross.”
And schools are being forced to respond to angry – and wildly misinformed – residents.
“It is utter nonsense,” said San Luis Coastal Unified School District superintendent Eric Prater in California.
“It is an unfounded allegation,” said superintendent Curt Dubost of the nearby Paso Robles Joint Unified School District. He told The San Luis Obispo Tribune that there have not been any students asking to use litter boxes in schools.
“We have had complaints about ‘Furrys’ in PRJUSD,” Paso Robles school board member Kenney Enney wrote on Facebook. “They are not a protected class, so therefore if there are ‘Furry’ issues in your child’s school, and staff is not addressing it, please notify your your [sic] School Board Trustee.”
The Alpena School District in Michigan is being forced to make a similar denial after residents took school officials to task at a board meeting about kids allegedly dressing up as animals by wearing ears and tails to school while making animal sounds during class.
“It’s really frustrating,” Alpena Public Schools superintendent David Rabbideau told The Alpena News. “People are lobbing these missiles at us and saying, ‘I know better what’s going on.’”
“It’s crazy that we’re talking about this,” Thunder Bay Junior High School Principal Katie Lee said. Her school is in Alpena Public Schools.
The health department was even forced to send a worker to inspect Alpena High School to look for litter boxes.
“For the record, they didn’t find any,” Rabbideau said. “Because there’s never been any. And there never will be.”
In New Hampshire earlier this week, the private high school Pinkerton Academy issued a statement saying that they don’t have litter boxes either after Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc accused the school.
“They’re putting litter boxes,” Bolduc said. “These are the same people that are concerned about spreading germs. Yet they let children lick themselves and then touch everything. And they’re starting to lick each other.”
This school said in a statement: “It has come to our attention that at a recent event in Claremont Don Bolduc named Pinkerton in false claims suggesting that unhygienic, disturbing practices are taking place in our classrooms and spaces on campus…. We want to assure our community that Mr. Bolduc’s statements are entirely untrue.” The school invited all candidates to visit “so they can inform themselves.”
Last month, the Republican party’s nominee for governor of Colorado claimed that 30 schools were accommodating furries, with students “identifying as cats.”
“Not many people know that we have furries in Colorado schools,” she said on a radio show. She went on to say that it happened in her kids’ school district so she moved to get away from the student-furries.
Two statewide educational organizations condemned her claims as “exhausting” and “incredibly frustrating,” saying they disrupt learning and stress out teachers who are already overworked.
“There are no litter boxes in our buildings and students are not allowed to come to school in costume. There are no furries or students identifying as such during the school day,” one of the accused school districts, Jefferson County Public Schools, said in a statement.
“This vicious rumor – it’s been debunked how many times already?” Bret Miles, the executive director of the Colorado Association of School Executives, told The Denver Post. “Now it’s out there again, in our governor’s race…. School districts are spending time chasing down storylines that were purely for political gain. They have nothing to do with what kids are experiencing at school, and it’s shock and awe. It’s just incredibly frustrating.”
“No, we don’t provide litter boxes; our children use bathrooms,” a spokesperson for the Durango School District in Colorado said earlier in the month after Rep. Boebert accused that Colorado school district of putting litter boxes out for kids “who identify as cats.”
The rumor has even gone international. The Refrew County Catholic District School Board in Canada issued a statement that said “misinformation is currently circulating in our school communities and online regarding the presence of litter boxes in our schools.”
The statement said that the district has “never had litter boxes in any of our elementary or secondary sites.” The district added that they “do not collect any data regarding animal identity and we do not recognize such identities.”
Please find attached a joint statement from the RCCDSB & @RCDSB clarifying the misinformation circulating about litter boxes in our schools. pic.twitter.com/K8IFiHwArD
“I think it was just a matter of time before that misinformation made its way here,” a board spokesperson told the Ottawa Citizen. The spokesperson said that the number of complaints they were getting was “getting a little out of control, so we decided to do a joint statement to reassure school communities that this is not happening.”
The Ottawa Citizen noted that the Eganville Leader published a letter to the editor from someone who claimed that seven students in the district identified as animals. The letter said that one student identifies as a frog and another is a cat who uses a litter box in school and claimed that their information came from “a confirmed report from a high-up school board official.”
I cannot make up my mind if DeathSantis is a true beleive or just pandering to the Christian right to get elected. More and more I think he is a true believer. I do know that when he was in the us House of Rep. he was thought of as being really stupid some said worse than Gohmert. Does this mean his attacks on the LGBTQ+ and the attempts to roll the US society / culture back to the 1950s is a true desire of his Christian faith? That makes him even more dangerous. Notice he claims he was sent by the Christian god to defend the downtrodden, so he does that by attacking the LGBTQ+ and promoting Christian ideas in laws and public schools? I have this in two different feeds so you may see this twice. Hugs
Ron DeSantis, a professional bully, thinks he’s a fighter (image via Shutterstock)
In a new campaign ad that, in a more rational world, would anger religious conservatives, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is deemed a “fighter” sent by the Christian God to defend the downtrodden.
The ad is based on a speech conservative radio broadcaster Paul Harvey delivered in 1978 called “So God Made a Farmer.” The gist is that God wants someone to do lots the work, impact local government, help his neighbor, go to church, and essentially be a real-life Norman Rockwell character… therefore, God made farmers. Not a bad way to suck up to the audience at a convention for the Future Farmers of America.
The DeSantis team took that script, changed “farmer” to “fighter,” modified the rest of the script accordingly, and painted the conservative culture warrior as if he were some kind of American savior.
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a protector.” So God made a fighter. God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, kiss his family goodbye, travel thousands of miles for no other reason than to serve the people, to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness.” So God made a fighter.
God said, “I need someone to be strong, advocate truth in the midst of hysteria. Someone who challenges conventional wisdom and isn’t afraid to defend what he knows to be right and just.” So God made a fighter.
God said, “I need somebody who will take the arrows, stand firm in the wake of unrelenting attacks, look a mother in the eyes and tell her that her child will be in school. She can keep her job, go to church, eat dinner with friends, and hold the hand of an aging parent, taking their breath for the last time.” So God made a fighter.
God said, “I need a family man. A man who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his daughter says she wants to spend her life doing what dad does.”
So God made a fighter.
The script is bizarre for a number of reasons, the most obvious being that DeSantis paints himself as God’s gift to humanity. If Joe Biden released a similar ad, every white evangelical pastor and FOX anchor would be screaming about blasphemy.
It’s also a ridiculous ad because DeSantis isn’t a fighter. Any fighter worth admiring is someone who isn’t afraid to put his own body or reputation on the line when pushing back against those who are more powerful. DeSantis is a coward who goes after marginalized communities in order to receive praise from within his right-wing echo chamber.
He’s not a fighter. He’s a professional asshole who represents the epitome of white evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic rage. He’ll use their rhetoric to hurt as many people outside their bubble as possible, all while being hailed as a hero by the people who claim moral superiority over everyone else.
He’s not a fighter. He’s a walking advertisement for why decent humans should ditch the Republican Party and organized religion entirely.
DeSantis doesn’t know how to fight because he has no principles to fight for. All he has is the power of his office, and he’s using that to wage wars against everyone who’s critical of him. Whatever happens with his political career, he’ll never be remembered as a fighter, just a guy who got away with all kinds of dipshittery because the conservative religious zealots in his corner never had the courage to defend the least of these.
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