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Sherry's avatar

Frankly (and Shirley) this surprised me too. It gave me hope that people will not be erased. It gives me hope that the 19th amendment will stand. It gives me hope that Black Americans will be energized and engaged in fighting the good fight. We’re all in this together.

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Elon is about as open with his racism as a person can be, and still, every fucking day, people give him their money and buy his products.

gnomemansanisland's avatar

This deleted comment was meant for an insane RFK Jr story.

fair_n_hite_451's avatar

Lol. "Tube Steak Boogie" ... an ode to Hot Dogs.

NH is for πŸ¦‘πŸ„πŸ's avatar

β€œWhy isn’t South Carolina moving ahead?”

My guess is because while SC repugs may be evil, they aren’t stupid. And given the overall national pushback against partisan AND racial gerrymandering, they see that this might bite them in the ass. No Princess Points awarded.

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Now that Texas Republicans have nominated notoriously corrupt Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, the MAGA religious right is sure to refocus its fire on James Talarico and his faith

Right-Wing Christian Nationalists Fear Christian James Talarico, So They Attack His Faith

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/right-wing-christian-nationalists-fear-christian-james-talarico-so-they-attack-his-0

Religious-right leaders have been spent decades trying to get more Christians engaged in politics. So are they excited about a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate who is a Christian and a seminarian who speaks fluently about how his faith informs his politics? Hell no.

From the moment that Texas state legislator and former public school teacher James Talarico won the March 3 Democratic primaryβ€”and even beforeβ€”right-wing Christian nationalists have been attacking Talarico. It’s not hard to understand why. Talarico is an effective speaker who is comfortable talking about his faith while promoting LGBTQ equality and reproductive choice and challenging his Republican colleagues. When Talarico appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast last summer, the host who endorsed Trump in 2024 encouraged him to run for president.

Polls show that Talarico is currently running neck-and-neck with either of the two Republicans who are battling each other in a runoff that will be held in May. That means he is drawing support from millions of Christian Democrats and Independents.

That is unacceptable to Christian-right leaders who have tried to make supporting Donald Trump and voting for Republicans an article of faith. To undermine Talarico’s appeal, they are attacking his faith as well as his politics.

In other words, the same people who are quick to cry β€œreligious persecution” when their political goals or tactics are criticized have no problem denouncing the faith of a fellow Christian who disagrees with their political positions.

Indeed, they take it on themselves to decide who counts as a β€œreal Christian” based on whether a person is aligned with their religious and political worldview. And they viciously smear anyone who isn’t part of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.

The attacks on Talarico are adding to the evidence that Christian nationalists’ religious bigotry and intolerance does not only extend to non-Christians.

Here are just some of the examples we’ve seen in the past month:

Brooks Potteiger, pastor of the church that Christian nationalist Doug Wilson planted in DC to take advantage of his relationship with Pete Hegseth and boost his influence among Christians in the Trump administration, and Joshua Haymes made news in March when they called Talarico’s theology demonic and deceitful. They said they hoped that God would β€œcrucify him” in Christβ€”a metaphor for a spiritual overhaul. But Haynes added that if that wasn’t part of the plan God should β€œstop him by any means necessary.”

Wilson, whose vision for a Christian republic includes legal discrimination against non-Christians and liberal Christians, denounced Talarico as β€œa death angel from Texas,” explaining that β€œA death cult is any manner of life conducted outside Jesus Christ.”

One of the most Talarico-obsessed Christian-right figures is Gary Bauer, who has been pushing toxic right-wing politics since the days when he urged Ronald Reagan not to let any gay people serve on the first AIDS commission because it would insult conservative Christians. Bauer publishes a daily email newsletter that he has used to repeatedly go after Talarico.

In one of his diatribes, Bauer called Talarico the β€œposter boy” for β€œthe concerted effort by the Democrat Party to steal the Gospel of Jesus to sell Marxism and moral depravity.” Bauer has called Talarico β€œfar-left” and flat-out lied about Talarico’s position on border security, falsely claiming that he wants β€œopen borders.” Bearing false witness, anyone?

There’s more.

Dominionist James Garlow’s Well Versed newsletter urged people to β€œbeware” of the β€œheretical” Talarico. The Blaze’s far-right Steve Deace declared β€œJames Talarico is going to be Legion” and called him β€œan object and a vessel of malevolence.” Anti-Islam author Michael Youssef denounced Talarico and progressive Christianity as β€œfalse gospels.”

Texas pastor Daniel Hayworth used the platform of the right-wing Human Events to call Talarico a wicked wolf in sheep’s clothing. Heyworth is married to the daughter of the notoriously corrupt GOP attorney general and is promoting his Senate candidacy.

Even Trump himself couldn’t resist getting in on the Talarico-bashing, charging on social media that Talarico was insulting Jesus. Talarico responded, β€œYou want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers. You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war.”

MAGA podcaster Eric Metaxas declared Talarico β€œdiabolical” and a β€œfake Christian” during a conversation with right-wing author Megan Basham. Basham declared that Talarico is β€œnot a Christian,” claiming that it wasn’t enough that Talarico affirms the historic Nicene Creed, saying β€œSatan could affirm the Nicene creed.” She claimed that Talarico is a β€œrank heretic” who has β€œantichrist views” and that β€œscripture commands us” not to treat him as a Christian brother. Metaxas and Masham bashed Christian journalists and publications that have treated Talarico and his Christian witness respectfully, going so far as to question their Christianity. β€œAny true Christian,” she claimed would denounce Talarico as a non-Christian heretic.

ManchuCandidate's avatar

Well, I guess it would be nice if I could win with policy

I know not policy will work with fascists like us

But I gotta think twice before we let you get away

And I know all the Jeebus games you play because I played them too

Oh, but I need some cash to 2nd that emotion

Time to pick my claws up off the floor

Oh, when my hate comes down about your devotion

Well it takes a Repubican, kiddo

But I'm showin' you the door

'Cause I gotta' hit your faith

I gotta hit your faith

Because I'm hitting your faith, faith, faith

I got to hit your faith, faith, faith

lotsacatsndogs's avatar

OT: New article says talking to yourself out loud and swearing are signs of superior intelligence. Girl, I'm fucking GOLDEN!!!

vorpal 86...47...Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅—'s avatar

I swear at myself out loud so therefore: SOOPER JENIUS!

EyeQueue's avatar

Me, too, LOL!!!!!!!

Prostate of Dorian Gray's avatar

Fucking hell. If that's true, I'm a goddamn genius.

HarryButtle, degenerate artist's avatar

"Why isn’t South Carolina moving ahead? The reason shocked us:"

I'd say the answer is 85-year-old Jim Clyburn. They don't want to deal with the fallout over someone that popular who won't be around for very long anyway. They'll do it after he retires/dies. Like, the day after.

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β€œHow old was Mary?”: How dozens of Oklahoma Republicans fought a bill banning child marriage

36 GOP lawmakers cited everything from the Bible to Socialism to oppose a bill preventing minors from getting married

The good news is that Oklahoma recently became the 17th state (along with Washington, D.C.) to ban child marriage.

The bad news? It wasn’t unanimous. In fact, 36 Republicans in the State House voted against the legislation, reminding everyone that they’re perfectly fine with adults forcing themselves upon children who aren’t legally old enough to make decisions for themselves.

Their excuses were downright embarrassing.

Senate Bill 504 shouldn’t have been controversial. All it did was remove the underage exceptions to the law about how marriage can only occur between legal adults. From now on, it won’t matter if your parents (or other authorities) agree to it or if you’re pregnant. No marriage until you’re 18. Simple. That’s a big deal because children are sometimes pressured by their parents to marry early or they feel forced into marriage because of teenage pregnancy. Plenty of adults enter into marriages that don’t pan out, but it’s perfectly rational to say a decision that important should only be made by adults.

Taking an impregnated middle- or high-schooler and pressuring her into getting married to her classmateβ€”at an age when both of them barely understand how their own bodies workβ€”isn’t a love story. It’s Purity Culture run amok. They didn’t have much of a childhood. They barely had time to develop crushes. They probably haven’t gone through a break-up. Why should we assume they have the maturity to understand their options as wedded adults?

Let’s not pretend they can easily end the marriage either. The sort of Christians who advocate for child marriage also condemn divorce regardless of the reason. So child marriage is very much about trapping people into relationships before they’re old enough to know any better.

That’s why this wasn’t merely symbolic legislation. According to the advocacy group Unchained At Last, β€œnearly 315,000 children as young as 10 were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2021β€”mostly girls wed to adult men.”

But that didn’t stop a number of Republican legislators from making a series of bizarre arguments against the bill...

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/how-old-was-mary-how-dozens-of-oklahoma

Werewolf's avatar

Marriage is a contract. Minors cannot legally enter contracts. Case closed.

EyeQueue's avatar

But their parents "know their children" and should be able to make that decision for them.

*gags* *breaks shit*

vorpal 86...47...Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅—'s avatar

but parents aren't allowed to make a decision to terminate a fetus... it has rights!!!

The disconnect is wild.

EyeQueue's avatar

"But you think that you know better than parents? Do you think the government should make decisions for parents over family? You think we have that authority?"

YES, GODDAMN IT! You are no "expert" on children b/c you squirted or squeezed out a kid. PERIOD! That confers ZERO MAGICAL FUCKING KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO YES! WE DO HAVE THAT AUTHORITY YOU BACKWOODS FUCKING KIDDIE FUCKER!

EyeQueue's avatar

FUCK THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY WANT TO FUCK CHILDREN!

Menotsure's avatar

Dame Fate is indeed a fickle mistress. It turns out that after getting fired Pam Bondi has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Being able to devote her time to treatment without the stresses of trying to cover for Trump's sizable ass might be the best thing to happen to her.

I wish her nothing but success in beating it, and as always, fuck cancer!

vorpal 86...47...Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅—'s avatar

There have been reports of a dishevelled woman pushing a shopping cart filled with her belongings under abandoned bridges in South Florida and her eerie wail echos off the cracking concrete:

'The DOW is over $ 50000!'

Sister Artemis's avatar

Thyroid cancer is a bitch, but caught early is very treatable. I hope coming up against this difficulty affords Bondi some time to reflect on the world and other people, and brings some compassion to her outlook.

It probably won't, but a girl can dream.

stulexington's avatar

I hope she beats or and has a long life in obscurity.

Birb-General of the US's avatar

"something karma something something..."

EyeQueue's avatar

Fortunately, that's one with a high survival rate.

I have thyroid issues and get nodules and am always afraid of that but was told that it is one of those that people usually survive.

She'll probably have to have a "Chernobyl choker", though.

Old Man Shadow's avatar

Aw, but Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas really want to bring back Separate, but Equal.

josephebacon's avatar

If Alito had his way Slappy T would only be able to cast 3/5 of a vote when it comes to Supreme Court decisions.

Pig Bodine's avatar

As so with Jesus and as so with the South, HEE HAW shall rise again. Amen.

EyeQueue's avatar

Yay!!!! Buck Owens and Roy Clark!

Werewolf's avatar

I’m a-pickin’!

-And I’m a-grinnin’!

EyeQueue's avatar

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

josephebacon's avatar

Sleazy E's favorite You Tuber is a very very sick freak

Over the last year, Elon Musk has developed a fascination with a 24-year-old podcaster and YouTuber from Pennsylvania who claimed he communicated β€œwith God about what he believes the future of the right, philosophically, should be.”

Rudyard Lynch, addressing his 737,000 subscribers on YouTube, has also envisioned a violent β€œincel revolution” engulfing the US in the very near future. β€œI have been betting my money for years that America will have a rape crisis,” he said in a 2024 video in which he rebuked women for treating β€œincels as if they’re subhuman vermin.”

β€œWomen,” he added, had placed themselves in a β€œprecarious position” by alienating β€œmen who could protect them.”

Since May of last year, Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, two of the world’s most valuable companies, has shared podcasts recorded by Lynch on more than 10 occasions, most recently in March. β€œThoughtful” and β€œworth listening to” are two ways the centibillionaire has described Lynch and his material.

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/inside-the-twisted-mind-of-elon-musks

NH is for πŸ¦‘πŸ„πŸ's avatar

My money says he cheers on the incel revolution from the shelter of his Mom’s basement.

HarryButtle, degenerate artist's avatar

RUDYARD? Rudyard LYNCH? Are you fucking kidding me?

EyeQueue's avatar

The simulation isn't even trying now.

EyeQueue's avatar

"β€œThe genetic differences in men and women, between races and classes have all been completely proven,” said Lynch. β€œI know five PhDs in genetics, who all say that biological race and class has been irrefutably proven at this point.”"

Class is genetic now? And sorry, fuckalump, but THERE IS MORE GENETIC VARIATION AMONG BLACK PEOPLE THAN EXISTS BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE.

So there goes your precious GAWD given "theory" you disgusting subhuman animal.

Fuck these assholes. Tear them apart with machines. Save the world before this nonsense can take over the soft minds of these little boys and manlets they want to convert.

EyeQueue's avatar

And look at that lump of shit. Just look at him!

Has he tried getting to know a woman and treating her like an actual human being or just a collection of warm, wet holes?

EyeQueue's avatar

Elon Musk needs to be *redacted* by machines.

And let an incel step to me. I'd really love to see that.

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

So six fuckers lied their way through senate confirmation, collected a whole bunch of gullible ass senator's votes, and now rule us by decree like fucking plantation overseer's. But I actually admire the Federalist Society for their focus and tenacity over 40 years in understanding the true power of the USSC and then capturing it. There is nothing equivalent on the left, no realpolitik thinking, no understanding of how to capture power and then what to do with it. FDR understood, and LBJ understood and since then, nada.

Birb-General of the US's avatar

I would substitute "recognize" for "admire."

Werewolf's avatar

Don’t try to blackmail me with the Supreme Court!

Fucking lefty dipshits.

PrimerGray's avatar

Yay!

**Woman fired by Ball State University over Charlie Kirk post to get $225,000 in settlement**

<A woman fired by an Indiana university over her Facebook post criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was killed will receive $225,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused her former employer of violating her free-speech rights, the woman's attorneys said Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union announced the settlement in a federal lawsuit it filed last year on behalf of Suzanne Swierc against Ball State University President Geoffrey Mearns.

Swierc worked as director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State's campus in Muncie, Indiana, before she was fired last September. Ball State cited Swierc's private Facebook post about Kirk as the sole reason for her termination, saying it caused β€œsignificant disruption” to the campus.

In her Facebook post, Swierc referred to Kirk's killing as a β€œtragedy.” But she also called it a β€œreflection of the violence, fear, and hatred he sowed.” She wrote: β€œIf you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends.”>

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/woman-fired-ball-state-university-charlie-kirk-post-settlement/3955739/

vorpal 86...47...Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅— Κ°α΅˜α΅—'s avatar

I don't approve of what happened to Charlie Kirk but Charlie Kirk approved of what happened to Charlie Kirk

SethTriggs's avatar

This is one of our only bulwarks, the justice system. And perhaps Maladministration 2.0 and Taney Court 2.0 have a phalanx of clownshoes lolyers on their side, but we have the truth on ours.

Don't forget folks, make sure you are an ACTIVE voter, voting in primaries. The only semblance of a check on the efforts of the unreconstructed to bring us back to the social order of the 1850s? A Democratic impeachment+removal-sized majority.

Mount up!

And Don't Give Up The Ship!

Rhand Holm's avatar

Here's something you don't see everyday. The Pope in an all-electric Ferrari;

https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mmtqfg5rvs2l

Birb-General of the US's avatar

Is this the new Popemobile?

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

They made it a hatchback. 😒

C&A Bongo Man's avatar

What is the Catholic position on suicide... doors?

Schmannity's avatar

Only $640,000. Think of the gasoline savings!