Voting has consequences, people. OHJB didn't fix the inflation problem fast enough that Combover Caligula created so vote the idiot, who created the problem back into office. Bad move! And I'm tired of the stupid in this timeline.
I was already done when That Asshole changed the name of New Mexico and the inevitable chorus of braindead morons who chimed in with "HAHAHA LIBS ARE TRIGGERED BECAUSE HE'S TROLLING." Imagine a time when US fucking Presidents didn't have to resort to trolling to massage their precious egos.
When someone like Bonnie Kristian, the deputy editor of Christianity Today, is out promoting her new book In Defense of Evangelicalism (affiliate link), you might think it’s a perfect opportunity for someone with her credibility in that world to point out how conservative Christians have done untold damage to the country… while still making some kind of argument for why believers shouldn’t abandon the faith. (I’m not saying that would be a good argument, only that it would be an argument.)
That’s not what she does. Instead, she argues we are unfairly criticizing white evangelicals as a whole for the actions of some.
And she opens a recent essay with the most inflammatory example she can find.
The target in this case is an episode of the “I’ve Had It” podcast. Earlier this year, progressive podcaster Jennifer Welch and her co-host were discussing the brutal treatment of children at the hands of ICE. Welch pointed out that this was happening in part because Republicans in power didn’t have the “courage to confront the cult nature of evangelical Christianity.” She went on to talk about how Erika Kirk (the widow of Charlie) was speaking at an event called “Make Heaven Crowded”—suggesting that conservatives like her and the attendees there were going to be rewarded in the afterlife for the cruelty they’re inflicting right now. The leaders of that movement were all about getting rich while “hoodwinking their flock into thinking they're super moral.”
This is a cancer. White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country. These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways: as a weapon and as a shield.
They weaponize it whenever they want to and say, “We’re on the moral high ground. You’re a lesbian—you deserve to die. You’re a lesbian—the cops shouldn’t have revived you. Oh, your parents are Mexicans and they brought you over here? Yeah, you should go to jail and eat worm food.”
And then when you call them out on it, “Oh my god, they’re after the Christians. How dare they?! How dare they? We’re so oppressed. White Christians are so oppressed in this country!”
And they want it both ways, because in the religion, that duplicity is taught. You can be morally duplicitous. You thrive in cognitive dissonance. And so this is just a massive, massive problem.
And it should come as no surprise to anyone that, of this cult that I’m talking about—white evangelicals—I think over 80% went and voted [triple-Trump].
Kristian had made the same case against Welch earlier this year in The Free Press, citing several other clips in which Welch called evangelicals racist, judgmental, and abusive.
To be fair, Welch’s words are sweeping. Saying white evangelicals are “the worst people in our country” sure sounds like a condemnation of “every individual evangelical,” including those who oppose Trump and reject the cruelty committed in the name of their faith. Kristian has every right to object to that.
But Welch’s larger argument is about white evangelical Christianity as a political and cultural force—and on that point, Kristian offers almost no rebuttal. She focuses on whether individual evangelicals are capable of kindness (of course they are!) while largely avoiding how the movement has empowered the worst kinds of people who do the worst kinds of things. No doubt evangelicals bring casseroles to sick neighbors. But private kindness doesn’t erase the fact that the vast majority of white evangelical voters have repeatedly supported politicians who bully vulnerable people—and that many of those voters portray themselves as victims when anyone holds them responsible for the consequences.
That “cancer” clip went viral in certain right-wing corners of social media. Christian Nationalist musician Sean Feucht posted it, only quoting this part: “White Evangelical Christianity is a cancer… These are the worst people in our country.”
And that’s the quotation Bonnie Kristian now uses as evidence of growing contempt toward evangelicals. In an essay for the Washington Post (naturally), Kristian objects to this language in a piece with the headline: “I’m an evangelical. My faith isn’t ‘a cancer.’”
I must confess, "new German Nazi party run by an Aryan lesbian married to a Sri Lankan woman who lives in Switzerland" was definitely not on my bingo card.
Reparations? Quite a stretch to equate the map with a local US political topic. Unless, of course, one is pandering to equally local white racist crybabies who want Africa to know its supposed place.
We are a nation with enough information-defiant bigots to make life miserable for anyone who dates to use their brain. These people want to wear their stupidity as a badge of honor. That's why I have no problem calling them and the hateful intolerance they embrace "Dum America." (Note the lack of "b", because their leader was surprised to learn the word "dumb" had a "b" in it, and nothing better illustrates this whole gid-forsaken period in American history.)
Genuinely one of the most embarassing tantrums this administration has ever had AND DEAR LORD THERES SO MUCH COMPETITION.
It’s why he has had such a massive boner for Greenland. He thinks there’s this massive untapped landmass up there America sized. Literally the only reason to ever get mad about this new accurately drawn map is if it made you feel stupid realizing a Mercator map was not correct
Haha, careful Steve if you make it too accurately oblate, desk globes everywhere will start wobbling! Love the dry humor. Mind if I send you a quick DM? Would be great to connect and chat!
Voting has consequences, people. OHJB didn't fix the inflation problem fast enough that Combover Caligula created so vote the idiot, who created the problem back into office. Bad move! And I'm tired of the stupid in this timeline.
I was already done when That Asshole changed the name of New Mexico and the inevitable chorus of braindead morons who chimed in with "HAHAHA LIBS ARE TRIGGERED BECAUSE HE'S TROLLING." Imagine a time when US fucking Presidents didn't have to resort to trolling to massage their precious egos.
When someone like Bonnie Kristian, the deputy editor of Christianity Today, is out promoting her new book In Defense of Evangelicalism (affiliate link), you might think it’s a perfect opportunity for someone with her credibility in that world to point out how conservative Christians have done untold damage to the country… while still making some kind of argument for why believers shouldn’t abandon the faith. (I’m not saying that would be a good argument, only that it would be an argument.)
That’s not what she does. Instead, she argues we are unfairly criticizing white evangelicals as a whole for the actions of some.
And she opens a recent essay with the most inflammatory example she can find.
The target in this case is an episode of the “I’ve Had It” podcast. Earlier this year, progressive podcaster Jennifer Welch and her co-host were discussing the brutal treatment of children at the hands of ICE. Welch pointed out that this was happening in part because Republicans in power didn’t have the “courage to confront the cult nature of evangelical Christianity.” She went on to talk about how Erika Kirk (the widow of Charlie) was speaking at an event called “Make Heaven Crowded”—suggesting that conservatives like her and the attendees there were going to be rewarded in the afterlife for the cruelty they’re inflicting right now. The leaders of that movement were all about getting rich while “hoodwinking their flock into thinking they're super moral.”
This is a cancer. White evangelical Christianity is a cancer. These are the worst of our country. These are the worst people in our country because they use their religion in two ways: as a weapon and as a shield.
They weaponize it whenever they want to and say, “We’re on the moral high ground. You’re a lesbian—you deserve to die. You’re a lesbian—the cops shouldn’t have revived you. Oh, your parents are Mexicans and they brought you over here? Yeah, you should go to jail and eat worm food.”
And then when you call them out on it, “Oh my god, they’re after the Christians. How dare they?! How dare they? We’re so oppressed. White Christians are so oppressed in this country!”
And they want it both ways, because in the religion, that duplicity is taught. You can be morally duplicitous. You thrive in cognitive dissonance. And so this is just a massive, massive problem.
And it should come as no surprise to anyone that, of this cult that I’m talking about—white evangelicals—I think over 80% went and voted [triple-Trump].
Kristian had made the same case against Welch earlier this year in The Free Press, citing several other clips in which Welch called evangelicals racist, judgmental, and abusive.
To be fair, Welch’s words are sweeping. Saying white evangelicals are “the worst people in our country” sure sounds like a condemnation of “every individual evangelical,” including those who oppose Trump and reject the cruelty committed in the name of their faith. Kristian has every right to object to that.
But Welch’s larger argument is about white evangelical Christianity as a political and cultural force—and on that point, Kristian offers almost no rebuttal. She focuses on whether individual evangelicals are capable of kindness (of course they are!) while largely avoiding how the movement has empowered the worst kinds of people who do the worst kinds of things. No doubt evangelicals bring casseroles to sick neighbors. But private kindness doesn’t erase the fact that the vast majority of white evangelical voters have repeatedly supported politicians who bully vulnerable people—and that many of those voters portray themselves as victims when anyone holds them responsible for the consequences.
That “cancer” clip went viral in certain right-wing corners of social media. Christian Nationalist musician Sean Feucht posted it, only quoting this part: “White Evangelical Christianity is a cancer… These are the worst people in our country.”
And that’s the quotation Bonnie Kristian now uses as evidence of growing contempt toward evangelicals. In an essay for the Washington Post (naturally), Kristian objects to this language in a piece with the headline: “I’m an evangelical. My faith isn’t ‘a cancer.’”
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/bonnie-kristians-defense-of-evangelicalism
I must confess, "new German Nazi party run by an Aryan lesbian married to a Sri Lankan woman who lives in Switzerland" was definitely not on my bingo card.
And who just happens to be the #1 backer of AfD?
None other than Sleazy E Musk Itself!
Aryan is as Aryan does.
No Jobs at No Wages
A Chicken in Every Cabinet Position
Making Uselessness Even Less Great Again
Advice to Trump :
Get a globe.
Give Poopy Pants a globe and he will do the Adenoid Hynkel thing with it!
Reparations? Quite a stretch to equate the map with a local US political topic. Unless, of course, one is pandering to equally local white racist crybabies who want Africa to know its supposed place.
White supremacy is just so...stupid. No logic, no common sense, just vibes.
No, it does have internal logic, as in justifying the greed for power and status. Not necessarily vibes but certainly insecurity.
We are a nation with enough information-defiant bigots to make life miserable for anyone who dates to use their brain. These people want to wear their stupidity as a badge of honor. That's why I have no problem calling them and the hateful intolerance they embrace "Dum America." (Note the lack of "b", because their leader was surprised to learn the word "dumb" had a "b" in it, and nothing better illustrates this whole gid-forsaken period in American history.)
Mapmaker, Mapmaker,
Make me a map,
Lie me a lie,
I'll crap while I nap
Genuinely one of the most embarassing tantrums this administration has ever had AND DEAR LORD THERES SO MUCH COMPETITION.
It’s why he has had such a massive boner for Greenland. He thinks there’s this massive untapped landmass up there America sized. Literally the only reason to ever get mad about this new accurately drawn map is if it made you feel stupid realizing a Mercator map was not correct
as said elsewhere: get a globe!
Doesn't this just mean that there is more Africa to exploit than previously recognized?
I likes my colonies generously proportioned.
Trump fills his internet diaper with as much shit as he fills his physical diaper. Natalie helps with both.
We are now the bad guys. Reviled around the world.
Shitpost AI stuff is the only thing they know how to do to get attention. Sad, weak poop losers.
Since the earth is an oblate spheroid, someone should invent a 3D representation of that. Perhaps call it a globe 🌎
Outstanding usage of the actual term rather than "sphere." A++!
WITCH!!!
Haha, careful Steve if you make it too accurately oblate, desk globes everywhere will start wobbling! Love the dry humor. Mind if I send you a quick DM? Would be great to connect and chat!
If anything there’s needs to be more of a movement to accept the earth for the lumpy misshapen turd it actually is
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTsyPZYrliOqs2-czspA23oI2lz-IbHmUhXyzr9jM1dE1YsW15O0NpeFeTY&s=10