Religion
Trump Thinks Religious People Are Chumps. But They Think He's The Second Coming. Go Figure.
Sent by God ... to mock Mormon undergarments.
September 29, 2020 10:32 AM
As the GOP revs up to accuse Democrats of hating Catholics, nay all religious people, in defense of a Supreme Court nominee who may have difficulty keeping her personal faith out of her judicial decisions, The Atlantic is out with yet another reminder that Trump himself views religion as a total scam.
"They're all hustlers," Trump laughed to Michael Cohen in 2015 over an article describing megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar's efforts to raise money from the faithful for a new jet. He managed not to giggle when those same "hustlers" were laying hands on him to imbue him with the Holy Spirit, though.
"His view was 'I've been talking to these people for years; I've let them stay at my hotels—they're gonna endorse me. I played the game,'" a campaign advisor told The Atlantic's McKay Coppins. And when it came to Jerry Falwell Jr., he was apparently right.
Trump reportedly admired the "racket" of faith healer Benny Hinn, and deeply respected Joel Osteen's massive television audience. Like recognizes like.
<p>Coppins's article highlights the chasm between evangelical leaders, who accept that Trump is using them, as they are using him — "I'm not voting for Trump to be the teacher of my third grader's <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/robert-jeffress-trump/544196/" target="_blank">Sunday-school class</a>. That's not what he's running for," hustler pastor <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-tweets-religious-nutjob-who-warns-of-civil-war-hissy-fit-if-hes-impeached" target="_blank">Robert Jeffress</a> said in the meeting — and their flocks, who view Trump as a sort of Christian avatar. </p><p>During a 2016 meeting with evangelical pastors on the dangers of trans women using the ladies' room, Trump joked, "The first time I met [Mike Pence], he said, 'Will you bow your head and pray?' and I said, 'Excuse me?' I'm not used to it." He was similarly blasé about his religiosity when it came to his habit of mocking his enemies.</p><p>"I call him Little Ben Sasse," Trump said. "I have to do it, I'm sorry. That's when my religion always deserts me." Presumably the decades of fornication and failing to render under Caesar were also during periods of religious desertion.</p><p>Trump's feelings about Jews were similarly different in private from his public pronouncements of respect and love. Just last week the <em>Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-race-record/2020/09/23/332b0b68-f10f-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html" target="_blank">reported</a> that Trump said Jewish people "are only in it for themselves" and "stick together." Which is consonant with his constant public pronouncements that he's done more for <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-praises-israel-as-your-country-to-american-jews/" target="_blank">"your country"</a> than any other president, by which he means Israel, not America.</p><p>But Coppins reports yet another gross anecdote.</p><blockquote>And while he is quick to tout his daughter Ivanka's conversion to Judaism when he's speaking to Jewish audiences, he is sometimes less effusive in private. Cohen told me that once, years ago, he was with Trump when his wife, Melania, informed him that their son was at a playdate with a Jewish girl from his school. "Great," Trump said to Cohen, who is Jewish. "I'm going to lose another one of my kids to your people."</blockquote><p>Huh, so weird that only 25 percent of American Jews vote Republican.</p><p>But no other religious group can match Mormons in Trump's disdain. Trump has consistently maintained that Mitt Romney would have beaten Obama in 2012 if not for "the Mormon thing," as Trump put it on the call with Jeffress and the evangelical crew. </p><p>"Oh my god," Cohen told Coppins. "How many times did he bring up Mitt Romney and the undergarments."</p><p>The "undergarments" haven't stopped him from dispatching Don Jr. to be his emissary to the Mormon community, though. Coppins reports that "according to two senior Utah Republicans with knowledge of the situation, Don Jr. has been so savvy in courting Latter-day Saints—expressing interest in the Church's history, reading from the Book of Mormon—that he's left some influential Republicans in the state with the impression that he may want to convert."</p><p>UHHHHHHHH ...</p><div id="eb1f4" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="faa31bd86436bdb8ca39f73acf915ccc"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1309558435818737664" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">What is up with Donald Trump Jr in this video? 😳 https://t.co/bineNLaDwR</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1309558435818737664">1601058036.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Anyway! Trump launched into his regular spiel on Romney's lack of appeal to Christians in a 2014 interview with Coppins at Mar-a-Lago.</p><blockquote>During our conversation, Trump began to strenuously argue that Mitt Romney's exotic faith had cost him the 2012 election. When I interrupted to inform him that I'm also a Mormon, he quickly changed tack—extolling my Church's many virtues, and then switching subjects.</blockquote><p>Ah, yes. Very Christian. Unlike that nasty Joe Biden who is <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/weaponizing-religion-trumps-attacks-bidens-faith-calling-god/story?id=72240325" target="_blank">"against God."</a></p><p>[<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters/616522/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" target="_blank">Atlantic</a>]<br></p><p><strong>Follow Liz Dye on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE!</a></strong><br></p><p><strong>Please click here to support your Wonkette. 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Normal Minnesotans Oddly Unreceptive To Random Weirdass QAnon Mailings
You idiot! You were supposed to be redpilled, not repelled.
September 24, 2020 02:51 PM
Some dipshit in Minnesota is mailing out packets of photos of QAnon memes to normies in the Minneapolis area, seemingly at random. But instead of leading the recipients to realize that the world is secretly run by a cabal of cannibal pedophiles, the mailings have mostly just left folks squicked out, as the Intercept reports. On Monday, a fellow in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park found an envelope filled with 15 color glossy photographs of hard-hitting Q memes (albeit without any circles or arrows or a paragraph on the back of each one explainin' what each one was). One was about adrenochrome, the made-up pedo cannibal drug supposedly extracted from murdered children. And another
was a handwritten list of conspiracy-driven YouTube channels, including X22 Report and Alice Down the Rabbit Hole.
"The Battle Between Good and [EVIL]," read a third image. "Where to start is the Question?"
The fellow, Luke Healy, got on Nextdoor, the social media app, to ask if anyone else had received the weirdass photos, and yes, several people had.
In a post titled "Creepy photos in the mail," he noted the expense involved in the apparent prank. The photos were printed on premium digital paper, and the envelope bore three stamps. "At least they're supporting the USPS," he joked.
We like this guy.
<p>Mind you, whoever the QAnon advocate was, their methods seem ... unsound. In fact, we don't see any method at all. </p><blockquote>Instead of using well-framed screenshots, the person had printed images that looked like they were hastily photographed from a computer screen. In one instance, the screen was shot at an odd angle. In others, the red video progress bar appeared at the bottom of the frame, as if the sender had snapped the photos on a phone while watching YouTube, then dashed off to CVS to print them up. Adherents of QAnon often pride themselves on being "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Soldier-Keyboard-Warrior-Qanon/dp/B07PB7355F" target="_blank">digital soldiers</a>," but here was the internet crossing over into snail mail.</blockquote><p>If the QLooney sending the memes ever surfaces, they'll probably explain why they didn't simply send printouts of a screencap; we imagine it's something way more interesting than just "I never heard of Ctrl-Print SysRq." Maybe they read somewhere that screenshots can be traced, but photos of a computer screen can't? If it turns out the list of YouTube channels was written by the sender, that's particularly circular, because that means they wrote out a list, scanned or photographed it to put on their computer, and then took a photo of the screen so it could be converted back into an analog printout. </p><p>Maybe the sender is a conceptual artist and not a conspiracy theorist at all.</p><p>Here's a sample of the images Healy gave the Intercept's Mara Hvistendahl. Thankfully, they're too small to read well, because we fear the Truth. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>The contents of the packets varied from recipient to recipient. Some of the other color glossy photographs depicted memes calling the coronavirus pandemic a hoax, as well as memes attacking Black Lives Matter, like this really edgy meme that pretty much destroys the American Left for all time: </p><blockquote>an image of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton that read, "CALLING THESE TWO GUYS 'REVEREND' IS LIKE CALLING DOGSHIT TOOTSIE ROLLS."</blockquote><p>GO CRY MORE, LIB. </p><p>Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch told Hvistendahl that based on just how obscure some of the channels in the YouTube list are, he suspects the sender is a true believer who's been down the rabbit hole long enough to be well-smeared with <em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/watershipdowngame/home/lapine-glossary---the-language-of-watership-down" target="_blank">hraka</a></em>. </p><blockquote>"It's hard to understand what the sender hoped to accomplish, but it's clear that whoever is sending the mail is severely escalating in their radicalization," he added.</blockquote><p>Whatever the Qultist may be trying to communicate (beyond <em>Help I Don't Know What I Am Doing With My Devices or My Life</em>), it's not exactly taking place in a vacuum. As the Republican Party casts off its remaining moorings to reality, Hvistendahl notes, </p><blockquote>Minnesota has <a href="https://www.startribune.com/6-gop-endorsed-candidates-in-minnesota-back-conspiracy-theory-of-qanon/572489641/?refresh=true" target="_blank">six GOP state legislature candidates</a> on the ballot in November who have supported QAnon – including one in Healy's district. Until recently Melissa Moore, a Republican running for the state House seat in the district, maintained a Twitter account where she described herself as a #DigitalSoldier. She recently <a href="https://apnews.com/b7f9693bb421723f12bba0499a4fadfe" target="_blank">told</a> the Associated Press that QAnon is "an exciting movement that opens our minds to different possibilities of what's going on, of what's really happening in our world today." </blockquote><p>If you want a picture of the future, imagine a lame WWG1WGA meme popping up in your face — forever. </p><p>Some of the recipients wondered if perhaps they'd been targeted to receive the QRap because they had Black Lives Matter or other progressive signs in their yards, but "adjacent neighbors with similar lawn signs had not received anything" similar, at least not as of the time the Intercept story went up yesterday. After the story ran, however, Hvistendahl retweeted another Minnesotan who'd received the mailing, and seemed a tad relieved she wasn't the only recipient. </p><div id="4f3cd" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a942943ced2aa83f7b4644394fa7070f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1308881610096418817" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Looks like I’m not the only one... Mysterious QAnon conspiracy theory mailings spook Minneapolis suburbs… https://t.co/1mkhsZT4Aj</div> — Emily Myatt (@Emily Myatt)<a href="https://twitter.com/emlywhite/statuses/1308881610096418817">1600896668.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Ms. Myatt appears to have received a special typewritten note in her packet of photos, reading </p><blockquote>Walk in all the ways that the Lord your God <br>has commanded you, so that you may live & <br>prosper & prolong your days in the land<br>that you will possess. Deuteronomy 5:33<br><br>There is no place like home. Dorothy. </blockquote><p>That's on some paper with a printout of the Ruby Slippers, as only makes sense. Below that, a handwritten note says, "Do you know Jesus? We're going home soon, RU ready?" followed by a messy unreadable signature. </p><p>Nothing creepy there! Wonder what color sneakers and sweatsuit this person has.</p><p>One person who received a packet of photos <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/09/23/qanon-mail-minnesota/" target="_blank">said </a>she had called the Minneapolis field office of the FBI, seeing as how the FBI has said QAnon could be a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/qanon-conspiracy-theorists-already-developing-conspiracy-theory-about-fbi-calling-them-a-domestic-terror-threat" target="_blank">potentially dangerous terrorist cult,</a> but she said the person she spoke to just took her information and said to call back "if she felt directly threatened." </p><p>She said she was a little worried — not that she was being watched or anything, but because these handmade packets are "pretty creepy. It's not just a random political campaign pamphlet that's coming in our mail." </p><p>Man, your local weirdo takes the time to send you a semi-personalized pile of crazy conspiracy shit, and you reject that artisanal effort because you'd be more comfortable with conventional politics? WAKE UP SHEEPLE THE TIME OF PURIFICATION IS AT HAND, HAVE A NICE DAY SURRENDER DOROTHY.</p><p>[<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/09/23/qanon-mail-minnesota/" target="_blank">Intercept</a>] </p><p>Yr Wonkette is supported entirely by reader donations. Please help us keep the servers humming, the writers paid, and Dok's disembodied brain floating in a nutrient-rich tank of cerebrospinal fluid and adrenochrome. 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Is 'Handmaid's Tale' Judge Literally ENDORSED BY GOD? These Wackjobs Think So!
More on the movement behind Amy Coney Barrett, who has been reportedly endorsed by Jesus.
September 24, 2020 11:20 AM
Let's see, where did we leave off with the story of Amy Coney Barrett, who is reportedly Donald Trump's favorite Worst Woman On The Planet to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Oh yes, the Catholic Jesus club she belongs to, People of Praise, is the exact same kind of extremist Catholic/Pentecostal crossover group that inspired the Margaret Atwood novel (and recently TV show!) called The Handmaid's Tale.
Indeed, back in the olden timey days, before the book, women in that group who mentored/monitored the single women were called the "handmaidens," but then they changed that at some point because kinda bad look, y'all.
The creepy Christian theocratic shit with Amy Coney Barrett, who does not respect stare decisis (judicial precedent) if she thinks a case was decided wrongly, and who thinks her religious beliefs are more important than the law, does not stop with how her Catholic Jesus Scout Troop appears to share some important parallels with The Handmaid's Tale.
Right Wing Watch reports on a group of dominionist self-styled "prophets" who held an event this week where they declared Coney Barrett has been ANOINTED BY GOD. It was hosted by Frank Amedia, who was literally Trump's "Christian policy adviser" in 2016 — you know, in case you were wondering if these people had a seat of the table or if they're just a bunch of mouthbreathing loons. They are both.
<p>Anyway, at that internet event, RWW explains, dominionist "prophet" Lou Engle told everybody about an anti-abortion fetus fetishist named Matt Lockett, who had a DREAM about Amy Coney Barrett. (No, not that kind of dream, you perverts!)</p><blockquote>Engle recounted anti-abortion activist Matt Lockett's prophetic <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dominionist-prayer-warriors-amy-coney-barrett-has-endorsement-of-heaven-for-scotus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dream</a> in which Lockett said he grabbed Karen Pence by the shoulders and told her, "Remember the name Amy Coney Barrett!"</blockquote><p>Who among us hasn't had a dream where we grab Mother Pence and tell her to remember some wackass judge's name.</p><p>Lockett had <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dominionist-prayer-warriors-amy-coney-barrett-has-endorsement-of-heaven-for-scotus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his Mother Pence dream</a> back in 2018, when Amy Coney Barrett <em>did not</em> get named to the Supreme Court. At the time, Engle was just pretty sure, BASED ON REVEALED PROPHECY, that Coney Barrett had the "endorsement of heaven" to be on the Court. But then Trump went and picked Boof-Drunk McGee, who had not even been endorsed by Heaven, and moreover has been <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/new-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations-what-no-really-the-f-ck-you-say" target="_blank">credibly accused</a> of sexual assault and harassment by multiple women. These guys were <em>mad about that</em>, because of how God voted for Amy Coney Barrett in the primary!</p><p>ANYWAY, so Lou Engle told the online event this week about Matt Lockett's dream and THEN HE SAID he had <em>also</em> personally had a dream about Amy Coney Barrett just this past Monday. So many men, having questionable dreams about Amy Coney Barrett!</p><p> Then, RWW explains, Lou Engle did some DECREES:</p><blockquote>Number one, before the principalities and power, before the angelic realm, before the very throne of God, 'Remember the name Amy Coney Barrett! Remember the name Amy Coney Barrett!' Yes, we begin to decree it from the throne room of God! 'Remember the name Amy Coney Barrett!' Secondly, we're decreeing that President Trump is the William Wilberforce for the ending of the slave trade of abortion! We decree this in Jesus' name.</blockquote><p>He decrees it from the throne room of God! Remember, remember, the batshit "Handmaid's Tale" lady! And remember, remember, that Donald Trump will end the ... slave trade? ... of abortion!</p><p>If you are a very long-time reader you might remember the name "Lou Engle," and it is because way back in 2010, in one of the first pieces we ever wrote for this here WARBLOG, we <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rev-lou-engle-and-his-3-story-homosexual-jesus-giant" target="_blank">personally infiltrated</a> one of Engle's revivals outside St. Louis, where he told us the story of the three-story tall homosexual Jesus giant.</p><p>No, really. The three-story tall homosexual Jesus giant. It is a real thing Engle saw in another one of his dreams. Engle explained:</p><blockquote>"I sent my son to San Francisco with a group of people to pray for three years. They actually had a dream. They saw a three-story homosexual man, a huge giant, and they were throwing like rocks at it and nothing would happen to it, and then suddenly the foreman rolled a scroll and it read "Jehu's Covenantal Community," and the giant shriveled to nothing!"</blockquote><p>AND EVERYBODY WAS NAKED AND LOU ENGLE WAS BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL AND REALIZED HE HADN'T GONE TO CLASS IN MONTHS AND THE FINAL WAS TODAY! </p><p>It's OK, Lou, or Lou's son, or the group of people Lou sent to San Francisco to pray for three years (???). We all have weird dreams. Ours don't have the three-story homosexual Jesus giant in them, though. Maybe our subconscious is just different from Lou et al's. </p><p>Point is, these people — <em>who have connections with the White House</em> — believe Amy Coney Barrett, the handmaiden, has the endorsement of God to be the Supreme Court justice to end abortion. (Which is so stupid, because abortion will never actually end, even if you ban it. Grow up, losers.)</p><p>Not only that, but their little dominionist movement believes it has the power from God to breathe these things into being, and a responsibility to take <em>dominion</em> over the planet for their messed up weirdo version of Christianity. They are <em>bugfuck</em>.</p><p>Right Wing Watch reports on some of the other things these very normal people said during their event Tuesday. Like evangelist Alan Parker:</p><blockquote>"Who but God would take [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] out on Rosh Hashanah?" he said. "Who but God would throw this chaos into an election, less than 40 days before the election?" </blockquote><p>Which ... is not quite the same as the Jewish teaching <a href="https://twitter.com/NinaTotenberg/status/1307169055313457152" target="_blank">shared by Nina Totenberg</a> on the day of Ginsburg's death. </p><p>Indeed, they even see a significance in the fact that <del>God</del> Trump is going to announce his nominee on Saturday:</p><blockquote>Amedia and his colleagues see a divine hand at work in reports that Trump would announce his choice to replace Ginsburg during prime time Saturday evening, which would place it during or immediately after "The Return," a major religious-right event that organizers believe will spark a spiritual revival and put Trump back in the White House for another term. Leading national repentance for abortion is a major theme of "The Return" organizers. Parker voiced that sentiment <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trumps-prophets-say-ginsburgs-death-just-first-blast-of-gods-wrath-suggest-biden-or-pelosi-could-be-next/" target="_blank">Tuesday night</a>. "We've got 40 days to get this next Supreme Court nominee confirmed," Parker said. "We need to pray. But we need to trust the Lord. And God is doing amazing things. In fact, it now looks like he may announce it on Saturday while 'The Return' is going on the Washington mall. Who but God could arrange that?"</blockquote><p>So this is all normal. </p><p>We'd like to end by addressing the fact that we're seeing tut-tutting even from some liberals and progressives on how we shouldn't criticize Amy Coney Barrett for her Catholic faith. Which is true, and if we were doing that, we'd surely admonish ourselves. What we're criticizing is that Amy Coney Barrett is a person of a weird bugfuck version of Catholic faith <em>who believes her religious beliefs take precedent over American law</em> and who <em>does not respect precedent</em> and who <em>straight-up wants to end Roe and impose her theocratic beliefs on everyone else.</em></p><p>That is what this is about. </p><p>Amy Coney Barrett has no business anywhere near the Supreme Court, or any court. 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Is Amy Coney Barrett's Catholic Jesus Batsh*t Cult Literally 'The Handmaid's Tale'?
We are just asking.
September 22, 2020 09:35 AM
We don't know if Donald Trump is going to nominate Amy Coney Barrett, who is literally batshit, to stinky up the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the greatest justices to ever sit on the Supreme Court. But if he does, all the Handmaid's Tale jokes will officially be too real.
When Coney Barrett sat for her confirmation hearing to the federal judiciary's Seventh Circuit seat she is currently stinky-ing up, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein memorably said to her, "the dogma lives loudly within you." Coney Barrett is the insane kind of Catholic. She has stated publicly that "life begins at conception," which is funny if you know anything about science and how well that fertilized egg survives in the wild if it fails to implant. She doesn't necessarily believe in observing precedent, if she thinks the case was decided incorrectly. (Hi, Roe v. Wade. How you hangin' on?)
She believes her (batshit) religious beliefs are more important than the law, when it comes to deciding cases. She doesn't even think the Miranda decision (no not Lin Manuel, the "Law & Order" thing where you get read your rights) was very good.
She's real bad at this. And batshit.
Before Trump nominated Coney Barrett to the Seventh Circuit, she had never been a judge before. Sure, why not put that fucking idiot on the Supreme Court? (Because she's only 48 and could potentially skullfuck America for 50 years if confirmed.)
Oh yeah, and this dumbass is also a longstanding member of the same type of Catholic Jesus club that was literally the inspiration for The Handmaid's Tale.
<p>When <em>Newsweek</em> originally <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1600703902" target="_blank">reported</a> this story, it said the group, People of Praise, was the direct inspiration for the book. Now they've softened up their language to say it was groups <em>along these lines</em> that inspired Margaret Atwood. </p><blockquote>Amy Coney Barrett [...] is affiliated with a type of Christian religious group that served as inspiration for Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, <em>The Handmaid's Tale.<br></em><br>Barrett, a devout Catholic, and her husband both belong to the People of Praise group, current and former members have said, according to <em>The New York Times.</em> Their fathers have served as leaders in the group.</blockquote><p>According to its website, People of Praise is a "charismatic Christian community." It's mostly Catholic, but it has some other idiots in it too. Think like if the Pentecostals had a baby with the really conservative Catholics. That's People of Praise. We imagine its worst beliefs are hidden behind the log-in screen for members only, because the website's public-facing pages seem pretty benignly Jesus-y. But in reality, as <em>Newsweek</em> explains, they believe men are the bosses of their wives, and they have to all swear a really bizarre oath to each other. People who have escaped the group <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/prospective-supreme-court-nominee-puts-spotlight-people-praise" target="_blank">consider it</a> to be a cult.</p><p>Here's where it gets real good:</p><blockquote>Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex—called a "head" for men and "handmaid" for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood's novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter.</blockquote><p>Oh, like Aunt Lydia.</p><p><em></em><em>Newsweek</em> has quotes from Atwood about how these types of group inspired her, how she thought her own ideas were a little bit too crazy, until she saw that she was writing things that were literally real:<br></p><blockquote>'Then two things happened. I started noticing that a lot of the things I thought I was more or less making up were now happening, and indeed more of them have happened since the publication of the book."<br><br>She added: "There is a sect now, a Catholic charismatic spinoff sect, which calls the women handmaids. They don't go in for polygamy of this kind but they do threaten the handmaids according to the biblical verse I use in the book—sit down and shut up."</blockquote><p>From <em>Newsweek's</em> reporting it seems like Atwood might be referring to a <em>different</em> cult of Catholics who have handmaids, called People of HOPE, not People of PRAISE. </p><p>It's fine, People of PRAISE sounds batshit enough:</p><blockquote>[S]ome former members have described how "heads" and "handmaids"—now known as "leaders"—can play a huge role in the lives of members, such as directing their choice of partner, where they live and how they raise children. [...]<br><br>"They're very watchful of their people. They report things to your heads if they see you out doing things you're not supposed to be doing. It's very much a Big Brother type of thing," [former member Emily Declerq Flannery said].</blockquote><p>Do they visit their houses with cattle prods like Aunt Lydia does?</p><p>As the National Catholic Reporter <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/prospective-supreme-court-nominee-puts-spotlight-people-praise" target="_blank">explains,</a> Coney Barrett, as a married woman with seven children, would no longer have a handmaid — which, remember, in this real-life version of batshit is not a young woman her husband rapes regularly, but rather more like the boss of the single women. Again, like Aunt Lydia. As a married woman, Coney Barrett's boss is her husband. </p><p>If <del>Serena Joy</del> Amy Coney Barrett writes an opinion <del>Commander Waterford</del> her husband doesn't like, will he cut off her finger? </p><p>We are just asking.</p><p>Point is, this woman has no business on the Supreme Court. Like we said yesterday, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/its-time-to-be-absolute-motherf-ckers" target="_blank">it's time to be absolute motherfuckers</a> and make sure that doesn't happen. And if it does, and we win the Senate and the presidency? GONNA NEED A BIGGER SUPREME COURT.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1600703902" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING.</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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