If it wasn't for decades of economic gaslighting, "poor Republican" would be considered an oxymoron.

Why does no one wonder why Rand Paul plays libertarian lite all day every day, but his state is like the third in the nation for taking more federal money than they contribute? Where are the hearings on that bullshit canard? He's a fraud through and through.

What many are learning is there's no such thing as political democracy without economic democracy.

Maybe if we could get evangelicals and Republicans to think of every human being as a zygote, they could actually become pro-life. So sick of seeing them celebrate death all day every day, ugh.

Jordan Peterson is a complete joke, ugh

Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is an unhinged reading from Peterson - and I'd note that the Gospel text is insistent that Judas is motivated not by genuine concern for the poor, but by greed (he has his hand in the common purse). Tom's also right that the brazen serpent is from a completely different story to that of Cain.

I swear many evangelicals are more passionate about the existence of hell than they are of heaven. So long as the "bad guys" suffer for all eternity, after like 12 minutes on earth, they are happy with God. It's their favorite.

@kkdumez.bsky.social putting into eloquent words what I've been sensing the last couple issues of Christianity Today.

Which way, Christianity Today?

Catching up on changes over at evangelicalism's flagship magazine

open.substack.com

So, have Republicans completely abandoned States' Rights at this point? If so, they are getting closer to being the party of Lincoln, hahahaha

"Christian Nationalism" is just linguistic cover for Mammon Nationalism, America's true god.

I swear, if they make this guy into some kinda hero I'm gonna lose it, ugh

Sorry, but one of the most important sentences in history, true or false: "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness."

Republicans used to oppose totalitarianism (at least in words), and they bowed to Trump. Hypocrites, all of them.

So, we tried the anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-woman, anti-brown military, and your Fox News host got a draw, at best. Can we get past MAGA's identity politics now??

Gave my (other) old man a haircut (maybe even a manscape), and he's looking PRETTY

Why every election I gotta deal with numbnuts showing me empty red land after an election? Yeah, we know, those heavily populated Blue areas also pay for those twelve hillbillies in the giant Red areas! STFU

As a Californian, fuck Trump. This is so evil. We need to kick the Feds out of this state and quit paying all the nation's bills, especially the bills of all you poor, backward MAGA states dependent on OUR tax dollars. Ugh. apnews.com/article/cali...

US attorney opens investigations into California's elections, sends prosecutor to LA vote center

The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center.

apnews.com

It's not so much that Trump is too far right, too conservative, wastes our money, is an asshole, etc. We can debate and vote on that stuff. It's that he's an authoritarian with no regard for our law, our democracy, or our system of government. We should all hate totalitarianism.

If we all just decided to vote against pedo protectors, the Republican Party would be dead.

"Trump is not only the most corrupt U.S. president; he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents, including Richard Nixon, by orders of magnitude." www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-editor...

A Presidential Smash and Grab

Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history—he is more corrupt than all other corrupt presidents by orders of magnitude.

commonwealmagazine.org

"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." (Matt 6:24) This is political.

I don't want to have anything to do with the "god" of our Founders, to be honest, yikes.

As seen at church today:

Same, brother!

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’

In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

nbcnews.com

Even when Republicans talk about "affordability," they still just mean, "racist brown people are taking my money."

All these "evangelicals" went absolutely crazy over "CRITICAL RACE THEORY!!!" and guess what, assholes, everything CRT said would happen ABSOLUTELY IS happening! So over y'all fake Christians.

I wrote this some years ago, seems quite relevant given recent (absolutely abhorrent) SCOTUS decision: alsoacarpenter.com/2021/06/23/a...

“Systemic Racism,” in the Key of CRT

“Systemic racism” can be a difficult concept to grasp, largely because “racism” is commonly understood as an exclusively individual and intentional affair. Thus, most Americans begin with an idea o…

alsoacarpenter.com

Apparently the "Jesus" MAGA follows loves earthly empire, war, racism, misogyny, bigotry, hatred of the poor, lying, adultery, rape, social darwinism, terrorizing the sojourner, etc. Some of us prefer to call that one "The Devil."

🚨BREAKING: According to exclusive research by Democracy Docket, the Supreme Court’s ruling will likely derail at least 28 pro-voting lawsuits that aim to stop state legislatures from drawing electoral maps that dilute the voting power of racial minorities. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Supreme Court ruling derails 28 lawsuits defending minority voting rights, Democracy Docket research finds

The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.

democracydocket.com

A Supreme Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places the Court at odds with democracy itself. This is the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts. I opposed his nomination back in 2005, and I stand by that.