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  On 1/8/2024 at 4:43 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

Biden will receive 405 million.  No more half measures from soros 

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My friend’s Dad says stuff like this but unironically. He is County GOP chair of a fairly large Suburban/Exurban area in Texas and wears a cowboy hat most of the time, despite not being from Texas or living here at any time in his life before retiring 10 years ago. 
He also wants to make sure his party is ready to exercise their 2nd amendment rights as needed this November to protect their polling places from Antifa, BLM, and Soros funded “outside agitators.”

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This is kind of a long read, but really worth it. It goes beyond the typical topic of evangelicals getting involved with politics but focuses more on the infiltration of the corrupting influence that politics has on their religion -- in particular -- how Trump is now tearing apart the evangelical movement from within and remaking it as his own. After all, everything Trump touches does die.

So maybe we oughta get back to that whole separation of church and state thing, yeah? Because if any of today's leaders match the description of the Antichrist, it's Donald Jackass Trump.

 

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Trump Is Connecting With a Different Type of Evangelical Voter
They are not just the churchgoing, conservative activists who once dominated the G.O.P.

Karen Johnson went to her Lutheran church so regularly as a child that she won a perfect attendance award. As an adult, she taught Sunday school. But these days, Ms. Johnson, a 67-year-old counter attendant at a slot-machine parlor, no longer goes to church.

She still identifies as an evangelical Christian, but she doesn’t believe going to church is necessary to commune with God. “I have my own little thing with the Lord,” she says.

Ms. Johnson’s thing includes frequent prayer, she said, as well as podcasts and YouTube channels that discuss politics and “what’s going on in the world” from a right-wing, and sometimes Christian, worldview. No one plays a more central role in her perspective than Donald J. Trump, the man she believes can defeat the Democrats who, she is certain, are destroying the country and bound for hell.

“Trump is our David and our Goliath,” Ms. Johnson said recently as she waited outside a hotel in eastern Iowa to hear the former president speak.

White evangelical Christian voters have lined up behind Republican candidates for decades, driving conservative cultural issues into the heart of the party’s politics and making nominees and presidents of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

But no Republican has had a closer — or more counterintuitive — relationship with evangelicals than Mr. Trump.

The twice-divorced casino magnate made little pretense of being particularly religious before his presidency. The ardent support he received from evangelical voters in 2016 and 2020 is often described as largely transactional: an investment in his appointment of Supreme Court justices who would abolish the federal right to abortion and advance the group’s other top priorities. Evangelical supporters themselves often compare Mr. Trump to the ancient Persian king Cyrus the Great, who freed a population of Jews even though he was not one of them.

But religion scholars, drawing on a growing body of data, suggest another explanation: Evangelicals are not exactly who they used to be.

Being evangelical once suggested regular church attendance, a focus on salvation and conversion and strongly held views on specific issues such as abortion. Today, it is as often used to describe a cultural and political identity: one in which Christians are considered a persecuted minority, traditional institutions are viewed skeptically and Mr. Trump looms large.

“Politics has become the master identity,” said Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor. “Everything else lines up behind partisanship.”

 

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  On 1/8/2024 at 4:57 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

He also wants to make sure his party is ready to exercise their 2nd amendment rights as needed this November to protect their polling places from Antifa, BLM, and Soros funded “outside agitators.”

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Since 90% of the GQP believe that all the Trump supporters at the capital on 1/6 were really Antifa and BLM, then perhaps we should be encouraging this

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  On 1/8/2024 at 9:19 PM, tx 3 putt said:

 

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You believe it with your whole heart?  Well, then it must be true.  

To paraphrase Patton Oswalt:  I'm glad you like a fake reality, but that's not how the world works.  You can't just say, "I saw it in a book I like!  Make the thing in the book be real, here, and now!"

God damn these fuckers are going to be the death of us all.

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  On 12/26/2023 at 12:47 AM, Macanudo said:

Some interesting facts about Derrick:

Derrick received a Bachelor of Arts from West Liberty University where he earned NCAA First Team All American honors as a captain of the football team

After four years in the education system, Derrick stepped away from teaching to pursue his passion for real estate investing and property management. 

Before politics, Derrick was a conservative and pro-life activist whose passion for ending abortion lead to numerous unborn lives being saved.

Derrick married his college sweetheart Melissa (Pierzchala) who is a first generation American. 

West Liberty is DII and has an enrollment of a whopping 2500 students.   He's basically a religious zealot who sells real estate and has a foreign wife.   Wow.

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i assume directional liberty is on baylor's schedule

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  On 1/9/2024 at 4:24 AM, TheStoicPaisano said:

She's TexAgs maga. Read: cray cray but not sharp or shrewd. Need a scorecard sometimes.

 

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Wouldn't it be weird if Trump was a Democratic plant used to goad anti-government Republicans who became ubiquitous after Waco into committing crimes for which they could be incarcerated and preventing them from exposing the Dem pedo sex trafficking ring?

 

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  On 1/9/2024 at 10:22 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

And every single fucking one of them will still vote for and support him.  Worthless God cunts. 

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Yes they will still vote for Trump. A Christian pastor should put his religion before the country. And they should be greatly offended that a non-religious person is openly lying about religion. But they forgive anything for Trump because of judges. 

And while I imagine Trump laughs at the religious folk for being stupid, in his eyes, he doesn't care about any judge or law as long as he wins.

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  On 1/9/2024 at 2:08 PM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Wouldn't it be weird if Trump was a Democratic plant used to goad anti-government Republicans who became ubiquitous after Waco into committing crimes for which they could be incarcerated and preventing them from exposing the Dem pedo sex trafficking ring?

 

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is someone off screen with a leaf blower pointed only at Melanie?

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