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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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i can't fucking believe that guy was once in command of nearly 50,000 troops and was even Intel C.O. for JSOC.  I get why he had such high profile posts in the Trump Admin.  But he was obviously mentally unhinged long before the Donald came along.  I mean they screen for everything before you get promoted to general officer -and- "Are you conspiracy theorist who looks to commit genocide of non-christians both foreign and domestic?"  didn't fucking come up?  

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8 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Christian Taliban. 

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

So what's the plan, Michael? Eradicate all other religions? Put them all in camps?

I’d like to know what he plans to do about Christian sects that don’t agree with him.   I had several discussions at my wife’s former church (Southern Baptists) in Sunday school classes anytime somebody would bring up that we need more religion in schools.  

Pointing out to them that Catholics are the largest religious group in the state, so if they want religion taught in the public schools they better be cool with Catholic versions of Christianity being taught to their kids, always made them really uncomfortable.  

None of them ever had a rational response. Sure, they believed that the Southern Baptist version of Christianity is what should be taught, but they knew it wouldn’t fly, with the Catholics, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. being against them, not to mention Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, etc.

But these people I’m talking about were really just…..phonies for the most part.  For all of their talk, it was just that, and they were just trying to score a few “LOOK AT ME IM A GOOD CHRISTIAN” points.

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2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

i can't fucking believe that guy was once in command of nearly 50,000 troops and was even Intel C.O. for JSOC.  I get why he had such high profile posts in the Trump Admin.  But he was obviously mentally unhinged long before the Donald came along.  I mean they screen for everything before you get promoted to general officer -and- "Are you conspiracy theorist who looks to commit genocide of non-christians both foreign and domestic?"  didn't fucking come up?  

Flynn was probably the consummate ticket-puncher who got all the right schools, connections, and patches as he climbed through the ranks, and no doubt kept his mouth shut. Plus, he has a face like a hatchet and they like that in a general.

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I’d like to know what he plans to do about Christian sects that don’t agree with him.   I had several discussions at my wife’s former church (Southern Baptists) in Sunday school classes anytime somebody would bring up that we need more religion in schools.  

Pointing out to them that Catholics are the largest religious group in the state, so if they want religion taught in the public schools they better be cool with Catholic versions of Christianity being taught to their kids, always made them really uncomfortable.  

None of them ever had a rational response. Sure, they believed that the Southern Baptist version of Christianity is what should be taught, but they knew it wouldn’t fly, with the Catholics, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. being against them, not to mention Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, etc.

But these people I’m talking about were really just…..phonies for the most part.  For all of their talk, it was just that, and they were just trying to score a few “LOOK AT ME IM A GOOD CHRISTIAN” points.

When I was a kid (raised Southern Baptist,) and I started realizing that some of my friends were Catholic, I asked "Do Catholics go to heaven or do they just go to hell?"

My mom was blindsided and said "Of course Catholics go to heaven."

I replied "Well why in the hell are we Baptist?" [3 words added to childhood story to make it more Surly.]

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I’d like to know what he plans to do about Christian sects that don’t agree with him.   I had several discussions at my wife’s former church (Southern Baptists) in Sunday school classes anytime somebody would bring up that we need more religion in schools.  

Pointing out to them that Catholics are the largest religious group in the state, so if they want religion taught in the public schools they better be cool with Catholic versions of Christianity being taught to their kids, always made them really uncomfortable.  

None of them ever had a rational response. Sure, they believed that the Southern Baptist version of Christianity is what should be taught, but they knew it wouldn’t fly, with the Catholics, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. being against them, not to mention Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, etc.

But these people I’m talking about were really just…..phonies for the most part.  For all of their talk, it was just that, and they were just trying to score a few “LOOK AT ME IM A GOOD CHRISTIAN” points.

Yep, whenever people talk about how we need more Christianity in our government I always think they’re being foolish if they think it’s going to be THEIR brand of Christianity. They don’t realize that the whole idea behind freedom of religion is so they can practice their faith the way they see fit and not have it dictated to them by, oh, say the Church of England.

Also, fuck the Southern Baptists and their shitty version of Christianity. That’s the version I cite if I want to remind someone why we need separation of church and state. 

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What in the Charlottesville is going on at A&M????



Imagine the exact same activity, with all the same makeup, accessories, and music at a “liberal” university.
This would be the top story on Fox, about how Berkeley is openly satanic or some shit.
I fucking hate what these assholes have done to the country. It’s beyond saving now.
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They don’t realize that the whole idea behind freedom of religion is so they can practice their faith the way they see fit and not have it dictated to them by, oh, say the Church of England.

It's not just having a state religion telling you what you have to believe. You could always just mumble the prayers and hum through the hymns, or amuse yourself reading the killin 'n fuckin parts of the Old Testament.

What you eventually get when you have a state religion is legal set-asides and secret courts for their own business, think Diocese of Buffalo x 100, church police church banks maybe church "encouragement" to repent...

The old-school Catholics had the Inquisition, and the Church of England knew about torture too. Flynn probably has in mind Evangelism, so get ready for Reeducation Tough Love Camps with 24-hour loops of Amy Grant singalongs with the lyrics projected on the quarry walls.

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It's not just having a state religion telling you what you have to believe. You could always just mumble the prayers and hum through the hymns, or amuse yourself reading the killin 'n fuckin parts of the Old Testament.

What you eventually get when you have a state religion is legal set-asides and secret courts for their own business, think Diocese of Buffalo x 100, church police church banks maybe church "encouragement" to repent...

The old-school Catholics had the Inquisition, and the Church of England knew about torture too. Flynn probably has in mind Evangelism, so get ready for Reeducation Tough Love Camps with 24-hour loops of Amy Grant singalongs with the lyrics projected on the quarry walls.

And morality police and gay conversion therapy and abstinence only education and no science in schools and forced school prayer, and so on. 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/pelosi-republicans-partisan-political-violence/671934/

 

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In March 2020, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives posted a video message addressed to two Democratic political candidates that issued a threatening challenge if they passed laws he did not like. Standing in his Capitol Hill office, Ken Buck of Colorado’s Fourth District gestured toward a rifle mounted on the wall.

“I have a message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke. If you want to take everyone’s AR-15 in America, why don’t you swing by my office in Washington, D.C., and start with this one.” At this point, Buck reached for a stars-and-stripes-decorated rifle mounted on the wall. He brandished the weapon, smiled what he must have imagined was a tough-guy smile, and said, “Come and take it.”

 

 

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At the time the video was released, Biden was the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Normally, the Secret Service takes an interest in threats of violence against potential presidents. I could find no indication that it did so in this case. It probably understood—as most of us would understand—that Buck would never make good on his threat to assassinate political opponents if they enacted gun-control legislation. He was only performing a threat, in a way that has become dully familiar in American politics.

 

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Missouri Governor Eric Greitens resigned in disgrace in 2018 after facing allegations that he had used explicit photographs to blackmail a former lover. He tried to revive his career with a Senate run in 2020. Guns became a major theme of that campaign, culminating in a video ad that pictured him carrying a gun as he broke open the door of a house. Accompanied by two armed goons, he urged: “Get a RINO-hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

 

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Facebook removed the ad. Greitens said his threat against “Republicans in Name Only” was intended humorously.

And it’s not only marginal Republican backbenchers and embittered ex-officeholders who threaten violence.

In his campaign to become Georgia’s governor in 2018, Brian Kemp released an ad in which he pointed a hunting rifle at a seemingly frightened young man who wanted to date Kemp’s daughter.

 

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Dan Crenshaw—one of the most intelligent Republicans in the House, someone who ought to be a next-generation party leader—in January released a deliberately absurd ad that cast him as a movie superhero. All in good fun, until the final scene that showed him apparently smashing a car windshield to reach and destroy two lurking political adversaries.

I could list many similar examples over dozens more paragraphs. But here’s the point: There’s nothing partisan about political violence in America. It has struck Republicans such as Steve Scalise, who was shot along with four others and nearly killed, as he played baseball in suburban Virginia. The gunman was a Bernie Sanders supporter who had traveled from Illinois with a legally purchased weapon and a target list of Republican members of Congress. It has threatened conservatives such as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, stalked by a would-be assassin angry about the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And it has struck citizens of very different persuasions as they took part in street protests—as when Kyle Rittenhouse, acting as an armed vigilante, gunned down two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020, and when Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist, hunted and killed a political enemy in Portland in September.

You don’t see Democratic House members wielding weapons in videos and threatening to shoot candidates who want to cut capital-gains taxes or slow the growth of Medicare. Democratic candidates for Senate do not post video fantasies of hunting and executing political rivals, or of using a firearm to discipline their children’s romantic partners. It’s not because of Democratic members that Speaker Nancy Pelosi installed metal detectors to bar firearms from the floor of the House. No Democratic equivalent exists of Donald Trump, who regularly praises and encourages violence as a normal tool of politics, most recently against his own party’s Senate leader, Mitch McConnell. As the formerly Trump-leaning Wall Street Journal editorialized on October 2: “It’s all too easy to imagine some fanatic taking Mr. Trump seriously and literally, and attempting to kill Mr. McConnell. Many supporters took Mr. Trump’s rhetoric about former Vice President Mike Pence all too seriously on Jan. 6.”

The January 6 insurrection is the overhanging fact above all this rhetoric of political violence. That was the day when Trump’s ally Rudy Giuliani urged, “Let’s have trial by combat”—and thousands heeded and complied. That terrible day, incited by President Trump and organized by Trump supporters, should have chastened American politics for a generation. It did not. Armed and masked vigilantes are intimidating voters right now in Arizona and other states, inspired by Trump’s continued election lies, as amplified by his supporters to this very day.

Paul Pelosi is the latest to pay a blood price for the cult of violence. Thankfully, he is expected to make a full recovery, but he won’t be the last victim of the cult. It won’t stop, but it must stop. As Abraham Lincoln wrote to a friend in 1863: “Among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and … they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost.”

 

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3 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

shoulda told him no candy. life choices have consequences, kid

I’m a little drunk, dad was a really fucking big guy, and the firearms are 2 rooms away.  They got 1 piece of candy, and only 1 piece of candy.  Everyone else gets to grab a handful, as we don’t get a lot of customers.

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22 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:
Just had a MAGA trick or treater.  Probably 8 years old.  We’re fucked.

How were they dressed? Were they actually the shit emoji and you just mistook them for MAGA?

As a soldier with the top unbuttoned to reveal the MAGA tshirt.

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Just now, Scheiss Meister said:

He should have received a rice krispies treat ball with a brussels sprout in the center.

That would require some anticipation and work, neither of which are strong suits of mine.  I stop at the drug store on the way home and buy two big bags of whatever they have left.

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