Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts

2026/04/20

The Weaponization of Christianity

 How Charlie Kirk used Christianity to divide America

    In the landscape of American political discourse, few figures embody the marriage of Christian identity and partisan warfare quite like Charlie Kirk.  The founder of Turning Point USA has become a fixture in Republican circles, his influence extending from college campuses to the highest levels of GOP strategy, including close ties to Trump’s campaign operations.  But Kirk’s brand of Christianity, one that frames politics as existential combat and opponents as enemies of God and country, reveals something deeper and more troubling: the transformation of a once-radical faith into a weapon of control, division, and the preservation of power.


2026/04/04

The Golden Calf in the Radio Box

 I was once told by a man of the cloth, one of the old-fashioned kind who still believed the Red Letters were more than just a stylistic choice by the printer, that the quickest way to lose your soul is to find a way to sell it at a profit. Now, I’ve seen many a curious thing in my travels, but nothing quite so peculiar as the modern American spectacle where a man can be convinced that the path to the Pearly Gates is paved with high-interest newsletters and a healthy dose of loathing for his neighbor.

2026/04/01

The New Gospel of the Gilded Calf

 It has been remarked by men wiser than myself that the Good Book is like a mirror: if an ass looks in, you can’t expect an apostle to look out. These days, however, it seems a whole congregation of folks have looked into the Gospel and somehow mistaken the Beatitudes for a business prospectus.

2025/03/28

the different dump administrations

somehow this is sleep Joe's fault

I can't wait to see the mental gymnastics performed by the White House to explain how and why this is joe biden's fault.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/feds-preferred-inflation-gauge-shows-prices-increased-more-than-expected-in-february-123310140.html

2025/03/18

guess which party?

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/18/state-senator-eichorn-arrested-suspicion-of-soliciting-a-minor

This supposedly was the same day just hours after this Senator was one of 5 signers on a new bill that would accuse trump critics of a mental illness.


2025/03/13

A good timeline of the Drump/ Canada lunacy

https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1ja89tz/thoughts_on_this_timeline_of_canadian_annexation/

More GOP Bullshit

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/03/11/lauren-boebert-pimp-cane-al-green-resign/

The GOP would never apologize, step down, or show any contrition for anything they would say or do.  The feckless leadership of the democrats rolled over on this guy afterwards.  

2025/03/11

Republican values



Christensen is a judge in Utah's 1st District Justice Court and was arrested and booked into the Davis County Jail on Thursday.

This article pins him as a potential Mormon elder .... FloodLIT

He was honored in 2023 for integrity, character, dedication

2025/03/02

Kleptocracy in action

!!! NO VERIFICATION AT THIS TIME !!!
 
Report from the Senate Floor:

Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. Republicans forced us to debate their billionaire bailout budget framework. We started voting at 6 PM because they knew doing it in the dark of night would minimize media coverage. And they do not want the American people to see how blatant their handover of our government to the billionaire class is. 

So I want to explain what happened last night and what we did to fight back. The apex of Republicans’ plan to turn over our government to their wealthy cronies is a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And they plan to pay for it with cuts to programs that working people rely on. Popular and necessary programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, are all being targeted. In order to pass the tax cut, Republicans have to go through a series of procedural steps. Last night, they took the first step which requires them to pass an outline of their plan, but with it, any senator can offer as many amendments as we want. So my Democratic colleagues and I did just that. 

Now, we knew that Republicans would largely unanimously oppose them, but we had two objectives here. One, Republicans were forced to put their opinion on record — many for the first time — on the most corrupt parts of Trump and Musk’s agenda. Two, as I’ve been saying, I am going to make every process and procedure as slow and painful as possible for as long as my colleagues choose to ignore the constitutional crisis happening before our eyes. 

So what did we propose? We proposed no tax cuts for anyone who makes a billion dollars a year. We made them vote on whether or not Elon Musk and DOGE should have limitless access to Americans’ personal data. We made them vote on whether to protect IVF and require insurers to cover it. Every single amendment Democrats proposed was shot down. On almost every single amendment, Republicans universally opposed it. Every Republican voted against our proposal to prevent more tax cuts for billionaires. The corruption and theft is happening in the open here. 

The whole game for Republicans is taking your money and giving it to the wealthiest corporations and billionaires — even if it means kicking your parents out of a nursing home or turning off Medicaid for the poorest children. They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people. Oh and by the way, any tax cuts for working people are going to be washed out by higher costs for basic necessities, like health care and food. It’s a fundamental injustice. 

Thanks to your pressure and support, many of my Democratic colleagues have joined my effort to do everything we can to make sure they cannot destroy democracy and steal your money in the dark of the night. We are being loud about what is happening. I’m going to continue to grind the gears of Congress down as much as possible to make it that much harder and slower to get away with this corruption. That’s why the votes lasted until nearly 5 AM. 

This is a five-alarm fire. I don’t think we have two years to plan and fight back. I think we have months. It’s still in our power to stop the destruction of our democracy with mass mobilization and effective opposition from elected officials. So we can’t miss any opportunity to take advantage of opportunities to put Republicans on the record and shine a light on what is happening. 

And you have a role to play in this as well. I need you to amplify what’s happening, support the leaders who are fighting for you to make sure they can continue speaking truth to power against Musk and Trump’s billionaire cronies, and show up at rallies and town halls. Use every tool at your disposal to send a message loud and clear about how you expect my colleagues to lead and fight in this moment.

Every best wish, 
US Senator Chris Murphy (D - CT)
 
!!! NO VERIFICATION AT THIS TIME !!! 

2022/06/28

grabbed the date

Finally saying out loud what he has thought for years.

2020/08/18

save the mail

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/trump-us-mail.html

As the mail-in voting crisis has erupted, some of the usual suspects on the right have taken to denouncing the Postal Service as a bad, money-losing business. But the founders didn’t put the postal clause in the Constitution because they saw it as a business opportunity; the Postal Service was supposed to serve broader national goals — and it still does.

2020/07/06

Extreme Gaslighting

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/505924-judd-gregg-the-coming-biden-coup

Never had I read an article where the author is either to lazy to really did into his opposition, or is just flat out does not care. This whole article is one giant attempt at gas lighting the readers. Let's break this down:

  It really gets going when he writes this:
"Promoting and promulgating — not merely accepting — the massive protests that have occurred in some cities, even when they have led to lawlessness, looting, riots and declarations of autonomy."
- yes, because the outcome in one city is what the whole progressive movement is about. Totally wrong on the progressives to demand equal treatment under the law, the end to systemic racism, and an out of control police force.

Next:
"Searching out and destroying unbelievers in pursuit of a politically correct version of history, and doing so with a zeal that would have made Cotton Mather blush."
Kind of sounds like Trump and his loyalty oath.

Then:
"Removing statues of historical figures that are deemed unacceptable based on today’s parameters of social justice."
- Yes, because I am sure Black America really responds to statues of former confederate generals, and do not care to see any of their own history represented in this artistic form.

He calls the progressives a "fanatical group". Which again, just sounds like the small number of trump hold outs left. Look at how fanatical they are, please? 

"This is about power. All major elections are."
You are upset that maybe some Democrats have learned the republican lesson from 2010? They are determined to not let that happen again? For a republican to come out and say this is, almost the largest of hypocrisies.

 Judd Gregg has his head firmly planted in a dark place, and just refused to remove it.


2020/06/05

Drumpf/ Nixon compared

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/trump-nixon.html

No real surprises here from Krugman in his opinion. 

2020/04/28

Don't Listen to me

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blames-plummeting-poll-numbers-on-people-paying-attention-when-he-talks/amp

This guy is unreal
"""
Donald J. Trump on Monday blamed his sinking poll numbers on people paying attention when he talks.
"""

Seriously?
"""
he said, “There are a lot of people out there who are listening to things I say and basing their opinions on them, and I think it’s very sad.”
"""

2020/04/13

Democracy dies a little more now

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/opinion/wisconsin-primary-democracy.html

"""
This November, it’s all too possible that Trump will eke out an Electoral College win thanks to widespread voter suppression. If he does — or even if he wins cleanly — everything we’ve seen suggests that he will use a second term to punish everyone he sees as a domestic enemy, and that his party will back him all the way. That is, America will do a full Hungary.
"""

I think this is a fact, not a possibility.

2020/03/29

pathetic

https://www.wired.com/story/business-as-usual-is-on-hold-even-at-the-epa

Trump and his lackeys continue to target the EPA.