Pro #WhiteChristianNationalist Samuel Alito, who ripped healthcare away from American Women and Girls, has shown signs of empathy for criminal defendants in recent cases involving gun owners, Jan 6. attackers and criminal defendant Donald.
He refused to discuss the facts of the criminal charges against the biggest criminal in American history during the oral argument in the immunity delay case.
Republicans aka: White male privilege, consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Sammy is a misogynist, too. I'll never forget that he quoted the judge from the Salem Witch Trials in the leaked Dobbes document. I have a very strong gut feeling that truth be known, Alito was the very one who leaked it.
The NBC headline should read: “Right-wing fanatic shows signs of supporting right-wing fanaticism.” The important commonality is that they’re right-wing fanatics, not that they’re “defendants.”
Bought and paid for by White Christian Nationalism.
Leader of the @MissouriGOP, 65yo Rep. Dean Van Schoiack (aka @ColonelDean) is upset that members of the Missouri House have the audacity to try to introduce a bill that won't let him marry a 12yo girl calling it "Interference is my God Given Rights to her fertile, ripe body."
Rid the world of these monsters. Reject fascist republicans. Men speak out against rape of children.
According to #Trump, #racism is a big problem in America. But not racism against black Americans and other PoC. No, the true victims of racism are white conservatives. If only they could get together and build a society that privileges them over everyone else. One can dream. 🙄
#RobSchneider, whose claim to fame is a single, mediocre skit on #SNL, is a newly-converted #Catholic, so naturally he's an unmatched expert in #Christianity whose authority is beyond reproach. It makes perfect that this objectively unfunny slug would want to make a documentary about the well-known hoax, the Shroud of Turin, to celebrate his new expertise! What bravery! 🤣
Red states like Ky are planning to eliminate income taxes to move to an entirely sales tax system. They plan to tax all goods & services, so presumably your doctor, home care, your bookkeeper, and your contract labor will all have to charge you sales tax on top of their regular co-pays & fees.
Of course, that means the brunt of all taxes will be paid by the low wage working poor, and the rich will not be affected - nor pay any tax on their income. Small biz is screwed.
Of course, this being the GOP in Kentucky, they will no doubt slap sales taxes on Food & Medicine, too, just to make sure they hurt the poor as much as possible.
B/c that's what right wing christians do - hurt the poor, disabled, elderly by depriving them of food, med care, affordable housing, and then criminalizing homelessness for good measure. In the name of their evil god.
8 years after his predecessor vetoed a bill enshrining the #Bible as the official state book, Gov. #BillLee signed into law a measure making a version of the Holy Book one of #Tennessee's 10 official tomes.
The purpose was clear: to send a message that Tennessee favors #Christianity over other forms of worship, or lack thereof.
This is wonderful to read, but remember every single one of these "good" Republicans will vote against reproductive rights, immigration, and voting rights. Every. Time.
This is happening because #Christians are afraid they are losing #culturalDominance and they want to either #evangelize to #nonChristian#students or drill it into their heads that they are second-class citizens in this country, thereby making it easier for those like #DeSantis to force their #religion on them in other ways.
The real game plan of the #Christofascists is this, even though I doubt that many of them'll have read the books.(I think I'm missing out on 2.)
Quiz time:
Who is the only author with two novels in this dystopian Venn diagram? 😉
These deranged people are the fundamentalist #ChristoFascists intending to impose #TheNewInquisition rule over the rest of us, to eliminate all #WomensRights like in Afghanistan, to execute #LGBTQ folks and #Atheists like Gaza and Iran, to bring back #Slavery like in Libya and Qatar, and make America a Saudi style ethno-state in the #WhiteNationalist flavor. They intend to turn all schools into #ForcedReligion hellholes and #Kidnap your kids if you dare to let them be themselves. They intend to deport #Immigrants and force the poor into servitude with no #MinimumWages or #WorkerProtections at all, including no #SocialSecurity or #Healthcare since only the rich deserve a decent life - their disgusting god told them so while they were here wallowing on the floor and babbling.
THIS IS OUR FUTURE IF MAGATS ARE NOT VOTED OUT AND KEPT OUT PERMANENTLY: rule by hateful misogynist nutjobs using POLICE STATE VIOLENCE to enforce their whackadoodle beliefs onto us.
Yes, Kentucky is just a sh!t state all the way around now.
PS - Jews and African Americans were only admitted to Lexington's Idle Hour golf course / country club in 1985. That's not ancient history. That's the year my oldest daughter was born. I moved here in 1989, and even though Lexington is supposedly a liberal city, it's history is dark. Doing my architectural internship, I found a lot of icky defacto redlining and other things. There are still deeds in the downtown victorian era neighborhoods up through the 1950s that forbid a Jew or African American person from buying the properties or even staying there overnight.
The #Brevard#schoolBoard is choosing to follow badly worded laws, written vaguely on purpose, massive in scope, to follow a #ChristianNationalist agenda to #indoctrinate#students, while ignoring that these same laws would ban virtually every book from our classrooms and libraries.
A judicial nomination under attack — and now in peril, Chris Geidner Apr 11
The attack on Adeel Mangi’s nomination gives way to appalling cowardice...
"...Mangi would be the nation’s first Muslim American judge, and the attacks against him have been unrelenting. Although it started with Republicans, including at his confirmation hearing, the anti-Mangi efforts have continued in the months since, attempting to smear him with baseless claims of terrorism and anti-law enforcement connections...
...three Democrats in the Senate — Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen of Nevada and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia — have given in to these racist, bad-faith, ideological attacks, saying that they will not support Mangi’s nomination.
This is appalling cowardice, and they should be ashamed.
Impressively, Durbin agrees that they should be ashamed — and said so..."
[Manchin is a republican plant, and always has been.]
There is something seriously wrong with #Christofascists, like #MikeHuckabee. It's a rot that's based deep in their #Christian genes. It's a lack of #humanity and decency that they justify with performative piety. And it also reflects a sadistic, corrupt worldview in which education is for suckers, and those who got saddled with unpayable loans deserve their suffering.
Taking essential #healthcare away from needy children on #Easter is incredibly fucked up. These #Republicans continue to claim exclusive ownership of #Christianity while behaving in a way that would have infuriated their #messiah. They're literally acting directly contrary to the foundational teachings of the man they claim to revere and follow.
After obstructionist Bill Barr completely covered-up the Trump-Russia investigation in a way that let criminal defendant Donald skate, US Intelligence now has told us that Russians are involved in using a variety of technologies, including ultrasound, microwave weapons, pesticides, and toxins on our diplomats and intelligence personnel.
Why exactly is American counterintelligence so dead-set on protecting the Kremlin and those close to it?
If #Jesus came back today, #JamesComer and #GymJordan would subpoena him, and have him before their Congressional #impeachment committee tomorrow. The notion that they'd accept and embrace him is too absurd to even contemplate. Jesus, as described in their very own official #TrumpBible, is an unquestionable #liberal whose teachings are directly contrary to their professed beliefs. Jesus just doesn't understand #Christianity the way the #Republicans do.
Trump's NSC aid Robert C. O'Brien's testimony may be the last puzzle piece. Any other witnesses may be targets. Specifically, the people who knew force or violence was contemplated & agreed to it because they were going to be placed in high-level positions in the dictatorship.
When this was happening my first thoughts went to "what's the plan? If they stopped the count that might jam up Jan 20 but it would not create a basis for Trump and Pence to remain in power. Their terms would end at noon and nothing could stop that. So what was the plan?
I am as convinced today as I was then this was the plan: VP Pence was removed from the Capitol. Grassley tipped his role in the coup that was reported the day the planning was complete.
Then the coup leaders made him change his story less than 24 hours from the execution of the coup.
Al Assad base in Iraq that seriously injured over 100 US personnel.
Trump and Pompeo are both still fearful of Iranian revenge and that is possibly a reason he stole US intel on Iran and made the effort to publicly flash it to let them know was so he could use it as another peace offering to get off the IRGC hit list that would predictably have resulted from his acknowledgement of his Soleimani assassination.
Pompeo is the Koch network's boy. When he left the Army and completed his Harvard law degree, he practiced for a short time and then Pompeo and two close Army associates started a firm in Kansas funded by Koch. He's their boy and Koch reaffirms family loyalties by continuing to do business in Russia. Unless the indictments take down the Koch network and its long connection to the Russian state that the Koch family wealth was derived from during the Soviet phase, the threat to the Nation is active.