Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, mand do what he tells you to do."
This is the wedding night advice offered to brides by Josh Howerton, a senior pastor at Lakepointe Church in Dallas, Texas.
Lakepointe, according to the Dallas Morning News, is one of the biggest megachurches in Texas, with over 13,000 people a week attending its main location.
The church itself cites a number over 40,000 a week, between its six campuses and online services.
Howerton opened Sunday morning services on February 25 with this paean to sexual coercion.
The MAGA base is getting ever more vitriolic with its misogyny.
Part of that is due to the more secular dirtbags of the Joe #Rogan/Elon #Musk variety, who have become such a loud part of the Republican coalition under Trump.
But this escalation of boldly misogynist rhetoric is also coming from the evangelicals.
Republicans can't win without keeping those people happy, since the Christian right is where the GOP's organizing power still mainly resides.
In her recent New York Times article about the "coarsening" of the religious right, #Ruth#Graham alluded to this, writing about the trend of evangelical leaders using "#vulgarities."
But it's not just a matter of using curse words. The vulgarities in question mostly center around an over-the-top performance of toxic masculinity:
throwing around sexist terms like "slt" and "whre," homophobic slurs, and using phrases like "grow a pair."
It's definitely got an overcompensation vibe to it.
But along with the increasingly violent queerphobia, this means evangelical sexism is getting more overtly nasty.
A lot of the faux-chivalrous condescension is being replaced with blunt malevolence and sexual objectification.
Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans, sixty of kraut, thirty of grapes and twenty of peaches. I swapped two bushels of grapes and got two bushels of peaches and I swapped one bushel of grapes for one bushel of apples"
Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter..."
But this week, #Graham voted repeatedly against sending $60B in #aid to that nation as well as against other military funds for Israel & #USallies in the Indo-Pacific. The longtime hawk dramatically announced on the #Senate floor that he also would no longer be attending the #MunichSecurityConference — an annual pilgrimage made by #world#leaders to discuss #GlobalSecurity concerns that’s been a mainstay of his schedule.
“I talked to President #Trump today & he’s dead set against this package,” #Graham said on the #Senate floor on Sunday, a day after TFG said at a rally that he would let the Russians do “whatever the hell they want” to #NATO allies that did not spend enough on #defense. “He thinks that we should make packages like this a loan, not a gift,” Graham said.
"LAST MONTH, THE #EU formally agreed to begin accession negotiations with #Ukraine, recognizing Ukraine’s future as a free democracy and a full member of the community of European nations. If the 27 member states of the EU can see Ukraine’s future clearly, why can’t Thomas #Graham?
In a recent essay, “Political Hurdles on Ukraine’s Way to EU Membership,” Graham, seriously mischaracterizes the state of democracy in wartorn Ukraine and its EU prospects. "
This validates what I was trying to explain (badly) yesterday.
Via Anna Bower:
"#FaniWillis almost certainly realized that any case against #Graham, Loeffler, or Perdue...would have been complicated by the inevitable argument that their conduct was protected by the Speech or Debate Clause." #TrumpIndictment#Georgia
Georgia special grand jury recommended charging Lindsey Graham and former US senators
The special grand jury investigating the attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results recommended bringing charges against the state’s former senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler as well as the current South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham.
“This should be decided at the ballot box” is such an utterly deranged thing to say when the reason why we are in this situation is that Trump and his enablers didn’t respect the decision at the ballot box and instead engaged in a vast conspiracy to end constitutional government.
Trump constantly berated Pence to join the illegal attempt to hold onto power after losing the 2020 election — even on Christmas and New Year’s Day. #Pence repeatedly told him the truth, that he had no legal power to overturn the election, and Trump allegedly told him he was “too honest.” It’s potentially an indication that #Trump knew he was lying when he pressured Pence to reject electoral votes for Joe #Biden.
The Russian fascist invaders shelled more than 30 settlements in the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson directions (operational area "Tavria"), including Malynivka, Hulyaypole, Stepove Lobkove and Kam'yans'ke in Zaporizhzhya region and Nikopol' in Dnipropetrovsk region.
The rashists carried out air strikes on Novodanylivka, Mala Tokmachka and P'yatykhatky in Zaporizhzhya region.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information at 18:00 on 26 July 2023
BREAKING: Lindsay Graham misallocated $350,000 of campaign money on apparently PERSONAL legal expenses -- trying to evade a subpoena to testify before the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury on attempting to overthrow the 2020 election.