Branch Trumpvidians 6: Maybe They'll Finally Abandon Him

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

On 11/24/2022 at 4:10 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

 

So basically Happy Thanksgiving to the Dems and some if the Rs?

[Audrey2]

3 hours ago, AlmostSavedAtTacoBell said:

So basically Happy Thanksgiving to the Dems and some if the Rs?

I took it to mean Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except the lgbtqs and teachers.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

16 hours ago, Audrey2 said:

I took it to mean Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except the lgbtqs and teachers.

I know what it meant. I was just noting the abundance of Rs who end up exposed as either involved in child pornography, grooming, and CSA or who cover it up. 

[church_of_dog]

13 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

From the Jack Smith parody twitter:

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Good gravy

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[Becky]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

So apparently this self-righteous douchebag thinks it was God’s plan for him to kill actual people so he could “use his voice for good.” Alrighty then. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Aw, his fee-fees were hurt:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

You couldn’t make this up. 

I wish a friend or family member would consider having him hospitalized. He needs serious help. 

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[libgirl2]

20 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

 

I love how these people are so sure of God's plan. Piece of shit, is that why you went to Kenosha with a gun when your ass should have been home doing schoolwork or if you are so religious, volunteering somewhere? 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[yeahthatsme74]

Man, if I was Kim K, I wouldn't be letting that crazy anywhere near my kids. He sounds like someone ready to crash and burn and take others down with him. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Yeah, so many BTs would be thrilled to go back to “the good old days”.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

From Jennifer Rubin: "The MAGA cult should face facts: America will never be theirs ‘again’"

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Right-wing media commentators and MAGA politicians have one thing right: The cultural tide of pluralism, secularism and feminism has washed away their imagined reactionary paradise of a White Christian America. Unfortunately, they fail to realize this trend is irreversible.

Nowhere has this been more evident than the split within the GOP over the Respect for Marriage Act. Twelve Senate Republicans on Tuesday voted for the bill, which will codify protections for same-sex marriage, but more than 36 — or three-quarters of the Republican caucus — did not. They did so even though 70 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage.

The GOP’s reactionary stance on this issue — as on abortion and virtually anything that smacks of racial justice — reflects the party’s dependence on White Christian nationalism. Put differently, the party cannot seem to embrace inclusion, tolerance or simple decency for fear of losing a significant bloc of its electorate. As a result, Republicans have put their party at odds with the values of the overwhelming majority of the country.

The GOP’s positions on these cultural issues are rooted in the conviction that only “real Americans” — their White Christian nationalist supporters — should maintain the levers of economic and political power. But the ground is shifting under the MAGA cult’s feet.

Even some hard-right Republicans are realizing this. Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis (R-Wyo.) on Tuesday explained her vote in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, despite her religious conviction that marriage is between a man and a woman: “The concern that people have expressed to me is that my views run counter to God’s definition of marriage,” she said. “And I’ve tried to distinguish the fact that I support God’s definition of marriage, but now there’s a second definition of marriage — it is secular and established by the [Supreme Court] Obergefell decision — and it deserves respect, too.”

For many Republicans, those are fighting words. If one is going to start differentiating between one’s religious convictions and the dictates of a pluralistic, inclusive society, then what’s the rationalization for embedding in law a Christian view that personhood begins at conception? What’s the justification for allowing businesses to impose their religious convictions on others (e.g., denying birth control coverage to their employees, refusing service to same-sex couples)?

Alas, Lummis is in the distinct minority in the GOP. The party’s fixation with a pre-civil rights society leads it into one political debacle after another. Too many Republicans cannot repudiate virulent racist, sexist or antisemitic rhetoric. Too many channel their supporters’ conviction that they are the victims and under siege from alien values, and back legislation ranging from Florida’s “Don’t say gay” law to abortion bans. None of this makes the GOP popular with average voters, especially millennials and Generation Z voters who will soon dominate the electorate.

As Robert P. Jones, head of the Public Religion Research Institute, wrote at the time the Supreme Court issued its ruling overturning abortion rights, the decision "is part of a gambit — seen in attacks on LGBTQ rights, immigrants, the separation of church and state, and critical race theory — to hold onto a particular conservative vision of white Christian America and impose it upon a more religiously and racially diverse nation that is increasingly supportive of this set of rights grounded in a constitutional right to privacy.” He added, “The connective tissue between these issues can be seen both in how out of touch this opinion is with mainstream public opinion and in how opposition to abortion connects with other issues being pushed by conservative religious activists this year.”

Thousands of words have been devoted to pointing out the danger the GOP presents to itself with its debilitating dependence on former president Donald Trump. But its far bigger problem, which won’t disappear even if Trump is indicted and convicted, is that not even a solid conservative such as Lummis can persuade her party to turn away from its rigid, anachronistic outlook that turns off a majority of Americans.

So long as that ideology remains a fixture in the GOP, Republicans will find it difficult to construct a governing coalition. That is disastrous news for the GOP, but it should be reassuring for a country devoted to becoming a more perfect nation.

 

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

On 12/1/2022 at 3:34 PM, libgirl2 said:

I love how these people are so sure of God's plan. Piece of shit, is that why you went to Kenosha with a gun when your ass should have been home doing schoolwork or if you are so religious, volunteering somewhere? 

Speak up WHERE, you shitstain? Poor Riflehouse is finding out the hard way that users only use you as long as you’re useful. His time is almost if not already up. He’s no longer the poor little kid who was just in Kenosha (with an illegally obtained gun) to clean up graffiti and give treatment as needed with his Boy Scout training (while carrying an illegally obtained gun) and was totally not looking for a fight (while wielding an illegally obtained gun) but is now in the rear view mirror. He was acquitted of all charges which may have ironically been the cause of his deflated fame. If he had been convicted of at least something but allowed to remain out on bond pending appeal, he could have milked it for more attention and money. But now he’s just another George Zimmerman- the name we know but who has discovered notoriety is a double edged sword when you have one side swanning for you when it suits them. Like Zimmerman, Kyle got a taste of being a demi-celebrity and demi-hero to a certain crowd but like Zimmerman, once the verdict was in he wasn’t a talking point. His lead defense attorney said after the verdict that he told his client to move away from the area, change his name, and start a new life by going to school or getting a job- but that he doubted his client would listen. He was right in his advice and right in his prediction. At best this jackass is going to “write” (someone else will write) a book that will sell enough copies for him to think he is rich so he will blow all the money on stupid things; he will get a few speaking gigs/appearances a year for the next five or maybe even ten years; and he will long-term become some local “celebrity” who perhaps parlays it all into a bit as a local politician. Sadly the more likely scenario is that because he never seeks help for what he likely faces due to killing two people and maiming another (even if it was not intentional as that still has to be very traumatizing); he will be broke and trying to figure out where all the money, fame, and connections who won’t return his texts/calls/emails went; will be unemployed with no prospects; and will be reliving his glory days with anyone who will listen and himself if no one will listen. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Next they’ll parade out the plumber who unclogged Hunter’s toilet five years ago to discuss what he found. 

 

[Dandruff]

On 12/1/2022 at 4:09 PM, GreyhoundFan said:

You couldn’t make this up. 

I wish a friend or family member would consider having him hospitalized. He needs serious help. 

I was delayed in getting here...went looking for recent Kanye discussion over on Hate and couldn't find it.

I'm not inclined to encourage Kanye's hospitalization since I don't believe he's any sicker than the many other antisemites or budding antisemites that he's stoking.  No excuse, no break, no forgiveness for those pretending they're sorry or they don't mean it or whatever verbal garbage they use as a pass to get away with it.  They/It needs to be quickly stopped and, afaic, nobody needs to be even the tiniest bit nice or compromising in doing so.

Antisemitism has already affected my family and the family of many others in the most deadly way.  We currently have multiple Hitler-admirers voicing their filth, including meeting over dinner with 45.  Look what's happening on Twitter.  It'll slowly become normalized if permitted to.  Security is commonly used/requested at synagogues, whether by private contractor or police.*    

*I've been to services with police presence - it's a relief and so, so sad at the same time.  It's a reminder of why we can never forget.  It's real life.

OK, rant over (for now).

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

6 hours ago, Dandruff said:

I was delayed in getting here...went looking for recent Kanye discussion over on Hate and couldn't find it.

I'm not inclined to encourage Kanye's hospitalization since I don't believe he's any sicker than the many other antisemites or budding antisemites that he's stoking.  No excuse, no break, no forgiveness for those pretending they're sorry or they don't mean it or whatever verbal garbage they use as a pass to get away with it.  They/It needs to be quickly stopped and, afaic, nobody needs to be even the tiniest bit nice or compromising in doing so.

Antisemitism has already affected my family and the family of many others in the most deadly way.  We currently have multiple Hitler-admirers voicing their filth, including meeting over dinner with 45.  Look what's happening on Twitter.  It'll slowly become normalized if permitted to.  Security is commonly used/requested at synagogues, whether by private contractor or police.*    

*I've been to services with police presence - it's a relief and so, so sad at the same time.  It's a reminder of why we can never forget.  It's real life.

OK, rant over (for now).

I don’t know what to say. I feel like saying “I am so, so sorry” isn’t anywhere near enough. Those are just words. They won’t help you and your people. 
 

Maybe you don’t know how to answer now and maybe you never will but I will ask anyway- how can I help? I am a Christian in an area that doesn’t have a big Jewish population but I cannot stand by and allow anyone to feel as you do because of faith, religion, race, creed, skin color, sexuality, sexual identity, or anything else that is an unacceptable target. I cannot stand by and let terrorists take away the sense of well-being of people who are just trying to live their lives. I don’t mean to put pressure on you. You shouldn’t have to find the answers because you are the ones who are wronged. I am asking you, though, because I am trying hard not to think I know better than the people who are affected. 
 

I will be praying for you all. Please know that I am here for you. 

[Ozlsn]

So it looks like a coordinated attack on three power substations took place... to prevent a family friendly drag show.

 

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How is this not terrorism? If "antifa" (or pick another favourite bogeyman) did the same to prevent a far right event they'd be up in arms.

[GreyhoundFan]

Interesting:

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[Dandruff]

23 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

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I think this is why so many of the ultra-religious have fallen in so easily behind Trump.  Similar sort of process is already in force, with limited use for reasoning (vs. faith).

[47of74]

Dr. Oz fornicated around and found out 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Hard pass on both the shirt and wearer of shirt.