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[Chef Boi RD]

Old Joe tested positive for Covid, get the shovel.

So THIS is how the Dementeds remove him from the race...

Let Joe die a slow death in peace, ffs.

It would be a scene if he gets a 2nd term. He’ll probably be hooked up to one of those old school iron lungs 2 years into term…I love it!!! Go Joe, Go!!!! There’s no stopping Joe, only Joe can stop Joe

Two-thirds of Dems surveyed wanted him to drop out of the race before he got Covid...

He’s got to go, I agree…it’s quite a pathetic situation, the cat needs to be put in a home

[Chef Boi RD]

We just need to make contact with the Greys from another galaxy as soon as humanly possible just so we can finally put the flat Earthers in place and move the human race on to a proper real place.

Listen Doc Koresh, I ain’t drinking the pink koolaid.

I want to know what you were drinking when you posted dat dere.

0.0 Peroni near beer. I abstain during the week…that should explain the madness.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Cheffery I recommend you get back on the piss buds. You're losing it lol

[donlever]

[Topper]

Much of Vance's speech could be from Poulierve

[Strangelove]

Thinking we get resolution shortly as COVID allows a medical, to weak for the rigors of campaigning, excuse instead of the humiliating too unpopular or too old and senile.

Does Creepy Joe feel a need to drop out now after the plot failed?





Does God want to make America great again?

Thoughts Dude?

[Megaterio Llamas]

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1813761028683112623

[Topper]

Pelosi has told Biden he will lose and the Dems will lose the House if he remains as the candidate. Biden apparently fought back saying he has seen polls where he will win.

That is now Pelosi, Schiff and Schumer

Commentators noting that while the Democratic Party rips itself apart, the Republicans are making grand displays of unity all factions of the Party.

I'm surprised Doc isn't naturally backing the Party of Entropy.

[Chef Boi RD]

Cut and pasted:

Christian nationalism is a white supremacist political ideology masquerading as religion.

Last week, Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley admitted something that might have once shocked his party.

“Some will say I’m calling America a Christian nation,” Hawley told an audience at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington. “And so I am. Some will say I’m advocating Christian nationalism. And so I do. My question is: Is there any other kind worth having?”

In Oklahoma, the state’s top education official has ordered the public schools to put a Bible in every classroom and incorporate its teachings into their lessons.

In Louisiana, officials have decreed that every public school classroom must display the Ten Commandments.

What is going on in our nation, which was founded on the principles of religious freedom and separation of church and state?

“Josh Hawley would not have said that a year ago,” said Stephen Ujlaki, producer and director of the stunning new documentary “Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War on Democracy.” But these days, he said, Christian nationalists “are feeling more empowered. Their goal is to act as though they have already won and cow everyone into going along with it.”

Six years ago, Ujlaki, who was ending his term as dean of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television, decided to figure out how Donald Trump — adulterer, sexual abuser, compulsive liar — could become president with the rabid support of voters who claim to espouse Christian values.

What he came to understand is that Trump’s presidency and enduring popularity among the most extreme religious conservatives are the products of a 50-year-old political movement. Christian nationalism aims to turn back the clock on a century of American social progress by exploiting white conservatives’ anxiety over the demographic and political shifts that are changing the country.

Christian nationalists don’t exactly identify with Trump; rather, he is their vessel and their wrecking ball, and he’s been wildly successful in that sense. Who would have imagined years ago that a Supreme Court reshaped by the real estate mogul would obliterate half a century of reproductive rights?

Indeed, a Republican member of Congress said on the floor of the House Thursday that the country should “work our way back” to 1960 if Trump is elected, decrying the emasculation of men by an “angry feminist movement.”

Christian nationalism is a white supremacist political ideology masquerading as religion.

“They are pretend Christians,” said Christianity Today editor Russell Moore, who left the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission over its support for Trump in 2016.

The movement did not arise, as is widely believed, in response to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion. It formed years earlier in response to decisions ending the tax-exempt status of racially segregated schools such as Bob Jones University. Abortion simply became a more palatable cover than racism.

“The big idea of Christian nationalism is that God made America for a particular kind of white Christian with a particular ideology and worldview,” said Eboo Patel, the founder of Interfaith America, which promotes religious diversity. “That group is supreme and everyone else is subordinate, and they need to be kept subordinate with violence if necessary.” (See: Jan. 6.)

On the advice of his friend and fellow documentarian Ken Burns, Ujlaki takes a chronological approach in “Bad Faith,” going back to the 1981 founding of the secretive, extremely well-funded Council for National Policy by archconservative Christian activists. Among them was Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich, who once said, “I don’t want everybody to vote. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

The Washington Post described the council in 2021 as “the most unusual, least understood conservative organization” in the capital. It bars the press from its events, and its members, including former Vice President Mike Pence and insurrection supporter Ginni Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, “agree to remain silent about its activities.”

One of the council’s many interconnected allies is the Heritage Foundation, whose more than 900-page Project 2025 is considered a blueprint for a second Trump administration. The document espouses the goals of Christian nationalism: dismantling the administrative state by replacing civil servants with Trump worshipers, slashing regulations, gutting protections for gay and transgender people, abolishing the Department of Education, requiring all pregnancies to be carried to term, making it harder for some people (guess who?) to vote and shrinking the social safety net (because if you’re poor, that’s on you).

“This is not Jim Crow,” the Rev. William Barber II, who founded the Yale Divinity School’s Center for Public Theology & Public Policy, says in “Bad Faith.” “This is James Crow, Esq. He went to school, got a law degree and has come back to take out every progressive voice in this nation.” (Exhibit A: Hawley, Stanford ’02, Yale Law ’06.)

[Topper]

Obama now calling for Joe to step aside.

[Megaterio Llamas]

[Megaterio Llamas]

Has anyone been able to find a transcript of the June 25 interview Bloomberg conducted with Trump?

Apparently we're looking at big tariffs against everybody, us included presumably. He will look to ease tension everywhere except possibly Iran. Even with China, much to the chagrin of the hawks in the Republican party. Wants Jamie Dimon to be US Treasury Secretary. Won't ban TikTok, thinks it's good for competition.

It is a long and very detailed interview I understand.

[Topper]

Under Poulievre, Canada will have a good in at the White House. Newly elected Conservative MP Jamil Jivani is a personal friend of Vance. They went to Yale together and Jamil gave a reading at JD's wedding.

There were occasions when Trump gave the usual exception that Canada receives, but other times, aluminum comes to mind, Canada faced tariffs that all others did.

Vance mentioned in his RNC speech last night that defense spending laggards riding the US coat tails will face the music.

[UWSaint]

There's no doubt that there's an element of protectionism in the Trump's economic mindset that is a notable shift from the chamber of commerce Republicans and "New Democrats" of the 90's (the coalition that passed (barely) NAFTA).

But some of this shift is just shifting rhetoric. In practice, the free international marketers were never inflexible, never an ideological principle that couldn't have exceptions. Bush 43 was a free market, free trade guy and IIRC the first time there was a huge domestic issue (state of the steel industry) there were steel tariffs introduced.

And some of Trump's rhetoric is negotiation strategy, which I think should be clear from his first term. If "free trade" is gone as the default, whoever you negotiate with will consider the potential "bad" as being much worse than if free trade were the default, and this is a pretty well-worn negotiation tactic for extracting value from negotiations.

Its not to same the results will be the same or that this stance is meaningless -- I tend to prefer the Clinton/1990s Republican attitude towards trade, and I am not so keen on protectionist trade policy. (Though I am all for making NATO allies meet their commitments, and I am all for keeping open carrots and sticks (some of which can relate to trade which requires some flexibility in order to make offers/demands) to encourage that). But I think things tend to work towards the same place since trade is a net good, even if talks start from a different perspective. Some good things came out of the first Trump administration regarding trade (for both the US and its trading partners), even though the structure of trade deals changed.

[UWSaint]

Cut and pasted:

Christian nationalism is a white supremacist political ideology masquerading as religion.

Right...the black converted Catholic (Thomas) is leading the conspiracy to turn the US into a white supremacist evangelical theocracy.

Spot the logical flaws....

White Supremacists are Christian Nationalists.
Chirstian Nationalists tend to prefer conservative policies.
Conservative policies are the manifestation of/facilitate white supremacy.

Hilarious.

Dude, I'll join you in not wanting a theocracy. But there's nothing inherently racist about Christianity, just the opposite; a fundamental tenant is we are all created in God's image. And no church is established because politicians allow their faith to inform their actions. Every politician, religious or not, leans on their moral presuppositions to help guide decisionmaking. And in the US, their power is constrained by the constitution, there is no religious test that correlates with which Americans think the constitution is past is sell by date.

And "non-Christianity" doesn't have a track record that provides sanctuary from tyrrany. Consider the atheist communist and the occultist Nazi. People looking to politics to fill God-sized holes are kinda dangerous, too, y'know?