Republicans: continued

[JimC]

[Cunt]

<reluctant snicker>

It IS funny to mock people for getting laid.

[Tero]

Adlai Stevenson's famous quote

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

[Sean Hayden]

No idea, it's more than 3 letters.

Meanwhile, only Fox News found 90 dollar turkeys.

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Why would they care anyway? If the stores you frequent sell 90 dollar turkeys then that’s your norm, you’d be disgusted by an affordable turkey, that’s who you are.

I paid a few bucks for a 20 lb bird. —gag on that ya rich wankers…

[L'Emmerdeur]

If you have to spend some extra money on a special bird carcass to help Trump, it's just the sort of sacrifice a patriot must make.

"Fox News Star Buys "Woke" Turkey to Own Biden, Hilarity Ensues"

A day after getting roasted online for claiming Thanksgiving turkeys now cost $90 because of “Bidenomics,” Fox News pundit Jason Chaffetz doubled down on Tuesday by posting a picture of the bird he bought—complete with a $114 price tag.

Though Chaffetz’s intention was to prove that President Joe Biden is to blame for out-of-control food prices around the holidays, critics soon pointed out that the former GOP congressman had actually just purchased an unusually high-priced, “woke” turkey from an organic and sustainable California farm.

And while the price of a Thanksgiving dinner is still higher than pre-pandemic, the average cost for ten people is down 4.5 percent from last year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Additionally, a 16-pound turkey is averaging $27.35, down 5.6 percent from a year ago.

...

After taking on a heap of criticism, Chaffetz attempted to fire back at his detractors on Tuesday by sharing a photo of the 23-pound “premium young turkey” he had purchased.

Needless to say, revealing to the world that he spent $5 per pound on an organic turkey, “thoughtfully raised on sustainable family farms,” only opened the conservative pundit to more mockery.

“Dude bought the Rolls Royce of turkeys and is mad at Joe Biden,” one X user snarked.

[Brian Peacock]

Cooked his goose.

[JimC]

Woke turkeys should turn on their farmer oppressors and peck them to death!

[L'Emmerdeur]

God is with him, and he has 'been given legal power and authority from Heaven'.

'Mike Johnson to Keynote Far-Right Christian Nationalist Gala'

If anyone was trusting that Mike Johnson would cool his Christian nationalist jets now that he’s risen to Speaker of the House, that faith was misplaced. Johnson has been announced as the keynote speaker of a Dec. 5 gala of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, hosted at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

The NACL is an overt Christian nationalist organization that seeks to give its “biblical worldview” the binding force of law. The gala website touts NACL’s agenda of “abolishing abortion,” promoting “marriage between one man and one woman,” and “exposing the ungodly effort to undermine our culture by Leftists.”

NACL functions a bit like the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC — creating with “model legislation” that state legislatures can then copy and pass across the nation. NACL members have played a key role in promoting anti-abortion legislation, including so-called “heartbeat” bills, and the infamous “bounty hunter” bill, SB 8, in Texas.

The organization is also fiercely anti-LGBTQ. As NACL founder and former Arkansas state legislator Jason Rapert told Rolling Stone earlier this year: “For far too long we have allowed one political party in our nation to hold up Sodom and Gomorrah as a goal to be achieved rather than a sin to be shunned.”

Announcing that Speaker Johnson would appear at the gala, Rapert wrote on Facebook: “Come join us to support and honor this wonderful Christian servant leader for his leadership in our nation.” The poster for the gala emblazons Johnson’s headshot with NACL’s logo, which features a white cross on a shield of red — symbolizing “the blood of Christ,” Rapert explained in February. This biblical “shield of faith,” he added, is meant to “extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.”

NACL’s acronym is an intentional play on words, invoking the chemical symbol for salt; Christians nationalist frequently invoke the biblical exhortation about being the “salt and the light” — or purifying agents in the sinful world.

[Cunt]

I guess the parties switched lol

(almost makes me want to go listen to old Punk music)

[Cunt]

This telegrammer posted a clip from a Tucker Carlson video...
https://t.me/PepeMatter/17889

Tucker says he is voting Trump and if they convict him he will donate the max to his campaign and actively protest:
"I've always agreed with Trump's policies.
I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-A-Lago last summer. That can't stand. I agree with Trump on a lot but even if I disagreed with Trump on a lot I'd still be a Trump supporter because you cannot allow that. You cannot allow the regime, the President of the United States to use the justice department to knock the front runner out of the race. You can't do that. Do you want to live in a free country with a functioning justice system? I'm voting for Trump. If they convict him, I will send him the max donations and I will protest. He and Biden are both found with classified documents at home along with every other former high level federal official in history but only Trump is indicted.. Tell me how that works?"

[Cunt]

Anyone see what Michael Shellenberger said about the censorship industrial complex?

He says the governments and social media companies conspired, but this isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a bunch of facts that will be 'fact-checked' by loser fact check orgs, as such.

Or they'll ignore it completely.
https://t.me/steve_bannon/6126

Happening Now: Michael Shellenberger reveals how US and UK military contractors deployed sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics... against the American people.

Our own governments have become our greatest enemies.

[Tero]

Boebert freaking out about Social Security employees sitting on couch at home.
https://news.yahoo.com/social-security- ... 04050.html
only...they are understaffed compared to years before.

[Tero]

DeSantis pulls out oral sex drawing during debate.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/7-t ... =105277405

[rasetsu]

George Santos expelled from congress on bipartisan vote.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Some may prefer to ignore the fact that the Republican Party is the party of Christofascists, choosing to focus on particular aspects of the 'culture war' waged by those Christofascists that they find agreeable, but that's who they're allied with nonetheless.

'The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy'

[T]hey had come out by the hundreds, decked out in patriotic attire this October evening in 2021, to hear from a man who was introduced to them as “America’s greatest living historian.” They had come for David Barton. And so had I.

It would be of little use to tell the folks around me — the people of my conservative hometown — that Barton wasn’t a real historian. They wouldn’t care that his lone academic credential was a bachelor’s degree in religious education from Oral Roberts University. It wouldn’t matter that Barton’s 2012 book on Thomas Jefferson was recalled by Thomas Nelson, the world’s largest Christian publisher, for its countless inaccuracies, or that a panel of 10 conservative Christian academics who reviewed Barton’s body of work in the aftermath ripped the entirety of his scholarship to shreds. It would not bother the congregants of FloodGate Church to learn that they were listening to a man whose work was found by one of America’s foremost conservative theologians to include “embarrassing factual errors, suspiciously selective quotes, and highly misleading claims.”

All this would be irrelevant to the people around me because David Barton was one of them. He believed the separation of church and state was a myth. He believed the time had come for evangelicals to reclaim their rightful place atop the nation’s governmental and cultural institutions. Hence the hero’s welcome Barton received when he rolled into FloodGate with his “American Restoration Tour.”


Throughout his decades of public life — working for the Republican Party, becoming a darling of Fox News, advising politicians such as new House Speaker Mike Johnson, launching a small propaganda empire, carving out a niche as the American right’s chosen peddler of nostalgic alternative facts — Barton had never been shy about his ultimate aims. He is an avowed Christian nationalist who favors theocratic rule; moreover, he is a so-called Dominionist, someone who believes Christians should control not only the government but also the media, the education system, and other cultural institutions. Barton and his ilk are invested less in advancing individual policies than they are in reconceiving our system of self-government in its totality, claiming a historical mandate to rule society with biblical dogma just as the founders supposedly intended.

This is what the “American Restoration Tour” was all about: restoring a version of America that never existed.

...

Inside this house of worship, Barton spent an hour and fifteen minutes exalting a curious version of the Christian ideal. He slammed gun restrictions and progressive income taxes, government health care and state-run education curriculum. At one point, while denouncing critical race theory, he posted an ominous slide showing logos for The New York Times’s 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter framed around a Soviet hammer and sickle. Rounding out the collage were antifa and anarchist symbols. The left, Barton said, was encouraging “rioting, rebellion, and radicalization” that threatened our blessed nation from within.

...

Gary Click, the state representative from Ohio’s 88th House District, explained how his recent Sunday sermon had emphasized that the Buckeye State is the only one in the union with a motto (“With God All Things Are Possible”) lifted directly from the scriptures. Then Click, the senior pastor of Fremont Baptist Temple, reminded us, a crowd of a couple hundred, that November 8, 2016, was “the day Christians changed America” by electing Donald Trump and restoring hope to a nation in decline.

Finally, Click, who was standing for reelection in the fall of 2022 — just six months off — said that despite being pitted against wicked progressives who want to “groom our kids” into sadistic sexual rites, evangelicals must remember they have a “secret weapon” on their side. I assumed he was referring to Jesus.

“Donald Trump appointed three very constitutional judges” to the U.S. Supreme Court, Click said, who were helping Christians to retake control of America.

At that point, he clarified: “This is not a campaign event.”

You wouldn’t know it. We were inside the atrium of the Ohio state capitol building and Click had just run through a list of Republican dignitaries who were on hand: numerous lawmakers, school board members, the state auditor, and two Ohio Supreme Court justices. Detailing the tight margins of that 2016 election — “It was the Christian vote that made the difference.”