Religion *is* politics

Imagine you’re defending the worst person Jeffrey Epstein knew

A billionaire playboy who never interviewed for a real job in his life, bankrupted six businesses and won the highest office twice with a reputation of being good at business

And what you do there is call someone a jughead?

That would be ideal but I will settle for damning the memory if it sinks his sycophants after him

I think he’s been told how many months he has

At some point during the Iraq war, Trump must have decided the only mistake was putting boots on the ground

He probably thinks he can keep ‘liberating’ Iran from afar like this until there’s a regime change he likes

And he can, but it’s not likely to work any better than Jehovah’s methods did

Meat’s back on the menu, boys!

I remember when there was a movie came out that offended Muslims, Americans were killed at an embassy and Obama was blamed for the movie, with which he had nothing to do

Now Trump has directly insulted Muslims by killing a cleric

When Americans die at embassies, who is going to say it’s his fault?

I think of Christianity in terms of the business model

It was kind of like an ancient tech startup that had a hostile takeover after the founder’s untimely demise

By the time it got big it was 100% corporate slop and the incels had forced out or subordinated the women who wouldn’t sleep with them

One thing that was always obvious to me about President Obama, bombing people, was that he never did it because he wanted to

He did that because he thought he had to

Because our country insisted on it

Trump bombs people because he wants to

He insisted that he would stop

But I never believed him

Selected comments from Robert Green Ingersoll on the coronation of the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II

Nicholas’ father, Alexander III, was so strong, he used to tear decks of cards in half as a trick to amuse his children

Yet even he could not ensure that his son had a divine right to rule

Zero to do with religion?

The pretext for Israel’s aggression is explicitly religious

Its base of political support in the US is explicitly religious

Religion is the basis of the idea of ‘greater Israel’

Of course the conflict is about land and power

Those were the objects of religion all along

Jesus only appears in Act III of the Bible, it’s not like he’s the main character

Trump is named more times than Harry in Harry Potter

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

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Whenever my dad & I discuss current events, he says he’d be anxious if he didn’t know how they all end

He means the Christian end times

He doesn’t sweat human suffering because he’s already priced in the maximum amount & his politics connect whatever dots make him feel good between here & there

Would his policies have been so different?

There would be no tariffs, but the deregulation, tax cuts and corporate cronyism would have been just as much if not more

The Tribune certainly got what it wanted from the endorsement

Sounds like a lazy, impulsive thing to say

If this was the Protestant reformation he’d burn the entire lgbt community at the stake

Just release them all now

Just release them all now

When I saw that Tennessee is going to try again to criminalize abortion and miscarriage, I thought of this quote I had just been working on from Ingersoll

Men who believe in hell also believe its gates were first opened by a woman

And many of them naturally feel it their duty to send women there

I get so annoyed at media reporting that someone fired defensive shots at a car

This narrative exploits the fantasy of gun owners who think they’re the main character

But a gun is no defense against an oncoming car

Shots fired at cars are never defensive

They are either aggressive or retaliatory

He means he intends to take rights away from anyone who wouldn’t fit in at his church

And that’s literally all he means

All the demons were there

And she might be in the redactions or in the unreleased materials

But if she is, then great care has been taken to redact her, greater care than was extended to anyone else who was mentioned hundreds or thousands of times

All I’m saying is if she was in touch with Epstein, it was not via email

They certainly are

If a serial killer, a pedophile and a r*pist delivered the State of the Union with two flying monkeys behind him, this is what it would look like

He is selling alternative medicine

‘Culturally normal’ means ‘as bigoted as Bill Clinton’ and I think men should stop modeling themselves after him