Jay The Baptist

Self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson is part of an ascendent group of Christian religious leaders finding influence among MAGA conservatives. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is Wilson’s most prominent and public follower in the Trump admin.

Aug 8, 2025 (7 min) 🍿🔊

Anyone else getting these weird messages from Twitter about strongarming people into subscribing? I didn’t get an email or any other alert about it.

This is part of the long term endgame for the political marriage of Republican politicians and “Conservative” Evangelicals, going all the way back to the old school Moral Majority.

Two thoughts:

1. Baptists & Catholics together under the idea of “Christianity” betrays both Baptist AND Catholic doctrine. We have divergent views on critical doctrines.

2. Enforcing this kind of watered down “christian” theology by the State can be undone by the next POTUS.

GM!

This is an easy give by corporations looking for a quick way to save some cash. I would imagine that EAG's (or whatever they are called) are net drains on the bottom line and create more work than they can be worth.

Collusive Restructuring is a good term.

Bingo

Both

There is at least one follower who gave away everything he had accumulated four fold, though.

Not that we'll ever see that done by our theological overlords. They're too busy grabbing for $100 million dollars because they were "defamed" as the result of actions they took.

160 years ago today, the traitor Jefferson Davis and his treasonous cabinet abandoned Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, spelling the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A day for all patriots to celebrate.

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Important to remember Mike Johnson can’t math

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors children in immigration proceedings.

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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

Military aid to Ukraine has always been a bargain for the U.S.

We degraded Russia’s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainians— not Americans—fought the Russians off.

Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, it’s plain stupid.

"You're gambling with World War 3": Trump and Zelensky get heated in Oval Office Zelensky is in town to sign a minerals deal, but the visit turned nasty fast.

BREAKING: Trump, Vance meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over minerals deal devolves into heated argument — "You're gambling with World War III," Trump said.

This was probably the plan all along.

Oh, it gets worse.

TWO DAYS AGO, a government employee declared in a court filing that Elon Musk is actually not in charge of *or* an employee of DOGE.

MINUTES AGO, the President of the United States said: “I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.”

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

Saw Jasmine for the first time last night. She’s very gifted and a shot in the arm.

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:

Don’t give him the spark he needs and is looking for.

The faster we get used to the fact that Trump is constrained only by Trump, the better off we will be.

I know that a lot of people are thinking about how to resist Trumpism and exercise our Constitutional rights to do so.

I have this feeling that eventually we are going to see Trump using force against American citizens to shut down dissent.

Be careful out there tomorrow if you plan to protest.

Jeff Shaara has written several great novels about the Civil War, but if you’re doing films you must do “Gettysburg”.

A critical point.

Two tweets from Mrs. Frazzled: 1. We didn’t even switch to calling it X. Nobody is calling it the Gulf of America. 2. I’m still calling Pluto a planet, for God’s sake.

Correct.