Sunday, July 14, 2024

Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goals

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/trump-christian-nationalist-violent-rhetoric/

Democrats aren’t opponents, but enemies to be “smited.” Vice President Harris is depicted as Jezebel, the epitome of womanly wickedness who meets a grisly end. Teachers, librarians, drag queens — all perceived as introducing dangerous ideas to children — are condemned to drowning with millstones around their necks, a la Matthew 18:6.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

'Incoherent' immunity decision renders 'Constitution itself unconstitutional':

Trumpism means ‘never having to say you're sorry for being stupid’

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Joe Biden Starts to Turn the Tide on Rebel Democrats Published Jul 09, 2024 at 9:28 PM EDT

 https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-starts-turn-tide-rebel-democrats-1923058.

New York Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler, who on Sunday reportedly argued in favor of Biden stepping aside during a private call with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, appeared to reverse course in comments to reporters.

MAGA Senator Josh Hawley Advocates for Being a Christian Nationalist

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-josh-hawley-goes-mask-off-on-being-a-christian-nationalist-at-national-conservatism-conference?ref=home?ref=home

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) assured the National Conservatism conference on Monday that he is a “Christian Nationalist.”

Hawley has previously written that “America as we know it cannot survive without biblical Christianity,” reiterated his Christian nationalist bona fides for the conservative conference.

“Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian nation. And so I am,” Hawley told the crowd. “And some will say that I am advocating Christian nationalism. And so I do.”

'186,000 Gazans dead’: Lancet magazine publishes new blood libel

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-809632

The Lancet magazine, an esteemed medical journal founded in 1823, published a piece earlier this week authored by doctors Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf, which claimed that “it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.”