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Speaking Truth to Power

    • AMERICAN VALUES OVER AUTOCRACY.
    • BENEVOLENCE OVER BIGOTRY.
    • THE CONSTITUTION OVER THE CODE.
    • DEMOCRACY OVER DEMAGOGUES.
    • ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVER EXTREMISM.
    • FREEDOM OVER FASCISM.
    • GOVERNING OVER GASLIGHTING.
    • HOPEFULNESS OVER HATRED.
    • INCLUSION OVER ISOLATION.
    • JUSTICE OVER JUDICIAL OVERREACH.
    • KNOWLEDGE OVER KANGAROO COURTS.
    • LIBERTY OVER LIMITATION.
    • MATURITY OVER MAR-A-LAGO.
    • NORMALCY OVER NEGATIVITY.
    • OPPORTUNITY OVER OBSTRUCTION.
    • PEOPLE OVER POLITICS.
    • QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES OVER Q-ANON.
    • REASON OVER RACISM.
    • SUBSTANCE OVER SLANDER.
    • TRIUMPH OVER TYRANNY.
    • UNDERSTANDING OVER UGLINESS.
    • VOTING RIGHTS OVER VOTER SUPPRESSION.
    • WORKING FAMILIES OVER THE WELL-CONNECTED.
    • XENNIAL OVER XENOPHOBIA.

Did you catch the looks on the faces of McCarthy and the Q-Anon contingent as soon as he started on this list? It was priceless!

And somehow, this also seems appropriate to post in this context…

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Spotted on the 'gram

"'LOL we don't need Warnock,' is what people say who haven't worked in Congress and don't know how it works.

Here are the differences that 51st Senator can make, just off the top of my head:

    • A 51st Dem means no power-sharing in the organizing resolution. Dems have a majority on committees. No more deadlocks, no more discharge petitions for floor votes. That massively accelerates both the legislative process and the confirmation process.
    • The individual power of the two chaos puppets (Manchin and Sinema) is drastically reduced. Both of them will now need to be opposed to whatever Dems are trying to do in order to block progress.
    • The Senate is a gerontocracy. These guys are not healthy a lot of the time, or not present a lot of the time. We could have a death in a state with a Republican governor. A lot of things could happen. 51-49 versus 50-50 means you can have up to 2 absences/noes.
    • A 51-49 majority means that VP Harris won't be required to be in DC to babysit the Senate all the time, and can actually be a much more effective VP who can be deployed for both policy and campaigning.

So the upshot is, work for Warnock just as hard as you could if you thought that Schumer's gavel depended on it. Because as far as you know, at some point in the next two years, it very well could."

(via Porcupinecheeks)

And to paraphrase a lot of the comments on his post, I suggest they move as quickly as they can on appointments and codifying abortion, gay marriage, and contraceptive rights. It needs to be a blitzkrieg of action, striking while the iron is hot. Also, the "We don't need…" mindset is what led too many people to sit out the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections and afterward they blamed Obama for not doing enough during his time as POTUS. And lastly, we don't want the caliper of person that Hershel Walker is in our United States Senate. There are already enough illiterate liars with no experience or knowledge of government holding those seats as it is.

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MAGA Christians Are Dancing On God's Corpse

Evangelical Trump supporters live preposterously unexamined lives binding white Evangelicalism to the MAGA movement.

Donald Trump is the actual demonic person that white Evangelicals have convinced themselves liberals are. He's a marriage-wrecker, hedonistic sex freak, obvious atheist, litigious thief, welfare queen who never pays taxes, and he has gotten handouts from every level of government on his rise to his mobbish empire of cheap licensing deals. He is the personification of their liberal nightmares. Yet they're politically Christifying him.

So it's just sublimely apparent that MAGA Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus anymore. They've excommunicated Jesus for being a socialist Jew, and they're dancing on God's corpse proclaiming blasphemously all by themselves the arrival of the End Times and getting high on blood libel conspiracies, and snorting fat lines of racism huffing poppers of fascism to pregame for the party in Heaven where they'll watch America burn and all their political enemies suffer for eternity.

Remember that the God-fearing are the most impulsively capable of committing godless acts of unforgiving vengeance… in their devotion to their loving, forgiving god of moderation. Fascism depends on the religious fundamentalists doing the crusading dirty work in the streets.

Which is why QAnon's slow mainstreaming of the blood libel conspiracy is absolutely a cancer on society. It proliferates into so many toxic things, like anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and legalized persecution against society's downtrodden. The Republican Party's dogwhistle embrace of QAnon is inciting violence already. January 6th, the break-in of Nancy Pelosi's house, and it's going to get worse. And Christians are not breaking from the fascist coalition to be, you know, Christian.

God's immaterial corpse is being danced upon by ends-justify-the-means theocracy.

Pete Buttigieg is a much better Christian, acting through works rather than stupid faith alone, than Mike Pence.

Liberal atheist lesbians are the moral center of America.

It's amazing that Christian conservatives think they're losing the "Culture War" considering they made it up, they're the only ones fighting it, and their liberal enemies are not so much corrupting, demonic servants of Satan as just normal people unafraid of multiculturalism who wish conservatives would chill out, read a book other than the Bible, and realize that diversity has literally always been America's great historical strength. But instead they're striving to become a Christian branch of the Taliban mandating how everyone gets to live their lives.

Christians literally can't be against admitting refugees. It's everywhere in the Bible.

For too many, religion is a superfluous excuse to insist on being intolerant of people who are just being themselves. Don't be that kind of person.

To the pro-life crowd: in Deuteronomy 28:53 God promises to cause a terrible war that will make everyone eat their own children.

The Bible mandates we should stone Donald Trump several times for his various sins. I'm not saying we should do that, but I'm also not the one claiming I base my life on the Bible.

To all the people who want to force prayer back into schools: making repetitive things be absolutely mandatory typically makes people want to do them much less.

In terms of evolution, maybe we're making life much more complicated than it needs to be. Animals kind of exist because plants basically bred more complex life forms to eat their increasingly bright and tasty seeds and defecate them in other locations. Homo sapiens are extra good at it, and that's why plants, arguably, domesticated us to agriculturally be their slaves. So maybe try to relax, and enjoy existence!

Props to parents who don't force their kids into a religion so that they can decide for themselves what they believe without having nightmares about made up stories of eternal torture take root in their developing toddler minds.

The Tyrant
God does not sanction free and fair elections, He intervenes and cheats, He stuffs the ballot box for Himself, He is demagogic and says He alone can fix this, he smears his competitors and forbids their participation, and demands virginal prima nocta.

Comedy should always aim up, and never worry about aiming too high. All the way up. Because if anyone should ever be able to take a joke, it should be God, being benevolent and all.

Everything finite and mortal is more magnificent than the eternal and immortal. Enjoy the spectacular beauty of temporary life. Even God is watching us glued to His TV binging all our series' episodes, not us watching His.

The modern Jesus confesses to all the crimes of the year at the reception desk of the police station, but the prison wardens want their bonuses, and have state reservations full in the books, so they tell Jesus to go but he won't, and they arrest him for not resisting arrest.

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