"If selling cakes makes bakers participants in gay marriages, then selling assault rifles

Mayba_6

And there you have it.

https://flic.kr/p/2pzunYp

"If selling cakes makes bakers participants in gay marriages, then selling assault rifles makes gun manufacturers participants in mass shootings"

Trump Allies Embrace 'Christian Nationalism'

Trump Allies Embrace ‘Christian Nationalism’

February 20, 2024 at 6:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard 29 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/02/20/trump-allies-embrace-christian-nationalism/

"SNIP..........

“An influential think tank close to Donald Trump is developing plans to infuse Christian nationalist ideas in his administration should the former president return to power,“ Politico reports.

“Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget during his first term and has remained close to him.“

“Christian nationalists in America believe that the country was founded as a Christian nation and that Christian values should be prioritized throughout government and public life. As the country has become less religious and more diverse, Vought has embraced the idea that Christians are under assault and has spoken of policies he might pursue in response.”

.........SNIP"

Applegrove:

DeSantis and "being anti-woke" failed as did moms for liberty so being anti lgbtq will now be cloaked in Christian Nationalism I bet. I guess they think Christian nationalists is not a movements that can fail.

I'm in Canada and we folk didn't feel we were at war with the

Soviets very often. We were under the USA umbrella and the talk of fighting or spreading freedom did not make it to regular people as much as it did those who dealt with intelligence in the Canada. My grandfather would have known a lot about the Soviet threat, we had a siren in our school yard in case of attack, but no drills, and we did not get the duck and cover stuff you did in the US. That being said the wife of a friend of my Dad's got the anti-nuke documentary "If You Love This Planet" into Communist Poland when they were posted there. She was a real old school activist. So I never heard about Bibles being given to Russians on the sly but don't doubt that is the freedom of religion the evangelicals wanted for those suffering under communism.

For sure Russians are not very free these days. Autocrats begat corruption and the economy grinds to a halt. Politics is dangerous to engage in. Even well educated people live in old apartments with crummy salaries. The population is declining. If Putin actually wanted to solve these problems he would be so busy he would have no time to corrupt the West through right wing populists and then gaslight Democrats and true liberals about it. The libertarians in the US were working on the same project to do away with democracy (they called undoing the power of the federal government: freedom) and made evangelicals a bulwark for a certain lack of liberty, that existed 2000 years ago in Judea and Galilee, that could be used to herd the people into voting against their best interests. Now they have common cause with Putin (or think they have). Evangelicals are being used. Their leaders see power. Same as the libertarians and Putin. That is the prize. But the people are getting wise.

They've figured out that if Trump creates an autocracy

it will be a bad place to invest since the USA oligarchs will be kleptocrats and corrupt. Info will not flow. The US will not be open to launder money. And then where is Putin going to invest his very own stolen money? How would he wash it? Does he want him and his also evil oligarchs to compete with evil American ones in the international sphere?

Either that or he is gaslighting the world and wants to give Trump an election boost by claiming (he) Putin is not interfering in the US election on Trump's behalf.

Probably gaslighting.

Here the NYTimes goes into how Putin likes puppets and uses them all the time. Biden, is nobody's puppet. Trump is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/putin-russia-election-nadezhdin.html

If I had to know the people whose comments

I repost I would never repost anything. Same could be said for those going after Garland. Who are these people? Frankly we should stick to the issues and not get off track on the integrity of the person who made the post. Who does attacking Garland instead of Hur and Trumpians really work for? It is a fine question.

Ask yourself: In whose interest is it to attack Merrick Garland

Trump given written questions when Trump was being investigated for Russia.

Why? A combination of the FBI thinking he could not tell the truth and/or he would not remember if he were to testify on the stand. He was President then.

The oligarchs ruined the town square (Twitter) now

watch them ruin childhood. It is how they roll into every arena of good information. It is said that there are explorers who discouver or create and exploiter of that information. Nobody else. Musk is an explorer pretending too be an exploiter. He knows not what he is doing to the US. He should stick to inventing things. He is a useful idiot to the right.

Used to be the neoliberal argument for focusing

on driving up wealth with policies was not just that it would lift all boats but also that our biionaires would be able to match if not beat the rich from Saudi Arabia or Russian oligarchs. That we would be stronger in the world. What happens when lifting all boats is proved wrong and the oligarchs in the US form an alliance and policy slate with autocratic Russia instead of democracy in the US?

His reasons for doing things are corrupt so he thinks Democrats think the same way.

I'm sure Biden's feelings on immigration have to do with helping the country grow without forcing women to give birth to babies they can't or don't want to care for. Cost of housing is based on double income as women are in the workforce for good. And like women from every culture in the world women have 1.7 children once they reach a certain amount of income/education. Does Musk want the US to stop growing like Russia or China? They are pretty ornery about it all and pretty ornery places to live. Oh and Biden is for tougher immigration - see what the Senate is negotiating. So Musk is wrong on all counts.