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Post by tashoya on Jun 20, 2024 11:01:40 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 20, 2024 19:16:37 GMT -5
May G-d have mercy on you. Another GOP hypocrite/pervert. Paul Pressler III, Baptist leader accused of sex abuse, dies at 94 Mr. Pressler was one of the co-architects of the Southern Baptist Convention’s “conservative resurgence,” an effort in the 1980s that reshaped the direction of America’s largest Protestant denomination. Mr. Pressler and others pushed out more liberal leaders, helped forge an alliance between White evangelicals and Republican conservatism, and focused on electing GOP candidates to public office. His religious legacy was stained after he was accused by a former assistant, Gareld Duane Rollins Jr., of sexual assault. In a lawsuit filed in 2017 in Harris County, where Houston is located, Rollins alleged that Mr. Pressler first raped him in 1979 when Rollins was 14 after the two met at a Bible study group led by Mr. Pressler, who was then an appeals court judge. Rollins alleged that Mr. Pressler continued to periodically sexually assault him over the following 24 years. Rollins also sued the Southern Baptist Convention and others whom he alleged covered up or enabled Mr. Pressler’s behavior. As part of the lawsuit, at least seven other men also came forward with their own accusations against Mr. Pressler of sexual abuse. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/06/16/paul-pressler-baptist-abuse-dead/I'm very confused by this. I thought only Democrats were pedophiles. I have to stop watching the Fake News Network and its spawn.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 21, 2024 6:57:56 GMT -5
Three hots and a cot for this POS. Steve Bannon fails in bid to delay July 1 prison sentence Stephen K. Bannon has lost another bid to delay his July 1 deadline to report to prison, leaving the former Donald Trump aide little chance of avoiding incarceration for refusing to testify about efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. With Thursday’s ruling, both the judge who oversaw Bannon’s trial for contempt of Congress and the judges who heard the appeal of his conviction have denied his requests to remain free while petitioning the Supreme Court to overturn the verdict. Both said Bannon had little chance of success in arguing that he was relying on advice from an attorney and did not “willfully” break the law by ignoring the congressional subpoena. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/20/bannon-prison-contempt/
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 21, 2024 15:58:59 GMT -5
A fish rots from the head down. Demented Donnie is a rotting fish head. Michigan lawmaker faces sex assault investigation after 3 a.m. arrest A conservative state lawmaker in Michigan is facing a sexual assault investigation after he was arrested just before 3 a.m. Thursday in Lansing. The Lansing Police Department on Friday requested felony charges of sexual assault, assault and a weapons offense against Rep. Neil Friske, a 62-year-old Republican representing parts of northern Michigan who is seeking reelection this year. Hours after Friske’s early-morning arrest Thursday, his campaign defended him in a statement, writing: “As many of us know, Rep Friske is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right.” In its statement, Friske’s campaign cast the arrest as suspicious due to the forthcoming release of absentee ballots for Michigan’s Aug. 6 primary. The campaign also accused Friske’s “opponent” of having “deep-state ties” but did not specify whether it was referencing his Republican primary challenger or the Democrat vying to represent Michigan’s 107th District. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/21/neil-friske-arrested-gun-michigan/
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 22, 2024 7:39:13 GMT -5
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Post by Massholya on Jun 24, 2024 21:29:00 GMT -5
Handmaid’s tale stuff. Creepy.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 25, 2024 5:17:29 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! ( But isn't that Dr. Ronny Johnson?) A congressional watchdog found “substantial reason” to believe U.S. Reps. Ronny Jackson and Wesley Hunt used thousands of dollars of campaign funds for their own personal use. Campaign committees for the two Republican congressmen, both of whom represent districts in Texas, made payments to private social clubs over multiple years, according to separate reports from the independent Office of Congressional Ethics. www.cnbc.com/2024/06/24/ronny-jackson-wesley-hunt-campaign-money-for-private-club-dues-says-ethics-panel.html
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 25, 2024 15:21:38 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! How about them self-proclaimed "pro-lifers"? Death cult is a more accurate description. Infant death rate spiked in Texas after restrictive abortion law, study finds After Texas passed a law restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, the infant death rate increased along with the number of babies who died of birth defects, according to a new study. The study, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, is the latest research indicating higher rates of infant mortality in states with restrictive laws on abortion. “Our results suggest that restrictive abortion policies that limit pregnant people’s ability to terminate pregnancies, particularly those with fetal abnormalities diagnosed later in pregnancy, may lead to increases in infant mortality,” Suzanne Bell, one of the study’s lead authors, said in a release. “These findings make clear the potentially devastating consequences abortion bans can have on pregnant people and families who are unable to overcome barriers to this essential reproductive health service,” added Bell, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Hopkins’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Between 2021 and 2022, the infant mortality rate increased by 8.3 percent in Texas compared to a 2.2 percent increase nationally. The Texas rate reflected a 12.9 percent increase in the actual number of deaths of children before their first birthday. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/25/texas-abortion-ban-infant-mortality/
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 25, 2024 18:51:44 GMT -5
This made me want to vomit. His smugness was off the page. And starting out with how the Dems are always stealing elections? Very high credibility level there. It's those damn Martians and Klingons.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jun 25, 2024 18:54:08 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! How about them self-proclaimed "pro-lifers"? Death cult is a more accurate description. Infant death rate spiked in Texas after restrictive abortion law, study finds After Texas passed a law restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, the infant death rate increased along with the number of babies who died of birth defects, according to a new study. The study, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, is the latest research indicating higher rates of infant mortality in states with restrictive laws on abortion. “Our results suggest that restrictive abortion policies that limit pregnant people’s ability to terminate pregnancies, particularly those with fetal abnormalities diagnosed later in pregnancy, may lead to increases in infant mortality,” Suzanne Bell, one of the study’s lead authors, said in a release. “These findings make clear the potentially devastating consequences abortion bans can have on pregnant people and families who are unable to overcome barriers to this essential reproductive health service,” added Bell, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Hopkins’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Between 2021 and 2022, the infant mortality rate increased by 8.3 percent in Texas compared to a 2.2 percent increase nationally. The Texas rate reflected a 12.9 percent increase in the actual number of deaths of children before their first birthday. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/25/texas-abortion-ban-infant-mortality/But that's ok, because according to the jackass from the Heritage Foundation, abortion is never health care, it's always murder. I hope his wife ends up carrying a fetus with a fatal abnormality that won't survive birth and jeopardizes the mother's health. What would you do, jackass?
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 25, 2024 23:07:27 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 26, 2024 9:21:23 GMT -5
What happens when the moron clowns catch the car. Proving the hypocrisy of "Republicans" and showing that the old bromide that "life begins at conception and ends at birth" is truly the "pro-life" stances of these ignorant hypocrites. The pro-life movement may have won the battle two years ago today, but they’re losing the war—and turning an entire generation away from their cause. For many Americans, the overturning of Roe v. Wade two years ago marked the triumphant culmination of a 50-year crusade. Nothing about it was secret: Getting rid of abortion was the focus of a large network of activists, a central theme in GOP platforms and campaigns, a litmus test for judges at nearly every level, and one of the decisive issues that bonded social conservatives to Donald Trump. And yet, when the Supreme Court handed them their victory in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the pro-life movement and its Republican allies were woefully unprepared. Two years later, that triumph looks more and more like a tragedy—not just for women, but for the movement as well. And what about creating a “culture of life”? After all, this is what the term pro-life was supposed to represent. For years, some conservatives (Marco Rubio being among the most vociferous) argued that pro-lifers needed to embrace pro-child policies such as tax credits and increased access to health care. Some tried to create an infrastructure to support families post-Roe. But after half a century, they had little to show for it. As Emma Green noted in The Atlantic back in 2020, “an inherent tension” exists within the current pro-life coalition. “Over the past two decades,” she wrote, “the anti-abortion-rights movement has aligned itself almost exclusively with the GOP, which generally favors cutting government funding for housing, food stamps, and other programs that support poor women and children.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/06/how-pro-life-lost-all-meaning/678784/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20240624&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 26, 2024 12:02:38 GMT -5
"Republicans" just horrible human beings. And this article is long before Demented Donnie became a convicted felon. A shame no HT "Republicans" have any opinion on the leader of their cult. For years, Trump has attacked and obliterated anything like virtue in the Republican Party, a process that regularly features Republicans pulling their political souls from their bodies and handing them to Trump in jars for display on his mantle at Mar-a-Lago. (Ted Cruz going from the potential conscience of the 2016 GOP convention to a Trump-praising, phone-banking flunky is only one such example.) But some of the less noticed enablers in the GOP are those who remain quiet in the face of Trump’s ghoulish attacks on others rather than risk Trump turning his ire—and his MAGA mob—on them. When challenged, they speak up only long enough to make excuses for Trump and engage in moral obfuscation over issues that they must certainly know are not remotely complicated, such as whether the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party should defame a woman he’s been found liable for sexually abusing. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/the-gops-ongoing-moral-surrender-to-trump/677286/
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Post by hoyajinx on Jun 27, 2024 15:20:30 GMT -5
I can’t read the article, so I don’t know if it’s mentioned there, but I think the point of this is ultimately get it to the Supreme Court where a favorable majority will let it stand. I think there will be a “boiling the frog” approach to Christian nationalism. They want to bring case after case with slightly higher stakes until it’s just full on. And so the trek towards Christian nationalism (by the world’s worst Christians) continues. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/oklahoma-public-schools-bible.html
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Post by hoya9797 on Jun 27, 2024 15:55:42 GMT -5
How about this one? Very normal stuff here.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 27, 2024 18:25:55 GMT -5
Well, the Catholic Church does have a history of raising armies. Pope Urban II started the First Crusade circa 1095. The Crusades were organized by western European Christians after centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their primary objectives were to stop the expansion of Muslim states, to reclaim for Christianity the Holy Land in the Middle East, and to recapture territories that had formerly been Christian. A crusade would increase the prestige of the papacy, as it led a combined western army, and consolidate its position in Italy itself, having experienced serious threats from the Holy Roman Emperors in the previous century which had even forced the popes to relocate away from Rome. www.worldhistory.org/article/1249/the-crusades-causes--goals/#:~:text=A%20crusade%20would%20increase%20the,to%20relocate%20away%20from%20Rome.
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