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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 3, 2024 16:59:35 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 4, 2024 13:52:51 GMT -5
An oldie but goodie: “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” ― Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) Evangelicals who oppose Trump worship try to build a new movement Over the past decade, Clint Leavitt saw different models of how to mix his evangelical faith and politics, none of them — to his mind — good. His family’s dinner table was consumed with debate over whether Barack Obama was the Antichrist. Even as his Phoenix church avoided political issues, he saw Christians around the country turn Donald Trump into a religious idol. A drive to create a Christian political presence he calls “shaped by Jesus, not a partisan political ideology” led Leavitt, now 29, to seminary and then to pastoring a church filled with congregants who vote differently from one another but all share his goal. The people at Midtown Presbyterian Church in Phoenix say their political existence has been reduced to which party or candidate Christians must choose. They are “exhausted,” they tell him. Or “tired.” So Leavitt, preparing for a bruising 2024 election season, joined a new national group of theologically conservative pastors who talk weekly about how to reject polarization and religious nationalism and to defend democracy. Last month, his congregation began a slick new six-part interactive video series aimed at reshaping evangelicals’ relationship to politics. Called “The After Party,” the curriculum, which has been used by some 75,000 people since it was released in April, says Christians should focus less on partisanship and more on how to relate to others so that they “better reflect Jesus … in 2024 and beyond.” Leavitt is part of an increasingly organized national movement of mostly White evangelicals who, 50 years after the rise of the religious right, want a rebranding. They hope to overhaul a mix of religion and politics that many feel has been toxic and polarizing, and has led to a time when political scientists say the word “evangelical” often has meant “Republican.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/03/trump-evangelicals-movement/
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 5, 2024 18:58:26 GMT -5
An oldie but goodie: “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” ― Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) Evangelicals who oppose Trump worship try to build a new movement Over the past decade, Clint Leavitt saw different models of how to mix his evangelical faith and politics, none of them — to his mind — good. His family’s dinner table was consumed with debate over whether Barack Obama was the Antichrist. Even as his Phoenix church avoided political issues, he saw Christians around the country turn Donald Trump into a religious idol. A drive to create a Christian political presence he calls “shaped by Jesus, not a partisan political ideology” led Leavitt, now 29, to seminary and then to pastoring a church filled with congregants who vote differently from one another but all share his goal. The people at Midtown Presbyterian Church in Phoenix say their political existence has been reduced to which party or candidate Christians must choose. They are “exhausted,” they tell him. Or “tired.” So Leavitt, preparing for a bruising 2024 election season, joined a new national group of theologically conservative pastors who talk weekly about how to reject polarization and religious nationalism and to defend democracy. Last month, his congregation began a slick new six-part interactive video series aimed at reshaping evangelicals’ relationship to politics. Called “The After Party,” the curriculum, which has been used by some 75,000 people since it was released in April, says Christians should focus less on partisanship and more on how to relate to others so that they “better reflect Jesus … in 2024 and beyond.” Leavitt is part of an increasingly organized national movement of mostly White evangelicals who, 50 years after the rise of the religious right, want a rebranding. They hope to overhaul a mix of religion and politics that many feel has been toxic and polarizing, and has led to a time when political scientists say the word “evangelical” often has meant “Republican.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/03/trump-evangelicals-movement/Any religious movement that views Barrack Obama as the antichrist and the Big Insurrectionist as a savior is warped beyond all comprehension, which explains as well as anything else why I have had total contempt for the evangelical movement. This, however, gives me some cause for hope that they can at least bring a modicum of rationality back to their approach.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 6, 2024 12:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 9, 2024 7:25:24 GMT -5
When will the weaponization stop!? Clearly, all MAGA GOPers are nothing but victims of the deep state! Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said Tuesday that the FBI confiscated his phone as part of a probe related to discrepancies with his campaign finance report. Why it matters: The Tennessee Republican is facing an Federal Election Commission investigation into questions surrounding adjustments made to filings that previously stated he made a $320,000 loan to his campaign. www.axios.com/2024/08/07/house-republican-phone-andy-ogles-fbi
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Post by tashoya on Aug 9, 2024 10:22:55 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 9, 2024 10:46:25 GMT -5
They have self-cancelled themselves. The cognitive dissonance is too great for them to handle. It might lead to decompensation on their part!😀
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Post by tashoya on Aug 9, 2024 21:42:07 GMT -5
The more I listen to the former Republican party, the more I hear this in the back of my head:
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 10, 2024 16:19:42 GMT -5
Guess he's running for the paycheck. Just another MAGA GOP grifter. Montana GOP Senate candidate touts his business. It’s losing millions. As he campaigns in one of the nation’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, Montana Republican Tim Sheehy recounts how he started an aerial firefighting business in his barn and built it into a publicly traded company on the front lines of increasingly dangerous wildfires. “That’s a success story,” he said in a June television interview. Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months tell a different story about Bridger Aerospace, known for its “Super Scooper” planes that can remove up to 1,400 gallons at a time from a body of water to dump on a nearby wildfire. Bridger is facing a cash crunch so dire that there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue,” according to public filings that show the company lost $77.4 million last year and $20.1 million in the first three months of 2024. Several directors have left, including one who flagged concerns about internal auditing, as an unusually slow wildfire season in 2023 put the company at risk of defaulting on its debt. Yet amid Bridger’s significant losses, Sheehy has received millions of dollars in compensation. He received a $2.3 million bonus on top of a $149,000 base salary in 2023, according to SEC filings, and a bonus of $4.4 million and a $450,000 base salary in 2022, as the company lost $42.1 million. Sheehy received additional income leasing two planes to Bridger and co-owning a business that provides flight training, SEC filings show. Sheehy also sold a plane to the company for $3.9 million; the filings don’t detail if he turned a profit or loss. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/tim-sheehy-firefighting-company-losses-wildfires/
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Post by tashoya on Aug 10, 2024 20:01:24 GMT -5
Guess he's running for the paycheck. Just another MAGA GOP grifter. Montana GOP Senate candidate touts his business. It’s losing millions. As he campaigns in one of the nation’s most competitive U.S. Senate races, Montana Republican Tim Sheehy recounts how he started an aerial firefighting business in his barn and built it into a publicly traded company on the front lines of increasingly dangerous wildfires. “That’s a success story,” he said in a June television interview. Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in recent months tell a different story about Bridger Aerospace, known for its “Super Scooper” planes that can remove up to 1,400 gallons at a time from a body of water to dump on a nearby wildfire. Bridger is facing a cash crunch so dire that there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue,” according to public filings that show the company lost $77.4 million last year and $20.1 million in the first three months of 2024. Several directors have left, including one who flagged concerns about internal auditing, as an unusually slow wildfire season in 2023 put the company at risk of defaulting on its debt. Yet amid Bridger’s significant losses, Sheehy has received millions of dollars in compensation. He received a $2.3 million bonus on top of a $149,000 base salary in 2023, according to SEC filings, and a bonus of $4.4 million and a $450,000 base salary in 2022, as the company lost $42.1 million. Sheehy received additional income leasing two planes to Bridger and co-owning a business that provides flight training, SEC filings show. Sheehy also sold a plane to the company for $3.9 million; the filings don’t detail if he turned a profit or loss. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/10/tim-sheehy-firefighting-company-losses-wildfires/So, in business terms, he far more successful than Trump while still being a failure. And, he wants to enrich himself off of the backs of regular folks. The former Republican party should love him.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 13, 2024 0:40:39 GMT -5
Another election denier held to account. Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Former Colorado official found guilty for role in election equipment tampering A Colorado jury on Monday found a former county election official guilty of seven charges connected to allowing a purported computer expert to copy election data from her office as Donald Trump and his allies spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and searched for evidence to prove it. Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, was found guilty on seven of 10 charges, including several counts of attempting to influence a public servant and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. She will be sentenced on Oct. 3 and could face prison time. Peters is one of the few officials to face consequences for using their positions in local elections offices to try to prove false claims that took root after Trump’s defeat. Peters, who did not testify, was the first election official to face criminal charges after the 2020 election, according to election experts. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/tina-peters-colorado-election-guilty/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 13, 2024 5:18:23 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! Unfortunately, if these plaintiffs are succssful at the district court level, no doubt corrupt scumbag Paxton will intervene in the hospitals's appeal as an amicus to the whacko Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals where all bets are off. Two women have filed complaints against two Texas hospitals for allegedly denying them treatment for ectopic pregnancies, which they say put their lives at risk and breached federal law. In a complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kyleigh Thurman said that in February 2023, Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital in Round Rock, Tex., discharged her without treating her ectopic pregnancy or transferring her to another hospital. It denied her treatment again when she returned days later with vaginal bleeding, she said. The delay caused her fallopian tube to rupture, she said. According to the complaint, the hospital treated her only after her OB/GYN “pleaded” with staff to provide the necessary care. “For weeks, I was in and out of emergency rooms trying to get the abortion that I needed to save my future fertility and life,” she was quoted as saying in a news release Monday from the Center for Reproductive Rights, whose attorneys are representing both women. Texas law, which bans abortion in most cases, makes an exception for ectopic pregnancies, which cannot result in a live birth. “None of this should have happened to me, and I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else,” Thurman added. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/13/texas-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion/
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Post by tashoya on Aug 16, 2024 7:49:15 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 16, 2024 8:55:08 GMT -5
Everything thing old is new again. After citing the fiscal and demographic pressures moving the system toward eventual bankruptcy, he listed some basic principles and then reached the nub of the matter: “As we fix Social Security, we also have the responsibility to make the system a better deal for younger workers. And the best way to reach that goal is through voluntary personal retirement accounts.” This approach, the President argued, would offer younger workers a “better deal”: The rate of return would be higher than in the traditional system; the accumulation could be passed on to children and grandchildren; and “best of all, the money in this account is yours, and the government can never take it away.” www.brookings.edu/articles/why-the-2005-social-security-initiative-failed-and-what-it-means-for-the-future/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 17, 2024 15:14:06 GMT -5
But the MAGA GOP is running a convicted felon for President? Former congressman George Santos expected to plead guilty Former congressman George Santos — who was expelled from the House after being caught in a web of fabrications about his background and money grifting — is expected to plead guilty to multiple felony counts Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. A plea agreement would mean Santos does not have to stand trial in federal court in Long Island next month on 23 counts, including wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/17/george-santos-guilty-plea/
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 17, 2024 19:47:18 GMT -5
But the MAGA GOP is running a convicted felon for President? Former congressman George Santos expected to plead guilty Former congressman George Santos — who was expelled from the House after being caught in a web of fabrications about his background and money grifting — is expected to plead guilty to multiple felony counts Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. A plea agreement would mean Santos does not have to stand trial in federal court in Long Island next month on 23 counts, including wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/17/george-santos-guilty-plea/Still waiting for Trump to acknowledge him as his illegitimate son.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 17, 2024 21:09:56 GMT -5
But the MAGA GOP is running a convicted felon for President? Former congressman George Santos expected to plead guilty Former congressman George Santos — who was expelled from the House after being caught in a web of fabrications about his background and money grifting — is expected to plead guilty to multiple felony counts Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. A plea agreement would mean Santos does not have to stand trial in federal court in Long Island next month on 23 counts, including wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/17/george-santos-guilty-plea/Such a shame. I was looking forward to that trial.
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Post by Elvado on Aug 18, 2024 4:11:24 GMT -5
But the MAGA GOP is running a convicted felon for President? Former congressman George Santos expected to plead guilty Former congressman George Santos — who was expelled from the House after being caught in a web of fabrications about his background and money grifting — is expected to plead guilty to multiple felony counts Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. A plea agreement would mean Santos does not have to stand trial in federal court in Long Island next month on 23 counts, including wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/17/george-santos-guilty-plea/Such a shame. I was looking forward to that trial. Makes you wonder what kind of imbecilic electorate voted this faker into office.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 18, 2024 8:01:22 GMT -5
Such a shame. I was looking forward to that trial. Makes you wonder what kind of imbecilic electorate voted this faker into office. I'm from Long Island. I don't have to wonder.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 19, 2024 4:56:20 GMT -5
There’s an assumption among conservatives that growing up nudges you to the right, as you start paying taxes or get mugged by reality. I found that having a bunch of kids pushed me to the left. Some stages of life, such as having young children or encountering old age, are inherently difficult. My wife and I need a lot of help right now, and it’s when you need help that you understand how important it is to share the responsibility of stable, consistent and simple support programs. If my wife and I were single-issue voters on parenthood, though, we’d give our four extra parent-votes to the candidate who could credibly promise to make parenthood a little cheaper and a lot less complicated. Vance has proposed that we raise the child tax credit to $5,000 per kid. Sure. I’ll take the money. But that doesn’t really get to the problem. Children are expensive because raising children in America is unnecessarily complicated — a maze of stripped-down public services and private choices choked with hurdles and paperwork. Vance has three young children. That’s a blessing — seriously. Little kids are the absolute best. But they do take a lot of work. I don’t know how Vance and his wife are managing, but I can tell you that when we had four kids under 4, the cheapest option for us was the au pair system, expensive private matching services for foreign nannies, overseen by the State Department. They are rife with labor abuses, require an exhausting new search every year and are only available to families secure enough to have an extra room. We gave bedrooms to our au pairs and put all of the kids into a single room we called The Thunderdome. Do the Vances have a Thunderdome? Ours was not great. My children are now in the same public school system I went to. But since I graduated, that system has stopped offering every program at every school, so in the fifth grade we entered our kids into lotteries for magnet schools for performing arts, or math and science, or a public charter school with a robotics team. Two of my children are now at the charter school, and I guess I should be grateful. It’s a great school. We shouldn’t have had to win a lottery to get a good school, though, and it’s still a complicated outcome. My youngest is on the autism spectrum, and would thrive near his siblings — but that’s not what the charter school does, so he’s alone in the middle school he’s zoned for. Our other daughter doesn’t want to focus on math and science, so she’s at the high school she’s zoned for. Vance might tell me that’s all working as it should, that it’s an efficient use of the county’s tax dollars. In answer, I would love for the senator to hang out for just one school day of getting four kids to three schools — two with buses that don’t always run, another often an hour away with traffic — and tell me how efficient it seems to him. You can’t fix these problems with a child tax credit, unless it’s a credit the size of, oh, what my wife and I might have in the bank if one of us had spent six years in venture capital. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/18/jd-vance-parents-extra-votes-children/
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