Things this monumentally stupid do not fill me with hope for the future of our species. I don't know which is worse, the argument itself or the expectation it might actually be believed. I live in Texas. Greg Abbott and his fellow Republicans never stop pandering to the religious right, while viewing human decency as a character flaw. It's all theater with Abbott. One stunt after another, with cruelty being the only point, and all of it served up with his big sloppy smile.
You're too kind to our 'dear' governor. I'd like to treat him the way he treats trans kids, specifically, but as he treats those he considers 'undesirables' in general.
He is a POS, and not even necessarily the worst one in state government. Dan Patrick is a full-on religious nut case, and such people can justify any horror.
Is this T-rexes WITH machine guns or is someone else using the machine guns? Just want to make sure I have a historically accurate picture of what occurred.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and runoff into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: “Did little demons get inside and type it?” I don’t know! My primitive mind can’t grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know..."
For a group of folks who are so focused on the stories of Sodom and Gomorra, they really don’t know what the problem god had with those cities. And they’re also so hell bent on forcing Jesus on everyone, they can’t comprehend his supposed message.
We should throw Abbott and DeSantis to The Hague and let them try them for crimes against humanity. Both men are terrorists that somehow managed to get elected to state office with aspirations for federal (IIRC DeSantis was in Congress before becoming governor, and we all know his aspirations are higher than that.) they deserve to be locked up not running shit. They are an embarrassment to the country, right up there with Trump. Hell, Nixon is an angel compared to these three.
Taking them to The Hague? I'm all for that. But, they would weasel out by claiming that it can't be war crimes if it isn't a war. Fuck them sideways with an unlubed cactus soaked in capsaicin.
"Well, yes, your honor, I did indeed issue a number of press releases describing the situation as a war. Obviously, now that I am in a trial and under oath and someone is actually paying attention to the substance and consequences of what I am saying, I can tell your honor that what I have said outside this courtroom is unmitigated bullshit."
Civilized countries do not line their borders with razor wire. Civilized countries do not put deathtraps out of a cheap gore thriller in their rivers.
This? This shit right here? This mustache-twirling villainy, this naked, sadistic cruelty, this gleeful slaughter of empathy, this indulgent exercise of power against the powerless for power's sake...
TFG knows a shithole country when he sees it. That's how he knew exactly how to turn the US into one.
Not that it was perfect before, but it was nowhere near as bad as it is now, after the TFG treated it like his own personal shithole, shitting all over policies of fairness, justice, decency and basic human rights.
The kicker is, he also emboldened his MAGAt base to do the same, so people would continue having to deal with the fallout long after he was out of office.
The laughable idiocy of their arguments has never stopped GOP lawmakers or their lawyers from using them to defend and justify their greed, cruelty, bigotry, and hate.
We will remain a savage and barbaric people as long as ancient religions hold sway over the minds of a large portion of the populace. There are fewer of them every day, but as their numbers diminish, their acceptance of savagery and barbarity increases.
I was thinking the other day, I wonder if the savagery with which the Catholic Church used to try to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas was because of the Protestant Reformation and the Renaissance had/were so reducing their influence in Europe.
Nope, Charlemagne acted with the same savagery toward Germany Pagans 700 years before the religion wars started. I would say it's more something inherited from the Roman Republic/Empire.
"It’s even more disturbing that they’re citing the Old Testament."
I’ve long been astonished that Christians can claim with a straight face that, yes, the Yahweh of the Old Testament was a petty, vengeful, murderous jerk, but that everything was set right by Jesus (according to the fanfic of his most devoted followers, known as the New Testament). But that’s got it exactly backwards.
Sure, if you did something that pïssed off the easily irritated Yahweh, he’d smite you where you stood, plus your family and half the innocent bystanders in the surrounding county as collateral damage. But that was it. Dead. Done. Finito. Period. Game Over. Sayonara. Hasta la vista. It wasn’t until Jesus came along that they invented the concept of “No no no, my friend, we’re gonna fry your sorry äss FOREVER! And not just for the actions you actually performed but for some of those naughty little THOTS you’ve been having!”
Think about it. Which of these 2 arrogant, flaming sadists was actually worse?
A divine being who could will the universe into existence, couldn't come up with a better way to deal with the mistake he had to know he was making when he made it, than drowning nearly everyone on earth. Stories like this come from the minds of people who, by the standards of the modern world, didn't know anything.
The priest is higher up in the food chain. God won't interfere with the free will of the priest. It's the priest who is violating the free will of the child.
Any kid who's thought about the Ark story enough to ask that kind of question has been told to shut up enough times (sometimes violently) ze has stopped asking questions.
You gonna cite your bible on this abhorrent decision? Here's your god telling you how to treat foreigners/immigrants. And right in your beloved Leviticus, too:
"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
First off, everyone involved in this saw blade thing needs to be put on a watch list, this is some horror movie stuff. Secondly any legal paperwork that cites the bible as a historical text should be thrown out immediately. Lastly I hope Governor Abbot slips and sits on a Coke bottle and has to explain it to the ER staff who won't believe him and then tell everyone about it. The end.
You know what! I don’t care if Abbott is legally allowed to police this river or not, he’s not so fuck hum anyway, the things he is doing, razor wire on the banks, circular saw blades on buoys, pushing children back into the river, should be and mostly is illegal, even for the state protecting the border. This man is a monster. The people of this country need to hold him accountable. Not just Texans, the entire country. He’s a genocidal maniac parading as a patriot. He’s disgusting.
Gerrymandering doesn't affect state-wide elections. It's strictly majority voters. There may be a large percentage of people who don't like the cruelty, but they don't care enough to go to the polls. So, no gerrymandering doesn't explain Abbot, Patrick, Paxton, Cruz and Cornyn. The voters *wanted* them.
I wonder if the Republicans are working against themselves with some of these stunts. I'm thinking particularly about my own home state of Ohio and what happened with Issue One there. They thought they could slide something in on the Q.T., with no one noticing ... except that this is the age of the internet and the 24-hour news cycle, and EVERYONE noticed. They wound up with over three million people voting in an irregular and off-year election ON ONE ISSUE, and they got their asses handed to them with a 14-point defeat of their precious issue.
What used to work back when may not work as well now ... and indeed, it may not work again, at least not for a while.
They complained that there shouldn’t be August elections and tried to eliminate them, until they decided that they wanted to sneak an issue past voters in an August election.
GOP policy is wildly unpopular with all demographics and yet they still push it, finding any way to get it passed, legal or illegal, rather than adjusting the policies.
Scarier still will be the day they figure out that if they change their policies to get elected then change them once they’re in and fix the government so that they remain in power, just like the Nazis did in the 40s.
I'm not sure voter ID laws make that big a difference. I find it hard to believe there are that many citizens or resident aliens who don't have IDs or can't get the free one offered by the Election boards. I don't doubt there are some, and they should be allowed to vote, but I'm not convinced there are enough of them to affect the outcome of an election. At least one of the same IDs is required to get even a McJob or government assistance.
As to voter purges, I've gotten into the habit of double-checking my registration before every election and I vote in most if not all elections, so they have no excuse to purge me.
There may be states where the margins are close enough that these tactics make a difference, but I don't believe Texas is one of them. 52% for Trump in 2020. It wasn't even close.
Okay, you convinced me, the people in Texas are all shitty fucking people bent on genocide.
Still, I’ll be Pollyanna and not act that way.
Anyway the USA is not a majority Republican and aren’t supportive of this. Folks who know it’s happening are appalled by it and speak out and the rest are ignorant of the situation because it’s not being reported. And none of us deserve public servants like Abbott no matter where they’re getting elected.
If you already have a drivers license its fine. But many elderly and disabled people don't have one. 20% of voters in their teens and twenties don't have one. If you want an official ID you need a birth certificate to apply. When I got one it cost me $30. Then you need to go to the dmv on a weekday and wait in line for hours. In TX, the nearest DMV can be as far as 170 miles away. When I lived in New Hampshire, the nearest one was 35 miles away. So if you want an id and don't have a license, you have to take a day out of work and pay for transportation to get something you'll almost never use.
It doesn’t matter though. The GOP and the religious right bathe in hypocrisy and are never harmed by it being pointed out. The rubes that follow them are willing to make excuses for every single instance of hypocrisy. It’s not a lie if it’s for Jesus. God is allowed to murder people because god is good, or god created us he can kill us as he pleases. Trump says what I think, and I think it’s okay to dehumanize vilify and destroy someone I don’t like. If there’s a hypocrisy there’s an excuse.
James 2:14-17: What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
They're not just ignoring the suffering of refugees and migrants. They are ADDING to the suffering.
What use is your "faith" and "religion", Texas residents?
TBH, this is the first this Texan has heard of this horror, but I'm not surprised. I also won't be surprised if the Latinx people of Southern Texas get tired of this treatment of their kin and start rioting on the steps of the governor's mansion.
Abbott would just call out the National Guard or the Texas Rangers or whomever to come shoot them. I say that because De Satan would do the same with the National Guard and whatever is Florida's equivalent to the Texas Rangers, and claim that any member of those entities questioning and/or disobeying orders is a traitor and a criminal.
This is hateful people who see immigrants as 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 trying to find justification to torture and kill them. 160 years ago they were justifying slavery the same way. In the 1930s, they would be finding things in the bible to justfy Nazi rallies in the US. They need to be removed from office and stripped of any power over others.
Unless I woke up in a Christian theocracy this morning, your bible and religious beliefs don't amount to squat. You are breaking the law. You know. The law you are supposed to obey, according to your own Romans 13:1-5.
Those buoys are something I honestly expect to cost the state of Texas more than they'll ever be worth trying to keep people out. I fully expect some enterprising individual to come up with a way to completely destroy them or otherwise render them ineffective fairly quickly. I also expect the state of Texas to be unable or unwilling to make any kind of change to them now that they're in.
It never ceases to amaze me how the modern Christian power machine just doesn't care when something they do causes death, but claims to have cornered the market on 'family values'. Clearly, that last bit must not have ever meant what I thought it did; I'm just glad I got out.
America is a paradox. We have some of the finest institutions of higher learning in this country. We have sent satellites to remote planets in our galaxy. And yet there are those who still take the Book of Genesis (as well as the entire Bible) literally. Stupidity must be bliss.
Things this monumentally stupid do not fill me with hope for the future of our species. I don't know which is worse, the argument itself or the expectation it might actually be believed. I live in Texas. Greg Abbott and his fellow Republicans never stop pandering to the religious right, while viewing human decency as a character flaw. It's all theater with Abbott. One stunt after another, with cruelty being the only point, and all of it served up with his big sloppy smile.
You're too kind to our 'dear' governor. I'd like to treat him the way he treats trans kids, specifically, but as he treats those he considers 'undesirables' in general.
He is a POS, and not even necessarily the worst one in state government. Dan Patrick is a full-on religious nut case, and such people can justify any horror.
Razor wire and circular saw blades is how Noah kept drowning sinners off the Ark.
He used T-rexes and machine guns.
Lazer-guided T-Rexes.
I think the lazers were reserved for the sharks. Or perhaps Megalodons.
https://youtu.be/INFavIUmhcE
Is this T-rexes WITH machine guns or is someone else using the machine guns? Just want to make sure I have a historically accurate picture of what occurred.
https://www.facebook.com/pressxband/videos/as-promised-t-rex-wielding-a-machine-gun-on-a-side-note-i-always-wondered-why-po/1853285314821910/
A helicopter gun like Jesse Ventura used in "Predator."
So fitting.
I ain't got time to bleed.
"Ya got time to be a duck?"
The Republicans screamed when FDR tried to pack the court. My my, how times change.
It's what Jesus would do. Blue-eyed, blonde, free market, gun toting, stand your ground Jesus. /s
'Murican Jesus.
Jesus is nothing if not flexible.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and runoff into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: “Did little demons get inside and type it?” I don’t know! My primitive mind can’t grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know..."
...These guys are fucking morons.
Heard all that in Phil Hartman's voice.
Miss him.
For a group of folks who are so focused on the stories of Sodom and Gomorra, they really don’t know what the problem god had with those cities. And they’re also so hell bent on forcing Jesus on everyone, they can’t comprehend his supposed message.
We should throw Abbott and DeSantis to The Hague and let them try them for crimes against humanity. Both men are terrorists that somehow managed to get elected to state office with aspirations for federal (IIRC DeSantis was in Congress before becoming governor, and we all know his aspirations are higher than that.) they deserve to be locked up not running shit. They are an embarrassment to the country, right up there with Trump. Hell, Nixon is an angel compared to these three.
Taking them to The Hague? I'm all for that. But, they would weasel out by claiming that it can't be war crimes if it isn't a war. Fuck them sideways with an unlubed cactus soaked in capsaicin.
Yet, Abbott is claiming it is a war.
"Well, yes, your honor, I did indeed issue a number of press releases describing the situation as a war. Obviously, now that I am in a trial and under oath and someone is actually paying attention to the substance and consequences of what I am saying, I can tell your honor that what I have said outside this courtroom is unmitigated bullshit."
Makes you wish truth serum existed and worked that way, doesn't it?
DeNazi has declared war on "woke."
Bet he can't even define what he's at war with.
Civilized countries do not line their borders with razor wire. Civilized countries do not put deathtraps out of a cheap gore thriller in their rivers.
This? This shit right here? This mustache-twirling villainy, this naked, sadistic cruelty, this gleeful slaughter of empathy, this indulgent exercise of power against the powerless for power's sake...
...this is what 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 do.
TFG knows a shithole country when he sees it. That's how he knew exactly how to turn the US into one.
Not that it was perfect before, but it was nowhere near as bad as it is now, after the TFG treated it like his own personal shithole, shitting all over policies of fairness, justice, decency and basic human rights.
The kicker is, he also emboldened his MAGAt base to do the same, so people would continue having to deal with the fallout long after he was out of office.
As the GQP likes to remind us: "The cruelty is the point."
In this case? Literally.
Will you snowflakes stop complaining ? We don't separate parents and children anymore !
"Will you snowflakes stop complaining ? We don't separate parents and children anymore !"
"What, never?"
"No, never."
"What, never?"
"Well, HARDLY ev-arrrrr!"
+1 for H.M.S Pinafore reference.
Loves my Gilbert & Sullivan
Sure they do. They're just separating them from their body parts instead of each other, now.
The laughable idiocy of their arguments has never stopped GOP lawmakers or their lawyers from using them to defend and justify their greed, cruelty, bigotry, and hate.
We will remain a savage and barbaric people as long as ancient religions hold sway over the minds of a large portion of the populace. There are fewer of them every day, but as their numbers diminish, their acceptance of savagery and barbarity increases.
They lash out like the wounded animals they are.
I was thinking the other day, I wonder if the savagery with which the Catholic Church used to try to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas was because of the Protestant Reformation and the Renaissance had/were so reducing their influence in Europe.
Nope, Charlemagne acted with the same savagery toward Germany Pagans 700 years before the religion wars started. I would say it's more something inherited from the Roman Republic/Empire.
"It’s even more disturbing that they’re citing the Old Testament."
I’ve long been astonished that Christians can claim with a straight face that, yes, the Yahweh of the Old Testament was a petty, vengeful, murderous jerk, but that everything was set right by Jesus (according to the fanfic of his most devoted followers, known as the New Testament). But that’s got it exactly backwards.
Sure, if you did something that pïssed off the easily irritated Yahweh, he’d smite you where you stood, plus your family and half the innocent bystanders in the surrounding county as collateral damage. But that was it. Dead. Done. Finito. Period. Game Over. Sayonara. Hasta la vista. It wasn’t until Jesus came along that they invented the concept of “No no no, my friend, we’re gonna fry your sorry äss FOREVER! And not just for the actions you actually performed but for some of those naughty little THOTS you’ve been having!”
Think about it. Which of these 2 arrogant, flaming sadists was actually worse?
A divine being who could will the universe into existence, couldn't come up with a better way to deal with the mistake he had to know he was making when he made it, than drowning nearly everyone on earth. Stories like this come from the minds of people who, by the standards of the modern world, didn't know anything.
He didn't just drown the people. The puppies and kittens, et. al., too. Could have Thanos'd humanity out of existence, but chose this instead.
I can't help but think a divine being who could will the universe into existence could have found a better way.
And the argument is always "free will" or "fall of man" as if an omnimax god couldn't still work around that.
Ok. Free Will. My question is why does the free will of the child-raping priest override the free will of the child not to be raped?
The priest is higher up in the food chain. God won't interfere with the free will of the priest. It's the priest who is violating the free will of the child.
Killed the plants and trees too, those wicked sinners.
I want some little kid visiting Ham's bogus Ark to ask the guides, "That's where the tyrannosaurs stayed, but where did the little kids sleep?
Any kid who's thought about the Ark story enough to ask that kind of question has been told to shut up enough times (sometimes violently) ze has stopped asking questions.
Both? Can't it be both?
Ahh yes.
The Old Testament: The unchanging word of god.
The New Testament: The CHANGED unchanging word of god.
Where's Matt Gaetz? ;)
Hey, Rethuglikkkans....
You gonna cite your bible on this abhorrent decision? Here's your god telling you how to treat foreigners/immigrants. And right in your beloved Leviticus, too:
"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
-- Leviticus 19:33-34
First off, everyone involved in this saw blade thing needs to be put on a watch list, this is some horror movie stuff. Secondly any legal paperwork that cites the bible as a historical text should be thrown out immediately. Lastly I hope Governor Abbot slips and sits on a Coke bottle and has to explain it to the ER staff who won't believe him and then tell everyone about it. The end.
Would like to see the ER staff use his anus as a bottle opener and watch as he gets a carbonated enema.
You people are way too forgiving of Gregg Abbott. And since he can't stand, the chances of him falling on a bottle are rather slim.
I'll help! I'll just pick him up and drop him on bottles until the desired effect is achieved. :)
And add Mentos to those bottles.
TIL Abbott is in a wheelchair.
Let him swim that channel.
😂😂😂
Will need brain bleach to get that image out of my head, but that is freakin hilarious!
My work here is done. 😀
*Put her untouched dinner in the fridge*
After I drop him enough times they'll break.
You know what! I don’t care if Abbott is legally allowed to police this river or not, he’s not so fuck hum anyway, the things he is doing, razor wire on the banks, circular saw blades on buoys, pushing children back into the river, should be and mostly is illegal, even for the state protecting the border. This man is a monster. The people of this country need to hold him accountable. Not just Texans, the entire country. He’s a genocidal maniac parading as a patriot. He’s disgusting.
And he was just re-elected last year. The majority of voters in this state like the cruelty.
I’m not so sure, there is a great deal of GOP election shenanigans involved in Texas politics. Not the least of which is gerrymandering.
There is too large a population there that do like the cruelty though.
But like I said, the rest of the country are affected by this and do not abide his actions.
Gerrymandering doesn't affect state-wide elections. It's strictly majority voters. There may be a large percentage of people who don't like the cruelty, but they don't care enough to go to the polls. So, no gerrymandering doesn't explain Abbot, Patrick, Paxton, Cruz and Cornyn. The voters *wanted* them.
Voter purges and modern poll taxes (voter ID laws) and many other tactics do. Voter apathy is an element, but more and more it’s disenfranchisement.
I wonder if the Republicans are working against themselves with some of these stunts. I'm thinking particularly about my own home state of Ohio and what happened with Issue One there. They thought they could slide something in on the Q.T., with no one noticing ... except that this is the age of the internet and the 24-hour news cycle, and EVERYONE noticed. They wound up with over three million people voting in an irregular and off-year election ON ONE ISSUE, and they got their asses handed to them with a 14-point defeat of their precious issue.
What used to work back when may not work as well now ... and indeed, it may not work again, at least not for a while.
They complained that there shouldn’t be August elections and tried to eliminate them, until they decided that they wanted to sneak an issue past voters in an August election.
GOP policy is wildly unpopular with all demographics and yet they still push it, finding any way to get it passed, legal or illegal, rather than adjusting the policies.
Scarier still will be the day they figure out that if they change their policies to get elected then change them once they’re in and fix the government so that they remain in power, just like the Nazis did in the 40s.
More they tried it after it failed spectacularly in Kansas.
I'm not sure voter ID laws make that big a difference. I find it hard to believe there are that many citizens or resident aliens who don't have IDs or can't get the free one offered by the Election boards. I don't doubt there are some, and they should be allowed to vote, but I'm not convinced there are enough of them to affect the outcome of an election. At least one of the same IDs is required to get even a McJob or government assistance.
As to voter purges, I've gotten into the habit of double-checking my registration before every election and I vote in most if not all elections, so they have no excuse to purge me.
There may be states where the margins are close enough that these tactics make a difference, but I don't believe Texas is one of them. 52% for Trump in 2020. It wasn't even close.
Okay, you convinced me, the people in Texas are all shitty fucking people bent on genocide.
Still, I’ll be Pollyanna and not act that way.
Anyway the USA is not a majority Republican and aren’t supportive of this. Folks who know it’s happening are appalled by it and speak out and the rest are ignorant of the situation because it’s not being reported. And none of us deserve public servants like Abbott no matter where they’re getting elected.
If you already have a drivers license its fine. But many elderly and disabled people don't have one. 20% of voters in their teens and twenties don't have one. If you want an official ID you need a birth certificate to apply. When I got one it cost me $30. Then you need to go to the dmv on a weekday and wait in line for hours. In TX, the nearest DMV can be as far as 170 miles away. When I lived in New Hampshire, the nearest one was 35 miles away. So if you want an id and don't have a license, you have to take a day out of work and pay for transportation to get something you'll almost never use.
Pushing children back into the river is yet another nail in the coffin of GQP xtians being "pro-life."
It doesn’t matter though. The GOP and the religious right bathe in hypocrisy and are never harmed by it being pointed out. The rubes that follow them are willing to make excuses for every single instance of hypocrisy. It’s not a lie if it’s for Jesus. God is allowed to murder people because god is good, or god created us he can kill us as he pleases. Trump says what I think, and I think it’s okay to dehumanize vilify and destroy someone I don’t like. If there’s a hypocrisy there’s an excuse.
James 2:14-17: What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
They're not just ignoring the suffering of refugees and migrants. They are ADDING to the suffering.
What use is your "faith" and "religion", Texas residents?
TBH, this is the first this Texan has heard of this horror, but I'm not surprised. I also won't be surprised if the Latinx people of Southern Texas get tired of this treatment of their kin and start rioting on the steps of the governor's mansion.
Abbott would just call out the National Guard or the Texas Rangers or whomever to come shoot them. I say that because De Satan would do the same with the National Guard and whatever is Florida's equivalent to the Texas Rangers, and claim that any member of those entities questioning and/or disobeying orders is a traitor and a criminal.
Chuck Norris.
The Florida state guard even wears brown shirts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_Guard
Color me shocked.
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦.
This is hateful people who see immigrants as 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 trying to find justification to torture and kill them. 160 years ago they were justifying slavery the same way. In the 1930s, they would be finding things in the bible to justfy Nazi rallies in the US. They need to be removed from office and stripped of any power over others.
"Genesis contains all kinds of absurdities. What’s next? Justifying incest? Rape? Genocide?"
You think they haven't tried?
To the GQP and TPPA...
Unless I woke up in a Christian theocracy this morning, your bible and religious beliefs don't amount to squat. You are breaking the law. You know. The law you are supposed to obey, according to your own Romans 13:1-5.
Oh, but there's that bible again.
They tend to let that particular cherry rot on the tree.
Those buoys are something I honestly expect to cost the state of Texas more than they'll ever be worth trying to keep people out. I fully expect some enterprising individual to come up with a way to completely destroy them or otherwise render them ineffective fairly quickly. I also expect the state of Texas to be unable or unwilling to make any kind of change to them now that they're in.
It never ceases to amaze me how the modern Christian power machine just doesn't care when something they do causes death, but claims to have cornered the market on 'family values'. Clearly, that last bit must not have ever meant what I thought it did; I'm just glad I got out.
Swim under?
Probably like Trump's wall. Within 15 minutes there will be tictoc videos of kids climbing over it.
Apparently, there is some sort of netting under the water to prevent that. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/17/texas-greg-abbott-rio-grande-buoy-barrier/70419897007/)
Examined closely, the whole thing's little more than a twisted death trap.
I think they'll make pretty good floats for rafts or something similar perhaps? Judging by the size they probably make decent tiny coracles.
So the oracles didn't foresee coracles?
It's not historical.
You're just being rhetorical.
Metaphorical.
Not categorical?
America is a paradox. We have some of the finest institutions of higher learning in this country. We have sent satellites to remote planets in our galaxy. And yet there are those who still take the Book of Genesis (as well as the entire Bible) literally. Stupidity must be bliss.