And to be able to expect that christians/they will be praised because - they don't rape children, steal, murder and carry out other crimes - but only because their "god" stops them. Atheists refrain too, even better than the religious (e.g.,, check Google re the number of criminals in prison who identify as christian vs those who identify as atheists), because atheists have personal moral standards and value the lives of others. Shame the religious don't have personal morals.
Seems to me these Christians do, in fact, care about some lives on earth - their own. (They've gotta stay well enough to proselytize to the rest of us, after all.)
I remember this one church group, or something, anyway they had all these fundie-oriented "jokes" like a stand-up routine. And I remember my mom & I used to listen & laugh. I was single digits back then. I still remember some of them. I remember my mom saying that if you didn't laugh, you weren't right w/God. SMH Shameful & bizarre. Like spread the word, but rejoice in others damnation?! What is that about?!
I don't remember that. I'll have to look it up. I can't believe I've never heard of it. But, we didn't have a VCR & it wasn't like you could just go & get stuff easily back then.
☝🏽 This! So much. I need to listen w/my headphones. I just read the subtitles.
I was terrified of being "left behind" when I was a kid. Almost as afraid of that as my mom. And I couldn't tell anyone. Church people would've thought that I was doing something wrong (I wasn't) & my mom would've just lit into me & I couldn't take her "help" b/c I knew what that would entail. I literally never told anyone until I got well out, and away from, all that nonsense.
Also the biggest self-fulfilling prophecy in all of history, except of course, you know, for the "fulfilling" part. I'm actually thinking of writing a piece about that at some point.
And why catholic priests/nuns and other religious criminals continue to rape children and often get away with it for decades - with the help of their religious co-criminals - e.g., catholic priests can always rely on their bishops, cardinals, popes, devout parishioners, republican congress people, etc., to cover up their crimes. One example out of thousands,
Which is how so many parents can justify being heartless, judgmental, abusive, & manipulative to their offspring. B/C Jesus is more important than anything. My mom loved to tell me "No one ever said you'd get to be happy", & "tomorrow isn't promised" (they love that one) or other such awesome, pithy bits of wisdom. I used to think it was just her generation, but that's only a small part of it. Jesus was her answer to everything. Including all suffering. If you were suffering, it was your problem b/c you didn't pray enough, believe enough, or whatever. That brand of so-called Christianity made me so upset, miserable, & depressed when I was a teenager. I couldn't reconcile any of it w/what & how I felt.
If you look at the consumption habits of products and services plus general materialism of many US Christians - or those who identify as such because there is a difference - it could be argued that their consumption habits is evidence that they get their identify and sense of purpose through here and now material things and here and now experiences.
Any historical research on christian saints will reveal lives of material and physical contentment.
Ian, I think you make a great point and I see it regularly. Perhaps what I really mean is that Christians tend to exhibit their social welfare and environmental views in a way that suggests this is just a temporary existence that shouldn't matter as much as the ultimate eternal existence. They tend to express the view that those in need shouldn't worry so much and simply need to put their faith in God and focus on the next life. They seem to have the same views about the earth. Earth (and the environment) is just a temporary stop and we don't need to worry about preserving it for future generations. That even extends to the idea that we need to preserve this planet for future life, after humans cease to exist. Christians believe human beings were placed here by God and this planet is ours to do what we want with it. This is obviously contrary to reality.
We all are going to die, but Jesusing more makes it ok? Is she that clueles, or that cruel, or some combination of the two? Senator Ernst: 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. What you are trying to defend is letting people die from preventable conditions. If you allow people health care they live longer and better lives.That is something we have data for. Whether or not someone buys in to your religious dogma, if you take their health care, their lives will be nasty, brutish, and short. And here you are, telling people to accept that short and painful life for an undemonstrated good time in the sweet by and by pie in the sky.
Our forefathers knew this, too, Joe. They did everything they could, when writing our Constitution, to keep all religions out of our government. That was one of the most intelligent things they ever did when creating our country’s laws. It’s in the very First Amendment, so it was obviously an integral part of the general consensus.
Christian Nationalists are not good citizens. They cloak themselves in the dirty robes of their church and support evil. They are the enemy.
Section III of Article VI bans religious tests for holding public office, and it pre-dates the Bill of Rights. This speaks directly to how the framers of the Constitution felt about the issue of church-state separation.
Reminds me of the religious gruel the overlords fed the serfs and slaves…suffer now for a good time after death. And Christians have the audacity to demonize Radicalized Islamic terrorists for the same or similar mindset.
If this Big Bloated Bill passes, it is going to throw tax cuts at the ultra wealthy who already have more money than they can spend... It is only possible because they all auto propagandize at the trough of the reichwing media bubble. Spending cuts at this level will throw us into a depression, which will trigger more spending cuts (Paygo). They are trying their damnedest to throw us into an economic positive feedback loop.
They don't want to understand that if you give poor people money, it stimulates the economy because they go and spend it. Giving money to rich people only makes rich people richer and does nothing for the economy. The trickle down lie was debunked by the outcomes or Reagan's policies 40 years ago. They cling to it because they don't really care about the economy, they only care about having more for themselves.
But if you’re ILLEGAL, too old, sick & crippled to keep working to EARN Medicaid then DEATH to you too you bums! Joni Earst, judge, executioner & super Christian will decide. No hurry cuz you’re going to die anyway. THIS is America. NO FREE RIDES unless you’re a RICH WHITE REPUBLICAN politician. Then citizens will pay for your every need even if you’re a corrupt, grifting rapist, felon, traitor POS. THATS all OK with Joni!
Yes, Happy Pride Month everyone! I wonder if Jacksonville will light up the bridges, with flashlights for Pride Month, like they did last year because Deathsantis forbid them from celebrating with bridge lights?
I love it! They actually denied him over the land grabs of the state parks to a developer donor, and threw in a law that they can’t build golf courses in our parks!
It's no wonder why Christianity is often regarded as a form of a "death cult." They, just like Joni, always claim to have a way to eternal life only to end up leading people to their deaths in one way or another.
And the likes of Dumb Idiot Ken Ham telling his "sheep" to disregard life saving forms of science, deny all of climate change, believe every lie the oil lobbyists tells them, and blame all of the bad things in the world on Darwin, Evolution, and Adam biting into the apple so they can use all the sin blaming as the best excuse they can come up with for not lifting a single finger to help people alleviate the sufferings cause by natural disasters and climate change.
Sorry. British usage. When you say “I’m pissed” we say “I’m pissed off” but we also “take the piss” ie “take the Mick” or “extract the Michael” depending on how prissy we are feeling.
If there were any one statement that demonstrated unequivocally just how disconnected and uncaring the Trump administration is from the general public, Joni Ernst put it out there in boldface. It may be tied with Trump's: "I don't care about you; I just want your vote," which could have been dismissed as a joke [piss poor joke!]. Trump never took back that line, but Ernst's piss-poor attempt at an apology further showed off just how clueless she is about her position and the impact she and her actions have on Americans.
That she got raked over the coals by a newspaper in fire-engine-red Iowa only seals the deal on Joni. She tried to defend the indefensible and got her words shoved down her throat.
Think she learned anything from this? Nah, neither do I.
I hope that's true. Unfortunately, Iowa has such a large rural population, and they are all Fox News conservatives. If they even hear that clip, they won't care any more than they care about the crap that comes out of trump. I hope I'm wrong. Fox News has another year to make their sheep forget about it of make them not care about it.
FAUX News also has to worry about the $2 Billion lawsuit they are facing (soon I hope) from SmartMatic. They will lose that case just as they lost the Dominion Voting Systems case. It could mean the end of FAUX News. Here’s an update:
I sent Joni the following email. Wonder if she'll reply?
Your response to your constituents' concerns was, "We All Are Going to Die".
Yep, we are. You go first. Swallow the business end of an M1911A1.
You voted *against* the PACT Act. As a former soldier, you should know damned well that there's a special place in Hell for those who leave their buddies behind. Again, you voted *against* the PACT Act. Go suck off the aforementioned M1911A2 and fuck straight off to Hell, you vile cunt. Go die in a dumpster.
You already know this, but the problem with letters to congress critters these days is that they are unlikely to read any of 'em. They get scanned by underlings, addresses and general content noted, MAYBE a form letter returned to the poster, then relegated to File 13. I haven't bothered to write either Bernie Moreno or Jon Husted since their election / appointment because I'm not convinced that EITHER OF THEM LISTEN.
And I mourn the departure of Sherrod Brown, because I know that HE DID.
My congresspig is Elise Stefanik. Any letters sent to her get get a form response back telling me what a magnificent job she thinks she is doing without addressing any issue I wrote about.
Yup. I get similar emails from Moreno and Husted, and I honestly don't expect anything different from them. Some years ago, I got a NON-form letter from Sherrod Brown, when I wrote him about proselytism in the military.
HE CARED. The current idiots couldn't give a rotten dump, so long as they get to cootchie-coo Donnie Dumb-Ass.
I am the lucky one, I live in a in a circonscription firmly anchored on the left, the only exception is the mayor (center-right) but he does a decent job. The only way for it to shift on the right would be to kill the voters before they cast their ballot.
Most recent form letter from my Congrasshole Walberg was in response to my query on his possible support for the Do No Harm Act. I asked if he would support it, and what reasons he had for either support or opposition. "If it comes to the floor for a vote, I will keep your position in mind." Weasel word minion response.
Not slowly enough. At best a minute or two. None of these scum rate that level of mercy. They need to scream until they lose the ability to make sound.
She just admitted to the extortion that Christianity is. We all know this but they try to make it out to be love anyway. She said we are going to kill you, you’re too stupid to figure that out, and you better get your house in order quick.
If we get to vote in the midterms, we need to eliminate every single republican from the house and senate we can.
Funny how she wants everyone to play by the rules, now that she can kick people she doesn't like off a support system for not being eligible by the rules.
I'm currently 50 years old. Social Security is not funded though my retirement, and I have zero expectation that will change before I reach retirement age; my plan at this point is pretty much just flat not retiring and hoping for the best. Let me be completely clear here: 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑎𝑔𝑒. I expect Medicare, Social Security, and any other government safety nets for the aging to vanish before I can claim them thanks to the largely Republican shenanigans of "you're not eligible!" despite having worked for most of my life and payed into those very same systems.
So when I hear some politician bleating on about 'eligibility' and 'abusing the system' and such, what I hear is an outright admission that the plan is to take the funding form these programs and spend it on what they consider to be the right people - wealthy, white, Christian households that do not include me. Throwing in the whole 'well, we are all going to die' bit really doesn't change a thing, it just makes the shallow indifference to anyone else's problems more obvious and from where I sit, it's completely on-brand.
Every last one of us as atheists have been accused to not giving a damn about morality, our fellow man, or doing good in the world because we don't believe in an afterlife or heaven. But look who the truly immoral, don't give a shit people really are: elected christians from 'real' America who think most of us should live on the economic edge so her billionaire campaign donors can live even higher on the hog.
Be afraid, not of dying, but of living in a world with people who care more about their afterlives than their real lives.
”It should be embarrassing to Christians how often Republicans use Jesus to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.”
Ryan Reynolds should be my boyfriend. Ryan and I should have a three-way with Ryan Gosling. I should be as pretty as I was 50 years ago.
The entire premise of Christianity is about not taking responsibility for your actions. All you have to do is apologize to Jesus and you can clear your mind of any atrocity.
meanwhile, Miss Hogclipper has given pro choice people the perfect argument. “We’re all going to die anyway” so why are you screaming about abortion?
Were her Jesus and afterlife real, Ernst would find herself taking a long chute to the hot place for not feeding, clothing and housing the needy. May she shuffle off this mortal coil at her earliest opportunity.
(Just now logging in. I thought today would simply be a carry over from yesterday, so I didn't chime in at my regular time. Should've known there'd be a new article). :)
What we are seeing is a clear marker for eugenics, to cull the herd. This is part of the end times fascism that they are enthralled with and that they somehow think they will survive,, while they are doing everything they can to accelerate it.
I'm not sure that Joni has thought it through that thoroughly. More than anything, she just wants to cootchie-coo Trump the best she can, support his policies, and if it hurts the general public, she feels the need to come up with some lame excuse as to why they should just accept that without complaint. This time, though, her explanation had all the deft subtlety of a 16-pound sledge in an operating room.
She fucked up big. Whether she's actually willing to recognize just how badly and WHY she fucked up remains indeterminate.
I'm assuming she would write off the life of a sick child with this same rationale, as the death of a child means little compared to taxing a billionaire to pay for poor people's healthcare. Joni Ernst is as evil as she is stupid. Why is it that so many vocal Christians are the most compelling arguments in favor of atheism?
The problem with most Christians is that they prioritize the afterlife and don’t value the life we have now.
You may be a slave, but if you're a really good slave, you'll get a tremendous reward, . . . after you're dead.
Pie in the sky by and by when you die. [it's a lie]
Yup keep that reward later BS GOING!
It keeps the peons in line. Keeps them working right up to the afternoon of their funeral.
𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 '𝐵𝑖𝑔 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟,' 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟 – 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟-𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒏. [emphasis mine]
-- Christopher Hitchens
I really like that quote.
So do I. Can't ya guess? 😁
They use the afterlife as a catch-all excuse for their wildly inconsistent values and actions.
And to be able to expect that christians/they will be praised because - they don't rape children, steal, murder and carry out other crimes - but only because their "god" stops them. Atheists refrain too, even better than the religious (e.g.,, check Google re the number of criminals in prison who identify as christian vs those who identify as atheists), because atheists have personal moral standards and value the lives of others. Shame the religious don't have personal morals.
Seems to me these Christians do, in fact, care about some lives on earth - their own. (They've gotta stay well enough to proselytize to the rest of us, after all.)
They value it for those they deem inferior, they love their material comfort very much.
and there are so many horrid religious songs with that message🤮
I remember this one church group, or something, anyway they had all these fundie-oriented "jokes" like a stand-up routine. And I remember my mom & I used to listen & laugh. I was single digits back then. I still remember some of them. I remember my mom saying that if you didn't laugh, you weren't right w/God. SMH Shameful & bizarre. Like spread the word, but rejoice in others damnation?! What is that about?!
I don't remember that. I'll have to look it up. I can't believe I've never heard of it. But, we didn't have a VCR & it wasn't like you could just go & get stuff easily back then.
sounds like a nightmare
And what makes that such a huge problem is that they don’t think it’s even a problem.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHjkTwzyjlP/?igsh=MTJyODhveWlwamIwNg==
😂😂😂
☝🏽 This! So much. I need to listen w/my headphones. I just read the subtitles.
I was terrified of being "left behind" when I was a kid. Almost as afraid of that as my mom. And I couldn't tell anyone. Church people would've thought that I was doing something wrong (I wasn't) & my mom would've just lit into me & I couldn't take her "help" b/c I knew what that would entail. I literally never told anyone until I got well out, and away from, all that nonsense.
Also the biggest self-fulfilling prophecy in all of history, except of course, you know, for the "fulfilling" part. I'm actually thinking of writing a piece about that at some point.
I’m so sorry you went through that as a kid.
Religion has served the rich, powerful and upper classes well to keep the rubes from revolting.
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Any Christian who believes this has clearly not read the New Testament enough.
And why catholic priests/nuns and other religious criminals continue to rape children and often get away with it for decades - with the help of their religious co-criminals - e.g., catholic priests can always rely on their bishops, cardinals, popes, devout parishioners, republican congress people, etc., to cover up their crimes. One example out of thousands,
https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-new-pope-was-accused-of-covering-up-child-abuse-why-is-no-one-talking-about-it/
Which is how so many parents can justify being heartless, judgmental, abusive, & manipulative to their offspring. B/C Jesus is more important than anything. My mom loved to tell me "No one ever said you'd get to be happy", & "tomorrow isn't promised" (they love that one) or other such awesome, pithy bits of wisdom. I used to think it was just her generation, but that's only a small part of it. Jesus was her answer to everything. Including all suffering. If you were suffering, it was your problem b/c you didn't pray enough, believe enough, or whatever. That brand of so-called Christianity made me so upset, miserable, & depressed when I was a teenager. I couldn't reconcile any of it w/what & how I felt.
Hear what your saying but unable to fully agree.
If you look at the consumption habits of products and services plus general materialism of many US Christians - or those who identify as such because there is a difference - it could be argued that their consumption habits is evidence that they get their identify and sense of purpose through here and now material things and here and now experiences.
Any historical research on christian saints will reveal lives of material and physical contentment.
Ian, I think you make a great point and I see it regularly. Perhaps what I really mean is that Christians tend to exhibit their social welfare and environmental views in a way that suggests this is just a temporary existence that shouldn't matter as much as the ultimate eternal existence. They tend to express the view that those in need shouldn't worry so much and simply need to put their faith in God and focus on the next life. They seem to have the same views about the earth. Earth (and the environment) is just a temporary stop and we don't need to worry about preserving it for future generations. That even extends to the idea that we need to preserve this planet for future life, after humans cease to exist. Christians believe human beings were placed here by God and this planet is ours to do what we want with it. This is obviously contrary to reality.
I know it's a typo, but I like "Elno" better. LOL
LOL
That In fact doesn't help the people she serves. They need to throw her out.
We all are going to die, but Jesusing more makes it ok? Is she that clueles, or that cruel, or some combination of the two? Senator Ernst: 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. What you are trying to defend is letting people die from preventable conditions. If you allow people health care they live longer and better lives.That is something we have data for. Whether or not someone buys in to your religious dogma, if you take their health care, their lives will be nasty, brutish, and short. And here you are, telling people to accept that short and painful life for an undemonstrated good time in the sweet by and by pie in the sky.
NSGOP cruelty is the point.
"What you are trying to defend is letting people die from preventable conditions."
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ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY THIS!!!!!
Our forefathers knew this, too, Joe. They did everything they could, when writing our Constitution, to keep all religions out of our government. That was one of the most intelligent things they ever did when creating our country’s laws. It’s in the very First Amendment, so it was obviously an integral part of the general consensus.
Christian Nationalists are not good citizens. They cloak themselves in the dirty robes of their church and support evil. They are the enemy.
Section III of Article VI bans religious tests for holding public office, and it pre-dates the Bill of Rights. This speaks directly to how the framers of the Constitution felt about the issue of church-state separation.
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Reminds me of the religious gruel the overlords fed the serfs and slaves…suffer now for a good time after death. And Christians have the audacity to demonize Radicalized Islamic terrorists for the same or similar mindset.
If this Big Bloated Bill passes, it is going to throw tax cuts at the ultra wealthy who already have more money than they can spend... It is only possible because they all auto propagandize at the trough of the reichwing media bubble. Spending cuts at this level will throw us into a depression, which will trigger more spending cuts (Paygo). They are trying their damnedest to throw us into an economic positive feedback loop.
They don't want to understand that if you give poor people money, it stimulates the economy because they go and spend it. Giving money to rich people only makes rich people richer and does nothing for the economy. The trickle down lie was debunked by the outcomes or Reagan's policies 40 years ago. They cling to it because they don't really care about the economy, they only care about having more for themselves.
It was debunked by Keynes about a century ago.
*Sigh
Here we go again with trickle-down economics:
https://ibb.co/sp1xL0FL
It is a sickness. They can never have enough - never.
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I think it is a real personality disorder in need of a name.
I do not disagree.
Well said. Do you mind if I send it to Joni in my weekly rant to her?
Go for it!
But if you’re ILLEGAL, too old, sick & crippled to keep working to EARN Medicaid then DEATH to you too you bums! Joni Earst, judge, executioner & super Christian will decide. No hurry cuz you’re going to die anyway. THIS is America. NO FREE RIDES unless you’re a RICH WHITE REPUBLICAN politician. Then citizens will pay for your every need even if you’re a corrupt, grifting rapist, felon, traitor POS. THATS all OK with Joni!
Sorry, this is the comment I'd like to send to Joni.
Until it happens to them, or someone they love, then they'll begin to champion assistance, benefits, & aide, as long as it helps them.
Yep, b/c they really need it. The rest of us, not so much.
She is a Tumpite? Doesn't that say just about everything about this person?
Restacked your reply it was so good, thanks Joe.
Happy Pride Month to all who celebrate! 🏳️🌈🇺🇸
Just came back from a local pride festival. It was packed and no red hats in sight.
IOW, a perfect day! Awesome! 👏👏🏳️🌈
Yes, Happy Pride Month everyone! I wonder if Jacksonville will light up the bridges, with flashlights for Pride Month, like they did last year because Deathsantis forbid them from celebrating with bridge lights?
DeSantis has fallen so far out of favor, there might even be some republicans participating in the flashlight Pride Month lighting!
I love it! They actually denied him over the land grabs of the state parks to a developer donor, and threw in a law that they can’t build golf courses in our parks!
Oh, the horror!!! 😂
I'm a creature of the indoors, but even I think we need the tree museums.
They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
https://stormlake.org/301/Heritage-Tree-Museum
𝐈𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥?
After his WWE boos in Tampa, a case for Florida’s governor to go full villain.
https://www.creators.com/read/stephanie-hayes/05/25/how-to-remake-a-political-career-in-wrestling
Got our flag out mid-morning.
It's no wonder why Christianity is often regarded as a form of a "death cult." They, just like Joni, always claim to have a way to eternal life only to end up leading people to their deaths in one way or another.
And the likes of Dumb Idiot Ken Ham telling his "sheep" to disregard life saving forms of science, deny all of climate change, believe every lie the oil lobbyists tells them, and blame all of the bad things in the world on Darwin, Evolution, and Adam biting into the apple so they can use all the sin blaming as the best excuse they can come up with for not lifting a single finger to help people alleviate the sufferings cause by natural disasters and climate change.
Wow! 100% correct!
Your daughter’s t-shirt is absolutely correct, Sarah. You raised her well.
Etsy has several options (T-shirts, stickers, buttons) with that phrase, if anyone is interested.
She might just have got away with it were it not for the Tooth Fairy line. That killed her whole “apology” shtick stone dead.
Don’t give up the day job, love.
No, by ALL means, give up your day job and retire from the Senate, Joni!
Being a Brit I’d never come across her before and when u first saw it I thought it was a comedian taking the piss. What an altogether awful woman.
Making fun of.
A truly shitty comodian, more likely.
Taking the piss ?
Sorry. British usage. When you say “I’m pissed” we say “I’m pissed off” but we also “take the piss” ie “take the Mick” or “extract the Michael” depending on how prissy we are feeling.
I learned British English at school but not this kind.
And I would say "J'chuis vénère", not "I'm pissed" 🤣
If there were any one statement that demonstrated unequivocally just how disconnected and uncaring the Trump administration is from the general public, Joni Ernst put it out there in boldface. It may be tied with Trump's: "I don't care about you; I just want your vote," which could have been dismissed as a joke [piss poor joke!]. Trump never took back that line, but Ernst's piss-poor attempt at an apology further showed off just how clueless she is about her position and the impact she and her actions have on Americans.
That she got raked over the coals by a newspaper in fire-engine-red Iowa only seals the deal on Joni. She tried to defend the indefensible and got her words shoved down her throat.
Think she learned anything from this? Nah, neither do I.
If she survives a primary challenge, Iowa will have a democratic senator when her opponent at her next reelection plays that clip on repeat.
I hope that's true. Unfortunately, Iowa has such a large rural population, and they are all Fox News conservatives. If they even hear that clip, they won't care any more than they care about the crap that comes out of trump. I hope I'm wrong. Fox News has another year to make their sheep forget about it of make them not care about it.
Rural Iowan here. I don't watch Fox News and I'm not conservative.
FAUX News also has to worry about the $2 Billion lawsuit they are facing (soon I hope) from SmartMatic. They will lose that case just as they lost the Dominion Voting Systems case. It could mean the end of FAUX News. Here’s an update:
https://san.com/cc/smartmatic-says-fox-news-destroyed-evidence-in-2-7-billion-defamation-case/
You're giving too much credit to that magat trash. They don't have the ability to reason or change.
I'll be watching and I'll be voting!
She made a massive mistake with that, and Dems should lean into that HARD.
Christian persecution in 3...2 ...1
Ya want some CHEESE to go with that WHINE, Joni? 😝
I sent Joni the following email. Wonder if she'll reply?
Your response to your constituents' concerns was, "We All Are Going to Die".
Yep, we are. You go first. Swallow the business end of an M1911A1.
You voted *against* the PACT Act. As a former soldier, you should know damned well that there's a special place in Hell for those who leave their buddies behind. Again, you voted *against* the PACT Act. Go suck off the aforementioned M1911A2 and fuck straight off to Hell, you vile cunt. Go die in a dumpster.
You already know this, but the problem with letters to congress critters these days is that they are unlikely to read any of 'em. They get scanned by underlings, addresses and general content noted, MAYBE a form letter returned to the poster, then relegated to File 13. I haven't bothered to write either Bernie Moreno or Jon Husted since their election / appointment because I'm not convinced that EITHER OF THEM LISTEN.
And I mourn the departure of Sherrod Brown, because I know that HE DID.
My congresspig is Elise Stefanik. Any letters sent to her get get a form response back telling me what a magnificent job she thinks she is doing without addressing any issue I wrote about.
Yup. I get similar emails from Moreno and Husted, and I honestly don't expect anything different from them. Some years ago, I got a NON-form letter from Sherrod Brown, when I wrote him about proselytism in the military.
HE CARED. The current idiots couldn't give a rotten dump, so long as they get to cootchie-coo Donnie Dumb-Ass.
I am the lucky one, I live in a in a circonscription firmly anchored on the left, the only exception is the mayor (center-right) but he does a decent job. The only way for it to shift on the right would be to kill the voters before they cast their ballot.
Most recent form letter from my Congrasshole Walberg was in response to my query on his possible support for the Do No Harm Act. I asked if he would support it, and what reasons he had for either support or opposition. "If it comes to the floor for a vote, I will keep your position in mind." Weasel word minion response.
These scum need to be arrested, imprisoned, injected with cancer cells in every major organ and nature allowed to take its course.
Then we should have a national pool on who goes first and from which flavor of cancer.
Making them dance the Hemp Fandango on Pay-Per-View, and use the money to fund Drag Queen Story Hour events and other youth programs.
Too kind and too quick.
Zero-drop. Not at all kind nor quick. 😁
Not slowly enough. At best a minute or two. None of these scum rate that level of mercy. They need to scream until they lose the ability to make sound.
Wonder if I'll get a visit from the men in dark suits....I may well have been rude as fuck but I certainly did not express a threat, merely a wish. 😁
She just admitted to the extortion that Christianity is. We all know this but they try to make it out to be love anyway. She said we are going to kill you, you’re too stupid to figure that out, and you better get your house in order quick.
If we get to vote in the midterms, we need to eliminate every single republican from the house and senate we can.
You just cannot make this effluent up! She is the antithesis of the message, in the bible I read. But don’t believe in.
Funny how she wants everyone to play by the rules, now that she can kick people she doesn't like off a support system for not being eligible by the rules.
I'm currently 50 years old. Social Security is not funded though my retirement, and I have zero expectation that will change before I reach retirement age; my plan at this point is pretty much just flat not retiring and hoping for the best. Let me be completely clear here: 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑎𝑔𝑒. I expect Medicare, Social Security, and any other government safety nets for the aging to vanish before I can claim them thanks to the largely Republican shenanigans of "you're not eligible!" despite having worked for most of my life and payed into those very same systems.
So when I hear some politician bleating on about 'eligibility' and 'abusing the system' and such, what I hear is an outright admission that the plan is to take the funding form these programs and spend it on what they consider to be the right people - wealthy, white, Christian households that do not include me. Throwing in the whole 'well, we are all going to die' bit really doesn't change a thing, it just makes the shallow indifference to anyone else's problems more obvious and from where I sit, it's completely on-brand.
Man, was Tim Walz ever right with his "Republicans are weird" line.
An understatement of epic proportion!
I'm a gop,
I'm a qweirdo,
Why the hell there is aliens* here ?
They don't belong here 🎶
* American Natives.
Every last one of us as atheists have been accused to not giving a damn about morality, our fellow man, or doing good in the world because we don't believe in an afterlife or heaven. But look who the truly immoral, don't give a shit people really are: elected christians from 'real' America who think most of us should live on the economic edge so her billionaire campaign donors can live even higher on the hog.
Be afraid, not of dying, but of living in a world with people who care more about their afterlives than their real lives.
Thanks, Lynn!
”It should be embarrassing to Christians how often Republicans use Jesus to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.”
Ryan Reynolds should be my boyfriend. Ryan and I should have a three-way with Ryan Gosling. I should be as pretty as I was 50 years ago.
The entire premise of Christianity is about not taking responsibility for your actions. All you have to do is apologize to Jesus and you can clear your mind of any atrocity.
meanwhile, Miss Hogclipper has given pro choice people the perfect argument. “We’re all going to die anyway” so why are you screaming about abortion?
"I should be as pretty as I was 50 years ago."
I am. Depressing, isn't it.
I just like to say I’m better preserved than I was 50 years ago. Doesn’t that make it better?
Wouldn't you have to fight with cdbunch to get Ryan Renolds ?
YES.
No. I have utterly cowed him with my superior Christian manliness.
Yep, jus helpin the babys get ta jebus faster.
Were her Jesus and afterlife real, Ernst would find herself taking a long chute to the hot place for not feeding, clothing and housing the needy. May she shuffle off this mortal coil at her earliest opportunity.
(Just now logging in. I thought today would simply be a carry over from yesterday, so I didn't chime in at my regular time. Should've known there'd be a new article). :)
What we are seeing is a clear marker for eugenics, to cull the herd. This is part of the end times fascism that they are enthralled with and that they somehow think they will survive,, while they are doing everything they can to accelerate it.
I'm not sure that Joni has thought it through that thoroughly. More than anything, she just wants to cootchie-coo Trump the best she can, support his policies, and if it hurts the general public, she feels the need to come up with some lame excuse as to why they should just accept that without complaint. This time, though, her explanation had all the deft subtlety of a 16-pound sledge in an operating room.
She fucked up big. Whether she's actually willing to recognize just how badly and WHY she fucked up remains indeterminate.
She said the quiet part out loud, only their orange messiah can do that with the cult!
I'm assuming she would write off the life of a sick child with this same rationale, as the death of a child means little compared to taxing a billionaire to pay for poor people's healthcare. Joni Ernst is as evil as she is stupid. Why is it that so many vocal Christians are the most compelling arguments in favor of atheism?
I knew as a 6 yr old Child when I had to invent sins so I had bad behavior to confess to that these Christian folk had some issues to work out.
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