Republicans constantly call out election fraud every time they lose an election. However, on those rare occasions when fraud is discovered there is almost always a Republican behind it. Right wing lunacy backed up by religious certitude is a dangerous combination.
The hell of it is, Trump started out as the proverbial #WhinyLittleBitch, and now he's got a considerable clique of Republicans acting just as whiny and just as pseudo-scared that Muslims and Socialists are going to take over the US.
My message to them is simple: grow up and GROW A PAIR!
This is a mostly empty threat, because polling place is dictated by address. He can't just walk into some place across town and vote there because it happens to be a mosque.
But let's say he does, not to actually vote but just to make a scene. I'm pretty sure a polling place can have a 'no food' rule, simply for cleanliness. Also pretty sure they can remove people who are being disruptive. Heck in my district, you can't even carry a political sign into within something like 50' of the polling place, so you can be asked to leave (or remove your sign) even if you aren't causing a disturbance.
So this dude can easily get kicked out of a mosque polling place, if he's determined to get kicked out. And no doubt he'll then play the victim despite there being some perfectly normal secular reason for his booting.
Why do they always go to the pork eating as a way to taunt Muslims? First off, Muslims are unlikely to give a shit how much bacon a non-Muslim is eating in front of them. Second, would he do that at a synagogue? Jewish dietary rules also prohibit pork.
Gee whiz, nothing like punching down from a position of authority, is there. This Schatzline character is yet another in a series of Republicans who seem to think that the US would be better off white and Christian and not much else. The real shame is that, with Abbot in the governor's mansion (though for not much longer, I hope!), Schatzline will continue to rally the faithful, castigate Muslims and likely anyone else who doesn't worship his deity, and generally act like the asshat that he is.
They already know they are the problem. It's clear when Schatzline confesses that "...ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚: ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘...
They are trying to do to Muslims what they are afraid atheists would do to them. They don't even realize that we want them to follow the Constitution and stop pretending they are stupid and can't understand simple words.
“And by the way, I want you to notice something, because the F.A. readers agree on this: I didn’t say ‘radical Christianity.’ I said ‘Christianity,’ because all Christianity is radical.”
He really said the quiet part out loud. His intention is to knowingly violate the Constitution by punishing Muslims for being Muslim and privilegeing Christians. And 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 what he thinks election integrity means?
Mr Schatzline: Election integrity means making sure all eligible voters have a good opportunity to vote, regardless of their beliefs or political persuasion. It does not mean doing everything you can so only your favorite people are allowed to vote.
Uh-huh, sure it is, bub. Ever read Article VI, Paragraph 3 of the Constitution? Or the First Amendment to that same document. I'm CERTAIN you are completely unaware of Article XI of the Treaty of Tripoli.
But then, being a dumbass, this is what I naturally expect of fools like Schatzline.
He doesn’t even know what 5 of the 7 Key Founders had to say about Christianity and what different sects of the Christian religion had done in Europe (not to mention in the early Brit Colonies here). They didn’t want a repeat of that.
I’m going to Texas next week to spend a few days with about 40 of my relatives, mostly Texans, at our hunting ranch. I know a lot of them are voting blue but I’m pretty sure some of the knuckle-draggers will be there too. I’ve heard that my cousin who blames vaccines for her son’s autism will be there. I won’t be hunting.
I’m in charge of making dinner Friday night. Making salmon 3 different ways and chicken for the salmon haters. Rice. Some kind of vegetable. And if I can round up enough help, I’ll make my starting-to-become-famous bacon wrapped onion rings.
I would love to say that this guy is an outlier in the state, but people like him are depressingly common in Texas administration, and the Texas legislature.
We saw the writing on the wall back in 2015; sold our house, and moved to the Midwest.
Yes: I do miss Possum Kingdom Lake; Lake Whitney; Balmorhea State Park; El Paso (there is Mexican food in Texas, and Mexican food in El Paso and the two are *not* the same; and El Paso has it all over the rest of the state of Texas when it comes to Mexican food!); the Piney Woods and Nacogdoches; San Marcos and Texas State University, and the musical opportunities they provided for me; the Texas Hill Country (where I wrote fully a quarter of my total music compositional output at a very picturesque roadside park on Ranch Road 12 outside of the Hill Country town of Wimberley. I would travel to this park, and music literally *gushed* out of me).
I do miss Texas. I miss my friends in Austin. I think about them every single day. I miss the natural beauty of that state. I do miss the food – although I have found very respectable Texas barbecue and Mexican food in Indianapolis. It is there: one has to be willing to do the work to find it.
I do NOT miss the politics or the social attitudes in that state. When I lived in Texas, Austin was actually liberal. Thanks to the Tech Bros, Austin is no longer liberal – it is *libertarian*. “Libertarian” is not “liberal”. Ask any of the Black or Hispanic people who have been forced out of their south and East Austin homes by gentrification just how “liberal“ Austin is. Austin is the most economically segregated city in the entire country.
I also think about when I lost the use of my thumb and index finger of my left hand, and the attitude of my doctor in Texas was, “Find a new career.” I remember when I developed a hacking cough, which would not go away, and Texas doctors shrugged and said, “Well, we don’t know what it is, so learn to live with it.”
When we moved to Indianapolis, I found a primary care physician who was able to hook me up with a hand specialist at the IU Medical Center, who works exclusively on musicians’ hands. He was able to unfreeze my left hand so I could play the piano again. (I have a recital coming up in late December: I’m playing Liszt, Bartók, and Busoni.) I was referred to a pulmonologist who found I had a life-threatening respiratory disease which he was able to get under control - so even with having a disease which is eventually going to kill me, my overall health and quality of life are *vastly* improved over what they were in Texas.
I would go back to Texas TO VISIT. You couldn’t pay me enough to live in that shithole state again.
I won’t even visit that shithole state. I’ve been to an airport there and that was enough. I would have liked to visit Marfa, but that’s on hold now. My friend who lived in Texas says it’s one of the most hateful states she’s lived in (she had a trans partner at the time).
I would be lying if I said I don’t have massive resentments against the healthcare system in Texas and what they did to my health.
If one isn’t a massive donor to the Republican Party, or one doesn’t have a Cadillac health insurance policy, then one is essentially dog meat in Texas.
How easily one could simply replace "Muslim" with "Jew" or the N-word (or a lot of minorities) and find so many historical examples of politicians saying the exact same damn things.
Not sure how you'd deal with it with the First Amendment, but this kind of rhetoric and those who vomit it in public need to be dealt with somehow, either through civil options or social shaming or something.
These foolish white people are so scared of anyone that isn't them, it's positively cartoonish. At times I wonder if there is any help for them at all.
This Muslim hysteria just shows how weak Christian Nationalists (fascists) really are. Wait until they get a load of a growing number of humanist atheists 🤣.
"Hatred of the Other" is just Step One. The next steps get more serious and uglier, and Trump and those who follow his playbook have been deploying those steps for a while.
Call it a Blue Tsunami 🌊🌊🌊 or whatever you like. I'm hoping for a genuine wake-up call for every last Republican and MAGA supporter who thought they had a lock on things. I want their chains RATTLED like Jacob Marley never dreamed of.
And I want them to know that their boy and his trip are DONE.
I’ve never met the Muslim man who married my formerly beloved niece. I’ve never met his two children, my brother-in-law‘s grandchildren. I never will meet them. Muslim Boy doesn’t like gay people, especially gay people he knows nothing about and has never met.
His attitude has infected his wife, my formerly beloved niece. His attitude has affected the relationship between my husband and his brother, her father. BIL still loves us and treats us well, but he’s caught in between two opposing forces. We are out and proud gay men, and I’ve been in the gay rights fight for 55 years. As far as I can tell, the rest of the family pretty much agrees with us. They don’t hold the children at fault at all, but they have little to do with the parents.
This is what religious bigotry does. It builds nothing. It preserves nothing. It makes nothing better.
Schatzline,or more likely. Schätzlein inthe original german, means little treasure or darling. It’s ironic, isn’t it?. And I’m sure his rhetoric sounds better in the original German. It doesn’t amaze me as a gay man that hate still sells so well in this, the BESTEST country in the whole wide world. I’ve been watching it my whole life. Trump didn’t create it, he merely lifted the rock under which it had been hiding for so many decades, and said…
“come out, little Schatzline. Come out into the light.”
Texans should concentrate on being able to feed their kids. Or see a doctor. Or put gas in the car to get to work. These cultural issues should be the furthest things from their minds.
Exactly. Can you afford your groceries?? The reason the USA can’t have nice things is only because of racism, sexism, classism, and downright stupidity!
I worked with more than a few Muslims (and Hindus and who knows what else). I wasn't scared of them. A guy named Mohammad that worked under me even sent me a Xmas card.
Republicans constantly call out election fraud every time they lose an election. However, on those rare occasions when fraud is discovered there is almost always a Republican behind it. Right wing lunacy backed up by religious certitude is a dangerous combination.
The hell of it is, Trump started out as the proverbial #WhinyLittleBitch, and now he's got a considerable clique of Republicans acting just as whiny and just as pseudo-scared that Muslims and Socialists are going to take over the US.
My message to them is simple: grow up and GROW A PAIR!
Trump is still a whiny little bitch. It looks like part of what it means to be MAGA is to emulate Trump's whiny bitchiness.
They really are whiny little bitches.
So much for hyper-masculinity 🙄
Hyper-masculinity is a cover for being, ahem, short-changed by nature.
The problem being, they are the world's worst herd animals who often lack the capacity to think for themselves.
They fell for their own bullshit and here we are.
This is what happens when drug dealers get hooked on their own product! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
And locked into the bubble where everyone else is an addict too, so it seems almost normal!
Every accusation is a confession.
Well, "constantly" meaning since the 2016 Trump era started. AFAIK the Bushes, Reagan, etc. didn't do this nonsense.
“𝐼 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝐼 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒,” ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟.
This is a mostly empty threat, because polling place is dictated by address. He can't just walk into some place across town and vote there because it happens to be a mosque.
But let's say he does, not to actually vote but just to make a scene. I'm pretty sure a polling place can have a 'no food' rule, simply for cleanliness. Also pretty sure they can remove people who are being disruptive. Heck in my district, you can't even carry a political sign into within something like 50' of the polling place, so you can be asked to leave (or remove your sign) even if you aren't causing a disturbance.
So this dude can easily get kicked out of a mosque polling place, if he's determined to get kicked out. And no doubt he'll then play the victim despite there being some perfectly normal secular reason for his booting.
Why do they always go to the pork eating as a way to taunt Muslims? First off, Muslims are unlikely to give a shit how much bacon a non-Muslim is eating in front of them. Second, would he do that at a synagogue? Jewish dietary rules also prohibit pork.
They are showing their hate for everyone besides themselves, I love it.
I make sure to eat pork products every Good Friday but that's a personal nose-thumbing between me and the unlikely Abrahamic god.
And if not pork, there’s also cheeseburgers.
Gee whiz, nothing like punching down from a position of authority, is there. This Schatzline character is yet another in a series of Republicans who seem to think that the US would be better off white and Christian and not much else. The real shame is that, with Abbot in the governor's mansion (though for not much longer, I hope!), Schatzline will continue to rally the faithful, castigate Muslims and likely anyone else who doesn't worship his deity, and generally act like the asshat that he is.
This guy's line is more like a shit-line.
They already know they are the problem. It's clear when Schatzline confesses that "...ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚: ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘...
They are trying to do to Muslims what they are afraid atheists would do to them. They don't even realize that we want them to follow the Constitution and stop pretending they are stupid and can't understand simple words.
A WHOLE LOT of "OTHERING" going on here...
Hmmmm.... let's see....
“And by the way, I want you to notice something, because the F.A. readers agree on this: I didn’t say ‘radical Christianity.’ I said ‘Christianity,’ because all Christianity is radical.”
“𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑒𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 [𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠] 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠.”
He really said the quiet part out loud. His intention is to knowingly violate the Constitution by punishing Muslims for being Muslim and privilegeing Christians. And 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 what he thinks election integrity means?
Mr Schatzline: Election integrity means making sure all eligible voters have a good opportunity to vote, regardless of their beliefs or political persuasion. It does not mean doing everything you can so only your favorite people are allowed to vote.
But-but-but ... this is a CHRISTIAN Nation™!
Uh-huh, sure it is, bub. Ever read Article VI, Paragraph 3 of the Constitution? Or the First Amendment to that same document. I'm CERTAIN you are completely unaware of Article XI of the Treaty of Tripoli.
But then, being a dumbass, this is what I naturally expect of fools like Schatzline.
He doesn’t even know what 5 of the 7 Key Founders had to say about Christianity and what different sects of the Christian religion had done in Europe (not to mention in the early Brit Colonies here). They didn’t want a repeat of that.
These people are so predictable. When they run out of Latinos to blame for life's problems, they seek out another group.
I’m going to Texas next week to spend a few days with about 40 of my relatives, mostly Texans, at our hunting ranch. I know a lot of them are voting blue but I’m pretty sure some of the knuckle-draggers will be there too. I’ve heard that my cousin who blames vaccines for her son’s autism will be there. I won’t be hunting.
I’m in charge of making dinner Friday night. Making salmon 3 different ways and chicken for the salmon haters. Rice. Some kind of vegetable. And if I can round up enough help, I’ll make my starting-to-become-famous bacon wrapped onion rings.
WADAMINIT!!! Bacon-wrapped onion rings??? How decadent can you get? [answer: pretty damned decadent!!! {YUM!!!}]
"Making salmon 3 different ways" - Is that a euphemism?
Ah, Texas.
I would love to say that this guy is an outlier in the state, but people like him are depressingly common in Texas administration, and the Texas legislature.
We saw the writing on the wall back in 2015; sold our house, and moved to the Midwest.
Yes: I do miss Possum Kingdom Lake; Lake Whitney; Balmorhea State Park; El Paso (there is Mexican food in Texas, and Mexican food in El Paso and the two are *not* the same; and El Paso has it all over the rest of the state of Texas when it comes to Mexican food!); the Piney Woods and Nacogdoches; San Marcos and Texas State University, and the musical opportunities they provided for me; the Texas Hill Country (where I wrote fully a quarter of my total music compositional output at a very picturesque roadside park on Ranch Road 12 outside of the Hill Country town of Wimberley. I would travel to this park, and music literally *gushed* out of me).
I do miss Texas. I miss my friends in Austin. I think about them every single day. I miss the natural beauty of that state. I do miss the food – although I have found very respectable Texas barbecue and Mexican food in Indianapolis. It is there: one has to be willing to do the work to find it.
I do NOT miss the politics or the social attitudes in that state. When I lived in Texas, Austin was actually liberal. Thanks to the Tech Bros, Austin is no longer liberal – it is *libertarian*. “Libertarian” is not “liberal”. Ask any of the Black or Hispanic people who have been forced out of their south and East Austin homes by gentrification just how “liberal“ Austin is. Austin is the most economically segregated city in the entire country.
I also think about when I lost the use of my thumb and index finger of my left hand, and the attitude of my doctor in Texas was, “Find a new career.” I remember when I developed a hacking cough, which would not go away, and Texas doctors shrugged and said, “Well, we don’t know what it is, so learn to live with it.”
When we moved to Indianapolis, I found a primary care physician who was able to hook me up with a hand specialist at the IU Medical Center, who works exclusively on musicians’ hands. He was able to unfreeze my left hand so I could play the piano again. (I have a recital coming up in late December: I’m playing Liszt, Bartók, and Busoni.) I was referred to a pulmonologist who found I had a life-threatening respiratory disease which he was able to get under control - so even with having a disease which is eventually going to kill me, my overall health and quality of life are *vastly* improved over what they were in Texas.
I would go back to Texas TO VISIT. You couldn’t pay me enough to live in that shithole state again.
I won’t even visit that shithole state. I’ve been to an airport there and that was enough. I would have liked to visit Marfa, but that’s on hold now. My friend who lived in Texas says it’s one of the most hateful states she’s lived in (she had a trans partner at the time).
I hear you, Linda. I really do.
I would be lying if I said I don’t have massive resentments against the healthcare system in Texas and what they did to my health.
If one isn’t a massive donor to the Republican Party, or one doesn’t have a Cadillac health insurance policy, then one is essentially dog meat in Texas.
I’ve been to Texas for Basic Training and Tech School. That was enough Texas for me.
How easily one could simply replace "Muslim" with "Jew" or the N-word (or a lot of minorities) and find so many historical examples of politicians saying the exact same damn things.
Not sure how you'd deal with it with the First Amendment, but this kind of rhetoric and those who vomit it in public need to be dealt with somehow, either through civil options or social shaming or something.
These foolish white people are so scared of anyone that isn't them, it's positively cartoonish. At times I wonder if there is any help for them at all.
I was about to point out how scared they are when I came across your comment.
I'd suggest that maybe they should relax a bit, get to know these people, but I genuinely wonder if they're up for something that radical.
They fear everyone and anyone who doesn't look, smell, act, and think like them.
This Muslim hysteria just shows how weak Christian Nationalists (fascists) really are. Wait until they get a load of a growing number of humanist atheists 🤣.
I voted early!
Hatred of the Other is the core value of MAGA. It is not a political party, just a big bigoted voting bloc.
"Hatred of the Other" is just Step One. The next steps get more serious and uglier, and Trump and those who follow his playbook have been deploying those steps for a while.
WAY past time to cut them all off at the knees.
I sincerely hope tomorrow’s results kneecap them.
Call it a Blue Tsunami 🌊🌊🌊 or whatever you like. I'm hoping for a genuine wake-up call for every last Republican and MAGA supporter who thought they had a lock on things. I want their chains RATTLED like Jacob Marley never dreamed of.
And I want them to know that their boy and his trip are DONE.
I’m calling it Blue Tuesday (I hope).
I’ve never met the Muslim man who married my formerly beloved niece. I’ve never met his two children, my brother-in-law‘s grandchildren. I never will meet them. Muslim Boy doesn’t like gay people, especially gay people he knows nothing about and has never met.
His attitude has infected his wife, my formerly beloved niece. His attitude has affected the relationship between my husband and his brother, her father. BIL still loves us and treats us well, but he’s caught in between two opposing forces. We are out and proud gay men, and I’ve been in the gay rights fight for 55 years. As far as I can tell, the rest of the family pretty much agrees with us. They don’t hold the children at fault at all, but they have little to do with the parents.
This is what religious bigotry does. It builds nothing. It preserves nothing. It makes nothing better.
Schatzline,or more likely. Schätzlein inthe original german, means little treasure or darling. It’s ironic, isn’t it?. And I’m sure his rhetoric sounds better in the original German. It doesn’t amaze me as a gay man that hate still sells so well in this, the BESTEST country in the whole wide world. I’ve been watching it my whole life. Trump didn’t create it, he merely lifted the rock under which it had been hiding for so many decades, and said…
“come out, little Schatzline. Come out into the light.”
He won't come out. Light's too scary.
The anti-trans card is losing its potency this round? I mean, it’s still in play in Texas because what isn’t? Desperate and pathetic.
Texans should concentrate on being able to feed their kids. Or see a doctor. Or put gas in the car to get to work. These cultural issues should be the furthest things from their minds.
Exactly. Can you afford your groceries?? The reason the USA can’t have nice things is only because of racism, sexism, classism, and downright stupidity!
SFTW!
Stupidity For The Win!
I worked with more than a few Muslims (and Hindus and who knows what else). I wasn't scared of them. A guy named Mohammad that worked under me even sent me a Xmas card.
Poor guy will probably spend eternity in Jahannam for that bit of heresy. 😉
"what he claimed is a Muslim practice of casting votes on behalf of long-dead relatives"
That sounds more like a Mormon thing, like converting dead people to their cult.