Not a Republican on the list. A real shocker, I know. Republicans pander to the preachers and view human decency as a character flaw. Critical thinking is the worst possible sin in the eyes of most of these people.
Evidenced by the way the right keep parroting the same talking points as soon as the regime releases a new one. Most of the right wing influencers can’t even reword the thought, just video after video after video of mayonnaise colored morons repeating the exact text they were sent in an automated text message. “What if Bill Clinton’s is on the list? You libtards would defend him.” Over and over and over again.
Gotdamn they’re sheep and still pretend they’re geniuses.
It disgusts me to no end how every Republican in Congress is repeating the same talking points the moment they're handed a new one. The world's worst herd animals.
But it has such horrible consequences: e.g., "god's" command for inquisitions, genocides, approval of rape in marriage, slavery... FYI - some thoughts on what Abrahamic religions have come from and why they are what they are today - e.g., Trump's christian nationalists and other neo-Nazi supporters; Israel in Palestine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOCpacEOFA
No need for thought at all? It's all done for It's true believers, just like Trump "thinking" for his rabid followers, and inflicting that on to the U.S.
corrupted senior Wehrmacht officers and prussian military nobility and german aristocrates with cash money, tax concessions, goverment positions, goverment contracts land grants & properties, and all kinds of awards and pensions, so too have the GOP been corrupted to.do the bidding of of the rich and powers that be both domestically and internationally.
Never, underestimate the power and cancer of corruption.
Maybe take a leaf from Trump's book (republican's Heritage Foundation, Project 25: manual for dictatorship), such as, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf to Gulf of Unprintable, and start using a different label for the fascist/neo-Nazi republican party. Is there anything "grand" about them? I suggest looking at el supremo, generalissimo, top banana, big kahuna, head honcho, kingpin, crime family boss/mafia godfather. But "massa" seems to fit best, with Trump and the republicans turning the U.S. into his personal deep south plantation.
The Freethought Caucus needs to be an order of magnitude larger before the NSGOP will take them seriously. Why are there no Republicans? Because the NSGOP doesn't value freedom of thought. They want to make their ideology the only ideas allowed. They would like to have thought police, where you can be locked up for insufficient loyalty to der OrangeFührer.
This is the dream of many religions, not just xtianity. Nearly all clim tjhe "One TRUE TRUTH" nd ll others are heretics deserving pinful deaths. Jesus preached love, tolerance and acceptance. Yet they hate women, LGBTQ, Trans, POC & atheists.
ICE is supposedly going after gangs, yet they raided Hyundai plant under construction in GA. Now South Kore is saying the entire thing is in jeopardy. ICE avoids gangs because they know gang embers are usually armed and will shoot first. More of dumpy's finest chickens.
They will never go after gangs. Charlie Kirk seemed to think gang murders don't count. He was talking about that as he was shot. It seems to me they think it is a Democrat problem. Why do they never think about why gangs exist and what they could do to prevent them?
That would require an actual solution to a real problem, republicans don’t have solutions to real problems. That is why the republicans make up a simplistic problems so the republicans can use an even more simplistic solutions, and the average MAGAS think the problems are getting solved. Yet, that problem and the solution doesn’t have any actual impact on people’s lives. The so called war on Christmas is an example of a made up problem and solution, there are countless more but you get the idea.
To actual solve a problem, first you must understand the complexity and nuances of that problem (republicans don’t want to bother), then you come up with a nuanced and practical way to solve it, but that requires time, money, expertise which the republicans don’t have (nor the republicans want to acquire these things) or want to do.
Hear what you saying. Solutions, as you know, indicate the need for redistribution of resources and opportunities for all citizens while social chaos and forms of Lord of the flies here and there distract people and set citizens against citizens for the purpose of maintaining the status quo.
Unfortunately the US has never had a strong collective labour union culture apart from nationalism which in itself is extremely detrimental strangely enough to the nation which is the people.
I agree with you on labour and collective bargaining. Like I said real problems that actually affect real people are more complex and nuance than the republicans and the MAGAS want to understand or even deal with!
A crime-prevention program that involved improving QOL for people and giving young people positive things to do was actively decreasing violence and crime in the city over from me. Guess who cut funding to that program!
I can't fault Sarah McBride for choosing other battles to fight. She does not have to be defined by her gender/sexuality. Nothing wrong with being a moderate Democrat.
Read an article on some right wing site, referred to her as trans, has nothing to do with the issue at hand. The sad thing is this will happen whatever she is involved with.
She has my respect for putting herself in the firing line.
OT: Twice now change.org has sent me "Won't you sign" messages from some ijit who wants to create a "National Memorial Day" for Charlie Kirk "because violence isn't the answer to our differences". No "Melissa Hortman" day. Or Paul Pelosi. Where was this guy with his "violence isn't the answer" then.
Damn thing has over 25k signatures.
It's not like I think he deserved to be killed, but I'm happy he's dead.
Others have drawn parallels between Kirk's untimely-only-in-the-sense-that-it-didn't-come-sooner demise to Horst Wessel's murder and subsequent martyrdom for the Nazis (who ironically would've probably killed him themselves if he'd still been around for the Night of Long Knives), and I'm inclined to agree. The lionizing started before the body was even cold; at least one Republican in Congress has already introduced legislation to put a statue of the shithead in the Capitol Rotunda.
Still happy he's dead though. If it wasn't him, it'd have been someone else. The speed with which all the other notable Nazis jumped all over this posthumous turd-polishing effort tells me that the script was already written and merely waiting for the names to be filled in.
"...reason-based public policy, keeping church and state separate, opposing discrimination against non-religious people, and championing freedom of thought around the world."
That's why there are no Republicans in the caucus. They are against all four of those.
You'll pardon my saying so, but this is almost becoming a cliche. Democrats who care about diversity of opinions and positions support and participate in a Freethought Caucus. Republicans who are sold out to Trump, to Christian Nationalism, or BOTH, not only can't be bothered but may even think of the CFC as some kind of aberration.
And I may continue to think that way until the first congressperson with an (R) next to their name joins the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
McBride does in fact fight for trans rights and is widely credited with stiffening the ultimately successful Democratic resistance to excluding gender affirming care from Medicaid in the last budget bill.
It does seem like the right is trying to fight the fight at the bathroom level because that’s where their base is. But that isn’t where the fight needs to be and McBride might be savvy to that. The visible fight over bathrooms is a cover for the deeper fight she is working on. At least, that’s what I hope she’s doing.
It does seem like it’s really important not to give any ground, but if we’re focused on the bathrooms, the right is not worried about us fighting for the medical care. We can do two things at once, but to the right, it’s about keeping us swinging until we’re exhausted, then they go in for the kill. We need folks who are willing to fight the tougher battles behind the scenes as well as folks who can take on the constant little skirmishes over this bathroom or that one.
drumpfco has shown us what jesus is all about. Jesus hates every one, adores money and hates skin color & sexx.. If they could they would declare breathing a sin and demand a dollar for each breath cuz jeff bezos wants another 300 foot yacht. Hungry and cold? God hates you and loves Bezos. Yet each billionaire means thousands going hungry and cold. But gawd loves the rich kkkons.
Religion is the cruelestt joke ever foisted on mankind.
See as a conservative man, this just shows that I am right. Women hold dangerous idea and should not be allowed to hold positions of power. The nineteenth amendment was a colossal mistake responsible for the fall of Western Civilization.
On a unrelated note, I don't understand why no one will date me?
Cuz kkkons know they can use religious superstition to cow the faithful using fear. Religion is one huge dictatorship that teaches people dictatorship is required to prevent sin. . No dictatorship, sin is rampant and imaginary satan wins.. This of course requires a belief in sin being real. Yet sin is just as imaginary as the gods and satan. Neurosis is building imaginary gods and ministers collect the rent every Sunday.
OT- Fox's most forgettable host calls for homeless people to be executed; immediately discovers that he isn't popular enough to get away with that sort of thing:
Have heard "forgettable host" and always true to form and no doubt like others, preoccupied with networking and the next pay day.
As for this constant argument
that money thrown at homelessness brings little or no result, more so when it includes mental health. Well when you consider that trillions of $ are thrown around by both political parties - domestically and internationally - any money spent for homelessness & mental health is simply petty cash.
And will never hear these 'fox type' characters question an economic system that's intentionally geared for inequality and underfunding at the expencr of the majority of US citizens. After all they are thinking of future pay days.
Any criminal act by a homeless person who contends with mental health issues is one to many. But so too is any criminal act as a result of political and civic indifference, corruption and greed one to many. There's plenty of sin to go around in Pottersville USA 🇺🇸 😔
He should have been fired and not allowed to skate with a quick on-air apology (after a period of FOUR DAYS from the original remark). He, indeed, "got away with that sort of thing."
OT so the actual suspect in the shooting turned out to be a young, conservative, white man. Whoda thunk it?
Is this really the guy? You never know with the incompetence of the regime. But why would they frame a conservative for something they were trying to lay on the heads of liberals and blacks?
Yeah, there’s no reason to assume a man who wears a Trump Halloween costume and grew up with firearms with a sheriff/pastor as a father would be conservative. Maybe he’s a black sheep.
Certainly possible if not likely, but I'd prefer something more definitive that came from him. Lots of smoke, but no fire just yet.
Fox had a piece on "everything we know about the shooter." They said he was a student, turned in by his family, and almost nothing else. Of course the comments were all " Dur! Liberalz!"
Maybe the Trump costume was the scariest thing he could think of? He also did a Pepe costume...
That's a false premise. The more they shoot at each other, the more they get used to shooting at everyone who annoys them. Interesting that the news says the US is "entering a new phase of political violence". I'm pretty sure that began some time ago.
Not a Republican on the list. A real shocker, I know. Republicans pander to the preachers and view human decency as a character flaw. Critical thinking is the worst possible sin in the eyes of most of these people.
Beat me to it. Your post wasn't visible until AFTER I sent in mine.
GMTA! But, we know that. ;)
Great minds think alike, but fools rarely differ.
Evidenced by the way the right keep parroting the same talking points as soon as the regime releases a new one. Most of the right wing influencers can’t even reword the thought, just video after video after video of mayonnaise colored morons repeating the exact text they were sent in an automated text message. “What if Bill Clinton’s is on the list? You libtards would defend him.” Over and over and over again.
Gotdamn they’re sheep and still pretend they’re geniuses.
It disgusts me to no end how every Republican in Congress is repeating the same talking points the moment they're handed a new one. The world's worst herd animals.
Gotta scroll on ...
https://youtu.be/CTAud5O7Qqk
I think cring and compassion are even worse sins.
Sin is the cudgel used by religion to pound hatred into the hearts of its followers.
I've long felt Christianity to consist of roughly equal parts comfort myth and revenge fantasy. Critical thinking is a clear threat to both of them.
So is reality!
But it has such horrible consequences: e.g., "god's" command for inquisitions, genocides, approval of rape in marriage, slavery... FYI - some thoughts on what Abrahamic religions have come from and why they are what they are today - e.g., Trump's christian nationalists and other neo-Nazi supporters; Israel in Palestine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOCpacEOFA
Who needs free thought when you have God?
No need for thought at all? It's all done for It's true believers, just like Trump "thinking" for his rabid followers, and inflicting that on to the U.S.
Just like the Nazis cunningly
corrupted senior Wehrmacht officers and prussian military nobility and german aristocrates with cash money, tax concessions, goverment positions, goverment contracts land grants & properties, and all kinds of awards and pensions, so too have the GOP been corrupted to.do the bidding of of the rich and powers that be both domestically and internationally.
Never, underestimate the power and cancer of corruption.
Maybe take a leaf from Trump's book (republican's Heritage Foundation, Project 25: manual for dictatorship), such as, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf to Gulf of Unprintable, and start using a different label for the fascist/neo-Nazi republican party. Is there anything "grand" about them? I suggest looking at el supremo, generalissimo, top banana, big kahuna, head honcho, kingpin, crime family boss/mafia godfather. But "massa" seems to fit best, with Trump and the republicans turning the U.S. into his personal deep south plantation.
The Freethought Caucus needs to be an order of magnitude larger before the NSGOP will take them seriously. Why are there no Republicans? Because the NSGOP doesn't value freedom of thought. They want to make their ideology the only ideas allowed. They would like to have thought police, where you can be locked up for insufficient loyalty to der OrangeFührer.
This is the dream of many religions, not just xtianity. Nearly all clim tjhe "One TRUE TRUTH" nd ll others are heretics deserving pinful deaths. Jesus preached love, tolerance and acceptance. Yet they hate women, LGBTQ, Trans, POC & atheists.
ICE is supposedly going after gangs, yet they raided Hyundai plant under construction in GA. Now South Kore is saying the entire thing is in jeopardy. ICE avoids gangs because they know gang embers are usually armed and will shoot first. More of dumpy's finest chickens.
They will never go after gangs. Charlie Kirk seemed to think gang murders don't count. He was talking about that as he was shot. It seems to me they think it is a Democrat problem. Why do they never think about why gangs exist and what they could do to prevent them?
That would require an actual solution to a real problem, republicans don’t have solutions to real problems. That is why the republicans make up a simplistic problems so the republicans can use an even more simplistic solutions, and the average MAGAS think the problems are getting solved. Yet, that problem and the solution doesn’t have any actual impact on people’s lives. The so called war on Christmas is an example of a made up problem and solution, there are countless more but you get the idea.
To actual solve a problem, first you must understand the complexity and nuances of that problem (republicans don’t want to bother), then you come up with a nuanced and practical way to solve it, but that requires time, money, expertise which the republicans don’t have (nor the republicans want to acquire these things) or want to do.
Hear what you saying. Solutions, as you know, indicate the need for redistribution of resources and opportunities for all citizens while social chaos and forms of Lord of the flies here and there distract people and set citizens against citizens for the purpose of maintaining the status quo.
Unfortunately the US has never had a strong collective labour union culture apart from nationalism which in itself is extremely detrimental strangely enough to the nation which is the people.
I agree with you on labour and collective bargaining. Like I said real problems that actually affect real people are more complex and nuance than the republicans and the MAGAS want to understand or even deal with!
A crime-prevention program that involved improving QOL for people and giving young people positive things to do was actively decreasing violence and crime in the city over from me. Guess who cut funding to that program!
I can't fault Sarah McBride for choosing other battles to fight. She does not have to be defined by her gender/sexuality. Nothing wrong with being a moderate Democrat.
Read an article on some right wing site, referred to her as trans, has nothing to do with the issue at hand. The sad thing is this will happen whatever she is involved with.
She has my respect for putting herself in the firing line.
Still no Republicans. Not even Independents. Speaks volumes.
Guess they prefer no thought.
I think (dangerous thing to do currently) we are all on the same page.
gawd hates ides. Ideas are dangerous to dictators.
But Memphis, capital of the Midsouth, keeps sending Steve Cohen back to the House.
Even red states have their bright spots.
OT: Twice now change.org has sent me "Won't you sign" messages from some ijit who wants to create a "National Memorial Day" for Charlie Kirk "because violence isn't the answer to our differences". No "Melissa Hortman" day. Or Paul Pelosi. Where was this guy with his "violence isn't the answer" then.
Damn thing has over 25k signatures.
It's not like I think he deserved to be killed, but I'm happy he's dead.
Others have drawn parallels between Kirk's untimely-only-in-the-sense-that-it-didn't-come-sooner demise to Horst Wessel's murder and subsequent martyrdom for the Nazis (who ironically would've probably killed him themselves if he'd still been around for the Night of Long Knives), and I'm inclined to agree. The lionizing started before the body was even cold; at least one Republican in Congress has already introduced legislation to put a statue of the shithead in the Capitol Rotunda.
Still happy he's dead though. If it wasn't him, it'd have been someone else. The speed with which all the other notable Nazis jumped all over this posthumous turd-polishing effort tells me that the script was already written and merely waiting for the names to be filled in.
Horst Wessel ... That's a name I haven't heard from long time. Apt now though.
There are reports there was a tell-all book about this exact shooting that was released on Amazon on September 8th 2025.
"...reason-based public policy, keeping church and state separate, opposing discrimination against non-religious people, and championing freedom of thought around the world."
That's why there are no Republicans in the caucus. They are against all four of those.
You'll pardon my saying so, but this is almost becoming a cliche. Democrats who care about diversity of opinions and positions support and participate in a Freethought Caucus. Republicans who are sold out to Trump, to Christian Nationalism, or BOTH, not only can't be bothered but may even think of the CFC as some kind of aberration.
And I may continue to think that way until the first congressperson with an (R) next to their name joins the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
The USA will have ceased to exist before that happens. Probably all other humans too.
Cliché is just another name for chant.
https://youtu.be/AGHMS_zh0zM
Or chiant.
https://youtu.be/z5-E4fZXd3A
gawd sends people to hell for thinking. They must keep up the charade.
McBride does in fact fight for trans rights and is widely credited with stiffening the ultimately successful Democratic resistance to excluding gender affirming care from Medicaid in the last budget bill.
It does seem like the right is trying to fight the fight at the bathroom level because that’s where their base is. But that isn’t where the fight needs to be and McBride might be savvy to that. The visible fight over bathrooms is a cover for the deeper fight she is working on. At least, that’s what I hope she’s doing.
It does seem like it’s really important not to give any ground, but if we’re focused on the bathrooms, the right is not worried about us fighting for the medical care. We can do two things at once, but to the right, it’s about keeping us swinging until we’re exhausted, then they go in for the kill. We need folks who are willing to fight the tougher battles behind the scenes as well as folks who can take on the constant little skirmishes over this bathroom or that one.
"House Dems should drop a ‘Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act’ on the floor just to make Republicans go on record voting against it."
With a rider to release the Epstein files (did you hear that tRump's name are all over them?) just like Saint Charlie wanted.
drumpfco has shown us what jesus is all about. Jesus hates every one, adores money and hates skin color & sexx.. If they could they would declare breathing a sin and demand a dollar for each breath cuz jeff bezos wants another 300 foot yacht. Hungry and cold? God hates you and loves Bezos. Yet each billionaire means thousands going hungry and cold. But gawd loves the rich kkkons.
Religion is the cruelestt joke ever foisted on mankind.
See as a conservative man, this just shows that I am right. Women hold dangerous idea and should not be allowed to hold positions of power. The nineteenth amendment was a colossal mistake responsible for the fall of Western Civilization.
On a unrelated note, I don't understand why no one will date me?
That is because all the eligible candidates are already married to men who think they are property.
Because their vaginas snap shut when they meet you? Just a guess.
Cuz kkkons know they can use religious superstition to cow the faithful using fear. Religion is one huge dictatorship that teaches people dictatorship is required to prevent sin. . No dictatorship, sin is rampant and imaginary satan wins.. This of course requires a belief in sin being real. Yet sin is just as imaginary as the gods and satan. Neurosis is building imaginary gods and ministers collect the rent every Sunday.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d9f0f0a95672cfbd5a181c5693648c8f03e13441e4294b8b7738608e5bfdcbdc.jpg
OT- Fox's most forgettable host calls for homeless people to be executed; immediately discovers that he isn't popular enough to get away with that sort of thing:
https://apnews.com/article/kilmeade-fox-homeless-executed-apology-bffb74e9d672b79853dc6fb8eb29afc8
Lemme just run that apology through the 'ol CYA-to-English translator: "𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺, 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸."
No, the other guy is most forgettable. What's his name? ; )
Douche-y.
Kilmeade is raw sewage. Abysmal POS.
Have heard "forgettable host" and always true to form and no doubt like others, preoccupied with networking and the next pay day.
As for this constant argument
that money thrown at homelessness brings little or no result, more so when it includes mental health. Well when you consider that trillions of $ are thrown around by both political parties - domestically and internationally - any money spent for homelessness & mental health is simply petty cash.
And will never hear these 'fox type' characters question an economic system that's intentionally geared for inequality and underfunding at the expencr of the majority of US citizens. After all they are thinking of future pay days.
Any criminal act by a homeless person who contends with mental health issues is one to many. But so too is any criminal act as a result of political and civic indifference, corruption and greed one to many. There's plenty of sin to go around in Pottersville USA 🇺🇸 😔
Gosh that sounds really sincere doesn't it? Not at all as if it was written by a PR firm. /s
He apologized for “saying” it. Not for believing it. That’s pretty damn sincere.
He should have been fired and not allowed to skate with a quick on-air apology (after a period of FOUR DAYS from the original remark). He, indeed, "got away with that sort of thing."
OT so the actual suspect in the shooting turned out to be a young, conservative, white man. Whoda thunk it?
Is this really the guy? You never know with the incompetence of the regime. But why would they frame a conservative for something they were trying to lay on the heads of liberals and blacks?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/live-blog/rcna230762
I haven't heard anything that specifically labels him as a conservative, but definitely white, young, male.
Also: Not a Drag Queen.
He was Charlie Kirk's target audience...
Pun intended?
😇
Well done
Yeah, there’s no reason to assume a man who wears a Trump Halloween costume and grew up with firearms with a sheriff/pastor as a father would be conservative. Maybe he’s a black sheep.
Certainly possible if not likely, but I'd prefer something more definitive that came from him. Lots of smoke, but no fire just yet.
Fox had a piece on "everything we know about the shooter." They said he was a student, turned in by his family, and almost nothing else. Of course the comments were all " Dur! Liberalz!"
Maybe the Trump costume was the scariest thing he could think of? He also did a Pepe costume...
As long as they are busy shooting each other they are too busy to bother us?
That's a false premise. The more they shoot at each other, the more they get used to shooting at everyone who annoys them. Interesting that the news says the US is "entering a new phase of political violence". I'm pretty sure that began some time ago.
Optimist.
This is now the third suspect after the first two were washouts.
Shamussolini announced him as the shooter so now he's the shooter, whether he did it or not.
Kash Patel is on the job!
To be fair, he is relying on that good old police procedure – family turns him in.
diligence, collect facts, analyze, interview, sleepless nights, more interviews... and the family turns him in.
Seems he's got himself into a bit of trouble. He's been hit with a big lawsuit over his politically motivated firings.
It wouldn't matter who the shooter was (assuming the whole damn thing wasn't a setup). Right-wing media has already spun their narrative, and no amount of facts or evidence will change where this is going: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/press-conference-no-transgender-or
Pretext manufactured; soon comes the madness.
I knew the shooter was a MAGA nut in the first place rather than a Dem, Jew, Trans, or whatever.
The idiot MAGA nuts think he is a Liberal, Marxist, Communist. Because he spent a term at college.
Apparently there is some sort of feud between Nick Fuentes' group and some other group. Who knows, I don't keep track of RWNJ infighting. :)
OMG! Why do they hate Jesus?
Hating the avarice, intolerance and and persecution the kkkons hand out in the name of jesus
My niece is now in NC and on a 10 YEAR waiting list to see if she qualifies for help. I guess they hope she will die first.
They don't care if people die: xtian nationalism.