Did you ever see me mention my get-rich-quick scheme for "Rapture Insurance" here?
How it works is there are things that "Christians" would like to see done in the event they (and all other Christians HARHARHAR!) are "taken up in the rapture". In the meantime, I'm collecting monthly credit card charges, amount of which is based on the requests made, and request difficulty/cost. As soon as the "rapture" begins, all charges cease.
Requests like letting a pet bird out, or delivering a last "I love you" to a non-Christian relative.
WHO AM I KIDDING! 90% of them would be letters to be mailed saying, "I'm in heaven, and YOU'RE NOT, so FUCK YOU!"
I actually wrote up a prospectus and contacted a lawyer before I realized that, even toward Christians, this feels wrong to me.
I was just going to say, there is literally no bottom for white evangelical voters. They will vote for the worst person as long as the person hates the same people they do.
I hate to mention this in case his wife is reading (poor deluded woman, she thinks it’s the fault of the woman who refused his invitation to have sex with him) but the odds on his having done this before are very high.
Ditto on his doing it again, and again, until she chucks him out.
Sadly true, especially with 5 kids. Which is exactly why so called Christian nationalists like him are pushing women into homemaking and child production so as to make it harder for them to leave no matter how badly their husbands behave.
The guy is a classic narcissist, and I feel bad for his kids. His wife will hold on because she probably knows that divorced mothers usually wind up poor.
I agree he's probably done this before. And her being on the payroll implies some power imbalance. However, she seems to have her act together and it seems very unlikely to me that 'campaign staff' is her financial lifeline. IMO this is much more of a "it takes two to tango" situation than a "crap I have to put up with this to keep my job" situation.
The internalized misogyny of purity culture nonsense is strong with this one. Husband steps out, wife blames the other woman, not understanding that both women are victims of a predator taking advantage of purity culture nonsense.
Sometimes it seems as though the word, "Integrity" and the phrase, "Christian Nationalism" are utter strangers to each other. In the case of Jackson Lahmeyer, I would say my statement is all but intuitively obvious. "Do as I say, not as I do" might as well be their rallying cry, and unmeant apologies their stock in trade.
Jackson Lahmeyer shouldn't be elected dog catcher, never mind House Representative.
The Seventh Commandment: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:27: "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
MAGA Christians: "Hold my beer".
Morality is for OTHER people, not them. They only use morality as a cudgel in order to JUDGE others. Yet for some reason they don't believe they will be judged. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Rules are meant for the followers, not the leaders.
It's how authoritarian systems work. How hierarchies work. How they maintain control. You climb the ladder so you can be shit on by less people and you can shit on more. You viciously defend your rank and privilege because equality means losing.
This is, generally speaking, the thing conservatives are trying to conserve.
So a few weeks ago when democratic so and so was forced out of the governor’s race and then out of the senate, but his republican contemporary had harassed a married staffer into suicide by self immolation. The Democrat was pressured to step down immediately but the republican didn’t even think of it when the controversy first came out, it took the backlash against the Democrat to get any attention on his despicable actions and the democratic pressure caused him to step down. The republicans are still supporting him, btw.
The republican base will never hold their politicians accountable for their bad behavior, the left needs to be the conscience for the whole country. I know the left is the conscience, we just need to apply the pressure until the country starts moving toward empathy and progress rather than hatred and fascism.
The most frustrating thing about this story is that it just goes to show how disinvested people are in politics. Relying on an endorsement - either to further your campaign or to choose who you vote for - is laziness at its core.
These right-wing whack-job pastors don’t offend me half as much as do the people who delegate their thinking to them.
Fock the flock.
No thanks, we KNOW where they’ve been…
Oh but thinking is haaarrrd and it's not fair that I'm expected to do any of it myself!
Obligatory: Not a drag queen.
Most Obligatory of All: Not an atheist.
Also obligatory: not a transgender person, or an immigrant, or Muslim, or Democrat, etc.
They’re Republicans. Always presume guilty until proven innocent. 99.999999999999% of the time it’ll be right.
Joe,
I'm old and forgetful.
Did you ever see me mention my get-rich-quick scheme for "Rapture Insurance" here?
How it works is there are things that "Christians" would like to see done in the event they (and all other Christians HARHARHAR!) are "taken up in the rapture". In the meantime, I'm collecting monthly credit card charges, amount of which is based on the requests made, and request difficulty/cost. As soon as the "rapture" begins, all charges cease.
Requests like letting a pet bird out, or delivering a last "I love you" to a non-Christian relative.
WHO AM I KIDDING! 90% of them would be letters to be mailed saying, "I'm in heaven, and YOU'RE NOT, so FUCK YOU!"
I actually wrote up a prospectus and contacted a lawyer before I realized that, even toward Christians, this feels wrong to me.
So, who wants it next?
You're too late. Stuff like that is already being done, and a good number of them are Christians who are, apparently, sincere about it.
Whoa!
When I considered it 20 years ago, this was a very different world.
Christians profiting from Christians isn't new, but it's certainly pathetic.
I first heard about Rapture Insurance in the 1990s.
Well, thanks, I suppose. (I just Googled it. Maybe some of these Christians should do the same, but search the Bible for "rapture".)
I just makes sense. I'm just glad I never went through with it.
As I approach 70, I become even more convinced that humanity needs all the kindness we can each summon.
If you're a pastor for the Apricot Antichrist, you seriously need to reevaluate what it is that you are supporting,
That would require thought and reflection. NOT their strong suits.
They will do what they are told and like it.
Yup ... purdy much.
They have neither thoughts nor reflections.
I like apricots. I will kindly ask you NOT to associate them with Donald Trump. That is all, carry on.
You may call him Mango Mussolini, unless you like Mangos too much, ya dam’ fruit lover.
How about Temussolini? That’s just on the heathen chinee!
Well said!!
Thank you. Much appreciated.
I doubt this will damage his campaign. His demographic of voters support an orange rapist and pedophile who cheated on every one of his wives.
I was just going to say, there is literally no bottom for white evangelical voters. They will vote for the worst person as long as the person hates the same people they do.
I hate to mention this in case his wife is reading (poor deluded woman, she thinks it’s the fault of the woman who refused his invitation to have sex with him) but the odds on his having done this before are very high.
Ditto on his doing it again, and again, until she chucks him out.
The "other woman" was an employee. The wife should start looking at the payroll.
Sadly true, especially with 5 kids. Which is exactly why so called Christian nationalists like him are pushing women into homemaking and child production so as to make it harder for them to leave no matter how badly their husbands behave.
The guy is a classic narcissist, and I feel bad for his kids. His wife will hold on because she probably knows that divorced mothers usually wind up poor.
I agree he's probably done this before. And her being on the payroll implies some power imbalance. However, she seems to have her act together and it seems very unlikely to me that 'campaign staff' is her financial lifeline. IMO this is much more of a "it takes two to tango" situation than a "crap I have to put up with this to keep my job" situation.
Yes, and she refused him, which must have hurt him in a very tender place - his ego.
Chucking him out would be a sin. UPchucking him out is OK wid Jeebus.
"He has said Black Lives Matter was founded by “witchcraft-practicing lesbians,”"
Where do I sign up?
He says that like it’s a bad thing.
I wish to subscribe to their newsletter.
I'm hoping for a video series.
I'm not any of those things but they sound like my kind of people.
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑎ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑠, 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠—𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡… 𝐾𝑒𝑦. 𝐴𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑜𝑛𝑒-𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ, 𝑖𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑦, 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝐿𝑎ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝐾𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 (𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡).
The internalized misogyny of purity culture nonsense is strong with this one. Husband steps out, wife blames the other woman, not understanding that both women are victims of a predator taking advantage of purity culture nonsense.
It's part of the xtian ethos: wimmen are property and such.
They should do as they tld and stay in the kitchen making samwiches and popping out more kids.
The Jesus delusion: victimization...or just plain stupidity?
He's about 40 or so? That was the selfish decade,as I remember it. That definitely was a meaner generation.
Sometimes it seems as though the word, "Integrity" and the phrase, "Christian Nationalism" are utter strangers to each other. In the case of Jackson Lahmeyer, I would say my statement is all but intuitively obvious. "Do as I say, not as I do" might as well be their rallying cry, and unmeant apologies their stock in trade.
Jackson Lahmeyer shouldn't be elected dog catcher, never mind House Representative.
I'm surprised ... his sexting partner is an an adult.
The Seventh Commandment: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:27: "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
MAGA Christians: "Hold my beer".
Morality is for OTHER people, not them. They only use morality as a cudgel in order to JUDGE others. Yet for some reason they don't believe they will be judged. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Yup. The Pilgrims and Puritans did the same thing,lots of hypocrisy.
Rules are meant for the followers, not the leaders.
It's how authoritarian systems work. How hierarchies work. How they maintain control. You climb the ladder so you can be shit on by less people and you can shit on more. You viciously defend your rank and privilege because equality means losing.
This is, generally speaking, the thing conservatives are trying to conserve.
It's a very Putin- like way of thinking. No wonder he's so popular with hardcore rightists. And of course the Communists too.
So a few weeks ago when democratic so and so was forced out of the governor’s race and then out of the senate, but his republican contemporary had harassed a married staffer into suicide by self immolation. The Democrat was pressured to step down immediately but the republican didn’t even think of it when the controversy first came out, it took the backlash against the Democrat to get any attention on his despicable actions and the democratic pressure caused him to step down. The republicans are still supporting him, btw.
The republican base will never hold their politicians accountable for their bad behavior, the left needs to be the conscience for the whole country. I know the left is the conscience, we just need to apply the pressure until the country starts moving toward empathy and progress rather than hatred and fascism.
If they didn't have double standards ...
…they wouldn’t have any at all.🫤
Never trust the preacher , they lie for a living
They have to lie. The religion itself is based on an enormous lie. Take that away, and the entire institution collapses.
I'm sorry, MAGA, what was that you were saying about Graham Platner again?
MAGA: "This is different!!! Because...just because!!!"
Other MAGA: That's right! We got .... reasons!!!
Oh, they got all sorts of reasons. They just don't reason.
I see what you did there. 😜
😁😁😁
The most frustrating thing about this story is that it just goes to show how disinvested people are in politics. Relying on an endorsement - either to further your campaign or to choose who you vote for - is laziness at its core.
It'a cult. Therefore the cult leader tells them how to think and who to vote for.
Alex Jones did "nothing wrong?" Ah, I see, Lahmeyer is a member of that well-known group PSFW (Pastors Supporting False Witness).