Where Are We Runnin’? - American Politics Thread, May 2022

A conviction would be a long shot. The Republicans can justify starting one on the basis that the Democrats did it to Trump.

I'm talking the Court (in tandem with other institutions that have fallen under the control of Christian fascists) engineering a coup that doesn't look like a coup - a recall election, something along those lines.

i thought it was a foregone conclusion that if the GOP takes the house in 2022, particularly with any significant numbers, they'll impeach. very well might go to pass too, but wouldn't pass the senate, i don't think

xpost oh never mind

re: the supreme court, they're not going to do a coup pre-2024. better to just let it play out as everyone knows it's going to, and then vote 5-4 that what happened was legal

link within that new republic article: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/20042/to-rule-history-with-god-the-christian-dominionist-war-on-abortion-part-i/

really good.

i realize i've posted a lot of complete dogshit over the last 18 years so grain of salt

I mean, this is one of those days where I say to myself, "Karl's chicken little stance is certainly bearing out here."

looool, ooooof. i know, i know.

i'm going to try to do something more productive with my time. i will say, in an attempt to separate myself from the bizarro right-wing mirror images of myself (doomsayers), that i very much want to be completely wrong. being completely wrong is a very satisfying outcome in my belief system

hard to be too much of an optimist about what the Dems will do but I think even they gotta know they'll get destroyed if they just sit on their hands here

It’s unsettling just how appropriate a thread title this is as the month advances.

this is your fault, raymond! ;)

US Politics, 21st century:

‘Summoned to the Bench’

Not everyone in dominionist Christianity was pleased with Trump’s choice of Kavanaugh. In a monthly prayer call led by the NAR group Intercessors For America that Right Wing Watch reported on in 2018, Philip Jauregui, an allied attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom and partner at an Alabama and Mississippi law firm, compared Kavanaugh to Absalom—the biblical son of King David who attempted to usurp his father’s throne.

Jauregui declared that God had already chosen a nominee to fill Kennedy’s seat: Amy Coney Barrett, whom he referred to as “the anointed one” and “the one that God loves.”

“Lord, we ask you in the name of Jesus, would you please let us see President Trump and Amy Coney Barrett Monday night, glorifying you?” prayed the ADF-allied attorney, who is also president of the Judicial Action Group, an Alabama-based judiciary-focused lobbying group.

Barrett is a Catholic member of the ecumenical religious community known as People of Praise. Its founder, Kevin Ranaghan, is a Catholic deacon and a leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, a Pentecostal sect of Catholicism that believes in and practices spiritual gifts. The Catholic sect, which dates back to the 1970s, has deep connections with NAR figures such as Engle, who often shares stages with like-minded Catholic clergy and teaches that God wants a reconciled Christianity to join forces and build his kingdom.

During the 2018 prayer call, Right Wing Watch reported, Jauregui “asked God to do whatever it takes—including waking up Trump, Melania, and Mike and Karen Pence in the middle of the night and sending angels their way—to keep them from settling on the wrong nominee.”

“And so we say, Absalom, you cannot have it, in the name of Jesus. And you should better leave right now. The longer you stick around, you endanger yourself by opposing God Almighty,” Jauregui cried. “And I’m speaking to the spirit … that would try to usurp and steal the throne from the anointed one. You can’t have it. We bind you, spirit of Absalom, in the name of Jesus, and we tell you, get out now or you will be destroyed.”

In Engle’s July 2, 2018, newsletter days before news of Trump’s pick broke, though, the NAR leader’s ministry had already made room for the possibility that Trump might choose someone other than Barrett to replace Kennedy.

“There is a mystery of course, that comes with the prophetic, but this much is for sure: The Ekklesia of God is being summoned to the bench! Let us not miss our day of visitation,” the newsletter said. “It’s time to wage war in the heavenly realms according to the revelation we’ve been given. … It’s time to partner with the cloud of witnesses and the angelic armies unto a Third Great Awakening and the shifting of our courts.”

from part 2 of the misssippifreepress thing i linked to earlier.

this sounds dumb, but in order to understand their belief, you have to suspend your disbelief. you have to be able to hear the words "the Ekklesia of God" and not flinch. your eyes cannot flinch at that. you have to maintain a certain facial expression and take that seriously

have any of you ever attended a school where they invited a hypnotist for "fun"? it's clear how it works - anyone who isn't willing to play along is kicked out at the beginning. the hypnotist's first task is to figure out who is playing the game

I misread that at first as "Summoned to the Beach."

I’m doing my best now to not make a dumb joke at Wavves’ expense

JD Vance won the primary

him vs Tim Ryan.

oh gee, what will the good people of Ohio decide to do?!?!!

well let's see, let's start off with who is who is the most racist. then we're going to check off the "cruelty" column. of course, both of these now fall under the heading "white ohio christians". you also get a +25 if you're a reaaaaaaaaaaaal piece of shit

damn, jd vance checks ALL of these boxes!!!!!!

*JD Vance takes a giant shit in a box marked "heathens"*

*JD Vance's polls improve +8 overnight with cryptofucks*

*great news for the economy, stocks fall -2.5%*
*we're all dying, again, stocks rise 3.4%*

Hillbilly NFT

This district went to Trump by 16%. Kudos to Glanville for running an amazing campaign against a far right opponent. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. https://t.co/FrxHZcH39N

— Aaron (@BobbyBigWheel) May 4, 2022

Tim Ryan's pretty racist too, it will depend on whether being 'tough on China' or Mexico sells better.

obv there are much more important things going on but something about the fact that when my time is up JD Vance will still be a United States Senator makes me just want to walk into traffic

probably has to call himself J.D. so people don't mix him up with Jack Vance

his name is Jank Dirk, he just won't say it

tim ryan is no great shakes but he did pledge to eliminate the filibuster if elected so

kinda thinking of changing my name tbh

Judge Dredd
Just Deal
Jah Dude

haaaaaaaaaaa

no, you are the true J.D.

Vance is a Jarn Dorf

xp

If nothing else, the Democratic Party is blowing up my phone

Oh yeah, the pleas for cash are coming in hot and heavy.

As much of a losing proposition as it is, the Dem party where I live just need people to run. So many uncontested seats.

This is the weirdest way to remind everyone that you fucked a literal teenager. pic.twitter.com/MxJlPkHvLO

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) May 4, 2022

Overthrowing republican government in favor of a Herschel Walker/JD Vance/Tommy Tuberville triumvirate.

Needs more football players, maybe a lineman

Sing it with me folks

Whoa oooh oooh oh
Howie Long est time

He's PST I think

Because I have been married for many years, and because Gaetz is too stupid to capitalize the first letter of a product name, I literally just had to Google "bumble match."

Fuck I forgot Dr. Oz might be in the Senate too

Next pandemic we’ll have President Oz, shilling green coffee beans as a cure

Is it the Senate, or a terrible late-period Match Game panel?

House Majority Whip says that when he calls Rep Henry Cuellar his friend, he really means it. He praises Cuellar for building bridges, rather than hurling insults or avoiding colleagues pic.twitter.com/t5lOQbYA1M

— Jack Herrera (@jherrerx) May 4, 2022

Holy fuck do not search Madison Cawthorn right now

so the FL Bankers Assoc is having a dinner for Ron DeSantis tonight at this downtown Tampa hotel where I’m staying for work. wonder how fast they’ll have me forcibly removed if, should we have the unlikely occasion to cross paths, I cordially extend him the option of sucking my dick from the back?

Tampa is nice this time of year, sorry

A new hit against me just dropped.

Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny.

We were acting foolish, and joking.

That’s it.

I’m NOT backing down.

I told you there would be a drip drip campaign.

Blackmail won't win. We will.

— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) May 4, 2022

Like the video is blurry enough just say it ain’t you. Have you learned nothing from the Trump years