"Trump’s demand for recess appointments is a way of breaking the Senate early on.
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@wdlindsy AKA Christian doctrine.
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Dean Blobaumreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy An autocracy sells itself with messianic rhetoric. Religion is useful, because its adherents are predisposed to believe in the kind of magical solutions the leader proposes, as well as being highly tolerant of the inevitability of ultimate salvation not coming to pass.
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@wdlindsy He has told Putin he will destroy the USA. Don’t you see it? Every choice screams it.
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@wdlindsy right out of Hitler's playbook just what we need
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Nicole Parsonsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
https://popular.info/p/the-reclusive-plutocrat-who-became
Tim Mellon paid for the Texas border wall.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/06/timothy-mellon-texas-border-wall/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/billionaire-tim-mellon-trump-donation
Mellon funded both Trump & RFK Jr.to the tune of $165 million.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/21/who-is-timothy-mellon-trumps-biggest-donor-is-a-secretive-billionaire-banking-scion-who-paid-53-million-for-border-wall/Mellon also has been infected with xenophobic paranoia too.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-09/top-gop-donor-timothy-mellon-is-former-liberal-now-trump-backerhttps://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-timothy-mellon-is-the-poster
https://www.wonkette.com/p/meet-timothy-mellon-the-latest-weirdo
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Musta dawned on me thuslyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I like to define fascism in terms of how they polarize society:
Classic #fascism: define a nebulous group or institution, dehumanize and stoke with #fearmongering. No falsehood is perceived as ridiculous by a #truebeliever. Fears become hate. They have a “them” to hate, and bind “us” tightly together.
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Frank Heijkampreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I've asked my German friends and they say that last time they had a politician who 'disliked' Jewish people it didn't end well. It's not something they would like to go back to.
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@wdlindsy This is like the Christian belief that the world needs to be destroyed before Jesus will come for the second time: "One of the most frightening goals of Trumpism is that the world somehow needs to be destroyed and the people suffer great pain before the “good” part comes to them in the name of a new order, in this case under Trump."
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Angela Scholderreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Wow, Sherlock!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Angela Scholder last edited by
@AngelaScholder Yes, good commentary by Noah Berlatsky.
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@wvlith Yes, some influential branches of Christianity — especially influential in the American context — have that strange apocalyptic idea and seem to welcome the thought of everything being destroyed to usher in the return of Christ.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Frank Heijkamp last edited by
@alterelefant Your German friends are right. An elderly German friend of ours wrote us a few months ago and asked, "Are many Americans simply crazy?"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Musta dawned on me thusly last edited by
@blackburied Yes, good points.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Nicole Parsons last edited by
@Npars01 Thank you — valuable links and good commentary, for sure.
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@MJmusicinears Indeed.
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@Runyan50 Yes, sadly.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Dean Blobaum last edited by
@dblobaum See Holly Berkley Fletcher on that very point this morning:
https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/why-white-evangelicals-support-trump
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Angela Scholderreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy The only problem is that it was so utterly clear what would be coming.
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@pdiff1 Perhaps the belief system of a certain subset of Christians who have enormous political power in the US but hardly represent the belief system of Christianity as a whole.
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@Arqtec I agree. Good statement.
