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Konstantin Malofeev #wingnut #fundie #crackpot

The claim is based on a Byzantine princess who married one of the grand dukes of Muscovy just before the fall of Constantinople. I think they claim she brought the double headed eagle coat of arms from Constantinople to Moscow.

Harmeet K. Dhillon #ableist #wingnut

Monty Fritts #forced-birth #fundie #transphobia #wingnut #psycho

Few things shout “culture of life” like expanding capital punishment to doctors and caregivers.

The Heritage Foundation #crackpot #forced-birth #homophobia #sexist #transphobia #wingnut

How is it possible that an organization that has been so consistently wrong over the last 40 something years about virtually everything that it “researches” somehow manages to have such outsize influence on our public policy?

Oh wait it’s because your job is to give an intellectual patina and concrete action items to the policies that your mega donors push that will leave us all poorer, sicker, on a hotter planet, self ashamed, under AI surveillance, and overall worse off than our grandparents while your mega donor benefactors strip America to the bones and hoard the rest in the Cayman Islands, then try to get us to redirect and blame LGBTQ + people or immigrants for our problems.

Nobody should ever take you seriously ever again. I pray you will go bankrupt soon yet I know the truth about the dark money forces that funds you. Don’t worry I already know that you’re morally bankrupt.

David J Stewart #fundie #sexist #crackpot

There is no such thing as a “biblical marriage” as David and most Christian fundies describe it. Most of the marriages that are described in the Bible are those of ancient elites meant to describe the ancestors of the intended Israelite elite audience that they were writing for who saw marriage almost totally in terms of economic and political interests. Inheritances being the most important thin to them. That’s why the Bible is okay with things like polygamy, concubinage, etc. or discussing things like courtly romances and sexual affairs. In fact, many biblical men could not commit adultery as it was understood back then; the term in English ties back to the word “adulterate” - ie rendering inheritance impure because the woman was with another man.

David and his ilk are reading their Victorian era “nuclear family” concepts backwards into the Bible, finding quotes to support it, and then claiming that their way “is God’s way - get in line heathens!”

We heathens are tiered of your dishonesty David and aren’t bound by it.

Iranian Regime #fundie #sexist #crackpot

It’s the move of a desperate regime that only has one play in their book, when things go wrong blame women (well maybe two the other is blame “Zionism”). The women of Iran know what it was like before and I’m sure they’re educating their daughters and granddaughters about what it could be (without the dictatorial emperor).

Donald J. Trump #wingnut #psycho #mammon

Good God he’s alone and lonely with a laptop in the sit room? Now you made me imagine what websites he’s actually I feel sick…

Greg Gutfeld #wingnut

Venezuela’s oil is heavy sour crude. It has high sulfur content and is more like tar. It is dirty and expensive to extract and refine. To be fair, US refineries can handle it and that was the typical arrangement before and during the Chavez years. Chavez and Maduro systematically corrupted PDVSA, which was once professionally run, and nearly all managers given their jobs due to political loyalties instead of how to run an oil company. Even at the height of the mid 2000s oil prices PDVSA was notoriously underperforming. It has been systematically disinvested in, likely has serious staffing and equipment shortages especially after hyperinflation, as workers tried to feed their families and the costs of maintenance and replacements became prohibitive.

It will likely be years, probably a decade or more, before any US company sees a return on investment. In order to even make that feasible it would probably require some level of direct US Government intervention or guarantee.

But you’re a “free market” man right Greg?

Donald J. Trump #crackpot #wingnut

I’m not going to take away the badly needed hope that millions of Venezuelans must be feeling. Their country has been in the midst of a surreal disaster since Chavez’s first election, which was legitimate and fair (not so for Maduro’s latest). Though an ostensible leftist they followed the fascist playbook to the letter, corrupted and hollowed out every institution in their nation and bled it dry, I’m sure they’re feeling a mix of emotions today about the future and have every right to. There is likely plenty of incriminating evidence in Maduro that something will stick, though I’d rather he be tried by his Venezuelan peers not the United States.

For me, a non Venezuelan, there is nothing to celebrate. We’ve seen this script before, unilateral intervention like this rarely leads to long term stability and guys like Maduro have learned to leave behind “insurance policies”. We’ve also likely burned many vital bridges and potential partnerships in the region thanks to this act. It is unlikely, given the Trump regime’s views on democracy that the next leader will be one to restore democracy there. He’ll just be the right wing autocratic mirror of the previous regime. We may have opened a can of worms that will not be cleaned for a lifetime or more.

I won’t tell Venezuelans not to rejoice, they deserve it. But I don’t have to join them.

Donald Trump #wingnut #conspiracy #pratt

Trump is likely functionally illiterate, too lazy, or both to do that. Besides I guess he doesn’t have any more important things to do during the day?

Also in a few years his caption will read “Epstein Files”

Donald J. Trump #crackpot #psycho #wingnut

Stephen is talking about dusting off his character from the “Report” (the T is silent). Colbert will be far more merciless then.

Matt Walsh #wingnut

A prominent Republican actively undermined a presidential election, aided and abetted a coup, encouraged people to attend an event that he knew could become violent, which resulted in murders of police and death of a participant who attempted to harm a member of Congress, and Charlie Kirk and TPUSA was never faced any serious questions, was never investigated, charged, arrested, or punished for his role in January 6.

Donald J. Trump #conspiracy #wingnut #psycho

Brigit Hirsch (EPA spokesperson) #wingnut #pratt #conspiracy

Um Brigit I hate to break it to you but you might want to examine who’s in a cult

#fundie #transphobia #sexist #wingnut #crackpot #interphobia

@Zinnia #243239

I mean it’s not difficult to see where this DOJ would land if the shoe were on the other foot. Imagine for the sake of argument, a pair of Christian (chosen merely for the sake of argument) students who believe it is a religious obligation to respect the inherent dignity and worth of all people who are disciplined by the school for using that as the reason for respecting the pronouns and real name of a classmate.

This case got started because a trans boy took his phone into a boys locker room and forced some of his classmates, who I believe were changing, to make a statement on camera about their beliefs about trans rights. Not cool, a violation of their privacy and shouldn’t be forced to say anything on camera they don’t want to. It was handled through school disciplinary procedures and had this kid been cis it would have been a case of a boy raised by YouTube and TikTok not really thinking about the appropriateness of his actions.

But because it was a trans kid who did it and in a state and county where Christian fascists one held more say than today, suddenly the Christian Persecution Complex machine kicked into high gear.

Also the Department of Injustice’s rhetoric isn’t new. This is the same bullshit they claimed 20/30 years ago when they were fighting against LGBTQ+ kids and families hoping to be protected in anti bullying policies.

Samantha Fulnecky #crackpot #fundie #transphobia

Unfortunately the university will probably calculate that whatever severance settlement they will come to will the professor will be cheaper even being dragged through the mud by the state and federal education officials trying to prevent “anti Christian bias” and will likely fire the professor.

Then this kid will suddenly become a “victim” and be paraded all over the far right media sphere and will become more prominent than she ever deserved to be.

Pete Hegseth, Lee Zeldin, etc. #wingnut #conspiracy #pratt #fundie

@Timjer #242280
Nearly all non-profits, religious or not, in the US are tax exempt so any non profits sponsoring climate research would be tax exempt.

Mike Johnson #racist #fundie #wingnut

Who would Jesus deport Mike?

Funny how the gospels credit him with saying a lot of things about how it’s important to be caring and just to the strangers in the community but virtually nothing about Queer people or abortion.

Also, why is Romans 13 so important for your opponents to follow but when fundies are held accountable for breaking law, refusing to obey laws about seating members, or knowing cooking up false legal doctrines to subvert the laws and will of the people that passage doesn’t apply?

Discrete Music #transphobia #pratt

Christine Jorgensen, Dante “Tex” Gill, Lilly Elbe, Billy Tipton, Dr. Alan L. Heart, shall I go on?

Matt Walsh #forced-birth #wingnut

Abortion bans do nothing to reduce the number of abortions, if you really want to reduce that number then you’d support comprehensive sex education, universal access to contraceptives right for each person, and health and care that doesn’t bankrupt people.

Maybe also reducing the relative costs of groceries and jailing pedophiles instead of putting them in the Oval Office would help too?

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

@Malingspann #238923

The sad irony is that trans people are being targeted because their goal is to rip away rights and freedoms from all queer people using the fact that trans people are poorly understood and easy to spread misinformation about.

Graham Linehan #transphobia

I hate to be all Helen Lovejoy but I wish these people would think of the children, the trans children. Kids’ brains aren’t developed enough to understand that these attacks aren’t about them but are deliberate acts to gain political power on their backs. That means they will internalize this and falsely think that they’ve done something wrong. It will make them feel worse if they think that might “cause” their parents, doctors, or teachers to go to prison as well as having to fear state welfare agents pulling them out of their homes and into foster settings where they will be sent to conversion therapy or otherwise abused. This has to be hell on their still developing brains.

Political bullies are causing so much long term damage to youth. To any politician that sees this as an appropriate way to get power: if you feel the need to bully children then you are not qualified for even the office of dog catcher.

Eric Dubay #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

The Bush family is one of the oldest families in what’s now the United States. Of course they’re going to have all kinds of fun genealogical connections.

Donald Trump #transphobia #wingnut

All he knows how to do is scapegoat and he scapegoats the targets his puppet masters at Heritige Foundation tell him to.

Dave Blount #transphobia #homophobia #wingnut

So you see an obscure athlete, one who isn’t even in the top 10 hits when you run that name in Google. One who seems to make provocative statements possibly out of genuine conviction possibly out of genuine frustrations and anger. And we’re to assume just based on one person that they are representative of perhaps several million people. Oh and you say “ruining” women’s sports, yet this person was an alternate on the 2021 BMX team and not even a medalist?

Oklahoma Republicans #wingnut

Sounds like they will be excellent spots in campus for public drag performances.

The Oversight Project #conspiracy #crackpot #transphobia #wingnut

@Creativerealms #236657

Yes, this is a serious threat and should be treated that way. But the succeed the most people don’t bother to fight back and that’s what they’re banking on. But there’s reason for hope. Their IRS is too short staffed to make a non profit revocation stick in court. The criminal justice system system still needs evidence; grand juries have refused to indict some of their targets and facts and evidence are still needed to sway juries. Yes there are many ways this can and will get worse but the last thing LGBTQ+ and allies can afford to do is give in to pessimism now. Now’s the time to rise to (intelligently and strategically) meet the challenge.

Also Lambda Legal is taking donations: https://lambdalegal.org/ways-to-give/

justmindy #wingnut

Kirk was a deliberate provocateur whose “debates” were rarely if ever on a level playing field. The quotes we mined are rarely divorced from context and often when you put them in context they aren’t that much better or often much worse. He was a professional and polished media figure who often “debated” people who weren’t prepping talking points well in advance, especially those unprepared or unaware of the Gish Gallop tactic. You would typically see his “victories” rarely the times he was caught off guard or he had his people edit things in his favor. He preyed on your desire to see your opponents crushed and humiliated and was thoroughly uninterested in the process of helping people weigh pros and cons and making informed decisions. You liked him because he fed your prejudices and made you feel good and better about yourself when he would “slay the monster.”

Nobody should experience violence for their speech. But Charlie Kirk had little in common with someone like Salman Rushdie beyond that people sought to harm them for their words.

Forgiato Blow and JJ Lawhorn #racist #psycho #wingnut

Charlie Kirk #sexist #wingnut

Dear mainstream media whitewashing Kirk, please run a search on this humble site and tell me if you still think he was really a “free speech” advocate and simply wanted debates. Again I’m sad for his family. I’m sad that Kirk was robbed of the opportunity to reflect and change his behavior. But let’s be realistic about this guy before you force us all to genuflect before him.

Stephen Miller #wingnut #psycho

If you don’t like being called a Nazi and a fascist Stephen than quit acting like one.

scalps, Matt Walsh #wingnut

“Unite the right”, wonder where I heard that one before?

Charlie Kirk #crackpot #elitist #psycho #wingnut

Trump’s remarks last night made it clear how they plan to use this situation. He listed every single act of political violence perpetrated against rightwing targets yet failed to mention any of the ones perpetrated against his opponents - many of which he’s directly fomented or encouraged. He and his supporters intend to use every lever of government to suppress critics and this idiot with a rifle handed him the excuse.

I hope we have a dark web mirror ready I fear we’ll need it soon.

Joseph Ladapo #racist #quack #wingnut #dunning-kruger #crackpot

It was an enslaved person named Onesimus who taught the practices of variolation and inoculation to his enslaver, Cotton Mather who spread the practice across Boston. Those activities were the predecessors to modern vaccines.

When you say dumb things like this you’re especially insulting Onesimus.

Gregory Bovino #wingnut #psycho

@Anon-e-moose #235088

It seems like Sherman was trying to stay within the law and for that he was accused of being anti American

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. #quack #pratt #dunning-kruger

Dave Blount #transphobia #wingnut

When it’s a Christian straight cis het white man : “oh he was angry, a lone wolf, thoughts and prayers…”

Anyone else: “lock them all up!”

Donald Trump #conspiracy #wingnut #racist #dunning-kruger

@Peacemonger373 #234393

Probably because it originated with Orban in Hungary. Soros funded an NGO critical of Orban’s authoritarian moves.

Matt Walsh #transphobia #pratt #dunning-kruger

Ken Ham #fundie

Because most actually don’t care and are perfectly happy for religious people who are able to find homes in religious communities if that’s what they want and those communities help build rather than tear down a person.

There are some who trying to sell books with proactive titles or generate clickbait engagement and every now and then some atheists will blow off steam and implicate all of religion even if they know better intellectually. For those who experienced spiritual abuse in former religious communities than that can be a type of therapy.

Atheists are also working to partner with their pluralist religious allies to push back against the existential threat that people like Ken represent. It’s unfortunate but Ken and his oil billionaire backers have somehow won the branding war over who is “Christian” or what is “religion” and that shouldn’t be allowed.

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

Sly Fawkes #transphobia

@PLMMJ #233278

It’s reminiscent of the old claim that gay people were that way because they had been sexually abused when they were kids.

Laura Wood #wingnut

Normally this is where we chime in On “citation needed” but we both know you don’t have that. She did say something about how burning police cars could be seen as a kind of reaction to the administration’s provocations but that’s hardly a call to violence or war.

But you don’t care. You’ve been itching to lock up and strip Americans of rights for the crime of disagreeing with you for decades.

Donald Trump #wingnut #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #god-complex

I’ve been afraid of this ever since 2017 but I guess this was happening sooner or later.

BLS knows their work is super sensitive politically and has taken steps to do everything they can to avoid seeming like political pawns. At some point they’d have to deliver bad news. That doesn’t work for a man who genuinely believes reality is what he says it is. So, now expect rosy and implausible growth numbers every month.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.“

KOREA NEWS SERVICE #moonbat

Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans #transphobia

@Malingspann #231269

Or voucher programs (as implemented in the budget bill) for private schools. Vouchers for schools which may have little to no state accountability , aren’t required to admit a student, for schools that can kick out LGBTQ+ kids, for schools that don’t need to make accommodations for kids with physical or learning disabilities, that systematically robs public schools of funding, and leaves excluded kids in death spiraling public schools or forced them to have to travel long distances from home just to get an education.

This quote reveals all. It was never about trans people. It was never about furries. It was about systematically undermining public education in the US and doing it by creating a wedge issue out of a misunderstood minority.