Now I’m picturing him being so delighted by you pulling a McChicken from behind his ear that he gives you Iowa.

Of course if you quote Jesus’ literal words at these people they start screeching about how the Devil can quote scripture too

I was yelling at some people protesting abortion just before the Dobbs decision, and I found one guy who wanted to argue in front of his wife and daughter.

I asked why the Bible has a recipe for an abortion potion in it, and specifically for unfaithful wives; he said it doesn’t.

I told him “oh, weird. I have the passage pulled up here on my phone.”

With a smug look he replied “I don’t do Bible study with non-believers.”

I told him “okay, I’m sure I can find someone in this crowd who isn’t a coward,” and started to walk away.

He didn’t want to look pathetic in front of his family, so he agreed to let me read it. As I was pulling it up, he said “you probably don’t even know who wrote the book of Numbers.”

I told him “Christian and Jewish tradition points to Moses, but nobody really knows,” and then I read the passage.

When I was done, he said “that said it caused a miscarriage, not an abortion.”

I berated him and told him “that’s what the fuck an abortion is, jackass: an induced miscarriage”

His wife asked then me where I got the boba tea I was drinking. I know I didn’t get through to her numbnuts husband, but I think his family may have learned something that day about the Bible and their paterfamilias.

I sure wish Pete would save himself.

It’s not gullibility; the reactionary right want to oppress the people they hate. It’s White Christian Supremacy.

It’s similar to the KKK: they weren’t tricked into being hateful pieces of shit, they just are. Sure, a big part of that is that their culture is rotten with fundamentalism and anti-intelectualism, but those are cultivated and flourish because they’re helpful to the cause of being hateful pieces of shit.

They want respect earned through fear.

Fascists can’t stand being the butt of a joke though.

“You can’t investigate my child porn machine, this is a political witch hunt!”

They’ll use the heat to turn a steam turbine which powers a laser pointed at the polar ice caps.

Those kinds of churches very much do not preach acceptance for all people. They’re more into the philosophy “if you’re not with us you’re against us.”

Here’s a 19th century song that was popular in a very conservative church of Christ where I attended as a teenager:

Onward Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See, His banners go!

At the name of Jesus
Satan’s host doth flee;
On then, Christian soldiers,
On to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver
At the shout of praise:
Brothers, lift your voices,
Loud your anthems raise!

Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus,
Going on before.

There is a long list of people who are unacceptable in the eyes of conservative evangelicals; they label anything they hate or don’t understand as “satanic” and make convenient excuses as to why the Bible agrees with them.

Cops will go fucking nuts on someone merely because they don’t comply; their pea-brains simply cannot tolerate anyone who dares to question their authority.

Dude shouldn’t have even gone into the house, he refused to leave and deescalate, then murdered a woman instead of just walking out of the door of a place he didn’t even belong.

There’s a fire starting in your ship
Reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing 'em out the dark
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go 'head and crash land and I’ll strip your saucer bare

See how I leave with every piece of it
Don’t underestimate the things that I will do
There’s a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch and its bringing me out the dark

The scars and gore remind me of war
They keep me thinking that we almost lost it all
The holes in my suit they leave me breathless, I can’t help feeling

We could have had it all
Terror from the deep
You had my heart inside of your hand
And you played it to the beat

Police and ICE are right-wing paramilitaries. They don’t recognize anything left of White Christian Nationalism as legitimate legislative authority because their entire mission is service to the status quo. They protect entrenched power and wealth; it’s their entire purpose.

They are the enforcement arm of capital which rallies around White Christian Nationalism as its standard.

When one side frames empathy as “weakness,” it really makes it easy to identify the complete assholes.

Absolutely 100% right.

The media was reporting that he thought ICE was being gestapo-like, and he didn’t say that at all.

The way it was reported was legitimate journalistic negligence; this guy is a full-on reactionary.

ICE aren’t police. Didn’t I already tell you that?

They’re fascist pricks on an ego trip who break the law every day. Fuck ICE. The fact that you got triggered like that tells me all I need to know about you.

ICE isn’t police though. They’re a fascist paramilitary.

Fuck ICE and anyone who defends their fascist bullshit.

They’re not police officers.

You’d be surprised how many people I’ve talked to who think that if someone was picked up by the cops they were doing something to deserve it.

It’s staggering how many people blame the victim for the police being incompetent.

Everyone who likes couch co-op should play this one. It’s fantastic.