"Conservative" Republican Fascists & Christo-Fascisism

[Shirley]

When Republicans show you who they are:

Members of Texas Republican party free to associate with Nazi sympathizers

Executive committee rejects banning members who ‘espouse or tolerate antisemitism’ and deny Holocaust, arguing clause is vague.

Members of Texas’s Republican party are free to associate with Nazi sympathizers without worries of violating internal policy after they held a vote on Saturday.

In a 32-29 vote, the party’s executive committee decided against excluding from their organization those “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial”. A proposal to ban such individuals was included in a resolution supporting Israel as it wars with Hamas in Gaza.

...Morgan Cisneros Graham, another committee member in favor of the clause, said she did not understand how some of her colleagues “don’t have the discernment to define what a Nazi is”.

Some members of the board also tried to prevent evidence of the vote, the Texas Tribune reported.

The vote was held shortly after the Texas Tribune photographed the Republican state representative Jonathan Stickland meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Fuentes is an avowed admirer of Hitler, whose regime murdered 6 million Jews during the Holocaust around the time of the second world war. He has also previously called for a “holy war” against Jews.

[...]

[jfish26]

I would be curious to know whether, in good faith or otherwise, at least a few of the votes against this were couched in the Constitutional right to free association.

[twocoach]

When Republicans show you who they are:

Members of Texas Republican party free to associate with Nazi sympathizers

Executive committee rejects banning members who ‘espouse or tolerate antisemitism’ and deny Holocaust, arguing clause is vague.

Members of Texas’s Republican party are free to associate with Nazi sympathizers without worries of violating internal policy after they held a vote on Saturday.

In a 32-29 vote, the party’s executive committee decided against excluding from their organization those “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial”. A proposal to ban such individuals was included in a resolution supporting Israel as it wars with Hamas in Gaza.

...Morgan Cisneros Graham, another committee member in favor of the clause, said she did not understand how some of her colleagues “don’t have the discernment to define what a Nazi is”.

Some members of the board also tried to prevent evidence of the vote, the Texas Tribune reported.

The vote was held shortly after the Texas Tribune photographed the Republican state representative Jonathan Stickland meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Fuentes is an avowed admirer of Hitler, whose regime murdered 6 million Jews during the Holocaust around the time of the second world war. He has also previously called for a “holy war” against Jews.

[...]

#NazisAreVotersToo

[Shirley]

Well, well, well, look who's hearing voices.

Mike is so important, (in his own mind), he thinks God takes time out of his busy day to talk to him personally. 8 Billion other people in the world, but God talks to him. Because, he is Mike Johnson, after all...

Narcissist much, Mike?

[jfish26]

Well, well, well, look who's hearing voices.

Mike is so important, (in his own mind), he thinks God takes time out of his busy day to talk to him personally. 8 Billion other people in the world, but God talks to him. Because, he is Mike Johnson, after all...

Narcissist much, Mike?

I think there’s a hit Broadway show about this guy!

[Sparko]

The Red Sea moment is absolutely not fantasy. I believe he will lead us to catastropic destruction chasing immigrants. And Emigrants.

[Shirley]

December 7, 2023-The media and Democratic establishment has spent more time in the last month or so discusisng the real therat to democracy represented by Trump. This may be too little too late.

Mitchell Minute 1743-Fire, Fascism and the House of American Democracy

[Shirley]

Those bastions of "conservative" Republican integrity, CPAC, and the Heritage Foundation?

What a surprise...not.

Republicans to meet allies of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán on ending Ukraine aid

Hungarian appearance at two-day event part of Orbán’s transatlantic attempt to bolster Russia’s war

Allies of Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán will hold a closed-door meeting with Republicans in Washington to push for an end to US military support for Ukraine, the Guardian has learned.

Members of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs and staff from the Hungarian embassy in Washington will on Monday begin a two-day event hosted by the conservative Heritage Foundation thinktank.

The first day includes panel speeches about the Ukraine war as well as topics such as Transatlantic Culture Wars. It is expected to feature guests including Magor Ernyei, the international director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights, the institute that organized CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) Hungary. Kelley Currie, a former ambassador under then president Donald Trump, said she was invited “but declined”.

When Heritage celebrated its 50th anniversary last April, Orbán’s political director, Balázs Orbán (no relation), was invited as a speaker for the event. Heritage’s president, Kevin Roberts, repeatedly praised the Hungarian leader on X...

[Sparko]

Time to shutter the Hheritage Foundation. They better stop conducting a counter foreign policy. Soft on communism. Big on corruption.

[jfish26]

Kudos, Francesco.

Pope Francis Allows Priests to Bless Same-Sex Couples

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/worl ... ial%20rite.

The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis had allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, his most definitive step yet to make the Roman Catholic Church more welcoming to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics and more reflective of his vision of a more pastoral, and less rigid, church.

The Vatican had long said it could not bless same-sex couples because it would undermine church doctrine that marriage is only between a man and a woman.

But the new rule made clear that a blessing of a same-sex couple was not the same as a marriage sacrament, a formal ceremonial rite. It also stressed that it was not blessing the relationship, and that, to avoid confusion, blessings should not be imparted during or connected to the ceremony of a civil or same-sex union, or when there are “any clothing, gestures or words that are proper to a wedding.”

As a recovering former Catholic, I personally wish we could dispense with the song-and-dance around what the blessing is and is not, and where it should or shouldn't be given. But (1) as a recovering former Catholic, I have no say in the matter or dog in the hunt, and (2) this is still a massive step in the right direction for an institution that needs more of those.

[Shirley]

From today's Orlando Sentinel, a list of all 673 books that have been banned from Florida classrooms

Including: John Milton, John Grisham and John Steinbeck.
“The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” and “Brave New World.”
"Paradise Lost," "East of Eden," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Madame Bovary."

[jfish26]

From today's Orlando Sentinel, a list of all 673 books that have been banned from Florida classrooms

Including: John Milton, John Grisham and John Steinbeck.
“The Color Purple,” “Catch-22,” and “Brave New World.”
"Paradise Lost," "East of Eden," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Madame Bovary."

Which is the entire thing, right? Get helicopter parents to give you power based on "little Twyla shouldn't have to compete against Igor in the middle school pole vault!," and then use that power to edit some shit out of consciousness.

[Shirley]

Sometimes I wonder about the "conservative" Christo-Fascists behind the Moms for Liberty cause:

[Shirley]

No wonder Mich is such a homer, and always seems so blissfully happy.

It turns out life in the state since the Michigan chapter of the Moms for Liberty Sex cult showed up, is like one long, slow moving orgy, from what I can gather:



Mrs. Betty Bowers
@BettyBowers

Hypocrites make the very best scolds.

[Shirley]

The religion of MAGA believes this election will be their moment of retribution and Donald Trump their Sword of the Spirit. It’s long past time for Americans to overturn tables in this temple of idolatry.

The Lincoln Project - MAGA Church: Holy War

[Shirley]

CNN political commentators Ana Navarro and Karen Finney join Jim Acosta to discuss a new video former President Trump shared on social media declaring that "God made Trump."

Acosta discusses 'bizarre' video Trump shared on social media

[zsn]

Who’s going to tell Cheeto Mussolini that it’s a parody of Paul Harvey’s God Made a Farmer bit?

[Shirley]

John Fugelsang on Christianity

[jfish26]

https://x.com/qasimrashid/status/174667 ... PzNG4aOfKQ

MAGA: We need to run the country based on the Bible

Bible: "The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself." Leviticus 19:34

MAGA: Not that part

[Sparko]

Moms for Liberty on Moms for Liberty action.