US Politics: The Roll Call Heard Across America

[GrimTuesday]

5 minutes ago, The Anti-Targ said:

So not saving them from COVID-19 and passing it on the grandma and grandpa then.

No, being trafficked for sex and to be ground up to make adrinochrome to keep the wealthy elite (but only the wealthy elite I disagree with) young and healthy is a much bigger danger than a global pandemic that has killed at least 170000 Americans

I hate that I know so much about this madness.

[Fragile Bird]

14 minutes ago, The Anti-Targ said:

What are we saving the children from?

I thought it was vampire, blood drinking, evil Democrats who kidnap them and hide them in basements. Do I have the wrong group?

[Lollygag]

Day 4 was kinda religious and the darkness and light thing seemed like a low-key call out. Joe's really religious. Found this.

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1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

 

This darkness/light reference goes back casting stones - exactly what Trump does. Wonder how many evangelicals picked this up.

 

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Some weird stuff going on in religious circles.

• Buttigieg is challenging the right wing's monopoly directly and just by existing. The Democrats have highlighted this.
• If one looks up Red Letter Christians (I don't know much about them), one can see how far backwards the far right will twist themselves to de-emphasize the Jesus parts to keep rationalizing the judgy hate.
• Bannon has been trying to set up a monastery in Italy near Rome to train aspiring fascists. He has a big problem with Francis referring to him as "the enemy".
  https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/08/514102356/steve-bannon-aligns-with-vatican-hardliners-who-oppose-pope-francis
• There's a group of priests who reject Francis and recognize Ratzinger as the real Pope on the grounds that Francis is too "liberal".
  https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-secret-cult-of-priests-still-wont-recognize-pope-francis
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/cardinal-denies-manipulating-pope-benedict-over-priestly-celibacy

 

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The controversy over the book underscores the conservative-progressive battle lines that have exploded in the Catholic church following Benedict’s decision in 2013 to become the first pope in 600 years to retire.

Extracts of the book published by France’s Le Figaro newspaper on Sunday ignited a fresh round of briefings from backers of the current pope and traditionalists nostalgic for Benedict’s orthodoxy. The book is published in France on Wednesday.

Francis’s supporters claimed the increasingly frail Benedict, 92, had been manipulated by members of his rightwing entourage into writing something that amounted to a frontal attack on Francis.

Adding - not just Catholics.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/us/united-methodist-church-split-christianity/index.html

[GrimTuesday]

13 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said:

I thought it was vampire, blood drinking, evil Democrats who kidnap them and hide them in basements. Do I have the wrong group?

For the record they are not vampires, they just use the liquefied remains of children to create adrinochrome to preserve their youth.

[Fragile Bird]

Oh yes, the stories about Bannon’s alignment with hard-core conservative Catholics has been around for a while now. The US is apparently home to quite a few. Some Italian countess set him up in a castle or old monastery or whatever.

[DMC]

12 minutes ago, GrimTuesday said:

to be ground up to make adrinochrome to keep the wealthy elite

Wow, yeah.  I didn't know that about them, and rather I never did.  JFC it's like they're on the Walking Dead writing staff.  Or just simply a scientologist.

[Jace, Extat]

11 minutes ago, Lollygag said:

 

 

This darkness/light reference goes back casting stones - exactly what Trump does. Wonder how many evangelicals picked this up.

 

 

Zero. The very idea that zealotous Americans would recognize, let alone understand, a biblical story that wasn't read to them or featuring pictures is laughable.

[Castellan]

I was thinking I'd like a thread listing all the American freak show groups crawling about the internet as I do not know much about them, but now I don't think I could take it. And let's not forget the anti-reptilians, founded by a British journalist, I hear.

[GrimTuesday]

2 minutes ago, DMC said:

Wow, yeah.  I didn't know that about them, and rather I never did.  JFC it's like they're on the Walking Dead writing staff.  Or just simply a scientologist.

Man, it is shocking how close these people are to seeing the actual issue (the wealthy elite on all sides using their connections and money to live above the law), but instead take a sharp turn into utter madness. Kind of makes you wonder if the true conspiracy is the elite  maintaining the status quo by dividing the lower classes using insane conspiracies to create a wedge between those who dismiss those who buy in and suspicion of those that don't.

[DanteGabriel]

Adrenochrome is straight out of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." This is like some lazy college kid satire.

ETA: And now I'm afraid to fucking Google it because the dystopian nightmare came true.

[DMC]

1 minute ago, GrimTuesday said:

Kind of makes you wonder if the true conspiracy is the elite  maintaining the status quo by dividing the lower classes using insane conspiracies to create a wedge between those who dismiss those who buy in and suspicion of those that don't.

Mayhaps the...opiate of the people.

[Centrist Simon Steele]

Ugh, barf, the one time I wish we could intentionally misread Nietsche's famous quote and live in that world.

[Martell Spy]

57 minutes ago, Castellan said:

I was thinking I'd like a thread listing all the American freak show groups crawling about the internet as I do not know much about them, but now I don't think I could take it. And let's not forget the anti-reptilians, founded by a British journalist, I hear.

Please provide proof that you are not a reptilian infiltrator.

[Fragile Bird]

2 minutes ago, Martell Spy said:

Please provide proof that you are not a reptilian infiltrator.

Bah, she’s an Aussie, she’s a poisonous spider.

Oh wait, poisonous [10,000 critters].
 

Ok, prove you’re not a reptilian infiltrator!

[Martell Spy]

Just now, Fragile Bird said:

Bah, she’s an Aussie, she’s a poisonous spider.

Oh wait, poisonous [10,000 critters].
 

Ok, prove you’re not a reptilian infiltrator!

Art Bell lives. He is out in the high desert.

[A True Kaniggit]

3 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said:

Bah, she’s an Aussie, she’s a poisonous spider.

Oh wait, poisonous [10,000 critters].
 

Ok, prove you’re not a reptilian infiltrator!

I promise I’m not. 

(Don’t read my Rank)

[Durckad]

7 minutes ago, Martell Spy said:

Please provide proof that you are not a reptilian infiltrator.

Do not worry, I am a normal human that enjoys laying on a sun-baked rock and removing my skinsuit in my off time like all other normal humans. I have pictures of me enjoying a not-warm beverage that prove this authenticity and my lack of a copy of the cookbook, "Cooking With Children," will also help verify this truth.

Now, please, pass me your crispiest and most delectable human child. There is a pot on my stove that is full of water that needs cleaning.

[S John]

10 hours ago, Simon Steele said:

I want this to be true. If people could go to the public option and do better, and people who want to keep private insurance can keep it, and it all works out, that'd be great. But the public option poses such a potential dangerous to insurance company profits that I'm just too cynical to believe it would happen this way.

Yea I don’t think that’s an unfair reading of the situation. Changing anything is always going to be tougher than it looks when there’s a whole private industry based around profiting from it in its current form.

Totally unrelated but a few years ago my wife and I went on a trip to the UK and during a part of that trip we stayed at some AirBnB in London for a few days. There was a pub in the neighborhood, within a block or two of where we were staying, called the Sir RICHARD Steele.  The wife and I would go out and about it in London all day and generally plan to end the day with a pint or two at that pub near where we were staying. I absolutely could not stop calling it the Simon Steele every time I’d refer to it in conversation with my wife. There was a weird preexisting catch in my brain that kept rerouting back to this damn website. I could not get it right. And I just want you to know that that is entirely your fault.

[S John]

10 hours ago, TrackerNeil said:

And do the debates even matter? Back in 2016, HRC was judged to have won all three, for all the good THAT did her.

I think that there is actually kind of a perverse advantage in Trump’s nonsensical rambling.

Those who are predisposed to mistrusting the government treat Trump‘s ramblings a bit like a buffet. They’ll pick up what they like, completely disregard the rest, and be scornful of the elitist fucks who think they are too good for a buffet. 

[Centrist Simon Steele]

27 minutes ago, S John said:

Yea I don’t think that’s an unfair reading of the situation. Changing anything is always going to be tougher than it looks when there’s a whole private industry based around profiting from it in its current form.

Totally unrelated but a few years ago my wife and I went on a trip to the UK and during a part of that trip we stayed at some AirBnB in London for a few days. There was a pub in the neighborhood, within a block or two of where we were staying, called the Sir RICHARD Steele.  The wife and I would go out and about it in London all day and generally plan to end the day with a pint or two at that pub near where we were staying. I absolutely could not stop calling it the Simon Steele every time I’d refer to it in conversation with my wife. There was a weird preexisting catch in my brain that kept rerouting back to this damn website. I could not get it right. And I just want you to know that that is entirely your fault.

Lol, that made my night! Thanks for sharing.