Using the term "centrist" pretty loosely
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They're only Nazis 50% of the time. That's right in the center!
They're practically enlightened!
"Slightly less fascist" just doesn't roll off the tongue.
There's nothing to bring together a bunch of congressional "Christian" neofascists faster than the prospect of seriously pissing off their fire-and-brimstone Sky Daddy who has made helping the long-prophesied land of Israel central to their salvation.
They know that if they fail to help Israel, Jesus will NOT come for them, and will instead leave them to live in the overheated, overpopulated, polluted world of dwindling resources they are creating for the rest of us. "No Rapture for you!" Jesus will proclaim, and they will be left to fry with the rest of us godless plebes on a baking, forsaken earth even before they die and get to proper hell -- if they do not help Israel.
I'm not even joking. That's exactly how the religious nutters in Congress think, and why they are not worried about the same terrifying things the rest of us are. After decades of being pumped full of the holy nitrous of evangelical religious teachings, they are seriously convinced that helping Israel balances the rest of their deeds in God's books, and this is why Israel-centric legislation always gets passed before anything else.
So this attack on Israel, with Congress in disarray and completely unable to render the usual assistance, is scaring the everlivin' fuck out of some very nasty pseudo-religious people tonight.
Enough even to make them want to bring the trash back into the House after having already taken it out.
That was exceptionally well written, as well as completely fucking depressing.
I am so tired of living in a world with instantaneous access to lifetimes worth of documentary evidence regarding the atrocities brought forth on humanity via organized religion, and then watching otherwise rational minded people continue replicating the same behaviors without remorse or consideration for the consequences.
Nothing unites the republicans quite like a chance to kill Muslims
Anything that distracts them from trying to dismantle democracy . . .
I mean not anything…more war in the Middle East is a steep price to pay
but it doesn’t effect white westerners so is it really that steep?
*edit: forgot the /s is 150% necessary
Nothing improves a speakership like the stink of failure, I guess? Might as well bring him around for another go.
The attempt to reinstall McCarthy faces long odds. Two strong candidates are running active campaigns with only days to go before voting, and many dozens of Republicans have already made endorsements. There is little reason to think the basic math for McCarthy has changed for McCarthy since last Tuesday.
Too many people still don’t like Kevin. I’m resigned that it’s going to be Gym Jordan.
Gym Jordan? You mean the same Gym Jordan involved in the cover up of systematic sexual abuse in the Ohio State University system? That Gym Jordan?
Nah, they'll need democrats for anyone they pick. He's not on the list, lol.
Nothing fixes age old conflict between Muslims and Israelis like... checks notes... American House of Representative's... speaker?... that nobody wants?