It does smack of relics, doesn’t it. After he’s dead will there be reliquaries containing vials of his blood that liquify every January 6th?
People will inject his holy blood instead of vaccines. Or maybe they’ll use ut as a suppository. Whatever. There will be a brisk market in fake vials of “The True Blood of trump”, probably consisting of red tinted water, at the bargain price of $1000.
Samples of his crap that endlessly stink up the place despite being sealed in airtight vials (viles?) would be more fitting.
Idaho politics is off-the-rails nutty. In my area, local and state politics have been taken over by extreme far-right folks (ban abortions, burn books, shut down schools and colleges, etc). Heather Scott is nutty. It’s pretty sad that in this story, she almost comes across as the adult in the room. But don’t believe it…she’s horrible. Sad to see this inbred family infighting. Not really.
How long till MTG and Trump are labeled as RINOs?
In my post above, I forgot to list their anti-LGBTQ pushes. This helped remind me of another of their favorite hobby horses:
More craziness in schools:
…Christian nationalist trustees at Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Texas’ third-largest public school district, just made answering that question awkward and embarrassing.
Six school board members voted to ban teachers from discussing how vaccines saved millions from polio, smallpox and COVID. Teachers may no longer highlight the benefits of living in the nation’s most culturally diverse region. Nor will students learn about the threat posed by climate change, humanity’s biggest challenge today.
Backtrack along the money trail to understand why the board banned instruction from 13 chapters of state-approved textbooks. There, you’ll find evangelicals who see political activism as a form of spiritual warfare against secularists who are Satan’s unwitting accomplices.
…The political activists behind these PACs are part of a coalition of Christian nationalist groups called the Remnant Alliance. The Texas Observer, a nonprofit news site, recently investigated the financial and political ties between a dozen alliance members and hundreds of member churches.
The alliance’s vision is “to see the body of Christ awaken across our republic, exercise their leadership role to influence others for God, and in turn, restore the Judeo-Christian foundations that brought America’s great blessings and welfare,” the group’s website says.
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Theocracy is the only thing that will satisfy these groups. Religious zealots are the most dangerous kind, because they believe (their version of) God is on their side.
Any time I see “coalition” in this sort of context I find myself tempted to contemplate what would happen if (Og forbid) they should get their way. I’d also be tempted to start a pool on how long it would take the various factions to turn on each other. It would almost be worth popcorn. Almost.
UPDATE: The athletic commissioner who got mad about a transwoman pretending to fight a cis woman in a play has resigned and the commission will be reconsidering the rule in July. For once, sanity prevails.
On Saturday I got an ad for one of those QOP push-polls that asks you a loaded question like “Do you support Biden’s radical Democrat Party agenda?” and is actually just trying to get your info so they can fundraise off of you. I decided to take the poll, put in all the answers they WEREN’T trying to get me to give, and signed my name as “Hannibal Lecter” in honor of Loser Donald’s late great friend.
Today I got my first fundraising email from Ted Cruz asking “Hannibal” to pitch in for his reelection.
Now I ask you, is this stupid?
A group of House Republicans are rallying together to try and get the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to former president Donald Trump.
Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is leading a congressional resolution in an attempt to bestow the medal onto Mr Trump, who is currently on trial facing 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to “hush money” payments he made to the adult star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign. Mr Trump denies the charges.
Ms Luna wants the Republican presidential candidate to receive the honour “in recognition of his exceptional leadership and dedication to strengthening America’s diplomatic relations during his presidency,” according to legislative text.
Feel free to read the rest of it if you feel like puking.
Seriously, this has reached late Soviet era levels of sycophancy, like the February 1988 Politburo voting unanimously to bestow the “Great Patriotic Hero of the People’s Liberation Movement of 1958” medallion on Assistant to the General Secretary Dhysbyzysk, who was unanimously elected Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee that year following the unexpected execution for treason of all seventeen of his opponents, and who has been comatose ever since eating a spoiled beet for supper on St. Pyotr Pyotorovich’s Day two weeks later.
Wait a sec … when did Lecter die? Last I saw he was short one hand but otherwise healthy and on his way overseas.
(Of course, I never watched the TV series, so I may have missed this momentous event.)
Tell that to Herr Shizenpantz.
Holy cow! WTF?! When the Texas-approved textbooks are too left-leaning for you, you’re so far out in right field that the only team members you see are parking-lot attendants!
Yeah. This part absolutely blew my mind:
Polio?? Small-fucking-pox??
There’s nothing new under the sun.
Sigh…
How about the von Shitzinpantz Brown Medal as a consolation prize?
On a party line vote, Republicans in the North Carolina State Senate passed a bill that would make it illegal to wear masks in public even for health and safety reasons. If this bill passes, chemo patients could literally be arrested for wearing a surgical mask outside their house. Republicans argued it’s necessary because ANTIFA!!!
Party of personal freedom, folks.