Texas is For Racists

Texas is doing this absolute best to promote Christian nationalism and deny that racism has been a problem, including whitewashing the Klan as much as possible. For example, the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 is now deemed a "riot".

Scratch a person who says that America is a Christian nation and you'll find a racist and a religious bigot.

In Full Agreement With This

The Supreme Court Gives Us One More Reason To Hope Hell Exists.
So they can burn in it.

Meanwhile, Texas is a fucking cesspit and anyone who graduates from their schools will likely be a semi-literate doofus.

MAGA Moron at Work

This is a little wild:

The Greek Orthodox Church lost control of St. Sophia before Columbus sailed to start the conquest of the Western Hemisphere, when the Ottomans (cool it, JD) took Constantinople. So I don't know what this clown is on about. I mean, I have no regard for Lindsey Graham, but it's not his fault that the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottoman Empire almost six hundred years ago.

But since when have facts mattered to religious zealots like the Christian Taliban?

Our Fake Christian at War

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible quote from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday.
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Tarantino himself poached the fake Bible verse from the 1970s Japanese martial arts movie Bodyguard Kiba.

Pretty-Boy Pete is a fraud in a suit.

Just Another Bible-Thumping Porn Freak

The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed it was asked by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) to review what happened inside State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office during last week’s State Board of Education meeting.

News 9 confirmed the request Monday morning. The inquiry follows allegations that inappropriate content appeared on a television in Walters’ office during a closed-door executive session.
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Two State Board of Education members, Becky Carson and Ryan Deatherage, say they saw a video featuring nude women displayed on a TV in Walters' office during last Thursday’s executive session. Both said they were seated in the only positions that had a clear view of the screen.

Walters is the Christian Nationalist clown who ordered that every teacher in the state teach the Bible. He also tried to get the state to buy Trump's expensive Bibles.

He's just another sad moralistic hypocrite.

Mike Johnson to Texas Flood Victims: Fuck You, Yer On Yer Own

That's pretty much his message, but he gussied it up with the usual blather about thoughts and prayers.

In other words:

Word.

The thing evangelicals may or may not understand is that at this point all decent people understand that they and their sick cult are the bad guys forever. The thing I know they don’t understand is that everyone is absolutely correct in that understanding.

Evangelicals enabled the rise of fascism in America. They are pushing bigotry. They burn and ban books.

Evangelicals are the bad guys. Like these guys.

Questions and an Observation

The same questions sort of apply to the felon-in-chief, except that I suspect that he is not as wealthy as he pretends to be.

And now this:

There is nothing good. I can say about that man, either. I would not be surprised to learn that his diet includes helpings of roasted puppies. He seems to be truly evil, a man who uses the Bible to justify whatever ill intent he has for everybody else.

Drink Bad Water Until Women are Prosecuted-- Louisiana's Attorney General.

In September, the city of New Orleans and some surrounding parishes in south Louisiana began to prepare for at least three months of saltwater intrusion in the local water supply. President Joe Biden then declared the crisis a federal emergency and authorized funding for FEMA and other state agencies to mitigate the burgeoning crisis.

While months of extreme, record-high heat and lack of rainfall in and around the Crescent City are responsible for the crisis, some are pointing at current Louisiana Attorney General and Louisiana governor-elect Jeff Landry as partially responsible for the city’s ability to address the now circumvented crisis, as well as the decayed state of the city’s entire water infrastructure. Landry personally solicited the Louisiana State Bond Commission last year to withhold millions in funding from the New Orleans Sewage and Water Board due to the city government’s refusal to arrest and prosecute women in the wake of Louisiana’s total ban on abortion.

The Christian Taliban's version of hostage-taking in furtherance of the cult of the fetus, especially when they can put the screws to Black people.

The Christian Taliban and School Shootings

It has seemed to me, that after the vast majority of school shootings, you can count on some Christian nujob whining that none of them would have happened if we allowed formal prayer in schools.

But the last couple of shootings have been at Christian religious private schools, where, one would presume, there is an abundance of formal (compulsory) prayer.

That would seem to me as pretty good evidence that prayer, as a way of preventing school shootings, is roughly as effective as summoning the League of Armed Unicorns.

If You Are Pregnant and in Texas, You Are Gambling With Your Life

Because if you have a miscarriage, the doctors in Texas will cheerfully let you bleed out instead of treating you using best practices. It keeps happening.

The women who bleed out and die during miscarriages are a blood sacrifice to the Christian Taliban's Cult of the Fetus. Those who call themselves "pro-life" are bathing in the blood of dead women.

Oklahoma Public Schools: Bibles, not Competence

While Oklahoma fights to put Bibles in all of its classrooms, it's worth noting that almost every quality assessment ranking that one can find puts Oklahoma public schools at or near the bottom. They are worse than the states that traditionally had the worst schools in the country: Alabama and Mississippi.

One has to wonder why the state school administrators are engaging in culture wars instead of doing the hard work of ensuring that their charges receive a quality education.

But we know the answer to that. Engaging in culture wars impresses the mouthbreathing anacephanic MAGAs. Giving their kids a quality education might mean teaching them to think and evaluate on their own, rather than accept the intellectual bilge being shoveled out by their parents and pastors. And we simply can't have that, can we.

Jews and Muslims Are Not Welcome in Texas

Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools under optional new curriculum that could test boundaries between religion and public classrooms in the U.S.

The material adopted by the Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by elected Republicans, passed in a 8-7 final vote over criticism that the lessons would proselytize to young learners and alienate students of faiths other than Christianity.

"Alienate", hell. This sends a clear message that non-Christians are not welcome to live in Texas and raise families. The Christian Taliban is seeking to emulate Iran and other theocratic shitholes. Texas and Oklahoma are their testing grounds.

Hmmm

The TOFF and widdle Elon have seventeen kids between them by six women.

Now, imagine if they were both women. Imagine the utter meltdown that the Right and the Christian Taliban would be having. Imagine the attack ads they would be running. Imagine the 24/7 misogyny from Republicans.

But when men do it, such as both of those Russian Assets, silence.

Anyway, just tossing this in:

The FOFF can't bring himself to denounce speakers at his MSG hate rally, instead, calling it an "absolute love fest."

Oklahoma Christian Taliban Sleeps With Trump

The Christian Talibanistas who control the school system there are requiring that the Bibles that will be placed in school are the FOFF's brand. Which sell for $60-90 a copy and you know, don't you, that there is no such thing as a volume discount for Trumpist merch.

Three million taxpayer dollars to buy Bibles from Felon^34 or his drug-addled kid.

Stupid and/or corrupt seems to describe Baja Kansas.

MO: Nice Try, Assholes

A measure undoing Missouri’s near-total abortion ban will appear on the ballot in November, the state’s high court ruled Tuesday, marking the latest victory in a nationwide fight to have voters weigh in on abortion laws since federal rights to the procedure ended in 2022.

If passed, the proposal would enshrine abortion rights in the constitution and is expected to broadly supplant the state’s near-total abortion ban. Judges ruled hours before the Tuesday deadline for changes to be made to the November ballot.

Supreme Court judges ordered Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft to put the measure back on the ballot. He had removed it Monday following a county circuit judge’s ruling Friday.

The order also directs Ashcroft, an abortion opponent, to “take all steps necessary to ensure that it is on said ballot.”

The asshole who is the governor of Missouri appointed Rush Limbaugh's cousin to the bench, who then promptly tried to kill the ballot measure. I'm surprised that the state supreme court bucked the Christian Taliban party on this, but they did.

The Lying Sofaphile

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk.

The TOFF lies and so does the Couching Hillbilly. Demented Donnie has been bleating for years that he is oh, so proud of appointing the Christian Nationist justices who struck down reproductive freedom. He has proposed a national abortion ban before. The only reason he is backing away from that is because only his American Taliban supporters want one.

You could lay a good bet that if he got in and a MAGA congress sent him such a bill, he would sign it in a New York second. I doubt that you'd get odd, though.

Hurricane Forecasts if the FOFF Wins

They'll be made by divination and looking at the entrails of sheep. Because the Christianist conservatives want to get rid of the National Weather Service and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Which includes the National Hurricane Center. They want to sell off the airplanes used to track and research hurricanes and, in short, turn everything over to the private sector.

At the present time, the fact that anyone can get forecast and weather products for free from the government acts as a check on companies that provide forecasts. If the TOFF and his acolytes kill off the NWS, then the skies will be the limit for what it will cost to get weather information.

I see two basic principles for Projet 2025 and the lunatic who wants to be the FOFF's CoS: Embracing Christian fascism and pushing the selling off of government functions that began under Good Ol' Racist Ronnie.

Betcher Ass the Christian Taliban (and the COFF) Want to Bring This Back

"The American Plan", in which women could be arrested and held without charges for no good goddamned reason at all.

It was another idea of the Wilson administration. Wilson was probably the most bigoted American president in between Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon. He only approved of white Southerners and their genteel/subservient women.

But you know, don't you, that the Christofascists want to bring it back.

This Christian Nationalist Religious Indoctrination in Baja Kansas Is Brought to You by the TOFF and His Supremes

Oklahoma’s top education official ordered public schools Thursday to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12, the latest effort by conservatives to incorporate religion into classrooms.

The directive drew immediate condemnation from civil rights groups and supporters of the separation of church and state, with some calling it an abuse of power and a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

The order sent to districts across the state by Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters says adherence to the mandate is compulsory and “immediate and strict compliance is expected."

Whose Bible, exactly? Which sect's version of it?

This is state-mandated religious indoctrination by the Christian Taliban, plain and simple. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. And I suppose that Walters is going to send in goons in jackboots and leather trenchcoats to ensure that his orders are being carried out.

Religious indoctrination of children, using state-sanctioned texts. How does this, in spirit, differ from Saudi-funded madrassas?

This is what you get since the Christian Nationalist bigots and the MAGAites have taken over the GOP. If you are OK with kids undergoing forced religious indoctrination, then I am sure of one thing: You are no American that the Founding Fathers would have recognized.