Author: clearandpresentdanger

 

Last year Marjorie Taylor Greene was featured speaker at a white supremacist even where her fellow speakers praised Hitler and called for Dr. Fauci to be hanged.  The crowd shouted “Putin!! Putin!!” as bombs dropped on Ukraine.

And now Kavein McCarthy has given her a seat on the Homeland Security Committee, complete with security clearance.

I’ve said it before, will say it again:  REPUBLICANS ARE THE THREAT TO THIS NATION.

Evangelicals were driven to support former President Donald Trump out of fear of their “demographic slide” and their impending loss of political and cultural relevance, argued Robert P. Jones for Religion News Service on Tuesday — and several points of data suggest that their fear is justified.

“After a long life spanning nearly two hundred and forty years, White Christian America — a prominent cultural force in the nation’s history — has died,” wrote Jones. “WCA first began to exhibit troubling symptoms in the 1960s when white mainline Protestant denominations began to shrink, but showed signs of rallying with the rise of the Christian Right in the 1980s. Following the 2004 presidential election, however, it became clear that WCA’s powers were failing.”

Jones, who wrote “The End of White Christian America” just prior to Trump winning the 2016 election thanks in part to the overwhelming vote of white evangelicals, argued that the demographic information was clear then — and clear now: “The data I had available at the time identified a watershed event that was driving this desperate movement: The U.S. had become — for the first time in our history — a country that was, demographically speaking, no longer a majority white Christian country.”

Public Religion Research Institute in 2022 found that just 27.5 percent of Americans identify as White Protestants — and just 13.6 percent identify as White evangelicals — down from 23 percent in 2006, wrote Jones. Meanwhile, the data are even more dramatic when broken down by generation; just 9 percent of Americans 18-29 are White evangelicals, and a plurality, 38 percent, are religiously unaffiliated.

This shift has been dramatic in the population at large, but much less so in the GOP; 8 in 10 Republicans identified as some form of White Christian in 2006, versus 7 in 10 now. “If we overlay the current ethno-religious composition of our two political parties onto the generational cohort chart, we see a stunning result,” wrote Jones. “In terms of its racial and religious composition, the Democratic Party looks like 20-year-old America, while the Republican Party looks like 80-year-old America.”

“[Evangelicals’] steadfast allegiance to Trump’s MAGA vision — actually increasing their support for him between 2016 and 2020 — and their unwillingness to denounce either Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen or the violence on Jan. 6” have made clear that they will not accept minority status in America, wrote Jones. “The continued demographic decline makes it clear that the MAGA goal of reestablishing their vision of a white Christian America can’t be realized by democratic means. But … I’m deeply concerned that the embrace of Christian nationalism by nearly two-thirds of white evangelicals and a majority of the Republican Party will spawn more theological monstrosities justifying anti-democratic schemes to achieve this end.”

 

LOL: Briahna Joy Gray BREAKS the brain of Rising guest Bethany Mandel by asking her to define "wokeness" pic.twitter.com/uwRSSH0LaM

— The Vanguard (@vanguard_pod) March 14, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

An analysis by Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin found that House Republicans are already in jeopardy of failing in their investigation into President Joe Biden’s family.

In her column Tuesday, Rubin observed that Republicans “reached the ‘temper tantrum’ stage of the Hunter Biden’ scandal.'”

“Obviously, there is no legitimate basis for congressional ‘oversight’ of the matter,” Rubin asserted.

Republicans have focused on a statement from about 50 former intelligence officials warning that Hunter Biden’s laptop could be a Russian disinformation operation.

But the letter added: “We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.”

“Nevertheless, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio) sent letters to the signatories, demanding all documents relating to the statement and directing the former officials to appear for transcribed interviews,” Rubin wrote. “If they don’t comply, they have been warned, subpoenas will be forthcoming.”

“And, ironically, it would be an illegitimate and inappropriate use of congressional power — a weaponization of government — if every president’s family members and their associates and defenders could be summoned to testify about a made-up controversy,” she added.

Rubin pointed out that a court ruling could undermine the investigation.

“The last thing these right-wing congressmen likely would want is a court ruling that their three-ring circus lacks any legitimate legislative purpose and, therefore, cannot compel testimony or document production. A legal defeat for MAGA-inspired investigations (which to date have spectacularly flopped) would be the perfect denouement to Republicans’ inept efforts to harness congressional power for political gain,” she said.

“In standing up to congressmen bent on bullying and intimidating witnesses to score political points, the former intelligence officials will have performed a public service: revealing the feckless little men behind the curtain,” Rubin concluded.

 

 

 

 

In an attempt to highlight his “humor” in advance of his possible 2024 presidential run, former Vice President and former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) mocked out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg with several anti-gay quips.

Pence headlined the Gridiron Club dinner in D.C. this past Saturday, and joked that his pronouns are “thou” and “thine.”

Rightwing pundits have launched a coordinated attack on the out Transportation Secretary after he and his husband adopted newborn twins.

Then he said that Buttigieg “took maternity leave” in 2021 when Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten Buttigieg had twins and he made a crack about the country going through postpartum depression as a result.

Politico reports that Pence’s advisers think this speech will highlight Pence’s humor, something that can counteract his reputation as “a humorless conservative scold” who refuses to eat in the same room alone with a woman who isn’t his wife, who he refers to as “mother.”………………

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-pence-targets-pete-buttigieg-with-homophobic-insults/ar-AA18zflx?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=2e0864b901d943518686e28dbb0a2930&ei=18

 

This is what a piece of shit looks like when it’s dressed up.

Danny Lemoi took a daily dose of veterinary-grade ivermectin and told his thousands of followers to give the drug to children. He died of a common side effect of the medication.

Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!”

Hours later, Lemoi was dead.

For the last few years, Lemoi had taken a daily dose of veterinary ivermectin, a dewormer designed to be used on large animals like horses and cows. In 2021, as ivermectin became a popular alternative COVID-19 treatment among anti-vaxxers, he launched what became one of the largest Telegram channels dedicated to promotion the use of it, including instructions on how to administer ivermectin to children.

But despite Lemoi’s death, the administrators of his channel plan to continue pushing his misinformation—even as his followers share their own worrying possible side effects from taking ivermectin and some question the safety of the drug.

Lemoi, a heavy equipment operator who lived in Forster, Rhode Island, “passed away unexpectedly” on March 3, according to an online obituary post by his family last week. He was survived by his parents and brother. The obituary gave no details about the cause of his death.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mb89/ivermectin-danny-lemoi-death?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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IVERMECTIN SIDE EFFECTS

Adverse side effects from taking Ivermectin, which occur 1-10% of the time with standard doses, include rapid heart rate, swelling of face, swelling of feet, low blood pressure, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea, decreased white blood cell counts, and hepatitis.