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"Stop Project 2025" Comics: a terrifying project of the #American far right, explained. https://stopproject2025comic.org/
#US #USA #USPolitics #CurrentEvents #FarRight #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism #racism #inequality #fascism #Project2025 #discrimination #authoritarianism #transphobia
* The Hidden Christian Nationalist Language in Project 2025 *
Join #DemocratsAbroad this Sunday at 11 am EDT / 5 pm CEST for a deep dive into Project 2025’s hidden Christian Nationalist language and how it is affecting us now and in the future.
Mainstream media outlets’ coverage of Project 2025 misses so much Christo-fascist language hiding in plain sight.
With guest speaker: Andra Watkins.
Register here: https://www.democratsabroad.org/project_2025_christian_nationalist
Throughline: A History of Christian Nationalism
I worry because so many Americans misjudge the stakes of their choices, are misled, or, just forget everything that happened more than 18 months ago.
I hope because so many Americans are so committed to the cause of democracy.
#christiannationalism #history #Throughline #democracy #election2024 #harriswalz2024 #voteblue #BlueWave2024
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/09/1260150915/a-history-of-christian-nationalism
"To understand what’s happening in America today and what’s on the ballot this November, you need to pay attention to shifting coalitions. What we’re seeing right now is a strengthening and expanding coalition between Christian nationalists, tech billionaires, and Trump’s inner circle."
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/theobros-techbros-and-trump
@davidlnoll and Jon Michaels joined SideBar to discuss their new book Vigilante Nation. The books is an excellent distillation of the movement to use legal and extra-legal vigilantism to enforce right-wing, Christian Nationalist moral codes.
#stochasticterror #ChristianNationalism #uspol #vote #VoteBlue
nothing to see here, just trump tweeting christian nationalist battle prayers that you would have heard during the crusades...
#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #ChristianNationalism #ChristianNationalist
Politics is the bane of Christianity.
"Sent by God"
"They’re gathering by the thousands. They’re growing fast. They believe that Democrats are possessed by demons—and that Donald Trump must be president again at any cost."
"This election has made me more afraid for the future of the United States than any previous election. Not simply because Trump is running, but because the fact that he’s running—and doing as well as he is—after a disastrous four years in office, reveals a larger part of our population than I had realized is more irrational, self-destructive, uninformed, and harmful to their children’s futures."
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#Trump #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-debate-trump-weirdly-lies-about
Christian nationalism really is trying to put the emperor above God, and empire above God’s kingdom.
Anyway, I need to engage more with apocalyptic literature. This was a good episode.
#podcast #TheBibleForNormalPeople #Bible #Christianity #ChristianNationalism
"That’s how Project 2025 would work and already works.
It’s the realization of Wilhoit’s Law: 'Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.'”
~ Jason Sattler
#Project2025 #Trump #JDVance #authoritarianism #retribution #vengeance #ChristianNationalism
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https://thecause.substack.com/p/this-is-how-project-2025-destroys
One of the most discouraging things I've observed in a lifetime of studying American media, is the way corporate news outlets have reacted to the objectively fascist takeover aspect of Project 2025 by focusing on the fact that it's a cluster of "bad ideas" rather than the obvious reality that it's a plan to transform America into a Christian Nationalist dictatorship by force. If big network journalists were doing their jobs properly, I wouldn't have to share a 10 minute undercover sting operation by the Center for Climate Reporting published on YouTube here with you, but they aren't, and so I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_chqyaRHo
The context here is that two journalist working for CCR went undercover, posing as donors, to meet Micah Meadowcroft (one of the authors of Project 2025) and Russel Vought (former Trump admin Director of the Office of Budget and Management) to talk to them about …
One of the most discouraging things I've observed in a lifetime of studying American media, is the way corporate news outlets have reacted to the objectively fascist takeover aspect of Project 2025 by focusing on the fact that it's a cluster of "bad ideas" rather than the obvious reality that it's a plan to transform America into a Christian Nationalist dictatorship by force. If big network journalists were doing their jobs properly, I wouldn't have to share a 10 minute undercover sting operation by the Center for Climate Reporting published on YouTube here with you, but they aren't, and so I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_chqyaRHo
The context here is that two journalist working for CCR went undercover, posing as donors, to meet Micah Meadowcroft (one of the authors of Project 2025) and Russel Vought (former Trump admin Director of the Office of Budget and Management) to talk to them about Project 2025. Using hidden cameras, they easily got these two fascist muppets to more or less openly admit:
- Project 2025 is a plan to establish an expressly Christian Nationalist dictatorship under Trump.
- they intend to use the US military against anyone who protests the project
- what's available in the public is only the broad outline, they're secretly working on the exact executive orders and policy initiatives necessary to make this fascist shit a reality if Trump is elected; and fast.,
- they're actively keeping this second phase of the project a secret to avoid FOIA requests that would *actually* expose their plans.
- Trump's disavowals of Project 2025 are meaningless electioneering; he's still on board, as is JD Vance and the other Trumworld muppets involved.
The astounding part here is how easily the undercover reporters were able to coax this information out of Meadowcroft and Vought, and the fact that this is being done by a nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose YouTube channel has less than a thousand subscribers tells you all you need to know about how hard (or not) the American media is actually pursuing this story. This is literal fundie fascist dictatorship shit of the kind that could get people tossed in jail if this were a functioning democracy; which sadly, America really isn't - especially post-Citizens United.
I strongly recommend you watch this video, it's worth every moment of the 10 minutes it'll take you to do so.
Also, hat tip to @blogdiva who shared this early today, and without whom I would definitely never have seen this.
#Project2025 #RussellVought #ChristianNationalism #Trump #USPol #Fascism
Know what that is in that photo?
It's a dumpster full of books —mostly LGBT stuff but others too— heading to the landfill.
Know what *that* is?
It's goddamned fascism.
This is what hate looks like.
This is what hate does.
#USpol #USnews #DeSantis #Republicans #GOP #ChristianNationalism #Fascism #BookBurning #LGBTQIA
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/
#NewCollege of #Florida tosses hundreds of #library #books, empties #gender #diversity library
h/t to @alexwild and @futurebird
All I can think of when I see JD Vance is Gilead Commander Fred Waterford. The resemblances, mannerisms, and policies are eerily similar.
🥥 United States Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) isn't weird, you're weird.
Eye had forgotten about this German TV piece (has English subtitles) of a father-daughter chastity ceremonial wedding in which Johnson and his daughter feature prominently.
It's not just weird. It's cringe weird. 🥥
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImJQG8lR0Uw
#USPolitics, #Weird, #MikeJohnson, #ChastityMarriage, #ChristianNationalism, #TuckersBalls
"While I am troubled by Donald Trump himself, as a Christian and as a pastor, what concerns me even more is the kind of Christianity that continues to support and justify him as God’s chosen one no matter the harm it causes. Without the majority of Evangelical Christianity supporting him, it is most likely that he would have never won an election."
~ Benjamin Cremer
#Trump #ChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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https://benjamin-cremer.ck.page/posts/partisan-prophets-and-the-deification-of-politicians
