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My name is Jeb Bush and I am ‘STUPID’…
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Let’s see, what phrase could I use to describe the use of religion to deny basic human rights?
“Small minded and intolerant”. Perfect! Thanks Smarter Bush Brother!
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Holy. Living. Fuck.
He’s as completely batshit insane as any Taliban or ISIL extremist.
Because … nothing says “tolerance” like giving the civilian population of your entire country a “choice” of one of 15 or 20 batshit insane Xstian sects, and the fucking Inquisition have you if you don’t want one of those flavors or, goddess forbid, you think that the Jesus zombies are too fucking insane to live with.
Jebbie missed his calling … he should have been a televangelist. His running mate will be santorum or the Huckster.
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I can think of no better speaker to deliver these sentiments to a crowd of miseducated superstitious buffoons at an institution that turns out so many thoroughly incompetent lawyers.
And it looks like Sekulow will be addressing the sociopaths at Regent University. His grifting and purely political daily propaganda broadcasts should certainly disqualify the local Christo-fascist radio outlet from tax exempt status.
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Boilerplate Republican victim hood speech. Bush seems to be going through the motions, as usual. Jebya has NO passion, NO ideas and NO chance.
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Practicing religious intolerance and coding, say, some slice of Christianity into law, that is not freedom. Founding fathers said so as well.
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I dare him to give that speech at any mainstream university.
Of course, none will invite him to share how he views ISIS as his kindred spirit in theocracy.
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How long before we understand that GWB was the smarter one? And he’s still dumb as a box of rocks.
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“Liberty” “university” “Christian” “school”
FIFY
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What do you want to bet if the Supreme court ruled that oral sex between to men was legal, how fast would any of the myriad of Republican hopefuls for President be on their hands and knees, gobbling each others goo?
“The stories vary, year after year, but the storyline is getting familiar: The progressive political agenda is ready for its next great leap forward…”
Progressive political agenda??? Man, I must have been asleep since Reagan got elected. Now that I’m wide awake, I guess I’d better sign up for single payer insurance and go down to the social security center driving my solar powered electric car, through the multi-use, green-space, roadway, high-speed train corridor, breathing healthy air substantially reduced of greenhouse gases. While I’m at it, it’s a national election day so I’ll also do same-day voter registration, thereby exercising my newly granted rights under the new constitutional universal right to vote amendment.
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Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury:
“Persecution is not being made to feel mildly uncomfortable. When you have any contact with real persecuted minorities you learn to use the word persecuted very chastely.
I am always very uneasy when people sometimes in this country or the United States talk about persecution of
Christians or rather believers. I think we are made to feel uncomfortable at times. We’re made to feel as if we’re idiots - perish the thought!
But that kind of level of not being taken very seriously or being made fun of; I mean for goodness sake, grow up.
You have to earn respect if you want to be taken seriously in society. But don’t confuse it with the systematic brutality and often murderous hostility which means that every morning you get up wondering if you and your children are going to make it through the day.
That is different, it’s real. It’s not quite what we’re facing in Western society.”
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Anyone have any idea what the different colors on Bush robe mean, if they mean anything at all?
What does a black robe represent?
What does the red stripe represent?
How about the gold stripes on Bush’s arms?
Great news, something wacky he’ll have to defend in the media and at debates,
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Sorry to go all Godwin here, but the inculcation of victimhood has long been a tactic of the far right.
This poster, like the one immediately before, seeks to improve upon the image of the SA, the Storm Troopers [Sturm Abteilung} of the Nazi Party. Although universally recognized as the bully boys who threatened opponents, disrupted opposition meetings, and engaged in all sorts of violent demonstrations, the SA always pictured themselves as victims.
In their accounts, they were peaceful citizens, set upon by criminal thugs, and so naturally they had to defend themselves. Although now serving as auxilliary policemen, the SA still stressed their sacrificial role.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/prop/ns_schaffen.html
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Robert Paxton, a professor emeritus at Columbia University, defines fascism in his book The Anatomy of Fascism as:
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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The problem is, that Jeb comes from the rigid, religion before all POV. Which is fine for that smallish group of people but in the good ole sectarian USA, the majority isn’t like him and don’t like what he likes. That’s democracy in action.
It isn’t the government’s fault, its Christianity’s fault. He and the other members can’t accept that they aren’t the accepted governing method or that that is the exact design of our nation.
Jeb can run as a Republican or as the Christian Party candidate, but not both.
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Jeb, there’s that pesky thing called the U.S. Constitution and if you want to be President you take this oath to preserve, protect, and defend it. You might want to consider whether you can take that oath before you proceed. Just sayin’.
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It’s called Democracy Jeb. You might want to study up on it.
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Obama is an extraordinary man. I would have thought that he was so busy confiscating guns and wealth that he wouldn’t have time for closing all those churches and banning all those non-Islamic forms of worship.
Okay, I have to admit that he has been pretty busy banning important christian forms of worship, such as: not baking cakes; not baking pizzas; not letting employees follow their own spiritual guidelines in their private lives; and definitely not sending a form to the government to confirm that you really mean it when you say that you aren’t letting your employees follow their own spiritual guidelines in their private lives.
Back to the caves, christians! There is safety in the caves!
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