Originally published at: Where Things Stand: Pete and the Preacher Man - TPM – Talking Points Memo
I’m subbing in for the incomparable Nicole Lafond today and tomorrow as she takes a well-deserved break. For now, the pastor Doug Wilson is having his moment. Wilson is a radical Idaho pastor who, as I’ve written, wants to try to make America Christian again by establishing a theocracy. In some ways, it’s funny: Wilson…
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I live in Washington, near the Idaho border, so I can tell you with some authority that Pacific time Idaho is crazier, by far, than mountain Time Idaho, and mountain time Idaho is crazy.
There’s so much Jesus (Jebus!) that it makes the fact that I live within a quarter mile of about 10 churchs seem secular.
Kafka isn’t afraid of the Jesus freaks.
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Pete Hegseth is a douchebag of historic proportions. And it seems like he’s utterly stupid/incompetent and a drunk. Nothing but the best people.
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Should be chiseled on Mount Rushmore.
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These days it really does seem that we are increasingly governed by the delusions of bad people; it’s kakistocracy but in a madhouse.
In a better world these people would be heavily sedated in a padded room.
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am just gonna leave this here. A good laugh (at Pete’s expense, sort of) is in order.
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Just another Christian telling God and Jesus what they should do and they will listen or Trump will get involved.
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That kitteh is displaying extraordinary restraint by not pouncing on that pooch.
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And those fine qualities are only infinitesimally less obvious that his douchebaginess.
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Why not Stone Mountain in GA? He’d feel comfortable with the likes of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Not sure where the Hegseths came from, but any support is still support.
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Or printed on cartons of milk.
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"Russian commentators have taken this as an opportunity to reflect on Alaska’s past. It was a colony of Tsarist Russia sold to the U.S. in 1867; some Russians believe the U.S. stole it.
The point here isn’t so much to highlight some nonsensical Russian plan to retrieve Alaska…"
Can we give them Wasilla, Sarah Palin, and whatever is left of her family that depend on her and just let Ukraine keep all the parts of its country together in peace?
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“Christian Domination.” How Christlike.
And then there’s Pete – “All of Christ for All of Life.” I don’t know what the hell that’s supposed to mean but everything I’ve read about his pastor tells me that he’s more about “none of Christ.”
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founding his own protestant denomination
Because two thousand years of thought, meditation, discovery, and discussion by people physically and proximately to Jesus than Wilson can ever be, got it all wrong?
Mr. Wilson is not the way or the truth or the life. Read the book. It’s free. It tells you everything anybody knows.
legislative [Republican] priorities for another megabill
More firings. More abandonment of duty. The Republican Party has stated its purpose. They want to drown the government after starving it.
By the way, still not a peep about giving the middle class its tax payments back.
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opposing female suffrage:
Hegseth has shown us what he regards as the role of women.
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Will Rich Lowry and his ‘little starbursts’ wander off to Russia with her?
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I’ve got $1000 TrumpBucks™ to support the presumption that Wilson is a pedophile and Hegseth is a rapist drunk.
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