Cont: The thread for stupidity from GQP politicians who don't have their own thread Part II

bruto said:
Presuming your questions are rhetorical, but nonetheless, I'll answer to number three on the list, to which the answer is "yes." The answer, of course, has little or nothing to do with the first sentence, and everything to do with an administration of demented oligarchs and their desire to reduce everyone but themselves to poverty, disease and disenfranchisement.

In the "think globally and act locally" department, giving money to your local food banks is one of the more useful, as well as (should you incline that way) more Christian things you can do. The right wing has managed to persuade much of the voting public that public support of the poor is taking food from the mouths of others, just one step closer to eating the rich, but so far at least, we are still allowed to send them some scraps from our own table.
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If the U.S. gets to the "eating the rich" stage, I'm going vegan.
 
bruto said:
Presuming your questions are rhetorical, but nonetheless, I'll answer to number three on the list, to which the answer is "yes." The answer, of course, has little or nothing to do with the first sentence, and everything to do with an administration of demented oligarchs and their desire to reduce everyone but themselves to poverty, disease and disenfranchisement.

In the "think globally and act locally" department, giving money to your local food banks is one of the more useful, as well as (should you incline that way) more Christian things you can do. The right wing has managed to persuade much of the voting public that public support of the poor is taking food from the mouths of others, just one step closer to eating the rich, but so far at least, we are still allowed to send them some scraps from our own table.
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To add to this with slightly more in the way of specifics -

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.

So, again, yes. Republican evil is the primary cause for recent additional food bank problems. It's not just USAID that they've gone after. It's pretty much everything that actually directly gives a helping hand so people can get back up on their feet, especially after the Republicans keep causing them to be knocked down.
 
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Tommy is going to end Sharia Law in America.





Coach Tommy Tuberville

@SenTuberville

The greatest national security threat the United States is facing is Radical Islam and Sharia Law.



Sharia Law is INCOMPATIBLE with American society, culture, and the U.S. Constitution.



That is why I’ve introduced two bills to END Sharia Law in America.



https://twitter.com/x/status/1983938036548145611
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tommy is going to end Sharia Law in America.





Coach Tommy Tuberville

@SenTuberville

The greatest national security threat the United States is facing is Radical Islam and Sharia Law.



Sharia Law is INCOMPATIBLE with American society, culture, and the U.S. Constitution.



That is why I’ve introduced two bills to END Sharia Law in America.



https://twitter.com/x/status/1983938036548145611
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Of course, Christian theocracy can't suffer the competition !
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tommy is going to end Sharia Law in America.





Coach Tommy Tuberville

@SenTuberville

The greatest national security threat the United States is facing is Radical Islam and Sharia Law.



Sharia Law is INCOMPATIBLE with American society, culture, and the U.S. Constitution.



That is why I’ve introduced two bills to END Sharia Law in America.



https://twitter.com/x/status/1983938036548145611
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This idiot is flailing around for something, anything, to make it seem as if he's taking some important (or even just useful) action for Americans. But since, as he himself says, it's "incompatible with...the U.S. Constitution" as a system that binds anyone but religious true believers, there's nothing there to end. He'd do better to focus on the Christian equivalent, the folks who think their theocracy is any more compatible with the Constitution or binding on anyone who isn't one or chooses its strictures; there's a lot more of those folks to worry about than there are radical Muslims.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tommy is going to end Sharia Law in America.

Coach Tommy Tuberville
@SenTuberville
The greatest national security threat the United States is facing is Radical Islam and Sharia Law.
Sharia Law is INCOMPATIBLE with American society, culture, and the U.S. Constitution.
That is why I’ve introduced two bills to END Sharia Law in America.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1983938036548145611
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turingtest said:
This idiot is flailing around for something, anything, to make it seem as if he's taking some important (or even just useful) action for Americans. But since, as he himself says, it's "incompatible with...the U.S. Constitution" as a system that binds anyone but religious true believers, there's nothing there to end. He'd do better to focus on the Christian equivalent, the folks who think their theocracy is any more compatible with the Constitution or binding on anyone who isn't one or chooses its strictures; there's a lot more of those folks to worry about than there are radical Muslims.
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Betting he will be so careless that the wording of his bill will be equally applicable to Christian Nationalism as well as "Sharia Law". Then it can be used to prosecute any and all Christian Nationalists in the USA, rather than any Muslim clerics there, to stop anything they might want to do to push their agenda on Americans. Like...for example...Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Betting he will be so careless that the wording of his bill will be equally applicable to Christian Nationalism as well as "Sharia Law". Then it can be used to prosecute any and all Christian Nationalists in the USA, rather than any Muslim clerics there, to stop anything they might want to do to push their agenda on Americans. Like...for example...Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.
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There was a situation in Louisiana a few years back that's kind of analogous. I'm hazy now on the details, but what it amounted to was that a law passed to make state funds available to religious private schools was found, to the amazement of its writers, to be as applicable to Muslim as to Christian schools. The basic problem with folks like these is that they've come to think of Christianity in the US as the cultural default by which it can assume a political one- no other religion need apply for legal equality in a nation in which it can be presumed without need for thought that they are incompatible with its society and culture, and therefore have no measure in its law.
 
turingtest said:
There was a situation in Louisiana a few years back that's kind of analogous. I'm hazy now on the details, but what it amounted to was that a law passed to make state funds available to religious private schools was found, to the amazement of its writers, to be as applicable to Muslim as to Christian schools. The basic problem with folks like these is that they've come to think of Christianity in the US as the cultural default by which it can assume a political one- no other religion need apply for legal equality in a nation in which it can be presumed without need for thought that they are incompatible with its society and culture, and therefore have no measure in its law.
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Similar situation in France, on the condition that such schools teach the official school curriculum (sciences, history, civics, physical education for the girls too, etc.). Of course, a good number of them didn't, but, unsurprisingly, outrage was almost only directed towards the muslim schools …
 
Flo said:
Similar situation in France, on the condition that such schools teach the official school curriculum (sciences, history, civics, physical education for the girls too, etc.). Of course, a good number of them didn't, but, unsurprisingly, outrage was almost only directed towards the muslim schools …
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I also remember when France banned face-covering garments and people were shocked to realize that included everything from scarves to Halloween masks? They just don't think ahead, do they.
 
As for Shariah law? I understand they want it banned, the American Taliban doesn't want competition.
 
Muslim private schools in Sweden have been quite a good thing on the whole, since many of them have failed to follow the national curriculum; suddenly people are demanding that we stop religious schools - all religious schools, since it is very hard to defend the existing christian and jewish schools. I have enjoyed listening to the discussions; the mental akrobatics of people trying to defend one or two kinds of religions schools, while condemning a third kind, is great fun at times. I don't think we're going to get rid of religions schools, sadly, but they will certainly be watched far more closely.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
I also remember when France banned face-covering garments and people were shocked to realize that included everything from scarves to Halloween masks? They just don't think ahead, do they.
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Er, no, neither scarves nor halloween masks are banned in France, except where it can be considered as a threat, for example entering a bank or an administrative office. I just had about 20 kids and their parents begging for candy at my door since this afternoon, many with masks, and one with a really terrifying disguise : he showed up as a maths teacher !
 
Helen said:
Muslim private schools in Sweden have been quite a good thing on the whole, since many of them have failed to follow the national curriculum; suddenly people are demanding that we stop religious schools - all religious schools, since it is very hard to defend the existing christian and jewish schools. I have enjoyed listening to the discussions; the mental akrobatics of people trying to defend one or two kinds of religions schools, while condemning a third kind, is great fun at times. I don't think we're going to get rid of religions schools, sadly, but they will certainly be watched far more closely.
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Same here. Some of the defenders of one religion over another could rival the best circus contortionists … they could get out of a corkscrew during a storm without touching the sides.
 
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