"Congratulations to Justin Jones and Justin Pearson on being re-elected to the seats in the Tennessee legislature from which they were expelled.
They are our future."
~ George Takei and The Big Picture
#JustinJones #JustinPearson #Tennessee #democracy
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-august-6
nostr:npub1gk2wfr4awwkz7pq93jeqfqsfnuwcxe49fdgtwr39p0h9njvr8tps04f4qz Yes, that's how I read the development of Christianity from its origins to the Constantinean turn.
nostr:npub1c4fyu9alkwmvxf7h8a02xsuwu4km3qwpeqp77cs9sp5yeggufjwqqlpznd Exactly. It was born in a Fascist matrix in Franco's Spain and had highly placed members in Franco's government.
nostr:npub1jjzkqkemad8flerh04xjcs8spmqdwu5w38zzaetr622hj2npncfq2frjqk Well, not sure I'd go the firing squad route, but it surely is a baldfaced admission of the very thing he's being charged with as a co-conspirator.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3
The Catholic Church has, since it’s founding, never ceased in its efforts to rule the world religiously and politically. Considering their past and current behavior, many of us consider this a very bad idea.
nostr:npub1gk2wfr4awwkz7pq93jeqfqsfnuwcxe49fdgtwr39p0h9njvr8tps04f4qz There's lots of evidence that the Jesus movement was, in its inception, egalitarian and subservise of traditional hierarchical schemes, including female subordination to males. I think it was the Constantinean turn several centuries down the road from the foundational period of Christianity that welded church and state.
nostr:npub1lmcdd00upnpzum783jnp5hzret2234cjjcntcamp438mdclqm7fs20dcqp Indeed. He thinks God stands on his side, and that allows him to do just about anythingn he wants.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 sooooo, let's break this down in simple terms. January 6th, 2021 was a day meant to overthrow a government that was determined to be oppressive and the end of America as we know it.
On January 6th, this government was under the Presidency of......hmmmmm.....djt......
Makes sense.
nostr:npub1eemkfg502xd4qjkdr4cfpm69zel0njxnvncssjcqmxl0urh4fdfsgank84 For sure! It's not like there's not a clear and consistent pattern with him when it comes to perks, entitlements, and what appears to be outright graft.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 Thank you for this. I have a feeling I might have missed this through the next few news cycles.
Didn’t/Doesn’t Eastman see that there was no where near enough support publicly, politically, or militarily to pull this off?
A true rule by minority thought process. The arrogance is astounding.
nostr:npub1x8095g8udkay5fuheqkx7kejtpm3e0hvxcpmkzd3negr5e0gdcrs7xjrzl I think honestly they don't care about the fact that they lack majority support. They feel entitled, as a minority, to overrule the majority and tear down structures that assure majority control. As you say, this shows astounding arrogance.
If these folks cannot prevail as a minority in a democracy that respects majority rule, they have no compunction at all about trying to overturn the democratic structures that grant power to the majority, and imposing their minority rule.
God is on their side, after all, and that justifies everything. And, conveniently. god turns out to be a version of themselves write large — white, male, and heterosexual.
#Eastman #insurrection #FederalistSociety #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #democracy
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"It turns out that, per reporting by the New York Times, a rich benefactor friend who made his fortune in the health care industry actually personally financed the vehicle for Thomas, at least in part. It’s worth over a quarter million dollars. That’s a big loan for someone to underwrite., and something a bank unlikely would do on its own because of Thomas’s existing debt load. Thomas naturally didn’t declare the loan and it’s unclear how it was ultimately 'satisfied.'”
#ClarenceThomas
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"Justice Clarence Thomas is under scrutiny, again, for (checks notes) how he managed to buy his cherished RV. This is the vehicle Justice Thomas likes to drive around and park in Wal-Mart parking lots across the country, as to if to demonstrate his folksy nature."
~ Jay Kuo
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #corruption #ethics
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nostr:npub14yagc4k97qumnh8qmjr7pw3h33rw350sh2yc3cqw0wml3n5lpjesxcrz3r I think a a strong strand of thinking from the Enlightenment forward maintains that progress is delusionary and dangerous, and needs to be redefined as regress.
In short, Eastman's hostility to US democracy and to its endorsement of the rights of minority communities including the LGBTQ community, doesn't arise out of nowhere: it has a specific right-wing Catholic origin, an ideological center also shared by the group of Supremes who now control the Supreme Court.
But good luck getting the mainstream media to report on all of this.
#Eastman #insurrection #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #democracy
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Eastman previously chaired the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay outfit determined to roll back rights for LGBTQ Americans (and LGBTQ people elsewhere in the world). NOM, previously led by Maggie Gallagher, also Catholic, and connected to another leading anti-LGBTQ Catholic activist Robert P. George, has long had close ties to the US Catholic bishops.
#Eastman #insurrection #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #democracy #NationalOrganizationforMarriage
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Both Eastman and Leo are, it's reported, members of the powerful, wealthy, secretive, right-wing Catholic cult Opus Dei, which has long been inimical to democracy and has strong theocratic aspirations.
A number of the Supremes who constitute the right-wing Catholic cabal now controlling the court have Opus Dei ties. (The one non-Catholic member of the cabal, Gorsuch, was raised Catholic.)
#Trump #Eastman #insurrection #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #OpusDei #SupremeCourt #democracy
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Co-conspirator John Eastman frankly and proudly admits that he and others collaborating with Defendant Trump were seeking to overthrow the government.
As this frank admission is assessed, it's important to note the ideological roots of Eastman's claim — why he seeks to overturn US democracy.
Eastman belongs to the same Federalist Society of which Supreme Court kingmaker Leonard Leo was long v-p.
#Trump #Eastman #insurrection #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo
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"Trumpworld’s unbounded view of free speech, if applied consistently, would eliminate most state and federal crimes. After all, perjury is speech. (That did not stop independent counsel Ken Starr from investigating Bill Clinton for it or the House for impeaching him over it.) Bribery is speech. Many types of fraud are speech. Insider trading is speech. Identity theft is speech. Forging checks is speech"
~ Matt Ford
#Trump #Republicans #crime #FreeSpeech
https://newrepublic.com/article/174836/first-amendment-trump-indictment-speech
