Republicans on Parade – 12/12/2017

Posted by TomCat at 9:10 am Politics, Religion

Dec 122019

Here is the one hundred seventieth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Trump sycophant white supremacist pastor, Rick Wiles. He is so honored for the typically Republican anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories he employs against impeaching his Fuhrer. This is his second parade. He earned the first on 6/26/2018 for accusing Democrats of plotting to murder Republicans.

Rick Wiles, the far-right Christian fundamentalist pastor and radio host who founded TruNews, has a long history of bigotry — and that includes a lot of anti-Semitism to go with his anti-Islam, anti-gay and anti-feminist views. Regardless, Wiles has enjoyed media credentials in the Trump White House, but two Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives want those credentials revoked.

Wiles’ anti-Semitism was much in evidence in a video that was posted on TruNews’ YouTube channel on November 22. In the video, Wiles claimed that Jews are behind efforts to impeach President Donald Trump: Wiles described Trump as the victim of a “Jew coup” and claimed that Jews will “kill millions of Christians” after they succeed in removing the president from office.

YouTube banned TruNews’ channel from its video-sharing platform following Wiles’ anti-Semitic rant. And Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida and Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia, in a letter sent to Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Monday, asserted that Wiles should be banned from all White House media events… [emphasis added]

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I know that’s hard to believe, so here it is.

Pastor Rick Wiles Says Impeachment is A Jew Coup

Barf Bag Alert!!

I figure that rates a parade, because it’s hard to get more Republican than that!

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 12/7/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:26 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics, Religion

Dec 072019

It’s a comparatively lazy day, here in the CatBox. Today’s articles are my only chore, except routine food prep and cleanup. I am a bit tired, because stayed up to watch the 13th ranked Oregon Ducks win the PAC 12 by beating the 5th ranked Utah Utes 37 – 15. Tomorrow is a Holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. My Broncos are playing the Texans. Pat will get to watch it. I won’t. Sadly, no matter how much I yell at Pat, her team is just too horny for my guys. Tomorrow is also a WWWendy Day. One of our planned chores is to fleece the shaggy TomCat, before de-stinking the rancid TomCat. Therefor, please expect no more than a Personal Update. Have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:23 (average 5:07). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From Alternet: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rammed through eight of President Donald Trump’s lifetime judicial picks in just three days this week, accelerating the far-right court takeover that one commentator warned is “absolutely going to hamstring efforts to make the U.S. into a responsible, civilized country, for as long as we live.”

The latest slew of confirmations, according to Bloomberg‘s Sahil Kapur, means that Trump and his Federalist Society allies have now hand-picked “about one in every five American federal judges,” or 170 judges total.

“Nearly all are in their 40s or 50s with lifetime appointments and positioned to shape American law for generations,” Kapur noted on Twitter. “It gets a tiny fraction of attention compared to other stuff he does but this is the Trump legacy that’ll echo for generations after he’s gone.”

I wish I knew what to do. Frankly, I’m at a loss. Can we impeach 170 at once? My best guest is that the majority are guilty of crimes, if only lying during their confirmation process. As soon as we return DOJ to the people, they all should be investigated, and most, indicted, convicted, and/or disbarred. RESIST!!

From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Rick Wiles Says ‘The Democrats Are Forcing Me to Stockpile Ammunition’

Barf Bag Alert!!

Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the polar opposites of true authentic Christians, are experts at projection. That is, they accuse the left of committing their own crimes. It is these Ammosexuals, who art plotting the overthrow of America through violent Talibangelical Jihad, not Democrats! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Monkees – I’m a Believer, 1966 (HQ Stereo)

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Open Thread – 12/5/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:22 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics, Religion

Dec 052019

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. I got to bed late last night. My new O₂ compressor arrived, and while installing it, WWWendy and I rearranged the entire wall it was on to make it more accessible than the old one, and to put the microwave closer to the sink and range. Store to Door is delivering groceries today, and I’d like to finish on time to get a partial nap in before they arrive. I also have a mild case of Republicosis. Flush your Republicans!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:24 (average 4:49). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Republican polluters think that poor non-white neighborhoods should be contaminated.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (RWW Channel): Johnny Enlow: God Is Using Trump as a ‘Hinge of the Ages’

And I looked, and behold a pale motorcycle: and his name that sat on him was Trump, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the opposite of real authentic Christians, are seriously deranged! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): White Supremacy Threatens Our Democracy

I could not agree more! Fear is the opposite of love. Hate is just a symptom of fear. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Open Thread – 10/28/2019

Posted by TomCat at 11:01 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics, Religion

Oct 282019

It’s another crappy day, here at the CatBox. The problem that’s causing the Republicosis is that I’m taking more aspirin than I should in the Alka-Seltzer I need and consuming far more dairy products than normal. I’ve talked to my doctor about it, and she said to cut down on both. I’m going to try an aspirin free antacid effervescent. It’s on the way. Sleepy OGIM Hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 4:59). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Religious Agony:

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Another bad call put the Colts in range for Vinatieri’s winning field goal. Although a Bronco tackled a Colt, that hit was NOT a horse collar! Damn Ref! Damn Orb!

Short Takes:

From Nation of Change: …A church in Columbia, Missouri teamed up with non-profit organization RIP Medical Debt last month. Together The Crossing Church and RIP Medical debt paid off more than $43 million of medical debt. The Crossing was able to raise more than $430,000 through donations from members of the church.

Churches in several other states have also partnered with RIP Medical Debt to help pay off past-due medical debt for local residents. Pathway Church in Wichita, Kansas, spent $22,000 of their budget to eliminate $2.2 million in medical debt. Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church in Champaign, Illinois, used $15,000 of surplus money from a building renovation project to eliminate $4 million of debt for more than 3,000 families. Revolution Annapolis church in Maryland raised $15,000 to erase $1.9 million in medical debt for nearly one thousand families last year. And City Church in Evansville, Indiana, raised $15,000 and wiped out $4 million in debt.

Most recently in Texas, Lake Pointe Church paid off over $2.5 million in medical debt as part of their “Pay it Forward” campaign. The campaign encourages community members to commit acts of kindness in celebration of the church’s 40th anniversary…

This illustrates the pro-social behavior of authentic Christians. It’s the opposite of the the hateful behavior of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): 100 Days Until the Iowa Caucuses

Now think of the contrast between these fine people and deplorable Republican Sheeple! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the Past): Crosby, Stills & Nash – Southern Cross

I’ve dreamed of crossing the equator, but I’ve never seen the Southern Cross. I loved the song, though. Ah… The memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Republicans on Parade – 10/18/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:35 am Politics, Religion

Oct 182019

Here is the one hundred sixty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Trump sycophant and Republican pseudo-Christian purveyor of hatred, Chris McDonald. He is so honored for saying God killed Elijah Cummings for opposing Resident Donald Trump.

Right-wing commentator and radical conspiracy theorist Chris McDonald streamed a special edition [pseudo-Christian delinked] of his “The MC Files” program this morning in response to the news that Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings had died. McDonald and his guest, Maryland pastor Stacey Shiflett [pseudo-Christian delinked], spent the entire program attacking Cummings as corrupt, unbiblical, and ungodly, and asserting that God had taken his life because of his opposition to President Donald Trump.

“We know the Bible,” McDonald said. [pseudo-Christian delinked] “You’ve got a leader that has been in office for over 30 years, that opened the door on unfettered abortion in this country. His civil rights icon status was a joke because he did nothing to bring rights to his people; all he did was divide, all he did was play the race card.”…

…“Everything that he’s done has been nothing but trying to take this president out,” he said. “I believe that God had had enough, and God moved.” [emphasis added]

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Here’s the video:

Barf Bag Alert!!

There is no question that this monster deserves a parade, but I have to clarify one thing. This is how Republicans act. It is not how Christians act. Elijah Cummings is an ideal example of how Christians act. Please to not blame Christians for what Republican pseudo-Christians do.

RESIST!!

His Parents Named Him Well

Posted by TomCat at 8:54 am Politics, Religion

Oct 172019

My God is the Lord. That’s the meaning of the name Elijah, and his parents named Elijah Cummings well. Throughout his too-short life, he dedicated himself tirelessly to his faith, to his nation, to his community, and to anyone he could help in any way. His passing leaves a terrible void in the fabric of our nation, and except for the Republican Reich, we shall miss him.

Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump, died Oct. 17 at a hospice center in Baltimore. He was 68.

The cause was “complications concerning long-standing health challenges,” his office said in a statement. Mr. Cummings was chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and a leading figure in the Trump impeachment inquiry and had been out of his office this week while recovering from an unspecified medical procedure.

Born to a family of Southern sharecroppers and Baptist preachers, Mr. Cummings grew up in the racially fractured Baltimore of the 1950s and 1960s. At 11, he helped integrate a local swimming pool while being attacked with bottles and rocks. “Perry Mason,” the popular TV series about a fictional defense lawyer, inspired him to enter the legal profession.

“Many young men in my neighborhood were going to reform school,” he told the East Texas Review. “Though I didn’t completely know what reform school was, I knew that Perry Mason won a lot of cases. I also thought that these young men probably needed lawyers.”…

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I shared just a peek at Cumming’s early life. Click through for an extensive review of his heroic life.

Here is what I saw on TV, in which I first learned of his death.

Rep. Elijah Cummings dies at the age of 68

Few men have ever exemplified so well what it means to be a Christian.

RESIST!!

Pro Life?

Posted by TomCat at 10:16 am Politics, Religion

Oct 132019

Several years ago, I was sitting on a MAX train, when a group of Republican pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of authentic Christians) approached me. I could tell, because they wore identical IXTHUS buttons and vacant, rigid smiles. One asked me, “Are you pro-life?” I played along, “Why yes I am.” She replied, “That’s wonderful. We are too!” I answered, “Great! How long have you been against capital punishment?” Her countenance dropped, “But we’re FOR the death penalty!” I said, “Then, if I understand you correctly, you’re telling me you’re pro-death!” Stunned they walked away. Pseudo-Christians today are just as hypocritical.

You say that you’re pro-life.

You let me know in hashtags and bumper stickers and t-shirts and memes and march photos and sermons and high horse sanctimony.

You treasure and revere and defend life.

Kurds are lives you know.

They’re actual living, breathing human beings. (Well, many more of them were a week ago.)

They are lives filled with learning to walk and first days of school and running in the yard and having a dog and falling in love and playing instruments and exploring passions and getting married and growing old.

Kurdish people are parents and children and best friends and first grade teachers and favorite aunts; lives of made of loving, laughing, singing, learning, growing—all the things you believe life here is made of, all the life you say you can’t abide the disruption of, all the life you tell me you’re for,

Kurds are lives, and those lies are ending prematurely, violently, senselessly right now.

As you read these very words, crowds are scattering, people are screaming, ammunition is invading bodies, human beings are falling to the ground, and hearts are ceasing to beat—and those parents, children, best friends, first grade teachers, and favorite aunts are dying… [emphasis added]

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Please click through to read the entire article. It’s too important not to read in its entirety.

Resident Donald Trump is responsible for these deaths. Republican Politicians claim to oppose this, but they refuse to lift a hand in the Senate to stop it. That means that they are pro-death, as is anyone that supports them or votes Republican.

RESIST!!

Republicans on Parade – 8/6/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:35 am Politics, Religion

Aug 062019

Here is the one hundred sixty-fourth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian TV host and conspiracy theorist, Chris McDonald. He is so honored for a false flag, blaming the Republican white supremacist terror shooting in El Paso on the so-called deep-state.

Right-wing commentator and conspiracy theorist Chris McDonald is the latest [pseudo-]Christian to chime in on the real explanation for the mass shootings that took place over the weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.

The good news is that he’s not blaming gay people. But instead, he’s blaming the Deep State… for apparently trying to stop people for worshiping God…

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Here’s McDonald in action.

Barf Bag Alert!!

Can there be any question that this liar deserves this parade?

I’ll say this again. People like this are not authentic Christians. They are Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the exact opposite of real Christians. Authentic Christians do not hate Latinos. We love and accept all races and national origins. We love and accept all authentic religions, including no religion. We love and accept all genders and sexual identities that do not include the abuse of others (like Republican Judge Roy Moore). We even love Republicans. If we don’t accept many, it’s only because we hate the ways so many act. We wish they would change that.

RESIST!!

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