{"id":56505,"date":"2025-04-01T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56505"},"modified":"2025-03-31T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:16:52","slug":"open-thread-april-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/01\/open-thread-april-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I received a petition from Faithful America. Here is a link<\/a>. I’m not specifically asking anyone here to sign the petition, though of course you can if so moved. Instead, what I want y’all to see here is the back story, and specifically the words of the church’s pastor. TomCat would have been as proud of this statement as I am. He from time to time wrote about authentic Christians as opposed to pseudo-Christians. Both kinds are all over, without regard to denomination or the frequency with which they “go to church.”<\/p>\n

This is a guest post to Wonkette by Ali Davis<\/a>. I don’t know the correct pronouns, so I’ll use they\/them. Ali has their own Substack, which appears new, (only 2 posts there including this one), but appears to be speaking toRepublicans, particularly Congressional Republicans, who are closet ant-Trumpers. I don’t know how to get their posts in the attention of the intended audience (I’m pretty sure that Wonkette is not it, but I appreciate Wonkette republishing it so we can read it), but between this one and the first one (which I found by clicking on the live link on their name at the bottom of the post), I can say they address the real issues that no one else is speaking about to that intended audience, and quite frankly too. If you have a Republican Congresscritter or Senator who at least used to be halfway sane, you could do worse than sneak a copy of either article, or both articles, to them.<\/p>\n

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\nI may not need that sarcasm tag for this blog, but I want to be sure no one has even a single-point rise in blood pressure from The F* News<\/a> here. Certainly as you read you’ll see where he’s going with this – “put up or shut up” and there’s nothing to put up. It’s cleverly done, certainly.<\/p>\n