This story is just gut-wrenching:
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LGBTQ people are such a threat to children, but we have to keep our AR-15 rifles.
Sometimes Iâm ashamed to be an American.
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âWe donât want that filth in Oklahoma?â I can not see the difference between this expression and âWe donât want those sorts of people in Oklahoma.â âFilthâ directly references a ânonbinaryâ teen. Do you think perhaps he was referring to the murderer and was just misunderstood? Holy shit! Some asshole really has his priorities backward. Never mind the asshole(s) that murdered the teen, we donât want teens like that in Oklahoma.
Whatâs the old saying? âTo get good people to do awful things, it takes religion.â
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Woods was playing to his voter base. Probably sucks a mean dick when he can get one.
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Or enjoys pounding underage pussy. Which is a frequently observed aspect of the fundagelical aetiology in some parts.
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Mr. Woods subsequently released an explanatory statement that basically doubled down on his sentiments. Oklahoma party leaders then chastised his remarks as reprehensible.
Nice try party leaders, but the U.S. media normally places reasonable commentary below the point where attention spans tend to run out, in my observation.
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This is down to Trump but anyone who believes that a boy goes to school and comes back as a girl is that a sac of rusty nails could out smart him. The fact that someone this stupid can be elected to high office is a clear warning that America is circling the drain. And where America goes so goes Canada eventually.
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Indeed, though it makes you wonder about the millions of avid fans heâs recruited. should they really be running around loose on their own? And armed to the teeth probably, given this is the states.
Well the one weak link in a democracy is the people who cast their vote, just like small children who never see danger anywhere. Thatâs why a free press is so important a part of any free democratic society. I am hoping youâre wrong, but the signs are not encouraging, come onnnâŚpresident HarrisâŚ
Oh I do hope notâŚI donât think Canadians indulge in the same fear mongering bs that politicians and the press love to peddle in the states. It is infesting the UK as well, just leaf through a copy of the Daily Mail.
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They see dangerâŚhowever, what they perceive to be dangerous is having a president who is not a straight, rich, white, male who believes they are superior because of it. Anyone other than that is, in their minds, horrifying.
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Good point, a better wording is that they see danger only when it suits them, and value democracy only when it gives them the results they want. Like a very poor loser, many of them are beyond bearable when they win, and dangerous when they lose.
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At 74 Iâve heard something similar to âcircling the drainâ any number of times. We still toddle on. I will give you all that I wonât be too critical of the situation twenty-five years from now.
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Christian Supremacists Take Over the National Mall
Last weekâs MAGA-inflected spectacle cast Kamala Harris as demonic, and Trump an avatar of biblical justice.
âDonald Trump-backing Christian supremacists gathered en masse on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Yom Kippur on Oct. 12, to fast, atone, and receive messages about a holy revolution, national deliverance from LGBTQ âdemons,â and âspiritual warfareâ matched to a physical âground game.ââ
As one preacher put it: âYou are not here to be blessed. You are here to do war.â
"This collection of Christian nationalist leaders â who summoned tens of thousands to the Mall â espoused views of the far right, including that queer people are âpossessedâ by demons, and can be converted to heterosexuality; that the nation should pursue total abolition of abortion; and that same-sex marriage must be abolished. They also declared that America was established to âserveâ the Christian God, and must return to that âcovenantâ relationship.
This agenda is more extreme than anything in Project 2025. Yet far from disavowing this movement, Trump has actively sought its support. And its leaders profess their faith that Trump would be their champion from the White House. Moreover, their violent rhetoric â about âarmiesâ and âgeneralsâ and âwarfareâ and âbattle stationsâ â signals that these zealots may, once again, be willing to spark a bloody fight to get Trump back to the Oval Office, regardless of how Americans vote in the 2024 election."
The danger Trump poses to democracy in the US is very real, and by extension this poses a danger to its allies. I am more concerned about him winning this time than I was in either of the previous elections.
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That actually sounds right, re Trump. The biblical folks were right bastards. "Kill all the men and boys, save only the virgin girls!*
*Didnât want their own line infested by non-Hebrew kids.
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In other words, their favourite part of their Bronze Age mythology is Numbers 31:18.
Which explains why that list of âpastorsâ and other âholy menâ featured in the news after being arrested for playing âHide The Sausageâ with 12 year old girls, that Iâve been maintaining since the RDF forum days, keeps growing.
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Waves to Cali! Long time no read.
Yep round and round and down the drain we go.
Well circling that drain, at least leaves the chance to avoid it, I guess. 
No reason to watch the vid.