Freakazoid "Un-Christian" Stance Not Hypocrisy; It's Standard Operating Procedure

Pete Buttigieg is getting some left-wing love for supposedly calling out Xian hypocrites for their hate-filled attacks on immigrants.

Buttigieg said that although Democrats “stand for people of any religion and no religion,” Democrats should “call out hypocrisy when we see it” when it comes to the violation of Christian principles.

“And for a party that associates itself with Christianity to say that it is ok, to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents,” he said, “that God would condone putting children in cages has lost all claim to ever use religious language again.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Stop you're killing me.

Xian freakazoids have been hypocritcal motherfuckers since the third-century ghostwriters of the new testament twisted jewish tradition and new philosophy to demonize women, glorify celibacy and create an anti-sex cult that has lasted for 1,800 years.  Aristotle just added the misogynistic cherry on top.

Hypocrisy is the essential foundation of freakazoid Xianity.  Without hypocrisy, their entire edifice of racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic hate crumbles into dust.

The only reason it doesn't is because supposed "liberal christians" like Buttigieg keep giving it life by calling out its hypocrisy.  Every call-out is like a re-grouting of the brick walls.  It just make them stronger.

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No, Mitch, You Don't Get Credit for This

No, you don't believe the women.

What you believe is that Moore's candidacy is hurting the repugs in advance of 2018 and might even put Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the Senate.

You don't give a flying fuck about the women Moore raped and assaulted.

You only care about keeping the repug majority in the Senate so you can steal more billions from working people to give to the idle rich and the job-killing corporations.

The Orange Loser in the White House publicly confessed to worse crimes than Moore now denies, but you are not calling for him to step down.

Your party is the party of hypocrisy over sexual assault. You allow your candidates any crimes right up to the point it endangers their election.

The Alabama Senate race stands as the perfect symbol of repug politics:

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Believe What They Want

Here's a new game:  name something - anything - that the Orange Loser could do that would turn freakazoids against him.

No, not public admission of sexual assault.  Not the utter dearth of anything resembling religious belief or devotion. Not telling stories about sexual orgies to 10,000 Boy Scouts.

And of course not embracing, protecting and promoting white supremacy and violent racism.

Digby:

They believe what they want to believe. As long as he isn't gay, I guess they're fine with anything he does. And even then, at this point I think they'd probably all roll with that too. Many of them read Breitbart obviously and have no problem with Milo. Michael Flynn feted him like a rock star.

It's all just depressing as hell because we all know that there are many Democrats looking for ways to appease these people by selling out people of color and women (or at least telling them to go sit in the back of the bus and be quiet) so they can appeal to these people. It won't work. It never works. They are right wing extremists in every way, not just religious conservatives. You can't break them off with appeals to their "traditional morality" because they don't believe in it themselves. It's obviously a pose. But you knew that. Look at Ted Haggart, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker --- pretty much all of them.

Unfortunately, Neither Hypocrisy Nor Homophobia Are Crimes

I have just a few points to make about this cowardly attack.

• Asking someone for consensual sex is not against the law.
• Expressing disgust at someone's legal and consensual sexual acts is a dead giveaway that the critic is about to get caught doing or seeking those very acts.
• Julian Carroll is a christanist freakazoid and is, like all of them, a hypocrite.
• Julian Carroll has been corrupt to his toes for 60 years.  Anybody who's surprised by anything he does needs to read some Kentucky state government history.
• Julian Carroll is the last Kentucky voice for New Deal and Great Society Democratic values. He's the bulwark against not just greedy repug fuckheads, but elitist neoliberal techbros in his own party.
• Kentucky Democrats calling for Carroll's head are idiots and hypocrites.
• Note to reporter Daniel DesRochers:  It's called "a hand job," not "masturbation."

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"Gossip Posing as Moralizing"

Kimmie Davis' play for a Wingnut Welfare retirement has submerged the Ashley Madison hack and the exposure of uber-freakazoid Josh Duggar as a sister-molesting, hooker-beating piece of shit.

But last month Digby and Greenwald put the gleeful scolds in their place.

 I think this Ashley Madison hack is nothing more than sophomoric gossip parading as moralism. I don't even care that Josh Duggar cheated on that poor wife of his --- I assume that all those patriarchal moralists do that. It's one of the perks. I feel sorry for his wife both because of what he did and the fact that she now has to be publicly humiliated all over again. I'm sure he deserves to be held up for ridicule for his hypocrisy, but in the end the whole thing is just a sordid, small town gossip fest.

Anyway, Greenwald's been following the story and wrote this up today and I thought it was very poignant:

Ever since I wrote on Thursday about the Ashley Madison hack and resulting reactions and consequences, I’ve heard from dozens of people who used the site. They offer a remarkably wide range of reasons for having done so. I’m posting below one email I received that I find particularly illuminating, which I very lightly edited to correct a few obvious typographical errors:

Dear Glenn,

Thank you for the kindness and humanity you have manifested to those of us whose data is now a source of public mockery and shame on AM.

I am female, hold a job with a lot of responsibility, have three kids, one with special needs, and a husband with whom I have not been intimate for several years due to his cancer treatments.

I also used to write about marriage law policy, encouraging traditional marriage for the good of children. My institution has a morality clause in all contracts.

Mine is a loveless, sexless, parenting marriage. I will care for my husband if his cancer spreads, we manage good will for the sake of the children, but we cannot talk about my emotional or sexual needs without him fixating on his death and crying.

I went on AM out of loneliness and despair, and found friendship, both male and female, with others trapped in terrible marriages trying to do right by their children.

My experiences have led me to soften my views of marriage as my own marriage is a deeply humbling, painful longterm commitment.

I expect to be ridiculed by colleagues, to lose my job, and to be publicly shamed, especially as a hypocrite. Yes, I used a credit card. In my case, I will get no sympathy from the right or the left as I do not fit into either of their simplistic paradigms.

I have received email from Trustify that I have been searched, and it is soliciting me to purchase its services. And I am receiving lots of spam with racy headings

That is my story. When my outing happens, I suppose I might as well take a stand for those who are trapped in bad marriages. Many of us are doing the best we can, trying in our own imperfect way to cope with alienation, lovelessness, and physical deprivation.

I do not want to hurt my children or husband. I truly wish I had a good one and I want happy marriages for others. I did what I did trying to cope. Maybe it was a bad idea but again, I have met some very decent people on AM, some of whom are now dear friends.

Thank you again.

Anonymous

As I argued last week, even for the most simplistic, worst-case-scenario, cartoon-villain depictions of the Ashley Madison user – a spouse who selfishly seeks hedonistic pleasure with indifference toward his or her own marital vows and by deceiving the spouse – that’s nobody’s business other than those who are parties to that marriage or, perhaps, their family members and close friends. But as the fallout begins from this leak, as people’s careers and reputations begin to be ruined, as unconfirmed reports emerge that some users have committed suicide, it’s worth remembering that the reality is often far more complex than the smug moralizers suggest.

The private lives and sexual choices of fully-formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand – and certainly impossible to judge – without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business. That’s a very good reason not to try to sit in judgment and condemn from afar.

Yup.

You Asked for Religious Freedom; This is What You Get

See, that's the problem with your invisible friend in the sky being invisible, inaudible and undetectable: anybody can claim the same thing for their own reasons.

Travis Loller at TPM:

A Nashville swingers club has undergone a conversion — it says it's now a church — in order to win city approval so it can open next to a Christian school.

The story began last fall, when a fixture in downtown Nashville called The Social Club sold its building and purchased a new one in a run-down office park several miles to the east.

The new building is geographically isolated at the end of a dead-end street, but it is near the back of Goodpasture Christian School, a large private school serving pre-school through high school children.

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Parents and religious leaders were called on to pack the Metro Nashville Council chambers to support a zoning change to prevent the club from opening. That's when the club, which had spent $750,000 on the building and begun renovations, suddenly transformed into a church.

The United Fellowship Center's plans are nearly identical to those of The Social Club but with some different labels. The dance floor has become the sanctuary. Two rooms labeled "dungeon" are now "choir" and "handbells." Forty-nine small, private rooms remain, but most of them have become prayer rooms.

Larry Roberts is the attorney for the club-turned-church. He previously vowed to take the city to court. Now, he says, it's the city that will have to sue.

"The ball is in Metro's court ... We've now gotten a permit to meet as a church, and a church is something that cannot be defined under the U.S. Constitution," he said.

This is why the freakazoids are so determined to establish Dominionism: because in an open, secular society, the freakazoids always lose.

As for sex in church, that pretty much defined religion for all of human history. All the women-hating, sex-terrified christians did was move it from the altar to the altar boys.

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Drug Testing the Wrong People

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Conservatives And Pot

If they're not lying, they're projecting. If they're not projecting, they're redefining hypocrisy. 

Conservatives are the perfect moral relativists: morality - and the law and the Constitution - is what they say it is.

Even if that's the opposite of what they said it was yesterday, and the reverse of what they're going to say tomorrow.

Erik Loomis at LGM:

Remember friends, conservatives are always about smaller government and leaving people alone to live their lives as they want:

Two neighboring states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Colorado’s laws legalizing recreational marijuana.

The Colorado attorney general’s office says the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma have filed the lawsuit directly with the nation’s highest court. The attorney general’s office says the lawsuit alleges “that Colorado’s Amendment 64 and its implementing legislation regarding recreational marijuana is unconstitutional under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.”

In other words, right wing states decide to launch a lawsuit based upon a culture war against a liberal state (or however you want to define Colorado). Nebraska and Oklahoma are claiming that they are suffering because of the marijuana arrests no one is forcing them to make based upon their borders with Colorado. For Oklahoma, this makes almost no sense since I am sure very, very few people buying legal marijuana in Colorado are crossing it’s small and remote border with the Sooner State. Of course, the solution to this “problem” for the attorney general in these states is not to spend less money on stupid laws and reallocate that money to solving social problems. It’s to spend more money on a frivolous lawsuit. Which pretty much sums up modern conservatism.

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Rand Paul Votes to Let the NSA Take Naked Pictures of You

We have a variation on the old Stupid or Evil question: Does the Tribble-Toupeed One not even realize he is contradicting himself? Or does he think repug primary voters are too stupid to notice all of his weather-vaning and flip-flopping?

Scott Lemiuex at LGM:

Now, yes, yes, unlike most of his Republican colleagues, Paul ostensibly opposed the bill because it wasn’t robust enough. But this makes about as much sense as most heighten-the-contradictions arguments (i.e. none.) This was, to be clear, far from a great bill. But it’s also quite clearly better than anything that’s going to be passed by the next Congress.

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McConnell strongly opposed this legislation as doing too much to rein in the NSA, and especially with Udall losing the chances of a better bill emerging next year can be safely estimated at 0%. So Paul’s motives for opposing the legislation are irrelevant; he’s a cat’s paw for the Mukasey/Hayden team when the rubber hits the road, and all the showoff filibusters in the world won’t change the fact that he voted for this one too.

KY Repugs Voted to Slash Public Health Funding That Could Have Stopped Ebola

Ed Whitfield, Brett Guthrie and Hal Rogers voted to take money away from disease prevention programs; John Yarmuth and Ben Chandler voted against that deadly mistake. Thomas Massie and Andy Barr were not elected to office yet, but Massie's repug predecessor Geoff Davis voted in favor of a budget that literally killed people.

Down with Tyranny:

On February 19, 2011 the Republican Party decided to cut funding for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in 2011. Although Ron Paul didn't vote that day, only 3 Republicans recognized the folly of what the House Republicans were doing: John Campbell (R-CA), Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Walter Jones (R-NC). Although every single Democrat-- even the most corrupt reactionary Blue Dogs and New Dems-- voted NO, the bill passed 235-189.

When asked what the biggest challenge facing the CDC was 4 months later, Thomas Frieden, who had been director for exactly two years, went right to the point: "CDC’s budget was cut by $740 million between fiscal ’10 and fiscal ’11. That’s an 11 percent reduction in our budget authority and the lowest budget authority CDC has had since fiscal 2003. We’ve had to make very difficult and painful choices that are resulting in program reductions and eliminations, reduction in the number of staff working on projects, reductions in dollars going out to state governments for prevention, for preparedness, for lead poisoning prevention, for asthma management. State and local governments have had to cut about 45,000 public health jobs in the past two years, and the CDC budget cuts may require them to reduce staffing by another 1,000 staff. So this, to me, is the biggest challenge."

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Republican scare-mongers have been going on TV and falsely telling voters that doctors are wrong on Ebola and that the virus is airborne. Republicans all say they aren't scientists when it comes to Climate Change but when it comes to ebola, they are doing everything they can to stoke fear and panic and the undercut health care professionals and experts.

How Religious Freedom Works

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Of Course AynRandy Is Taking Wall Street Money

Just like his hero greedily grabbed Social Security while condemning government welfare.

Rube-gulling hypocrisy: it's the repug way.

Dawn Kopecki at Bloomberg News:

Sen. Rand Paul has preached the political peril of being too close to financiers as he gears up for a likely 2016 presidential bid.

"We cannot be the party of fat cats, rich people, and Wall Street," the Kentucky Republican told the audience at the Freedom Summit in New Hampshire in April. "Corporate welfare should once and for all be ended."  

 At the same time, the founders and employees of Mason Capital Management, a $13.6 billion New York hedge fund, have become leading contributors to Paul's political aims. The hedge fund has offices in London and San Francisco and offers clients offshore investments through a limited partnership in the Cayman Islands, among other strategies.

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