It is truly scary what the majority of the Republican Party has morphed into with Trump as the figurehead. He’s made it okay for the overtly racist to hold a megaphone. Mind you I’m not saying they didn’t exist before him but he allowed them to flood into the mainstream and overtake a major political party.
Forget about Tucker Carlson, it's not him the focus should be upon. It's those who own and fund the network - go after them. Tucker Carlson is a muppet, a dope, a stooge whose role is to merely fan the flames. The divisions are wide in your country. The only answer is for that part of America that is sane and tolerant to get out and vote.
Aug 5, 2022·edited Aug 5, 2022Liked by Robert Reich
these white christian nationalists and trumpets forget that the original americans are brown-coloured indigenous peoples who arrived here AT LEAST 37,000 years ago (according to a brand-new New Mexico find of a mammoth mother and her calf whose bones showed evidence of butchery by humans, read here: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/04/world/mammoth-fossils-early-humans-scn/index.html ). they forget that white european colonialists are the actual invaders, having arrived only a few hundred years ago. trump's own grandfather, Frederick Trump, was an immigrant (invader?) from Bavaria (Germany) -- TO AVOID CONSCRIPTION -- to the USA, where he earned his family fortune by running a brothel in Alaska.
but of course, we are talking about white christian nationalists and trumpets, which means facts are, at best, inconvenient to their perceptions of the world. as doctor who said way back in the late pleistocene (1977): "the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. they don't alter their views to fit the facts. they alter the facts to fit their views."
Immigration, it is just a subset of a larger problem, too many damn people. Everything is just going to get worse and worse as we grow by billions more, and it is pretty easy to understand why: More and more people chasing after fewer and fewer resources will cause like minded people to band together to fight for what they have come to beleive they are entitled to. Go anthropocene!
Curious - don't you think - that the very folks who are prepared to cry "unamerican" at the drop of a hat, at the mere suggestion of taking a more European, a more social democratic approach to the economy, are taking their lead from a Hungarian concerning immigration and race ‽
How about the Biden Administration showing some spine and declaring Viktor Orban "persona non grata" and preventing his return to the US to prevent his making even more horrible comments!!
The "White Christian" concept (except as a demographic) is clearly un-Christian, and when Jesus returns will they fight against Him for being Semitic? On reflection, I think they'll have to, because these sort of politicised, abusive 'Christians' will be the enemy.
I bet if today's white Christian nationalists saw the real Jesus, they would not approve of him, because he was a Middle Eastern man, and therefore, not white. Racism is against our laws; that is ;discrimination based on race is against the law, isn't it? So Viktor Orban, Tucker Carlson, tRump, et al are going against our laws.
These so -called Christians purport to follow a brown-skinned, brown-eyed, dark-haired Jew of radical leftist tendencies. They wouldn’t sell him a ticket to their CPAC conference.
I'm going to check which of my investments involve Peter Thiel. As well as planning to vote Democrat, from President all the way down the ballot to Dog Catcher, for the rest of my life.
This election is for which party will have the majority is Congress and not individual races for Representatives and Senators. It is a national election to decide is McConnell will be Majority Leader and whether Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, MT Green, and their ilk will be committee chairs and decide which bills to bring forward. The campaign messaging should make clear that at this time their isn't a single good Republican candidate as the real issue is which party will have the majority, the racist party of Orban and Carlson and Trump, or the party of democracy and equality. Even our current hero Liz Cheney, is one more person on the side that may give McCarthy, Jordan, Boebert, MT Green, et al, control.
I wonder how many white Christian nationalists would like to live in Hungary where ONE MAN would have total control of their lives? Where in the Bible does it say the white race is Superior?
My parents escaped the Nazis and now here I am facing the same speeches that I heard as a child, but the huge difference is that the world witnessed the Holocaust and now it seems that in our country we have leaders who preach the same philosophy while Americans applaud them. If we do not stop this, we will go the way of all the other authoritarian governments and we will live to see another holocaust. Wake up America.
It’s a sad day for America when viktor orbán has the ear of most of the gop/flunkies. The fact that his policies are regressive and his white wing evangelical conservative christian values are the “rule of law.” What saddens me most about our country, is that most people trying to cross the southern border, are fleeing from US policies that affected their countries. Or traveled from other countries that are in crisis due to world powers intervention and/or the color of their skin. Just an upset ramble.
It is truly scary what the majority of the Republican Party has morphed into with Trump as the figurehead. He’s made it okay for the overtly racist to hold a megaphone. Mind you I’m not saying they didn’t exist before him but he allowed them to flood into the mainstream and overtake a major political party.
Forget about Tucker Carlson, it's not him the focus should be upon. It's those who own and fund the network - go after them. Tucker Carlson is a muppet, a dope, a stooge whose role is to merely fan the flames. The divisions are wide in your country. The only answer is for that part of America that is sane and tolerant to get out and vote.
these white christian nationalists and trumpets forget that the original americans are brown-coloured indigenous peoples who arrived here AT LEAST 37,000 years ago (according to a brand-new New Mexico find of a mammoth mother and her calf whose bones showed evidence of butchery by humans, read here: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/04/world/mammoth-fossils-early-humans-scn/index.html ). they forget that white european colonialists are the actual invaders, having arrived only a few hundred years ago. trump's own grandfather, Frederick Trump, was an immigrant (invader?) from Bavaria (Germany) -- TO AVOID CONSCRIPTION -- to the USA, where he earned his family fortune by running a brothel in Alaska.
but of course, we are talking about white christian nationalists and trumpets, which means facts are, at best, inconvenient to their perceptions of the world. as doctor who said way back in the late pleistocene (1977): "the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. they don't alter their views to fit the facts. they alter the facts to fit their views."
Immigration, it is just a subset of a larger problem, too many damn people. Everything is just going to get worse and worse as we grow by billions more, and it is pretty easy to understand why: More and more people chasing after fewer and fewer resources will cause like minded people to band together to fight for what they have come to beleive they are entitled to. Go anthropocene!
Curious - don't you think - that the very folks who are prepared to cry "unamerican" at the drop of a hat, at the mere suggestion of taking a more European, a more social democratic approach to the economy, are taking their lead from a Hungarian concerning immigration and race ‽
The world is now littered with would-be Hitlers and the majority of the people don't even recognize (or care) what is happening to them.
How about the Biden Administration showing some spine and declaring Viktor Orban "persona non grata" and preventing his return to the US to prevent his making even more horrible comments!!
The "White Christian" concept (except as a demographic) is clearly un-Christian, and when Jesus returns will they fight against Him for being Semitic? On reflection, I think they'll have to, because these sort of politicised, abusive 'Christians' will be the enemy.
I bet if today's white Christian nationalists saw the real Jesus, they would not approve of him, because he was a Middle Eastern man, and therefore, not white. Racism is against our laws; that is ;discrimination based on race is against the law, isn't it? So Viktor Orban, Tucker Carlson, tRump, et al are going against our laws.
These so -called Christians purport to follow a brown-skinned, brown-eyed, dark-haired Jew of radical leftist tendencies. They wouldn’t sell him a ticket to their CPAC conference.
I'm going to check which of my investments involve Peter Thiel. As well as planning to vote Democrat, from President all the way down the ballot to Dog Catcher, for the rest of my life.
This election is for which party will have the majority is Congress and not individual races for Representatives and Senators. It is a national election to decide is McConnell will be Majority Leader and whether Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, MT Green, and their ilk will be committee chairs and decide which bills to bring forward. The campaign messaging should make clear that at this time their isn't a single good Republican candidate as the real issue is which party will have the majority, the racist party of Orban and Carlson and Trump, or the party of democracy and equality. Even our current hero Liz Cheney, is one more person on the side that may give McCarthy, Jordan, Boebert, MT Green, et al, control.
we need to start calling it what it really is: "white anti-christian nationalism obsession", or WACO. nationalism..
I wonder how many white Christian nationalists would like to live in Hungary where ONE MAN would have total control of their lives? Where in the Bible does it say the white race is Superior?
My parents escaped the Nazis and now here I am facing the same speeches that I heard as a child, but the huge difference is that the world witnessed the Holocaust and now it seems that in our country we have leaders who preach the same philosophy while Americans applaud them. If we do not stop this, we will go the way of all the other authoritarian governments and we will live to see another holocaust. Wake up America.
Lydia Saderman
It’s a sad day for America when viktor orbán has the ear of most of the gop/flunkies. The fact that his policies are regressive and his white wing evangelical conservative christian values are the “rule of law.” What saddens me most about our country, is that most people trying to cross the southern border, are fleeing from US policies that affected their countries. Or traveled from other countries that are in crisis due to world powers intervention and/or the color of their skin. Just an upset ramble.