I don’t know though. If you were the fishin’ politishin’™ who somehow made every aspect of life about what happens out on the pond, yeah, that would be awful. If you brought up your personal experience fishing in the context of things like discussing pollution and environmental issues, though, that seems like ordinary trying to bring your experience into things.
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No, i understand and agree. The christofascists have made it hard for most folks to see anyone openly Chrstian as progressive of any stripe. I recognize that, but it does make me sad. It also results in some truly funny moments when people who know me as a practicing Christian find out where my politics lie, and that i have been led there explicitly by my religious beliefs. Yes, it really is possible and even logical to be Christian and progressive. It’s the ones who claim to be Christian and are fascists who have to twist things in knots.
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Elno seems to have been the main driver of the blocking of the spending bill, getting Trump to follow him, and making bizarre and completely fabricated claims about what was in the bill to justify his opposition. Well, turns out this is probably the real reason Musk was against it:
Which isn’t surprising. Elno keeps making decisions about the running of Twitter to appease the various governments where he has Tesla business, in particular China. It’s going to be interesting to see how Trump’s attempt to “get tough” with China will deal with the input of Musk who will probably oppose most of Trump’s plans because of his own, contrary, business interests. And not just direct interests, but the pressure that various countries will be able to apply to Musk on unrelated issues because they know they have him over a barrel wrt his business interests there.
If we thought things were bad before, the way foreign dictators could manipulate Trump into doing what they want, now in between Musk and Trump, a lot of countries will have a lot of opportunities to directly influence the presidency and US policy.
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Sure, and it’s also the politicians, progressive or reactionary, who espouse Christian beliefs on the job who violate the separation of church and state and promote the favoritism and domination of Christianity over other spiritual (and non- or anti-spiritual) beliefs and traditions, furthering in the process the egregious notion that the US is a “Christian nation.”
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A review of elections around the world, and how they reflect the state of democracy:
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But it’s entirely possible to be guided by your faith without ever mentioning it explicitly at work. The only reason to do so in a context where it is specifically forbidden is to do so performatively.
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Absolutely true. I was told long ago, if you have to tell someone you are a Christian, you are not living it right. The fact that these asshats make such a show of proclaiming their “faith” says all you need to know.
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Matthew 6:5-6.
Read your own damn rules sometimes, guys.
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Exactly, but hypocrites are what they are. Always.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/us/wyoming-freedom-caucus.html
How the Freedom Caucus Rose to Power in Wyoming
Wyoming is the first state where the Freedom Caucus has won control of a legislative chamber.
A Freedom Caucus bloc has never won control of a state legislative chamber — until now. Some lawmakers worry that the newly ascendant conservatives want to “burn it all down.”
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You (the lawmakers, not you RAvery) are just figuring that out now? It’s been obvious since the first of these have been formed.
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Yep. It’s a big reason that a lot of MAGA voters bothered to vote.
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Considering how much climate change the Wyoming Oil&Gas industry contributes and how much of Wyoming burns every summer, they were already doing that.
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The Secret reason the Dems keep losing
Well, they don’t. Next issue.
Does he say anything worth listening to?
Well, I think so, which is why I posted the thing. 
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Worth watching.
He talks about the reduced engagement with political organizations; how it went from something people met to do in their spare time and set agendas vs how membership of e.g. the Democratic Party mostly just means you’ll be contacted for fundraisers and find out later what the party thinks is important.
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