Why is a senator from Alabama at a campaign stop in Utah?
Mormons have money.
It’s goofy as hell. House members and senators can get donations and contributions from people anywhere. I’m sure it could be funneled to circumvent, but I would expect laws that candidates be only allowed to get them from entities and people in their geographic constituencies would at least have some kind of positive effect.
Out of state donations help out a lot of Democrats in red area too. The difference tends to be Republican candidates get mega-donors and corps from out of state, while Dems get lots of small donation from private citizens throughout the country.
The 2020 Senate races in Georgia, Kentucky and Texas come to mind. They had popular Dem candidates that were getting donations from all over because of the attention their races were getting.
House members and senators can get donations and contributions from people anywhere
Mostly rich folks with right wing agendas that benefit themselves though. It was mostly the rich right wingers that funded Jan6 - looking at Ginny Thomas.
looking at Ginny Thomas.
He’s not completely there for himself, though this trip is certainly self serving or he would do it. He’s there to put his weight behind a candidate for Mitt Romney’s senate seat. A MAGAT who has been endorsed by Trump.
shut up tommy nothing that cool is happening. Less people give a fuck about your dumb desert wizard because you are using him as an excuse to hurt people
Christianity?
“Satanic cults” where everyone agrees Christianity is the one true religion but some people just decide to side with the bad guy because they’re bad is hilarious on its face and it’s wild it keeps causing these panics.
This is just a quiet part out loud thing again. Remember, to most American evangelicals, anything less than a devotion to evangelical Christianity is satanism. It’s a binary thing to them, so whether you’re actually Jewish, or Hindu, or atheist, or whatever, it doesn’t matter; if you aren’t American evangelical Christian, then you are Satanist. I’m not being hyperbolic, this is a core tenet of American evangelical Christianity.
My favorite thing was noticing how many of them also call any non-xtian religion (but also includes Mormons and JW and Catholics, too, lol, WUT) “pagan”.
First time I ran across such a thing, I was like…“wait, wait, wait, what?” in the middle of one of them going through a Gish Gallop of evangelical bullshit.
Make no mistake: Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Christians Universalists, Christians who happen to vote Democrat, and other Christian or near-Christian faiths will not be spared. This is certainly a religious movement, but it does not have Jesus of Nazareth at its head.
This movement has more in common with the Westboro hate/terrorism group than with orthodox Christianity, and Christians who do not espouse the right political hatred will absolutely be labeled Satanists too.
They won’t spare their own, either. Fascists turn on their own for bullshit purity tests every time. This is always just a grab for power and religion is just the excuse.
Yep. Look no further than the spats between Marge and Bobo for a preview. Or between tiny d and…well, nearly anyone that’s ever worked for him.
other Christian or near-Christian faiths will not be spared. This is certainly a religious movement, but it does not have Jesus of Nazareth at its head.
They certainly were not spared during the original exercise of fascism.
And I’ll go one point further and assert that the closer a single individual is to walking the tenets of classical Christianity – compassion, honesty, practicing ethical consideration in choosing personal acts, abhorring unnecessarily hurtful acts – not only will they NOT be spared, they will be among those most violently targeted, as soon as they become known to the persecutors.
Why? Because these are True Believers, and they are what real resistance is made of.
Regardless of the belief system underlying a True Believer, that’s what makes a True Believer tick: the belief itself. It doesn’t have to be Christianity, or even any specific religion; just their own belief system and their near-exclusive personal reliance upon it in daily life, and especially in times of crisis.
Nothing outside that belief system moves them in matters that are important to them, nor do they require external validation for their choices. That makes them impossible to control, and frequently impossible to predict if you don’t know them personally.
So when that belief system involves a deep abhorrence of all things unnecessarily hurtful to others (or “evil” if you will), when they are the ones who actually decide to be that One Good Man in their current reality when they hear the old maxim “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” – classic Christianity, in a nutshell – they are unstoppable.
"Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over."
—Emo Phillips
You are 100% correct.
Tuberville, a politician the Onion loves and Alabama keeps electing.
I don’t think the onion really likes the dude-
He keeps upstaging their satire
The biggest satanic cult are these republican assholes.
Please don’t insult Satanists like that.
I mean a lot of us lost a lot of older relatives to a cult so I guess turnabout is fair play.
Dude’s 30 years late to the party… Satanic cults ceased to be our culture’s preferred boogeyman back in the mid 90s
For a hot sec, I was like “the mid 90s weren’t 30 years ago”.
Death is just around the corner for me.
“Death is just around the corner for me”
Relax… It’s safe bet that you’ll survive longer than Armie Hammer’s chances for a career revival
What if I said it was a Migrant Cult Caravan?
That’s so four years ago…
What have we got that’s new?
Umm… communists?
I thought it was the 80s, with the backmasking/D&D/Judas Priest bullshit?
Jesus, I’m so old all the screaming/arm flapping/Chicken Little satanic panics are starting to blend.
EDITED TO ADD: I should have read the other comments first, lol.
The origins of SP can arguably be traced back to the late 1960s, when movies like Rosemary’s Baby jettisoned Satanism from a niche hobby and into mainstream attention. But yeah… It definitely was at it’s strongest during The 80s
40 years. The Satanic Panic was strongest in the 80s. Dungeons and Dragons, oooohhh, oh no. Motley Crue said Shout at the Devil! Daycare employees are undoubtedly sacrificing horses and making children participate.
See: Michelle Remembers
Anyway, ok Tommy. I can’t take you seriously because of your name. See the Friendly Atheist blog to learn how far off these jokers are from understanding anything at all. Support the Freedom From Religion foundation and the Satanic Temple.
Yep, you hit the high points. The McMartin daycare thing was insane.
And I am sorry to report that I did in fact read Michelle Remembers whenever it came out; I had finally forgotten it Thank You Very Fucking Much lol. Of all the lurid unworthy trash I have read in my life, that was likely the unworthiest.
Go back and watch evening news magazines like 20/20 and A Current Affair that were filmed in the early 90s. Both The Glitterati and the public at large were still very much convinced that satanic cults were lurking around every corner. '95-'96 was the year we finally lost interest in this particular moral panic, and would soon move onto sweating the tidal wave of teen superpredators that James Fox and some more folks in the humanities department(The same demographic that concocted the notion of repressed memory theory, helped fuel Satanic Panic) astutely foresaw coming
https://youtu.be/lmN1Op8ygno?si=NFh2t_2WMtARK1O5 We may be in the midst of an occultism resurgence, both in popular media and everyday life
Satanic panics will be back, and in greater numbers.
And they’ll be better people because of it. Win/win!
Oh look it’s the Satanic Panic again…
Of course he doesn’t like Romney, Romney was one of the only Republicans who voted to convict Trump.
Oh, he realized what Trump really is?
Every accusation is an admittance.
“We have never overcome a cult like we’re dealing with right now.”
More projection.
Sounds like we can totally squash this christain movement then!!
This is a part of Christian Nationalism. Their strategy is to say that leaders of groups they don’t agree with are literally possessed by demons. This is their plan to dehumanize the opposition. They are very careful to mention going to war with, and killing, the demons. You can see the slippery slope. This is very intentional language.
Fuck it. I’ll get possessed by a progressive demon that taxes billionaires and corporations at a fair rate, over following a god that supports bigotry against LGBTQ people and laughs at children’s drowning in a river filled with razor wire, any fuckin day of the week.
It goes hand in hand with them claiming all their opposition are pedos, as well. Even though if there is any group with a pedo problem, it’s the right wing.
