After her flippant reply to constituents’ worries about health care and food assistance cuts, Sen. Joni Ernst followed up with a brazen video filmed in a cemetery.

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    17 days ago

    “But for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ.”

    Oh, hey, well good for you. You have nothing to fear then. So get on with it you fucking psycho. Go feed yourself the business end of a shotgun instead of killing the poor and the helpless and let the rest of us work on cleaning up the mess your kind are making.

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      16 days ago

      The best part to all this is their belief in an afterlife in heaven where you never have to worry about your health, your food or your shelter ever again … an absolute communist hell hole.

      They deny any humanity in this life because they believe in a humanity that will never happen in an after life.

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      16 days ago

      We all die anyway right? So clearly we should all immediately kill ourselves and save on national resources!

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      I am beyond tired of “live and let live” when it comes to the religious right, when its influence negatively impacts the world so clearly, and its hunger for complete global subservience seems to never end.

      These people are FREAKS! It is literally a death cult, and its cultists are in charge of more than half the country! They belong in communes in the wilderness of Montana, not ruling the most powerful culture in human history. Not with their hands on the nuclear football and giving orders to 11 Carrier Battle Groups.

      Everyone should sever all ties with bible-thumpers. They need to either give up their delusions or be excised from civilization.

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    Wow, she’s talking about embracing Jesus Christ in the same statement as taking away poor people’s healthcare to give tax cuts to billionaires. These Christians love to wear their mascot like a badge while completely contradicting the explicit lessons of the book.

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      16 days ago

      Christianity has become incredibly perverted. So many of those who identify with it would go to hell if it were real.

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        The Bible is pretty explicit about that as well. You would think that warning would prevent some of this behavior but here we are.

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      16 days ago

      They’ll throw six or seven figures at some charity owned by another rich asshole friend and call themselves Saints. I assume that’s how they trick themselves into thinking they’re anything but parasites.

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    16 days ago

    Don’t be in such a hurry to meet Jesus, Senator, because He’s going to cast you into the flaming pit you’ve been digging your whole life with every act of greed and heartlessness.

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    16 days ago

    Religion has always been a way to convince the poor to die for the rich. “Your rewards will come in the next life. Please kill yourself working.”

    Even Buddhism has the philosophy of suffering in this life will be repaid in the next. Fuck all that shit. There’s no fucking reward, just death. Make sure you don’t die carrying someone else’s debt.

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      Even Buddhism has the philosophy of suffering in this life will be repaid in the next.

      Not all Buddhism. Zen Buddhism, for example, is very clear that it’s all about how you live right now, not later, and has nothing to do with reincarnation myths. Unfortunately, with Buddhism, Christianity and all religions, the dumber varieties tend to be the loudest and most popular.

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        Then let’s say more specifically, religions promoted and encouraged by the rich and powerful. The ones who whip the mob into a frenzy and then are like, “rah rah! You go guys! I’ll be right behind you, I just have to wash my grass first. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Yeah, don’t wait up for me.”

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        16 days ago

        Nah every politician is supposed to serve not only their constituents but every civilian of the United States. Let’s get some real accountability, let’s restore the 5k donation limit. Let’s block insider trading. We dont need them to start this.

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    16 days ago

    I’m living forever, she can go die if she wants, she should give up her medical from her gov job.