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āThe institutional American right is fully captured & anyone who criticizes them or runs afield..will be targeted for destruction.ā
āEvangelicalismā provides disposable masses
The āelite rightā networks & amplifies messaging
TechBros fund it all
Simple as.
āEvangelicalismā provides disposable masses
The āelite rightā networks & amplifies messaging
TechBros fund it all
Simple as.
Summary of this week is so ridiculous itās hard to believe:
NatCon flies out a handful of authoritarian post-libs to Jerusalem where they spend October 7 essentially saying āAmerican Christians donāt like Jews or Israel anymore and we donāt care about the Holocaust or your ing people antisemites.ā
The speeches were bland and uninspired and almost all read verbatim from an iPad while the speakers looked down almost the entire time. (I suspect they didnāt want to look up at the faces of Israelis that they were reading this crap to). Who knows who wrote the speeches but they were boring and absolutely cringe as hell in the context of 10/7.
A woman named Amanda was one of those people, although she repeatedly said āIām not an antisemite, I love Israel, Iām a Jew,ā while saying it. But she just said all the same stuff William Wolfe and the other speakers said. And then on the same day, she updated her cover photo to one of her standing outside the former office of a man who famously opposed the creation of the state of Israel. Again, on October 7.
Again, ick.
Lindsay, along with a lot of normal people, watched this whole spectacle with a lot of disgust and expressed how distasteful it all was. Because James Lindsay was the largest and most influential account expressing concerns, he was targeted, and targeted HARD.
A full court press cancellation campaign began, with many of us caught in the crosshairs, in the receiving end of slurs, lies, mischaracterizations and more.
But no one had been slandered or hammered harder than James Lindsay, who DARED call out NatCon for being gross on October 7 and parading a bunch of creeps to mechanically read these cringe speeches to a room full of Israelis on the anniversary of the worst tragedy and antisemitic event in their entire national history.
Meanwhile, Tucker is like āHorses are kinda hotā and NONE of these people care. There is no outrage, no articles being written, nothing but crickets.
So I think Iām going to call it at this point: The institutional American right is fully captured and anyone who criticizes them or runs afield of their cringe iPad scripts will be targeted for destruction.
You ALL suck, and we all see it.
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It really is becoming all the same people you expect - white guys in US politics who can't seem to realize that sending nudes or sexting is (at the VERY minimum) gross and unseemly.
The good news is that this guy has a future in #SBC ministry! šš
The good news is that this guy has a future in #SBC ministry! šš
Tennessee Republicans are a wild breed. Sending nudes when you're 53 and calling it a "youthful indiscretion"!
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
Still praying from Samuel but I want to say that some of the same ppl that are telling others that there has to be more to the story, the immigration process is complex & are giving him all the benefit of the doubt (we should) hammered us for doing the same for other immigrants
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
Texas Transgender Student Union, the anonymous LLC in Wyoming that sent the bogus mailers, has retained Ken Paxton's impeachment attorney, Chris Hilton, to represent them as Transgender Education Network of Texas, the group that TTSU impersonated in the mailers, seeks depositions
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Iām going to go with āno.ā
Is it normal for an anonymous Wyoming LLC that sent mass mailers impersonating a transgender advocacy group to hire the lawyer who defended TX Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment in response to a court filing seeking to depose people who could unmask the LLC's owners
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
Isaiah 10 pronounces woe on lawmakers who write oppressive statutes that strip rights from the vulnerable.
If human legal mechanisms are designed to exploit, dehumanize, or crush the vulerable, we're not commanded to baptize that system.
If human legal mechanisms are designed to exploit, dehumanize, or crush the vulerable, we're not commanded to baptize that system.
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
šØ Screenshots of @ConceptualJames BUSTED calling Asian people "jeets and changs," saying Indians have a well-deserved inferiority complex, and saying all Indians are "bad and unneeded by America" šØ
No, wait -- that was all a major @ClaremontInst donor:
jasonahart.substack.com/p/delicate-demā¦
No, wait -- that was all a major @ClaremontInst donor:
jasonahart.substack.com/p/delicate-demā¦
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Swap the term āconservativeā for āevangelicalā and you get the exact same dynamic, because the idol of the conservative evangelical movement is the * conservative * not the evangelical or gospel.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
Conservatives see "law abiding citizen" not as "a citizen who abides by the law," but instead as a unique social class, the in-group whom laws should not apply to.
A "law abiding citizen" can bring guns on trains, speed in school zones, commit tax fraud, etc. and remain such.
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
This Samuel Sey situation is providing an excellent opportunity for reflection & repentance that many people seem determined not to take advantage of.
Without accountability & repentance, leaning on the same appeals to help & prayer youāve LOUDLY denied many others is hypocrisy.
Without accountability & repentance, leaning on the same appeals to help & prayer youāve LOUDLY denied many others is hypocrisy.
.@JoelWBerry vs. @JoelWBerry
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
William Wolfe just straight up lied heās not an illegal alien. He was working with a lawyer and here on a visa.
The other loser isnāt even from the US.
The other loser isnāt even from the US.
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Rerunning this tonight since it is an exact, dead on explanation of how the whole cursed āevangelical movementā works:
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
@CatholicAtlanta the leap because if they do, they will realize they are not following Scripture as God intended. Scripture calls for mercy and justice (Micah 6:8) and commands care for the immigrant and the stranger (Leviticus 19:33ā34; Deuteronomy 10:18ā19); they are sinners on the wrong side of history.
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
Thr conservative Christians who are still standing with Samuel Sey are doing so because they believe he is a good man, a Christian man, a family man, even a fellow conservative, certainly not a criminal.
For whatever reason they can't make the leap between their friends and the hundreds of thousands of people who are just like him. They can't see that these are also good people who made decisions about jobs, family, safety, and just didn't fill out the right paperwork.
They can't imagine that these other people are also good.
When I was in graduate school, I met a couple who stressed out at the possibility that immigration wanted to deport the wife. She came here on a student visa, fell in love and now, was trying to stay here legally with her husband. There was no crime but according to them, they were being treated with suspicion and found the whole ordeal stressful and scary.
For whatever reason they can't make the leap between their friends and the hundreds of thousands of people who are just like him. They can't see that these are also good people who made decisions about jobs, family, safety, and just didn't fill out the right paperwork.
They can't imagine that these other people are also good.
When I was in graduate school, I met a couple who stressed out at the possibility that immigration wanted to deport the wife. She came here on a student visa, fell in love and now, was trying to stay here legally with her husband. There was no crime but according to them, they were being treated with suspicion and found the whole ordeal stressful and scary.
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
The litmus test for justice is protecting the vulnerableāthe widow, orphan, immigrant, and poor.
Because these groups lack social, legal, and economic power, a system that ignores them is inherently UNJUST.
Zec 7:9-10
Because these groups lack social, legal, and economic power, a system that ignores them is inherently UNJUST.
Zec 7:9-10
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"We donāt get to surrender our individual judgment to the leaders of a collective movement under the banner of Christianity."
"Any movement that demands allegiance owed to Christ is idolatry."
"Any movement that demands allegiance owed to Christ is idolatry."
Throughout modern history, illiberal movements drew Christian support by defining the community they promised to defend as the people united in the body of Christ.
Christians have repeatedly decided these movements are the lesser of two evils and, in many cases, the necessary evil to defeat revolutionary movements organized around the godless worker or the oppressed person. But choosing one collective identity over another doesnāt absolve a Christian of the moral dilemma of collectivism.
Religious language deployed by charismatic charlatans often provides what the masses deem sacred justification, but whether a movement calls itself integralism, Christian nationalism, or a Christian reactionary movement, it ties an individualās loyalty to a Christian collective movement above that persons personal obedience to Christ.
Christ is the head of the church, and no political leader, nation, or civilization can assume His rightful place (Colossians 1:18). Believers form one royal priesthood, but membership in that body does not replace the individual accountability we all have before God (1 Peter 2:9). As Christians, we are commanded to retain our discernment (1 Thessalonians 5:21) and personal responsibility before our Lord and Savior (Romans 14:12).
We donāt get to surrender our individual judgment to the leaders of a collective movement under the banner of Christianity.
Any movement that demands
allegiance owed to Christ is idolatry.
Whether it calls itself integralism, Christian nationalism, or a Christian reactionary movement, any project that places allegiance to a Christian collective above your obedience to Christ, its a violation of the faith it claims to defend.
Christ established a boundary around earthly authority: āRender therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesarās; and unto God the things that are Godāsā (Matthew 22:21). Caesarās image appeared on the coin, but Godās image appears in us. We are image-bearers of God, so our conscience is accountable only to Him (Genesis 1:27).
And each one of us will stand before God one day and have to answer for our choices. There will be no nation, church, party, or charismatic leader standing in our place (Romans 14:10ā12).
This is why classical liberalismās protection of the human conscience makes it the only version of government that aligns with Christianity. Constitutional restraints prevent rulers from exercising jurisdiction over the human conscience. Caesarās authority is over the coin, never the soul. As believers, we must strive to embody the character of the God we serve. He called His people to love one another and to show their love for Him through obedience, He rebuked disciples who sought to punish those who rejected Him, and He distinguished His kingdom from the earthly one (John 13:34ā35; John 14:15; Luke 9:51ā55; John 18:36).
The jurisdictional boundary He placed around the conscience applies to believers and nonbelievers alike. A personās rejection of Christ does not allow us to subject his conscience to man; it still belongs to Christ, whether that person submits or not, because one day that person will stand before Him too.
When movements make Christian identity the rallying cry for collectivist ideologies they are not acting on behalf of Christ; they are acting on behalf of themselves. Their claim to represent Him should be met with discernment and obedience to Christ as He is revealed to us in Scripture.
We preach, teach, disciple, and spread the good news of the gospel, but we donāt force worship on those who donāt choose it freely. And we donāt condemn them. A Christian identity movement that acts against the character of Christ cannot be called Christian because, as believers, we wear the name of the Lord and Savior. His name is His character and it binds us.
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
If you want to understand how a movement is undermined from within, pay attention to how trust is earnedāand where that trust is eventually redirected too.
One way to establish credibility is to attack someone your intended audience already distrusts. Make the takedown loud, relentless, and personal. Give people a show. They see you going after someone they consider destructive, and they assume you must understand what the stakes are.
But examine what they actually exposed. Did you expose the ideology, the institutional connections, the foreign relationships, the political project theyāre trying to get you to accept something that is not in line with what you actually believe? Or did you give people humiliating allegations and personal gossip while leaving the machinery that brought this person into superstardom largely unexamined? You can damage someoneās reputation without helping the public understand a single thing about the movement they advance.
Then watch the next target. When the credibility earned through that spectacle gets turned against someone exposing those underlying ideas and connections, the audience
just believes whatever they say because that person has earned your trust false might I add.
We have a real problem on our side, not being able to see an expose of the people who are actually trying to steer this movement off a cliff and if people donāt get smart fast, weāre not gonna have a movement very soon and then when we look back and ask, what the hell happened to the country, you can look back to this moment in time and remember who you trusted and for what reason and what you overlooked in order to keep trusting them.
One way to establish credibility is to attack someone your intended audience already distrusts. Make the takedown loud, relentless, and personal. Give people a show. They see you going after someone they consider destructive, and they assume you must understand what the stakes are.
But examine what they actually exposed. Did you expose the ideology, the institutional connections, the foreign relationships, the political project theyāre trying to get you to accept something that is not in line with what you actually believe? Or did you give people humiliating allegations and personal gossip while leaving the machinery that brought this person into superstardom largely unexamined? You can damage someoneās reputation without helping the public understand a single thing about the movement they advance.
Then watch the next target. When the credibility earned through that spectacle gets turned against someone exposing those underlying ideas and connections, the audience
just believes whatever they say because that person has earned your trust false might I add.
We have a real problem on our side, not being able to see an expose of the people who are actually trying to steer this movement off a cliff and if people donāt get smart fast, weāre not gonna have a movement very soon and then when we look back and ask, what the hell happened to the country, you can look back to this moment in time and remember who you trusted and for what reason and what you overlooked in order to keep trusting them.
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
No matter what happens with the Samuel Sey case, one of my fundamental problems with ICE isnāt so much their mission, but that they regularly operate with āguilty till proven innocentā policies.
If Sey is blameless, itāll likely only be legally established after deportation, thousands and thousands of dollars spent in legal fees, the probable loss of his job, a loss in his reputation, and the significant economic and emotional turmoil his family will likely suffer through.
ICE can take away someone's liberty and livelihood before proving anything, and the person bears the cost. Even when vindicated.
The onus, according to how this works today, is entirely on Sey. Not the state.
I donāt care who you are or what your poltics are, this isnāt how any federal agency should operate.
If Sey is blameless, itāll likely only be legally established after deportation, thousands and thousands of dollars spent in legal fees, the probable loss of his job, a loss in his reputation, and the significant economic and emotional turmoil his family will likely suffer through.
ICE can take away someone's liberty and livelihood before proving anything, and the person bears the cost. Even when vindicated.
The onus, according to how this works today, is entirely on Sey. Not the state.
I donāt care who you are or what your poltics are, this isnāt how any federal agency should operate.
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Jay the Baptist retweeted
This is a confession to treason.
Elon Musk, a private individual and not an elected official, hijacked U.S. national defence policy to harm partner Ukraine and help enemy Russia.
cbc.ca/news/world/ukrā¦
Elon Musk, a private individual and not an elected official, hijacked U.S. national defence policy to harm partner Ukraine and help enemy Russia.
cbc.ca/news/world/ukrā¦
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