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Carter was pilloried as an out-of-touch elitist when he urged citizens to deal w/ high energy prices by putting on a sweater. Our current President Gold Toilets is considered a “man of the people.” US political culture is, if you’ll pardon the academic jargon, “a piece of work.”
Carter is a devout Southern Baptist, Donald Trump is a philandering Epicurean who cynically appeals to white evangelicals for their votes. So of course, the nation’s evangelical leaders praise Trump and ignore Carter. nyti.ms/2Kkn6Om?smid=n…
90+ y.o. Jimmy Carter frequently wields hammers for Habitat for Humanity, and established an int'l peace program. Donald Trump does "deals" in Azerbaijan that launder money for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. But Trump is the true Christian Patriot here. cartercenter.org/peace/index.ht…
Building phantom hotels in Azerbaijan to launder money for foreign kleptocrats and terrorists vs. building homes for poor people in America? Meh, it's a toss up for me, really. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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Donald Trump is the Jim Bakker of Richard Nixons.
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I mean, look at this grifting e-mail Trump sent his supporters today. "How dare people try to use the border as a political stunt...oh, and while you're here, we need to raise $500,000 TODAY for my Official [totally made up thing called a] Secure the Border Fund."
"I've asked my team to send me a list of EVERY AMERICAN PATRIOT who sends me money today." The mark for Trump's grift is the same as Bakkers...the lonely TV watcher who thinks their contribution just might get them closer to heaven or gain the approval of the big man up there.
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Question for the news editors at the major networks. If you knew then what we know now about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, would you have broadcast this speech live? I think the answer is probably, "no way." Just keep that in mind tomorrow.
For those unfamiliar with this incident, it was the "attack" that LBJ used to justify ramping up US involvement in Vietnam. Later it became clear that LBJ's account of the attack was greatly distorted with the intent to deceive the American people. usni.org/magazines/nava…
Trump is slow walking the nation into Gulf of Tonkin redux to justify taking on unconstitutional, emergency powers...the media's job is to report the truth, not amplify lies. #BoycottTrumpsAddress #BoycottTrumpSpeech
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1. The movement of people across borders is a constant in world history (though the rate and direction of movement has ebbed and flowed over time). This tweet, however, helped me see the urgent contemporary connection between current/future immigration policies & climate change.
2. Put most simply, the world can either strengthen & militarize borders to deal with coming climate migration (build walls), or they can engage in a collaborative process of rethinking how they want those borders to work, how porous they should be. The latter is very hard work.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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So, straight off the bat, first page of text, the use of #language is . . . well, yeah, see for yourself:

"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

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Thank you to the dozens of conservative leaders and elected officials from all parts of the country who are here.

We are certainly one big, strong, united, national Conservative party.

And next year, we will be a strong, stable, national Conservative majority government.
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