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Mark Charles Profile picture
@wirelesshogan
Jun 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
If you want to know why President Trump is able to so effectively use the church & the Bible as political props for a violent & divisive campaign message to white evangelicals, I invite you to read the book I co-authored on the Doctrine of Discovery. It's titled #UnsettlingTruths
The heresy of Christendom provides doctrinal justification for institutionalized violence and white supremacy to perpetuate it's adulterous relationship with power. At some point in the past decade @realDonaldTrump learned this and regularly uses it to his political advantage.
The unsettling part of this story is that it's not simply a partisan problem. The left plays the same game, slightly differently, but just as effectively. Yesterday, both Trump & Biden visited churches. Donald affirmed the 2nd amendment & Joe suggested shooting people in the leg.
Two years ago, in the midst of the immigration crisis of families being separated at our borders, I wrote this piece addressed not only to white evangelicals, but to the entire American church.
wirelesshogan.com/2018/06/22/fro…

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Jul 4, 2022
From a Navajo man re: #FourthofJuly:
"While the #DeclarationOfIndependence may initially assert that 'All men are created equal,' thirty lines below that assertion, indigenous people are referred to as #mercilessIndianSavages.
(first 4 tweets are from #UnsettlingTruths Ch6)
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"The Founding Fathers could use the seemingly inclusive term 'all men' because they had a worldview informed by the Doctrine of Discovery that gave them a very narrow definition of who was actually human.
2/
"The Declaration of Independence reflects the theological imagination of its time. The Doctrine of Discovery and the myth of Anglo-Saxon superiority girds the imagination that elevates the white body, mind, language and culture.
3/
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Apr 10, 2021
This pattern is familiar:
US & X sign a treaty.
US pulls out of treaty & imposes sanctions.
X ceases to comply w/ broken treaty.
US decides to rejoin treaty but refuses to negotiate until X is in compliance.
X demands US drop sanctions imposed after we broke treaty.
US refuses.
Perhaps it's worth considering that other countries dislike the US, not because we're free, but because we negotiate with most of the world like they're children and we're their parent.
Just because @JoeBiden is nicer than #DonaldTrump, it doesn't mean his foreign policy is any less colonial/parental. Remember, the myth of American exceptionalism is a bipartisan value.
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Apr 8, 2021
#ForThePeopleAct raises amt a national party can contribute to a POTUS candidate to $100,000,000. This ensures major party candidates will have a 100 million dollar advantage over 3rd party & independent candidates.
#GOP limits voters
#DEMS limit candidates
BOTH limit democracy Image
For comparison: The previous limit was "2 cents multiplied by the voting age population of the United States". In 2020 the voting age population was approximately 239 million, making the max contribution just under 5 million. Image
The max donation allowed by an individual to a National Party is $36,500 /year. So if I'm understanding this correctly, this means that for GOP & DEMS, 2,740 people will be able to increase their donation to directly benefit a single presidential candidate from $2,900 to $39,400. Image
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Oct 12, 2020
For #IndigenousPeoplesDay / #indigenouspeoplesday2020 I am giving a four part presentation on the Doctrine of Discovery. The presentations will begin at 10 AM, Noon, 2 PM & 4 PM (all times ET) & will be streamed on our campaign YouTube channel & Facebook.
markcharles2020.com/events/indigen…
The first lecture was streamed at 10 AM and is available on our campaign YouTube channel:
Doctrine of Discovery: (1 of 4) From the teachings of Jesus to a dehumanizing Doctrine of Discovery

The Second was streamed at Noon ET and was titled:
Doctrine of Discovery Part 2: Embedded in our foundations and demonstrated in our history.

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Sep 21, 2020
@JoeAbuku @senatemajldr @SpeakerPelosi @realDonaldTrump @JoeBiden My position is @senatemajldr blocked a DEM nominee in 2016 & justified it by saying he wanted to give the American people a chance to speak. He didn't have the courage to state his real reason which was that he had power & wanted to thwart our nation's first black President.
@JoeAbuku @senatemajldr @SpeakerPelosi @realDonaldTrump @JoeBiden B/c @senatemajldr acted cowardly & tried to present his motivation as more noble than it was, he should now act with integrity and once again give the American people a chance to speak. Had he been honest in 2016 he could do what he's doing today & at least he'd be consistent.
@JoeAbuku @senatemajldr @SpeakerPelosi @realDonaldTrump @JoeBiden In regards to the general question of confirming a SCOTUS nominee in the final year of a presidential term, I believe a President is elected for a four year term and maintains the full power and authority of that office until a new President is sworn in...
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Sep 13, 2020
Electors needed in Tennessee:
Sept. 14 is the deadline to file for write in access in TN & in order to file our campaign for #AllThePeople needs electors in each of the voting districts. So far we have found electors for each district except for the 1st & the 6th.
Thread: 1/4
1st District is represented by Rep. Phil Roe
Counties/cities include:
Johnson/Mountain City
Sullivan/Blountville
Carter/Elizabethon
Unicoi/Erwin
Washington/Jonesboro
Cooke/Newport
Sevier/Sevierville
Hancock/Sneedville
Hamblen/Morristown
Hawkins/Rogersville
Greene/Greenville
2/4
The 6th District is represented by Rep. John Rose
Counties in the 6th District include:
Robertson/Springfield
Sumner/Gallatin
Wilson/Lebanon
Trousdale/Hartsville
Macon/Lafayette, Clay/Celina
Pickett/Byrdsville
Coffee/Manchester
Cannon/Woodbury
3/4
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