It doesn’t sound completely awful in the abstract. But Josh Hawley is a Christofascist, which suggests that what he wants is for kids to have no access to information other than through Christian private schools and Christian homeschooling. #Christofascism 1/
5/ OMG. Josh Hawley is in cahoots with Alexey Komov, the Russian Christofascist homeschooling proponent who works for indicted Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev. Because of course he is.
6/ Malofeev’s “Safe Internet League” is supposedly meant to “protect children” but really is a fascist Kremlin project to block objectionable content (eg, anti - Kremlin talking points). Komov & Torshin are on the board.
7/ Hawley’s bill is probably a copycat. (Full disclosure: I haven’t read it.)
8/ OMFG. When I’m right I’m right. Josh Hawley’s wife works for the Alliance Defending Freedom founded by Christofascist homeschooling proponent Michael Farris.
8/ "’Parental rights’ started on the Christian fringe [eg, with Michael Farris and the Home School Legal Defense Association]…” Now it’s the “Moms for Liberty” rallying cry. 1/12/22 salon.com/2022/01/12/par…
“Peter Thiel Explains the New 'National Conservatism' *** In short, it's using the power of the state to punish his enemies and make the world the way he wants it to be.” 7/17/19 (It was Thiel who spent $10 million to get JD Vance elected in 2022.) 1/ reason.com/2019/07/17/pet…
Peter Thiel founded PayPal, which “continued to grow through mergers with Elon Musk’s financial services company, in 2000…” (JD Vance is the latest Thiel/Musk joint venture.) 1/ X.com immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/peter-…
Peter Thiel has implied that giving women the right to vote was a mistake. He’s also a billionaire, self-professed “Christian,” & longtime critic of “multiculturalism” who bankrolled JD Vance in 2022. Some Christian extremists thus embrace him despite his homosexuality (he was outed by Gawker). 1/
“The American Moment ***
A JD Vance-backed project [and partner of Project 2025] wants to smash the institutions of liberal democracy. That's not good.” By Justin Ling, 7/16/24 1/ bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-american…
Americans are sleepwalking into something they don’t understand. Only 9% of CHRISTIANS (and 6% of Americans) share the Christian Right’s extreme “biblical worldview,” per Family Research Council (FRC) president Tony Perkins. This is based on FRC’s OWN DATA - Me w/ @RepRiggleman. 1/
2/ As Denver & I discussed, Perkins is the immediate past president of the Council for National Policy (CNP), the Christian Right’s umbrella. Yes, the CNP includes Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts & SCOTUS kingpin Leonard Leo.