Marjorie Greene's hideous ideology is now the mainstream of the Republican party. That's depressing but hardly surprising given the party's trajectory from the idiotic occultist Reagan all the way to the accidental atheist and nihilist Trump 1/ But Greene's stupid, slavish devotion to Jim & Ron Watkins fictional, anti-Semitic, child-blood thirsty conspiracy "Q" is a minor readjustment of the 1980s & 90s Satanic Panic, a totally artificial hysteria that destroyed hundreds of innocent lives 2/

I wonder if Kanye & Kid Rock & Ted Nugent & the My Crack Pillow Nazi & Jefferson Davis & David Duke & Paula White & Rudy Giuliani & The Kraken & Diamond & Silk & Jeanine Pirro & Lou Dobbs & Dana Loesch & Charles Manson & Skeletor & Bernie Kerik & OJ & Erik Prince & Kim Jong Un & Rodrigo Duterte & the Proud Boys & Stephen Miller & Steve Bannon & Sebastian Gorka & Count Chocula & Robert Jeffress & Jerry Fallwell Jr & The Jersey Devil & Lee Greenwood & Michael Flynn & Sasquatch & Macho Man Randy Savage &

Here in the US of A, thanks to the catastrophic lack of any federal response to the greatest crisis since the Great Depression or WWII, nearly 20 million people have been or are infected with COVID19. 254,255 are dead. Want to explore this clusterfuck? Join me! 1/ Leaving aside the fact that the lame-duck president, who first ignored the plague, then impugned the people trying to prevent it, then used the only club in his bag - racism - to try to down-play it, then thought main-lining bleach or booty-bumping UV light up your arse 2/

When I was involuntarily coerced into Mormonism 40 years ago, I was told our leadership spoke directly to Jesus, that my 12-year-old self could defeat Satan, & God's only true church could save the republic, as it would at any second now. 1/ Yet, in the 200 years since Joseph Smith's (shifting) "First Vision" in the Sacred Grove, Satan- by their definition - has not been defeated, Mormonism - pro-slavery & anti-Union - has not even come close to saving the republic in any dozens of national crises 2/

I finally watched Terrance Malick's lush, gorgeous 'A Hidden Life'. It's a meditation on profound moral courage in the face of brainless populist madness and runaway inhumanity. 1/ 8 Recent polls have shown that a huge population of Americans either know nothing about the human toll of European fascism in WWII or think the staggering death toll of Jews, Romani, LGTBQI people, communists, Poles, the disabled, etc are not at all real or are exaggerated 2/8

Friends, it should be obvious by now that the radical American Christianists give zero fucks about their loudly stated beliefs. The biblical rules they screech about are for we little people, never for them.
emptywheel.net/2020/09/09/dev… Their only religion is money and the power necessary to keep their perceived inferior's hands away from access to both. That Trump has north of 80% approval among deeply religious Evangelicals and conservative Catholics is all you need to know about their sacred -

Here's whats deeply strange to me as a gay man and a Hollywood "Libtard" vis a vis the toxically masculine cult of Trump. The brainless, fear-induced, right-wing man-children that worship Trump are pathologically homophobic and misogynistic- They worship totems of blood & war & vengeance. Despite their declared Christianity, they know nothing of the NT Jesus, as fucked a narrative as all that is. They may have tattoos of the crucifix on their freckled backs, & Calvin kneeling in front of the cross on their Chevy's

This brilliant act of athletic resistance reminds me of a smaller, but still significant pressure campaign against another deeply white-supremacist institution, the Mormon church. 1/

https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1298763148091166720

From it's founding in the 1830's, Mormonism was a white's only club (with at most 3 exceptions, not worth going into here). After it's founder got killed by the men whose wive's and daughter's he' secretly married, the church passed to a far more evil man, Brigham Young 2/

Hey America! White man here (German last name, Scottish mother, raised Mormon in SLC - CHALLENGE MY WHITENESS AT YOUR PERIL!) & yes, we are the problem - until we actively choose not to be. That requires courage, humility, honesty & contrition.

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1266769806574960641

We white men (& women) need to STF up a little more, listen A LOT more, and be willing to give up JUST A TEASPOON of our 400 years of unmerited privilege in order to make life tolerable and survivable for our fellow citizens. I swear, it's so doable.

In the US, religions are given tax-exempt status in a good-faith understanding they will offset their exemptions with in-kind contributions to society at large (not just members). Mormonism is extremely secretive about its assets. 1/

https://twitter.com/Ch_JesusChrist/status/1255939253525073921

Only serious investigative journalism and leaks from insiders have provided the scope of the absurd wealth of this tax-exempt real estate and mall development org with Jesus as a frontman. Just one secret fund has been shown to have over $100 billion in hidden assets 2/

Is that kid wearing an actual Newsboys shirt? Is this horrible product placement or were they so broke they needed free wardrobe?
#AATM A Christian movie where everyone is in focus and the boom isn't in shot? AMAZING!

Alright you ungrateful curs, It's stupid Easter so Uncle Doug and I are going to live-tweet the Ten Commandments for you. Strap in... In old-timey movies, the opening credits were what we now call closing credits.

Apparently, there was a guy named Touch Connors in this movie.

Also, Rabbi Rudolph Lupo is credited as a source.

Here's the thing about Mormonism's $100 billion tax-free fund. Freedom isn't free, but it's fairly cheap. The price of freedom is a membership fee called taxes. Everybody hates to pay taxes but they pay for things liberals want like schools & roads & food for poor kids & the State Department & Meals on Wheels & the Centers for Disease Control & Social Security & the National Parks & the EPA & unemployment insurance & Medicaid & Medicare & the VA & also things conservatives want like