Week Ending 7/17/22

 

Welcome back to TWATs!! I had to take a few weeks of me time due to the heat making a living hell of my life. While not excessively hot (it stayed below 90), it was uncomfortable. I just don't handle the heat like I use to.

With that said,,,

So for some odd reason AiG and the Ark Encounter has been front and center in my thoughts of late. This doesn't help!!

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/faith-family-fun-bible-story-ark-encounter

As Hemant notes, this was a paid advertisement! https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1546237272399437826

What I don't get concerning the Christian taliban - why do they lie. https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/christian-prophet-the-constitution-requires-biden-to-have-20-popularity/

“What I’m saying right now is not a prophecy. These are constitutional facts. When a sitting president population—popularity—drops under 20%, the Congress and military can step in and make decisions. That’s all I’m gonna tell you.”

No sir, they are NOT facts!! Again as Hemant notes, there are only two ways to legally remove Biden from power - Impeachment and invoking the 25th Amendment.

What's scary, lies such as what you are spouting Mr. Johnson, came easy to one David Barton. For example, this recent foray into pseudo-history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAK3c1kiEo

Notice the “out” he gives himself, “I literally can show you a Bible verse in the Bible and show you language in the Constitution and you'll go, 'That is the same language.'”

 

I find it hysterical that it took “god” 40+ years to destroy the Georgia Guidestones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CskAip7suLs

The apologetic is mind-blowing, "I don't believe the videos they put out, there's no time stamp on them..." Less than ten seconds later, they show the video, with the time stamp visible. 

What's worse, Kandiss Taylor celebrated the act of vandalism: https://twitter.com/KandissTaylor/status/1544691940083507204

And then there is Stew Peters take on the matter, lightening from god. Which one he doesn't say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLhhpuF03to

Stew also seem to forget there is also a video of the car that was used to plant the "lightning." (Borrowed from a comment)

In the end Hemant sums up well the entire debacle. https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/vandals-finally-destroyed-the-satanic-georgia-guidestones/

Either way, if this is a victory, then who won? Who knows. If a Satanic monument was destroyed, it’s not like our lives are any better today. If it was just an expensive toy for a long-dead eugenicist, we still haven’t lost anything of value. But as with so many mindless things that eventually become traditions, we have lost something that was special to a lot of people. They put their own interpretations on the slabs of rock and a little piece of joy was taken from them. The city of Elberton has lost its most prized attraction. Ultimately, the monument was blown up by people whose motives remain unknown but who may have believed the lies they were fed by right-wing conspiracy theorists.

As local historian Raymond Wiley told Religion News Service, the Guidestones were meant to survive the apocalypse, but “they could not survive Southern culture.” A frivolous-yet-fun monument was likely shattered due to Christian superstition and a mindset that says anything some deem “un-Christian” must be destroyed at all costs.

Overall the Guidestones may or may not have been of any value. For me personally, they where a curiosity with a questionable origin. The possible association with eugenics is troubling but warrants a definitive rebuke; especially with regard to our history.

For thirty or so years the GG didn't garner much attention except for the occasional freak show. It wasn't until the last 10 years the nationalist type paid them any attention. Going back to my original question, why did it take god 40 years to destroy such a satanic icon?

The Stories Keep Coming,,, More for 5/8/22

 

(Oops forgot to add video,,, sorry!!)

A couple few stories I needed to do a bit more digging on to hopefully understand.

 

So Louisiana has become impatient. https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/05/from-the-moment-of-fertilization-louisiana-advances-bill-criminalizing-abortion-as-homicide-women-doctors-could-be-jailed/ As one of sponsors of the bill states, “No compromises; no more waiting,” Gunter said. “The bloodshed in our land is so great we have a duty … to protect the least of these among us.” (Note:: Rev. Brian Gunter of First Baptist Church in Livingston.)

A Louisiana House committee by a vote of 7-2 advanced a bill that decrees human life begins at the moment of fertilization, abortion is felony murder, and the state has the right to ignore any federal law or court ruling – even the Supreme Court – that is in opposition to those claims. Any pregnant person who obtains an abortion, and anyone assisting them could be charged with homicide, prosecuted, and sent to prison if convicted. Louisiana has a death penalty statute on the books.

While I believe there may be some fatal flaws concerning said bill, this comment raises an interesting point. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10166589313910615&id=358168880614&comment_id=1001588927140385

You will live in a state where the "religious beliefs" of a subgroup of "Christians" are the law, much like in Iran. And if you resist, you will be arrested. How long till they give the death penalty for those violating the new "religious" laws?

 

I have said for years that EVERY point the Reich argues is planned and has been for many years. https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/janet-porter-hopes-to-apply-the-strategy-behind-texas-heartbeat-bill-to-lgbtq-issues-in-public-schools/

 

While this is currently happening in Oklahoma, I can guarantee it is happening elsewhere. And just because the majority of people likely share Cook’s views doesn’t give her the right to push her ridiculous beliefs on kids when she’s literally being paid to educate them instead.

https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/40950-tulsa-public-schools-must-fire-proselytizing-teacher-ffrf-insists

A concerned Tulsa Public Schools student has informed the state/church watchdog that Amy Cook, a biology teacher at Memorial High School, has been abusing her position and proselytizing her students. Cook reportedly set up a prayer room in the back of her classroom, which had a wall covered in prayers and bible verses where she encouraged her students to pray. A few weeks after our complainant placed a non-Christian prayer in the prayer room, Cook reportedly pulled the person out of class and told our complainant of the need to repent or the consequence would be to “burn in hell,” saying that she was required to intervene as a “good Christian.”

Cook describes on a website why her personal religious beliefs trump her secular duties as a teacher and how she views her position as a teacher to be political,,,

So this commercial has garnered much attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju3Jm7pvI-o Kandiss Taylor, a Republican candidate for governor in Georgia, released a campaign ad claiming that a Satanic "New World Order" has taken over the world. Taylor's ad touted her candidacy to "stand up to the Luciferian Cabal" and "bring the Satanic Regime to its knees."

As David Pakman noted, “Kandiss Taylor releases one of the most bizarre and disturbing campaign ads in history .” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEdbuJcKGFI In less than 2 minutes she lays it all on the line, informing us what she holds dear:: anti-vaxx, demons, anti-semitism, anti-abortion, dominionism, and defeating the NWO.

Remember, this is the woman whose platform she proudly displays on the side of her campaign bus:: Jesus, guns, babies. https://twitter.com/KandissTaylor/status/1494312728332283908

A final note to this debacle, Stew Peters revealed that his film crew and executive producer—white nationalist Lauren Witzke—are responsible for producing Kandiss Taylor's Georgia Guidestones ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBvyN45dts

TWATs for Week Ending 5/8/22

There is so much shit going down concerning SCOTUS my head is spinning. I can only imagine what those I am familiar with working in the human rights field are feeling. I do know I have many depressed friends.

With that said, ATM I have no plans of adding my two cents, as doing so will only be excess noise on my part (subject to change). But do not take my silence as approval of the draft opinion concerning the termination of pregnancy. It is NOT!! I remember pre Roe v Wade. Granted I was very young but the stories I remember did not have a happy ending.

The elimination of Roe v Wade is just the beginning as many rights other than abortion will be under attack as well — from access to contraception (Griswold v. Connecticut), gay rights (Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 and Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015), as well as inter-racial marriage (Loving v. Virginia).

If the GQP gains control of the House and Senate, our Democracy is over. Theocracy will rule the day. All I can say is get the fuck out and vote like your life depends on it!!

 

Vaccination for CV-19 does not cause AIDS!! https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-senator-says-may-true-233002349.html While Ron Johnson didn't actually state it does, he didn’t really “push back” against Callender’s false and dangerous claim; he said it “may be true.”

What's worse Johnson is helping to spread an already debunked notion. If you remember, AVer Sherri Tenpenny https://interestinghmm.blogspot.com/2022/04/twats-for-week-ending-4322.html already has been refuted. Callender and Tenpenny run in the same circle.

And to be clear, there is no such beast a VAIDS. It is entirely fictional. The COVID-19 vaccines do not compromise the body's immune system, but rather stimulate it to recognize and more easily defend against the disease.

This is not foreign territory for Johnson as he has, in the recent past, touted AV talking points. For example: Anthony Fauci “overhyped” the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/03/world-aids-day-ron-johnson-said-1980-s-crisis-overhyped/8836267002/ Johnson has been an advocate for the unproven use of Ivermectin, https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/johnson-pushes-ivermectin-and-vaccine-conspiracies-while-local-officials-look-for-help-on-infrastructure/, and he also suggested in a town hall that gargling mouthwash could be an effective treatment. https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/why-does-sen-ron-johnson-traffic-in-misinformation/article_84e18951-7047-5130-9a82-03bc1aa8b1cb.html

It is bad enough fighting cranks like Callander but when it's elected officials it makes it even more difficult. RoJo should know better.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Flag#/media/File:Christian_flag.svg

What a quagmire this has become; although, I am missing the why. I don't see this being a “relgious liberty case” https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/40946-ffrf-supreme-court-ruling-on-boston-christian-flag-is-narrow-but-concerning IF the city is applying the standard equitably. Personally all flags should be banned but for National, State, and county type flags. Any flag displaying religious icon(s) need to be re-designed. But that is a “perfect” world.

From my understanding, the debate is whether the flag is considered “speech” by the government? Why, because the city program that allowed other private groups to raise and fly their own flags was not speech by the city, the court held, the city could not refuse permission to fly a particular flag because of the views that it expressed.

According to Nina Totenberg from NPR, https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1095943871/supreme-court-says-boston-unconstitutionally-barred-christian-flag-from-city-hal

"The key," wrote Breyer, was to what extent Boston actually controlled the messages on the flags. And the answer, he said, was not at all. The city's lack of meaningful involvement, he said, led the court to conclude that these flag raisings were not government speech—where the government can control its message—but private speech, in fact religious speech, that cannot be regulated by the government. 

 

Enter The Satanic Temple who “is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown building.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/satanic-temple-asks-boston-fly-153541477.html

Lucien Greaves, the organization's co-founder, said in an email Wednesday that the group wants to show that religious liberty must mean respect for “all forms" of religious practice and religious opinion.

"When government officials are able to impose arbitrary restrictions on claims of conscience, or to abridge the civic capacities of some based on their religious identity, we fail to be a free, democratic republic,” he wrote in part.

https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20-1800.pdf - SHURTLEFF ET AL . v. CITY OF BOSTON ET AL.

 

I have heard of some stupid shit in my day, but this takes the cake. “Trump's infamous "covfefe" tweet was actually code for "the antidote to the 5G towers that were really designed to work with the (COVID) vaccines and essentially hack human beings."” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=7954649241215624

In order for this to be “true,” it would have to be shown that CO (cobalt). V (vanadium), and Fe (iron) can form a stable molecule.

A woman who says she’s from a Nevada parent’s group unleashed an out-of-control rant on the Clark County School Board Thursday, attacking water rights, Planned Parenthood, school trips to Disneyland, claims about “sexually-confused teachers,” and even accusing one member of having a box of “pubic hair.”

The woman, who introduced herself as Stephanie Kinsley from My Children’s Advocate, began by attacking the school board for discussing a sex education curriculum. https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/watch-nevada-parents-group-rep-launches-off-the-rails-rant-at-school-board-meeting-gets-escorted-out/

My Children’s Advocate has a website that appears to be anti-LGBTQ rights, anti-mask, and anti-CRT. On its Facebook page it is promoting Republican Joey Gilbert for governor.

Its most recent post includes these hashtags: #groomers #perverts #genderconfusion #childabuse #woketeachers #saveyourkids #pedos #satanic #evil #agenda.

I have heard some vile, hateful shit but this palls in comparison. “Radical right-wing commentator Josh Bernstein is confident that Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, or Elena Kagan are responsible for the SCOTUS/Roe leak and wants these "three evil bitches" investigated for treason.” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=766682580986597

Beside the hate, bigotry, misogyny and racism wrapped up in a little over a minute, dude has no clue what treason is. The United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states:

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

 

According to source, https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-baal-sacrifice/

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed this week that Democrats are "sacrificing babies on the altar of Baal" by supporting abortion rights for women.

During an interview with host Joe Pagliarulo, Greene explained why Democrats are upset by a leaked Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

She didn't even read the fucking book, https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/05/woman-demands-city-council-ban-award-winning-lgbtq-book-from-public-library-they-refused/

Tuesday night Washington state’s Liberty Lake City Council voted 4-2 to not force the local public library to remove a popular, award-winning LGBTQ book, “Gender Queer,” from its shelves. It was the second loss for Erin Zasada, a local realtor, KREM reports.

Zasada first tried to get the book banned by filing a complaint with the local library. The book, an award-winning graphic novel, a memoir about coming out as nonbinary has been popular with teens but is housed in the adult section of the library which anyone can access. It’s also one of the most challenged books in school libraries across the country.

When I started tracking the news for bizarre people and stories 20 odd years ago, most of what I found was well “hidden.” I was was told that was just conspiracy or fringe, now it is mainstream. And the more vile, the better.

While the Lt Governor did not speak these words, her presence at the rally provided explicit agreement with such sentiment. https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/radical-conspiracy-theorist-stew-peters-campaigned-for-idaho-lt-gov-janice-mcgeachin/

So that does it for this episode, and yes there is more. With that said, I present to you Professor Plink. https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorPlink A YTer that respond to various theological and ideological questions and claims from a rationalistic and naturalistic approach. But he does so from more of a layman's perspective. IOWs he doesnt drown you in deep philosophical droning and explains the opposite viewpoint balancing the conversation.