Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Onward, Christian soldiers!

Trump denies Project 2025 but he sure likes to follow their tenants, like making the country in a Christian nation! Trump has even come and said that is his goal in four years!
Onward, Christian soldiers,
marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
going on before!
Christ, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!
The Hill
By Ian Swanson
July 27, 2024


Former President Trump at a Friday event hosted by the conservative Christian organization Turning Point Action urged Christians to vote, saying they wouldn’t have to do it again if they got out there in November and elected him because “everything” would be “fixed.”

“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Trump exclaimed to a cheering crowd in West Palm Beach, Fla.

“You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians” he added.

“I love you Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote,” Trump said.
Just what did he mean by that? That he will make the nation a “Christian” nation? You know Mr. Trump you will not be able to get a third divorce. That is one of the things that Project 2025 and the evangelicals want to do, ban divorce. Common Dreams write,
Trump's words left some ambiguity as to his intentions, but the implication that further elections wouldn't be necessary once he took office raised alarms, especially given his history of pro-authoritarian remarks and his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost.

"When we say Trump is a threat to democracy, this is exactly what we’re talking about," Caty Payette, communications director for Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), wrote on social media.

Katie Phang, an MSNBC host, interpreted Trump's remarks to mean that he would try to remain in power indefinitely, if reelected. 
Say good-bye to the Constitution! The Rolling Stone has an article about JD Vance and his Christian beliefs…
Just over a week ago, Trump announced J.D. Vance as his running mate for the 2024 election. Vance, a first-term senator from Ohio, has been largely seen as a choice bolstering Trump’s outsider image — a young Midwestern firebrand who would bring Silicon Valley money and youthful energy to the ticket. What has gone largely unnoticed is that Vance is a more radical religious politician than Pence, even though the latter was hailed as the “Christian” candidate. Though Vance’s Catholicism has barely registered as a driving factor in his political profile, it serves as an interpretive key for understanding why Vance was chosen and how he brings a populist radicalism to a potential second Trump presidency

[...]

Baehr, Hawley, and Thiel envision Teneo as a Federalist Society for venture capitalists. Vance is reportedly a member. The organization was fledgling until Leonard Leo stepped in to raise funds. Leo, who according to 2022 filings has served on the board of the NAapa Institute Legal Foundation and the Napa Institute Legal Foundation, is the infamous leader of the actual Federalist Society, who shepherded Trump’s three Supreme Court nominees to the bench, stepped in a few years ago. Now Teneo is funded by money from Leo’s dark money networks, the Charles Koch Foundation, the DeVos family and other big donors. The group is Leo’s new conduit for imposing his conservative Catholic agenda on American culture and institutions.  
Onward, Christian soldiers,
marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
going on before!
The influences of Thiel, Leo, and Deneen on Vance’s approaches to government and policy are clear. Vance’s 2019 speech at Natcon appeared in print in First Things, the flagship publication of reactionary Catholic thought. It’s titled “Beyond Libertarianism,” and is a reflection on the ways that the government should play a role in shaping American social and cultural life: 

We live in an environment that’s shaped by our laws and public policy, and we cannot hide from that fact anymore. I think the question conservatives confront at this key moment is this: Whom do we serve? Do we serve pure, unfettered commercial freedom? Do we serve commerce at the expense of the public good? Or do we serve something higher? And are we willing to use political power to actually accomplish those things?
At the sign of triumph
Satan's host doth flee; 
On, then, Christian soldiers,
on to victory! 
Hell's foundations quiverat the shout of praise; 
Brothers, lift your voices,loud your anthems raise! 

It seems like that JD Vance will make former VP look like Satan.
 As the Catholic theologian Massimo Faggioli puts it, “For Vance, Christianity and the church are not the problem but the solution to the ills of the political-religious project called the United States of America.”
And remember Trump is an old man and might not last through his four years and that will make JD president!
One of the reasons Vance was chosen to be Trump’s running mate is that since entering the Senate in 2022 he has become a reliable MAGA spokesperson. Vance is often better than Trump himself at outlining policies related to Ukraine, trade and tariffs, and reproductive rights. He also seems to be up to the task that Mike Pence wasn’t — not certifying the election results if necessary. But he is not simply an instrument for achieving Trump’s MAGA coronation. He’s the vanguard of a new religious populism Roberts, Deneen, Leo, and others believe will right the nation.
Onward, Christian soldiers 
marching as to war, 
With the cross of Jesus
going on before! 

Are you ready for a Christian nation?

 
Your Papers Please!
 
Trumps VP pick JD Vance once wanted to limit travel between states for abortion…
The GOP vice presidential candidate envisioned a post-Roe v. Wade world where “George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women” to get abortions out of state.
HuffPost
By Alanna Vagianos
July 26, 2024


Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested there should be a “federal response” to prevent women from traveling out of state for abortion care in a newly resurfaced clip from a 2022 podcast.

Vance appeared on Aimee Terese’s “What’s Left” podcast in January 2022 and mused on what should happen if the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade. Roe was overturned months later.

“Let’s say Roe vs. Wade is overruled, Ohio bans abortion, you know, in 2022, let’s say 2024, and then every day George Soros [He is a liberal billionaire.] sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California,” Vance, who at the time was running to represent Ohio in the Senate, said on the podcast. “Of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity … that’s kind of creepy, right?”

“If that happens, do you need some federal response to prevent it from happening because it’s really creepy?” he added. “And, you know, I’m pretty sympathetic to that, actually.”
Well first off. THAT IS RACIST! Second it does sound creepy that government wants to know why you are traveling, how are they going to stop travel between states? If a woman of child bearing age travels between Texas and say Connecticut how will anyone know that she is doing it to get an abortion? Will she need a statement from her doctor saying that she is not pregnant? Going one step further suppose teenagers traveling from Texas to Connecticut will they need travel papers to show that they are not getting treatment for Gender Dysphoria?

Welcome to the real-life  Handmaids Tail! Welcome to the Republican police state! Welcome to the police state.

I’m voting for the party with compassion, I’m voting for the future, I’m voting for continuing free and fair elections, I’m voting for a country where all are respected, and I’m voting for a country where all religions and even those who chose their own personal beliefs are welcome!

 

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