#Trump’s #MAGA turned Kirk into its first martyr.
“Scholars like Moss have convincingly argued that while individual Christians were persecuted & at times killed for their beliefs, the idea of widespread persecution was largely an invention of Christians themselves.
Researchers have shown that Christian persecution stories were crafted not just to inspire the faithful, but to silence nonconformists.”
https://www.vox.com/politics/462486/charlie-kirk-maga-christian-evangelical-martyr-trump
But they told me it wasn’t a cult. #maga https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-trump-trial?ref=home
“I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night, now they are walking around with white hoods in the daytime”
-TX GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales
#maga #republicansindisarray
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/04/21/sotu-gonzalez-during-panel.cnn
I find it interesting that American news orgs are comfortable referring to European lawmakers as “pro-Russia” or “pro-Kremlin” but when #MAGA chuds spout undiluted Russian #propaganda and run interference for #Putin at every turn they’re called “isolationists.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/maga-republican-mtg-ukraine-aid-rcna146918
Greg Sargent says the Jimmy Kimmel story "shows that Trump and MAGA have hidden political weaknesses in this battle that those taking on Trump should keep in mind: These authoritarian assaults on the First Amendment are triggering a major cultural backlash, and it appears substantially stronger than the impulse that spurred the assaults in the first place."
#Trump #MAGA #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
https://newrepublic.com/article/200821/maga-rages-jimmy-kimmel-return-and-reveals-big-trump-weakness
Republicans were always, on some level, #MAGA: “Republicans didn’t purge the white supremacists & antisemites in the 1960’s. I think there’s a real danger in 2024 of nostalgizing the 20C conservative movement as “responsible,”respectable” & “about ideas.” The same features of what became of MAGAism were embedded in the movement from the very beginning, & were broadly tolerated by conserv. elites even if they found them to be slightly distasteful.” #GOPRacists #GOPFascists https://www.salon.com/2024/04/20/a-prehistory-of-maga-mainstream-conservatives-never-really-purged-the-fascists/
i spend my time mocking #MAGA and #vatniks
but due to recent news, i'm going to point some vitriol at another audience right now:
criticize #Israel govt / #Netanyahu all you want. 100% ok
but any #antisemitism or hatred of #Judaism / #Jews makes you a pathetic piece of sh**
change, douchebag
you're as #fascist as MAGA
and some more bile for some others:
criticize #Hamas all you want
but any hate for #Palestinians, and you too are a fascist #bigot
it's a f***ing shame i have to say this
"Popular #music may not be satanic, but #MAGA is right to see it as mostly #liberal. That’s why they fear it. Far from avoiding transcendent artistic experiences, the left can lay claim to most of them. Most everything from Taylor #Swift to the grittiest punk music is made by people on the left. That’s why evangelicals want their kids to avoid it. They rightly believe that it’s hard to go back to mediocrity after you’ve tasted excellence."
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/01/maga-cant-expand-its-base-and-christian-music-tells-us-why/
"#Vance lies — and he does it well. It’s why he was brought on as #Trump‘s 2nd in command. . . .Vance is betting that the typical Trump voter would rather lose his own health insurance than see a dark-skinned immigrant receive medical treatment. This strategy presents itself as esp. vile, b/c it depends on the #MAGA base being so racist that they would choose bankruptcy, or even death, over having to share a dr's waiting room w/people speaking Spanish.
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/03/jd-vances-shutdown-bet-maga-loves-racism-more-than-health-care/
a few weeks ago the #MAGA harpie running the federal civil rights division at #DOJ (Harmeet Dhillon) called out a so-called "liberal judge" Diane Goodstein for ruling against the trump administration, after which that judge received all kinds of threats from MAGA chuds.
#StephenMiller also weighed in on Judge Goodstein's decision in typically calm and restrained fashion, basically calling her a defender of #terrorism.
that judge's house just burned to the ground and her husband is in the hospital.
coincidence?
(oh, and she also happens to be jewish, which isn't super popular with the MAGA chud voting bloc these days since half of them blame israel for the death of charlie kirk (yes really))
#violence #trump #uspol #uspolitics #antisemitism #SouthCarolina #HarmeetDhillon #civilRights #scpol #DianeGoodstein #JudgeGoodstein #goodstein #fascism #fascists #fascist
#ClarenceThomas wrote a concurring opinion on #Trump’s #immunity that delved into the separate & unasked question of whether AG #MerrickGarland violated the #Constitution when he appointed #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith in Nov 2022 to oversee the 2 federal prosecutions of Trump.
#law #SCOTUS #ExtremeCourt #TrumpCourt #PartisanCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/01/clarence-thomas-jack-smith-special-counsel-immunity/
"Historians and legal experts warn that Trump and the Maga world have exploited Kirk’s killing to justify unleashing far-reaching attacks on multiple critics.
Trump and his allies are using 'page one of the authoritarian playbook' in their accelerating attacks on political foes', said Harvard government professor Steven Levitsky, who co-authored the book How Democracies Die."
~ Peter Stone
#CharlieKirk #Trump #MAGA #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
/1
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies
With the headline "Only the Best People," David Kurtz reports:
"A Trump-pardoned Jan. 6 rioter has been charged with threatening to kill House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) ahead of his a Monday speech to the Economic Club of New York."
#Trump #MAGA #HakeemJeffries #fascism #violence
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/lindsey-halligan-gets-her-very-own
MTG recieves death threats and while that is not okay I can't keep but thinking..
It's a cookie made of her own dough.
Just because you change a bit does not mean all past bullshit is forgotten
Will Americans accept living under dictatorship? #Trump #nokings #Epstein #Hegseth #Gestapo #TrumpCrimeFamily #MAGA #USA #BatshitCrazy #Treason #autocracy #Obscurantism #ChristoFascism #antifa https://theaimn.net/the-end-of-the-joke/
MAGA's triggered right now. It's being reported that social media feeds are being swarmed by MAGAs slinging insults at anyone who dares to question the majesty of and sagacity of Donald.
What has them triggered:
1. The big turnout for No Kings, which they've tried to pretend was a tiny turnout of paid agitators.
#Trump #MAGA #trolling #NoKings #ApprovalRatings #WhiteHouse #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EastWing #Canada #tariffs
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Yesterday, Pope Leo posted the statement below (it's from his Dilexi te) on Twitter (aka X), and MAGA went wild plastering the posting with enraged comments. Someone shared this tweet in a Reddit posting devoted to Christianity and enraged MAGA posted so many hateful comments that Reddit took the posting down.
MAGA wants to wrap the cruelty of denying food to children in Jesus. Leo begs to differ.
#PopeLeo #Christianity #MAGA #Republicans #food #hunger #children #cruelty
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When Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist, antisemitic, Holocaust-denying podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, even conservative outlets like Breitbart and The Daily Wire bristled. But, says @TheBulwark's Will Sommer, Carlson's platforming of Fuentes is perfectly in line with what the MAGA movement was already doing. "The right has no immune system against hatemongers and grifters. Few people in MAGA circles are willing to stand up to them — and the audiences likely wouldn’t support them if they did," writes Sommer.
![Izzy Gardon & Io]
A few weeks ago, one of Trump’s top DOJ officials publicly targeted this
judge.
Today, the judge’s home is on fire.
AAGHarmeetDhillon & ® X.com
@AAGDhillon
&@ 8 @ This @T! pt’s @ will
not stand for a state court judge’s hasty nullification
of our federal voting laws. | will allow nothing to
stand in the way of our mandate to maintain clean
voter rolls.
One Citizen, One Vote! &)](/proxy/post_attachment/871145/240c6c7e42.png "Izzy Gardon & Io]
A few weeks ago, one of Trump’s top DOJ officials publicly targeted this
judge.
Today, the judge’s home is on fire.
AAGHarmeetDhillon & ® X.com
@AAGDhillon
&@ 8 @ This @T! pt’s @ will
not stand for a state court judge’s hasty nullification
of our federal voting laws. | will allow nothing to
stand in the way of our mandate to maintain clean
voter rolls.
One Citizen, One Vote! &)")
