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joeysha smith
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just a girl living in a girl's world (the nether)
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love to see this dialogue <3
October 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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8 years ago... #calexit
September 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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shout out to the rare time a Republican was funny
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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- Palm Beach, Gold Coast, Australia
November 14, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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If I’m going to take a leap of faith I prefer to do it with the people whose impenetrable magic has given us airplanes, spaceflight, sonograms, cell phones, GPS, Trader Joe’s microwavable tikka masala, and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, not the family values bozos whose singular, ancient text provides justification for slavery, prohibitions on menstruating women in public, and instructions on goat sacrifice.
November 9, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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And, please, spare me the phony “He compared Palin to Hitler! He compared Palin to Hitler!” histrionics. If everyone could make a deal to stop pretending to have emotional breakdowns every time someone dots their point with a rhetorical flourish the culture war conversations would be a lot more fun. It’s called hyperbole, it’s not against the fucking law. No one’s saying Palin wants to launch a Holocaust against the liberals. Just that she’d look pretty good in a swastika. And might be open to an invasion of Russia.
November 9, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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“Obama is a socialist.” “So are fire departments and libraries and cotton-industry subsidies and roads and the military. Want to get rid of all of those?”
November 9, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Moments later I fall into a classic southern conversation with a balding, middle-aged, fact-spewing birther named Marvin, who for thirty minutes stands next to a wife he doesn’t bother to acknowledge or introduce. When I tell him what I’m up to, Marvin rearranges his glasses and starts vomiting out the FOX “News”–approved righty line—Barack Obama is a liar, a socialist, a hater of Israel, an enemy of freedom, a foreigner, the tip of the Muslim advance into America. The supposedly elegant Michelle has cankles and could stand to drop twenty pounds. “To get in the Indonesian mosque school as a kid, Obama had to become an Indonesian citizen,” Marvin says, reeking of conspiracy-style authority. “Because Indonesia doesn’t allow dual citizenship, he had to revoke his American citizenship. And now he wants to come back here and be president?” “Well, actually, he doesn’t want to be president, he is president,” I say.
November 9, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Nineteen seventy-three was also the year Presbyterian minister R. J. Rushdoony (a transplanted New Yorker in California) published the highly influential Institutes of Biblical Law. Latched on to by these same aggrieved conservatives, the book helped form the basis of a southern-based religious movement that, in an ironic reference to the bitter post–Civil War years, was called “Christian Reconstructionism.” Then as now the movement’s aim was to establish an American theocracy through the electoral takeover of local, state, and federal governments by church-approved candidates.
November 9, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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The local media goes berserk and for a while I think about turning the scandal into a surprise kicker for this entire chapter. Then I abandon the idea when it occurs to me how unshocking it is anymore when your friendly neighborhood gay-bashing religious-conservative community leader turns out to be your friendly neighborhood gay-bashing religious-conservative community leader with benefits.
November 9, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Hanging near the entry at New Birth, a large banner reads: “CORPORATELY GOING AFTER THE GLORY. ISAIAH 40:5.” In the gift shop I pick up a copy of the New King James Bible—New Birth’s sanctioned version—and flip to Isaiah 40:5. It reads: “The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” Thee corporate tie-in between New Birth and Isaiah isn’t precisely clear.
November 9, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Tacitly recognizing while never officially endorsing candidates is, of course, the shady business of churches all over the country. In this wink-wink-nudgenudge way Bible thumpers piss on secular law, protect their tax-exempt 501(c) (3) status as charitable organizations, and involve themselves as deeply in the muck of politics as Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot.
November 9, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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To respond to a critique of southern religious lunacy by shouting, “You should see how batshit crazy they are in Arizona!” is to employ the classic schoolyard rhetorical misdirection, “Oh, yeah, I’m stupid? Well, guess what, you’re ugly.” is counterblast of moral reprobation from the South is the same one that followed the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, when no fewer than fourteen pro-slavery novels were published in three years in an effort to debunk the unflattering portrait of slavery presented by Harriet Beecher Stowe. No shit, there are religious kooks everywhere, but the South is to radical Christianity what Afghanistan and Pakistan are to radical Islam
November 9, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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There’s nobility in sticking to your guns, in not selling out, in remaining a rebel forever. By eighteen, however, I was already coming to the realization that there’s also a great measure of stupidity—and, more dangerous, a toxic mixture of self-pity and self-destruction—in clinging to willful obstinacy for obstinacy’s sake.
November 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Incidentally, in terms of politics my issue in this book isn’t with Republicans, as much as it is with southern obstructionists and fanatics who want to conflate biblical law with U.S. law. When they’re doing their fiscally responsible, missionary-hump-values routine, the Republicans are fine.
November 9, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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An all-around pain in the ass in so far as categorization goes, and never much of a team player, anyway, Texas had its own motives for dropping its long johns in the direction of Washington, D.C. And even back then its reputation was far more cowboy than cow tipper.
November 9, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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“What in Christ’s name happened to that confederation of Mason-Dixon mouth breathers that got them so intimidated by science and facts and book larnin’ that they can’t even walk past a library or look through a microscope without quoting Habakkuk and Deuteronomy to each other until the threat of intellectual enlightenment goes away?”
November 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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the SNOWFLAKE LIBERALS the SJW MAFIA WANT US TO BECOME 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫
November 6, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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for reference btw
September 13, 2024 at 6:57 PM