Do you think his Christian angle will make a difference?
Edit: To clarify, difference in people willing to vote for him, not different outcomes. I worded that post poorly.
The Islamophobia is implicit in supporting Trumpās immigration policies, at least around these parts in Maine.
Iām always glad to hear from a fellow lifter here in the Trump thread.
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It is an interesting angle to try, but I donāt see him doing a whole lot of reaching across the aisle to pull in new voters. We have Democratic Socialist āchurchesā in Lewiston and elsewhere in Maine, too. These 501(c)(3) organizations use Christian clothing, Christian rituals, Christian language, Christian scripture, and Christian identities to advance their sincere beliefs in socialist revolutionary thought. Thatās how you end up with a Texas Senate candidate like Talarico
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No. His policies donāt line up with Christian beliefs, and people who vote from a religious perspective recognize it. Heās a Christian in the same way a man wearing a dress is a woman.
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You need to celebrate diversity harder. Like really hard. Then youāll see it.
Damn, I guess the struggle is real. Alex Jones told me to wake up and I thought I did - now I find I aināt woke enough. Argh!!
muttering
sand kicking
head clutching
Man, why do they gotta make fitting in to be so hard???
I dunno man. I donāt make the rules. I just enforce them.
Heās using it to justify transitioning kids and opening the Southern border. That wonāt play here at all.
Itās interesting to learn what you guys have in common when you evaluate people.
Noem out
Thereās nothing Christian about gay race communism. It is, among other things, organized theft achieved by fundamentally deceptive rhetoric.
The best historical comparison for Talarico is Jim Jones, whose Peopleās Temple was the prototype for advancing revolutionary socialist thought under the guise of Christianity. He was a progressive left superstar until, well, you knowā¦
Not REAL socialism happened again.
Trump fires Noemā¦nominates Mark Mullin
Now he is a real fighter.
I like the move, but I donāt know a whole lot about Mark Mullin. At a glance, he seems solid.
Bye bye, Noem.
That surprises me a little
Iām aware of him but I havenāt done a deep dive. For the last several years my attention has been mostly on state and local politics. If someone outside of that world grabs my attention I tend to go learn more. He just hasnāt captured my attention for whatever reason, same as most Senators and Congressional Representatives.
Hereās some Jim Jones quotes I pulled from Grok. The Peopleās Temple idea never went away, it just rebranded itself after not REAL socialism led to mass murder again. Here in Maine they tend to call themselves Unitarian Universalists.
Here are some notable quotes and paraphrased statements from his sermons and teachings where he ties social justice ideals (equality, anti-capitalism, communal living, care for the oppressed) to Christianity:
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āGod is love, and love is socialism. And socialism means, from each according to his ability to each according to his need.ā
(He equates biblical love/charity with socialist redistribution, echoing Acts 2:44-45 and 4:32-35.) -
āWhen God is Socialism, God is [love].ā
(Directly identifying God with socialism as the embodiment of divine love and justice.) -
āSocialism means that all the means of production that man has [ā¦] are owned by the same people, the family of man, the family of God. There is only one source of ownershipālove. No one can privately own the land. No one can privately own the air. It must be held in common. So then, that is love, that is God, Socialism.ā
(Framing communal ownership as godly love, contrasting with private property/capitalism.) -
āJesus means justice, revolutionary justice.ā
(Redefining Jesus as a symbol of radical social/revolutionary justice rather than traditional salvation.) -
āBuild a heaven here. He [Jesus] said āthy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth.āā¦ The kingdom is within you. Hereāsā¦ā
(Echoing the Lordās Prayer to argue for creating egalitarian, just society on earth now, via socialist means, rather than waiting for heaven.) -
āThe only thing that brings perfect justice, freedom, and equality, perfect love in all of its beauty and holiness, is socialism, socialism, socialism.ā
(Presenting socialism as the path to divine ideals of justice and love.) -
āIf youāre born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you are born in sin. But if youāre born in socialism, youāre not born in sin.ā
(Contrasting sinful capitalism/racism with socialist redemption, using Christian āborn in sinā language.) -
Publicly, he couched his views in terms like āapostolic social justiceā and āliving the Acts of the Apostlesā (referring to communal sharing in the early church as true Christianity).