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When all you ever play is beanball

07 Wednesday Jun 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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baseball, bigot, cult of the victim, fly, hair helmet, Karen, LGBTQIA+, Mike Pence, pearl clutching, right wingut, self righteous

Last week from Mike Pence (r):

Mike Pence @Mike_Pence
Baseball once stood for American greatness, but when it openly invites attacks on Christian faith, sexualizes children with graphic public displays, and undermines the family-friendly environment that baseball has long stood for, it is clear that those days are fading fast.

Read my Full Statement and Open Letter to Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers [….]
1:03 PM · Jun 2, 2023

Self-righteous bigot.

Some of the responses:

Can y’all boycott baseball so I can get my game tickets cheaper?

Oh, please stop.

Quit drunk tweeting from Hooters, Michael

What a pathetic attempt to get attention. Keep radical, right wing, pseudo-religion out of sports.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

“Not now honey, I need to read Mike Pence’s open letter to the Dodgers”

You guys sure do hate America

It’s a baseball game not a revival. How horrible an organization recognizes pride month or other cultures during the season. Work on polling over 2%.

Wait till you see what apple pie is doing.

Baseball is still great Mike, you jamming the evangelical right into everything, is not ok.
Don’t push your beliefs onto others.
You want to be the victim.

Don’t you have bigger things to worry about?

How is your imaginary issue different than your attacks on LGBTQ people? Why are you so nosy, bossy, and determined to force your religious beliefs on Americans that have different religious beliefs?

That seems awfully arrogant on your part, to think you know everything.

“hey, is this stool taken?” said the fly in a high squeaky voice as it came in for a landing.
[….]

Remember when a mob of “faithful Christians” tried to hang you? I don’t remember any drag queens being part of that.

Stop shoving your religious beliefs down our throats.

And read the constitution.

Our country was literally FOUNDED on the separation of church and state.

You should know this and if you don’t – you’re even more unqualified for elected office then we already believe.

Used to be “christians” followed the loving word of their god. Now “christians” spew hateful & violent rhetoric in the name of their god.
THIS is why millions run away & turn their backs on “christianity,” “religion,” and “church.”
There’s no hate quite like christian love.

American greatness is the striving for embracing others, respecting others, accepting others, human rights and love. Unfortunately, Mike, your version of Christianity is flawed by fear and a dark infatuation with deviant behavior that you project on others. #NeverBePresident

That’s what you care about? Manufactured outrage on inconsequential issues that MAGA pushes into the fore?

That’s really sad, man. Really, really sad.

“when it openly invites attacks on Christian faith,”

“sexualizes children with graphic public displays”

“undermines the family-friendly environment that baseball has long stood for”

None of that ever happened

Please tell me Christianity’s position on bearing false witness.

When it comes to suffering, those early Christian martyrs had nothing on you.

You’ll never be president, Mr. Karen.

None of that is happening.

I swear republicans live on a different planet.

Same planet, different world.

So conservatives are waging their war with virtually everything because as we know, what voting Americans want is to have their porn, sports, retail products and lifestyles all policed by a theocratic nanny state.

Please continue making really bad political decisions!

You think you’re still relevant?

I bet your social media manager double spaces after a period.

Baseball is a sport that people play & watch. People are different, so now, so is baseball. White Christians don’t own baseball or America.

When has it openly incited attacks on Christian faith? Maybe Christian nationalist’s trying to insert their demands on others, which is how it should be.
Keep your religion in the church and no one will care.

I’m sorry. Who are you again?

Attacks on Christian faith? I’m looking but I don’t see that. Unless you mean supporting LGBTQ people and their organizations, but I know a lot of gay Christians, so I really think this is your personal problem.

Okay Karen

Pride is only an attack on your Christian values if your Christian values are un-Christ-like

Jesus accepted everyone, you Christofascist bigot.

Imagine being an adult and having to resort to tweets like this to be able to run for President as a Republican..

Remember that time a bunch of Republicans took over the Capitol and smeared shit on the walls?

That was some great Jesus-y and family friendly behavior.

Your Bible is not our Constitution

14 Saturday May 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist, social media

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abortion, missouri, right wingnut, Roe v Wade, self righteous, social media, Supreme Court, Twitter, Vicky Hartzler

Vicky Hartzler (r) [2021 file photo].

Yesterday morning:

Rep. Vicky Hartzler @RepHartzler
Praying for #SCOTUS this morning — for protection for the justices and that righteous decisions will be made.
[….]
8:23 AM · May 13, 2022

Don’t fence us out.

Some of the responses:

Pray that these justices remember their words from when they were being considered for their current positions, that stare decisis had real meaning to them.

I think you meant self righteous.

Correction… Self Righteous… your views and opinions are no more morally superior than mine.

You wouldn’t know righteousness if it slapped the hypocrisy out of you.

Previously:

McCullen v Coakley (2014) gently weeps (May 5, 2022)

You built this, Jack

20 Sunday Feb 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in US Senate

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gaslighting, jack danforth, missouri, right wingnut, sanctimonious, self righteous, U.S. Senate

Desperate for some sort of relevance, eh? You can smell it.

On Friday:

Jack Danforth wants to find an independent candidate to run for U.S. Senate in Missouri
A candidate who shuns partisanship would have ‘a lot of resources’ for campaign, former Senator says
BY: RUDI KELLER – FEBRUARY 18, 2022 6:58 PM

[…]

“So much depends on touching the better angels of our nature and that is what the campaign would be about,” Danforth said.

Better angels?

Clarence Thomas (r). Josh Hawley (r). Actions, not words. We remember what Jack Danforth (r) did.

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican.

We rest our case.

republican Blogs: they can't help themselves, it's in their nature

16 Tuesday Dec 2008

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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putzes, republicans, self righteous

I came across this little item from the Kansas City Star’s Prime Buzz “BlogWatch”:

And then noted the original post (If you want to go see the original, go the Kansas City Star site above. I’m not going to directly link to that republican crap):

It’s the Democratic Party. The Kansas City Star understands that. Heh.

All us anonymous (and not so anonymous) Democratic bloggers need to grow up. How amusing. Until the republicans overcome their severe irony impairment (among a host of other weaknesses) they will continue to be a regional political party. Heh.

Oh. You may have noticed the editorial convention of the smalll “r”. I’ve been using that since I wrote for the Dean for America Forum starting in 2003. When a republican troll complained at the time I answered, “They’ll get their capital “R” from me when they earn it.”

As for anonymity, republicans seem to think that in their fantasy rose colored world only those who can afford to not worry about losing their livelihood because they expressed a political opinion or those who can afford the extra security needed when psychotic right wingnut stalkers are afoot should be allowed freedom of speech.

Welcome to America.

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