Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Once again phony political posturing by manhood expert Hawley. From Hulse at NYT “The Hawley amendment is absolutely crushed with just 17 yes votes. Even fellow Republicans were dismissive.” Of course they were. They know what he is. 9:07 PM · Jun 1, 2023
Heh.
Josh Hawley (r) introduced an amendment to the debt ceiling bill. It was deflated and didn’t fly:
Roll Call Vote 118th Congress – 1st Session Vote Summary
Question: On the Amendment (Hawley Amdt. No. 93)
Vote Number: 140
Vote Date: June 1, 2023, 09:05 PM
Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 93 to H.R. 3746 (No short title on file)
Statement of Purpose: To require the imposition of additional duties with respect to articles imported from the People’s Republic of China until trade between the United States and the People’s Republic of China comes into balance.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 17
NAYs 81
Not Voting 2
81 no votes.
SA 93. Mr. HAWLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3746, to provide for a responsible increase to the debt ceiling; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. IMPOSITION OF DUTIES TO BALANCE TRADE WITH THE
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
(a) Calculation of Trade With the People’s Republic of
China.–Not later than January 31 of each year, the President
shall calculate and publish in the Federal Register, for the
preceding calendar year–
(1) the total value of articles imported into the United
States from the People’s Republic of China; and
(2) the total value of articles exported from the United
States to the People’s Republic of China.
(b) Imposition of Duties.–
(1) In general.–If the total value calculated under
paragraph (1) of subsection (a) exceeds the total value
calculated under paragraph (2) of that subsection for the
preceding calendar year, the President shall impose an
additional duty with respect to each article imported into
the United States from the People’s Republic of China of 25
percent ad valorem.
(2) Additional duties.–A duty imposed under paragraph (1)
shall be in addition to any duty previously applicable with
respect to an article.
(c) Continued Imposition of Duties.–The duties imposed
under subsection (b) with respect to articles imported into
the United States from the People’s Republic of China shall
remain in effect until the total value calculated under
paragraph (1) of subsection (a) is equal to or less than the
total value calculated under paragraph (2) of that subsection
for the preceding calendar year.
“…Now I know he went to Yale, I think, or Harvard, one of those, one of those fancy ones…” – August 17, 2017
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
Or maybe, Josh Hawley (r) just slept through his classes.
Today:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
On the debt ceiling, my view is the most important deficit we face is the trade deficit with China. Every dollar represents jobs lost (60k & counting in Missouri), industry lost, communities decimated. We’ve got to quit making China rich & get good blue-collar jobs back in USA 12:37 PM · Jun 1, 2023
A trade deficit and the debt ceiling are not the same thing. Josh Hawley (r) might not know this. Maybe he should ask for his tuition money back.
Some of the responses:
Repeal trump’s tax giveaways for the wealthy. Stop subsidizing Big Oil. Stop preventing the IRS from doing its job. There are ways to reduce the debt and deficit without crashing our economy.
Run along Josh [….]
Like all the jobs you’ve brought to Missouri?
Missouri? When did you ever care about Missourians? Loser
No one cares what you think traitor
#TaxTheRich and reverse #TrumpTaxScam
You Voted AGAINST the Infrastructure Bill & the Chips and Science Act, both of which will bring tons of good paying blue-collar jobs in the USA and to Missouri, so Your Actions say the opposite of Your Words. #LIAR
Missouri unemployment rate is under 3%. May e you’re thinking about Virginia, where you actually live.
How would you resolve a perceived trade imbalance with legislation to suspend the debt ceiling? [….]
He doesn’t know and he doesn’t care.
How is that related to the debt ceiling?
Then vote motion to vacate McCarthy.
Heh. Josh Hawley’s (r) base.
You’re a no so you can be the faux “fighter” that fights nothing. You know this will pass so you leave the dirty work of governing to others. You’re not a populist. You’re not a fighter. You’re a self promoter and the act is getting tired. Very tired.
Discretionary spending has fallen more than 40% in the past 50 years as a percentage of the nation’s gross domestic product (from 11% to 6.3%).
Josh Hawley voted no on the Chips Act…
You don’t even think enough of us to live here. Hard to think you’re doing anything more than posturing.
You don’t actually live in Missouri.
With your ivory-league education I’m sure you realize the debt ceiling is not the vehicle to address those concerns. This whole debacle has shown us who’s really there to govern & who’s there for soundbites.
We see what you did there. Sort of.
Go figure the traitor is pro-default. Resign
Hell, you don’t even LIVE in Missouri Joshy!— you RAN AWAY from there too! No Manhood award for you!!
To start, how about investing in infrastructure projects, like high speed rail and clean energy? These are the areas where China is leaving the U.S. behind. We’re not in the 19th and 20th centuries anymore. Speaking of blue collar jobs, where are you on unionization?
Take a wild guess.
Why does Missouri allow China to buy land?
You might want to ask Eric Schmitt (r) about that one.
I hope the other senators like paying our bills.
So you support the CHIPS act?
Uh, no.
That has nothing to do with the debt ceiling, you grandstanding elongated toddler
My view is you’re a stupid, corrupt son of a bitch without even the integrity to try to hide that fact.
You were a NO no matter. Nothing to be proud of that your party sent the jobs overseas to begin with you EVIL piece of shit.
Please stop this!!!! School boards are elected to make decisions locally! Let them do their jobs. Republicans are the party of local control. Please leave it to them.
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Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
Lockdowns cause harm. Schools should remain open. Cloth masks are ineffective. Many hospitalizations/deaths are with and not from Covid. Vaccines aren’t preventing transmission. All labeled misinformation at one point —all true. #NoMaskMandates #NoLockdowns 7:57 AM · Jan 28, 2022
Make arguments like that in court. I dare you. Dumbass.
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Sociopath.
And now, overreaching authoritarian and incompetent boob.
Former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt lacked any legal authority to order school districts to end COVID-19 mitigation measures, a Jackson County judge ruled Friday.
In his 18-page decision, Judge Marco Roldan concluded that the attorney general’s office did not follow Missouri law when it demanded last year that Lee’s Summit R-7 School District rescind the measures put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Schmitt sued Lee’s Summit, along with 46 other school districts, then amplified his attacks on social media, “encouraging parents and students to defy the authority granted to the board of education by Missouri law,” Roldan wrote.
That led to “even greater confusion than the pandemic had already caused.”
“The attorney general lacked any legal authority to insert himself into the school district’s efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic,” Roldan wrote.
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Via a link at the Missouri Independent:
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Former Attorney General Eric Schmitt twice directed the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District to rescind its COVID-19 mitigation measures, even though its Board of Education had validly adopted those measures under Missouri statutes giving the Board of Education broad powers to control and govern the School District’s operations. The Attorney General did not identify statutes or constitutional provisions to support his order, resting his directive instead on a judgment in another case to which no school district was a party, and whose rationale did not apply to the School District. The Attorney General then amplified his orders on social media, encouraging parents and students to defy the authority granted to the Board of Education by Missouri law. Parents and students followed the Attorney General’s lead, leading to even greater confusion than the pandemic had already caused.
Aside from lacking any authority over locally elected boards of education, the Attorney General’s orders did not follow Missouri law and were therefore without legal force or effect. Neither Attorney General Schmitt nor his successor has disavowed the orders, and in fact, the Attorney General continues to insist that school districts lack the very authority granted them under Missouri law.
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This case began with a petition filed by then-Attorney General Eric S. Schmitt on behalf of the State of Missouri. Several individual plaintiffs joined in the petition. Broadly speaking, the petition alleged that the Board of Education of the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District acted unlawfully by adopting a mask mandate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The School District denied many of the material allegations of the petition and asserted a counterclaim against the Attorney General. Its counterclaim sought a declaratory judgment that the Attorney General exceeded his lawful authority when he issued and publicized through social media letters to the School District and its Superintendent ordering them to rescind the School District’s mask mandate and abandon other COVID-19 mitigation measures.
The Attorney General and the individual plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their petition less than two months after filing it, leaving only the School District’s counterclaim for the Court to resolve. Both parties have moved for summary judgment since there are no genuine issues of material fact and the School District’s counterclaim raises only questions of law. The Court agrees there are no material issues of fact. After carefully considering the arguments raised by the parties, the Court GRANTS the School District’s motion for summary judgment and DENIES the Attorney General’s motion for summary judgment.
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The Attorney General also posted Facebook messages asking parents to notify him about “school districts continuing to enforce mask mandates and quarantines, in violation of the recent Cole County ruling” and to notify him of “mask mandates that are null and void under the judgment.”
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The Attorney General has argued that his letters were standard cease and desist letters that any prospective litigant is free to send as a precursor to litigation. The Court rejects this post-hoc rationalization because it ignores both the tenor and threat of future orders of the letters and the social media posts the Attorney General distributed to amplify them. It also elides the interpretation of the orders the public had of the Attorney General’s authority. The letters were not supported by statute or legal precedent and were subject to misinterpretation of the laws of the State of Missouri. The clear intent of the Attorney General’s letters, particularly in view of his later communications and social media posts, was to leave the School District and the public with the impression he had authority he did not have.
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The Attorney General’s December 7 and 9 letters to the School District, stating that the School District was bound by the Robinson judgment was an incorrect statement of the law and was interpreted by lay persons as the law of the State of Missouri.
The Court therefore GRANTS the School District’s motion for summary judgment and DENIES the Attorney General’s motion for summary judgment. As a result, the Court enters judgment for the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, and declares that the Attorney General’s December 7, 2021 to the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District and his December 9, 2021 letter to the School District’s Superintendent exceeded the Attorney General’s authority, and had no legal force or effect.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
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Interestingly, Eric Schmitt (r) has yet to say anything about this on social media.
The story of how China got a foothold in Missouri in 2013 says a lot about Republicans’ overwhelming fealty to big business at the time — and about the importance of campaign contribution limits in politics. Missouri had no such limits in 2013 (the voters would impose them three years later), so when Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, needed lawmakers’ help, they were able to generously grease the skids.
Smithfield that year was trying to sell itself to a Chinese conglomerate, which would turn over control of 42,000 acres of Missouri hog-farm operations and other land to the Hong Kong-based company. But Missouri law prohibited foreign ownership of agricultural land here. So lawmakers — most of whom had received thousands or in some cases tens of thousands of dollars from Smithfield — quickly rewrote the law to allow foreign ownership of up to 1% of Missouri’s agricultural land. When then-Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, vetoed the legislation, the legislature overrode him.
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Most of the lawmakers who approved the Smithfield deal are no longer in office, but at least two remain prominent: Current Gov. Mike Parson and U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, both Republicans, were both state senators at the time. Both had accepted campaign contributions from Smithfield, and both voted to help China gain control over Missouri land.
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Eric Schmitt (r) [2022 file photo].
Yesterday:
Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt
Yesterday @RepMarkAlford & I sent a letter to the Treasury & CFIUS decrying their decision to leave @AirWhiteman off their recent ruling that would prevent China from buying nearby land.
Whiteman is crucial to our national defense and should be protected.
[….] 10:28 AM · May 25, 2023
Gaslighter.
Some of the responses:
Hypocrisy at its finest.
You sold Missouri to China
The Missouri Senate blew their chance to pass the bill sent over from the House that would have limited foreign ownership of land. Have you spoken with Missouri legislators about this?
The right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly.
You voted to sell Missouri farmland to China in 2013, when you were a Missouri Senator and then voted to override the Democratic governor’s veto.
There’s that.
Total hypocracy from the gop as usual.
Really Eric @SenEricSchmitt What, you’re having a case of Sometimers? You’ve forgotten you pushed Missouri “Right To Farm” so, China could buy Smithfield Foods, 40,000 acres and now own 242,000 acres of Missouri farmland?
#GOPAreLiars
Oh wow Senator. Why did you vote to let foreign companies buy Missouri land? And, why did you overrule Governor Nixons veto?? You think Missourians will forget about that but we won’t.
Right now, any enemy of the US could hang around outside of Whiteman and alert their handlers as to the comings and goings of B2 bombers.
Think about that for just a second:
B-2 bomber.
And any ten-year-old with access to the internets:
You voted to allow the sale of our farmland as a Senator in 2013, AND voted to override the veto!
The why did allow China to purchase the land in the first place? Their was a law to stop that. Republicans got rid of it. Now you cry foul?
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Your chickens home to roost as it were. Selling land to China was fine 10 years ago?
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Manhood keeps going strong – and the libs are having crying fits. Order your copy here
[….] 5:57 PM · May 21, 2023
A few of the reviews:
A seditous conspiratorial chicken
Josh Hawley should be writing about his current life as a seditious conspirator supporting the insurrection against our electoral form of governmentand, making him an enemy of our democracy, not attempting to preach about manhood, a topic that is beyond his scope of understanding. Watch Josh Hawley running through the corridors of our Capital after encouraging the seditious terrorists who violently attacked that building on Jan. 6, 2021, brutally assaulting police officers and causing the death of one, breaking doors and windows, defecating in halls and offices, carrying a Confederate flag through the hallowed chambers, and explicitly threatening and seeking to hang elected politicians including Mike Pence, our Vice President at the time, and setting up a gallows outside the building. Mr. Hawley has no business preaching about manhood, religious ideology or societal values.
47 people found this helpful
Will put hair on your chest hair.
This book is so manly that it’s hard to hold. Strangely, as soon as I opened it up I started craving nuts. Beer nuts, truck nuts, lug nuts, every kind of nut except zagnuts. Almost right away it got easier to suppress my emotions and grunt. I starting eating Manwiches for lunch every day. By chapter 4 my chest hair was growing it’s own hair. Speaking of hair, reading this book made me throw out all my hair care products and start buying aftershave at Rite-Aid. Thanks to Josh Hawley’s ghostwriter I’ve been freed from trying to out-groom my ex-wife’s lawyer. He’s such a Beta. Why is he always at our house?
Anyway by the middle of this amazing book you’ll be so manly you won’t even need to read the rest, you’ll just KNOW what it says. Of course I’m no quitter so I’m still planning on finishing it. In my new larger truck I Flex-taped a small gunrack to my dash bored to hold this book open while I drive. I’m on my way to pick up a George Foreman grill right now. Read this boo
59 people found this helpful
Hubris
Once again Josh Hawley demonstrates his unique brand of narcissism, opportunism, hubris, sexism, misogyny…and the list goes on. He is playing a substantial role in the continuing demise of the Republican Party, and of so-called Christian values.
48 people found this helpful
Life Altering Book!
A tree died for this. Sad.
24 people found this helpful
Ran Good
Josh don’t know much about manhood, but he sure run good.
46 people found this helpful
Come on
I don’t need a manhood lecture from the guy who’s claim to game is running like a girl from a crowd he just tried to act tough for
58 people found this helpful
Oh the Irony!
Next Up: Hawley’s book on quantum mechanics. This book is best compared to the adage “we teach what we need to learn most.”
265 people found this helpful
Bestseller?
Methinks some wealthy fan must have bought a few truckloads to elevate Master Hawley’s book to such a status. Not his Dad, who gets nary a mention.
279 people found this helpful
Awful
Don’t waste your money. Pure drivel.
314 people found this helpful
Masculinity Sponge
Somehow – and I can’t explain it scientifically – this book actually removed testosterone from me, gradually at first, but then at an increased pace until I had to stop reading it. Once I put the book down – all my testosterone seemed to return, though, so all is well, I suppose.
My warning – be careful – the man and his words seem to come from a place where there is an actual masculinity black hole, a vortex, if you will, so lacking in manliness that will remove it from the reader.
339 people found this helpful
Don’t bother
Even for a free copy it is overpriced. Hawley’s sanctimonious instruction of how to beat the most dangerous risk to America—not being manly like him—would be sad if it wasn’t so comical. Arrogance isn’t pretty at the best of times; some times it’s just cringe-worthy.
345 people found this helpful
This book gave me Diphtheria
Can we rate negative stats? Two minutes in not only did I feel like less of a man by being told by a lesser man what being a man is all about. It made want to look up caves on Zillow where I could store my wife-beating clubs and deer carcuses as I return to the neanderthalic hunter-gatherer the Running Man thinks we should be. He should have to pay us for the medical bills we, as males, are going to have to pay when women universally kick our asses for listening to this fake misogynistic coward tell us who we should be.
Zero stars, would burn in the fire pit again.
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And, some of the responses to Josh Hawley’s (r) post:
No thanks. I only read 5 star books like the bible!
Run away and get a copy right now.
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Sales are that bad eh?
We’re not crying, we’re just rolling our eyes.
Decided to explore a career in fiction, Josh?
I’m not having a crying fit. I’m just not going to buy it.
No one is giving it any thought. We don’t care.
Hard pass, Scooter…
That’s your marketing ploy?..buy my book to make the libs mad?
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Easy marks.
Nobody wants this. Nobody. Not even as a gag gift, although I thought about it.
Oh please. Nobody cares.
Actually, liberals don’t care
Fleecing the Trumpers once again
Lots of laughter and ridicule. No crying that I can see.
It will be in the bargain bin next week.
Why do I care if you are selling books?
Josh Hawley’s primary motivation is to upset liberals.
Trump will get his Helsinki knee pads out and take care of it for you!
LOLOLOL
Wow.. Must suck to be ostracized by your handlers huh? Anyways, you’re no “Rocky” so please sit down and stop embarrassing Missouri.
Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Keep trying.
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Trying to show Senator @HawleyMO you’re a manly man sir? All I know neither of my Senate representatives have done a single thing today to improve their constituents lives.
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
“America needs strong men, it needs good men, and we should call men to be those things.”
[….] 10:16 AM · May 19, 2023
Say what?
Some of the responses to Josh Hawley (r):
Less moisturizer, hairspray and makeup might make your message slightly more credible.
How bout starting with making truth telling great again
Sen. Karen McRunnypants has needs.
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Run Josh Run
Well, it sure as hell not you.
It’s hard to think of anything weaker than a man declaring that he’s strong, writing a book about how strong he is, and then tweeting incessantly about how strong he is and begging other men to join him.
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What a clown you are
Still hawking that book, huh traitor. “We need manly men. Strong men. Big men. Not wienies like me.”
How would you know??
Honestly, bro, the fixation is concerning. Why don’t you just do your fucking job which is represent your constituents. Shut up about masculinity and all this other bullshit. You’re a public servant get to f’ing Work it’s on our dime
JFC. WTF is wrong with you? You’re a member of Congress act like it. Stop the childish bullshit.
Yeah but you’re a pussy, and everyone is making fun of you.
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
The modern left attacks the Bible at the same time it attacks traditional masculinity. But we need the Bible to understand what manhood and womanhood mean. It remains the bedrock of our culture, and the West
[….] 7:49 PM · May 14, 2023
Which bible? Which “tradition”?
Some of the responses:
I am a Christian, but I do not need the Bible to define me. Your version of manhood or womanhood do not work for me. I am American, and while I choose Christianity for me, everyone here is free to choose their own faith, or no faith. I believe in separation of church and state.
You cannot force people other religions to live by the Bible. Heck most Republicans do not live by the Bible. Take Donald Trump for example. He’s a hypocrite. You are a hypocrite. Your behavior during the insurrection was not something Jesus would do. Somehow I don’t see him rising his fist.
bruh, u super creepy
The left attacks you not respecting separation of church and state, Mr. “Manhood.” That includes Christians.
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No the left doesn’t. It’s just nobody wants your interpretation of the Bible, masculinity or femininity Josh. Because it’s clear you struggle with defining what all 3 of those terms mean.
the founding fathers warned us about theocratic tyranny……….. it’s here
The modern right is actually centuries old and walks around with a pitchfork in one handle, a Bible in the other by the glow of candlelight.
Nope, we just attack hypocrites whoo use the Bible as a weapon.
Josh .. what’s with you and the masculinity thing? You seem a bit obsessed with the whole thing.
a book of mostly fiction is not a guideline for any country
Here’s a tip about the Bible, Josh, all those parts that begin “the wicked do this” are not instructions.
No, it’s not.
Please stop with the faux Christian charade
You can do whatever your Bible tells you to do, but you have no right to dictate how the rest of us live in a free country.
No, the left aren’t a bunch of fake Christians using the Bible as a prop.
No it doesn’t
Says who?
separation of church and state. We don’t all care about your bible.
Meanwhile, polls show many Americans are becoming more Secular.
So a book written when people didn’t know why the sun came up in the east and set in the west is where he goes for wisdom.
Keep the Bible out of our government, #TraitorJosh.
Notice how some modern ‘Christians’ like Josh Hawley continually spew hateful rhetoric about migrants who are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. And they bear false witness on #FoxLies against fellow Americans that they don’t like.
As a Christian, I can confirm that Jesus NEVER said ANYTHING about masculinity involving men being “aggressive” OR discussing guns……
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Stop shoving your beliefs down our throats!
You must love Handmaid’s Tale for inspiration.
Name someone who attacks the bible. The “modern left” is of the mindset “Live and let live.”
Oh, and also, “MYOFB.” [….]
Clown.
Oh so you’re a fake Christian also. Resign.
I don’t attack the Bible, Josh. I will, however, correct people like you who misuse the Bible as a weapon instead of Good News to God’s people.
Senator Hawley apparently never studied Greek, Roman, Jewish, African, Latin American, Native American, Muslim or ANY other culture, NONE of which are Christian civilizations and ALL of which are the MULTIPLE and diverse “bedrocks” of Western Civilization.
Toxic masculinity is a huge problem in this country.
This is a product of Yale law school. So sad.
If you want laws based on your Bible, tax the church you insurrectionist coward.
Please be quiet. You have nothing, and I do mean NOTHING consequential to say. Just stop.
I’m a Christian woman who rejects the White nationalist interpretation of the Bible. Don’t question or define my womanhood.
Therapy can help with your insecurities.
Your assertion in respect to masculinity, femininity, and the bible is a matter of subjectivity. You have a belief that is only valid for yourself and others of a like minded disposition. You are perfectly free to speak your belief but NOT free to impose it.
MAGA Republicans think that wrapping themselves in Bible quotes will give them a pass. The problem is that quoting the Bible doesn’t coverup the anti-Christian actions that they are trying to force on the majority of Americans.
No one is attacking the Bible, running man, we just want your face out of our laws
When the politician starts preaching they’re lying.
The Bible and the Constitution are not the same thing, Bro.
Keep your religion to yourself. It is NOT the bedrock of everyone’s belief system.
Pander, pander, pander.
The “modern left” has no problem with the Bible. However, it is not, and can not be, the controller document for our government. That is what The Constitution is for. Our country was founded on the principle of separating church and state.
The Bible may be your “bedrock,” Josh. But not everyone views the Bible this way & forcing people to accept & live life based on Christian beliefs is wrong & unconstitutional. It denies the existence and importance of other religions in our country.
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You’ve got to be kidding! All of you. Sorry to tell you this but corruption permeates our government at all levels. Democrat, Republican, all skunks – the bassist opportunist to say they’re out to help us but enrich themselves. Go into elected public service and you will come out a millionaire just like Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
Jared got a $2,000.000.000.00 investment deal. Curiously, you didn’t mention that. So much for non-partisan, eh?
If “corruption permeates our government at all levels” as you assert, the subject of the post alone definitely indicates we’re not kidding.
All of who?
Millionaires? Name them. All of them.
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