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Santa Cruz filmmaker Dan Partland documents the rise of Christian nationalism in the era of Trump

“God & Country,” a new movie from Santa Cruz filmmaker Dan Partland, is an examination of the rise of Christian nationalism, a poorly understood, largely American phenomenon that has threatened to consume evangelical Christianity, the Republican Party, and even democracy itself in the United States.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQKmR6a9fw

This Christian Nationalism stuff is so dumb. Brain rot like the above movie skip right over the inconvenient statistics to show fanatics saying fanatical things. Surprise! There are fanatics saying fanatical things in almost every interest group.

Here are the statistics: The person most likely to be a Christian Nationalist in America today is a Black Woman over the age of 65. The idea is also steadily dying out in America as seen by the steady decline with youth.

None of this should come as even slightly surprising for anyone paying even moderate attention to history. A hundred years ago the Christian Nationalist KKK was a powerful force pounding burning crosses into people's front yards while the US President was showing Birth of a Nation in the White House. Today religion is dying out, and most of the high profile racist episodes end up being hoaxes.

 

[fishonjazz]

Tucker Carlson Says Trip to Russian Grocery Store Has ‘Radicalized’ Him Against US Leaders: ‘Legitimately Angry’

Carlson's U.S. crew guessed a week's worth of food would cost the equivalent of $400 in Moscow – it was a hundred bucks The post Tucker Carlson Says Trip to Russian Grocery Store Has ‘Radicalized’ Him Against US Leaders: ‘Legitimately Angry’ appeared first on TheWrap.

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Tucker Carlson says he went “from amused to legitimately angry” at U.S. political leaders during a recent trip to a Moscow grocery store, where the independent conservative journalist and his crew guessed that a cart full of food would cost about the equivalent of $400 in American dollars – and it came in around a hundred bucks.
“So we were guessing what this would cost,” Carlson said as he puts his items on the belt. “Everybody [in the crew] is from the United States … and we didn’t pay any attention to cost, we just put in the cart what we would actually eat over a week. We all [guessed] around $400 bucks. It was $104 U.S. here. And that’s when you start to realize that ideology doesn’t matter as much as you thought.”

Tucker loves communism confirmed. Also did he do a quick check to see the wages of the russian people compared to US? Also, is tucker struggling to afford groceries? Also lol at anyone believing tucker or his crew goes grocery shopping.

from the comments section:
USA per-capita GDP is $72,250
Russia is $12,500
That is SIX times difference, yet Russians pay one-fourth as much for equivalent groceries. Therefore, it is STILL relatively much better (50% again) to be a U.S. citizen buying groceries in the US than a Russian citizen buying groceries in Russia.

When you travel to a place where their currency has fallen against the dollar, yes everything is cheap. My girl and I each had steak dinners in Argentina with 3 bottles of wine 2 appetizers for $20. It wasn't because the country was thriving it was because the dollar was strong against their currency. Must be Tuckers first time traveling outside the country.

Yeah I don’t understand his point. He doesn’t understand economies of scale or wartime supply and demand? Or is he a socialist who thinks we should subsidize food prices far more than we do so that our prices are just as cheap as Russia’s?

 

[fishonjazz]

Tucker be like "hey guys, I just discovered something amazing that no one else knows about! Stuff is cheaper in poorer countries! Americans simply need to make way less money and have much worse lifestyles and then stuff will cost less!"

****ing dumbass.

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[silesian]

Ok, I will assume everything you said is fact. Trump returns the proof he had in his possession and mar a lago doesn't get raided. That was easy

I'm perplexed by the MAGA term "raid"

Executing a search warrant is not a raid.

 

[silesian]

Tucker be like "hey guys, I just discovered something amazing that no one else knows about! Stuff is cheaper in poorer countries! Americans simply need to make way less money and have much worse lifestyles and then stuff will cost less!"

****ing dumbass.

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I was in Moscow in the 1990s just before Moscow's 500 year celebration. In the parts of the city that were going to be "on display" they renovated the facades of buildings. We had some ex-KGB security/ interpreters and had freedom to walk around. The buidings behind the facade were crumbling.

Tucker is being given a tour of the best of Moscow, all dressed up.

The sad part is that Tucker knows it is a facade and that a country build on socialism has poor with decrepit infrastructure. He is choosing to lie about it and pointing a lens onto the parts of Moscow that have been maintained (yes, the every subway station is amazing, I've ridden on it many times). I'm unsure if he is on Vlad's payroll, there is kompromat, or is if is just a traitor. It is not going to end well for him.

Tucker/ Bannon/ Trump/ Miller/ MTG will go down as all time traitors to the USA. Move over Benedict Arnold and McCarthy. And the real villains are all the people who knew the truth and didn't have the balls to say a word, kissing Donnie's ring and cowering. Romney, Cheney and a few others with courage will be remembered well by history.

 

[silesian]

Tucker Carlson Says Trip to Russian Grocery Store Has ‘Radicalized’ Him Against US Leaders: ‘Legitimately Angry’

Carlson's U.S. crew guessed a week's worth of food would cost the equivalent of $400 in Moscow – it was a hundred bucks The post Tucker Carlson Says Trip to Russian Grocery Store Has ‘Radicalized’ Him Against US Leaders: ‘Legitimately Angry’ appeared first on TheWrap.

www.yahoo.com

Tucker Carlson says he went “from amused to legitimately angry” at U.S. political leaders during a recent trip to a Moscow grocery store, where the independent conservative journalist and his crew guessed that a cart full of food would cost about the equivalent of $400 in American dollars – and it came in around a hundred bucks.
“So we were guessing what this would cost,” Carlson said as he puts his items on the belt. “Everybody [in the crew] is from the United States … and we didn’t pay any attention to cost, we just put in the cart what we would actually eat over a week. We all [guessed] around $400 bucks. It was $104 U.S. here. And that’s when you start to realize that ideology doesn’t matter as much as you thought.”

Tucker loves communism confirmed. Also did he do a quick check to see the wages of the russian people compared to US? Also, is tucker struggling to afford groceries? Also lol at anyone believing tucker or his crew goes grocery shopping.

from the comments section:
USA per-capita GDP is $72,250
Russia is $12,500
That is SIX times difference, yet Russians pay one-fourth as much for equivalent groceries. Therefore, it is STILL relatively much better (50% again) to be a U.S. citizen buying groceries in the US than a Russian citizen buying groceries in Russia.

When you travel to a place where their currency has fallen against the dollar, yes everything is cheap. My girl and I each had steak dinners in Argentina with 3 bottles of wine 2 appetizers for $20. It wasn't because the country was thriving it was because the dollar was strong against their currency. Must be Tuckers first time traveling outside the country.

Yeah I don’t understand his point. He doesn’t understand economies of scale or wartime supply and demand? Or is he a socialist who thinks we should subsidize food prices far more than we do so that our prices are just as cheap as Russia’s?

Many Russian men drink themselves to death in their 50s. Avg life expectancy is mid-60s. Women for some reason seem to have more hope.

 

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I'm perplexed by the MAGA term "raid"

Executing a search warrant is not a raid.

If the time of search is not negotiated beforehand, and the location is occupied at the time the search warrant is served, then it is legally considered a raid. When right wing media, left wing media, republicans, democrats, independents, law enforcement, and lawyers call it a raid, they are using the term correctly.

 

[silesian]

If the time of search is not negotiated beforehand, and the location is occupied at the time the search warrant is served, then it is legally considered a raid. When right wing media, left wing media, republicans, democrats, independents, law enforcement, and lawyers call it a raid, they are using the term correctly.

Lawyers notes show that Trump was warned about the Mar A Lago action months ahead of time. So if you are arguing the technicality that the precise time was not established, I'll concede the technical point. But this legally technical definition is not how the use of the word is being used by the extremist right wing

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Lawyers notes show that Trump was warned about the Mar A Lago action months ahead of time. So if you are arguing the technicality that the precise time was not established, I'll concede the technical point. But this legally technical definition is not how the use of the word is being used by the extremist right wing

You are referring to this story where a lawyer mention that a raid was a possibility, and ABC News did use the word "raid".

Trump was warned that FBI could raid Mar-a-Lago months ahead of time, lawyer's notes show

Former President Trump was warned the FBI could raid Mar-a-Lago if he didn't comply with a DOJ subpoena, according to voice memos made by Trump attorney Evan Corcoran.

abcnews.go.com

It isn't some 'extremist right wing' mis-usage like you are trying to claim. People on all sides are calling it a raid because legally that is what it was.

 

[fishonjazz]

Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says

Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. The stunning news — less than a month before...

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Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.

The stunning news of Navalny’s death — less than a month before an election that will give Putin another six years in power — brought renewed criticism and outrage directed at the Kremlin leader who has cracked down on all opposition at home.

MAGA so jealous of russia being able to treat journalists this way.

 

[Sardines]

Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says

Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. The stunning news — less than a month before...

www.yahoo.com

Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.

The stunning news of Navalny’s death — less than a month before an election that will give Putin another six years in power — brought renewed criticism and outrage directed at the Kremlin leader who has cracked down on all opposition at home.

MAGA so jealous of russia being able to treat journalists this way.

Putin never called me a racist...

 

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View: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1756898795294523429

Again, as a country we just blow by day after day with insane racism like this. Why don’t we hold these folks to any standard?