Some fucking MAGA clown decided it would be cool to martyr herself and paint a giant ass target on her back, and I am willing to oblige and start throwing darts at her:
As a conservative woman living in Texas, I often feel like I’m living a dual reality. I’m a mom and a writer, but that’s not all. I go to church, laugh with friends and wave at my neighbors while we are walking our dogs.
At dinner, my kids and I discuss the Beatitudes, the Bill of Rights and the best and worst things that happened that day (we call them highs and lows). I love to cook, hate to clean and probably need to have a better morning routine. My life is similar to millions of other women in America.
But online, in the legacy news media and in my increasingly ugly inbox, I live in a different world. In that world, I’m portrayed − and viewed − through a singular lens: my conservative beliefs. As such, I am easy to hate, mock and scorn.
She’s a writer for USA Today, and I checked her twitter account to see what kind of wankery she is up to, and her last post was promoting a piece in the Atlantic called “I Can’t Keep Doing This. Please Open the Schools.” Yes, reopen the schools and kill lots of people because it is giving Nancy Russell a sad.
No one is picking on you because you identify as a conservative. We’re picking on you because you are supporting ghoulish and awful things. So go fuck yourself and I hope people keep being mean to you until you change.
Baud
Um…
A Ghost to Most
Christian supremacists are professional victims. The bigger the cross, the bigger the victim, or grifter.
Baud
Just want to take the opportunity to pat ourselves on the back for making it this far.
Mezz
FUCKING PREACH PREACH PREACH JOHN COLE
That significant numbers of people can no longer feel shame or embarrassment at their behavior and actions has to stop. Shame them, mock them and ridicule them in every proper environment.
What was it they like to say? “Fuck Your Feelings”
Baud
Yeah, the legacy media really hates her.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
We’re Not The Worst! We’re Not The Worst!
‘Murka, FUCK YEAH!
OTOH, give us time.
Gin & Tonic
@A Ghost to Most: So fucking hard to get that last nail in.
matt
I mean yeah, your politics are hostile to us and our (American) values and we see you and we’re ready to take it out of your hide.
Deal with it.
zhena gogolia
The comments on the article are good!
Jay
@A Ghost to Most:
Given the tariffs on Canada, she should climb down off the cross. ‘Merica is going to need the wood to either build something, repair something or to make toilet paper.
Baud
She must feel so alone.
NotMax
Peeked at a few minutes of Dolt 47, flanked by Kid Rock, taking (softball) questions today in the Oval Office.
Will spare y’all linkage to the logorrhea. Thing I noticed is he isn’t wearing a wedding ring. A new development?
Bupalos
All I’d say to her is “name one of your conservative positions” and go from there.
Actual conservatism has impeccable democratic legitimacy. Friendliness to post-truth right-wing populism via fake conservative martyrdom invites and needs violence. Like that’s literally its language and how it needs to be met.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Huh, I wonder if when they discussed the Bill of Rights that they talked about how all of the rights of those being disappeared were violated because they criticized Israel’s conduct in Palestine? //
gratuitous
I’d guess the only beatitude that gets any discussion is the one in the eleventh verse of Matthew chapter 5, as she deludes herself into thinking that she’s being persecuted because of her “christian” beliefs. I would point out to her that Jesus pronounced the blessing when people “falsely” accuse you of all manner of evil. Expressing disagreement isn’t persecution.
And don’t get me started on Luke’s version of the beatitudes, which are even tougher on folks who claim to be all righteous and biblical while practicing very little of what the scripture says.
SpaceUnit
I guess I’m out of the loop. Did Texas close all the schools because of measles?
DFH
Ladies lunch and ladies lie.
“Look, you guys continue to ask a question about a third term, and then he answers honestly and candidly with a smile and then everyone here melts down about his answer,” Leavitt said.
That asshole has never answered honestly, and neither do his press secretaries, but they do smile.
I mean, wtf is that USA Today writer miffed about? If you vote for the Nazi, you’re the bad guy.
trollhattan
@Baud:
Seriously.
“Ah-m a risktaker extraordinaire! I done brang my Jesus to Texas, y’all. You won’t believe what happened next.”
Baud
@DFH:
It’s a game. Media and Trump love talking about outrageous hypotheticals rather than report on what’s actually happening.
Elizabelle
Not to be outdone by USA Today, the FTF Vichy NY Times put up another “come on down, conservative mommies” article today.
This an op ed by some Midland, Texas woman who also writes for Christian publications. Hey, her kids are vaccinated, but she understands how her neighbors are so skeptical.
NY Times did a feature on Megyn Kelly yesterday, and puffed some magazine aimed at hot tradwives — don’t call them feminists, but here are some sex tips for wives — a few weeks ago.
The AG Sulzberger NY Times does live in fantasy land.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
That’s what Biden should have done.
suzanne
oh get bent
Bupalos
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I mean, she just suggested that MILLIONS of moms of people aged, what, 2-17 “discuss the beatitudes” at dinner.
I mean, she’s lying or lying to herself to think that even her own massively privileged white ass does that absent payment. But NO. The response to this one should simply be “where the fuck do you think these people are discussing “the beatitudes” with toddlers are and how many of them do you think are Trumpists?”
The only way you can even come up with that line is if you make your money fairly directly from supporting Trumpism. This is like 200 people nationwide.
scav
Her “life is similar to millions of other women in America.” which is why she enthusiastically voted in favor of endangering women and mothers everywhere with inadequate healthcare in order to demonstrate to them their ordained status in life which is fucking less important than any random embryo, all hail the beatitudes! And then they, the ungrateful hussies, fail to proclaim how perfect she is. How dare the world make a moral judgement about her.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@suzanne:
Like these people actually give one fuck about the Bill of Rights or what Jesus said. They constantly make excuses for Trump and everyone else with an R after their name when they act in direct contradiction to those things
Baud
@SpaceUnit:
Yeah, school closings were a heck of a long time ago.
Elizabelle
Will spare you the Vichy Times article and link. Here are some popular reader comments on it.
And, for goddamn shame, NY Times:
The top reader comment:
and
and
Recall: this asinine op ed made it past the Vichy Times editors. Writer wants a commission to look at what went wrong with Covid response. Why am I seeing a gallows going up, meant for Dr. Fauci?
oldgold
At dinner she discusses with her kids the Beatitudes! It is too damn bad that she apparently has no understanding as to their meaning. Or, on the off chance she does, she has turned her back on their instructional value for living life. The philosophy the Beatitudes espouse is the antithesis of MAGA.
Bupalos
This columnist literally wrote this hoping that liberal blogs would do this. We’ll cooperate, because it works for us too.
This is the internet economy.
Steve LaBonne
I go to church every Sunday myself, lady. Your values are pretty much the negation of the ones my church stands for.
Princess
Yet another white lady who wants to make appalling choices but not have any accountability for their consequences.
Baud
@Bupalos:
This isn’t wrong.
As the lady says, she is easy to hate, mock and scorn.
SpaceUnit
@Baud:
Wow. I’ve been boycotting national media since the election. Only watching the local news and I didn’t see anything about the schools shutting down everywhere. I thought it was only one or two school districts.
Maybe it’s time I climbed out of the cave.
WTFGhost
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): or how mercy is granted the merciful, how the children of God are the peacemakers, not the shit stirrers, or how the meek, not the blindly arrogant will inherit the land, or… oh, hell with it, if it was my mom, I’d have a dozen e-mail accounts just to harass her and see if I can get her to stop talking about the effing bill of rights and beatitudes, all to keep her from being a hideously vacuous individual to be lecturing others on morality.
“Geez, mom, you wrote that article six months ago, there are only 8 beatitudes and 10 amendments in the bill of rights, GIVE IT A REST ALREADY!”
Oh, wait, she never actually held a dinnertime conversation with her kids about the beatitudes or the bill of rights, but expects us to believe she does… every night!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Bupalos:
That’s a good point. Her whole premise plainly bullshit
Elizabelle
The other thing: have you noticed how you cannot avoid Trump’s ugly orange face, which is plastered all over the FTF NY Times, and WaPost, and probably CNN and other sites too. Multiple photos every day. They did not do that with Biden; he was roundly ignored.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Whether the Vichy Times realizes it or not, he has branded them.
Yet: virtually no magazines with Trump on the cover of them in supermarkets. It is my sense they do not sell well to the general public.
Baud
When you’re done with oppressed Texas conservativea and want to hear what a real woman has to say….
https://bsky.app/profile/hillaryclinton.bsky.social
Elizabelle
@Bupalos: Thank you.
And I amplified the moronic mom from Midland, TX too.
You are right.
Spanky
@SpaceUnit: Yeah, I didn’t know what she was talking about, so I Googled “Texas schools closed” and this is what I got:
Tl;dr Because Texas.
Harrison Wesley
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Not true! They can also get disappeared for having tattoos.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Spanky:
And yet there’s idiots that want to move there
Spanky
As seen in Life of Brian.
NotMax
FYi, straight outta Detroit.
Fact check: Donald Trump’s tariff claims on auto industry.
Cliff’s Notes eummary: he lies.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Got to go out, but I was surprised and delighted to get an email from Hillary’s Onward Together and it was not a plea for money (although link provided at very end.) A lot of you probably got it too, but in event not:
Gawd, I wish that Kamala had done something like this first. All I get in her name are constant pleas for money. That seems like malpractice, when she had so many enthusiastic and committed supporters.
No. I want something like Hillary was perceptive enough to put out.
Learn up, Democrats.
ETA: Also, I loved her shoutout to Heather Cox Richardson.
NotMax
#43
eummary = summary
SpaceUnit
@Spanky:
Yeah, I should probably be surprised to learn Texas has schools in the first place.
TF79
@Spanky: The school closure thing is from way back in July 2020 (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/please-open-schools/614605/)
WTFGhost
@Elizabelle: to be morbid, a lot of Republicans won’t believe they’re part of something awful, until someone like Fauci is brutally murdered and too many people cheer. They literally can’t see how lost they are, having supported Trump’s coup and Covid-19 deaths, and theft and distribution of some of our most closely guarded secrets, and the massive amounts of fraud, because something something and Joe Biden is old.
They don’t care about the ordinary, faceless people who die, because they’re not really *people*, right? God didn’t tell them to love one another as God loved them, right? Oh, sure, *Jesus*, he said something different, but that’s not the same as *God* saying you had to treat people well, that you had to desire justice, no, that’s just… you know, *Jesustalk*, not the important stuff like murdering sluts who have abortions (but not the fine holy women who need help after an accidental pregnancy), persecuting trans folks for existing, and bashing gay people in God’s name, because Jesus said he came to bring, not peace, but a sword, and he definitely wanted it used to bash gays, amiright?
Sorry. That they wrap this crap in the cloak of Christianity reminds me of the bit about whitewashed sepulchers.
Elizabelle
@SpaceUnit: Silly rabbit.
Texas has schools so it can have an outsize influence on the textbooks — particularly history — our
guinea pigsstudents are taught.Manyakitty
@Baud: damn right.
Elizabelle
@WTFGhost: Jesus should come back and kick them all in the ass.
Beatitude spouting mommies too.
SpaceUnit
@Elizabelle:
Right. Thank God for California.
RaflW
She can absolutely get fucked for her bullshit potshot at ‘legacy media.’ Just today, FTFNYT has decided that Trump potentially pushing 20-25% inflation on millions of imported items is “a gamble”, but when Biden spent four years trying (and largely succeeding) in maneuvering through an economy that could have crashed and, yes, did have inflation, it was his endless Waterloo.
The legacy media has bent over backwards for a solid decade now trying to ‘understand’ conservatives with their endless Cletus safaris to small town diners. I hope that woman’s dirty kitchen gives her just a touch of dysentery. Weekly.
Baud
@SpaceUnit:
That would be the state motto if the state weren’t full of godless liberals.
tobie
@Elizabelle: I can’t begin to count the ways I misd Hillary but I’d start with her vast storehouse of knowledge, her quickness on her feet, her humor, her directness, her commitment. She’s brilliant and caring and we treated her like shit.
Susan of Texas
“Why do you hate me for my hatred? It’s not fair! It’s not right!”
ewrunning
Cory Booker now giving a marathon speech on Senate floor. Turn on C-SPAN 2
Jay
@Elizabelle:
If Jesus came back they would crucify him again in less than one Scarramuchi or Liz Truss.
Gretchen
@Elizabelle: an estimated 250,000 kids lost a parent or primary caregiver to covid, including kids who brought covid home from school and gave it to parents. These people never mention this statistic.
Elizabelle
@Gretchen: They died with Covid. Other causes. Remember that shit?
Kay used to remind that these people want to be respected and liked.
Well, no. Not if they cannot think and see more clearly than that. They are bad people
And now the Vichy NY Times and USA Today are trying to sanewash them, too.
Elizabelle
@tobie: We appreciated her. Others treated her like shit, because she reminded them of their shortcomings.
Scout211
@ewrunning: Also on YouTube:
Cory Booker live
Gretchen
@Elizabelle: A cheap cloth mask did actually help protect people when nothing else was available. Studies showed they stopped about 60% of virus particles, while surgical were about 80% and N95 were, yes, 95% effective. People like this have a black/white view of the world – either they work or don’t. Some work better than others is way too hard for them to understand.
Same with the lab leak theory. They said early on that was as likely as natural origin, and later got more information and decided it was pretty unlikely. But people like this are stuck on, he said lab leak on February 3 and then in March said it wasn’t! He’s a liar!
Baud
@Gretchen:
I agree. People are very binary in their thinking.
Elizabelle
@Scout211: Have him on now. Good for Cory Booker.
@Gretchen: They are trying to set an alternate history. But we were there too.
JML
Anyone who claims to discuss the Bill of Rights at the dinner table on a nightly basis is a lying sack of crap. That’s just fantasy land self-buffing to try and insulate herself against criticism by including something that she thinks no one can argue against. But it’s a damn lie, and anything this fucking liar says should be ignored.
rikyrah
Trump administration pulls $42M from Michigan schools for pre-approved projects, state says
The federal education department has pulled back more than $40 million in funds that were destined for more than two dozen Michigan school districts, the state said.
The money, totaling nearly $42 million, would have been spent on the heating, ventilation, windows, air conditioning, and other building infrastructure for 27 different districts, the news release sent Monday said.
School districts applying for the money had already received approval from the U.S. Education Department.
full story here: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/trump-administration-pulls-40m-from-michigan-schools-pre-approved-projects
rikyrah
this this this
brendancalling
@Spanky: I have very little sympathy for Texas, writ large. I do have sympathy for the good people who live there and who, for one reason or another can’t or won’t leave.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Apparently he never has. This article is from 2017.
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/people/donald-trump-wedding-ring-499753
Redshift
@JML:
It’s quite plausible, as long as you assume that the discussion of the Bill of Rights never stays from freedom of religion…
David T Rickard
A MAGA “Christian” who knows what the Beatitudes are, never mind reads and discusses them? That’s some first-class bullshit there.
The Audacity of Krope
@David T Rickard: Makes perfect sense if you define “meek” as those who willingly submit to the rule of monsters.
mrmoshpotato
So Nicole Russell hates her children, and definitely shouldn’t have voted for a fascist shitstain who said a worldwide pandemic was a hoax.
A Ghost to Most
@David T Rickard: meh. She’s like almost every christian I know. Selfish, self-righteous, and spiteful.
Captain C
If she’s discussing the beatitudes it’s probably along the lines of “ how to do the opposite and still be a good Christian.”
The Audacity of Krope
All you need is to identify as a Christian and accept “Christ’s salvation ” The teaching of Jesus don’t factor into being a good Christian or not.
ETA: Those teachings might even be a barrier.
Soprano2
I wonder if the author ever saw how conservatives online mocked Karine Jean-Pierre. I saw some of it, and I guarantee you it was grosser than anything the left is saying about Leavitt.
Soprano2
@Elizabelle: Yes,I have noticed that. They act like his every utterance should be on the front page. They never did that with Biden.
Captain C
@The Audacity of Krope: I call those types ‘get out of hell free card christians.’
ed. for autocorrect flummery
zhena gogolia
@Soprano2: I get the hard copy paper. I throw out everything but arts and food. AND EVEN IN THOSE SECTIONS YOU HAVE TO READ ABOUT FUCKHEAD
Biden was never once in the Arts or Food section. Not once.
Harrison Wesley
A good Christian knows how to put the “beat” in “beatitudes.”
prostratedragon
@DFH:
Just a sunny greeting from good ol’ Ed.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: his photo could have been on a milk carton. Have you seen this President?
Sulzberger and Joe Kahn are hot garbage.
Eric S.
I had to look up what a Beatitude is?
– life long atheist
David Collier-Brown
@gratuitous:
Oh, I see. She’s a _Pharisee_.
EzraRulz
“Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.”
Come on up to the house..
Tom Waits
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFrqclcm8pU
NutmegAgain
@zhena gogolia: It’s that orange grease. Like an oil stain it just gets smeared all over. Yuck.
BellyCat
@Elizabelle: Go HRC!
Where art tho her Mr. President husband, Kamala, and the man who joked into reality this disaster, Barack Obama? (All of whom I love and also voted for). Crickets…
NotMax
@Harrison Wesley
Before I give you your bag lunches, fruits of my loins, let’s hear the sandwich song.
My baloney has a first name
It’s J-e-s-u-s
My baloney has a second name
It’s S-a-v-e-s
//
Splitting Image
@David T Rickard:
The real reason the three dollar bill Christians hated The Life of Brian was that it hits you with with Beatitudes the minute you walk in to the picture.
They hate that stuff.
The movie also makes fun of Pontius Pilate, the real hero of the Gospels. There is a lot to admire about a guy who rose to power through his connections, antagonized religious minorities for shits and giggles, executed anybody he felt like, and then washed his hands of the matter and said he took no responsibility for anything.
Tom Q
@zhena gogolia: I still get the print edition delivered — wouldn’t if I wasn’t life-bound to the puzzle.
Like you, I stick to the arts section (conveniently, where the puzzle is found), plus I look for the obits, to see if I missed anyone important dying. Don’t even set eyes on the front page, anymore.
Joey Maloney
@EzraRulz: I like the Sarah Jarosz cover better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAqQh6B73xk
Feckless
Content of her character.
But for your oppression she would be writing for a Real newspaper!
Rugosa
@suzanne: I read most of that – I can’t seem to get all the way through these vomits of self-righteousness. I’m willing to bet that the “discussions” are mostly her lecturing her bored kids.