This episode of “Blame It On Eve” has me enraged. I don’t know what to do about that. I’ve considered challenging one of these guys to cage match, but I’m not sure that’s a solution. How are these “men” superior to me? Is it based on height, weight, IQ? No? Just a dick? Inquiring mind here. I’m about to go look for a sword in my neighbor’s pond. Nah. My neighbor’s a blade smith. I’ll have him forge one for me ✨🗡️🛡️🔪💫
TACO Cheeto: A Nazi Russian Kiss Ass and American Traitor
It’s been known that Cheeto since the 1980’s has been in the back pockets of the KGB/GRU(https://bit.ly/4fIdQmj) and shamelessly received lots of money from Russian oligarchs through real estate transactions(https://bit.ly/4188w5B) A case of Russian Kompromat a term that was circulated in the 2017 media when Russiagate was prominent is all too obvious
In Anchorage Cheeto continued to show his Russian fealty and that he is the first American President to be an American traitor in which he takes another country’s needs over that of his own country(https://bit.ly/4mJbshd) Cheeto lost another bout as Putin continues killing innocent civilians, showing no sign of capitulation for a ceasefire and Cheeto continues to be the Benedict Arnold of the 21st century with no sanctions or demands In true style TACO Cheeto says he’ll give Putin 50d to come to a ceasefire
In essence Putin played Cheeto like a fiddle Russia is celebrating with wall to wall media coverage The EU and NATO better get ready to go it alone and adopt a massive aggressive approach against the Russian invasion because Cheeto might as well be a Russian citizen and resident of Moscow but he’s such an immoral abomination even the Russians wouldn’t take him
I'll paraphrase Dean Wormer from Animal House as he lectures some students continuously get into trouble, being a fat head video gamer, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
As more women succeed, gain influential positions, as women graduate from college in larger numbers than men, serve in positions once the bastion of men, as they gain equality in the workplace and society, men have to return to their caveman roots where roles were more defined and brute strength was the power of the time. Men are not looking to be smarter, more clever, more industrious, more compassionate, more curious, more informed, or more educated, they are looking to be led by a felon, held liable for sexual assault, fraud and defamation who brags about grabbing random women by the genitals, walking into teen dressing rooms unannounced, have a best friend child molester, .who cuts deals with a child sex trafficker. Not only that, but the man they worship also shows up at WWE and UCF brawls which makes him that much more a model of barbarism.
If maga men were honest, they would come to the conclusion that men have left them with the current situation they find themselves. The pre maga movement of Reagan, Bush ll and the terrible trump years sucked the lives out of men, literally and figuratively. From Reagan's govt is the problem, to his tax cuts for the wealthy, to GWB ll and his tax cuts for the wealthy, lies about Iraq and the deadly, needless war, to the economic crash of 2008, to trump botching covid response and the recession, to him bowing to mass murderers as he abandons democratic allies that lingered, men seem to relish in their captors constant beatings morally, ethically and financially. Maybe it's a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
trump might give these maga men the YMCA Macho Man aymbols these men need to validate themselves, but they are certainly not traits of decency, or with any forward concept of a brighter future for all. They want to be Superman but come across as trumpman. That is not something in which to aspire.
@Lisa - While I understand and support the gist of your article, as a person who studies Christian Nationalism and is writing a book on the subject, I think it is a mistake to refer to Christian Nationalists as “turbo-Christians” and all others as “non-Christian” Nationalists.
“Christian” Nationalism is a betrayal of the life and teachings of Jesus. It is as much an abomination to Christianity as it is to Constitutional Democracy.
“Turbo” implies that they are “turbocharged” Christians: the most Christian of Christians. And calling the rest of us “non-Christian” Nationalists implies that they are the only Christians, which I doubt you meant to imply. It’s an easy mistake to make this a whole denomination (evangelicalism) has gone “off the rails” following it.
If anything, I would call them “Nationalist Christians” or “Nationalist Christianists” and their belief system “Nationalist Christianism”.
To fully understand American evangelical Christianity's transformation into this current version of Christonationalism, I recommend the book Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobe DuMez.
Project 2025 is a white Christian Nationalist playbook, is it not? Trolling the Crusades & Inquisition cannot be consistent with a technologically advanced society unless its total erasure is the bottom line. That’d require utter hatred of the idea & actuality of the United States, would it not?
There is big money and power in Christian Nationalism for those who worship Mammon. All those young men will be needed for the Brown Shirt and SS shock troops to enforce this sickness on those of us who haven’t fallen in this mental basement. The 21st century has certainly demonstrated around the world that the lofty expectations of religion are subjugation and proscriptions against non believers.
Christian nationalists claim to speak in the name of Jesus, yet the Jesus of the gospels preached service, not domination. He stood up for women, welcomed them into his followers, and if we accept the Gospel of Mary [and why not?], advanced women into leadership in the early church. Christian nationalism is a cult of christianity that cherry picks verses to suit its agenda. What we're dealing with here is white male supremacy gussied up in religious garb. What they're doing to gullible young men is no different from any other thug gang.
When I first heard of this phenomenon a few years ago from my then 58 year old son, I was shocked. None of my news sources were talking about the grooming of young men - at least none I picked up on - but my son outlined what he was seeing on his sites. He said he especially noticed on gaming sites the vile treatment of women and girls.
The message to young men was that women and democrats were emasculating them, taking their job and job promotion opportunities, and getting all kinds of advantages to their detriment. Worse, Trump and Republicans were playing to them and gaining their political support. As traditional non-voters, my son saw danger for Biden’s chances in 24.
Misogyny is the point of Christian Nationalism, not a sidebar. In fact, a great deal of what we're seeing across platforms that cater to men, especially those young men whose applecarts have been to an not inconsiderable degree upended by the changing power dynamics between men and women. (Also black, brown and foreign born people, though because there are fewer of them than there are women, to a lesser degree.) This is not a trivial thing, psychologically, as well as materially. Remember, please, that throughout history, at least since the development of large scale agriculture that replaced the formerly balanced hunter (male)-gatherer (female) societies with pyramidal hierarchies, males have clustered at or near the top of the heap, with women and others relegated to positions in which they and the resources they brought were at the beck and call of those males. That, over the course of a single lifetime, all this should be crumbling away is a threat almost beyond. belief to men, and most especially less 'established' men, who now have to compete with their former serfs, who have proved unnervingly able and increasingly sassy. This also explains in large part the move toward authoritarian systems in general.
Ali Veshi's 5 minute interview with Bishop William Barber posted today: https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/trumps-enablers-must-own-their-choice
This episode of “Blame It On Eve” has me enraged. I don’t know what to do about that. I’ve considered challenging one of these guys to cage match, but I’m not sure that’s a solution. How are these “men” superior to me? Is it based on height, weight, IQ? No? Just a dick? Inquiring mind here. I’m about to go look for a sword in my neighbor’s pond. Nah. My neighbor’s a blade smith. I’ll have him forge one for me ✨🗡️🛡️🔪💫
It is not the Christian Nationalism. It is the Christian Taliban.
TACO Cheeto: A Nazi Russian Kiss Ass and American Traitor
It’s been known that Cheeto since the 1980’s has been in the back pockets of the KGB/GRU(https://bit.ly/4fIdQmj) and shamelessly received lots of money from Russian oligarchs through real estate transactions(https://bit.ly/4188w5B) A case of Russian Kompromat a term that was circulated in the 2017 media when Russiagate was prominent is all too obvious
In Anchorage Cheeto continued to show his Russian fealty and that he is the first American President to be an American traitor in which he takes another country’s needs over that of his own country(https://bit.ly/4mJbshd) Cheeto lost another bout as Putin continues killing innocent civilians, showing no sign of capitulation for a ceasefire and Cheeto continues to be the Benedict Arnold of the 21st century with no sanctions or demands In true style TACO Cheeto says he’ll give Putin 50d to come to a ceasefire
In essence Putin played Cheeto like a fiddle Russia is celebrating with wall to wall media coverage The EU and NATO better get ready to go it alone and adopt a massive aggressive approach against the Russian invasion because Cheeto might as well be a Russian citizen and resident of Moscow but he’s such an immoral abomination even the Russians wouldn’t take him
I'll paraphrase Dean Wormer from Animal House as he lectures some students continuously get into trouble, being a fat head video gamer, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
As more women succeed, gain influential positions, as women graduate from college in larger numbers than men, serve in positions once the bastion of men, as they gain equality in the workplace and society, men have to return to their caveman roots where roles were more defined and brute strength was the power of the time. Men are not looking to be smarter, more clever, more industrious, more compassionate, more curious, more informed, or more educated, they are looking to be led by a felon, held liable for sexual assault, fraud and defamation who brags about grabbing random women by the genitals, walking into teen dressing rooms unannounced, have a best friend child molester, .who cuts deals with a child sex trafficker. Not only that, but the man they worship also shows up at WWE and UCF brawls which makes him that much more a model of barbarism.
If maga men were honest, they would come to the conclusion that men have left them with the current situation they find themselves. The pre maga movement of Reagan, Bush ll and the terrible trump years sucked the lives out of men, literally and figuratively. From Reagan's govt is the problem, to his tax cuts for the wealthy, to GWB ll and his tax cuts for the wealthy, lies about Iraq and the deadly, needless war, to the economic crash of 2008, to trump botching covid response and the recession, to him bowing to mass murderers as he abandons democratic allies that lingered, men seem to relish in their captors constant beatings morally, ethically and financially. Maybe it's a case of Stockholm Syndrome.
trump might give these maga men the YMCA Macho Man aymbols these men need to validate themselves, but they are certainly not traits of decency, or with any forward concept of a brighter future for all. They want to be Superman but come across as trumpman. That is not something in which to aspire.
Bravo!! Well said!!
@Lisa - While I understand and support the gist of your article, as a person who studies Christian Nationalism and is writing a book on the subject, I think it is a mistake to refer to Christian Nationalists as “turbo-Christians” and all others as “non-Christian” Nationalists.
“Christian” Nationalism is a betrayal of the life and teachings of Jesus. It is as much an abomination to Christianity as it is to Constitutional Democracy.
“Turbo” implies that they are “turbocharged” Christians: the most Christian of Christians. And calling the rest of us “non-Christian” Nationalists implies that they are the only Christians, which I doubt you meant to imply. It’s an easy mistake to make this a whole denomination (evangelicalism) has gone “off the rails” following it.
If anything, I would call them “Nationalist Christians” or “Nationalist Christianists” and their belief system “Nationalist Christianism”.
Religion IS the original cult.
To fully understand American evangelical Christianity's transformation into this current version of Christonationalism, I recommend the book Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobe DuMez.
Project 2025 is a white Christian Nationalist playbook, is it not? Trolling the Crusades & Inquisition cannot be consistent with a technologically advanced society unless its total erasure is the bottom line. That’d require utter hatred of the idea & actuality of the United States, would it not?
There is big money and power in Christian Nationalism for those who worship Mammon. All those young men will be needed for the Brown Shirt and SS shock troops to enforce this sickness on those of us who haven’t fallen in this mental basement. The 21st century has certainly demonstrated around the world that the lofty expectations of religion are subjugation and proscriptions against non believers.
Christian nationalists claim to speak in the name of Jesus, yet the Jesus of the gospels preached service, not domination. He stood up for women, welcomed them into his followers, and if we accept the Gospel of Mary [and why not?], advanced women into leadership in the early church. Christian nationalism is a cult of christianity that cherry picks verses to suit its agenda. What we're dealing with here is white male supremacy gussied up in religious garb. What they're doing to gullible young men is no different from any other thug gang.
When I first heard of this phenomenon a few years ago from my then 58 year old son, I was shocked. None of my news sources were talking about the grooming of young men - at least none I picked up on - but my son outlined what he was seeing on his sites. He said he especially noticed on gaming sites the vile treatment of women and girls.
The message to young men was that women and democrats were emasculating them, taking their job and job promotion opportunities, and getting all kinds of advantages to their detriment. Worse, Trump and Republicans were playing to them and gaining their political support. As traditional non-voters, my son saw danger for Biden’s chances in 24.
Thank you for this additional clarity.
Misogyny is the point of Christian Nationalism, not a sidebar. In fact, a great deal of what we're seeing across platforms that cater to men, especially those young men whose applecarts have been to an not inconsiderable degree upended by the changing power dynamics between men and women. (Also black, brown and foreign born people, though because there are fewer of them than there are women, to a lesser degree.) This is not a trivial thing, psychologically, as well as materially. Remember, please, that throughout history, at least since the development of large scale agriculture that replaced the formerly balanced hunter (male)-gatherer (female) societies with pyramidal hierarchies, males have clustered at or near the top of the heap, with women and others relegated to positions in which they and the resources they brought were at the beck and call of those males. That, over the course of a single lifetime, all this should be crumbling away is a threat almost beyond. belief to men, and most especially less 'established' men, who now have to compete with their former serfs, who have proved unnervingly able and increasingly sassy. This also explains in large part the move toward authoritarian systems in general.
Christian Nationalism is a bastardization of Christianity. Thanks for your article, Lisa. Take care.