Culture Wars

[Caribbean Hen]

I bet if you slip Paul a couple of your joints, he would tell you what he really thought of Swift….

Bunny swift bad

Sure he would, square!

I embrace squareness

I’m known as the “Anti-Cool” and it’s great

[kalm]

Sure he would, square!

I embrace squareness

I’m known as the “Anti-Cool” and it’s great

Ok.

[UNI88]

Popular country star fires back after Trump White House outrage: ‘I love this country’

“This shows you how divisive a narrative can be when shoved down our throats through social media,” Bryan wrote. “This song is about how much I love this country and everyone in it more than anything. When you hear the rest of the song, you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle. Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are. We need to find our way back.”

Bryan continued: “I served this country, I love this country and the song itself is about all of us coming out of this divided space. I wasn’t speaking as a politician or some greater-than-thou a--hole, just a 29-year-old man who is just as confused as everyone else... Left wing or right wing we’re all one bird and American.”

[BDKJMU]

Go Fund Me for Big Balls.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1952869965742158269

Pro crime DC judge. Now just imagine if the races were reversed.

[Caribbean Hen]

Go Fund Me for Big Balls.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1952869965742158269

Pro crime DC judge. Now just imagine if the races were reversed.

I’ll judge Briggs

She is an idiot

[BDKJMU]

[BDKJMU]

[kalm]

This surprising how?

And yay on getting rid of diversity! Cherry on top, eh BDK?

[UNI88]

Takeaways from AP’s investigation on anti-science legislation in US statehouses

An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride in most states. More than two dozen have already been enacted or adopted.

They are part of an organized, politically savvy effort that normalizes ideas fueled by the anti-vaccine movement that Kennedy has helped lead for years. His Make America Healthy Again agenda masks anti-science ideas while promoting goals such as making food more natural or reducing chemicals.
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The AP focused on three public health policies – vaccines, fluoridation of water and milk safety – which have clear medical evidence behind them yet are targets of the MAHA movement.

AP searched 2025 legislation in all 50 states, analyzing bills collected by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the bill-tracking software Plural for whether they undermined science-based protections for human health.

Anti-vaccine bills – at least 350 of them – were by far the most common. Most haven’t passed, but at least two dozen anti-vaccine laws have been adopted in 11 states this year.

AP found more than 70 bills that would roll back access to fluoride or make it easier to sell or consume raw milk products. Many fluoride bills would prohibit its addition to water systems outright.

A lot of what rfk jr is preaching is a good idea (making food more natural, reducing chemicals, exercise, etc.) but what Ganny said about hegesth in the trump 0.2 MAQAA thread applies to rfk jr (and trump and the MAQA movement in general) - "these are just kernels of actual truth, and their mode of operation is to take a truth and then stretch it way past that to also include their own biases."

[UNI88]

Trump Finds New Way to Rewrite History at National Parks

Exhibitions and signs about slavery are being removed from multiple national parks as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to strip away negative aspects of U.S. history, according to a report.

The crackdown has led to a famed Civil War–era photo showing the horrifically scarred back of a formerly enslaved Black man being ordered to be taken from one national park, officials told The Washington Post.

Remember when MAQA complained about renaming military bases and taking down statutes? Didn't pete "whiskeyleaks" hegseth state that "we don't believe in erasing American history – we honor it"?

Now the hypocrites are doing it themselves.

[BDKJMU]

Commie libs prevented from seizing family farm to turn it into affordable housing.

A fight to save a 175-year-old family farm in New Jersey is now over after the township and farm’s owners reached an agreement to avoid turning half of its land into affordable housing developments.

"It's been our legacy for 175 years, and all my ancestors struggled to get through all kinds of crises – the house burning down, the Great Depression. So to be able to keep it as we always wanted to do is just such a blessing," said Henry family farm co-owner and manager Andy Henry, who joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" alongside his brother, Christopher.

Back in April, the Cranbury Township Committee announced an affordable housing plan that would have allowed local officials to seize the Henry family farm through eminent domain.

This stems from a New Jersey mandate ordering that towns in the state build more than 146,000 affordable housing units by 2035, according to NJ.com.

"The Township of Cranbury was required to build a certain number of affordable housing units over the next 10 years. As part of that plan, they selected the Henry farm to build about 130 affordable housing units. We opposed it, filed a lawsuit, and believed it wasn't a suitable site for proper use with the power of eminent domain," Timothy Duggan, the family's attorney, also explained on Sunday…

….Before the conflict officially ended, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins advocated for stopping the seizure of the land, posting on X Thursday that good news was coming and writing, "Andy, you are a warrior!"

Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy released a statement on Thursday noting the family farm is "an essential and deeply cherished part of our state’s story" and thanked the Trump administration for helping protect the farm.

"From the very beginning, I have opposed efforts to seize the Henry Family Farm through eminent domain. While every town in New Jersey must do its part to resolve our state’s affordable housing crisis, these efforts must be pursued thoughtfully and collaboratively," Murphy wrote. "New Jersey will always protect its farmers and farmland. And we will always live up to our reputation as the Garden State."…

https://www.foxnews.com/media/henry-fam ... gal-battle

Eminent domain should be limited to roads, schools, and hospitals. Should never be used for commercial or residential..

[kalm]

Commie libs prevented from seizing family farm to turn it into affordable housing.

A fight to save a 175-year-old family farm in New Jersey is now over after the township and farm’s owners reached an agreement to avoid turning half of its land into affordable housing developments.

"It's been our legacy for 175 years, and all my ancestors struggled to get through all kinds of crises – the house burning down, the Great Depression. So to be able to keep it as we always wanted to do is just such a blessing," said Henry family farm co-owner and manager Andy Henry, who joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" alongside his brother, Christopher.

Back in April, the Cranbury Township Committee announced an affordable housing plan that would have allowed local officials to seize the Henry family farm through eminent domain.

This stems from a New Jersey mandate ordering that towns in the state build more than 146,000 affordable housing units by 2035, according to NJ.com.

"The Township of Cranbury was required to build a certain number of affordable housing units over the next 10 years. As part of that plan, they selected the Henry farm to build about 130 affordable housing units. We opposed it, filed a lawsuit, and believed it wasn't a suitable site for proper use with the power of eminent domain," Timothy Duggan, the family's attorney, also explained on Sunday…

….Before the conflict officially ended, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins advocated for stopping the seizure of the land, posting on X Thursday that good news was coming and writing, "Andy, you are a warrior!"

Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy released a statement on Thursday noting the family farm is "an essential and deeply cherished part of our state’s story" and thanked the Trump administration for helping protect the farm.

"From the very beginning, I have opposed efforts to seize the Henry Family Farm through eminent domain. While every town in New Jersey must do its part to resolve our state’s affordable housing crisis, these efforts must be pursued thoughtfully and collaboratively," Murphy wrote. "New Jersey will always protect its farmers and farmland. And we will always live up to our reputation as the Garden State."…

https://www.foxnews.com/media/henry-fam ... gal-battle

Eminent domain should be limited to roads, schools, and hospitals. Should never be used for commercial or residential..

Hard to argue with this.

[kalm]

This seems to be accurate at first blush.

[Caribbean Hen]

Commie libs prevented from seizing family farm to turn it into affordable housing.


https://www.foxnews.com/media/henry-fam ... gal-battle

Eminent domain should be limited to roads, schools, and hospitals. Should never be used for commercial or residential..

Hard to argue with this.

If you keep making sense like this, we’ll have to drop your Fidel nickname…

[BDKJMU]

3 years ago today. Greatest advancement for free speech in our lifetimes.

[kalm]

Il Duce ha sempre ragione.

But these movements can self destruct or create openings to attack the flaws from.

Revolutionary movements are dynamic. And their dynamic often moves in the direction of increased radicalism, ever-greater extremism, and even all-out fanaticism.
This phenomenon has been long understood and well observed. Back in 1790, in Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke anticipated the extraordinary radicalization that would mark the French Revolution over the next few years. In 1938, in The Anatomy of Revolution, an American historian, Crane Brinton, looked back at four great revolutions and compared their course to the progress of a fever that intensifies before breaking—if it eventually breaks at all.
The American Revolution of 1776, with its moderate revolutionaries and its outcome in a stable constitutional government, is famously an exception that highlights this rule. Today’s Trumpist revolution, in many ways, has so much more in common with the authoritarian revolutions of the last century than with the liberal revolution of 1776. Its spirit is not the “let facts be submitted to a candid world” of the Declaration of Independence. It is far closer to the “Il Duce ha sempre ragione” of Italian fascism: “The Leader is always right.”
The Trumpist revolution seems to be following the common and destructive path of its authoritarian predecessors. The radicalization is as obvious as it is striking.
From the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Defense, from the way in which it’s carrying out mass deportation at home to the way it’s committing murder on the high seas, the Trump administration has already gone beyond what even the alarmists among us forecast. But it turns out that hasn’t been enough.
So we learned last night that the administration has launched a mass purge of the mass deporters, with at least five ICE field office directors being removed. As the immigration policy expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick put it, “BIG changes happening – ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino’s ‘Midway Blitz’ style.”
Meanwhile, the Defense Department seems to have abandoned any pretense of the need for congressional authorization for the use of military force or the acceptance of legal constraints on the use of that force. And the Pentagon is now moving an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, presumably to escalate a war with Venezuela that Congress has never debated and that the administration has never sought to justify.
Over at DOJ, the gloves have come off. The political prosecutions of those against whom Donald Trump seeks retribution are only the tip of an iceberg that is bearing down on the rule of law. It is the abandonment of the pretense that governing is anything more than an expression of Trump’s personal will.
The Republican party is engaged in its own authoritarian accelerationism. Old-fashioned norms like confining redistricting to once a decade, or swearing in a newly elected representative, are simply ignored.
And in the broader Trumpist movement, the mask has increasingly come off. The racism and misogyny, the Christian nationalism and great replacement theory, are out there in broad daylight. One has to really want not to see what’s happening in order to deny what’s taking place all around us.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwar ... medium=ios

[UNI88]

Il Duce ha sempre ragione.

But these movements can self destruct or create openings to attack the flaws from.

Revolutionary movements are dynamic. And their dynamic often moves in the direction of increased radicalism, ever-greater extremism, and even all-out fanaticism.
This phenomenon has been long understood and well observed. Back in 1790, in Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke anticipated the extraordinary radicalization that would mark the French Revolution over the next few years. In 1938, in The Anatomy of Revolution, an American historian, Crane Brinton, looked back at four great revolutions and compared their course to the progress of a fever that intensifies before breaking—if it eventually breaks at all.
The American Revolution of 1776, with its moderate revolutionaries and its outcome in a stable constitutional government, is famously an exception that highlights this rule. Today’s Trumpist revolution, in many ways, has so much more in common with the authoritarian revolutions of the last century than with the liberal revolution of 1776. Its spirit is not the “let facts be submitted to a candid world” of the Declaration of Independence. It is far closer to the “Il Duce ha sempre ragione” of Italian fascism: “The Leader is always right.”
The Trumpist revolution seems to be following the common and destructive path of its authoritarian predecessors. The radicalization is as obvious as it is striking.
From the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Defense, from the way in which it’s carrying out mass deportation at home to the way it’s committing murder on the high seas, the Trump administration has already gone beyond what even the alarmists among us forecast. But it turns out that hasn’t been enough.
So we learned last night that the administration has launched a mass purge of the mass deporters, with at least five ICE field office directors being removed. As the immigration policy expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick put it, “BIG changes happening – ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino’s ‘Midway Blitz’ style.”
Meanwhile, the Defense Department seems to have abandoned any pretense of the need for congressional authorization for the use of military force or the acceptance of legal constraints on the use of that force. And the Pentagon is now moving an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, presumably to escalate a war with Venezuela that Congress has never debated and that the administration has never sought to justify.
Over at DOJ, the gloves have come off. The political prosecutions of those against whom Donald Trump seeks retribution are only the tip of an iceberg that is bearing down on the rule of law. It is the abandonment of the pretense that governing is anything more than an expression of Trump’s personal will.
The Republican party is engaged in its own authoritarian accelerationism. Old-fashioned norms like confining redistricting to once a decade, or swearing in a newly elected representative, are simply ignored.
And in the broader Trumpist movement, the mask has increasingly come off. The racism and misogyny, the Christian nationalism and great replacement theory, are out there in broad daylight. One has to really want not to see what’s happening in order to deny what’s taking place all around us.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwar ... medium=ios

You spelled Il Douche wrong.

[kalm]

Il Duce ha sempre ragione.

But these movements can self destruct or create openings to attack the flaws from.



https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwar ... medium=ios

You spelled Il Douche wrong.

Mea culpa.

[UNI88]

A Faithful Response to the Wounded Knee Decision

On September 26, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the twenty soldiers who participated in the 1890 massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee would retain the Medals of Honor awarded to them. He declared the decision final, stating, “Their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate.” Secretary Hegseth further stated that U.S. soldiers deserve these medals for their bravery and suggested that any contrary opinion would favor “political correctness” over “historical” accuracy.

The facts of the tragedy at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29, 1890, are clear. On that day, U.S. Army soldiers massacred nearly 300 Lakota women, children, and unarmed men. This was not a battle. To recognize these acts as honorable is to distort history itself. Our response, therefore, is rooted not in “political correctness” but in prayerful correctness, grounded in truth, conscience, and compassion.
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We acknowledge the government’s intent to honor its troops, yet we reject any narrative that erases the humanity of the victims or glorifies acts of violence.

The Congressional Report: Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act cites a “General Miles Letter to Mary Miles, Jan. 15, 1891,” in which Miles described Wounded Knee as “the most abominable, criminal military blunder and a horrible massacre of women and children.”

In light of our lived experience with the Lakota people—and the hope they embody—we firmly reject Secretary Hegseth’s decision. We share the sentiment of the South Dakota Senate, which in 2024 overwhelmingly approved Senate Resolution 701, stating that:

Allowing honor to the Seventh Cavalry for acts in the Wounded Knee Massacre dishonors the Medal of Honor and is an implication of hostility and genocide against the Great Sioux Nation and the persons who were killed by the United States at Wounded Knee.

As Catholics and followers of Jesus Christ, we proclaim the infinite dignity of every human life. We confess that humanity—capable of love and goodness—is also capable of terrible evil. Our Lord Jesus, out of love for the world, accepted the cross rather than take up arms against others. His crucifixion and resurrection reveal that true victory comes not through killing but through suffering love, mercy, and truth.

Those who died at Wounded Knee are sacred. Jesus stands with all who suffer and die at the hands of others. Those who committed the violence are also sacred; for this reason, Jesus offers them mercy and healing. Yet the acts themselves were grave evils and cannot be honored.

If we deny our part in history, we deepen the harm. We cannot lie about the past without perpetuating injustice and moral blindness. Even if we are not personally responsible for Wounded Knee, we bear a moral responsibility to remember and speak the truth.

Let us, through the power and love of Jesus, choose—like him—to stand with our brothers and sisters, walking together in truth, remembering the victims, and seeking reconciliation rooted in honesty and compassion. Only by facing the cross of our shared history can we move toward resurrection—a future of just and lasting peace for all God’s beloved children.

[Caribbean Hen]

This surprising how?

And yay on getting rid of diversity! Cherry on top, eh BDK?

If you would ever step off your lily white farm and stop clutching your pearly white pearls, you would see diversity is everywhere…. Almost

[UNI88]

Multiple sex scandals are rocking the MAGA faith community

Pastor and former Trump adviser Robert Morris pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges at the start of October.

Less than a week later, Covenant Eyes — an anti-porn company that’s been praised by House Speaker Mike Johnson and is responsible for an app that lets users allow their friends or family to monitor their internet habits — released a statement saying it was “devastated” by news reports that its founder’s 38-year-old stepson, Thomas Wideman, had been arrested and charged with child sex abuse this summer.
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In another story just last week, authorities in Indiana arrested a 24-year-old member of the state’s National Guard, Jonathan Peternel, on charges of keeping child sexual abuse material on his phone ... the story threatens to draw scrutiny toward the Life Church in Indiana, where Peternel’s father, Nathan Peternel, is the lead pastor and co-hosts a podcast with Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith called “Jesus, Sex & Politics.”
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Beckwith, as it turns out, is also dealing with separate claims stemming from a grand jury investigation into whether staffers in his office shared a deepfake porn video.
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Anglican Church in North America members’ accusations that an archbishop sexually harassed a woman in his office and that a bishop allowed men with histories of violence or sexual misconduct to worship or hold staff or leadership positions in his diocese.

We found those perverts that the qanon conspiracy theorists were looking for, they're part of MAQA.

[Caribbean Hen]

Multiple sex scandals are rocking the MAGA faith community

Pastor and former Trump adviser Robert Morris pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges at the start of October.

Less than a week later, Covenant Eyes — an anti-porn company that’s been praised by House Speaker Mike Johnson and is responsible for an app that lets users allow their friends or family to monitor their internet habits — released a statement saying it was “devastated” by news reports that its founder’s 38-year-old stepson, Thomas Wideman, had been arrested and charged with child sex abuse this summer.
...
In another story just last week, authorities in Indiana arrested a 24-year-old member of the state’s National Guard, Jonathan Peternel, on charges of keeping child sexual abuse material on his phone ... the story threatens to draw scrutiny toward the Life Church in Indiana, where Peternel’s father, Nathan Peternel, is the lead pastor and co-hosts a podcast with Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith called “Jesus, Sex & Politics.”
...
Beckwith, as it turns out, is also dealing with separate claims stemming from a grand jury investigation into whether staffers in his office shared a deepfake porn video.
...
Anglican Church in North America members’ accusations that an archbishop sexually harassed a woman in his office and that a bishop allowed men with histories of violence or sexual misconduct to worship or hold staff or leadership positions in his diocese.

We found those perverts that the qanon conspiracy theorists were looking for, they're part of MAQA.

If any of this is true, I’m glad they’re being arrested!

[kalm]

This surprising how?

And yay on getting rid of diversity! Cherry on top, eh BDK?

If you would ever step off your lily white farm and stop clutching your pearly white pearls, you would see diversity is everywhere…. Almost

Your imaginary stories of the evil, poor, drug addled, and subversive kalm are truly adorable.

I live in a college town, managed a golf course that served an AF base, have friends and family in the LGBTQ community.

I’m not the one who cares about skin color or upbringing, or sexual and gender identity. I only care that you’re a kind person.

But MAGA cares. A whole fucking bunch about these things.

[Caribbean Hen]

If you would ever step off your lily white farm and stop clutching your pearly white pearls, you would see diversity is everywhere…. Almost

Your imaginary stories of the evil, poor, drug addled, and subversive kalm are truly adorable.

I live in a college town, managed a golf course that served an AF base, have friends and family in the LGBTQ community.

I’m not the one who cares about skin color or upbringing, or sexual and gender identity. I only care that you’re a kind person.

But MAGA cares. A whole fucking bunch about these things.

If you were a really kind person, you would not support those little fat kids eating potato chips and chocolate chip cookies for breakfast… you’re just promoting diabetes and expensive healthcare cost for these families down the road by your “ kindness”

[kalm]

Your imaginary stories of the evil, poor, drug addled, and subversive kalm are truly adorable.

I live in a college town, managed a golf course that served an AF base, have friends and family in the LGBTQ community.

I’m not the one who cares about skin color or upbringing, or sexual and gender identity. I only care that you’re a kind person.

But MAGA cares. A whole fucking bunch about these things.

If you were a really kind person, you would not support those little fat kids eating potato chips and chocolate chip cookies for breakfast… you’re just promoting diabetes and expensive healthcare cost for these families down the road by your “ kindness”

And your fantasies about who I am and what I support continue.

If you’d like to discuss nutrition, fire away. I’d be more than happy to educate you on what children and adults need and should stay away from. Or what it’s like being poor without readily available healthy foods (my wife growing up), or how wealthy kids also eat unhealthy. Or the little things we do as a family to help the needy as that Jesus feller told us to do.

A majority of the world is malnourished thanks to poverty and neo-colonialism while a wealthy minority is eating itself to death.

Btw, “fat kids” is unkind.