Arrogance and Stupidity on Display

[sunny225]

And 'they' certainly like labels too. This is how they minimize people, how "othering" begins.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/reporter-lashes-out-after-blowback-for-claiming-christian-nationalists-believe-rights-come-from-god/ar-BB1iMSm2?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0d78d30d35bb4236c7d8e4f1826d748b&ei=11

Reporter lashes out after blowback for claiming 'Christian nationalists' believe rights 'come from God'

A reporter for Politico is firing back at critics she says are taking her out of context based on comments she made bashing "Christian nationalists."

Appearing on MSNBC Thursday, Politico national investigative correspondent Heidi Przybyla was asked about the "infusion of Christian nationalism" in Congress following the appointment of Louisiana representative and devout Christian Mike Johnson as House Speaker.

"The base of the Republican Party has shifted, right?" Przybyla began. "Remember when Trump ran in 2016, a lot of the mainline evangelicals wanted nothing to do with the divorced, you know, real estate mogul who had cheated on his wife with a porn star and all of that. So what happened was he was surrounded by this more extremist element. They're gonna hear words like ‘Christian nationalism,' like the ‘New Apostolic reformation.’ These are groups that you should get very, very schooled on because they have a lot of power in Trump's circle."

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"The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists - not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different - is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress, they don't come from the Supreme Court. They come from God. The problem with that is that they are determining- man, men, it is men are determining what God is telling them," Przybyla said.

"And in the past, that so-called natural law is, you know, it's a pillar of Catholicism, for instance. It has been used for good in social justice campaigns, Martin Luther King evoked it in talking about civil rights, but now you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it's going much further than that," she continued, before citing the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF.

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*Notice how it is ok for MLK to say that rights come from God not man but not ok for white Christians to say or think that.

[Ozarks Tom]

Hey, it's MSNBC, what would you expect? It's sort of funny, she mistakes "rights" with "permissions". Governments can't grant rights, only permissions. God grants rights, and according to our Constitution the government protects them.

In a socialist/fascist state, where a journalist would have to ask permission to make a statement, I bet she'd be a bit less enthusiastic about government omnipotence.

[themotherhen]

MSLSD on full display.

[sunny225]

Feb 25, 2024 2:35:55 GMT themotherhen said:

MSLSD on full display.

I don't get the acronym. What does it stand for?

[farmrbrown]

Feb 25, 2024 16:34:09 GMT sunny225 said:

Feb 25, 2024 2:35:55 GMT themotherhen said:

MSLSD on full display.

I don't get the acronym. What does it stand for?

MSLSD
I think it means, "They be TRIPPIN!"
LOL


www.barrypopik.com/new_york_city/entry/mslsd_msnbc_nickname

The MSNBC network (headquartered in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan) has often been cited for liberal bias. The nickname “MSLSD” (MSNBC + LSD, a psychedelic drug) is used by those who believe the network is “crazy liberal.”

“MSLSD” has been in use since at least September 2005 and might have been coined (or at least popularized) by conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin. Other MSNBC nicknames include “PMSNBC” (since at least July 1996), “MSNBS” (since October 1996), “MessNBC” (since March 2002), “MSDNC” (since May 2005), “MSLGBT” (since October 2008), “Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap” (since January 2010) “MSNBC-Pravda” (since August 2010), “More Stupid Nonsense Bull Crap” (since April 2013) and “MSNPC” (since June 2013).

[sunny225]

Feb 25, 2024 16:50:34 GMT farmrbrown said:

Feb 25, 2024 16:34:09 GMT sunny225 said:

I don't get the acronym. What does it stand for?

MSLSD
I think it means, "They be TRIPPIN!"
LOL


www.barrypopik.com/new_york_city/entry/mslsd_msnbc_nickname

The MSNBC network (headquartered in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan) has often been cited for liberal bias. The nickname “MSLSD” (MSNBC + LSD, a psychedelic drug) is used by those who believe the network is “crazy liberal.”

“MSLSD” has been in use since at least September 2005 and might have been coined (or at least popularized) by conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin. Other MSNBC nicknames include “PMSNBC” (since at least July 1996), “MSNBS” (since October 1996), “MessNBC” (since March 2002), “MSDNC” (since May 2005), “MSLGBT” (since October 2008), “Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap” (since January 2010) “MSNBC-Pravda” (since August 2010), “More Stupid Nonsense Bull Crap” (since April 2013) and “MSNPC” (since June 2013).

   

[Txsteader]

Ha! Is she the one who talked about 'othering the others'? Everybody's getting a good laugh from that one but apparently it made complete sense to her. <googly eyes>

[farmrbrown]

[Emphasis mine, showing that it WAS said - more than once.]

www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

(List of grievances)

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Oh and BTW, when they used the word  "among", it means there were additional God given rights besides those 3, too many to list.

[Ozarks Tom]

The really said thing about that gal's statement? People who watch MSNBC just sit there nodding their heads.

[Txsteader]

Yup. Apparently they understand babble-ese. It's like they're a bunch of aliens and that's why they're able to understand the absurd nonsense.

[joebill]

Under her way of thinking, the Nazis had every right in the world to select a certain class of people and exterminate them....the government being the ultimate authority in that nation, and if the Jews had been good citizens they should have meekly submitted to it's will.

And, by the way, if governmental authority is not to be questioned nor denied, why all of the uproar and protests when the Republicans are in charge?.......Joe