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Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S., announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians.

Trump said the task force would be directed to “immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI — terrible — and other agencies.”

And Trump took a victory lap over his administration’s early efforts to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion programs and to limit transgender participation in women’s sports.

“I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but we got rid of woke over the last two weeks,” he said. “Woke is gone-zo.”

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[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but we got rid of woke over the last two weeks,” he said. “Woke is gone-zo.”

Damn, only took him 2 weeks, what a champ.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's easy to eliminate something when it's just made up.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Yet this still won't stop chuds from crying about this same made up bullshit

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Being sent to a concentration camp full of Reddit atheists would honestly be the worst punishment ever. Just waterboard me at that point.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me screaming 'SHOOT ME' to the guard after being subjected to the fifth 'Akshually' in the last 45 minutes

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tossing little pieces of gravel through the fence at the side of the guard's helmet and going "psst! Hey!" while he tries his best to ignore my requests to be magdumped like pain

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

They'll never make you talk, because you know that if you talk, you'll just go back to the Reddit atheists.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S

Meanwhile, in mar a lago

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only false idolatry if it's a literal golden calf, this is just sparkling materialism

Nag that's Mammon worship

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The writers of reality need to take a writing class, they're way too ham-fisted with the symbolism.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the golden pager given to trump, the wood stand is a chopped down olive tree. you can`t get more ham-fisted than that

[–] Taster_Of_Treats@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was Lebanese Oak

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

apparently it's a Lebanese Olive tree, the grain seems to match an olive tree grain

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC the biblical anti-christ is supposed to be an obvious conman and you'd think this would be a sign of that. However, there's a bigger question: considering that evangelicals (and mormons, and probably others) have syncretized moloch worship, is this even "anti-christian" behavior any more?

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think we can assume that what the Americans perceive as Christianity is Heretic in nature. I can see eventually per say, the American Catholic Church naturally evolved into a shittier version of the Orthodox-like Church where you don't even get the prestigious ornate churches, but you are going to get Mega churches that canonize all the US presidents and confederates as saints

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Can't think of a more deserving group of suppression than christians.

stalin-approval

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Natopedia calls it "persecution" but anyone having to sit through 18+ years of indoctrination knows that christians deserve 1000x worse then anything the USSR did. How many billions have christians killed and maimed in the past 100 years? Where's the black book of christiandom?

Not to mention the SA, physical abuse, emotional trauma, etc etc, they do daily in their temples. I got off "easy" just getting my brain damaged.

Side note, did anyone else going to church hear stories about "persecution" in China/the USSR that you later learned was just 100% made up. I heard stories about

CW torturepeople being blinded and deafened (loss of hearing) with hot pokers

that I later learned was literally just US-gov backed misinfo from the cold war repeated through so many layers it was believed. IIRC that specific one started as a "this COULD happened to you if the Reds win!" and ended up as a "personal story" of a "communism survivor".

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Lmao separation of church from what again?

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

The Republican Party makes a lot more sense if you think of it as a strategic alliance between rich businessmen and religious fundamentalists. They can give each other what they want without stepping on each other's toes.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He said woke is done. Will the right wingers stop talking about it?

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

They'll just think of a new name for the same shit they always complain about

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

They will complain either about DEI holdouts or the return of it

What's up with everyone not naming their inquisition "Inquisition" anymore?