A Confederacy of Rapists

Tuesday morning I woke at 1:30 and could NOT get back to sleep. This meant that I got fuckall done yesterday. It was pretty warm and sunny out. Good day for a walk—nope, too tired. I finished my last book (Monster by A. Lee Martinez—good, funny escapism) and could have started my new find (Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson) but nope. I couldn’t gin up the brain focus. What did I do? Doomscroll.

Yes, I’m fully aware—THIS WAS A BAD IDEA. DUH! What did I learn? Humans—we’re just leaky, barely sentient stacks of smelly, highly unpredictable thoughts, emotions, and actions.

Except for those of us who are highly predictable. Take Mango Mussolini (PLEASE!) and his similarly narcissistic, fellow Russian asset, the drug addled pet piggy bank, Leon (possibly his replacement for MIA J.D. Couchfuck?). For what it’s worth, the entire Fascist Party is ridiculously predictable.

Fer instance, all their accusations about gays, drag queens, and trans people sexually abusing women and children? Yeah, meet some of their NOT-a-drag-queen child rapists:

Pedo Zachary Radcliff? There are a minimum of 10 victims, aged 12 to 17. He's a Michigan youth pastor and a MAGAt.

Marvin Scales was a youth pastor in Waxahachie, Texas where he raped and impregnated a 14 year old child. This was NOT his only victim either—just, as far as is known, the only one he knocked up. 

• An aside: it’s Texas—the victim carried her rapist’s parting "gift" to term. She was 14!

Elsewhere in Texas, Luke Cunningham, youth pastor at Lakeside Baptist Church in Lubbock, was canned after being informed by news media that he’d sexually assaulted children while pedo pastor at the big box Turning Point Community Church.

Turning Point’s head pastor even gave Luke a positive job performance recommendation. Was the executive preacher unaware of pedo Luke's crimes? Was his job rec part of a scheme to get rid of Luke before lawsuits and bad press poured in? Did the exec, like Gym Jordan, know what was going on and not give a good goddamn?

Not a youth pastor but a child raping pastor nonetheless—James Edwin Cowan of Little River Community Church in Arkansas won’t be out of the clink to rape more kids anytime soon.

For a real horror show, google youth pastors abusing children and you’ll see page after page of these “christian” predators. These aren’t adherents of JC's teachings. Nope, they’re pedo-christofascists. My advice to parents—do NOT take your kids to church. IF you simply must, do NOT leave them alone with pastors of any stripe EVER!

The most dangerous people are the ones who claim they’re doing god’s work.

This brings me back to Mango Musellini’s picks.

Matt Gaetz for Attorney General? Pete Hegseth defense secretary? And Trump is the Rapist in Chief. Color me utterly unsurprised.

“There is a moral dimension; you are talking about horrific behavior. Behavior that many people who voted for Donald Trump would never tolerate in their community in their family, in any context whatsoever. And yet Donald Trump...one appointment after another, it's almost as if this is now a requirement on your resume you have to have a sexual abuse or allegation against you.”
~ Charlie Sykes

You can bet they’re all guilty of every accusation they’ve hurled at others. AND, I really hate to admit this BUT, I agree with Marge Greene on something (which is unlikely to ever happen again)

“For my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate, If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see,” Taylor Greene wrote on X
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She concluded with what appeared to be a veiled threat: “I’ll make sure we do.” (source) 

DO IT, MADGE!