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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lamo at the thumbnail photo.

Inside the hornet's nest that is his brain:

Should I eat a baby on live television? I could advocate for cannibalism AND White Nationalism

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

If that image was posted in an AI community, I wouldn't even notice it was real.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, I shouldn’t have to burn this cross on an empty stomach

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Josh "Hawlin' Ass" Hawley should know a thing or two about xtian nationalism, since he was hightailing it out of there when some xtian nationalism came to the Capitol and he thought HIS ass might be on the line...

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair. He seems to be wearing makeup and the MAGA idiots might confuse that for something… objectionable.

They haven’t quite realized Da Orange Fuhrer wears make up too.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So he advocates having terrible ideas, being an awful person, and being a terrorist that is threatening the fabric of what it means to be American?

That is strangely on point for being a republican.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

God’s delegation of governance

Hawley is a US Senator and got his job by winning an election. The use of this phrase suggests something very dark to me. This phrase is rooted in the belief that all authority comes from God based on Romans 13 and that everyone should submit to government because God has granted those in governance authority. Resisting the government is essentially a sin and you will be judged for it.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. (Rom. 13:1–2).

Hawley, in a feet of mental gymnastics that doesn't quite parallel the gymnastic skills of a 6-year old doing her first cartwheel, turns it all around. He claims, “Should the authorities break the terms of God’s "delegation of governance" and assault the people’s freedoms, then the people had a right to defend themselves, even to rebel.” This is nearly exactly the opposite of what Paul said.

By his reasoning (and I use that term loosely), God gave Biden authority because "there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God." Yet he says the people should rebel - his word mind you - against Biden because he is somehow breaking the terms of that granted authority. Terms that are not specified anywhere in the Bible. Yet the Bible says that if the people resist the government, they will incur the judgement of God.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As if Josh has given it any more thought than, "I have been handed everything in my pathetic miserable life, why not demand more?"

[–] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

That chickenshit coward needs to be quiet

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Christian nationalism is incompatible with the first amendment. Hawley is a traitor.

[–] n0m4n@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nationalist by any other name?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, he's a full-on fucking nazi.

[–] n0m4n@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That IS the other name.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Erin Hawley AKA Serena Joy Hawley