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That is one terribly written story.

 

Come on, now. What did you expect that story to read like?

I’m sure it was written by someone who has friends that tell her/him they’re such a great writer.

Their Venn diagram is a single circle.

 

There are reasons why it ran on the entertainment page.

 

This guy seems fun.

A State Department official for several years has been publicly calling for the establishment of Christian nation-states, warning that white people face “elimination” and railing against Jews as well as Black Lives Matter and other social movements.

Fritz Berggren, a mid-ranking Foreign Service officer, openly uses his name and image as he espouses these and other controversial views, according to a review of his online postings. Current and former State Department officials noted the connection to POLITICO in recent days.

“Jesus Christ came to save the whole world from the Jews — the founders of the original Anti-Christ religion, they who are the seed of the Serpent, that brood of vipers,” states an Oct. 4 blog post signed “Fritz Berggren, PhD” and titled “Jews are Not God’s Chosen People. Judeo-Christian is Anti-Christ.”

“They murdered Jesus Christ,” the 5,300-word post continues, “How then can they be God’s chosen?”
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A major theme across Berggren’s online output is the necessity of creating explicitly Christian countries. He refers to Jesus Christ as a revolutionary icon, dubbing him “Rebel Leader One” in some posts. “The revival of Christian nation-states is required for the advancement of Truth,” he writes in one section of his Blood and Faith site. “There is no substitute for the public acclamation of Jesus Christ as the King and Lord of a nation.”

A significant chunk of Berggren’s commentary appears focused on the fate of white people, especially those of European and Christian descent.

In a Oct. 24 post titled “The Demon-God of Diversity,” he states: “The world gasps in horror with each new ‘endangered’ sub-species, but cheers the elimination of White culture from whole regions of the earth. This will not stop until White people stop it — we have been handmaidens to our own demise.”​

Interesting that he apparently didn’t start blogging until well after Trump was president.

U.S. diplomat openly calls for Christian nation-states, rails against Jews

 

A quite good interview with Adam Curtis, I thought:

Adam Curtis Wants You To Imagine Another World - In These Times

His thoughts that Jan. 6 was actually Trumpists being frustrated that Trump got nothing done and that next superpower may not come from China or the U.S. or Russia, but a place like Africa, were intriguing, too.

 

Serious Ben Sasse hits some softballs to the warning track.

Sasse marches to own tune as GOP implodes around him

 

Yeah, the oldest Boomers (born 1946) were 38 in 1984. The youngest (born 1964) would have been 20. Blame us for a lot of things (hello, disco!), but 1980s culture wasn't our fault.

 

We'll take credit for being the right age for The Big Chill but not Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

 

Not to keep the breakfast club threadjack going, but that movie was about mocking Boomers and their ideals. That is why the janitor was important. He was shown to have been the most popular student at the school at one point. HEwas a young boomer who didn’t buy into their idealism of his peers and said screw it.

 

So you're one of those people who think Dr. Fauci has "credibility issues"?

Funny how he never had "credibility issues" before Trump.

And no, saying he changed his mind when new evidence became available because that's how science works is not a weak argument.

 

"Hello CPAC!!! And now the moment you've all been waiting for......please welcome to the main rune stage the man who in 2016 received a smaller percentage of the vote than Mitt Romney or John Kerry did in their presidential campaigns....and who in 2020 faced an opponent he called the worst candidate of all time, yet still amassed a record 81 million votes against him......."