Bullhornymous

  In his big NBC interview shown yesterday, Dotard said it was a “big mistake” for DeathSantis to sign a 6 week abortion ban. Immediately, numerous pundits speculated that this could cause him to lose a lot of support in Iowa, the first-in-the-nation voters, where evangelicals dominate. And I thought - when will these guys learn? To use a formulation from an interview Jon Stewart did with one of them some months ago, the Talibangelicals don’t give a “flying fvck” about supposedly religious teaching - it’s all about power. To learn from the Brothers Karamazov again, if Jesus came back to earth tomorrow and criticized the Dotard, the Talibangelicals and the MAGA crowd would crucify him without a second thought. When you love and worship a rapist and pornstarfvcker, no other religious norms are going to stop you. ——————- To be very clear, this is true of ALL rulers who rely on religion to keep them in power - whether it’s Putin and Orban defending White Christianity, the Taliban in Afghan

 If you like this post, do read others on my blog. It’s free….😀 A couple of years ago there was this discussion about what worthwhile things (If any) the EU has done. I wrote at the time that the EU’s greatest achievement by far (though under appreciated ) was the standardisation of the electric plug and the telephone jack (this was still in the days of landlines and dial-up modems). A business traveller making a trip in the late 80s or early 90s to 3 or 4 countries had to lug around adaptors for plugs and jacks for each country, a real pain somewhere. But then the EU came up with a standard, gave everyone 3 years to comply and it was done. Non-EU countries complied as well, so that soon you had 1 plug and 1 telephone jack for the whole of Europe and much of North Africa. Well, except for the U.K., which even then didn’t consider itself part of Europe, and Switzerland (not part of the EU) which also uses it’s plug and socket as an alcohol test for motorists. Anybody visiting the beaut