BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
Showing posts with label "christian" nationalist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "christian" nationalist. Show all posts
11 September 2025
WHO IS PAYING FOR CHARLIE KIRK'S BODY, FAMILY & TURNING POINT STAFF FLYING FROM SALT LAKE CITY TO PHOENIX ON AIR FORCE TWO??? 11SEP25
IN their live coverage on line the Washington Post included this little blurb...
2 hours ago
After visiting Salt Lake City, Vice President JD Vance is expected to travel to Phoenix to escort Charlie Kirk’s body, his family and Turning Point USA staff back to Arizona on Air Force Two, according to a person familiar with the plans who is not authorized to disclose them publicly. They are scheduled to land late in the afternoon, according to the person.
I posted it on Blue Sky along with this comment that I also sent to Sen Warner's D-VA and Sen Kaine's D-VA Blue Sky accounts...
Either NOT MY vp vance or kirk's family or turning point usa better be paying for transporting his body, family and staff from SLC to PHX but no way should the taxpayers have to foot the bill. He may have been somebody to the WH but not to most Americans...
I will also be e mailing my representative and senators to make sure they follow up on this issue as it will be no surprise if the drumpf / trump-vance administration tries to scam the American taxpayers.....
05 September 2025
09 August 2025
VIDEO: INDIANA LT GOVERNOR GETS SCHOOLED ON DUE PROCESS BY HIS CONSTITUENTS
THE only explanation for the constitutional ignorance of the lt governor of Indiana is his schooling in neo-nazi, fascist authoritarianism which is all to common in that state. THANK GOD many people in Indiana, as shown in this video, know and understand our laws, civil liberties, civil rights, human rights and our Constitution and are not intimidated by punks like their lt governor!
Beckwith, a Christian pastor by trade, was elected to the state's second-highest office last year alongside Republican Gov. Mike Braun.
The lieutenant governor has frequently split with Braun on state policy issues and garnered headlines for his taxpayer-funded purchase of a $88,000 SUV, lack of neutrality as the Indiana Senate's presiding officer and his belief that the federal government is using airplanes to control the weather.
05 August 2025
WOMAN JAILED FOR MEN COMMITTING PEDOPHILIA?
I do not feel sorry for her at all but the epstein files need to be released and the criminals tried and jailed...
16 July 2025
ICE Quotes the Bible in a New Propaganda Video 11JUL25
There is NOTHING Christian at all in this "christian" nationalist propaganda from fascist kkkristi noem homeland security productions. Written and directed by gop jesus devotees, it is a perversion of scripture, a true example of "religious" right wing hypocrisy. It's purpose is to intimidate Americans and immigrants, to turn us against each other, to encourage class warfare. joseph goebbels would be proud. From Sojourners, the propaganda video was made with your tax dollars by the Department of Homeland Security.....
ICE Quotes the Bible in a New Propaganda Video
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security shared a propaganda video on the social media site X.
The one-minute video opens with footage of helicopters taking off, and a man with a thick Southern accent says, “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes. Many times.” As people in military fatigues don masks and ready weapons inside the helicopter, the man quotes Isaiah 6:8: “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’”
As the helicopter takes off, a sonorous cover of Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” plays before the man finishes the verse: “I said, ‘Here am I. Send me.’” A cut to a close-up of an arm patch that reads “U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” The final half of the video cycles through shots of ICE agents patrolling a river, flying over the border wall, and looking through night vision while singers chant, “Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down.”
In other words, the video rips Isaiah’s call narrative (6:1-13) out of its original context to baptize ICE’s war on non-white Americans.
In his book How Fascism Works, philosopher Jason Stanley explains: “Political propaganda uses the language of virtuous ideals to unite people behind otherwise objectionable ends.” This DHS video illustrates Stanley’s definition of propaganda perfectly: The U.S. government has appropriated the words of the Judean prophet Isaiah and the latter-day U.S. prophet Johnny Cash to baptize their wholly unbiblical treatment of undocumented people (and, too often, documented people as well).
READ MORE: What Advocates Want Churches to Know About Defending Migrants
Over the last several months, ICE has conducted raids across the country, often by plainclothes officers wearing masks and driving unmarked vehicles. They have conducted raids on church property, farms, factories, and other workplaces. Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” signed into law on July 4, allocates over $100 billion to ICE over the next four years, more than triple their existing budget.
ICE’s actions have been met with nationwide protests and international outrage, which makes the aim of this video clear: The Trump administration seeks to consolidate support for their inhumane and evil treatment of people by casting themselves as virtuous biblical heroes.
By deploying God’s call to Isaiah, the video casts those working for ICE as the ones answering God’s call, servants who do what few others have the courage or conviction to do. And the video’s imagery leaves no question that it sees God’s call as aligned with Trump’s draconian vision of a white America.
But ethnic nationalism was not the message God called Isaiah to deliver. As the Bible makes clear, God’s message delivered through Isaiah was one of impending judgment, precisely because the people of Judah ignored God’s calls for justice and instead were continuing to oppress people who were poor, widowed, orphaned, and refugees. In his 1998 commentary on Isaiah, theologian Walter Brueggemann observed that we’re no more attentive today than Judah was then:
“Those dulled and numbed are headed toward termination. These words sound ominous in a society like ours, deeply narcoticized not only by chemical dependence, but by a host of numbing dependencies: poverty and wealth in the extreme, brutality, militarism, self-indulgence — the same list of which the ancient poets spoke so relentlessly. Not noticing leads to termination.”
All this makes the ICE video deeply — and unintentionally — ironic. By employing Isaiah’s words to justify their oppression of immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security illustrates Isaiah’s very point: We have read the prophet’s words; we have all the information we need to know what God calls us to do. The prophets speak with one voice on our obligation to care for refugees and treat the immigrants among us as though they’re already part of us. That we persist in doing harm to immigrants is evidence of our defiance of God. ICE’s wickedness calls judgement down upon them —and upon all of us who do nothing to resist their evil actions.
09 July 2025
VERSE AND VOICE FROM SOJOURNERS 9JUL25
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07 July 2025
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Russia’s ‘anti-woke’ visa lures those fearing a moral decline in the West 6JUL25
MEMORIAL:NGO THAT FOUGHT FOR VICTIMS OF RUSSIAN REPRESSION
THE MOSCOW TIMES
THESE people are so incredibly STUPID and IGNORANT! They leave no doubt we are better off without them here by this comment "The Hares said they felt unsafe in Texas because of unregulated migration. Chantelle said she was worried her sons wouldn’t be able to “marry a real girl” and not a transgender person and deplored laws such as those establishing buffer zones around abortion clinics." which elicited these remarks in the comments section for this article in the Washington Post, from Flavius Baltus "I'm just curious where in Texas there are only transgender women for their sons to marry. Or are their sons that stupid?", reply from Kram1960 "I'd go with the latter and good luck.",reply from Reginald von Ravenhorst "Their son bought this girl named Lola a cherry cola and it went sideways from there.". I found that hysterical and just had to respond to Reginald "Off topic but I am waiting for petie lola hegpeth to make an appearance kinda like jedgar hoover / vivian vance. He does have that fancy new makeup room in his office at the Pentagon and you know a girl isn't going to let that go to waste!".
Russia’s ‘anti-woke’ visa lures those fearing a moral decline in the West
A network of Kremlin-backed influencers seeks to portray Russia as a bastion of traditional values in an attempt to attract those who deplore Western “liberalism.”
July 6, 2025 at 2:00 a.m. EDT
In a brightly lit conference room of a Moscow police department, a smiling officer flanked by Russian flags and gilded double-headed eagles handed over small blue booklets to an American family of five — asylum certificates granting them the right to live and work in Russia after fleeing Texas because they felt their way of life was under threat.
“I feel like I’ve been put on an ark of safety for my family,” 61-year-old Leo Hare said at the time. “I want to thank President [Vladimir] Putin for allowing Russia to become a good place for families in this world climate.”
“In a small way it feels like I just got married to Russia,” echoed his wife, Chantelle Hare, 51. “I look forward to building a future here with my family. I look forward to the opportunities that my sons will have here.”
Footage of the ceremony, shared on the Interior Ministry’s official media channels, was accompanied by a caption declaring that “yet another American family choose our country to live in … understanding that in our country traditional values are protected by the state.”
The Hare family, devout Christians who ran a farm in Texas, describe themselves as a family of “moral migrants” and have emerged as the face of a small but growing trend of Westerners relocating to Russia in search of the traditional, conservative values they feel are eroding in the liberal West. Their journey reflects the ideological narrative Putin has spent years crafting: Russia as the guardian of family-centered traditions amid a Western world spiraling into moral and social decay.
Stories of foreigners moving to Russia in pursuit of these values get extensive coverage on Russian state media and are woven into the broader narrative Moscow now exports internationally.
But behind the headlines, some newcomers face serious challenges — running into legal and financial issues, grappling with frozen bank accounts, or getting lost in the country and its layers of bureaucracy — though criticism remains muted.
Just a few days after the Hares received their asylum, Putin signed a decree in August 2024 that offers the “shared values” visa — also known informally as the “anti-woke” visa — to people from 47 countries Russia considers unfriendly, including the United States, Britain and most of the European Union.
Through this decree, “providing humanitarian support to individuals who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values,” Russia offers a three-year residency permit with minimal requirements that can eventually be converted into citizenship.
Since the beginning of the year, about 700 people have been issued this visa, while hundreds of others have come on work or student visas or as spouses of Russian citizens, according to lawmaker Maria Butina, who has become the champion of the program.
“LGBT and migrants, these are the two main reasons why people move,” she said. “They feel that are too many migrants in Europe or they do not accept the LGBT values,” she told The Washington Post.
Butina is familiar to Americans as the Russian political activist who was accused of infiltrating conservative political circles to promote Russian interests and convicted in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She was sentenced to 18 months in U.S. prison and later released and deported to Russia in October 2019.
In addition to being a member of Russia’s parliament, Butina also runs an organization called Welcome to Russia, where a team of about a dozen people helps foreigners obtain the “shared values” visa.
In November 2024, Butina launched a new program on Russia’s state network RT called “Family — Russia,” focused on people who have chosen to leave the West and settle in Russia. Around the same time, RT introduced a multilingual website, Gateway to Russia, which provides information on relocation options and Russian-language basics.
Foreigners are expected to have enough funds to support themselves, but the Russian government has set up initiatives to help with housing and job placement. Those who obtain a residency permit become eligible for pension and child payments, along with getting access to universal health care.
‘Spiritual asylum’
Butina insists that Russia is not actively recruiting disillusioned Westerners. “The Russian state views it as a humanitarian mission. Our job is not to attract people. Let’s be honest, it is quite difficult,” she said. “You need to adapt these people, help them with work, find a school for their children. This is a very difficult process.”
“It would probably be more correct to call it as a spiritual asylum visa,” she added. “People are moving because they are looking for Noah’s ark, not that Russia is seeking them.”
But the effort to attract disenchanted Westerns is a calculated one. A recent investigation by the Russian-language outlet Important Stories revealed that the RT network — which is under both U.S. and E.U. sanctions — funds a network of bloggers who produce videos featuring relocated foreigners lavishing praise on Russia while criticizing the West.
With titles like “Russia Has No American Problems” and “The West Is Trying to Demonize Russia,” these videos are part of a larger soft-power effort by Moscow to improve its image and portray the country as orderly, stable and poised to thrive despite international isolation. The channels add to the existing cohort of conservative Western influencers who have settled in the country and publish Russia-friendly content.
In 2019, an Australian family — coincidentally sharing the surname Hare — relocated to Russia in protest over the legalization of same-sex marriage in their home country. They established a farm in Altai, a scenic region in southern Siberia, and run a popular video blog about their life that was prominently featured in RT and other state media coverage.
The messaging in these videos often dovetails with an established MAGA worldview. Trans and LGBTQ+ rights are cast as signs of moral decline and opposed under the guise of protecting the interests of children. Feminism is rejected as a leftist project to erode masculinity and dismantle family institutions.
Coronavirus vaccine mandates — cited by Butina as another common reason Westerners have chosen to relocate to Russia — are viewed not as public health measures but as instruments of authoritarian control, wrapped in conspiracy-laden skepticism.
Russia is portrayed as a haven for traditional values: Single men are shown idealized visions of submissive, family-oriented Russian women aligned with the “tradwife” aesthetic gaining traction in some American circles.
The absence of gay pride events in Russia — thanks largely to severe anti-LGBTQ+ laws labeling the movement as extremist — is highlighted as a feature. One relocation service openly lists these laws as a key benefit, proudly advertising the country as “family-focused.”
For Stephen Webster, a pastor in Murmansk and a comic book artist, it was a move for religious and economic reasons. He first relocated to Russia from Oklahoma with his father, also a pastor, in the early 1990s and then returned in 2023, after about six years in the U.S.
“The first and foremost reason was kind of family and church-related reasons, but there are other things like education,” he said. “I have four kids, and education for the kids is far, far, cheaper here than it is in the United States.”
Webster pointed to Russia’s material support for families, such as extended parental leave and the “maternal capital” program, which provides first-time mothers with about $8,500 and bonuses for subsequent children.
The Russian government has made improving the demographic situation a core effort against the backdrop of declining birth rates and wartime losses and is increasingly looking to incentivize young women to marry and have many children, forgoing education and career.
Respect for Putin
Before relocating, Chantelle Hare said she spent a lot of time watching YouTube channels run by foreigners who had already made the move to Russia, including Dan Castle’s Wild Siberia and Tim Kirby’s Travel. While these channels weren’t named in the Important Stories investigation, they belong to a broader ecosystem of expat influencers promoting Russia in a favorable light.
Documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Post show Kirby is part of a group of Western expat bloggers, including Kremlin propagandist John Mark Dougan, who receive instructions and financial support from the state-backed Center for Geopolitical Expertise to publish disinformation. Kirby declined to comment when contacted by The Post.
Leo Hare said he became disillusioned with the U.S. after what he saw as President Donald Trump’s failure to hold “traitors” accountable following the 2020 election, which he believes was stolen.
“A country that does not punish its traitors is no longer really a country,” he said, painting a picture of a nation overtaken by intelligence agencies and plagued by corrupt elites.
The Hares said they felt unsafe in Texas because of unregulated migration. Chantelle said she was worried her sons wouldn’t be able to “marry a real girl” and not a transgender person and deplored laws such as those establishing buffer zones around abortion clinics.
But the tipping point, and what finally drew them to Russia, Leo said, was Putin’s persona.
“I … liked his policies, how he was trying to restore pride in Russia, restore patriotism,” Leo said.
So far, Trump’s reelection does not appear to have dissuaded Americans who have already set their sights on moving to Russia from coming, said Philip Hutchinson, a former British Conservative Party candidate who moved to Russia four months ago because his Russian wife could not obtain a U.K. visa. Hutchinson now runs Moscow Connect, which offers relocation packages, and has partnered with Butina’s initiative. He said that even Trump’s policies are not enough to persuade some American conservatives to stay in their home country.
“What happens when another administration comes in and tries to change that?” he said. “In Russia, at least, you know you’re going to get consistency.”
Some families run into significant challenges during their move. The Hares have said that they were defrauded out of $50,000 of their savings and that law enforcement has not been responsive.
Arend and Anneesa Feenstra, a Canadian farming couple with nine children, relocated to Russia in 2023 for reasons similar to those of the Hares and to set up a cattle ranch.
Soon after they arrived, their bank accounts — filled with funds from selling their farm in Canada — were frozen due to “suspicious” activity, leaving the family stranded and frustrated. In a since-deleted YouTube video, Anneesa, visibly upset, confessed that she was “ready to jump on a plane and get out of here.”
They later made a new a video titled, “We are sorry and we will do better,” in which Arend retracted their earlier criticism, saying they had spoken in a moment of frustration brought on by language barriers. “This was not a reflection of our views on Russia, its people, its government, its banks or its laws.”
Catherine Belton contributed to this report.
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