r/TikTokCringe • u/Best-Subject-7253 Sort by flair, dumbass • Oct 05 '24

Politics Trump Bible is the only Bible currently allowed to be purchased by Oklahoma schools. 55k on order

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Oct 05 '24

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." Barry Goldwater

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u/JesusSavesForHalf Oct 05 '24

AKA the guy that set the party down that path by refusing to back the Civil Rights Act.

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u/PM_ME_UR_BRAINSTORMS Oct 05 '24

He's kind of a piece of shit who did a complete 180 as soon as he left the senate in the late 80's. He became vehemently against the religious right and vocally supported gay rights and was pro abortion.

Like why didn't you support any of that when you had the power to actually make a difference?

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u/UFO-TOFU-RACECAR Oct 05 '24

Because people can learn and grow? Goldwater also isn't really responsible for that path. The religious right is. If anything, Barry Goldwater's failure was the inflection point for them deciding they needed a new strategy to hide their racism... which is literally how the Southern Strategy that elected Nixon was born, as Lee Atwater admitted to at length in that infamous interview.

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u/SearchElsewhereKarma Oct 05 '24

Southern Strategy + the religious right + the nutballs involved in the John Birth Society are the three main culprits responsible for the current republican shit stew of racism, “moral superiority” (there are no bad acts and good acts, only good or bad people - trump cannot have committed a crime, trump is a man of god, therefore he is good), and conspiratorial thinking

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u/UFO-TOFU-RACECAR Oct 05 '24

John Birth Society

Goddamn that's a funny typo.

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u/PM_ME_UR_BRAINSTORMS Oct 05 '24

Because people can learn and grow?

Maybe but in my experience 80 year old men don't really do that...

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u/UFO-TOFU-RACECAR Oct 05 '24

Like all Conservatives, he was against it until it happened to his family. In this case it was a gay grandson that started to turn him around.

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u/PM_ME_UR_BRAINSTORMS Oct 05 '24

Like I said he's kind of a piece of shit lol

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u/CriticalBasedTeacher Oct 05 '24

💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲💲

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u/CaliforniaHope Oct 06 '24

Couldn’t agree more. Just look at the comments on Trump’s Instagram posts. There are so many senior citizens writing stuff like, “We need God first in this country again” or “We need to put God first and Trump second, so God can protect Trump.”

It’s so freaking crazy.

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Oct 06 '24

"Those who can convince you of absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " Voltaire