Religion is not man’s relationship to God,
it is man’s relationship to man.
Elie Wiesel
Is it possible to be Christian becoming a billionaire raping the earth for oil – a toxic polluting product, enabling the destruction of earth’s abilility to sustain life, and then using those riches to buy corrupt politicians with the intent to destroy democracy and further brutalize the marginalized?
There’s more to being Christian than saying so and going to church. Raping, polluting, harming, dividing and conquering communities (often poor) to get rich off oil, in my view, shows more what a man worships than what he says he worships.
@DanRather Feb 24, 2024:
In my view, the key CPAC story isn’t that right-wing influencer Jack Posebiec said, “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.”
The story is how many Republican lawmakers are absolutely silent about it.
May I suggest the media ask every Congressional member who speaks at CPAC, and every Republican presidential candidate for that matter, the following three questions:
1) Do you reject Jack Posebiec’s comments?
2) Do you support democracy?
3) Do you respect the separation of church and state?
And don’t stop asking until you get answers.
I believe journalists have a duty to uncover just how deep the threat to American democracy runs.
It’s the answers that should frighten us. Never the questions.
David Menschel@davidminpdx Feb 24, 2024:
Candidate for president of the United States endorses extra judicial killings. This unconstitutional and fascistic wish will be ignored by the Washington Post and the New York Times. It will be nowhere mentioned in tomorrow’s newspapers.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar Feb 24, 2024:
Trump muses about police killing shoplifters and says, “that’s why I’m giving immunity to police”
A Christian Oil Billionaire Upended Texas Politics—and Is Coming for Washington Next by Collin Eaton, Feb 23, 2024, Wall St Journal in MSN
MIDLAND, Texas—Drilling for oil made Tim Dunn, a self-described activist Christian, into a billionaire. His second act has been pumping money to Texas Republicans intent on pushing their party to the right.
His third act, he hopes, will be pulling off something similar on a national level—preferably during a second Trump administration.Is it Christian using a rapist con man to corrupt the minds and hearts of a nation with the intent to take away citizen rights and destroy democracy?
Brooke Rollins, a former Trump domestic policy adviser, pitched Dunn in 2021 on a new
think tank, America First Policy Institute, with a mission to perpetuate Trump-era policies for generations to come. The West Texas oilman, whose efforts in his home state have been both successful and polarizing, responded with both enthusiasm and money.
“He’s a visionary,” said Rollins, who previously worked with Dunn building a political think tank in Texas. “His ability to build organizations and structure and culture is so incredible. I’ve relied on him more for that than his funding.”I doubt that very much. I expect Dunn’s lures are that he’s a rich white man, an earth-raping polluting oil man claiming he’s Christian.
Conservative operatives regard the new group as one of several organizations attempting
to assemble an “administration in waiting.” Rollins’s group boasts an in-house roster of
Trump loyalists—including Larry Kudlow, Kevin Hassett and Keith Kellogg—available to fill key administration positions.
Dunn is one of many wealthy Republicans jockeying to influence a second Trump
administration in accordance with their own political agendas. Besides giving directly to the candidate—Dunn donated about $5 million to Trump’s political-action committee late last year—some of them have funded a handful of new pro-Trump think tanks dedicated to that task.
In addition to America First, Dunn has provided funding to the Center for Renewing
America, run by former Trump budget director Russell Vought, and America First Legal,
led by former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller. As nonprofits, none of the three groups are required to disclose who is donating to them, and how much.
As Dunn sets his sights on Washington, he will be armed with an even bigger bankroll. In December, he agreed to sell the oil company he runs, Midland-based CrownRock, to Occidental Petroleum in a $10.8 billion deal. Dunn owns about 20%.
Dunn, a 68-year-old with six children and 20 grandchildrenLet’s over populate the grossly over-populated planet with our greedy seed, has already left his mark on Texas politics. Since 2000, he has contributed more than $25 million to candidates and groups in the state, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
Recipients of Dunn’s money have pushed to eliminate property taxes, ban abortion, restrict morning-after pills, ban vaccine requirements and make it a felony for doctors to provide gender-affirming care to anyone under age 26.Satanic hatred, notably misogyny and bigotry.
Dunn has said he believes America was founded as a Christian nation. He likes to cite
Scripture and has worked for a decade to construct an exact replica of Moses’ Tabernacle
in West Texas, using materials imported from the Middle East. Allies say his faith informs
his politics, but he is not a theocrat.Dunn’s behaviours contradict his words, as is typical of fake Christians buying politicians to use them to force their galling views on everyone whether we want it or not, no matter how many human rights are violated or how many are harmed by their hate and rage farming and bigotry in their cruel process.
Dunn calls himself a proponent of self-governance. In addition to property-tax reductions,
he supports securing the Texas border and changing the way incentives are provided to solar and wind power companies.
Dunn is amiable in person and likes to wear jeans and polo shirts, even at work. He has said little publicly about his political life. He is more inclined to discuss his family and his faith, including on his podcast and on a personal website.
Dunn was born in Littlefield, a small city in West Texas. He has said he felt like a born-again Christian for as long as he could remember. In a 2020 speech at a Christian business
luncheon, Dunn said he came to believe he needed to follow the Bible for God to accept him. That led him to become judgmental about other people, something he has said he tried to correct later in life.He’s failing with 100% efficiency.
Dunn said in that speech that he was convinced in his youth he didn’t have many
marketable skills. But he was an ace at the board game Monopoly, he said, and when he
later watched a local oil executive negotiate a deal, he saw parallels. “That’s what I want to
do,” he recalled thinking.
After earning a chemical-engineering degree from Texas Tech University, he took a job
with Exxon. In 1983, he moved his family to Midland to head a community bank’s oil-and-
gas department, and four years later, he became an executive at West Texas driller Parker
& Parsley Petroleum. In 1996, he co-founded a company that later became CrownQuest
Operating, which manages the company he just agreed to sell.
Dunn’s family, religious and business lives blend together in Midland. He attends Midland
Bible Church, where he preaches occasionally. That’s fucking terrifying. He established a private school called Midland Classical Academy, from which four of his children graduated. He resurrected a local miniature-golf course, and he and his family intend to build the city a zoo that is expected to cost about $100 million.
David Kuhnert, production manager at CrownQuest, said Dunn sees his philanthropy as an investment, though the returns often aren’t measured in dollars but in whether the investment lifts people up.
Bob Fu, the president of Midland-based ChinaAid, a nonprofit supporting China’s
underground Christians, said that Dunn has given his organization enough money over the
years to buy hundreds of thousands of Bibles to distribute in China. “He wants believers to
have the Bible,” Fu said.
One of Dunn’s first serious forays into politics came two decades ago when he and Rollins
got involved with the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Under their leadership, that think
tank promoted conservative policy proposals in the state, becoming central to statewide
politics and helping launch careers of Republicans including Sen. Ted Cruz.
In a 2010 meeting with former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, a business-friendly
Republican, Dunn indicated he supported Christian conservatives in leadership positions. Straus, who is Jewish, concluded that Dunn felt he was unqualified to hold the office because of his faith, according to people familiar with the matter. Reports of the meeting roiled the Capitol. A person familiar with Dunn’s thinking said he didn’t know Straus’s religion at the time.
Many Republican lawmakers in the state see Dunn as an agent of chaos, intent on remaking the Republican party with loyalists. He has expressed a desire to dislodge entrenched interest groups, lobbyists, bureaucrats and unnamed people he has referred to as Marxists, who he said had taken positions of power in the government.
Republicans who don’t vote the way Dunn wants on some issues have faced primary challenges from candidates he helps fund. Nasty dirty fucker, typical rich raping religious oilman.Organizations he supports have moved from trying to oust moderate Republicans to also targeting anyone viewed as insufficiently loyal, including even the most conservative lawmakers.
House Speaker Dade Phelan, who is the top target of Dunn groups this year because he has
disagreed with them over some legislative priorities, called them insurgencies rotting the
Republican party and making primaries more expensive, with limited electoral success.
Former Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Dunn has become “the go-to guy for conservative Republicans in Texas.”
Some of the think tanks he funds in Texas issue recommendations on legislative votes in
the state, which are tracked closely by lawmakers with ties to him. “With people in the
Senate and the House, his opinion matters every time,” said former state Sen. Kel Seliger, a Republican who retired last year.
Last year’s vote to impeach Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations of
corruption and bribery unfolded for lawmakers like a Dunn loyalty test. Dunn made it clear that he supported Paxton, a Trump loyalist who after Biden’s 2020 victory tried to block the electoral votes of four other states in an effort to overturn the result.
After the House voted to impeach Paxton, the Senate voted to acquit him. Lt. Gov. Dan
Patrick, who presided over the Senate trial, had recently received a $3 million campaign donation from a Dunn political-action committee lobbying in support of Paxton. Patrick said he hadn’t predetermined or influenced the trial.
Some House Republicans who voted to impeach Paxton are now facing Dunn-funded
opponents for the March primary.
After Trump’s defeat in 2020, some of his advisers turned to Dunn for advice and funding.
Rollins said she and former pro-wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who also served in
the Trump administration, approached Dunn about helping launch America First.
“We wanted to create a national organization similar to what we built in Texas that could
be ready for a second [Trump] term,” Rollins said.
Dunn became a founding board member, along with McMahon, who is chair, and Kudlow.
Several other former Trump officials signed on. Rollins is the CEO. The group has raised
more than $50 million in the past two years and has grown to almost 200 employees.
Rollins said that if Trump is elected, he is likely to pick people affiliated with America First for key jobs, although that isn’t the organization’s primary goal.
The organization’s website says it is working to train potential appointees to Trump’s executive branch and crafting action plans for federal agencies to quickly implement his policies.
Its transition project, a video on the website said, would rein in a secretive “deep state” that is taking cues from “globalists.”
The website said the group wants to ensure the U.S. maintains Judeo-Christian principles,
revamp immigration enforcement at the southern U.S. border and stop what it calls the
Biden administration’s “war on American energy.”
Dunn also was an early donor to former Trump budget director Vought’s Center for
Renewing America, another group preparing for a second Trump administration. An
affiliate of that group produced a 33-page handbook for combating critical race theory. What would Jesus think of that inhumane cruel behaviour? Miller’s organization, America First Legal, which has raised tens of millions of dollars, has filed lawsuits targeting companies and schools over diversity mandates and what the
group calls “woke curriculum.”Raping rich white extremists gotta keep voters propagandized and uneducated to keep rapes flowing smoothly and life on earth destroying rich white rapists out of prison.
Back in Texas, a top official of Defend Texas Liberty, an organization funded mostly by Dunn, met for hours in October with white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
The meeting, first reported by the Texas Tribune, triggered a debate over whether Texas Republicans should institute a ban on associating with anyone with pro-Nazi sympathies. The Texas GOP executive committee didn’t approve such a prohibition.Of course they didn’t. I expect most if not all of them are pro-Nazis white supremacists.
Dunn hadn’t ever heard of Fuentes until after the meeting happened, according to one
person familiar with the matter. Dunn’s allies said the group would no longer have any
dealings with Fuentes.If you do the Trump dance, you dance with Fuentes.
Dunn travels to Washington every couple of months or so, often to meet with lawmakers
and conservative operatives. He and his allies there see a second Trump term as an
opportunity to make lasting changes to government at the national level.
“This is a 100-year play,” Rollins said.
Refer also to:
2024: ‘Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia’: Expert points to new evidence
… Trump, he noted, appears to be spiraling into “phonemic paraphasias” during his rally speeches, which he described as, “the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer’s.”
According to Gartner, “Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes ‘benefishes.’ Renovations become ‘renoversh.’ Pivotal became ‘pivobal.’ Obama became ‘obamna.’ Missiles became ‘mishiz.’ Christmas became ‘Crissus.’ Bipartisan became ‘bipars.’ This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language. If you were talking to your father on the phone and he did this you would think he is having a stroke. There is no healthy older person who speaks that way.”
He also noted Trump’s tendency to go off in odd directions while talking to audiences.
Referring to the former president’s “tangential speech,” he elaborated, “He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that’s a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step not being, but of severe cognitive deterioration.”
He continued, “What I don’t understand is why those clips aren’t replayed over and over in the mainstream media. Isn’t Trump babbling incoherently the most newsworthy part of his rally? You can be sure it would be if it were Biden.”
2020: Five things to know about the Antichrist
… When it comes to accusations of being the Antichrist, usually from the conservative religious right, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama have all been mentioned. Donald Trump is gaining popularity as a worthy candidate with ethics scholar D. Stephen Long suggesting he represents: “not a single person but a political pattern that repeats itself by taking on power to oppress the poor and the just”. …