Part 193, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 big ones. These from a post Thursday, 04/26/18, covering March 26, 2018, and headed, Statement from the Press Secretary on the Expulsion of Russian Intelligence Officers https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=140327131
The tenth - Nutcase Incorporated
Published on Jun 9, 2013 by StuartDWright [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChsSQvxSK-W2n5LYyKavo3g / https://www.youtube.com/user/StuartDWright , https://www.youtube.com/user/StuartDWright/videos ] He's been invited on to talk about the Bilderberg Meetings 'conspiracy'. Andrew Neil hasn't had anyone on the show quite as idiotic as Alex Jones, and Neil lets him know. Both Neil and David Aaronovitch are laughing at Jones for the lune that he obviously makes himself out to be. Even the 'political guests' are tweeting away like mad :) But look at the little smirk he gives at 43 seconds in. I don't think he's interested in anything but promoting himself and his website and making money of this ranting, paranoid character he portrays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch9gQ9JOe3Y [with (over 10,000) comments]
Published on Mar 26, 2018 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stormy Daniels' '60 Minutes' interview was must-see TV and, for Trump, must-not-tweet TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtqFjTLB8es [with comments]
Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals aren’t rejecting Trump. This is why. - they, and Trump, are Christo-fascists - in full at https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139580943 A porn actress says she had sex with Donald Trump, only a few months after his wife gave birth to a son. A former Playboy model says she had an affair with him, too. And yet according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted March 7-14, both white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to approve of Trump as president at higher levels than other religious groups. Why are white Christians sticking so closely to Trump, despite these claims of sexual indiscretions? And why are religious individuals and groups that previously decried sexual impropriety among political leaders suddenly willing to give Trump a “mulligan” on his infidelity? Our new study points to a different answer than others have offered. Voters’ religious tenets aren’t actually what’s behind Trump support; rather, it’s Christian nationalism — their view of the United States as a fundamentally Christian nation. Here’s how we did our research To explore the link between Christian nationalism and Trump support, we examined data from the fifth wave of the Baylor Religion Survey. Fielded soon after the election, from Feb. 2 through March 24, 2017, this survey is a national, random sample of 1,501 American adults with telephones and is weighted to estimate population parameters. This data set is unique in its size, time of collection, and the measures it contains. To measure Christian nationalism we combined responses to six separate questions that ask whether respondents agree or disagree with these statements: • “The federal government should declare the United States a Christian nation” • “The federal government should advocate Christian values” • “The federal government should enforce strict separation of church and state” (reverse coded) • “The federal government should allow the display of religious symbols in public spaces” • “The success of the United States is part of God’s plan” • “The federal government should allow prayer in public schools” We also examined many other common explanations of support for Trump, including economic dissatisfaction, an index of attitudes on gender, an index of anti-black prejudice, a measure of respondents’ attitudes toward illegal immigrants and an index of views toward Muslims. Finally, our statistical models also accounted for religious affiliation, religious beliefs, and a variety of religious behaviors, as well as political measures including party affiliation and political ideology, and sociodemographic predictors including age, gender, race, education, income, marital status, and residential context. The more someone believed the United States is — and should be — a Christian nation, the more likely they were to vote for Trump First, Americans who agreed with the various measures of Christian nationalism were much more likely to vote for Trump, even after controlling for a host of other influences, such as political ideology, political party, and other cultural factors proposed as possible explanations of Trump voting. As you can see in the figure below, even when holding constant a host of other explanations, a Democrat at the higher end of the index was three times more likely to vote for Trump than a Democrat at the lower end of Christian nationalist ideology. For independents, the probability of voting for Trump increased moving across the range of the Christian nationalism scale. Likewise, Republicans scoring low in Christian nationalism were significantly less likely to vote for Trump than those scoring high on the index. [chart] No other religious factor influenced support for or against Trump Second, we find that Americans’ religious beliefs, behaviors and affiliation did not directly influence voting for Trump. In fact, once Christian nationalism was taken into account, other religious measures had no direct effect on how likely someone was to vote for Trump. These measures of religion mattered only if they made someone more likely to see the United States as a Christian nation. Antagonism toward Muslims was just as important as Christian nationalism Finally, the various cultural explanations that other researchers have examined didn’t predict Trump support in our study, with one notable exception: anti-Muslim sentiment. How much a U.S. voter feared Muslims was as significant in predicting who voted for Trump as Christian nationalism. Overall the strongest predictors of Trump voting were the usual suspects of political identity and race, followed closely by Islamophobia and Christian nationalism. What does this mean? Many voters believed, and presumably still believe, that regardless of his personal piety (or lack thereof), President Trump would defend what they saw as the country’s Christian heritage — and would help move the nation toward a distinctly Christian future. Ironically, Christian nationalism is focused on preserving a perceived Christian identity for America irrespective of the means by which such a project would be achieved. Hence many white Christians believe Trump may be an effective instrument in God’s plan for America, even if he is not particularly religious himself. In the upcoming midterm elections, Trump and other politicians will keep emphasizing Christian nationalism. After all, it works. White Christian America is unquestionably in demographic decline. But one of its primary cultural creations — Christian nationalism — will continue influencing U.S. politics and society for decades to come, particularly in response to waning demographic and social dominance. It’s a worldview that can’t be undermined, even by porn stars and Playboy models. Andrew L. Whitehead (@ndrewwhitehead) is an assistant professor in the department of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Clemson University. Joseph O. Baker is an associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at East Tennessee State University, and author of “American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems” (NYU Press, 2015). Samuel L. Perry is an assistant professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, and author of “Growing God’s Family: The Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism” (NYU Press, 2017). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/26/despite-porn-stars-and-playboy-models-white-evangelicals-arent-rejecting-trump-this-is-why/