Because deep down, a lot of these fundies WISH they could transgress those norms. A lot of them WISH they could do half the shit he does. He's their fantasy where they get a shitload of money and can now violate every single thing they've been told is sacred.
A lot of it is also just gonna boil down to racism. A LOT of Evangelicalism, especially in America, is deeply racist. White supremacists also realized they could hijack religious messaging and spread their hate a lot farther than just going "white power" - couching your hate in religious context makes it a lot more palatable for a lot more people. The religious right, and a scary portion of the center, hate nonwhites. They'll be nice enough in public, they'll make the noises about how they're welcome at their churches and there's a place for them in heaven, but at the end of the day? They really REALLY would prefer if they were "with their own kind".
I've also dealt with this! Clients loved asking me to lie to the EPA directly. Now that I'm doing medical R&D testing, every so often we'll have to remind an engineer that "no, we can't just do more testing and average the results."
I think we all learned from Seto Kaiba that every problem can be solved with Blue Eyes. If it doesn't get solved by one, you just haven't used enough Blue Eyes.
Nah, they're gonna find someone who's not skittish about just ordering the deaths of civilians without needing pep rallies and getting rid of oversight.
The good news is that nuclear strikes have to be authorized by the President. The bad news is that I'm pretty sure he's running his decisions through The Validation Machine too.
Yup. Look at the Palace of the People in Romania. Buildings are expensive to demolish properly, expensive to put up, so it's easier to just leave them up if they are or can be made to fit a purpose.
Technically it's a cipher, BUT it's also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).
Oh no, I don't think he conceptualizes this as a war. This is a shakedown, Mob style like he learnt. "Real nice everything you have here, be a damn shame if someone opened a can of sunshine over it. A real shame. Anyway, you give me access to your oil, at the price I set, and nothing like that'll ever happen as long as the oil keeps flowing."
This. It's not "journalistic integrity", the way Hegseth has worded things, this prevents outlets from spinning or telling half the story. It's literally back to WWII press - here is the story from the War Department, you may print this and nothing else, with no editorializing.
So atrocious that the Spanish crown literally was going to execute him for how atrocious he was.. Columbus was only saved because he was good friends with Isabella.
Because deep down, a lot of these fundies WISH they could transgress those norms. A lot of them WISH they could do half the shit he does. He's their fantasy where they get a shitload of money and can now violate every single thing they've been told is sacred.
A lot of it is also just gonna boil down to racism. A LOT of Evangelicalism, especially in America, is deeply racist. White supremacists also realized they could hijack religious messaging and spread their hate a lot farther than just going "white power" - couching your hate in religious context makes it a lot more palatable for a lot more people. The religious right, and a scary portion of the center, hate nonwhites. They'll be nice enough in public, they'll make the noises about how they're welcome at their churches and there's a place for them in heaven, but at the end of the day? They really REALLY would prefer if they were "with their own kind".