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GOP congressman says ‘God has a plan’ for fired federal workers at hostile town hall
(www.independent.co.uk)
Separate your church and state, bitch.
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That's the opposite of what they want though
God has a history of sending plagues and has promised Armageddon.
Pretty sure that's literally their plan.
Yeah, they've been trying to speed run the apocalypse.
"God has a plan". And what part of that plan is going to help these people pay their bills?
The governor of Virginia made a similar plea after Trump fired thousands of workers from the state. He promised to come up with a "plan" to help them. And of course, we all know what this plan is: (1) Give people a bunch of lip service to appease them, (2) Repeat step 1 until something else makes the news, (3) never mention it again. And of course, he has no idea what the hell these workers are supposed to do in the meantime.
Eventually, the GOP will solve the problem of continually angering their own voters by not having town halls and considering the problem solved.
goddamn glenn youngkin sucks. i hate him and his stupid fucking vest. i'm so glad the democrats could use virginia as an experiment to see if being exclusively anti trump with no other campaign strategy could win an election, and then learn nothing when they fucking lost
Does his plan involve anarchy?
Perhaps rebellion?
Religion is such a great way to control people.
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you... Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!"
-Obligatory George Carlin
The plan: get a Saturday night special at the local pawn shop and imitate Luigi.
If god is real she sends Republicans to hell.
If god is real and benevolent. If god is real and is letting current situation in the world, then I don't think we can make assumptions on they being any good for us.
God could be real and benevolent, but just not paying attention. To paraphrase Epicurus:
- Omnipotent
- Omniscient
- Benevolent
Choose any two.
"God has a concept of a plan for you."
God is the invention and tool of charlatans and the refuge of the wilfully ignorant, and it always has been. 🌎 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
It's demoralizing at this late hour, with our own habitat turning against us by our own hands, that the two great banes of human civilization, God and Capitalism, still hold near universal sway over our species. Both toxic and incompatible with a lasting technological civilization in homeostasis/equilibrium with its environment.
Why care about this world or your species if your "eternal reward" is somewhere else in your deluded mind? How can you find equilibrium with your environment if metastasis/growth is your only practiced priority?
Unfortunately for us, and fortunately for the Earth and most life on it long term, the physics of the greenhouse effect can be neither suckered nor bribed. The Earth will recover on its own timetable after we are dealt with. Just another problematic evolutionary mistake like the trees of the carboniferous period that couldn't yet efficiently decompose (the bacteria to do so hadnt yet evolved), causing the opposite problem of the one we're causing, leading to an Ice age.
The tragedy of our species is that we had the agency and knowledge to NOT destroy the climate of our habitat, and simply chose to do so anyway. Don't worry though, Gawd'll save us!
Bro, god might have a plan for you too.
~~Jesus~~ Mangione take the wheel!
It's such a transparent non-answer, one that religious people have been conditioned to accept and not question.
I have to assure you that most religious people would not accept "God has a plan" from their politicians. MAGA are a unique breed.
Now they're calling Trump "God?" 🤦♂️
That would imply Trump has a plan
Right, right... I forgot he only has the concept of a plan.
The evangelicals have been doing that for nearly a decade now.
Republican Economic Policy:
'Thoughts and Prayers.'
... that would have been attacked as a hyperbolic, cynical smear 10 years ago.
Now it just actually is the policy.
Well I think we’d all very much like to hear a plan better than “Jesus take the wheel”, you fucking dipshit.
Their God's plan was to fire their asses.
Well, God has concepts of a plan anyway
That's the same thing they'd say to a cancer patient.
It's not an incorrect metaphor for the current administration.
A plan? Like arming up and stop the coup?
They’re calling Elon god now?
then why is there a state at all?
God isn't real so it sounds like you just don't have a fucking plan.
Find a new job, when your previous job was lost because they claim you had performance issues? I assume they aren't giving out glowing recommendation letters for these folks either. Wouldn't you lose out to people who don't have questionable work history?
Man Released from Custody After Murdering 5 Because "It was in God's plan."
Hopefully God's plan is this guy pays for the suffering he is enabling
It's pronounced "Jod."
Rep. Mark Alford: “God has a plan!”
The plan: No such file or directory
Did God fire them? Sounds like God has nothing to do with this really. And weren't we given free will? How's God gonna make someone create new jobs?
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe themselves to be unstoppable.
No, no, see, it's perfectly okay that I looted your house and set it on fire and shot your dog, because it's all part of God's plan <3
Maybe his plan is we overthrow the tyrants attempting to seize complete control over our society.
And the devil has a plan for you, Mr.Alford.