RUDE PUNDIT: The rule should be simple. Who the fuck cares what your religion is?

[kpete]

9/21/2015

Fear of a Muslim Planet: Carson, Trump, and the Cowards of the Right
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In the United States, we've reached the part of our confrontation with an enemy where reality isn't frightening anymore, so those who want everyone to be scared have to come up with phantom horrors. We saw it with the Soviet Union and Communism. The Soviets were almost never the existential threat they were made out to be, but especially in the post-Brezhnev era. Yet there was Ronald Reagan, telling us all to be terrified of the "Evil Empire," even as it was crumbling. That's how you get and keep power. That's how you turn into an enemy anyone who says, "Um, maybe we shouldn't be spending so much on defense."

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Instead, we get nutzoids on talk radio, online, on Fox "news," and in the Republican Party spewing endless bullshit about Muslims establishing a caliphate in Peoria or installing Sharia courts in Yonkers or some such shit. They all make bank on ensuring that they have a critical mass of American cowards ready to keep losing their goddamned minds whenever Omar al-Beardy shows up looking menacing. Of course, Donald Trump was asked by some numbnuts about "When can we get rid of 'em?" Of course, the numbnuts thinks Obama's Muslim. Of course, Donald Trump pandered to him. Pandering to stupid people is Trump's fuckin' bread and butter. Trump can be as tough as he likes to a threat that isn't real. It's easy: The Rude Pundit would kick Hitler's ass. Prove that he couldn't.

To admit that the threat is far less than Republicans tell us it is would be to admit that the Muslim president did his job and that the people under him are doing their jobs. It's way better to get all jittery and bugfuck insane about Muslim leaders than worry about real shit, like income inequality or, you know, Christians being assholes about the law and the Constitution.

The rule should be simple. Who the fuck cares what your religion is? As long as you aren't shoving your god in our faces, as long as you put the Constitution above your made-up beliefs, as long as you aren't judging people because they aren't Judeo-Christian (which, let's fuckin' face it, means "really fucking Christian, except I want people to think I'm good with the Jews&quot , then, fuck it, be president. But the second you start telling us that you need to do something because God-Jeebus-Allah told you to or your totally fictional book of faith said so, then you can go fuck yourself back to your house of worship and run a goddamn bake sale rather than have the existence of the world in your hands.

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[Frustratedlady]

1. This person often writes articles with good points and ideas, however, I think he/she...

would do better to leave 90% of the F words out of the equation. It not only adds little to the conversation, but interrupts the reading process. The shock value of the word is long gone.

[Skittles]

3. if the shock value was gone, you would not be complaining

extreme profanity is standard for Mr. Rude

[OverBurn]

5. I'm sorry, but complaining about the RUDE Pundit being rude, is fucking stupid.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Lol, yup!

Welcome to DU!

[truebluegreen]

2. Yup.

I'm tired of accepting rightwingnut framing (and way too many on the left) and defending Obama (or anybody) 'cause "he is too a Christian!" I don't think it should be a part of the conversation at all, never did.

Do.Not.Care. Don't want to hear about it, don't even want to know.

[Martin Eden]

4. "Pandering to stupid people is Trump's fuckin' bread and butter."

RP is spot on, F-bombs or not.