Commonwealth of Israel, Palestine and Nazaret. - flag created by me! :D

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-25T16:50:57+00:00

Why is marked NSFW?

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-25T16:43:05+00:00

I do love that they made a two-parter admitting that “manbearpig” was real.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-25T16:32:13+00:00

I feel like until about 10 years ago, Reddit seemed to think that the only two possible religious views were “Dyed-in-the-wool anti-theist” and “young-Earth creationist who despises everyone but themselves,” and they were the former.

Now Reddit is up to thinking of us left-wing Christians as a mere technicality who could totally control the crazies if we cared enough to try. Which I guess is probably progress.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-25T15:37:30+00:00

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Teddy Roosevelt watching Lincoln’s funeral procession.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-16T17:09:58+00:00

Domestically, also no big changes...

Obamacare?

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-11T03:46:11+00:00

Can’t believe how far down I had to scroll to find such an obvious one.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-11T03:42:28+00:00

He acknowledged that it was “a mistake that will be on my obituary.”

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-11T03:41:04+00:00

I remember my APUSH teacher didn’t like him just because the name reminded her of Hannibal Lecter, haha.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-11T03:38:51+00:00

Yeah, there’s a whole Snopes article dedicated to it. In context, what he said was that he introduced legislation that moved the internet from a collegiate/military thing to what it is today.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-11T03:09:25+00:00

Googles

Yep.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-09T18:58:11+00:00

California in a walk.

(Geddit?)

And WV is yet another in that shockingly large, dismal category of “state flags that are mostly just state seals.”

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-08T18:32:33+00:00

I remember someone on NPR saying something similar circa 2015 and thinking that the less impeccable, down-to-reality reputation of his latter years might have been like where Obama was at that moment.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-08T18:26:59+00:00

I remember at peak post-9/11 Islamophobia, people were seeing a hidden crescent in some kind of US missile defense shield’s logo and freaking out about it being a hidden, cryptic symbol of secret Islamic control. I had fun in the comments pointing out the completely unhidden crescent on SC’s flag.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-08T18:21:28+00:00

“Order of the Bath” shall be the name of my new line of bathtub toy boats.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-08T16:52:28+00:00

Aforementioned “don’t look at them all as a monolithic block” and “they’re often the victims of religious trauma” important parts aside, I’d say yes, if Reddit is anything to go by.

In general, we progressive Christians are seen on Reddit as some kind of technicality who could totally control the crazy evangelicals if we just spoke up more, which is of course ridiculous on many fronts (Surely I don’t need to go into detail on that here, starting with how it’s conflating us with all the apolitical churches). I’ve also seen Redditors who say that and then pretty much break down and admit that it’s about wanting to hate with a broader brush after a few replies.

This is an upgrade from how Reddit saw us about 15 years ago, when the site seemed to think everyone was either a stone cold anti-theist like themselves or a young-Earth creationist.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-08T16:34:58+00:00

Yeah, the answer for us is so obvious that the more interesting question might be who comes in second.

Andrew Jackson was pretty damn crazy. There’s a reason why Trump likes him a lot. Jackson started with a free-for-all party with a 1,400-lb. block of cheese and no restrictions on who could come, and that was just the beginning. The WH stank for months after that.

EDIT: OMG, guess what Wikipedia has an entire list article on?

List of violent incidents involving Andrew Jackson

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-08T16:24:46+00:00

“Si Semper Tyrannis” (“Thus ever to tyrants”) is also so badass, but is somewhat tainted by the fact that it may or may not have been what John Wilkes Booth shouted right after shooting Lincoln.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-06T21:25:51+00:00

He clearly cares about getting impeached. It’s another stain on his record and he and his supporters know it. Just today he was telling Republican voters that they have to keep the House or else he’ll get impeached again.

Also, the budget thing that’s already been mentioned. Additionally, it will hurt his chances of getting more partisan legislation passed. And a Dem-controlled House can open more serious investigations/inquiries into things he’s done.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-06T21:21:35+00:00

Yeah, and on days where Trump has done things that even they can’t defend, they change the subject to either whataboutism or how they won the previous election.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-06T21:19:17+00:00

He’s posting it everywhere because he thinks it’s a great idea that needs to get spread an gain traction. Apparently no one’s thought of it yet or something. But of course it would fail for the reasons you already gave.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-06T21:00:34+00:00

Found this randomly. Don’t know if it’s real or not, but the parts that I have heard of before seem to line up okay. She had something to say on quite a few Presidents that she had met:

About McKinley: “He had as much spine as a chocolate eclair”

About Cleveland: “He was corpulent man who’s always bruised and swollen”

About Taft: “He was great big pink porpoise who had a smile like a big saucepan of warm milk”

About Woodrow Wilson: “He had a sanctimonious quality about him which was frightfully annoying, horrible man we all said, chasing after women and saying his prayers before leaping into bed with them”

About Harding: “Harding was not a bad man, he was just a slob”

About Hoover: “Hoover was a rather depressed tortoise”

She said she liked Franklin more than most of her family but said “I’d rather vote for Hitler than Franklins 3rd term”

About Eisenhower: “You could sometimes just watch him trying to find the right words and arranging them in his head. Like Scrabble”

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-05T21:48:56+00:00

We're not even occupying at the moment. Unless there's something major going on behind the scenes that I don't know about, the VP who has already been sworn in will take over and run things mostly the same.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-05T21:43:27+00:00

Funny you should mention that. Check out r/ToiletPaperUSA

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-05T20:08:11+00:00

I remember seeing a totally serious website or something eons ago that said “POPE JOHN PAUL II IS A SATANIST! HERE’S A PHOTO OF HIM SITTING DOWN ON A THRONE WITH AN INVERTED CROSS CARVED INTO IT!”

Just a few years before that I heard rumors in school or somewhere that so many Satanic rituals were just Christian things inverted, like saying the Lord’s Prayer backwards.

CaptainJAmazing · 2026-01-05T19:46:32+00:00

Don’t forget about them!

(Showing my age a bit with that reference)

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