Thursday, February 20, 2025

ULTRA WOKE MAGA!

ULTRA WOKE MAGA!

Woke enough for ya?

By Keith Thomas

2/20/2025

Projectors?

            We have this definition from Psychology Today.[1]

“Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person.”

            It would be funnier if it weren’t so sad that MAGA accuses others of doing what they’re doing. MAGA is so woke that surely they must be suffering from sleep deprivation. Trump Derangement Syndrome is what they’re suffering from. They are the wokenest of the woken woke.

They need to be deprogrammed.

Banned in MAGA land.

            So far MAGA has …

Banned books in the name of freedom.

Banned words in the name of freedom.

Banned inclusion in the name of freedom.

Brought back segregation in the name of freedom.

Banned education in the name of freedom.

Banned women’s control over their own bodies in the name of freedom.

Banned queers in the name of freedom.

Banned equal treatment for minorities in the name of freedom.

Threatened teachers in the name of freedom.

Halted the advancement of medical science in the name of freedom.

Censored news in the name of freedom.

Deported immigrants in the name of freedom.

Sold out Ukraine in the name of freedom.

Broke laws in the name of freedom.

Brought back bribing foreign officials in the name of freedom.

Threatened what used to be a free press in the name of freedom.

            In MAGAland you have the freedom to be poor and die for lack of adequate medical care. Children have the freedom to go hungry. You have the freedom to agree with Führer Trump and MAGA.

“[W]ith liberty and justice for all”. Not.


[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Kill the white man!

 Kill the white man!

Pound that message.

            That’s quite the title isn’t it?

            We have a criminal President. He’s going to keep right on criminaling. He’s good at it. Remember that if there’s nothing else you take away from reading this post. Remember this too. There is NO widespread corruption, fraud, waste, abuse, and illegal activity being found by the Führer Trump or President Musk.[1] PERIOD.

            I was stationed in Germany back in 1970.  There was a lot of racial tension then in the service.  I roomed with a couple of brothers.  I was their barber.  Couldn’t cut a white guy’s hair to save my life but I could handle a very modified afro that would still pass inspection. 

One night there was a pirate radio station playing in another guy’s area while I was writing letters home.  Over and over again some guy was saying “Kill the white man! Kill the white man! We must rise up and kill the white man! Kill the white man!”  I was engrossed in writing letters home at the time and just tuned it out mentally or so I thought.  There was no one else was in the room for me to holler at to “Turn that crap off!” so I just kept writing.

After a while I found myself thinking that, “Yes, we must kill the white man.”  I even wrote the words in a letter that I was working on.  Whoa!  That’s when I decided enough of that, got up off my butt, went over and turned the damn radio off.  I had to scratch out the kill the white man words.  No sense in causing needless worry to loved ones back in the states. Not being mentally disturbed, I never acted on killing the white man.

            I probably didn’t listen to that for more than an hour and it was just background noise to what I was doing.  Yet that earworm crept into my thoughts.

The messaging was effective.

Pound the message.

One of the hard lessons I learned is that in spite of what people say, negative campaigning/messaging works. Period. That’s why Führer Trump does it. Every. Day. It is who he is. It is who he has always been. It’s his nature.

Back in the day when I campaigned for office in the union and civic world with words written on paper, a.k.a. pamphlets, door knockers, cards, etc. the ‘rule of thumb’ was that the handout would last long enough to make it to the first trash can the person passed unless the person that had it in their hand was a litterer. (I just made up that part about littering.)

As a society we’ve been conditioned for quick gratification and sound bites. People aren’t really interested in fact checking or reading a lot of words. If you’ve made it this far you are phenomenal. The average attention span now is slightly over 8 seconds. Goldfish have a 9 second attention span.[2] The average American only spends 15 minutes a day reading.[3] People receive 90% of their information visually. Think about all the MAGA glued to Fox Pravda and Trump for hours on end.

Seeing is what they’re believing.

People in general believe what they’re predisposed to believe. Digging deeper and being informed requires effort.  Reading requires effort. It’s far easier to have someone tell you what to believe. For web traffic that happens to bounce in I lost over half of them way back at the beginning of this post.[4] The average post should be around 300 words in order to keep people engaged. 

Are you still with me? You are not average. You are exceptional.

            That brings us to President Trump.

As President Trump will continue pounding out his messaging of lies every day. He gets his message out in 8 seconds. The nation is coming apart.  America has to be saved! Pound the message! Government is the enemy. The ‘Deep State’ is the enemy! Dems are the enemy! Pound the lies! Hate the immigrants! Corruption is everywhere! Pound the message! Shoot the immigrants! Pound the lies! Immigrants are criminals! The press is the enemy of the people! Rich Jews are the enemy! Everything bad is Biden’s fault!

Every chance Trump gets he pounds the lies. Pound the message.  Give him everything he wants!  Only Daddy Trump can save us! Trump is everything good. Trump is a genius!

            America needs to be a never defined great again but MAGA will know it when they see it. 

Pound the message!

Keep on lyin’!

            The biggest mistake that President Joe Biden made from day one is that he didn’t do what Trump and all of his surrogates did and are doing now.  The convicted sexual abuser holds press conferences ALL the damn time. Since he isn’t governmenting he has time. He delivers the same message all the damn time.  EVERY surrogate MAGA Senator and Representative delivers the same message.  I don’t care what question they were asked they give the same talking points that their Führer Trump does.  Right-wing fascist propaganda outlet delivers the same message.  Every. Time. 

            The felon President Trump has been hate messaging to a receptive audience since 2015.

Hate and lies sell.  MAGA is buying.


[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/13/trump-musk-claim-government-fraud-without-showing/

[2] https://www.armsacres.com/blog/average-human-attention-span

[3] https://www.statista.com/topics/3928/reading-habits-in-the-us/#topicOverview

[4] https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/how-people-read-online-why-you-wont-finish-this-article.html

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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Up to date, 2/16/2025

2/16/2025

         Okay, this blog is now up to date with my most recent posting on Substack. I will continue posting on both platforms now. I do encourage people to subscribe to my posts on Substack so that you can receive them via email. Here's the link. < https://substack.com/@bykeiththomas > I write under the nom de plume "The Old Fart." I share an occasional Life Story of mine there. Look me up if you get the chance.

        I appreciate people reading my stuff. Time is a precious commodity and I thank you for taking some of it to read my writing. There are a lot of good writers out there to choose from but not all that many providing a retired factory worker's perspective about what is taking place in America.

JESUS the WOKE LIBERAL

JESUS the WOKE LIBERAL

Hey MAGA Christians! Be like Jesus.

By Keith Thomas

2/16/2025

“If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Street Jesus.

The Christian Jesus was a knock-me-down, full-blown, save-kitty-from-the-tree-being-hugged, give-all-your-money-away, turn-the-other-cheek, bleeding-heart LIBERAL! He was single and never dated. Hung out with guys. Lived in a commune. Told people to get rid of their possessions.[1] Died penniless.

The New Testament cannot be preached without presenting the LIBERAL view of Jesus unless you’re a Christian Nationalist MAGA. Well, it can be but it won’t be an accurate representation. Jesus put love and caring for the poor, the sick, the downtrodden, the infirm, the immigrant first. Jesus put Love first.

Jesus hung out with the wretched dregs of society. Wretched dregs like MAGA. He would have tried to get them to be better people. He did NOT preach a prosperity gospel. He never said a word against gay people. NOT. ONE. WORD. He wasn’t a racist. He didn’t discriminate. He walked everywhere most of the time. Well, there was that donkey that he rode once.

I’m talking about Jesus.

There’s all that Beatitudes scripture just full of liberal pronouncements. I’m not going to even bother with listing all those far-out pronouncements of a LIBERAL mentality.

Not a good businessman!

DEI Jesus.

Jesus was all about DEI! He lived DEI! He promoted DEI!

Jesus was biased. He said some off the wall Liberal stuff and did some really liberal things. He fed 5,000 people and didn’t charge for the meal! Seriously. Didn’t even ask for donations. Didn’t hawk hats.

His church wasn’t a profit center. Okay, he really didn’t have a physical church home so this may not be a fair comparison. There were people meeting in buildings though, helping getting Christianity off the ground.

He wasn’t a profit center. He had his apostle followers just walk off the job without any increase in monetary benefits. He didn’t say, “Follow me and you’ll make a lot of money and I’ll even throw in medical!” He didn’t even have sense enough to charge for bringing back the dead or miraculously healing people. Can you imagine? With a talent like that he could have made a fortune.

As near as I can tell he didn’t even have any extra robes to wear. He just walked around and stayed places. What did he do with his income anyway? He sure didn’t spend it on clothes or shoes. He did seem to eat out a lot. I just can’t see him picking up the check though. He did have that creating food out of thin air talent.

The man really did not know how to make a buck even though he was into marketing. He was into busting up the temple franchising though. So there’s that at least.

Jesus did talk about those with wealth.

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Jesus said that.

The people listed below did NOT get that memo!

Big Bible Business

“So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.” Jesus[2]

            Teaching Christians all about Jesus and the bible can be pretty lucrative for some people. They prey on the same kind of gullible people that MAGA preys on. Average financially middle-class church pastors are NOT living high on the hog.

Estimated worth.[3]

1 Kenneth Copeland, $300 million.

2 Dave Ramsey, 200 + million.

3 Pat Robertson, $100 million. (Deceased)

4 Joel Osteen, $100 million.[4]

5 Benny Hinn, $60 million

6 Steven Furtick Jr., $55 million.[5]

7 Andy Stanely, $45 million

8 Creflo Dollar, $30 million

9 Rick Warren, $25 million. (Warren was in the news recently for posting that Jesus would be a centrist politically.[6] That pissed off a couple million Christians and he took his post down.)

10 Jesse Duplantis, $20 million (Deceased. Died in private plane crash in ’24.)

11 T.D. Jakes, $20 million

12 Greg Laurie, $15 million

13 Jim Bakker, $15 million.[7] (Bakker crashed and burned once. Spent 5 years in prison and was paroled. BTW in addition to all his other criminal charges he was also accused of raping a drugged woman and paying her off.[8] Since being released he has clawed his way back once again and tapped into the MAGA crowd.)

14 John F. MacArthur, $14 million

15 Franklin Graham, $10 million

16 John C. Maxwell, $10 million

17 Joyce Meyer, $8 million

18 Paula White, $6 million[9]

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” Jesus

And Trump.

MJGA

You know what would really help the MAGA Christian Nationalists that put together Project 2025 to serve their master Trump? Paying attention to what Jesus said and did.

Think about what Jesus would say and do during difficult times like these. He lived in some difficult times. They did him in. Politicians and religious leaders like those surrounding and supporting Trump got him. God did use some unsavory people. But when he used them, when they found a higher purpose—they changed! They became better people. They treated their fellow human beings better.

The Pharisees of today are trying to tell us that the tweet storming name calling petty grudge having lying pathetic caricature of a man is God’s Chosen One and is being used by God to serve a greater purpose. If you believe in such nonsense then you should recognize that God sent a plague to the man you worship and crashed the nation in 2020. Then in 2024 MAGA Christians voted for him again. They didn’t get the message.

Biblical Jesus lived as a common man. He had grace and eloquence under pressure. He was fair. He was just. He said and lived a better way. He wasn’t a racist. He would not think it a good idea to separate families and put children in cages. Jesus would not be claiming that he had a Constitutional right to endanger and kill people. He would not be a multi-millionaire. He would more than likely have a street ministry and be taking care of the poor and homeless. He wouldn’t be telling people to give their money to millionaires and billionaires. Jesus would be saying feed the hungry and he would not be saying BUT only if they have the right papers. Jesus is a globalist. Jesus is a Universalist. Jesus was all about DEI.

Make Jesus Great Again.


[1] https://www.openbible.info/topics/leave_your_worldly_possessions_behind

[2] Ibid.

[3] https://www.legit.ng/ask-legit/top/1627219-top-richest-pastors-america-impressive-net-worth/

[4] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joel-osteen-shooting-church-shooter-b2494689.html

[5] https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/steven-furtick.html

[6] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/rick-warren-deletes-political-tweet-about-crucifixion-after-christian-backlash/ar-AA1z8DxA?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=44f625eb8bfd452cbbf5f802936e4f82&ei=45

[7] https://equityatlas.org/what-is-jim-bakker-net-worth/#

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker

[9] https://coblitob.com/paula-white-net-worth/

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