It's one thing to fetishize the founders -- an approach the founders themselves discouraged! -- but it's something else to fetishize the founders *and* insist they said things they actually never said.
Really bizarre.
Really bizarre.
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Hemant Mehta
In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...
As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...
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This is peak Republican right wing. He's not saying Jefferson actually did this, but "it is said" that he did so.
Gonna come out eventually that he runs a sex trafficking ring, or his basement is full of dead hookers.
The defining characteristic of the Trump administration and his only true political innovation: blatant lying and rejection of reality
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/03/new-year-same-trump-maga-pounces-on-new-orleans-tragedy-to-spread-disinformation/
Sure they'll pretend to use facts but they don't NEED the facts, just the agenda.
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Authoritarian governments love rewriting history.
Any quotes from the man one might pick out aside, I don’t see how to overlook his actions with regards to the New Testament
He and Mike Johnson do not view the Bible the same way By
People two hundred years dead are incredibly pliable when queried for their opinion by means of seance.
They are feverishly rewriting history before our eyes.
“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet”
-Abraham Lincoln
George Washington appointed bureaucrats just like everyone else.
Like the executive branch has ever been one guy. 🙄
Yes, nobody voted for them, but they voted for the guy who appoints them.
Nice guys don't lie. Good guys don't make things up.
#LIARS
Jefferson believed religion to be a private matter; when asked to recommend a national day of fasting and prayer, he replied,
"I consider the government of the US. as interdicted by the constitution from intermedling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises."
Would be nice to have some help from MS media.