Kathryn Kemp

Kathryn Kemp

@hypatiak.bsky.social

Retired US history professor, Clayton State U . Morrow GA. Widowed in 2021. Two adult children, 4 grands, one great. Live with 2 dogs & a cat. Plenty of opinions on politics and religion. Refugee from X.

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History lesson: “Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens who will … never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion.“  This was Benjamin Franklin, talking about Germans.

Sonlife Broadcasting an arm of the Jimmy Swaggart “ministry“ was today promoting all of the right wing crack-pottery from the era of Covid. They followed this by condemning all Democrats. 

General information: in Georgia, the voting machine, prints out a paper ballot which the voter then carries to a second machine that counts it. A voter can examine the ballot to be sure that it is correct. Paper ballots can be hand counted if any questions arise.

Lawrence O’Donnell just took Graham Platner to the woodshed. Among many other points, it turns out that the “man of the people“ wasn’t such a commoner after all. Rich Daddy, fancy school, Mama buys his oysters.

Trump is spouting religious hooey at the conservative conference. He claimed that the previous administration had actively persecuted Christians. I didn’t notice that, did you?

Snopes rated this one TRUE: “The number 250, which the Trump administration wants to use on a $250 bill with the president's face on it, is slang for “idiot” in Chinese.“

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Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

OnTrump’s college record from the website _Factually_: “… Trump graduated from the Wharton School’s undergraduate finance program in 1968, according to commencement records—but (evidence does not show academic distinction.) Also this isn’t the outstanding Wharton MBA degree program.

Donnie Swaggart (son/successor of Jimmy) says that “one party” hates God and wants to prevent pastors from preaching the Christian message. He is an ignorant fanatic, but many gullible people swallow his ideas whole.