What a cunt.
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Poor Sikhs always catching strays...
Also, yo, I kind of hate this country.
This lady won with 73% of the vote in 2020, 71% in 2022, and unopposed in 2024. She is exactly what the people in that area want and that's sad. The US is like social media. It's not the platform it's the users that make it garbage.
But social media are garbage because of the platform. It's just built the way to present it as how the users are.
It's like saying that gasoline is not the cracking process, it's the oil.
But the platform promotes garbage, too.
These racist politician assholes should never ever be allowed to represent us in government.
Apparently she's exactly who her constituents want representing them. Take it up with those arseholes.
It’s deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer in the House of Representatives this morning. This should have never been allowed to happen
I believe our government should reflect that truth.
She's right: leading prayer in Congress at all should never be allowed. Government should reflect the truth of a secular government.
Yes. Government should be led by law not theology.
Pepperidge farms remembers when bigots were shamed away from talking not their target minorities.
Dumbfuck can't even get her religions straight, and apparently she thinks America was founded to be a Christian theocracy. Astoundingly ignorant and misinformed, yet there she sits Congress, governing the nation with her 2 brain cells.
She probably has no idea what Deism is.
I was going to make a “DEIsm is woke, DEIsm is getting abolished, etc” joke… But it’s impossible to create a parody so extreme that some users won’t mistake it for the genuine thing. Poe’s Law is in full effect here.
The people would likely think its a cult worshiping Dhalsim from Street Fighter 2.
And thus call for all Deists to be deported.
Her average constituent sees turban and thinks Muslim.
She represents her district in more ways than one.
American was founded as a Christian nation
-- Every American Christian Bigot
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
-- First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States
🤔
Don't forget:
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
-- John Adams
“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslim peoples], and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.” - Treaty of Tripoli, signed 1797.
Thomas Jefferson had his own personally edited version of the Bible that focused on the philosophies and stories in the Bible, and left out the supernatural mythology and fairy tales. There were parts of the religion he liked, but he was clearly uncomfortable with the actual religious parts of it.
And he actually WROTE the founding documents.
TJ was Deist, not Christian.
Honestly who could say what they meant by that, it's such an open to interpretation remark.
Good thing we know exactly what they meant in the second amendment.
Yes but they're going to go extinct if we cut off their arms.
Those poor bears
The thing you have to realize is that some words change meaning over time. If you check a dictionary from the time, you'll find that back then "regulated" meant... oh, looks like it meant the exact same thing it means today. Huh, looks like it's meant the same thing since it was taken from Latin. Fancy that.
It literally says "Congress," of which she is a member.
Every newly elected Congressional Rep and Senator should have to pass a difficult, graduate-level test on the history of the United States, and the Constitution, before being sworn into office. You can't be sworn in until you pass the test. These people are tasked with leading our country. Knowing the basics is the least we can demand of them.
And they won't be paid until they pass either.
To be fair i feel the same way about any non-buddhist(or other peaceful) religion speaking.
Well you see, the thing about conservatives is that they are fucking stupid.
Well you see, the thing about conservatives is that they are fucking ~~stupid~~ self-serving liars.
FTFY
This bitch knows damn well America isn't a "Christian nation," but she'll shout it from the rooftops if she thinks she can get away with it in order to advance her hateful, bigoted agenda.
Do. Not. Give. Her. Any. Benefit. Of. The. Doubt.
And they celebrate their ignorance...
Trump loves the poorly educated, he said so himself. And they want daddy trump to love them.
Yet another Sikh man misidentified as a Muslim (not that it would matter if they were) by some backwood dumb fuck using weaponized religion.
Surprise twist: He redirected all your Christian prayers to Waheguru and you're all now an additional cycle away from Mukti.
Why does the House of Representatives even have prayer in the mornings to begin with?
I would like to know the actual answer to this. When did it start? Has it been there from the beginning?
Because the foundation of US instritutions was largely Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V from Westminster, where morning prayers are the only time MPs are allowed to come and reserve a seat for the rest of the day. It’s probably a lot more attended in the American version though.
Once again, I am asking the British to stop fucking up governments worldwide
The British government has been functional since the civil war over 370 years ago. If there are functional issues with the US system, (and there are, to the point it actually shuts down sometimes) that’s their own meddling and the warranty is void.
Seriously. When is the designated time for thoughts?
“Thoughts and prayers!”
“Uh we’d like some more thoughts, please.”
“Well we’re OUT of thoughts! We only had three bits and we didn’t expect such a rush.”
“So my choice is ‘and prayers’? I’ll have the chicken then, please.”
Mary Miller represents district 15 which surrounds but does not include both Springfield and St. Louis. It is 90% white, 2.9% black, and 2.8% Hispanic. There are basically no non-Republican elected officials above the county level and voted overwhelmingly for Trump. This district became home of the second resurgence of the KKK in Illinois in the 1920s and has stayed their home through resurgences in the 1950s and 1990s.
Illinois redistricted recently and it was gerrymandered to fuck to make sure that her district was absolutely backwoods conservative as possible. It practically ensures Illinois will swing blue for the next decade. She's unfortunately my representative, but I'll live with that reality knowing that my existence as her constituent pisses her off and Illinois stays blue.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
Chicagoan here. Like I always say, the souther you go the Kentuckier you get. And this is just central IL. Fuck her bitch face.
That bitch is from Naperville.