President Donald Trump on Friday seized on the electoral success of several democratic socialist candidates to ramp up his attacks on the Democratic Party, claiming it was being taken over by “godless Communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.

The heated rhetoric marked the latest bid by Trump to portray Democrats as political extremists ahead of November’s midterms — even though portrayals of even the party’s most liberal candidates as “communists” are far from reality.

“These are hard core, godless Communists,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier on Friday, an accusation he repeated during remarks to a gathering of social conservatives. “This is the Greatest Threat to our Country since its Founding 250 years ago!”

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      Literally what their greatest teacher Christ preached against.

      Jesus (presuming he existed) lived in a culture steeped in slavery, yet he never bothered saying “hey guys, maybe don’t do that?”

      What a great and wise teacher.

    • Murse@slrpnk.net
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      9 days ago

      Literally what their greatest ~~teacher ~~

      Mascot. Although according to their mythology, he did spend a great deal of effort on teaching, his would-be students refused to learn - a trait true of Christians to this day.

      They love iconography of the guy though! …no not that iconography - can we make him more white? Perfect. That iconography.

        • Murse@slrpnk.net
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          9 days ago

          That’s my point though. If I deliver a lecture to a brick wall, even an insightful, logical, factual, beautifully executed lecture, am I a teacher? For one to teach, another must learn. If Christians reject the lessons of their own god, the whole production is just one giant tragedy about a man and his son-self thing fruitlessly pleading with a pile of bricks. Despite their best effort, the bricks did not, do not, and will not learn; actively denying Sky Daddy & Super J the role of ‘teacher’.