How do I live I a world where saying something like this doesn't end a person's public career?
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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been wondering this most days of both of trump's presidencies... how the fuck do we continue when any one of those scandals should have wrecked an administration?
they give zero fucks
A great deal of this has to do with mainstream, established media. There is still a strong unspoken assumption that mainstream media speaks for all of us. This is how we can all be pissed off about a specific thing and yet honestly think nobody cares, just because mainstream media doesn't report it as a problem.
When the media reports something across the board as a problem and continues to do so without letting up, change is quick to follow.
But when it reports something as not a problem, or fails to report it much at all, that seems to be a cue that no correction is necessary.
For example, compare and contrast reporting on presidential mental acuity during the Biden administration vs Trump's administration: this is a perfect example of how the media treats the same problem very differently depending on who's got the problem, even when the problem itself is magnitudes more obvious, serious, and damaging in one case than in the other.
This media selectivity has always been there to some extent, but this weird media equivocation toward Republican misbehavior really seemed to go off the deep end in the summer of 2015; I remember hearing some Republican who got caught doing something and expecting the same old tired apology, but instead he said the equivalent of, "Deal with it, I don't care." And it's been that way ever since, as though they all got the memo that the fix was in.
Even now, no one I know personally has stopped talking about the Epstein files or caring about them, except the media. Same thing.
Feel free to disagree, but I don't even have to guess that if Zohran Mamdani, as a very hypothetical example, said religious freedom only belongs to Muslims, white billionaire heads would explode and no mainstream news outlet would let go of it until the end of days. But this well-connected right-wing white pseudo-christian woman can drop that load on live tv and mainstream media doesn't even blink.
Because humanity has a real issue with breaking down established hierarchies. Once a hierarchy is built up, there's almost an implicit structure to it that we recognize and pay way too much heed to; which I have no idea how to fight back against.
We all need religious freedom from christians. We're not in your fucking cult, that was your lifestyle choice.
Jenna Ellis better shut the fuck up before Christian rights make her shut the fuck up
Get fucked cunt.
Figuratively of course. We wouldn't want her to potentially feel any pleasure from human contact.
I’m more concerned about her producing more crotch goblins, to be honest.
Maybe she'd quietly discover that there are acceptable reasons for someone to have an abortion (in a very her-shaped limited circumstances kind of way) instead.
Abortion clinics are full of these self-righteous individuals, who judge everyone else walking in as inferiors, and themselves having the only good reason to do it.
Or to reproduce (more?)
Of course
You know she's never had an orgasm.
"We often don't use the Bible as being authoritative in the public square. And that needs to change." - This Dumb Dipshit
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet." - 1 Timothy 2:11-12 (ie: THE "AUTHORITATIVE" BIBLE)
So why don't you just shut the fuck up, Jenna?
Oh that's right, because you don't give a fuck what the Bible says, you give a fuck what you say.
So go jump off a cliff, you absolute retard.
Why are Christians trying to speak for God and what God wants? Isn't that pure blasphemy?
Come to this room sir, there is some thing we need to explain you.
At this point i just assume anything they say or do is hypocritical. “Rules for thee, not for me” type thing. Accusing others of what they do… list goes on.
Vile bigotry. Self-righteous idiocy. Heinous bitchery. That's all this is.
Up next on the "saying the quiet part out loud" show...
This is what all christian nationalists (and most of the adjacent folks in politics) have believed for a long time. She's just saying it out loud.
Jesus would disagree.
So would the Founding Fathers.
Yeah but he was a dirty jew so who cares what he thoight. And not even one of the good ones! A Palestinian too! Seriously.
That's... not religious freedom, Jenna. That's the opposite of religious freedom, and the government policing religion is the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted.
Haven't they always said this?
Freedom of speech only applies to MAGA rhetoric.
Freedom of the press only applies to the conservative press.
Freedom of assembly only applies to MAGA rallies.
But hey. At least you don't have that arrogant brown lady.
They've always believed it but just outright saying it bluntly is new
Hey she said the quiet part out loud.
Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
Who is she?
Who cares? Some nobody.
According to the comments and her beliefs, some Christofacist cunt.
That was supposed to be the quiet part, you moron!
Nah, they live in a world where they don't have to be quiet.
You are free to profess whatever religion you want, as long as it's Christianity
The colonists fleeing Europe to the American colonies for the apocryphal “freedom of religion” weren’t fleeing to make a place that everyone could practice religion freely, it was so they could practice their religion freely.
So she’s pretty much echoing that early attitude that her version of religion is the only right version. Same as the taliban and all the rest of the theofascists out there.
Is this sanctioned lawyer still talking?
for ~~all~~ me