{"id":3387,"date":"2026-05-26T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:36:33","slug":"one-racist-batshit-christo-fascist-homeland-under-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"One Racist Batshit Christo-Fascist Homeland Under God"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In retrospect, Sunday’s taxpayer-funded blasphemy fest to “rededicate” America as a Christian nation though it’s not and never was looks ever more obscene amidst an unholy regime’s mounting crimes and abuses. Its sectarian circus – ICE milled, vendors urged “WIVES SUBMIT,” zealots screeched “We welcome Jesus!”, speakers attested God is eager for the ballroom – just queasily re-shaped a 250-year-old America into the kind of country it once sought freedom from.<\/p>\n

“Rededicate 250<\/a>: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,” a “constitutional abomination wrapped in layers of blasphemy and demagoguery,” sought <\/a>to proclaim America “One Nation Under God,” but only a white male evangelical God; Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, commies, Jews, atheists, agnostics, black, brown, queer, Native people and even mainline Protestants need not apply. As such, it attacked what Jefferson deemed an unalienable right of conscience “which lies solely between Man & his God,” defied the core constitutional tenet of separation of church and state, and “torpedoe(d) <\/a>the best of American traditions – inclusivity and diversity” with, essentially, “a Jubilee of Christian Nationalism.”<\/p>\n

Its state-sponsored, right-wing fever dream marked the successful MAGA hijacking of Congress\u2019 bipartisan, 2016 America250<\/em> commission, meant to honor the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and its core values of equality and agency before the law. Instead, Trump concocted his own Christo-fascist Freedom 250 <\/em>to celebrate a racist, corporate, jingoistic narrative of America, rewriting history<\/a> to create an imaginary, monolithic, jingoistic, white, male, Christian national identity that celebrates “God\u2019s presence in our national life throughout 250 years of American history,” and what is this inequality or oppression of which you speak?<\/p>\n

Freedom 250 <\/em>swiftly collected most of the $150 million appropriated by Congress, along with support from patriotic sponsors like ExxonMobil<\/a>, Mastercard, Palantir, Amazon, Coinbase. Year-long festivities have included a weekly <\/em>America Prays<\/em> <\/a>initiative; a series of Interior Department events celebrating <\/a>\u201cthe triumph of the American spirit\u201d plastered with flags, logos, Trump National Park passes; a fleet of nationwide \u201cFreedom Trucks<\/a>,\u201d mobile museums offering right-wing <\/a>takes on US history created with <\/a>PragerU<\/em>; a national Freedom 250<\/em> Patriot Games <\/em>– Hunger Games<\/em> anyone? – competition for high school athletes; a revamped Great American Farmers Market<\/a> in DC with a <\/em>“MAHA Monday.”<\/p>\n

On social media, meanwhile, DHS has begun declaring<\/a> itself “One Homeland Under God,” complete with image of church and cross and highlighted Bible verse; for April 19<\/a>, it urged, \u201cTrust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” The Washington Monument was transformed into \u201cthe world\u2019s tallest birthday candle,” with projections celebrating historic achievements by white men like Christopher Columbus and Henry Ford, with no black, Native, female people in sight. To re-enforce the white-centric narrative, organizers have also promised <\/a>a Summer Surge of thousands more ICE <\/a>and DHS thugs to make the nation still whiter.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s Jubilee continued the rebrand <\/a>of a newly pristine, godly history, with 14 of 15 speakers<\/a> Christian, arched stained-glass windows and a looming white cross all “glorifying the name of Jesus over our nation\u2019s capital.” “Our nation more than any other was shaped by the idea that faith brought freedom,” said Marco Rubio in a prerecorded speech. “This is who we are.” Virginia pastor Gary Hamrick concurred, but added <\/a>the imaginary threat of a “spiritual war,” perhaps best personified by the scary scattered signs of protesters urging, \u201cCelebrate Democracy, Not Theocracy.\u201d “This is a battle in our day between good and evil,” he said. “Our hope is built on Jesus’ blood.”<\/p>\n

Also, Jesus merch. As the faithful braved three-hour lines in the heat and prayed, <\/a>arms lifted to the sky, vendors handed out “Jesus Saves” bracelets and buttons that said, \u201cWIVES SUBMIT, HUSBANDS LOVE, CHILDREN OBEY.\u201d There were “Thank you Jesus!” signs, a huge “Jesus Make America Godly Again” banner, $47 Freedom 250 baseball caps, t-shirts that read, “God Guns Family Freedom” and “Forever In Our Hearts, Charlie Kirk.” “We welcome Jesus into this place!” declared one speaker. Another noted, <\/a>“It’s hard to believe it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom to stand where it needs to stand.” (Jesus.)<\/p>\n

Pete Hegseth,on video, was typically unshy about praising <\/a>Jesus. He dubiously zeroed in on The Prayer at Valley Forge, a <\/em>1975 painting by Arnold Friberg of George Washington praying in the snow widely deemed<\/a> a romanticized legend, not fact. Historians argue<\/a> Washington was a deist and freemason who rarely mentioned God or Jesus, whose favorite Biblical quote – “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid”<\/em> – symbolizes peace, safety, religious freedom, and who always prayed standing. Still, Hegseth ran with it: Washington “did not lose faith,” and “let us pray as he did…without ceasing…on bended knee, for our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.”<\/p>\n

Trump took an even more sketchy approach: He went golfing and sent in <\/a>a slurry, pre-taped Bible reading<\/a> recycled<\/em> from the last fake Christian event three weeks ago. Then, moments after it aired, the self-described peace president went on a frenzied, genocidal social media spree, posting on his crappy app over 30 times in two hours. He threatened Iran: “T<\/em>he Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won\u2019t be anything left of them.” He posted <\/a>bizarre, AI, warmongering images: <\/a>Manning a spacecraft, firing<\/a> away with massive explosions and mushroom clouds, personally arresting an alien, a real one. Say what? Praise Jesus. <\/p>\n

Still, spineless, smarmy, unholy Mike Johnson was the worst. Having already whined about “naysayers” who view Christian Nationalism as “a derogatory term,” he gave a long hollow prayer <\/a>about his task to “bring us straight to the Lord, whose mighty hand has been upon our (freest and most benevolent) nation since the very beginning.” But now “sinister ideologies sow confusion among our people,” attacking our history as “one of oppression and hypocrisy and failure.” So “grant us the moral clarity to rise above partisan differences,” says the guy who keeps shutting down Congress to block Dem policies. Finally, unconscionably, he prayed<\/a> for \u201cmercy upon our land.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mercy. He seeks mercy. <\/p>\n

Mercy for the hundreds of people in the Congo and elsewhere dying<\/a> of an Ebola outbreak after Trump gutted<\/a> USAID and its dedicated outbreak response team because it helped people who aren’t white, thus triggering what could be over 14 million preventable deaths<\/a> by 2030?<\/p>\n

Mercy for those killed<\/a> at San Diego’s biggest mosque amidst a Trump-fuelled rising tide <\/a>of Islamophobia? Mercy for those ripped off<\/a> or otherwise betrayed <\/a>in a rabid mob by a $1.8 billion slush fund, or “pardon on steroids,” in the “most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.” <\/p>\n

Mercy for the estimated 145,000 U.S. citizen <\/em>brown children who had a parent detained by ICE and are now scattered across the country, or the 22,000 who lost both parents? Mercy for the woman, a domestic violence victim, detained and deported whom ICE is now blaming<\/a> for the murder of her own child by her ex-partner?<\/p>\n

Mercy for the 21-year-old Honduran with no criminal record just arrested<\/a> and detained by ICE outside a New York immigration court less than 24 hours after a federal judge’s ruling <\/a>such arrests are illegal, because, as one ICE thug responded when shown the ruling, “We don’t care”?<\/p>\n

Mercy for 18-year-old, Chicago-born, Mexico-raised Kevin Gonz\u00e1lez, being treated<\/a> in Chicago for metastatic stage-four colon cancer when his health began failing? His parents in Mexico sought emergency visas to travel to the US to say their final goodbyes; when DHS denied them, citing \u201cprevious unlawful entries into the US,” in desperation they tried to cross the border without permission and were detained by ICE in Arizona. Kevin pleaded in vain for their release; ultimately, he checked himself <\/a>out of the hospital and flew to his grandmother’s home in Mexico to be with family at the end. Finally, in Kevin’s last hours, a judge in Arizona ordered <\/a>their release. They arrived <\/a>at his bedside on the afternoon of May 9. His sobbing mom called him, \u201cChiquito,” “little one\u201d; his father knelt by his son’s bed, asking for forgiveness if he ever let him down. Kevin died the next day.<\/p>\n

Mercy? Does Mike Johnson want mercy for Kevin and his parents?<\/p>\n

Fuck Mike Johnson and all his fucking odious cohort. Fuck their prayers, and their Jesus, and their cruelty, and their fucking despicable hypocrisy, which knows no bounds. What would Jesus do? Not this, any of it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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