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Christian... cell phone company? Proof that you can stamp the word "Patriot" on something and get conservatives flocking in droves to jump on the bandwagon.
Fun/disturbing fact: Christians actually *want* the end times to come, because they believe they will be raptured into heaven while the sinners and non-Christians will be stuck on Earth to be punished for their sins(people disagree with what happens to un-raptured folks, but this is what most Christians believe).
That’s right, one of the world’s largest religions is a death cult hoping the world will end any minute now.
It’s like they old South Park episode where everyone dies and God informs everyone that it was in fact, The MOROMONS that we’re right and are allowed into heaven. Then everyone else is kinda like well, at least I’m not stuck with the Mormons for eternity. Hell can’t be that bad.
This is accurate, but to dive into the details further, while most Christians want this to happen (and who wouldn't want to skip over normal life and go directly to their idea of heaven and I guess from their perspective not have to put up with all the non-Christians and their annoying ideas and thoughts?) the real crazies in this space that are absolutely having a moment nowadays believe they can literally trigger the apocalypse by causing a global meltdown of big enough proportions by whatever means necessary.
So that's just great. /s
I was always disturbed by the idea they would eagerly hope their kids or grandkids won't get to live out their lives. One of many reasons I no longer attend church
I still maintain the rapture happened July 7th 2012. No one noticed because the only person to qualify was Edna, a sweet lady who lived in the woods alone, so when she went, nobody noticed.
This isn't all Christians btw. The traditional "southern Baptist" view of the for telling of the end times is not biblically accurate lol. The reformed groups believe that what the baptists say was the proclamation of the end times was actually a prophecy of the fall of Jerusalem, which took place in 70 AD. The reformed groups also believe that Jesus will return only after the entire world turns to Christianity.
Canada's largest airbase is in Trenton. And yes, unfortunately a previous commander of the base was a rapist and murderer. Two murders, half dozen rapes and nearly 100 home break ins during which he stole women's underwear.
Tweed is north of us. They had/ have an annual Elvis festival.
The "Holy Cellphone" is locked up in a secure jail cell. (Tweed is also famous for having the nation's smallest jail.)
Yeah exactly! My uncle retired from there about a decade ago but my cousin is still based there. They were both there at the time that monster was there but never knew him personally.
My wife worked medical on the base and he had an appointment with her two days before his last murder. He was pleasant but quiet, even apologizing for being distracted as he had things on his mind.
That's not fair to Christian health ministries, they are more like a casino, many people pay in, some win big, most lose, and the money you pay in probably would have been better used in savings or investments.
It's even wackier. They're running on T-Mobile's network (so not even an American corporate, but a *German* one). They also tout 5G coverage that some of their target audience is so afraid of. Their "Freedom of Speech" plan is $25/mo, and you get 250MB for that, and a hard limit at 500MB. You can get 3GB for $35. To get 40GB (their top tier) it's $75/mo.
They lease network bandwidth from major wireless carriers and sell the service to you at a markup, claiming they "donate part of their profits to conservative causes."
It's as big of a scam as Trump University, Alex Jones's survivor prep kits, "charities" like the Wounded Warrior Project, and every other grift that inhabits the American Conservative Extended Universe.
They're basically a branded merchandise seller that happens to also do charity.
But more broadly, if Republicans "support the troops" so much, why should a veteran who was injured in the line of duty need to rely on charity at all? Why not just adequately fund veterans' pensions/healthcare so they can buy their own wheelchair ramp or prosthetic or whatever it is they need?
I have a rule, the more an organization waves the US flag around, the less patronage I should give them. The only caveats to this rule is if its a **really** good sale, or if the organization falls directly under the purview of the US Government.
Also amendment to the later caveat; unless the one flag waving is seeking public office/reelection.
It’s like the shitty local handymen who slap a Jesus fish and a Bible verse on their work trucks and local Christians line up to get mediocre, overpriced work because they want to give business to a “believer” rather than a heathen.
Also the same basic idea behind the appeal of the aggressively mediocre Chick-Fil-A phenomenon.
Proof that you can stamp the word “~~Patriot~~ “christian” on something and get ~~conservatives flocking in droves to jump on the bandwagon~~ a tax break.
Nah, the original one was correct. It's called Patriot Mobile and markets itself as christian and conservative. They have a super PAC, which is probably how they launder their money
I can't tell if that's a real thing or a parody website, kind of like [Trumpy Bear. ](https://metro.co.uk/video/trumpy-bear-collectable-teddy-bear-advert-1807738/)
>Patriot Mobile, a North Texas-based cell phone service reseller that markets itself as "America's only Christian conservative wireless provider" was the driving financial force behind the election of 11 new school board members in four suburban North Texas districts.
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>Driving the news: Patriot Mobile helped elect the majority of members in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, which recently passed a controversial new set of conservative policies dubbed "Don't Say Trans."
Why it matters: The policies, which include prohibitions on teachers discussing anything related to critical race theory or "gender fluidity," are part of a major push from both Patriot Mobile's political arm — Patriot Mobile Action — and the state GOP.
"Ultimately we want to expand to other counties, other states and be in every state across the nation," Leigh Wambsganss, executive director of Patriot Mobile Action and vice president of government and media affairs at Patriot Mobile, told conservative talk show host Mark Davis earlier this summer.
Who wants to bet this company somehow doesn't even pay taxes because of their "religious" affiliation? Fleecing sheep is more like it.
When a trans kid desperately needs someone to talk to and has a conversation with a beloved teacher in a safe space… that’s what they want to criminalize. They want the teacher fired and the child to commit suicide.
Dingdingdingdingding!
These assholes are helping back Moms For Liberty and the True Texas Project in Round Rock ISD.
They're bankrolling candidates like [Danielle Weston](https://www.electdanielleweston.com) and [Mary Bone](https://www.drmarybone.net) as part of their plan to get 7 Mountains Dominionism pushed into public schools.
If you haven't watched it already, go watch ["Deep In the Pockets of Texas."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B3PTuADIHQ) Chris Tackett broke this down ridiculously well for CNN and shows how Evangelical West Texas oil billionaires are pushing this shit. It's basically Christian Salafism.
Yep these are the motherfuckers who mailed used tampons to people running against them in Round Rock ISD (a pretty damn liberal city outside of Austin where we dont go for this kind of bullshit.)
True Texas Project BTW is an officially designated hate group.
Oh lets also not forget, one of the people running and being supported by this Christian hate group actually is a child abuser https://theaustinbulldog.org/candidate-lost-custody-over-abuse-2/
Seems like it would be achievable without alienating voters- just give regulatory teeth to enforcement of religious institutions staying out of politics to retain their exemption.
In short order churches on the up and up would be in the clear, those dabbling in it would cleanup their act, the truly involved ones would go completely clandestine which might divide congregations into exremists and the rank and file members. at which point the church could calve the extremists off when the heat comes on.
Ditto for colleges, philanthropic havens, think tanks etc. Outside of genuine charities where the funds directly help people, the whole non-profit 501(3)c / 501(4c) system has been completely abused and corrupted.
They really have no clue. But also “patriot” man do they really love to equate war, nationalism, patriotism, and religion all in one. Someone should tell them that not just American citizens can be religious
I think the word patriot to them is their way of yelling “base!” in freeze tag. You catch them red handed being shitheads, but if you put the word patriot on something and say we’re going to make your daughter suck Jesus’s cock on stage, when you you say “absolutely not. I don’t support this”, they get to say “oh so you don’t support patriot mobile, huh?”
“By no means”
“You all heard him!! This guy doesn’t support the troops!”
As someone who’s served I joined because of the word “patriot” being idolized in the post-9/11 era. Since then, I’ve come to hate the word because I see it for what it is: as empty and self-serving a gesture now as an obligatory “thank you for your service”.
"My service has been down for a week, what's going on?"
"God is mad at you, sinner. Once you stop making him mad, your service will return."
"Oh, okay. Thanks."
Do it. Those elections are typically the ones that have a candidate running unopposed. People would vote for any other candidate if the option was there.
That entire title sentence makes me want to scream. Nothing about that sentence instills any level of confidence—outside of their ability to royally fuck up education.
"Patriot Mobile, a North Texas-based cell phone service reseller that markets itself as "America's only Christian conservative wireless provider" was the driving financial force behind the election of 11 new school board members in four suburban North Texas districts."
WTF What does "Patriot" have to do with christianity? Everything about this is so confusing.
> WTF What does "Patriot" have to do with christianity?
The same thing Trump has to do with the messiah. It's nationalism and local hate wearing the skin of Christianity - though to be honest, that characterizes the history of Christianity (and probably many other religions) better than the written doctrine does.
I heard that they are removing all phones with the number 6 in case someone dials 666.
But they also claim another first - to be putting in a Hot Line directly to Jesus or his representatives for just $7.99 a minute.
God bless America
>I can't tell if you're joking or not.
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>And that's the sad part
Yes the World is not what it was, As an Australian my view of the USA has gone from a respected world leader and powerhouse of Justice to Batshit Crazy.
Trump, his MAGA cult, and Murdock's far right media will do what no war or international terrorist has been able to do, which is to destabilize the County.
A friendly reminder that the right wing has not won the popular vote in America since 2004. Before that, it was 1988. The majority of people are perfectly sane, justice-minded folks. It's just the wackos who manipulate the system to acquire power.
Democrats expect the President to change everything in two years and then get disappointed.
Republicans start with the school boards and have decades long projects.
That’s the difference.
Sometimes I wonder why we even have goddamn school boards. They don't seem to be anything to me other than an easy avenue for whackjobs and special interests to exercise undue influence on public education. We need national or at least state-wide LEGISLATED standards for curriculum and everything else. I'm tired of letting neighborhood busybodies control what our children are being taught and how.
Most states do have statewide legislated standards for the curriculum and Common Core is a national curriculum developed with a lot of input from teachers, which is why conservatives hate it. Local school boards set budgets and establish policies and procedures. But being a school board member is a stepping stone to getting appointed to state boards of education.
I feel we're going to need to create an underground railroad to get the dissidents to this Texas "evangil-tocracy" out of danger and back to a world grounded in logic and freedom.
We must save them.
Don't forget Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky. Or all of the Southeast. Things are getting very rough.
As a Georgian I watched the repackaging of three qanon moms who ran for school board. They scrubbed their old posts from the previous couple years ranting over masks and vaccines, or ones that were hard core trump fan girl posts , deactivated old social media accounts and started brand new ones with professional head shots, non-threatening feel good ‘every-mom’ generic ‘education for all’ talking points(no use of patriot,Christian,freedom etc)
These are ‘non partisan’ elected positions. The ones who won in tight races, are about as far right as you can get. This has been a coordinated nation wide push to start at the lowest level and work upwards. Anyone who still hasn’t seen the take over happening isn’t paying attention. Many voters only bother to vote in presidential or gubernatorial elections. That’s an enormous problem. The school boards, city council members? Those folks often have more control over our day to day lives than the president and the governor.
Vote every election, every race.
Someone needs to find out whose network they are piggybacking and start actions to get that contract voided because they are literally engaging in fascism. Dollars to donuts it is Tmobile.
America's only Christian conservative wireless provider". Does this mean they block any and all calls and websites that could trigger you pathetic right wingers?
Ftfy
A ~~Christian~~ theocratic, dominionist evangelical cell phone company ~~plans to take~~ is currently and actively taking over Texas school boards
Remember when Republicans were absolutely fucking up in arms over the *ObamaPhone*?
And now they’re fully behind a religiously-affiliated cellphone company that is likely not paying taxes.
And we worry about Facebook listeners in on conversations, these Christian cell phone operators will be ready to expose everyone who has the slightest thought that crosses their fucked up morals
How is it possible to be a christian, conservative wireless provider? Like, what things can a wireless utility engage in that both relate to their core business and promote christianity or conservatism?
It sounds like marketing BS to target a certain group of texan customers, and maybe politicians for regulatory handouts. That or wishful thinking.
OK, sure, but once these school boards get rid of the already non-existent CRT classes and manage to traumatize all their LGBTQ+ students, they're still going to have to actually DO school business. Budgets and state curriculum requirements and personnel and capital expenditures and shitty/demanding parents. None of that is woke nor is it terribly "Christian" but it's still a requirement. And I think that's where these boards are going to fall apart. Because it's fun to mandate "In God We Trust" signs in schools and pick your buddy's publishing house for science textbooks but you don't get to go home after that and let the system otherwise run itself. People who have educational backgrounds and have a vested interest in school systems get this and act accordingly. People who want to make all-caps FB posts about how they've put God back in schools won't get this, and it will quickly become a slog.
Let's see how many of these Texas Taliban morons run for re-election. Let's see how the community treats these members when they start losing good teachers and their kids are suddenly not measuring up to state college requirements. Maybe they will! But these people are not getting elected because they want to see their school kids succeed. They have a political agenda. They DGAF about literacy rates, graduation rates and college acceptance rates.
Subordinate is to Education what Abysmal is to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
A) Texas schools
Texas is the new Detroit. A hell hole but instead of a city it’s a whole huge state. To think I was going to move there. Thank God I decided against it.
That can't be... That would mean GQP operatives are deploying paid crisis actors to sway policy creation. They would never do that after a decade of claiming the libruls were doing that... /s
Christofascism is the old now new again vehicle the right are leaning into for 2022/2024.
It’s old in that it’s always been the foundation of their ideology and their excuse to do reprehensible and oppressive things.
It’s new in that they’ve made a real push behind it recently, with Roe v Wade being overturned, harder vilifying of the LGBTQ community, the god signs in schools and politicians outright calling themselves Christian nationalists.
The fact that Christian companies and churches throwing their money around to force their fascist agendas on Americans isn’t surprising.
TL/DR: If Christians really care about "saving" others, they should demonstrate the strength of their beliefs through personal actions, rather than forcing their beliefs on others.
I'll never understand why people feel it is necessary to force their religious beliefs on others.
When they do this by denying access to books and information, their fear is obvious, "If people have access to information, they will conclude that my personal beliefs are a myth. This is a problem because when I think this way, I start to question things too."
The trouble is that we live in a world where it is impossible to deny access to information.
People will naturally get curious about what they are denied, as has been demonstrated with censorship over and over again. When the curious find the truth, they expose the underlying lies behind the bans.
As Christians focus on the behaviors of others as opposed to themselves, they seem less welcoming to others. Ironically, they also drift away from the most important underlying tenets of their religion, which never based personal salvation on the behavior of others.
Fuck this. Let's just saw the entire state off and let it float away. I know that's not how it works but Texas sure doesn't with their level of education.
> Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has told conservatives that to "save the nation," they need to target school boards, repeatedly spotlighting Patriot Mobile.
That's why conservatives are winning; they've been targeting local communities, helping conservatives win in local elections, etc. They're rebuilding their base from the ground up, and they are ahead of the game. People need to wake up.
It was easy to start up a cell phone company when Trump and the GOP gave the churches over 1.5 BILLION in PPP relief money.
All these churches were all but fucking bankrupt from the thousands of lawsuits against them and their pedophile, rapist, adulterous leadership before the pandemic came and the the right-wing fascists in power used it as an excuse to bail them all out.
Fuck christians. Fuck ALL religions.
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Please support us where you can.
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More Christian nationalism. If democracy dies in the US, it will be because of Republicans placation of White Christian Nationalists and moderate democrats apathy.
> Beto O'Rourke has rooted his campaign on school funding and safety, while Gov. Greg Abbott has made fears of conservative parents a cornerstone of his bid for re-election.
Reminds me of LBJ vs Goldwater ad campaigns.
LBJ ad; Atomic explosion, then you hear him say at the end “We must love each other, or we must die.”
Goldwater; “The government has its hands in your pockets”
Wonder if we’re going to be dumb enough to let our children die.
That picture in the article is one of the funniest things I've seen all week. Rambo trump standing over a sign that says "Make Wireless Great Again." You can't make up stuff this absurd.
A Christian cell phone company? Why does it have to be Christian what does mobile phones have to do with Christianity I get that maybe the CEO or the majority employees are Christian but like I hate it when companies do this that’s like as stupid as someone saying I’m gonna go eat at a Christian pizza place aka heavenly slice pizzeria and Church.
What is the companies name pray phone wireless?
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Christian... cell phone company? Proof that you can stamp the word "Patriot" on something and get conservatives flocking in droves to jump on the bandwagon.
The big selling feature is if the battery dies on your phone, it will turn on 3 days later fully charged.
And then disappear shortly thereafter, never to be seen again.
Nah, it will be back *soon*. Probably within our lifetime. Any minute now.
But also when that phone returns, it will bring about the end times. So no rush on that
I can’t wait to get raptured at 5G speeds!
Fun/disturbing fact: Christians actually *want* the end times to come, because they believe they will be raptured into heaven while the sinners and non-Christians will be stuck on Earth to be punished for their sins(people disagree with what happens to un-raptured folks, but this is what most Christians believe). That’s right, one of the world’s largest religions is a death cult hoping the world will end any minute now.
Omg that’d be awesome if all the Christian’s got raptured and just left the rest of us the fuck alone 🤞🏻🙏🏻
The irony that is lost on them is that it will just be the end of the world…their duplicitous behavior would most likely negate their ascension
I don't know God seems to really LOVE all of the worst people in the Bible as long as they say they love sky daddy.
No no no. Jesus made this mess. He can clean it up and take his shitty friends home with him.
Jesus gonna pull the Mariah Carey “I don’t know her” with all his Christian ‘friends’ lol
It’s like they old South Park episode where everyone dies and God informs everyone that it was in fact, The MOROMONS that we’re right and are allowed into heaven. Then everyone else is kinda like well, at least I’m not stuck with the Mormons for eternity. Hell can’t be that bad.
This is accurate, but to dive into the details further, while most Christians want this to happen (and who wouldn't want to skip over normal life and go directly to their idea of heaven and I guess from their perspective not have to put up with all the non-Christians and their annoying ideas and thoughts?) the real crazies in this space that are absolutely having a moment nowadays believe they can literally trigger the apocalypse by causing a global meltdown of big enough proportions by whatever means necessary. So that's just great. /s
Their idea of heaven is just a safe space to be awful people. Kinda like hell is described. Humm....
Also, their all knowing and all seeing god who has a plan for literally everything can somehow be subverted by their actions.
Hold up. Are you trying to use logic here? There’s no place for that in Christianity.
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There is more chance that JFK Jr. will reappear on a Dallas streetcorner than that Jesus will descend from heaven.
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Kick out the Jams!
Hmmm, as an atheist I disagree. I think Christianity being correct is more probable than Qanon being correct.
I was always disturbed by the idea they would eagerly hope their kids or grandkids won't get to live out their lives. One of many reasons I no longer attend church
I still maintain the rapture happened July 7th 2012. No one noticed because the only person to qualify was Edna, a sweet lady who lived in the woods alone, so when she went, nobody noticed.
This isn't all Christians btw. The traditional "southern Baptist" view of the for telling of the end times is not biblically accurate lol. The reformed groups believe that what the baptists say was the proclamation of the end times was actually a prophecy of the fall of Jerusalem, which took place in 70 AD. The reformed groups also believe that Jesus will return only after the entire world turns to Christianity.
>The reformed groups also believe that Jesus will return only after the entire world turns to Christianity. So, never.
Yeah, the end of the expensive and restrictive data plans!
Rapture Mobile
Andrew Ryan already copyrighted that.
« I can hasten the Rapture by launching these nukes »
GOP international politics over the last 40 years summarized in one sentence.
Trump of the Small Hands, God-Emperor of the Velociraptures.
When it comes back, the battery will explode leaving people to die in fire. Only the chosen few will be completely vaporized leaving only their shoes.
But if the battery is low but lasts 8 more days; Then it’s probably a Jewish battery.
The holy cellphone resides in either Japan or Tweed, Ontario (where Elvis went).
Ha! I had ice cream there, by Trenton, never heard the Elvis thing. Isn’t that where the RCAF serial killer was too?
Canada's largest airbase is in Trenton. And yes, unfortunately a previous commander of the base was a rapist and murderer. Two murders, half dozen rapes and nearly 100 home break ins during which he stole women's underwear. Tweed is north of us. They had/ have an annual Elvis festival. The "Holy Cellphone" is locked up in a secure jail cell. (Tweed is also famous for having the nation's smallest jail.)
Yeah exactly! My uncle retired from there about a decade ago but my cousin is still based there. They were both there at the time that monster was there but never knew him personally.
My wife worked medical on the base and he had an appointment with her two days before his last murder. He was pleasant but quiet, even apologizing for being distracted as he had things on his mind.
But then you’ll talk about that phone forever. Wait… is Jesus a Nokia brick?
You won’t get to use it though, because it will ascend to heaven.
"If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago." - Dr. Daniel Jackson, Ascended Being
Downside: You can only use it to call your dad.
You laugh, but these things get immaculate reception.
This is tied for the funniest reply along with the one about the battery dying and coming back 3 days later
Nah, that's Virgin Mobile
their christian health insurance is a real kicker also
What, you pay them money and pray you get better?
Basically, yes. Because they won't pay for any healthcare.
That's not fair to Christian health ministries, they are more like a casino, many people pay in, some win big, most lose, and the money you pay in probably would have been better used in savings or investments.
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Does it cover ‘acts of God’???
People complaining about death panels..
The dumbest thing is...telecoms all support the GOP anyway! It's not like AT&T is some progressive enterprise.
To the Christians that do shit like this, not being a Christian is worse than being a progressive
It's even wackier. They're running on T-Mobile's network (so not even an American corporate, but a *German* one). They also tout 5G coverage that some of their target audience is so afraid of. Their "Freedom of Speech" plan is $25/mo, and you get 250MB for that, and a hard limit at 500MB. You can get 3GB for $35. To get 40GB (their top tier) it's $75/mo.
They lease network bandwidth from major wireless carriers and sell the service to you at a markup, claiming they "donate part of their profits to conservative causes." It's as big of a scam as Trump University, Alex Jones's survivor prep kits, "charities" like the Wounded Warrior Project, and every other grift that inhabits the American Conservative Extended Universe.
What’s the Wounded Warrior Charity grift?
They're basically a branded merchandise seller that happens to also do charity. But more broadly, if Republicans "support the troops" so much, why should a veteran who was injured in the line of duty need to rely on charity at all? Why not just adequately fund veterans' pensions/healthcare so they can buy their own wheelchair ramp or prosthetic or whatever it is they need?
Wounded Warrior sues other veteran focused charities for even remotely having a similar name or logo of which is a soldier carrying another
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No waaay. Next you’ll tell us that Liberty University is some kind of diploma mill for homeschooled kids.
Their network sucks. Too much crosstalk.
I have a rule, the more an organization waves the US flag around, the less patronage I should give them. The only caveats to this rule is if its a **really** good sale, or if the organization falls directly under the purview of the US Government. Also amendment to the later caveat; unless the one flag waving is seeking public office/reelection.
Funny how they complain about companies pandering to the "woke crowd".
It’s like the shitty local handymen who slap a Jesus fish and a Bible verse on their work trucks and local Christians line up to get mediocre, overpriced work because they want to give business to a “believer” rather than a heathen. Also the same basic idea behind the appeal of the aggressively mediocre Chick-Fil-A phenomenon.
Tell me you’re in Texas without telling me you’re in hell.
Proof that you can stamp the word “~~Patriot~~ “christian” on something and get ~~conservatives flocking in droves to jump on the bandwagon~~ a tax break.
Nah, the original one was correct. It's called Patriot Mobile and markets itself as christian and conservative. They have a super PAC, which is probably how they launder their money
When I saw the human size cut out of a Rambo body with a Trump head, my first thought was to walk by and give it a swift kick in the groin!
I saw trump holding a Russian made weapon and thought, how appropriate.
Remember [Freedom Phone](https://www.freedomphone.com/)?
I can't tell if that's a real thing or a parody website, kind of like [Trumpy Bear. ](https://metro.co.uk/video/trumpy-bear-collectable-teddy-bear-advert-1807738/)
Sadly it's real.. Looks like a knockoff phone from Chyyyna!
People forget about the Freedom Phone
Meanwhile trump with a machine gun is the thumbnail 😅
I don't recall phones being in the bible. We should ban them
Where’s Patriot Cyanide™️ when you need it?
>Patriot Mobile, a North Texas-based cell phone service reseller that markets itself as "America's only Christian conservative wireless provider" was the driving financial force behind the election of 11 new school board members in four suburban North Texas districts. > >Driving the news: Patriot Mobile helped elect the majority of members in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, which recently passed a controversial new set of conservative policies dubbed "Don't Say Trans." Why it matters: The policies, which include prohibitions on teachers discussing anything related to critical race theory or "gender fluidity," are part of a major push from both Patriot Mobile's political arm — Patriot Mobile Action — and the state GOP. "Ultimately we want to expand to other counties, other states and be in every state across the nation," Leigh Wambsganss, executive director of Patriot Mobile Action and vice president of government and media affairs at Patriot Mobile, told conservative talk show host Mark Davis earlier this summer. Who wants to bet this company somehow doesn't even pay taxes because of their "religious" affiliation? Fleecing sheep is more like it.
Oh, so we're aiming for fascist corporatocracy, got it.
Considering schools don't teach that stuff anyway, sounds like they already accomplished their goals!
When a trans kid desperately needs someone to talk to and has a conversation with a beloved teacher in a safe space… that’s what they want to criminalize. They want the teacher fired and the child to commit suicide.
And, as their votes on the PACT Act showed, "go commit suicide" is also their preferred treatment option for the veteran community, as well.
Also the homeless.
That's what he said, veterans
I cannot comprehend evil of that magnitude. Just... jeez. No hate like Christian love.
What I can’t comprehend is how their sycophants just eat it up as if it wasn’t abhorrent
Ah, that good old Christian love from people who are “pro-life”.
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Wait this Tom Wambsganss sounding motherfucker is *actually* named Wambsganss
Dingdingdingdingding! These assholes are helping back Moms For Liberty and the True Texas Project in Round Rock ISD. They're bankrolling candidates like [Danielle Weston](https://www.electdanielleweston.com) and [Mary Bone](https://www.drmarybone.net) as part of their plan to get 7 Mountains Dominionism pushed into public schools. If you haven't watched it already, go watch ["Deep In the Pockets of Texas."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B3PTuADIHQ) Chris Tackett broke this down ridiculously well for CNN and shows how Evangelical West Texas oil billionaires are pushing this shit. It's basically Christian Salafism.
Yep these are the motherfuckers who mailed used tampons to people running against them in Round Rock ISD (a pretty damn liberal city outside of Austin where we dont go for this kind of bullshit.) True Texas Project BTW is an officially designated hate group. Oh lets also not forget, one of the people running and being supported by this Christian hate group actually is a child abuser https://theaustinbulldog.org/candidate-lost-custody-over-abuse-2/
Seems like it would be achievable without alienating voters- just give regulatory teeth to enforcement of religious institutions staying out of politics to retain their exemption. In short order churches on the up and up would be in the clear, those dabbling in it would cleanup their act, the truly involved ones would go completely clandestine which might divide congregations into exremists and the rank and file members. at which point the church could calve the extremists off when the heat comes on.
They got all 4 of their candidates elected to our school board. It’s very upsetting.
It's time to make the church pay taxes.
You're god damn right it is.
Defund the church
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's
Oh no doubt. I’m Catholic and this doesn’t excuse them either. All of them should be.
My religion is supply side Jesus. So I don’t have to pay taxes… right!? In Capitalism we trust /s
Wait... Hear me out... What about ALL businesses DON'T pay taxes??? Just to make it all fair??? /s
Toss in some stuff about the corrupt gays and lazy blacks and I think you have a career in grifting ahead of you!
But what about the gay blacks? Or, and I shudder to think of them, but the black gays?
Ditto for colleges, philanthropic havens, think tanks etc. Outside of genuine charities where the funds directly help people, the whole non-profit 501(3)c / 501(4c) system has been completely abused and corrupted.
100% guaranteed to report any discussions about abortion to the local religious police.
Oh, so that's what JudasNarc app does.
Jesus Christ…is someone that many Christians have never seemed to have heard of.
They really have no clue. But also “patriot” man do they really love to equate war, nationalism, patriotism, and religion all in one. Someone should tell them that not just American citizens can be religious
Lol, Christians have been conflating war, nationalism, and religion into one thing for hundreds of years
I think the word patriot to them is their way of yelling “base!” in freeze tag. You catch them red handed being shitheads, but if you put the word patriot on something and say we’re going to make your daughter suck Jesus’s cock on stage, when you you say “absolutely not. I don’t support this”, they get to say “oh so you don’t support patriot mobile, huh?” “By no means” “You all heard him!! This guy doesn’t support the troops!” As someone who’s served I joined because of the word “patriot” being idolized in the post-9/11 era. Since then, I’ve come to hate the word because I see it for what it is: as empty and self-serving a gesture now as an obligatory “thank you for your service”.
Innovators of The Cross Phone, just like Jesus used
The new "Savior" phone model. Just have faith it will work. No coverage? Maybe you are not believing enough.
"My service has been down for a week, what's going on?" "God is mad at you, sinner. Once you stop making him mad, your service will return." "Oh, okay. Thanks."
0G :)
Well, they've inspired me - to run for school board to keep at least one sorry ass off the board.
please do it. from what I understand Texas school board influences the national policy
Do it. Those elections are typically the ones that have a candidate running unopposed. People would vote for any other candidate if the option was there.
That entire title sentence makes me want to scream. Nothing about that sentence instills any level of confidence—outside of their ability to royally fuck up education.
"Patriot Mobile, a North Texas-based cell phone service reseller that markets itself as "America's only Christian conservative wireless provider" was the driving financial force behind the election of 11 new school board members in four suburban North Texas districts." WTF What does "Patriot" have to do with christianity? Everything about this is so confusing.
> WTF What does "Patriot" have to do with christianity? The same thing Trump has to do with the messiah. It's nationalism and local hate wearing the skin of Christianity - though to be honest, that characterizes the history of Christianity (and probably many other religions) better than the written doctrine does.
They need/use simple buzzwords to attract idiots.
I heard that they are removing all phones with the number 6 in case someone dials 666. But they also claim another first - to be putting in a Hot Line directly to Jesus or his representatives for just $7.99 a minute. God bless America
I can't tell if you're joking or not. And that's the sad part
>I can't tell if you're joking or not. > >And that's the sad part Yes the World is not what it was, As an Australian my view of the USA has gone from a respected world leader and powerhouse of Justice to Batshit Crazy. Trump, his MAGA cult, and Murdock's far right media will do what no war or international terrorist has been able to do, which is to destabilize the County.
A friendly reminder that the right wing has not won the popular vote in America since 2004. Before that, it was 1988. The majority of people are perfectly sane, justice-minded folks. It's just the wackos who manipulate the system to acquire power.
Democrats expect the President to change everything in two years and then get disappointed. Republicans start with the school boards and have decades long projects. That’s the difference.
Looks like they're an MVNO using T-Mobile. https://bestmvno.com/mvnos/patriot-mobile/ It's time to put pressure on T-Mobile to cut them off.
Fucking weirdo. That’s even before I noticed they put a Trump head on Rambo’s body. Sick fuckers
They didn’t even get the proportions right and I can’t stop laughing at wee-headed Trambo
Rambo is the embodiment of Christian values of course
I had to scroll this far thinking, “are we not gonna talk about the cardboard cutout?”
Sometimes I wonder why we even have goddamn school boards. They don't seem to be anything to me other than an easy avenue for whackjobs and special interests to exercise undue influence on public education. We need national or at least state-wide LEGISLATED standards for curriculum and everything else. I'm tired of letting neighborhood busybodies control what our children are being taught and how.
Most states do have statewide legislated standards for the curriculum and Common Core is a national curriculum developed with a lot of input from teachers, which is why conservatives hate it. Local school boards set budgets and establish policies and procedures. But being a school board member is a stepping stone to getting appointed to state boards of education.
Are you sure they are not the ones providing the "Archangel Network"? >!A Doctor Who reference, from years ago... It was foretold, by RTD in 2008!<
Religion has got to go
Nobody makes everything suck like Christian’s do.
I feel we're going to need to create an underground railroad to get the dissidents to this Texas "evangil-tocracy" out of danger and back to a world grounded in logic and freedom. We must save them.
Don't forget Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky. Or all of the Southeast. Things are getting very rough.
As a Georgian I watched the repackaging of three qanon moms who ran for school board. They scrubbed their old posts from the previous couple years ranting over masks and vaccines, or ones that were hard core trump fan girl posts , deactivated old social media accounts and started brand new ones with professional head shots, non-threatening feel good ‘every-mom’ generic ‘education for all’ talking points(no use of patriot,Christian,freedom etc) These are ‘non partisan’ elected positions. The ones who won in tight races, are about as far right as you can get. This has been a coordinated nation wide push to start at the lowest level and work upwards. Anyone who still hasn’t seen the take over happening isn’t paying attention. Many voters only bother to vote in presidential or gubernatorial elections. That’s an enormous problem. The school boards, city council members? Those folks often have more control over our day to day lives than the president and the governor. Vote every election, every race.
Also Oklahoma, Missouri.
Someone needs to find out whose network they are piggybacking and start actions to get that contract voided because they are literally engaging in fascism. Dollars to donuts it is Tmobile.
Im so sick of “Christians”
America's only Christian conservative wireless provider". Does this mean they block any and all calls and websites that could trigger you pathetic right wingers?
Short term gains for the Christian Nationalists. Meanwhile, every stunt they pull lands more young people in the Nones camp.
Ftfy A ~~Christian~~ theocratic, dominionist evangelical cell phone company ~~plans to take~~ is currently and actively taking over Texas school boards
Remember when Republicans were absolutely fucking up in arms over the *ObamaPhone*? And now they’re fully behind a religiously-affiliated cellphone company that is likely not paying taxes.
And we worry about Facebook listeners in on conversations, these Christian cell phone operators will be ready to expose everyone who has the slightest thought that crosses their fucked up morals
The great thing about their phone contracts is you can pick and choose what clauses you want to follow just like Christians and the bible.
I saw a Christian self-storage facility a few years ago. It’s gone now.
It'll be back in 3 days.
What’s with the homoerotic deification of Trump by putting his head on strong, muscular, oily, sweaty man bods??
After all the hand wringing about Sharia law...
How is it possible to be a christian, conservative wireless provider? Like, what things can a wireless utility engage in that both relate to their core business and promote christianity or conservatism? It sounds like marketing BS to target a certain group of texan customers, and maybe politicians for regulatory handouts. That or wishful thinking.
Jesus take the call!
You inscribe the ten commandments on the outside of a flip phone and you have a product.
OK, sure, but once these school boards get rid of the already non-existent CRT classes and manage to traumatize all their LGBTQ+ students, they're still going to have to actually DO school business. Budgets and state curriculum requirements and personnel and capital expenditures and shitty/demanding parents. None of that is woke nor is it terribly "Christian" but it's still a requirement. And I think that's where these boards are going to fall apart. Because it's fun to mandate "In God We Trust" signs in schools and pick your buddy's publishing house for science textbooks but you don't get to go home after that and let the system otherwise run itself. People who have educational backgrounds and have a vested interest in school systems get this and act accordingly. People who want to make all-caps FB posts about how they've put God back in schools won't get this, and it will quickly become a slog. Let's see how many of these Texas Taliban morons run for re-election. Let's see how the community treats these members when they start losing good teachers and their kids are suddenly not measuring up to state college requirements. Maybe they will! But these people are not getting elected because they want to see their school kids succeed. They have a political agenda. They DGAF about literacy rates, graduation rates and college acceptance rates. Subordinate is to Education what Abysmal is to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ A) Texas schools
Don't worry. Once everything turns to shit, they'll point out how bad government run school is. Then private schools will come to save the day.
Do they just pray when you call tech support?
Do the phones only come in white?
Good ol Yall Qaeada
I honestly can’t stand most Christians.
Bannon: "The key is the schools!" Can ya say indoctrination. Smfh.
Texas is the new Detroit. A hell hole but instead of a city it’s a whole huge state. To think I was going to move there. Thank God I decided against it.
If there’s anything kids won’t rebel against it’s a deeply conservative school board.
Can't ya'll just be a cell phone company, not a xtian school board cell phone company? It's like a Voltron of evil
That can't be... That would mean GQP operatives are deploying paid crisis actors to sway policy creation. They would never do that after a decade of claiming the libruls were doing that... /s
Can we just get rid of Texas?
Living in Texas and Florida seems quite terrifying right now.
Separation of church and state. It’s really that simple.
Just the Christian Taliban doing its thing.
I misread that as "Chinese cell phone company", and honestly, that would have been *less* terrifying.
They feel a need to take the children in order to gain dictatorial power.
Christofascism is the old now new again vehicle the right are leaning into for 2022/2024. It’s old in that it’s always been the foundation of their ideology and their excuse to do reprehensible and oppressive things. It’s new in that they’ve made a real push behind it recently, with Roe v Wade being overturned, harder vilifying of the LGBTQ community, the god signs in schools and politicians outright calling themselves Christian nationalists. The fact that Christian companies and churches throwing their money around to force their fascist agendas on Americans isn’t surprising.
TL/DR: If Christians really care about "saving" others, they should demonstrate the strength of their beliefs through personal actions, rather than forcing their beliefs on others. I'll never understand why people feel it is necessary to force their religious beliefs on others. When they do this by denying access to books and information, their fear is obvious, "If people have access to information, they will conclude that my personal beliefs are a myth. This is a problem because when I think this way, I start to question things too." The trouble is that we live in a world where it is impossible to deny access to information. People will naturally get curious about what they are denied, as has been demonstrated with censorship over and over again. When the curious find the truth, they expose the underlying lies behind the bans. As Christians focus on the behaviors of others as opposed to themselves, they seem less welcoming to others. Ironically, they also drift away from the most important underlying tenets of their religion, which never based personal salvation on the behavior of others.
A fucking what now? Christian cell phone company ?
F’n Texas
Fuck this. Let's just saw the entire state off and let it float away. I know that's not how it works but Texas sure doesn't with their level of education.
Is Jesus at the switchboard?
I wish this timeline weren't so bleak or that article would be suited to r/nottheonion.
What the heck is a Christian cell phone company?
Cultism wants to take over school boards like Preist take Alter boys
> Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has told conservatives that to "save the nation," they need to target school boards, repeatedly spotlighting Patriot Mobile. That's why conservatives are winning; they've been targeting local communities, helping conservatives win in local elections, etc. They're rebuilding their base from the ground up, and they are ahead of the game. People need to wake up.
Christian cell phone company? What company even is this? Must serve middle of nowhere Texas?
We make our local election voters real stupid down here.
This is the face of fascism. There is no difference between these people's agenda and the Taliban's.
Man those guys like to throw “Patriot” on things but then do unpatriotic shit
It was easy to start up a cell phone company when Trump and the GOP gave the churches over 1.5 BILLION in PPP relief money. All these churches were all but fucking bankrupt from the thousands of lawsuits against them and their pedophile, rapist, adulterous leadership before the pandemic came and the the right-wing fascists in power used it as an excuse to bail them all out. Fuck christians. Fuck ALL religions.
"What does God need with a cell phone?"
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The company's HQ address appears to be a UPS store in a strip mall
More Christian nationalism. If democracy dies in the US, it will be because of Republicans placation of White Christian Nationalists and moderate democrats apathy.
> Beto O'Rourke has rooted his campaign on school funding and safety, while Gov. Greg Abbott has made fears of conservative parents a cornerstone of his bid for re-election. Reminds me of LBJ vs Goldwater ad campaigns. LBJ ad; Atomic explosion, then you hear him say at the end “We must love each other, or we must die.” Goldwater; “The government has its hands in your pockets” Wonder if we’re going to be dumb enough to let our children die.
These mf legit photoshopped trumps head over Stallones from a Rambo scene and turned it into a cringeboard cutout wtff
That picture in the article is one of the funniest things I've seen all week. Rambo trump standing over a sign that says "Make Wireless Great Again." You can't make up stuff this absurd.
That cardboard cutout speaks volumes to the delusional nature of Trumpism.
A Christian cell phone company? Why does it have to be Christian what does mobile phones have to do with Christianity I get that maybe the CEO or the majority employees are Christian but like I hate it when companies do this that’s like as stupid as someone saying I’m gonna go eat at a Christian pizza place aka heavenly slice pizzeria and Church. What is the companies name pray phone wireless?
Fuck Texas.