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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

“[A] U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported w/o medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being [aware] of the child’s urgent medical needs.” #MAGA Republicans, isn’t it just great to see us getting what we voted for?

americasvoice.org

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation - America's Voice

For Immediate Release: Friday, April 25, 2025 Contact: Arianna Rosales, National Immigration Project, media@nipnlg.org Jesse Vad, ACLU of Louisiana, jesse@or-nola.org ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Child...

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

To those alleging that Vice President Vance killed Pope Francis, shame on you! He deserves a presumption of innocence, the chance to confront the evidence against him, for the government to meet its burden of proof, & a verdict by a fair tribunal. Such basic due process is the American thing to do.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

So, yes,“[Y]ou could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that” sounds like criticism. But it’s really praise! One, infinite moneys with infinite typewriters could write Shakespeare. And two, monkeys are surprisingly adept diplomats. #MAGA

thedailybeast.com

Diplomats Are Freaking Out About Trump’s Leaked Executive Order

One official said monkeys with a typewriter could have come up with a more logical plan for the State Department.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Just a beautiful set of sentiments from President Trump. Can you even imagine a message that better comports with Easter’s celebration of forgiveness, renewal, & generosity? President Trump truly is a model #MAGA Republican Christian.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I can’t believe liberals think this is a “gotcha” question! As I and all of my fellow #MAGA Republicans know, one only belongs to a “gang” if the organization you’re joining (1) isn’t favored by the Trump administration and (2) requires you to get a tattoo on something other than a white background.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Is this true even if we believed he’d bring the war to a close by facilitating Russia’s conquest of Ukraine?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I, a #MAGA Republican, agree wholeheartedly. The resistance needs to winnow down to the right leaders instead of accepting that any & all resistance is, at this point, beneficial regardless of its motivation because the only thing that matters is stopping the administration from seizing more power.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Well, no, “Christofascism” isn’t hot. We #MAGA Republicans haven’t shifted the frame of public discourse far enough to begin using that term openly. Please refer to it by our preferred terms, “bringing democracy back from Joe Biden’s anti-Americanism & incompetence,” or “winning bigly.”

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Wrong. The Bible isn’t “fake news” (or, well, the correct translation isn’t). It’s the inerrant Word of God, which we know because the Bible, which teaches us that God is omnisicent & omnibenevolen (so He can’t be wrong), & that it’s His Word. QED, heretic!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Yep. He’s still conservative & employing broad-stroke, unevidenced criticisms of liberalism. He’s also saying there’s one single issue that subsumes all others & thus cuts across all interests—whether President Trump gets to become an autocrat—& calling for mass resistance. Is he wrong about that?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is awful! Liberals, you need to help ICE feel safe. Here’s how: 1. Don’t recognize that this shows ICE & its agents fear public exposure/pressure. 2. Don’t download ICE Block and/or get a police scanner & use them to warn neighbors & interdict ICE. 3. Don’t video every ICE encounter you see.

A Department of Homeland Security tweet denying that it has deputized militia members and complaining that there has been a 300% increase in assaults against them while carrying out operations. It provides no evidence for either assertion.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Shoot, our whataboutism didn’t work. I really thought it would this time. Sandy, should we #MAGA Republicans switch to ad hominem arguments, name calling, or vulgarities next?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

First, no, according to Psalm 139:13-14, life begins when God sews a fetus together in its mother’s womb. Second, if you’re saying that we #MAGA Republicans are Christian fascists, we’re not. We just want a Christian nationalist oligarchy/autocracy that suppresses all but our views. Is that fascist?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thank you for the well-wishes. I would caution you against calling another human being “worthless.” You seem to view the world through a lens of empathy. While I don’t have any of my own, I imagine someone who does would hold to the belief that all of us have worth. You have a good night, too.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Yes! Thank you! This is exactly the kind of whataboutism backup I needed. Now we can derail the original discussion & frustrate our opponents with the combination of a non sequitur & substanceless mendacity! The libs aren’t going to know what hit them!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’m not sure if you’ve read the Bible, but the lessons it has to teach regarding women, their personhood, & their bodily autonomy aren’t incompatible with my & my fellow #MAGA Republicans’ current misogyny.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Oh! Got it. I mean, we wouldn’t put it in those terms when not in private, but, that’s fair. Also, no. I’m a real #MAGA Republican. Why would I change my beliefs & actions before I’m personally affected by something?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Oh, no, their crimes are odious & the harm they inflicted on children is immeasurable. Thankfully, I belong to a different sect of Christianity—the right one, not a false one like theirs—so their actions are not attributable to me & easily discounted as the acts of people who aren’t True Christians.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Yep! I’m a #MAGA Republican. I’m fully aware that President Trump was found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll & then defaming her. I voted for him anyway because I, a MAGA Republican, like the way President Trump makes me feel that the world will be rigged in favor of me & my ingroup.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don’t get that allegation of “lack[ing] humanity.” We #MAGA Republicans are welcoming & kind to everyone who looks, acts, & thinks like us, & who does not in any way challenge cisheteronormative patriarchy. If everyone just fit those descriptions, we’d be happy to treat them like human beings.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

That’s not true. I, like all good #MAGA Republicans, believe the Bible is literally true & follow what my church tells me are Jesus’s teachings: That only those who look, think, & act like us are worthy of God’s unconditional love.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Based on what definition of kidnapping? The unlawful restraint of a person through force or show of force, coupled with moving them against their will to another location or concealing them? I don’t see how that applies just because ICE had no lawful authority to seize him & send him to El Salvador.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

First, we aren’t stupid, weak cowards. We #MAGA Republicans are manly & strong. We just want an ultranationalist, authoritarian leader to centralize power, suppress opposition, & force everyone to conform to our views so we can feel safe. Second, when was Garcia granted witholding of removal? 2019?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Wrong. ICE isn’t “kidnapping” anyone, it’s shipping them to an extrajudicial prison w/o due process. Nor is DOGE “dismantling.” That’s an orderly process. Plus, Trump IS helping Americans. He’s teaching us how to live with nothing. And Bondi? She can’t “ignore” the Constitution! She’s unaware of it.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Oh, I agree. Although he is a registered Republican. And President Trump did appoint him. Also, he’s not on record espousing white or Christian nationalist views, urging the end of the rule of law, calling for viewpoint discrimination, or celebrating defiance of court orders. But still, I agree!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I’ve got this, @jabba12.bsky.social! While Article III, section 1, vests judicial power in the judicial branch, nowhere does it say that the Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of what is, & is not, constitutional. So where are you going to pull that from, huh? Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137 (1803)?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Yes! Chairman Powell is a Democrat undermining the economy. That he was Assistant Secretary & Undersecretary of the Treasury for George H.W. Bush, & was made Chair of the Fed in 2018 by President Trump, doesn’t matter! Get him out of the way so we can go back to the glory says of Smoot-Hawley!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Oh, no, I intend to do this the right way. First we restore the job market’s favorability to me & my ilk, then I rake in the cash that’s left from the oligarchs’ privatization of, well, everything, & then, since all the undocumented immigrants are gone, I help create a new persistent underclass.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Canadian wool? Never. I only use American wool because American wool is beautiful and theirs is weak. It’s unbelievable. And, no, I didn’t get any of the insider info, but I’m okay that the right people did because soon, once we’ve gotten back to 1850s employment standards, that’s going to be me.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

No, I’m a 100% real, dyed-in-the-wool #MAGA Republican. I don’t know why you’d think otherwise.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Well, for some of us, sure. For many of us, that kind of projection is a tactic designed to simultaneously infuriate, avoid responsibility, & derail our opponent’s argument by enticing them into denials. It’s super efficient. And the fact that you liberals do it to us all the time is callow & evil.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I don’t get why the libs keep being surprised by things like this. Haven’t we #MAGA Republicans made it clear? If there is a law, rule, or norm standing between us & more power, we’ll breach it, then feel (1) proud of the fact that we now have more power & (2) contempt for those who let us get it.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is fantastic! #MAGA Republicans, like me, see this as hilarious & a victory even though Kilmar Ábrego García was, like all those rendered to CECOT, taken without due process of law & thrown in an extrajudical prison that is designed to be inhumane. But this lib trying to help him got owned!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

A quick note from a 100% real #MAGA Republican: One of our tactics is to drive you to constant outrage so you reach the emotional equivalent of semantic satiation. What we don’t want you to do is conclude once & for all that we’re awful & mendacious so you can save precious energy & your well-being.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It sounds like you (1) have empathy and (2) view trans people (& likely all people) as co-equal human beings, & that those two things shape your worldview & decision-making. Remove them. Substitute for them fear of difference & a belief that social advancement must be zero-sum, & one gets…this.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If you’re accusing me, a #MAGA Republican, of wanting a christofascist state, you’re way off-base. All we want is for President Trump to institute an ultranationalist state with him as a sole center of power, & to suppresses individuality & all opposition to our views, which happen to be Christian.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Credit where credit’s due for his consistency, though: RFK’s understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder is equally as honest, well-informed, & scientifically sound as his views on vaccination & mental health treatments.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Sure. As are the global rise of right-wing populism, the corruption of democracies into authoritarian states, the functioning of nascent totalitarian regimes, & the role of bigotries in the voting patterns of non-college-educated white men. But what does that have to do with me, a #MAGA Republican?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Great question! See, if we were to accept that one could associate “terrorist” with our own, preferred faith, it would diminish our ability as #MAGA Republicans to vilify all Muslims, the overwhelming majority of whom are good, peaceful, law-abiding people, by rhetorically linking terror to Islam.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Sure we #MAGA Republicans do! But that was different. When “terrorist” was applied to our ingroup (simply because of some domestic terror), we wore it as a badge of honor to drain it of force & meaning. Now we’re applying it to those we outgroup, despite of its meaning, to justify exerting force.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Yeah, why ARE you so mad that President Trump & his administration are punishing people & institutions for their viewpoints, disrupting the post-WWII world order, supporting despots, & transforming the rule of law from equal protection to selective enforcement per his fiat? We see no problems there.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Hey, fellow #MAGA Republicans, can any of you help explain this to me? I get that President Bukele is from El Salvador & President Trump is a “home-grown,” if you will, but is that it? The only other possibility I see is that it’s a reference to something we #MAGA Republicans just aren’t aware of.

An image of Presidents Bukele and Trump in the White House with Bukele labeled “foreign” and Trump labeled “domestic,” in a reference to the oaths our public officials and military members swear to defend the constitution from enemies “foreign and domestic.”

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Ha! Precisely. Political parties never change their views, ever. It’s like how we #MAGA Republicans still support laissez-faire economics, globalization, the containment of Russian aggression, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, stare decisis, & Black people! Our views are immutable!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This is despicable. I can’t believe these penguins would engage in this kind of retaliation just because President Trump wanted to end our trade imbalance with them. Please spread this far and wide! People need to see that President Trump was right that these penguins were out to get us!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Whoa, you misunderstand me! I’m a dyed-in-the-wool #MAGA Republican, like you. I mean, that’s why I, like you, don’t worry about the protection of the laws becoming a matter of the Trump administration’s whims. We’re not just Americans, we’re the RIGHT Americans, so we’re safe. Right?

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Exactly! The Democrat Party is anti-kid. I mean, we do have to put aside consistent Democrat Party support for WIC, S-CHIP, free school meals, & increased education funding. And that vaccines are safe & effective. Oh, & that gender affirming care for minors doesn’t include surgery. Otherwise, yes!

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

No, that’d be a sin. Although you do pose an fascinating thought experiment here. Given that God is omnipresent, isn’t there a chance that we are twixt His buttocks? And if so, ARE we doing something carnal, even inadvertently? Thank you for raising this question! I’ll pose it to my pastor.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

One, I would never have intercourse with God. While God is an omnipotent being who transcends comprehension, He’s also male, so contemplating that makes me feel things that I’ve been taught are bad. Two, we don’t lie to ourselves. We just accept the Bible as literal Truth regardless of the evidence.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I get you’re upset about this. But I don’t see why. It’s not like the Fifth Amendment expressly states that due process is owed to all persons in the USA, not just citizens, or that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held—including as recently as in JGG v. Trump—that it applies in removal proceedings.

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Decipiatur @angelofscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

How do I manipulate God’s Word? All I do, like all evangelicals, is read the Bible in a very particular way so that it affirms the cisheteronormative patriarchy, & then insist that everyone live by those same values lest I treat them as less than me. What could be more Christian?

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