I Have Confirmed

 that my relative who died of an easily treated infection didn't have insurance because he couldn't afford it even under the ACA in his state in which the Republicans had blocked Medicaid expansion in any real way.    He was murdered by the Republicans.  Especially John Roberts and the other Republican-fascists on the Court as well as in the state legislature in his state. 

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I am asked, in a related question, if I've read John Fugelsang's book,  Separation of Church and Hate.  No, I haven't.  I've listened to Fugelsang and agree with much of what he is saying though I was disappointed that, like virtually everyone, he seems to misunderstand the long argument against sanctimony and arrogance that most people think is a definitive condemnation of same-sex sex in Romans when, if you read over the artificial chapter break which Paul didn't put there, he used that in a list of things that he presumed his audience found disgusting or distasteful BEFORE HE POINTED OUT THAT THEY AS WELL AS HE DID THINGS THAT WERE AS WRONG AS HE ASSUMED THOSE OTHER THINGS WERE.    Instead of focusing on the entire list of things Paul lists, AFTER HE MENTIONS SAME SEX SEX.  I would point out that instead of falling for that,  if he kept on and pointed out the list,  it sounds like the list of things held to be virtuous by Republican-fascists,  Hollywood fascist-chic, bro-kulcha, and eutrophic level American capitalism.   Oh, and what the free press was given as a "right to lie, slander, vilify and etc. by current First Amendment dogma.   Here's his set up in "Chapter 1, which shows what they ignore to concentrate on exclusively on what he says about sex. 

 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. 29 They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.  RSV

Anyone reading the list that render those who do them deserving of death without thinking of Donald Trump is someone who knows nothing about Trump.   But not only Trump.   The MAGAs, when they're confronted with the actual Gospel sometimes realize they hate Jesus who isn't their dispensationalist, fundamentalist action figure with blond hair and blue eyes.  

In a related and excellent video released yesterday by Hysteria,  there is this investigation of the central figure in the history of the current "Christian" hate,  Jerry Falwell. 

You will note that they announce they're going to do his sonny boy, too.   I just hope that somewhere,   Jerry's looking up from hell to see he's being roasted by feminists here, too.   He makes the rich man of the parable seem like Dorothy Day or Mother Teresa,  who he probably figured was going to hell for being a papist.  At least before she became useful or at least not touchable.   I recall some of his fellow TV hallelujah peddlers say she was in hell.