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RandySF

(60,138 posts)
Thu May 9, 2024, 08:42 PM May 9

Campus 'counter protesters' are MAGA after all.

MAGA pastor Sean Feucht and a band of Christian nationalists are glomming on to campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, leading “United for Israel” marches at Columbia and the University of Southern California while professing their belief that the conflict is a harbinger of the “End Times” predicted in the Bible.

On Wednesday night, Feucht’s followers and far-right extremists rallied outside USC with the help of a police escort—an image that stands in stark contrast to the LAPD officers in riot gear who previously arrested activists from the school’s pro-Palestinian camp.

The Christian Zionist parade kicked off with Feucht performing contemporary worship music (“Our God is an awesome God”) and anti-LGBTQ speakers like preachers Lou Engle and Ché Ahn, who once crowed at a “Stop the Steal” rally: “We’re gonna rule and reign through President Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ.”

Feucht, looking every bit the part of a Jesus rocker in a black jean jacket, fired up the crowd with a concert before the march.

“Lord, we stand together against hatred, bigotry, anti-semitism, violence that’s taken over this campus and the streets of the city,” Feucht said between songs.




https://www.thedailybeast.com/christian-nationalists-mobilize-to-fight-campus-gaza-protests?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb

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Campus 'counter protesters' are MAGA after all. (Original Post) RandySF May 9 OP
No surprise. H2O Man May 9 #1
These people scare the bejezzus out of me. Nt Biophilic May 9 #2
That's because America's silent majority B.See May 9 #5
So they're being counterproductive. Aren't they, according to their own beliefs, wnylib May 9 #14
Yeah, we both know they don't much really care about Jesus. Biophilic May 10 #26
Bibi's an authoritarian right winger so it's not surprising US right winger's would support his actions. jalan48 May 9 #3
This. TeamProg May 9 #12
Bibi Has Actively Courted the Xtian Right Deep State Witch May 10 #32
That's been fairly obvious from the start. Think. Again. May 9 #4
Some of them for sure are. Eko May 9 #6
yeah. THIS particular group is probably fairly characterized ... stopdiggin May 10 #17
Yeah I bet all the Vicious Asshole Counter Protesters are Fucking RW. Cha May 10 #19
Would not be suprised at all Cha. Eko May 10 #39
I figured as much MustLoveBeagles May 9 #7
One set of antisemites Mountainguy May 9 #8
Precisely. Cha May 10 #20
It's the old saying of, the enemy Tickle May 10 #23
So, all of teh protestors are antisemties to you? obamanut2012 May 10 #35
Don't take their lead BaronChocula May 9 #9
Wait? Are we pretending that Christianity doesn't have a history of nationalism? Cuthbert Allgood May 10 #33
These people are not going to be happy slightlv May 9 #10
The timing being in his lifetime or at least that NanaCat May 10 #22
Well, there it is. No surprise. nt TeamProg May 9 #11
ENOUGH OF THIS "END OF THE WORLD" BULLSHIT AZ8theist May 9 #13
Couldn't have said it better myself. Ligyron May 9 #15
Good grief. Just what the country needs, as if we don't wnylib May 10 #16
+1. This particular bunch ... Yes. Others? Not so much. -(nt)- stopdiggin May 10 #18
Yes I read this last week.. when someine was raging about Cha May 10 #21
"Never did get an acknowledgement or an apology." No way! betsuni May 10 #25
No, they can't be bothered Cha May 10 #38
I thought they were Jewish people Tickle May 10 #24
The word "Some" should be the first word of the headline. madaboutharry May 10 #27
Isn't it delightful when the worst examples are used to stereotype an entire group? Voltaire2 May 10 #28
Jews have been used to it for thousands of years. madaboutharry May 10 #29
Just keep the word 'some' in mind when stereotyping anti-genocide protests. Voltaire2 May 10 #31
just a 25% MAGA presence is just enough to turn the flame on and get the water boiling at these protests. Chakaconcarne May 10 #30
Counter protestors at UC Davis are led by local trans hate people, Proud Boys, and the AFA obamanut2012 May 10 #34
They infiltrated BLM protests as well iemanja May 10 #36
'Boogaloo Bois' were also shooting cops at that time RandiFan1290 May 10 #37
Stay vigilant out there. Initech May 10 #41
Fuck Sean Feucht. That guy is bad news. Initech May 10 #40

B.See

(1,387 posts)
5. That's because America's silent majority
Thu May 9, 2024, 09:02 PM
May 9

let's them. We're being run around by a loud, radicalized, violent minority of FASCISTS, and that shit is getting OLD.

wnylib

(21,847 posts)
14. So they're being counterproductive. Aren't they, according to their own beliefs,
Thu May 9, 2024, 11:38 PM
May 9

supposed to scare the "be Jesus" into you?



jalan48

(13,929 posts)
3. Bibi's an authoritarian right winger so it's not surprising US right winger's would support his actions.
Thu May 9, 2024, 08:56 PM
May 9

Deep State Witch

(10,488 posts)
32. Bibi Has Actively Courted the Xtian Right
Fri May 10, 2024, 11:02 AM
May 10

From 2017:

WASHINGTON – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Christian evangelical audience in Washington on Monday that they were Israel’s best friends in the world, in an address notable for the pointed absence of any reference to US President Donald Trump or his administration’s efforts in the region.

“When I say we have no greater friends than Christian supporters of Israel, I know you’ve always stood with us,” Netanyahu told the cheering crowd at Christians United for Israel’s annual conference. “You stand with us because you stand with yourselves because we represent that common heritage of freedom that goes back thousands of years.”

“America has no better friend than Israel and Israel has no better friend than America,” Netanyahu continued. “And Israel has no better friend in America than you.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-evangelical-christians-are-israels-best-friends/

Eko

(7,437 posts)
6. Some of them for sure are.
Thu May 9, 2024, 09:30 PM
May 9

I posted a link on this a couple of days ago. But I wouldn't say that they all are.

stopdiggin

(11,446 posts)
17. yeah. THIS particular group is probably fairly characterized ...
Fri May 10, 2024, 01:27 AM
May 10

(and Sean Fuecht is a known anti-vax Christian nationalist wingnut)
But otherwise and overall - not sure that 'MAGA' is a good cover for the multitude of objections.

Are we supposing that the following individuals are Trump supporters? (I wouldn't lay any money on it):

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218937125

Mountainguy

(610 posts)
8. One set of antisemites
Thu May 9, 2024, 09:48 PM
May 9

protesting and another group of antisemites counterprotesting that group.

Horseshoe theory.

BaronChocula

(1,664 posts)
9. Don't take their lead
Thu May 9, 2024, 10:05 PM
May 9

They're actually WHITE nationalists or a faction thereof. They call themselves Christian nationalists because the religious labeling is less biting to the ear than the racial nomenclature. So please call them what they really are.

Cuthbert Allgood

(5,013 posts)
33. Wait? Are we pretending that Christianity doesn't have a history of nationalism?
Fri May 10, 2024, 11:07 AM
May 10

Have you heard about the crusades? Or the like hundreds of instances of colonizing by the RCC and other Christian sects?

We don't need to let religion off the hook here.

slightlv

(2,903 posts)
10. These people are not going to be happy
Thu May 9, 2024, 10:09 PM
May 9

until they start the apocalypse. That's their end game, anyway... no matter what Christ said about the timing!

NanaCat

(1,681 posts)
22. The timing being in his lifetime or at least that
Fri May 10, 2024, 01:52 AM
May 10

Of his followers. He was always vague about that one, but wrong either way.

I'm trying to decide what was his dumbest move--predicting the world to end in the 1st century CE, or getting mad at a fig tree that wouldn't give him fruit just because he wanted it. I mean, really, what kind of idiot expects fruit from a tree that doesn't have any visible to the naked eye, and then gets mad at the tree if it doesn't respond to attempts to hocus-pocus the fruit onto it without success? My baby brother knew better than to expect fruit off a tree that had none when he was two years old.

How dumb are you when even a two year old knows better how reality works?

AZ8theist

(5,551 posts)
13. ENOUGH OF THIS "END OF THE WORLD" BULLSHIT
Thu May 9, 2024, 11:26 PM
May 9

I'm sick of these religious MORONS who think some imaginary Jewish zombie is going to appear and do what?
It is beyond STUPID.

Charlatans have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning of the world. COMPLETE NONSENSE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

The Earth will end in about 1B years when the Sun runs out of hydrogen and starts burning helium and expands to encompass the Earth's orbit. Some believe humans will have by then emigrated to other planets. I don't.

Humans will extinct themselves long before that.......probably because some religious fuckwits get nuclear weapons and start using them.

wnylib

(21,847 posts)
16. Good grief. Just what the country needs, as if we don't
Fri May 10, 2024, 12:30 AM
May 10

already have enough problems.

Just for the record, not everyone who disagrees with the protesters is RW and definitely not a religious fundie. Liberals who disagree with the protesters have various reasons, but anticipating "the rapture" is not one of them.


Cha

(298,293 posts)
21. Yes I read this last week.. when someine was raging about
Fri May 10, 2024, 01:47 AM
May 10

the Counter posters. Not mentioning they were RW & Pastor Sean.. But when we went to the link there it was. Blew the whole narrative to Smithereens. Never did get an acknowledgement or an apology. Go Figure.

TY

Cha

(298,293 posts)
38. No, they can't be bothered
Fri May 10, 2024, 04:21 PM
May 10

with pesky details like getting important information included in the OP... .. as I posted.. It Messes with Their Gaslit Narrative.

madaboutharry

(40,249 posts)
27. The word "Some" should be the first word of the headline.
Fri May 10, 2024, 08:03 AM
May 10

The overwhelming majority of counter protesters do not fall into the category of MAGA.

Voltaire2

(13,353 posts)
31. Just keep the word 'some' in mind when stereotyping anti-genocide protests.
Fri May 10, 2024, 10:27 AM
May 10

And here is a clue: christian zionists aren't jews. How this got to be about the fact that you are jewish is a bit of a mystery to me.

obamanut2012

(26,209 posts)
34. Counter protestors at UC Davis are led by local trans hate people, Proud Boys, and the AFA
Fri May 10, 2024, 11:13 AM
May 10

Proud Boys and the AFA are local to the Davis-Sacramento area. The UCD students have been keeping things calm and keeping channels open with teh Administration, but there are worries about more of teh RW counter-protestors coming onto campus this weekend for teh Whole Earth Festival in Davis.

Remember, UCD is where that asshole cop soaked the peacefully protesting students with pepper spray -- soaked them orange, so people are worried about what the UCDPD will allow the counter protestors to do.

iemanja

(53,137 posts)
36. They infiltrated BLM protests as well
Fri May 10, 2024, 12:40 PM
May 10

Boogaloo Bois (or whatever they are called) were arrested and convicted for arson in Minneapolis.

Initech

(100,168 posts)
41. Stay vigilant out there.
Fri May 10, 2024, 09:34 PM
May 10

There's assholes everywhere looking to commit violence in order to gaslight the protests. Don't give them what they want.

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