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“Like I said, my opponent, she didn’t even hide it,” Masterson added. “She talked—they had witch—I mean, they’re doing like witchcraft spells on TikTok so she can win the governorship. I mean, they’re like … it’s like demonic stuff that they’re doing, right? Just in your face that way.”
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Question from another part of the world: do they believe this nonsense, or do they just think their voter base believe it, or is it just a shared excuse for misogyny? I’m so lost.
It’s dehumanization language, make the enemy an “other”.
Some are true believers, but most seem to treat it like a football game or something mentally where as long as their team or the one issue they vote (usually abortion, bigotry or guns) is satisfied they don’t care about all the other performative crap.
they voted for trump, twice… they are that stupid
Yes.
Unfortunately, a large percentage of the Christian population in North America actually believes that witchcraft is A Real Thing that needs to be fought against tooth and nail. I was raised by people like this, who believe to this day that Harry Potter is evil because “spells” and “magic” are evil, as though they’re some kind of insidious gateway to hell itself. It’s madness. :)
Exactly how is a ‘spell’ any different from a ‘prayer’?
That’s literally their issue with it. The thinking goes, if you’re essentially praying, but not praying to god, then you must be working with the devil.
Well they weren’t entirely wrong on Harry Potter… Books about spells and magic may not be evil but their author sure is 🤣
Christians in 2006 🤝 Trans and Palestine Activists in 2026
“JK Rowling is the Devil”
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The state senator had seemingly drawn his conclusions from a series of playful TikTok videos posted by Holscher’s 20-year-old daughter, Maddie, who had shared clips of her and her mom brushing their teeth set to a song from the Wicked soundtrack.
“Casting a spell so my mom wins Kansas Governor except she’s so done with me,” Maddie Holscher captioned one clip from April, in which she waves her arms around her mother.
Until she’s weighed, and found to weigh, the same as a duck, this is entirely baseless.
She turned me into a newt!!!
Weird how the party of tough alpha wolf macho men is constantly looking for new dumb shit to be terrified of
So his opponent is practicing her Freedom of Religion. In this instance, Wicca. If he’s a solid Catholic, he’s free to go drink the literal blood and eat the literal flesh of Jesus (after transubstantiation) during mass. By the same token, she should be free to perform whatever spell/s she likes. That doesn’t make her ‘demonic’. Unless she’s literally summoning demons, in which case, Masterson needs to play The Best Song in the World.
Exactly!
Unless she’s literally summoning demons
…and even then, just like Neo-charismatic movement evangelicals summoning their “Holy Ghost” which makes them speak in tongues, it’d be Freedom of Religion.
Go pray on TikTok, then. Either it’s not witchcraft helping her, or your God is a farce.
The fact that people are trying to emulate Trumps dementia riddled speech patterns is very concerning.
They’re not emulating - they’re as fucking stupid as he is.
Trump’s not stupid, he’s a sociopath, schemer and grifter though, he’s making billions of the people who elected him (and those who didn’t) , he has near unlimited power, immunity from any law, command of the biggest military on earth and as he stated he can say the stupidest stuff, grab women by the pussy, or shoot someone in Times Square and people will clap. He’s not the stupid one, those who elected him are.
the witchcraft dude though…
I figured this was going to start soon. I have made friends with a Murder in my neighborhood, I am related to two accused witches one of whom was hung in Salem and I own a black cat so I expect to be named in the upcoming witch trials too.
Hanged*. hung means something very different.
I was hung in Salem. I’m hung at home, too.
I thought y’all believed in freedom of religion? Witch is a religion
Fr I do really hate that being pagan is so controversial in so much of the country
Wiccan is a religion. Or animist, or Hekate follower, or Hellenist.
Even “pagan” isn’t a religion, it’s the absence of Christian religion from a Christian perspective. It’s an Othering term.
Witch is just a title, like mailman or umpire or hot dog salesperson. If you do witch stuff, you’re a witch. If you weld stuff, you’re a welder.
But when a Christian does witch shit, they’re a “mystic” as a loophole they invented to retcon the “evil mean pagan” stuff they tried to destroy and realized later were things they liked.
