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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTyranny doesn't start with invasions, bombings, or broken windows. It starts with things like "Four"
Michael Flynn, a right-wing conspiracy theorist who served as national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, spoke at a campaign rally Saturday for MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer in Oklahoma, where he falsely claimed that the word Creator is in the Constitution four times.
Flynn, who was a key player in so-called Stop the Steal campaign and continues to travel the country promoting the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump, has endorsed Lahmeyer, a fellow right-wing conspiracy theorist, in his bid to unseat Sen. James Lankford in the Republican primary. On Saturday, he used his time at Lahmeyers campaign rally to deliver a rambling speech insisting that this nation is locked in a spiritual war against the likes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosiwho he called a demonand therefore needs elected leaders like Lahmeyer who realize that the rights enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights come from God.
Democracy is always a fragile type, Flynn said. You read the Federalist Papers, you read (the Founders) writingsbecause this is all about the people that were talking about tonight running for office, and others that are out thereyou read all these things, you study the history of this country, you study how it was founded. Thats why the word Creator is in the Constitution four times. We are endowed by our Creator.'
As a matter of fact, the word Creator appears zero times in the Constitution. The phrase endowed by their Creator actually appears in the Declaration of Independence.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michael-flynn-falsely-claims-the-word-creator-appears-in-the-constitution-four-times/
Flynn, who was a key player in so-called Stop the Steal campaign and continues to travel the country promoting the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump, has endorsed Lahmeyer, a fellow right-wing conspiracy theorist, in his bid to unseat Sen. James Lankford in the Republican primary. On Saturday, he used his time at Lahmeyers campaign rally to deliver a rambling speech insisting that this nation is locked in a spiritual war against the likes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosiwho he called a demonand therefore needs elected leaders like Lahmeyer who realize that the rights enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights come from God.
Democracy is always a fragile type, Flynn said. You read the Federalist Papers, you read (the Founders) writingsbecause this is all about the people that were talking about tonight running for office, and others that are out thereyou read all these things, you study the history of this country, you study how it was founded. Thats why the word Creator is in the Constitution four times. We are endowed by our Creator.'
As a matter of fact, the word Creator appears zero times in the Constitution. The phrase endowed by their Creator actually appears in the Declaration of Independence.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michael-flynn-falsely-claims-the-word-creator-appears-in-the-constitution-four-times/
Don't be afraid to say "hold up", "wait a sec", or "gonna need a citation on that one, chief"
Even if it looks weird. Even if people call you weird. Even if people release a storm of profanities on you.
Don't be afraid to be that person that holds up accountability to leaders, candidates, and elites when they say things that don't sound right or don't add up unless you want your country to be that country where it's now illegal to do so.
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Tyranny doesn't start with invasions, bombings, or broken windows. It starts with things like "Four" (Original Post)
ck4829
Mar 2022
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Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)1. oh yea. right. Like anyone in that audience can read.
mitch96
(13,818 posts)2. This speaks a lot on how the military choose generals..... nt