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Puchinpappy retweeted
Hey, so here's my hot take from the 2028 midterms.
Courtesy of an interview with the AP.
Puchinpappy retweeted
There is not a deep spiritual divide on abortion. If we had an
opportunity to vote on abortion as a stand alone item, The Black Church would vote 80% against it, if not 90%.
Keep in mind the SBC voted in favor of abortion in the ‘70s. So, abortion has not always been a battleground issue in politics or in church history. When it became an issue surrounding Roe v Wade, and the Ronald Reagan era politics of the 80s, that’s when it became a political football.
Abortion is still legal some 45 years later after Republication politicians promised that if we’d vote for them, they’d enact a constitutional ban against abortion. They lied. Republicans have been completely in majority of all three branches of government 4 times since the early eighties and have never even attempted a full throttled effort to legislate a federal constitution ban against abortion. They simply politicized the issue.
So, the White Evangelical Church and The Black Evangelical Church are not theologically and spiritually divided over the issue of abortion. Politically we know when we’re being played. And we simply refuse to allow the Republicans to play us on this issue, as they continue to play the White Evangelical Church.
Puchinpappy retweeted
Recent Texas cycles each had a regional story. In 2018, Dems surged in the suburbs and the rural wall saved Cruz. In 2020 and 2024, the RGV and South Texas lurched right.
This year, it's everywhere. All 254 counties moved left:
Puchinpappy retweeted
For those who don’t understand exit polling:
We have no data to suggest that only 17% of white evangelicals voted in 2026.
Instead, the exit samples show that white evangelicals made up 17% of the overall electorate.
White evangelicals are among the highest-propensity voters in America. It’s possible they turned out in lower numbers this year than in past elections; it’s also possible other groups turned out in higher numbers.
In either case, the notion that only 17% of white evangelicals voted—which is being used to shame pastors, churches, etc—is laughable to anyone who actually knows this stuff.
Puchinpappy retweeted
The White Evangelical Church is largely in mourning, grief, and grave disappointment at the outcome of the midterm elections.
The Black Evangelical Church is shouting, as one leader texted me, “God did his thang”. The Black Evangelical Church is largely thrilled, elated, excited, thankful, and feel as if the outcome of the election will result in major and desperately needed change for the good in America.
My life’s journey had caused me to spend considerable time in both worlds. Our theological and spiritual belief systems are the same. Currently, our politics are so different.
I see two reasons why the two are so politically divided at the moment: 1) Different view and feelings regarding Trump. 2) Our different backgrounds and racial experiences.
What say ye? Why is the evangelical church so divided over politics currently?
Puchinpappy retweeted
This election appears to be a rebuke to the Christian Nationalists position that a you can’t be a Christian and vote Democrat.
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The guy who compared a Trump rally to Jonestown on live Fox News was invited by the Trump campaign. They called his work phone on Monday and asked him to come.
His name is Tom Hoyle. He's 57 and runs a small custom printing shop in Charlotte called MadPark Designs with his business partner. He's hated Trump since 1989, back when he was a sophomore in college. And he really, really doesn't like getting sales calls on the shop line, from anybody.
So when the rally people called, he said yes. He even signed up with his real name and contact info, because he wanted it on the record that they invited him.
Then he had to get through the door. A private security guy asked him straight up if he was a Trump supporter. Tom told him he supports the Constitution, then started talking about his shirt, which was for an old death metal band called Death. He kept going about the history of Florida death metal until the guard gave up and let him in.
His plan going in was honestly pretty juvenile. He and a buddy he grew up with figured he'd wait a few minutes into the speech and yell something filthy.
Then a Fox News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, found him standing off by himself and asked if he could interview him live. Tom thinks a white guy with a big beard and a ball cap was pretty much exactly what they were looking for.
He told himself he wasn't going to cuss on national TV, so he made it up on the spot. He says the first line and then just waits. The reporter goes "Wait, the Jonestown Massacre?" and that's when he finishes it.
He told The Handbasket he picked that up from Billy Crystal, who said on Letterman back in the '80s that you always let the other guy set up your punchline. Tomlinson set it up for him perfectly.
A few minutes later some men who said they were Secret Service pulled him aside. He asked if this was about the concession stand, because it closed early and he was starving. They didn't love that and walked him out. On his way out he passed the guard from the front door and told him, hey man, you didn't vet me too well.
Think about how many people had a shot at stopping this. The campaign's call list found him. The signup form had his name. A guard questioned him to his face. A Fox crew put him on live TV. Every one of them took one look at the beard and the hat and filled in the rest.
That's how almost all of this screening works. Asking somebody what they actually believe takes time, and looking at them takes a second, so everybody just looks.
The one check that actually caught him came after he'd already said it on national TV.
