José Padilla was convicted on charges of supporting al Qaeda after he was initially accused of planning a “dirty bomb” attack in the U.S. He was eventually sentenced to 21 years in prison.
JD Vance bashed Democrats at the state, local and national levels Friday during his visit to Los Angeles, accusing top California officials of encouraging violent protesters and Sen. Alex Padilla, whom he referred to as “José Padilla,” of engaging in “political theater.”
“I was hoping José Padilla would be here to ask a question. But, unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater, and that’s all it is,” Vance said. “It’s pure political theater. These guys show up. They want to be captured on camera doing something.”
Vance’s comments referred to an incident last week in which federal law enforcement agents handcuffed Padilla after he interrupted a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Padilla was forcibly removed from the event but not arrested.
Isn’t “JD” “Vance” the guy that endorsed the Unhumans book?
I don’t know if anyone should give a flying fuck what he has to say about anything.
John 13:34, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” Jesus says this before being betrayed by Judas.
Instead, we get blatant racism & wrath. Absolute shame…
Jesus is irrelevant. Christianity is about Paul.
Racism and wrath are front and center.
He really highjacked the movement from the Jerusalem group. I’ve been learabout the first two hundred years of christianity for about 20 months. He stole it and made it his own thing.
What’s really interesting is criticism of Paul as the figure of Simon Magus in Acts. He tried to purchase apostleship just as Simon tried to purchase the laying of hands to invoke the Holy Spirit. Further, the Dead Sea Scrolls (likely texts of the Essenes, a jewish christian sect) refer to the Spouter of Lies and this is thought to be Paul.
It’s a fascinating topic for an atheist history nerd.