Parfet Distinguished Professor of Religion @kcollege.
Kalamazoo, MI
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Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
Pretty rich for Haley Stevens to lecture Abdul El-Sayed about “hate” over an ad his campaign has explicitly disavowed while Mike Rogers is running one of the most racist and bigoted campaigns I’ve ever seen.
The hate in this race is being directed at Abdul, not coming from him.
Idaho’s abortion law has made the state incredibly dangerous for women. Why is the LDS church supporting it?
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
Pitch perfect response from Obama to this manufactured Cheesecake Factory outrage
OBAMA: The president wasn't even mad. About The Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory. He took great umbrage. He said I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House.
They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
In a new poll, 15% of Americans said they believe between 1 and 5% of NCAA athletes are transgender.
14% think between it's between 6 and 25%.
Meanwhile, an NCAA spokesperson confirmed that the current number is "effectively" zero
thebulwark.com/p/new-poll-bu…
The closing arguments are:
1) Actually, most Americans would like the White House to look like a Cheesecake Factory designed by Saddam Hussein.
2) Check out these amazing butts.
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
According to the book, Kushner got Tillerson fired for a $50 million UAE payment because Tillerson supported Qatar. This panicked Qatar because they realized Kushner was a pay-to-play operative, so they bought Kushner's New York City apartments, which were in the red, hoping this would help.
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
Yesterday Trump repeatedly called Abdul El-Sayed a "jihadist", told Nicki Minaj she had a "beautiful ass" and asked her to stand up so the crowd could admire it, and yet the dumbest people on Twitter are still pretending to be offended by a mention of the Cheesecake Factory.
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. trib.al/iVl4J9l
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
Don’t become numb to this. It’s disgusting and dangerous racism and if Rogers wins next month it’ll only escalate.
Sick, sick stuff.
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.”
ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.
propublica.org/article/trump…
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
An exclusive excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
It seems to be that two political theories of the last decade have both been proven true at the same time:
1) the centrist Democrats have not actually brought over a reliable, significant number of centrist Republicans. The vast majority of Rs still think that any R is better than any D and simply hold their noses no matter how awful. We still haven't found a bottom of how low they will sink.
2) When more left-wing candidates have run, the theory that moving to the left will attract new voters who are energized by liberal populism has not really shown up in election results either, with a few exceptions in already liberal areas.
I think that part of the internal struggle of the Democratic party is that neither its centrist nor left leaning wings have been able to grow the party in sustainable ways. We are all still just fighting over the same 2-3% of anti-incumbent swing voters each cycle.
Does that seem right?
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries.
ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.
propublica.org/article/trump…
Taylor G. Petrey retweeted
Who do Americans support?
61%- Ukraine
3% - Russia
Trump’s October Surprise going all in for Trump’s abandonment of Western democracy a disaster for Republicans and freedom.
yougov.com/en-us/articles/54…
"Surveys show that most Americans stand with Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia, view Putin as a dangerous threat who shouldn’t be trusted, and want to see the United States offer more assistance to Ukraine," writes David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute along with John Herbst and William Taylor, both former U.S. Ambassadors to Ukraine.
Read more in their recent article for @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Rereading about the "Wear Pants to Church Day" event in the early 2010s and it is such a throwback. It seemed like such tiny stakes and the church basically shrugged but some people collectively lost their minds in anger. These days, I regularly see women and young women wearing pants and it is just totally normal.