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The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid

When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans' newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, "biblically, we are supposed to work."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

Great, then he should have no problem voting to strip himself and his fellow congressmen of their 100% government funded healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Fuck you. Murder me outright.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

Biblically, he can suck my cock and nosebang my asshole

[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Why aren't these rich assholes able to buy cloths that fit?

I know it's a side issue to their evil, but it doesn't make any sense.

"I'm going to wear an expensive suit, but you're too poor for me to allow you to take my measurements"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

He looks dead and soulless behind that veneer smile.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

It’s weird how Christian dominionists never mention the Jubilee. You’re supposed to forgive all debts every seven (edit: 7 sets of 7, 49) years, and you can’t really own land - God does.

The only parts they read in Leviticus are the ones about killing gays though.

[–] QuoVadisHomines 12 points 12 hours ago

They certainly skipped 18? 19? where it directs people to treat foreigners in your land like the native born.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

That verse you posted said 7x7 years, so every 49 years, with one year off after, so a 50 year cycle. Then I guess they "buy" land throughout the next 50 year cycle based on how many years remain. Ie, if it's 25 years into the cycle, the price for a field might be half off. Not a terrible system really, for the age. At the end of the cycle, it all goes back to the "clan" to be resold again.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago

I'm a Christian, and I have no clue what he is talking about.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago

yeah and "biblically" we're supposed to be feeding, clothing, washing, and housing the homeless as Jesus commanded. We're supposed to be taking care of the ill, as Jesus commanded. We're supposed to "love thy neighbour" and treat everyone, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, equally as Jesus commanded.

But of course we're not doing any of that and according to the Bible and Jesus that's an instant ticket to "Hell".

If Heaven exists it must be a fairly empty place.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What was it again with rich people getting into heaven and the camel/rope and the needle?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

A scripture so inconvenient that they had to spend a good chunk of the last 2,000 years contorting an explanation for why the obvious reading must be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

Biblically, we are supposed to be relaxing and taking care of our home.

Work is a divine punishment. I am no Buddhist but this dude didn't read the Quran properly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't sound like he has worked a day in wretched life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Jim Justice Has worked really hard at screwing over everyone who is not a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Get that fucker in a field where the farmers can't retain other workers!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

if only these people didn't pick and choose excerpts from an adult fiction novel in order to justify ruining other peoples' lives.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Luke 12:27-28

27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not [a]arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?

That bible?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They’re talking about the Bible where it says “Work shall set you free”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

That's a different bible with a different title. It's really close, so maybe that's why they confuse it. But that testament they are quoting from is actually called "Mein Kampf".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Cool, so he follows the bible and is saying people should be working just as much, or little, as him, right? RIGHT!? What a joke.

I remember hearing about journalists as a kid, the ones who would actually ask questions and investigate. Not just reguritate whatever word vomit these troglodytes spew.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Puritanical work ethic bullshit coming from the mouth of someone with hands that have never known callouses.

Fuck his shitty religion; he can shove that fairy tale book up his ass. I don't give a fuck what "biblically" we are supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

Don't you just love this fucking bullshit dripping from the mouth of a parasite who's never seen hard times?

I do actually agree with the core of this idea. Most people are not happy in a state of long term indolence. Most of us need 'work' to be happy. However, that 'work' might be carving sculpture, teaching children, breeding plants, or theoretical physics.

How many Albert Einsteins and George Washington Carvers died of blacklung from the mines this parasite inherited?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Any politician who publicly states that their religion should be the basis of any law should immediately be [redacted] multiple times in the face with a 12 gauge [redacted]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Yes, these politicians should be redacted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

think biblical, on a cross, crucified.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who the fuck cares what the Bible says? I'm under no obligation to live my life guided by fairy tales someone else believes in. If you want to be dumb enough to fall for that, be my guest, but don't use it to justify immoral behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Biblically, slavery was acceptable and part of the gospel.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

You say that as if that's not what the regressive actively want to return.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Jesus famously didn't give bread and fish unless you'd been working real hard that year.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Imagine being responsible for hurting so many people and turning around and think you're a good Christian quoting Bible crap. I wish Jesus was real and coming soon, so he could slap you in the face. This is not what he meant (or the writers of what he said about loving each other, anyway).

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Constitutionally, your Bible is irrelevant.

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