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An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz is now selling industrial-strength bleach tablets to parents and has admitted that many of his customers are using the product to treat autism in their children.

And somehow this sentence took a turn for the worse after the phrase “rap song in support of Ted Cruz.”

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to me it was over with “Rapping Preacher”. No one who brands himself like that will be involved in anything remotely intelligent nor good

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How can people be allowed to do something like this. I just cannot… cheesus Christ.

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In civilised countries they can’t. It would be highly illegal.

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It’s illegal here too. There are two assholes from Florida currently sitting in prison for selling Bleach as a COVID cure.

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Idk, everyone should be allowed to sell bleach enemas for children. In a normal world no one should ve dumb enough to buy it.

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We live in a “normal” world. And people are dumb as fuck.

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I would support the bleach enemas for self-use, but the poor children of these dumb fucks wouldn’t have a say in what happens to them, so we need to protect them from their parents.

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Uh, there’s elderly, neurodivergent, and those struggling with addiction out there. This isn’t the wild west, you aren’t entitled to whatever you can scam off people, no matter the damages…

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Should we sell sulfuric acid for children too?

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They won’t be going forward.

The founders of this bullshit were recently found guilty in a criminal suit for selling bleach as a Covid and autism cure.

I’m surprised this idiot is still doing it, considering that. He’s likely to catch criminal charges, too.

e: guilty verdict came in fast, too.

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So they’re trying to kill autistic kids now…

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They’ve been doing this for a while now. I remember reading stories about moms in Facebook groups sharing photos of “parasites” they thought they were removing from their children by forcing them to drink bleach…

Pretty sure it was actually the lining of their esophagus/something similarly bad that should be inside not outside the body.

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I believe you’re talking about them shedding their intestinal linings and thinking they were getting rid of “worms.”

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That’s horrifying

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Very common trick, it’s not just done with autism, but many cleansing products have you puke up something to make it look like it actually is doing its job. But most of the time it is just stomach lining

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Are we doing an Aktion T4 now?

On that note, why – when most of modern conservatism has so many direct parallels in the Third Reich – do they call our side the fascists?

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do they call our side the fascists?

Been that way for a long while now.

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Well the author of that book, written in 2008 even said “Donald Trump proved me wrong”

In 2008, he argued accusation of fascism agianst the GOP were unwarranted because of the very neo liberal and libertarian ideas of the GOP. And to be frank he wasn’t really wrong, his position is defensible. Though Trump, was a serious surprise that he acknowledged

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Please, there’s a major difference:

In Aktion T4 they knew what they were doing, those fuckers can’t place their neighbors on the map

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…kill…cure…it’s all good.

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“An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz“

Okay, I’ve read enough.

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Maybe he should practice what he preaches.

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I agree totally and I think that people like this are really the best examples of that phrase “there is no hate quite like Christian love.”

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