Republicans across the country are not taking their historic midterm beatdown in stride, and according to a recent report from Right Wing Watch, a notably MAGA-linked pastor has taken his despair a step further, calling for āanother January 6.ā
Lorenzo Sewell is the leader of 180 Church, a non-denominational Christian church based in Detroit, and has become increasingly connected with GOP and MAGA politics in the last several years. In 2024, he was a guest speaker at the Republican National Convention, and in 2025, he conducted one of the benedictions at Trumpās second-term inauguration. Recently, reports have even suggested that he is considering running for public office himself as a Republican.
Right Wing Watchās report this week also described Sewell as āan ardent stolen election conspiracy theorist whose obsession with exposing alleged voter fraud has become too extreme even for the Trump White House.ā Now, his rejection of election results that are unflattering to Republicans and the MAGA movement has continued, as during an appearance on the āFlashPointā podcast after the midterm blue wave, he once again called the elections fraudulent and suggested Trumpās followers should rise up against them.
Sewellās argument for why fraud must have taken place in the midterms echoed the common right-wing misconception about elections, often lampooned with the phrase āland doesnāt vote.ā Often, conservatives might share electoral maps of certain states with more counties colored red, and argue that this must be an indication that the state should elect Republicans in state-wide races, despite the fact that Democrats tend to win counties that are more heavily populated, giving them the edge.
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Trump and co are way too calm for them to not be cooking some shitfuckery.
Whereās the lawsuits? Fraud claims? They arenāt even trying.
Please break into Congress and poop in Nancy Pelosiās desk a second time.
You get bad fruit from bad trees, as they like to say, and he is another example of the unhealthy, authoritarian type, which the guy they claim to follow was against. The stories paint a hero for the least among us, outcasts, women, the unclean, etc. and against hierarchies and the establishment that made such impossible rules it turned people away. The story about healing the Centurionās lover back home, remote healing as Mel White said, and other stories of turn the other cheek, help the meek, and rebuke phonies like this clown. If you want to stay in the faith at least be like Mel. https://youtu.be/xf7WIvEsR0Y
Real truth does set free from the unfalsifiable demands, the damage and baggage of the shame/blame, punish/reward systems. Real truth withstands questions and doesnāt demand obedience and ignore facts, unlike the dry sand foundation of some flavors of supernatural systems. They fall apart at the simplest scrutiny they get upset about and move the goalposts with each new discovery. They fail at Saganās baloney kit, partly because none of these supernatural traditions were meant to be science or medical textbooks, yet too many still do that today. Maybe they accept some medical help, but some also reject proven vaccines, and cause needless suffering to innocent victims.
Faith is supposed to allow room for doubt and mystery, but that got subverted and hijacked by the hierarchy. We are the cosmos observing itself, made from primordial hydrogen and elements exploded from supernova and other cosmic events! DNA that has survived all the extinction events to become human, typing/reading this today, the cosmos in each of us, and nothing after this, that is freedom through truth!
They need ANOTHER Peaceful Protest that does NOTHING violent or Illegal?
No no no. Iām being told this was an Antifa False Flag Riot and you shouldnāt be deceived by the Lying Liberal Media
Doesnāt calling for a second just admit the first one WAS an attack.?
Does he know heās black?
The Uncle Tom grift is one of the oldest in the book. Americans of all stripes will pay good money to hear a black man tell them that racism is okay.
They wonāt eat his face.
He knows heās very comfortable.
Like many republicans, heās privately revolted by himself.
No, they shut off (or are in some cases just born without) the part of human personality that would do that.
They are shameless.
That gives them too much credit and self awareness. They find people revolting who get to live the way they wish that they could. āIām not like that because Iām not allowed to be because itās āwrongā for some reason, you shouldnāt be allowed eitherā
That deserves an arrest for incitement.
Immediately remove tax exemption too.
church tax exemption needs to fucking end. or churches need to end. try the first. if itās too hard, try the second.
Itās unpopular, but I disagree. Just because people are currently biased against Christianity (for good reason) does not mean tax exemption against places of worship should end. Thereās still a lot of churches of multiple different faiths that feed the hungry, house the unhoused, and clean the unkempt. Until thereās a reliable safety net in place to do that, taxing the good will of congregations that genuinely trust their church more than government (for good reason) to care for those in need is moving backward.
They can itemize and write those off like any other business.
All of these should be publicly funded social services with accountability for every cent used, not some independent entity with no accountability that uses the needs of our most vulnerable to spread some 2000+ year old fairy tale.
Yeah, in an ideal world that would be the case, but as it stands, America is about 100 years behind Europe in the infrastructure required to provide these social services. What Iām suggesting is building pilot programs to help rollout and build them out over time. As these programs start to become readily available, then we can kick churches off the exempt list. Taking them away suddenly would just cause undue harm to people in need because you have an axe to grind.
Plus doesnāt this whole argument send the message that taxation is a form of punishment?
Exactly what I was thinking
Pretty sure thatās tax fraud proof, too.
Isnāt it a terrorist threat?
Uh, not a Muslim, or Antifa? Therefore cannot be terrorist?
Heās black so it must be gang related
So heās using a pulpit to openly advocate for a political revolution-adjacent response? We all oughta be reporting his fucking megachurch for violations of tax exemption requirements.
How about charge him with incitement to insurrection?
Unfortunately the people who would do that are corrupted.
I think you mean āmagaā church.
Tomato, tomato
MAGA pastor calls for violence and intolerance. More news at 11.
Why not? Trump pardoned all of them. This is what he wants. Heās going to get violence because he both incited it, and also forgave it with zero consequences.
Thatās some traitor shit
Excuse me, Lorenzo, or may I call you Tom?
But really, what are you meant to January 6th? Every single government building in the US? What an idiot
Down to, what, every post office in the country? Thatās going to take all damn day.
āApparently unable to understand the concept of population density, Sewell insisted that states like Texas, Michigan, and Ohio are red states and therefore could not have possibly elected Democrats,ā the report explained.
āOut of 83 counties in Michigan, [Republican gubernatorial candidate] John James won 69 of them,ā Sewell declared. āDo you know that even [Democratic Senate candidate James] Talarico, he wonāwatch thisāhe only won 31 counties? Thereās over 204 counties in Texas. In [Republican Ohio Senate candidate Jon] Husted and [Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod] Brown, Brown only won 16 counties. Thereās 88 counties in Ohio.ā
Another bright bulb from the conservativesā¦
What they donāt understand from the red/blue maps is that land doesnāt vote. Show them a population density map.
This is how conservatives argue: in bad faith. The data is out there, they just choose to discount it wholesale because academia has an inherent liberal (reality based) bias. They project their own corruption onto it, ie, If we ran the numbers, it would reveal the real truth. When they hear these arguments of big number us, small number them, it reinforces their worldview of the āsilent majorityā, without any sort of context to the data provided that explains how things actually workāthat their ābig numberā actually signifies less people across more landmass (in certain areas of course, this is not universally true).
The truth is out there. They want to believe [alternative facts instead].
They explicitly do not want their supporters understanding concepts like āper capita.ā
I wish I was joking, there are people who think āper capitaā was made up by liberals to make conservatives look bad.
The density of the population does indeed affect the density of the population
They donāt care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.
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Bro, they want to lynch you
Maybe if he volunteers to play the role of Ashli Babbitt.
