Few things anger Donald Trump more than having someone speak truth to his face. Donald Trump has no more respect for religion than he does the Constitution and the rule of law. He will use the preachers as long as they're useful, and throw them under the bus the moment they're not. Who and what Donald Trump amounts to was quite clear long before he ever ran for office. There is no excuse for the country being in this mess, and it's only going to get worse.
I think this is the most important point. She had the pulpit, she had the time, he had to sit still and take it, or probably lose a lot of political capital if he reacted (he did and I'll give him some credit he didn't lose his shit all the way https://youtu.be/sSLouzYJLuo ) poorly. And that is not something he does. He enters the room and tells you what's what.
She will live in his head like Obama did after the White House Press Dinner.
A call for compassion = insulting Dear Leader. They probably wouldn't have reacted that way if her call for compassion was for billionaires and white Christian men. They would have lauded the sermon. But nope, the call for compassion was a call to have the bare minimum of decency toward all the people they hate. A call to not skip over Matthew 5 when reading their bibles. A call to be men and not monsters. And that offends them.
She held a mirror up to Trump's face and said, "This is who you are," albeit in a far more considerate way that Trump himself would have used. Then, too, Bishop Budde actually HAS COMPASSION for her fellow human beings.
I was up late last night reading the comments on Inside Edition YT channel about this. Half the comments were supporting her. The other half called it "inappropriate" and frequently had sexist and homophobic language. Suddenly conservatives were concerned about separating church and state and taxing churches and following the law. Those clowns were fun to troll by reminding them they were OK with it when churches supported Trump and the laws they've broken.
So, they think separation of church and state isn't in the constitution when applied to the churhes that they like, but it is when applied to churches they don't like. Yeah, that tracks.
Trump chooses to go to a liberal church and gets a liberal sermon. If you go into a strip joint and then get offended at the 'inappropriate' nudity, that's not the dancer's problem, it's yours.
I just popped over to The Christian Post to see how they covered it and peek at the comments. The headline said the bishop “rebuked” Trump so that’s a giveaway. Most comments are against her.
Christianity long ago split into two main sects. One was the much smaller group that wanted to serve the poor, welcome atrangers, and fight injustices.
The other was the larger group that loved and worshipped power, money, and oppressing Others.
The second group Hates the first group and would love to stamp them out.
To the folks who thought she was insulting Trump, including the diaper baby himself, she was actually banking on the idea that he wasn’t a total monster by begging mercy.
I think what Bishop Budde was doing was a couple things. First of all, to make a point to Trump, which he clearly got, though without any intention to heed her words. Second and perhaps more importantly, to draw a distinction between what her church and its goals are and what Trump and his goals are.
I have little doubt but that Budde knew even as she spoke that Trump hasn't got it in him to act in a generous or altruistic way. With her statement and his reaction, she "put the truth where it needs to be:" out in public, where EVERYONE can see it.
It’s also worth stating that she was asking the orange idiot to look inward and to reflect on his policies. She wasn’t demanding anything. She wasn’t name calling and putting him down. She was as respectful in her pleas as she could be and she still was dragged over the coals. They are just bullies who don’t like to hear the bad things they are doing.
I sort of feel sometimes like Donald Trump is a symptom of a deeper illness in the US; the inability to be honest and face facts. This is a good example of that problem in that 1) the extremist right wing is making a mountain out of a molehill 2) Trump and his policies are the reason Rev. Budde felt she needed to say something at all 3) everything Rev. Budde said was 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒. Exhortations for mercy, compassion, and forgiveness? Normal. Reminders of the humanity of the downtrodden? Normal. 𝑁𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡.
The way the extremist right is reacting to this is telling. Rev. Budde spoke honestly and with compassion to provide a voice for those who will never be able to speak to Trump directly themselves. The reaction against her from what should be her own people says far more about who they are than it ever will about Rev. Budde. Taking to social media to cry foul over this is about as petty and childish as it gets, but it's the sort of tactic Trump often employs. The face eating has apparently officially commenced.
It's actually worse than that. Trump has successfully evaded prosecution, now that he's back in the White House, and on top of that, released over a thousand January 6th perpetrators, some of whom have talked about taking revenge on those who prosecuted and imprisoned them. He is unraveling the norms by which a civilized society, or at least a democratic society works. MAGAts will look at this and attempt to follow his example. I suspect some are already doing this or giving thought to it.
This is fucking DANGEROUS to the entire country, and that needs to be recognized and resisted.
I would point out that most of that? He said he'd do it. He told us, well before this last election, he would turn the Jan 6 people loose again. He told us he would take revenge on those who went after him legally. Trump told the public exactly what he would do with his time in office if he got it, and now he's started doing exactly that.
Too many Americans couldn't face the fact that this is what he had planned and voted for him anyway. The divorce from reality here is just staggering.
He's doing everything in his power to destroy this country, thinking he'll be immune to the devastation somehow. It almost seems like he's getting marching orders from his 'friend' Putin (definitely a one-sided 'friendship' there. Putin sees him as useful and Trump is too vain/deluded to see he's being manipulated with empty flattery).
I suppose that might be considered a conspiracy fantasy. Still...
I am wishing very very very very hard for all of them to be punted off to a pocket dimension where they are not only free to implement all of their sick fantasies, but forced to.
And with no innocents around to blame, they’ll have to eat themselves.
As a bonus, from their point of view it would look like every BUT THEM got Raptured.
Generation after generation, Southern pastors adapted their theology to thrive under a terrorist state. Principled critics were exiled or murdered, leaving voices of dissent few and scattered. Southern Christianity evolved in strange directions under ever-increasing isolation. Preachers learned to tailor their message to protect themselves. If all you knew about Christianity came from a close reading of the New Testament, you’d expect that Christians would be hostile to wealth, emphatic in protection of justice, sympathetic to the point of personal pain toward the sick, persecuted and the migrant, and almost socialist in their economic practices. None of these consistent Christian themes served the interests of slave owners, so pastors could either abandon them, obscure them, or flee.
*snip*
Stripped of its compassion and integrity, little remained of the Christian message. What survived was a perverse emphasis on sexual purity as the sole expression of righteousness, along with a creepy obsession with the unquestionable sexual authority of white men. In a culture where race defined one’s claim to basic humanity, women took on a special religious interest. Christianity’s historic emphasis on sexual purity as a form of ascetic self-denial was transformed into an obsession with women and sex. For Southerners, righteousness had little meaning beyond sex, and sexual mores had far less importance for men than for women. Guarding women’s sexual purity meant guarding the purity of the white race. There was no higher moral demand.
*snip*
White evangelical Christianity has a bottomless well of compassion for the interests of straight white men, and not a drop to be spared for anyone else at their expense. The cruelty of white evangelical churches in politics, and in their treatment of their own gay or minority parishioners, is no accident. It is an institution born in slavery, tuned to serve the needs of Jim Crow, and entirely unwilling to confront either of those realities.
Trump claims (intermittently) to be a Christian, and says that he LOVES Christians. Yet when he is confronted with a religious leader who urges him to BEHAVE as caring Christian might, he predictably reacts as the spoiled and obstinate child that he is. No great surprise, his running boys (and girls) respond in lockstep, right along with him.
It is an unfortunate fact that Trumps immigration policies are going to bring harm to a lot of people, not all of them immigrants. His refusal to take ownership of the problems he will inevitably cause is just one more indicator that he is in the whole presidency act for his own benefit, and that any suggestion that his job is to serve the people would be met with a blank stare at best.
Donnie has been in the job now three days, yet in the four years to come, it's entirely possible that there are few things he will do that are more despicable than what he has done here.
He and the MAGAt theofascist Christians will likely tear the country in two… or go hard fascist and create a totalitarian state. But Donnie Dipstick is itching to use nukes somehow/somewhere. He very well could start the final war.
I would like to think that maybe, just maybe, there's enough intelligence in our military that any suggestion of a nuclear deployment would be squelched before the first bomber could leave the ground. Granted, it could mean a mutiny between our armed services and the executive branch, and that all by itself would be dangerous as hell.
He may have support within the ranks, but the powerful leaders of our military are on, and have always been on, his shit list. I suspect that they’ve pushed back on him much more than we’re led to believe. There’s a rule that illegal orders can be ignored, even orders by the highest ranks. If he cannot go through the proper motions, the generals can refuse him. Will they? Remains to be seen. But he’s got to pick generals from the folks who are there, he can’t just install some idiot buddy of his that gave him big bucks. So, there might be some hope here.
That's my understanding too. Lots of general and senior military advisors used "if you do this, I will quit" [and this will look really bad for you] threats to pull him back from his truly stupid ideas. I expect they'll do the same this time around.
However I don't think Trump nuking someone is a high probability problem. The much higher probability problem is that Russia, NK, or China start aggressive takeovers or attacks against US allies and Trump does nothing. And THAT order, the military would obey no question.
He's not going to make it four years due to his worsening dementia that will kill him within a very short time. It's very clear that his aids is doing all the "tweeting" and the dirty work for him because he can't do it by himself like he used to.
I’m no Christian but I applaud her speaking her truth to power. tRump is the kind of evil leader inveighed against in the Bible and with good cause. He is going to hurt a lot of powerless people. The talibangelicals just use their religion as a banner to rally and manipulate their theofascist congregants. They are in their moment of ascendancy. They plan to smite anyone who isn’t like them.
Two shots of Trump at that service. In the first one, he looks like he's asleep. Again. The second one? He's in church. Where is the joy Christians are supposed to feel when they gather together? He looks pissed that he has to be there.
Having elected officials call for her deportation because they didn’t like what she said is the textbook definition of a breach of the first amendment right to free speech. The calls from elected officials to keep her from preaching her religion as clergy at a governmental platform for religious sermons (albeit mainly an unconstitutional platform, but that’s just church state separatists’ opinion and apparently not the current legal decision) is textbook breach of the first amendment religious freedom, and getting very close to establishing official religion.
And yet people don’t recognize it as such. Why? Because the right has muddied the waters so bad that folks think that private people or groups not providing a platform is what constitutes a breach of free speech. That having private citizens criticize or condemn a Nazi salute as part of a government gathering is stepping on that Nazi’s free speech. And that religious freedom, freedom to worship and the government establishing an official religion means only Christian’s are protected. We’ve had decades of GOP propaganda messaging to get to this very place. Nazis in the White House, Nazis in governors mansions, Nazis in the state houses throughout the country.
This is about as hypocritical as they can get.. Can you imagine what conservatives would say if some liberal suggested we deport evangelical pastors who sermonize against a Dem President's policies?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" seems pretty on point when a member of Congress demands a pastor be deported for her sermon.
That's why the christofacists are trying to undo it. They pretend to deport them, but "lose them" somewhere along the way. Unlike the Nazis these are not good recordkeepers.
Few things anger Donald Trump more than having someone speak truth to his face. Donald Trump has no more respect for religion than he does the Constitution and the rule of law. He will use the preachers as long as they're useful, and throw them under the bus the moment they're not. Who and what Donald Trump amounts to was quite clear long before he ever ran for office. There is no excuse for the country being in this mess, and it's only going to get worse.
He especially hates being publicly bested by smart, courageous women. She sent his balls scurrying for the mothership even faster than the cold.
I think this is the most important point. She had the pulpit, she had the time, he had to sit still and take it, or probably lose a lot of political capital if he reacted (he did and I'll give him some credit he didn't lose his shit all the way https://youtu.be/sSLouzYJLuo ) poorly. And that is not something he does. He enters the room and tells you what's what.
She will live in his head like Obama did after the White House Press Dinner.
100%. She's living rent free in his head from now on.
https://www.gocomics.com/realitycheck/2025/01/22
A call for compassion = insulting Dear Leader. They probably wouldn't have reacted that way if her call for compassion was for billionaires and white Christian men. They would have lauded the sermon. But nope, the call for compassion was a call to have the bare minimum of decency toward all the people they hate. A call to not skip over Matthew 5 when reading their bibles. A call to be men and not monsters. And that offends them.
She held a mirror up to Trump's face and said, "This is who you are," albeit in a far more considerate way that Trump himself would have used. Then, too, Bishop Budde actually HAS COMPASSION for her fellow human beings.
Trump has none.
I'm wondering if he's protected by some type of Dorian Gray portrait.
Everyone knows he doesn’t honor his end of a deal.
A deal with the devil I would say - if I believed in devils, or course.
Even Lucifer has standards.
I was up late last night reading the comments on Inside Edition YT channel about this. Half the comments were supporting her. The other half called it "inappropriate" and frequently had sexist and homophobic language. Suddenly conservatives were concerned about separating church and state and taxing churches and following the law. Those clowns were fun to troll by reminding them they were OK with it when churches supported Trump and the laws they've broken.
So, they think separation of church and state isn't in the constitution when applied to the churhes that they like, but it is when applied to churches they don't like. Yeah, that tracks.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
christians/conservatives/republicans are immune to hypocrisy. They don't even experience cognitive dissonance.
But then, I suppose, they've got to have some type of cognition going on to even experience dissonance.
Well spoken, my friend, well spoken.
Trump chooses to go to a liberal church and gets a liberal sermon. If you go into a strip joint and then get offended at the 'inappropriate' nudity, that's not the dancer's problem, it's yours.
I just popped over to The Christian Post to see how they covered it and peek at the comments. The headline said the bishop “rebuked” Trump so that’s a giveaway. Most comments are against her.
They really need to put the "christ" back in christianity, because they have excised him completely out and replaced him with a malodorous Orange Orc.
𝐵𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟.
This is what courage looks like.
"How we learn to be brave" book by the good Reverend.
She’s great and a wonderful example of courage in the face of pure evil.
And she made her statement with grace and kindness, two qualities that Trump has exactly ZERO IDEA about.
OT: Seen on my gal's Facebook page:
If the January 6th rioters were all ANTIFA, BLM, and FBI agents, WHY did Trump pardon them?
Shame on you! You can't expect consistency from conspiracy fantasists.
10 dimensional chess.
Kind of related to "the weave".
The discount one he wears on his head?
thanks for this comment, made my day.
My pleasure!
Good question!
Christianity long ago split into two main sects. One was the much smaller group that wanted to serve the poor, welcome atrangers, and fight injustices.
The other was the larger group that loved and worshipped power, money, and oppressing Others.
The second group Hates the first group and would love to stamp them out.
Let me add what my senior Alabama senator said of Budde. Ole Tubby claimed she was “spewing hate.” Our realities are not the same.
That man is working hard at enhancing his reputation!
#DumbestSenator
I don’t think it’s work at all for him sadly.
Yeah, he’s a natural.
To the folks who thought she was insulting Trump, including the diaper baby himself, she was actually banking on the idea that he wasn’t a total monster by begging mercy.
I guess you showed her.
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒.
-- Dukhat of the Grey Council, Babylon 5
I think what Bishop Budde was doing was a couple things. First of all, to make a point to Trump, which he clearly got, though without any intention to heed her words. Second and perhaps more importantly, to draw a distinction between what her church and its goals are and what Trump and his goals are.
I have little doubt but that Budde knew even as she spoke that Trump hasn't got it in him to act in a generous or altruistic way. With her statement and his reaction, she "put the truth where it needs to be:" out in public, where EVERYONE can see it.
It’s also worth stating that she was asking the orange idiot to look inward and to reflect on his policies. She wasn’t demanding anything. She wasn’t name calling and putting him down. She was as respectful in her pleas as she could be and she still was dragged over the coals. They are just bullies who don’t like to hear the bad things they are doing.
I sort of feel sometimes like Donald Trump is a symptom of a deeper illness in the US; the inability to be honest and face facts. This is a good example of that problem in that 1) the extremist right wing is making a mountain out of a molehill 2) Trump and his policies are the reason Rev. Budde felt she needed to say something at all 3) everything Rev. Budde said was 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒. Exhortations for mercy, compassion, and forgiveness? Normal. Reminders of the humanity of the downtrodden? Normal. 𝑁𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡.
The way the extremist right is reacting to this is telling. Rev. Budde spoke honestly and with compassion to provide a voice for those who will never be able to speak to Trump directly themselves. The reaction against her from what should be her own people says far more about who they are than it ever will about Rev. Budde. Taking to social media to cry foul over this is about as petty and childish as it gets, but it's the sort of tactic Trump often employs. The face eating has apparently officially commenced.
It's actually worse than that. Trump has successfully evaded prosecution, now that he's back in the White House, and on top of that, released over a thousand January 6th perpetrators, some of whom have talked about taking revenge on those who prosecuted and imprisoned them. He is unraveling the norms by which a civilized society, or at least a democratic society works. MAGAts will look at this and attempt to follow his example. I suspect some are already doing this or giving thought to it.
This is fucking DANGEROUS to the entire country, and that needs to be recognized and resisted.
I would point out that most of that? He said he'd do it. He told us, well before this last election, he would turn the Jan 6 people loose again. He told us he would take revenge on those who went after him legally. Trump told the public exactly what he would do with his time in office if he got it, and now he's started doing exactly that.
Too many Americans couldn't face the fact that this is what he had planned and voted for him anyway. The divorce from reality here is just staggering.
"All that may be true, but at least he's not a Jamaican/Indian woman"
- Red America
tRumpy has destroyed everything he has come in contact with. Is the USA next? We are in the crosshairs.
He's doing everything in his power to destroy this country, thinking he'll be immune to the devastation somehow. It almost seems like he's getting marching orders from his 'friend' Putin (definitely a one-sided 'friendship' there. Putin sees him as useful and Trump is too vain/deluded to see he's being manipulated with empty flattery).
I suppose that might be considered a conspiracy fantasy. Still...
I am wishing very very very very hard for all of them to be punted off to a pocket dimension where they are not only free to implement all of their sick fantasies, but forced to.
And with no innocents around to blame, they’ll have to eat themselves.
As a bonus, from their point of view it would look like every BUT THEM got Raptured.
I almost wish that sick fan-fiction rapture shit was real, it would be so nice as you pointed out to be rid of the knuckle-draggers.
𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐈𝐬 𝐒𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥
*snip*
Generation after generation, Southern pastors adapted their theology to thrive under a terrorist state. Principled critics were exiled or murdered, leaving voices of dissent few and scattered. Southern Christianity evolved in strange directions under ever-increasing isolation. Preachers learned to tailor their message to protect themselves. If all you knew about Christianity came from a close reading of the New Testament, you’d expect that Christians would be hostile to wealth, emphatic in protection of justice, sympathetic to the point of personal pain toward the sick, persecuted and the migrant, and almost socialist in their economic practices. None of these consistent Christian themes served the interests of slave owners, so pastors could either abandon them, obscure them, or flee.
*snip*
Stripped of its compassion and integrity, little remained of the Christian message. What survived was a perverse emphasis on sexual purity as the sole expression of righteousness, along with a creepy obsession with the unquestionable sexual authority of white men. In a culture where race defined one’s claim to basic humanity, women took on a special religious interest. Christianity’s historic emphasis on sexual purity as a form of ascetic self-denial was transformed into an obsession with women and sex. For Southerners, righteousness had little meaning beyond sex, and sexual mores had far less importance for men than for women. Guarding women’s sexual purity meant guarding the purity of the white race. There was no higher moral demand.
*snip*
White evangelical Christianity has a bottomless well of compassion for the interests of straight white men, and not a drop to be spared for anyone else at their expense. The cruelty of white evangelical churches in politics, and in their treatment of their own gay or minority parishioners, is no accident. It is an institution born in slavery, tuned to serve the needs of Jim Crow, and entirely unwilling to confront either of those realities.
https://theologyandthecity.com/2018/03/12/why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/
Not to mention their overt individual and collective insecurity and anxiety which is a complete contradiction if you claim to have faith in God. 🤔
Shared, hope that was okay.
Trump claims (intermittently) to be a Christian, and says that he LOVES Christians. Yet when he is confronted with a religious leader who urges him to BEHAVE as caring Christian might, he predictably reacts as the spoiled and obstinate child that he is. No great surprise, his running boys (and girls) respond in lockstep, right along with him.
It is an unfortunate fact that Trumps immigration policies are going to bring harm to a lot of people, not all of them immigrants. His refusal to take ownership of the problems he will inevitably cause is just one more indicator that he is in the whole presidency act for his own benefit, and that any suggestion that his job is to serve the people would be met with a blank stare at best.
Donnie has been in the job now three days, yet in the four years to come, it's entirely possible that there are few things he will do that are more despicable than what he has done here.
He and the MAGAt theofascist Christians will likely tear the country in two… or go hard fascist and create a totalitarian state. But Donnie Dipstick is itching to use nukes somehow/somewhere. He very well could start the final war.
I would like to think that maybe, just maybe, there's enough intelligence in our military that any suggestion of a nuclear deployment would be squelched before the first bomber could leave the ground. Granted, it could mean a mutiny between our armed services and the executive branch, and that all by itself would be dangerous as hell.
But it is what things may come to.
He may have support within the ranks, but the powerful leaders of our military are on, and have always been on, his shit list. I suspect that they’ve pushed back on him much more than we’re led to believe. There’s a rule that illegal orders can be ignored, even orders by the highest ranks. If he cannot go through the proper motions, the generals can refuse him. Will they? Remains to be seen. But he’s got to pick generals from the folks who are there, he can’t just install some idiot buddy of his that gave him big bucks. So, there might be some hope here.
That's my understanding too. Lots of general and senior military advisors used "if you do this, I will quit" [and this will look really bad for you] threats to pull him back from his truly stupid ideas. I expect they'll do the same this time around.
However I don't think Trump nuking someone is a high probability problem. The much higher probability problem is that Russia, NK, or China start aggressive takeovers or attacks against US allies and Trump does nothing. And THAT order, the military would obey no question.
Rapey Petey will do it after his three morning gin & tonics.
He's not going to make it four years due to his worsening dementia that will kill him within a very short time. It's very clear that his aids is doing all the "tweeting" and the dirty work for him because he can't do it by himself like he used to.
He loves his Christians (because they're so gullible that he can lead them like sheep to be sheared).
I’m no Christian but I applaud her speaking her truth to power. tRump is the kind of evil leader inveighed against in the Bible and with good cause. He is going to hurt a lot of powerless people. The talibangelicals just use their religion as a banner to rally and manipulate their theofascist congregants. They are in their moment of ascendancy. They plan to smite anyone who isn’t like them.
"She was nasty in tone..."
Says the rapist, convicted felon and pathological liar.
The reaction of a W.I.M.P. Weak Incompetent Malingering Pussy.
Hell, Melania looks like she's about to do the vampire hiss, when encountering a cross.
Two shots of Trump at that service. In the first one, he looks like he's asleep. Again. The second one? He's in church. Where is the joy Christians are supposed to feel when they gather together? He looks pissed that he has to be there.
Just a thought.
Tim Walz and Kamala Harris brought the joy. Losers.
Having elected officials call for her deportation because they didn’t like what she said is the textbook definition of a breach of the first amendment right to free speech. The calls from elected officials to keep her from preaching her religion as clergy at a governmental platform for religious sermons (albeit mainly an unconstitutional platform, but that’s just church state separatists’ opinion and apparently not the current legal decision) is textbook breach of the first amendment religious freedom, and getting very close to establishing official religion.
And yet people don’t recognize it as such. Why? Because the right has muddied the waters so bad that folks think that private people or groups not providing a platform is what constitutes a breach of free speech. That having private citizens criticize or condemn a Nazi salute as part of a government gathering is stepping on that Nazi’s free speech. And that religious freedom, freedom to worship and the government establishing an official religion means only Christian’s are protected. We’ve had decades of GOP propaganda messaging to get to this very place. Nazis in the White House, Nazis in governors mansions, Nazis in the state houses throughout the country.
Resist.
𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ.
Maybe even moreso - the free exercise clause.
This is about as hypocritical as they can get.. Can you imagine what conservatives would say if some liberal suggested we deport evangelical pastors who sermonize against a Dem President's policies?
“Persecution” of the poor little Christians, OF COURSE.
Free Speech ONLY applies to the RW.
I would say the free speech, the free exercise clause was more the ones claiming she shouldn’t be a preacher. But I get where you’re coming from.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" seems pretty on point when a member of Congress demands a pastor be deported for her sermon.
In any event, it is precisely the type of thing the Founders were trying to stop when they wrote the first amendment.
Yes. In the venn diagram of 'freedom of speech" and "free exercise of religion", there is a big overlap region.
That's why the christofacists are trying to undo it. They pretend to deport them, but "lose them" somewhere along the way. Unlike the Nazis these are not good recordkeepers.
They want to establish a state religion: theirs.