The problem, is that the AG is the Bondo Bimbo who struts around with a great big gold cross suspended from her neck. There will not be any significant prosecutions of MAGAts or Evilgelical Christianists on her watch. He has the MAGAt get out of jail free card.
I guess you had to grow up in 1970s KY - ‘Bondo’ is fiberglass body filler to fix dents and scrapes after a car mishap when you couldn’t afford to fix it right.
To the conspiracy fantasists and their clone/robot twaddle that Trump reposted on his own media platform...
Trump now is very different mntally from Trump in his first go round as POTUS. I guess that means that Trump then was secretly assassinated in 2021 and replaced by clones/robots, right? See how easy that was?
And to think, I thought the thing suspended from her neck was a tribute to Little Timmy. Why else would anyone wear a lower case "t" anywhere on their body?
This is what it takes now to bring down a garbage human like Sean (rhymes with exploit, thought it should rhyme with fucked) Feucht. Not his terrible treatment of of others, not the open explotiation. Financial crap. The ones coming forward with this are primarily pissed that he took part of their cut.
The fact that she's departed our commentariat remains one of the greater tragedies of the move from Patheos. I know the network was going to shit, but... damn, did we lose far too many cool people on the way out the door.
I find it funny, in a twisted sort of funny, that when it comes to financial crimes religious folks are ready to condemn their leadership, but when it comes to sexual or other forms of personal abuse they are silent or make excuses, blaming the victims. Where are the folks telling the congregations and others affected that if they didn’t want him to use the money for personal gain, they should not have flaunted it in church, or made those donations. Where are the “that money was seducing him, he’s a man he can’t control himself around all that cash.” They’re not there, they’re saying “this is wrong, he needs to be held accountable.” Money wins out every time. Rich men can do anything to other people, except mess with other rich men’s wealth.
Love the 'should not have flaunted it in church' analogy. Definitely worth repeating every time, to point out the ridiculousness of their sexual assault defenses.
It's depressing but I agree with Hemant's comments about the legal response - there won't be any.
We live in a time/administration where there is unlikely to be any DOJ response to wealthy religious cons. When response happens, a quick butt-kissing session or donation to the administration will get you a "I've looked at his situation, and I think he's being treated terribly unfairly" tweet from POTUS followed by a pardon if needed.
Long term solution, we really need a revamp of charitable reporting rules to get rid of exceptions for religious organizations. If the issue is reporting is too burdensome for small (e.g. one-pastor) churches, then we fix that by saying any organization - religious or secular - that is below a certain size of staffing or revenue is excepted - but anything above it, no exception.
Until we do that, religious charities will draw conmen like flies on crap, because the government has essentially tailor-made a corporate category for them.
One of the best way to cover up a scam, is to label it a ministry. Slap the word Jesus on something, and you get a pass until the criminality can no longer be ignored. There will always be frauds and con artists like Feucht, but I lay the real blame on the people who delegate an important party of their thinking to them. I've little doubt but what he will claim to be a poor persecuted victim of the godless left.
Do you know the real victim here? Sean Feucht. Here he was an innocent young pastor, trying to spread the word of God, and these.hoorible old and desperate people came and tempted this innocent man with money. He had to suffer all the indegities of being a wealthy, white Christian man. And those unforgivably evil poor people just kept sending him more! Those poor people should be made to pay!
To add: Keep in mind that I always try to correct my typos when I come across them (ya gotta keep coming back to them). And some are not typos but added words/content.
Oh. I thought you were talking my tendency to trip over my own fingers and not Holytape's Trumpish post (yeah, I noticed the lack of unneeded exclamation points as well).
"This statement is made in good faith for the purpose of preventing further harm and upholding standards of biblical accountability, transparency, and justice…"
Funny how they didn't care about all that 'biblical' stuff until there was money involved. So, Feucht you, Sean, and all his apologists who turned a blind eye to his evil. Bloody hypocrites.
This regime is coming for 𝘢𝘭𝘭 of us LGBTQ+ folks- and it wants to erase 𝘢𝘭𝘭 of our history. Pride needs to be a protest again- and, if it comes down to it, a riot.
The Christian nationalist want to remove all contributions of anyone that help built the United States who isn’t white (European descent), heterosexual, Christian (evangelical), conservative (fascist), republican (Trump supporter).
I know the US isn’t perfect and still a work in progress, unless the citizens continue to work to improve and expand the civil liberties and human rights of all who live in the US. Otherwise the country will continue to decline and won’t be able to create solutions to the problems it faces. See the article about American scientists being actively recruited by other countries or just leaving.
Exploitation and grifting is a feature, not a bug, of Christian nationalism.
Once the backlash becomes unmanageable, he will follow the *other* playbook: confess to some vague "sinning," step back to focus on his family, wait 6 months or a year and then claim to have been forgiven by his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and call everyone who balks at his full restoration insufficiently Christian.
josh hawley was on the news crying that medicaid cuts will close several hospitals in his shithole state. Hey!!! Welcome to the Face Eating Leopard Party!
Once AGAIN, yet ANOTHER financial crook is caught. Is the financial crook ___?
A- RELIGIOU$
B- REPUBLIKAN
C- BOTH
Hint: Only one answer is correct, all others only half correct.
Damnit, I still can't find my shocked face.¹ Might just have to order a new one.
(¹ Yes, I already checked the jar by the door.)
Agreed. Not surprised 😮 cause it seems to be the norm. 😔
Damn things are backordered for at least four more years.
That’s why! No wonder mine hasn’t come yet! Thanks for the info. 😉
ISWYDT
"Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht accused of massive financial misconduct by former ministry insiders"
Mysogyny, racism, LGBTQI+ hate = crickets, but embezzling money ? That's the most serious offence. How catholic of them.
Now the real question is, are they offended by his grifting, or are they offended they weren't part of it ?
I would say that it is more likely they are offended that the weren't getting a cut.
GMTA!
I believe it is professional jealousy, not that it is not accurate, and the latter.
If there's any justice left in this country, let's hope Feucht is royally fucked.
The problem, is that the AG is the Bondo Bimbo who struts around with a great big gold cross suspended from her neck. There will not be any significant prosecutions of MAGAts or Evilgelical Christianists on her watch. He has the MAGAt get out of jail free card.
I think of her as AG Fox Blondie. Because we all know that's where she's gonna end up when her time in the Chump White House is over.
I guess you had to grow up in 1970s KY - ‘Bondo’ is fiberglass body filler to fix dents and scrapes after a car mishap when you couldn’t afford to fix it right.
Ah yes, that nondescript grey color on so many cars back in the days!
Bingo!
I was thinking more along the lines of among his fellow conmen...er, Christians.
As for the current fascist regime? Forget it. No help there.
Did you watch anything posted by Farron today ?
Not yet. I was just about to watch the first two Faron Balanced entries.
You will understand which one I am talking about by their titles.
Trump GOES insane? Like he wasn't already there?
To the conspiracy fantasists and their clone/robot twaddle that Trump reposted on his own media platform...
Trump now is very different mntally from Trump in his first go round as POTUS. I guess that means that Trump then was secretly assassinated in 2021 and replaced by clones/robots, right? See how easy that was?
It’s not a big gold cross … it is a LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR.
We’ve still got too many of those protective devices wandering the streets in Oztrailer.
And to think, I thought the thing suspended from her neck was a tribute to Little Timmy. Why else would anyone wear a lower case "t" anywhere on their body?
Sorry, Justice couldn't prove her citizenship. And has been reported to an El Salvadorian prison.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 “𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑” 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑓 “𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙, 𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙, 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠” 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠.
This is what it takes now to bring down a garbage human like Sean (rhymes with exploit, thought it should rhyme with fucked) Feucht. Not his terrible treatment of of others, not the open explotiation. Financial crap. The ones coming forward with this are primarily pissed that he took part of their cut.
You fuck with the kids, the church has your back. You fuck with the 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺, the church has your 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥.
Oh Joan, I like your style.
If you like Joan' style, you would have built an altar to Foxglove :)
The fact that she's departed our commentariat remains one of the greater tragedies of the move from Patheos. I know the network was going to shit, but... damn, did we lose far too many cool people on the way out the door.
I followed a Joan comment here, so I will be forever grateful to them.
What if you fuck with the kid's money?
🤣
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
I find it funny, in a twisted sort of funny, that when it comes to financial crimes religious folks are ready to condemn their leadership, but when it comes to sexual or other forms of personal abuse they are silent or make excuses, blaming the victims. Where are the folks telling the congregations and others affected that if they didn’t want him to use the money for personal gain, they should not have flaunted it in church, or made those donations. Where are the “that money was seducing him, he’s a man he can’t control himself around all that cash.” They’re not there, they’re saying “this is wrong, he needs to be held accountable.” Money wins out every time. Rich men can do anything to other people, except mess with other rich men’s wealth.
Love the 'should not have flaunted it in church' analogy. Definitely worth repeating every time, to point out the ridiculousness of their sexual assault defenses.
👆🎯That is what took down Bernie Madoff, he stole from the rich.
Anyone can start their own "ministry", tax free with no accountability. There are zero qualifications required.
And many Christians are all too willing to be marks.
There is at least one qualification required. Due to Christian Fucking Privilege, the "ministry" has to have at least a little Jesus flavor.
Not if you abuse the technicalities for fun and (in this case, the generous donation of) profit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Perpetual_Exemption
Always have been. If you can buy the whole Jeebus story, you are a setup.
Join, Brother, and savior in the deliciousness.
https://ibb.co/cKhzc13W
Mmmmh. Is all bacon accepted ?
No turkey, Tofu or coconut bacon.
Thank you.
*Order organic bananas.
🍌≠🥓
It's depressing but I agree with Hemant's comments about the legal response - there won't be any.
We live in a time/administration where there is unlikely to be any DOJ response to wealthy religious cons. When response happens, a quick butt-kissing session or donation to the administration will get you a "I've looked at his situation, and I think he's being treated terribly unfairly" tweet from POTUS followed by a pardon if needed.
Long term solution, we really need a revamp of charitable reporting rules to get rid of exceptions for religious organizations. If the issue is reporting is too burdensome for small (e.g. one-pastor) churches, then we fix that by saying any organization - religious or secular - that is below a certain size of staffing or revenue is excepted - but anything above it, no exception.
Until we do that, religious charities will draw conmen like flies on crap, because the government has essentially tailor-made a corporate category for them.
When the cult leader shows his idiotic minions how theft is possible without the use of a working brain, it becomes the MAGATY norm.
One of the best way to cover up a scam, is to label it a ministry. Slap the word Jesus on something, and you get a pass until the criminality can no longer be ignored. There will always be frauds and con artists like Feucht, but I lay the real blame on the people who delegate an important party of their thinking to them. I've little doubt but what he will claim to be a poor persecuted victim of the godless left.
If history is anything to go by, slapping the word Jesus on something lets a lot more criminality be ignored than would've been without it.
Absolutely. Look at what the TV preachers have gotten away with.
Does “still not a drag queen” also count for massive financial crimes?
Well, since we haven't had any reports of drag queens exploiting followers for financial gain, I would say yes.
Well, George Santos
Do you know the real victim here? Sean Feucht. Here he was an innocent young pastor, trying to spread the word of God, and these.hoorible old and desperate people came and tempted this innocent man with money. He had to suffer all the indegities of being a wealthy, white Christian man. And those unforgivably evil poor people just kept sending him more! Those poor people should be made to pay!
Is that you, Donald?
No typos. Do you get enough sleep ?
I have my moments.
To add: Keep in mind that I always try to correct my typos when I come across them (ya gotta keep coming back to them). And some are not typos but added words/content.
You really need some coffee or sleep :)
An authentic drumpster's post would have at least a couple of typos.
The covfefe is calling
Severral nonsensical sentence fragments are missing
And random capitalizations.
Oh. I thought you were talking my tendency to trip over my own fingers and not Holytape's Trumpish post (yeah, I noticed the lack of unneeded exclamation points as well).
With decrepit and shaky hands I sometimes have more typos than correct letters. I spend far more time fixing typos than doing the original.
Drives me nuts whenever I make missteps on the keyboard.
Donald would never make excuses. He'd be like "they gave me their money. Nothin' wrong with me using it the way I want to."
Financial misdeeds? As in hoodwinking donors and even outright theft? Too bad there wasn't one or two commandents against stealing and coveting.
Financial misdeeds as in not giving the others at the top a sufficient cut.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the people complaining are mad they didn't get their cut.
"How dare you fleece the flock without us?!"
"This statement is made in good faith for the purpose of preventing further harm and upholding standards of biblical accountability, transparency, and justice…"
Funny how they didn't care about all that 'biblical' stuff until there was money involved. So, Feucht you, Sean, and all his apologists who turned a blind eye to his evil. Bloody hypocrites.
OT- Just in time for Pride Month, Secretary Shitfaced has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk: https://apnews.com/article/harvey-milk-navy-ship-renamed-pride-month-d6cda5df15ee5bc066092d54c591c6f2
This regime is coming for 𝘢𝘭𝘭 of us LGBTQ+ folks- and it wants to erase 𝘢𝘭𝘭 of our history. Pride needs to be a protest again- and, if it comes down to it, a riot.
Maybe we should take advantage of open carry laws.
Stand our ground.
To Poseidon we pray, shake the earth and level the Pentagon.
Edit: No, that would harm too many basically innocent admin staff, just topple an *extremely* heavy bookcase and crush Pete Hegseth.
For someone so ignorant to be done in by an exceedingly heavy pile of knowledge would be 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 a poetic piece of justice...
No Milk today, the gqp got his way,
The battle is looming now, a sign of times to come,
No Milk today, erased from our sight,
But the ones fighting know the reason why
The Christian nationalist want to remove all contributions of anyone that help built the United States who isn’t white (European descent), heterosexual, Christian (evangelical), conservative (fascist), republican (Trump supporter).
I know the US isn’t perfect and still a work in progress, unless the citizens continue to work to improve and expand the civil liberties and human rights of all who live in the US. Otherwise the country will continue to decline and won’t be able to create solutions to the problems it faces. See the article about American scientists being actively recruited by other countries or just leaving.
Right now, we're a 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 of work, in 𝘳𝘦gress.
KKKatliks burned us sAt the stake. Time to return the favor? Maybe fiurebomb the pope's childhome in the suburbs? Fight hate with hate?
Exploitation and grifting is a feature, not a bug, of Christian nationalism.
Once the backlash becomes unmanageable, he will follow the *other* playbook: confess to some vague "sinning," step back to focus on his family, wait 6 months or a year and then claim to have been forgiven by his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and call everyone who balks at his full restoration insufficiently Christian.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
They should apologize to their wubby in person.
Ah, the good 'ol "Public Apology to the Cieling."
That can apply to all the world’s religions!
josh hawley was on the news crying that medicaid cuts will close several hospitals in his shithole state. Hey!!! Welcome to the Face Eating Leopard Party!
He may cry but he will have a taxpayer funded top notch healthcare. What he fears is to lose the next election.
We already know he's terrified of his constituents, having seen him on video fleeing from them when they came to pay him a visit at work.
More proof that the G卐P is not pro-life.
Streakin' Josh.