Paula White Called in "Angelic Reinforcement" To Boost Trump

If the Russians couldn't do it, imaginary beings sure as hell can't.

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• We’re back after taking a night off to ride the election night roller coaster. Actually, we’re still on that ride, but the worst is over. Maybe. Who knows. WHEN WILL IT END.

  Our favorite State Senate win: Atheist Kelda Roys of Wisconsin.

  Our favorite State House loss: pro-life and pro-gun Jed Duggar (yes, he’s one of those Duggars) of Arkansas.

• We’ve been tracking every openly non-religious candidate in the country right here. Many more races still to be called.

• Remember when Christian preacher and author John Piper posted an article explaining he wouldn’t vote for Trump because he’s morally unfit? Apparently Liberty University caught wind of what he had to say and deleted Piper’s convocation speech from their online ceremony.
  
  Because you can never remove the Falwell stench from Liberty.
  

• Prophetess Kat “Heaven is made of Jell-O” Kerr shares her latest vision: If Donald Trump wins a second term, God will gift us five new energy sources and a cure for cancer.

  Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch

  "Prophetess" Kat Kerr says that when Trump is reelected, God will give us five new sources of energy, the cure for cancer, and "inventions we never even dream of having."

  

  It’s kind of cruel for God to hold a cure for cancer ransom unless we re-elect the guy who obsesses over the stock market while nearly 1,000 Americans die each day from COVID-19. Had God cured the virus already, Trump may have stood a better chance of being re-elected without divine intervention.

• Here’s a great story: Ernie Chambers, the longtime (LONGTIME) Nebraska State Senator and non-theist, is the reason the state gives the region including Omaha its own electoral vote. Read all about it here:

  Dr. Andrew R. Schrock @aschrock

  My wife @RebeccaSittler, a Nebraska native, reminded me today of why NE splits its electoral votes. If Biden does not win PA, NE's single electoral vote (from districts around Omaha) will be why he has 270. THIS lone blue dot. The reason is Ernie Chambers.

  

  Chambers, by the way, is term-limited out. He wasn’t on the ballot this week for that reason.

• As it turns out, Trump’s bigotry, racism, corruption, and lies is a deal breaker for some evangelical Christians. Emphasis on some.
  
  The New York Times has published exit polling data that shows 76% of white evangelicals supported Trump. Compare that to the 81% who backed him in 2016.
  
  It’s less. But it’s not that much less. What does that tell you about so-called Christian values?

  

• The conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court is up and running, already hearing cases that stand to turn civil progress back decades. Today morning, justices heard Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case about whether a taxpayer-funded, faith-based foster care agency should be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ families by not placing children with gay parents.
  
  Enjoy the election results while you can. SCOTUS decisions won’t be nearly as enjoyable anytime soon.

• Franklin Graham said in an interview that a Joe Biden presidency would be a disaster because he would promote the “gay lesbian agenda.” (It’s one thing, apparently.)

  “The Obama administration: No question, there was problems there. You had a lot of activists who were in the White House who wanted to push the gay lesbian agenda, and they targeted businesses. You know, they shut them down. Florists, bakers, people like that who refused to participate in a gay wedding.”

  He added, “And I think if the Democratic Party wins again, they’ll be right back with that agenda, and they’ll be looking for businesses and ministries to target and to shut them out of business or even put them in jail. Who knows, but it’s coming.”

  By “gay lesbian agenda,” he basically means LGBTQ equality and civil rights protections, which violate his religious beliefs. (He still has the Supreme Court on his side, though.)

• We’re coming up on midnight Thursday and the presidency appears to be… okay, we can’t say it. Don’t want to jinx it… BUT the numbers don’t seem to agree with former Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who claimed that “God has already sealed the results of this election” in Heaven. Her prediction is as irrelevant as her current political career.

• Finally, Paula White, head of the government’s “Faith and Opportunity Initiative” program and Trump’s “spiritual adviser,” seems to be sweating the vote tallies today, because she’s dispatching “angelic reinforcement” on Trump’s campaign.

  Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch

  Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump's reelection.

  

  If that video wasn’t weird enough for you, there’s more: She goes on to say that election workers are “demonic confederacies.”

• Here’s hoping we have some big developments by tomorrow night…