So ... because of a coincidence, Johnson and Trump's' mouthpiece and a bunch of other self-important idiot-children decide that they're going to get ALL BENT OUT OF SHAPE, and of course, they're going to blame Biden for it. I'd break out the old biblical saw about "Take the log out of your own eye first" if it weren't so overused.
These are the same people who have so twisted their supposed Christian faith that it would be unrecognizable to anyone even 10-20 years ago. These are the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and praised their pugnacious deity for being able to do so, then screamed bloody murder when they were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for that action. Meanwhile, Joe Biden can walk and chew gum at the same time, celebrating both Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility without skipping a beat.
Biden has been busting his tailbone since he took office to do something to bring this country together. The MAGAs have been doing very little other than the polar opposite, and it is way past time that those on the sidelines took notice.
They have been pushing lies about history for a long time. Why wouldn't they jump on this coincidence to spread more lies? Especially the "Biden wants to destroy Christianity" lie?
Don’t these people realize that Easter eggs and Easter bunnies have nothing whatsoever to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus?They’re pagan items, and for what it’s worth, paganism is so much better than this bs Christianity.
Ask them how Easter is calculated; the vast majority have no idea. It's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox (because the original calculation method, which pegged it to Passover, left them dependent on Jews, and they can't have that), which doesn't sound pagan at alllll.
And - correct me if I'm wrong - but more than once, they've just decided they didn't like when that placed Easter, and straight up said "Never mind, Easter's actually going to be (here) this year. 'Cause I sez so."
Thank you for posting this. Today, March 31st, my wife and I are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. We do this every March 31st. No matter which day of the week it falls on. Whether it's a holiday or not. But today, I guess we will have to move it to a different date so as not to offend Christians. I wouldn't want Trump, Moses, or former drug addict Franklin Graham pissed at us for celebrating our wedding anniversary on their holey (spelling intended) day. Oh, and by the way, we have a trans child. So I guess we're going to offend Christians no matter what.
Also, what's up with the "religious Easter eggs"? Do they think Jesus was hatched from an egg ?
So in closing, Jesus is dead. He didn't rise from the grave. Nothing to celebrate today. Screw Christians. Hail Satan !! (who doesn't exist either). 🖕😋
Why am I not surprised? Our two countries can't even agree on the temperature. Here 37 is damn cold. There, 37 is moderately warm. (Late spring, early summer in South Texas)
If we are talking about religious days highjacked by something else can we start by counting how many christians holidays (and I mean all christians' sects and saints from the catholic and orthodox calendars) are Pagans ? Are you sure it's the hill you want to die on ?
Oester and the egg and chocolate industries are conspiracies to distract from the true meaning of Easter. Pagans have been rebelling against God since the apple.
Well, of course we knew were this headed. Can’t let a good chance to freak out over a nothing burger pass by. I guess it was a good time to put up my pentagram. Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.
I do not want to imagine a world where someone like Mike Johnson held the power of life and death. It would be hell on earth. When people become convinced they're operating under divine sanction, they're capable of any horror. America's religious right are some of the first people to claim they're being persecuted, and never pass up an opportunity to celebrate how they're being abused. There is no group who would be more inclined to persecute others if given the opportunity.
Again, I can disagree with their priorities but their outrage is not fake. It's real even though the reasons for that outrage may be false. They've been fed lies from sources they unfortunately trust. I try to do what I can on more conservative sites to open their eyes.
Oh, come off it! Those children (they might as well be) are quite willing to get bent out of shape about damned near anything that rubs against their grain. They act like a bunch of over-privileged and under-disciplined Karens, who think they're entitled to their way with a cherry on top when they don't even rate the cherry.
What they really deserve is to be IGNORED. The real shame is that they haven't been.
Yes, ignore them, until they're as unavoidable as your annoying, bullying brother and/or sister at home or a bunch of school bullies that harass you on a daily basis.
I would agree with you except that it's not surprising that people would feel this way if they sense that something as important to them as Easter is being slighted in favor of something they consider to be morally obscene. Others would call this another example of Christian privilege in which it's expected that what's important to us should be definition be important to the nation. As long as they have enough votes in the right states to affect national elections, I suspect that it will be hard to ignore them.
"people would feel this way if they sense that something as important to them as Easter is being slighted in favor of something they consider to be morally obscene"
Well, fuck them. They really need to grow up already.
If you perceived that someone was slighting something which you've built your life around in favor of something you despise then I suspect that you wouldn't be too happy about it either. Even so, responding with hate and lies sure seems to contradict Jesus' statements about loving others and being people of truth. It's not something we Christians should be proud of in how we've responded to this things. Someone waved a red flag of transgender persons and like unthinking animals we're responding without thinking.
One would assume someone genuinely faithful in an all-powerful god would understand that there is literally nothing any human agency can do to harm anything that god does.
To assume that a mere world leader could do anything to harm god's plan... well, Hulk said it best.
Imagine their world of bombarded all day with the dumbest propaganda ever and falling for it every time, and the steam shooting out of their ears 24/7. My theory is we're the dumbest species of all the species.
It's easy to fall into the same trap if you live in an echo chamber be it liberal or conservative or religious or skeptical. That's one of the reasons why I support Hemant and encourage others to do so. Unfortunately, I suspect you're right about the species part.
They are Anger Addicts, because anger stimulates the "flight or fight" response, so they get a dopamine rush from it. Fox (so-called) News knows this and gives them their daily fixes. I call the phenomena "Poutrage".
This outrage is the equivalent of a drunk driver in a mostly-empty parking lot who manages to run into the only parked car in the whole lot then blames the owner for being in the way. Christians are throwing off some real "how dare you hit my fist with your face!" energy, today.
Including Dumb Idiot Ham's creation site. He's been chucking out slanderous articles about trans, gays, and other perceived enemies by the hour and by the day.
How dare those Christians have their holiday of torture and death on the same day as Transgender Day of Visibility? I am outraged! It's just a made up holiday that they just started doing to persecute trans people!
King James version: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
New Republican version: "A new commandment I give unto you, That you hate and kill anyone who is different from you. I love you only if you hate all those whom I hate."
What this whole business shows off to me, more than anything else, is how religion is at the heart of the brand of discrimination and bigotry that characterizes the systematic opposition of anything having to do with the LGBTQ+ community, in this case, with particular emphasis on the "T." Their understanding of the human condition is so arrested that they can't deal with the concept of alternative sexuality of ANY sort, from same-sex attraction to a conflict between physical sex and internal gender perception.
Put simply, religion in general and Christianity in particular are ANACHRONISMS which don't belong in a 21st-century reality. That they persist is a problem our culture will be dealing with for a long time, I suspect.
They wish it would be annual “god uses cracked pots like trump” day ONE EVERY EASTER. After all, he suffers like Jesus did from persecution for fake crimes and election fraudfraudfraud
So ... because of a coincidence, Johnson and Trump's' mouthpiece and a bunch of other self-important idiot-children decide that they're going to get ALL BENT OUT OF SHAPE, and of course, they're going to blame Biden for it. I'd break out the old biblical saw about "Take the log out of your own eye first" if it weren't so overused.
These are the same people who have so twisted their supposed Christian faith that it would be unrecognizable to anyone even 10-20 years ago. These are the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and praised their pugnacious deity for being able to do so, then screamed bloody murder when they were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for that action. Meanwhile, Joe Biden can walk and chew gum at the same time, celebrating both Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility without skipping a beat.
Biden has been busting his tailbone since he took office to do something to bring this country together. The MAGAs have been doing very little other than the polar opposite, and it is way past time that those on the sidelines took notice.
They have been pushing lies about history for a long time. Why wouldn't they jump on this coincidence to spread more lies? Especially the "Biden wants to destroy Christianity" lie?
Over the centuries that log has evolved into an entire log cathedral.
Divided we stand, united we fall.
Our dinner for spring break was as always stifado made with hare, shot by my husband.
Don’t these people realize that Easter eggs and Easter bunnies have nothing whatsoever to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus?They’re pagan items, and for what it’s worth, paganism is so much better than this bs Christianity.
Ask them how Easter is calculated; the vast majority have no idea. It's the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox (because the original calculation method, which pegged it to Passover, left them dependent on Jews, and they can't have that), which doesn't sound pagan at alllll.
And - correct me if I'm wrong - but more than once, they've just decided they didn't like when that placed Easter, and straight up said "Never mind, Easter's actually going to be (here) this year. 'Cause I sez so."
That is correct.
But...but...Israel.
Oh no. You're ruining Mike Johnson’s entire reason for existence.
No. He can still get off monitoring his son's porn habits.
Jesus forgot to mention porn in his teachings. Mike is merely finishing what Jesus (God) couldn't. To paraphrase Ayn Rand, Who is Mike Johnson?
He was hanging out with 12 other guys. Porn is implied.
In dresses, no less.
Sure, Jan.
Ah well… we all have to do our part , I suppose 😂😜
Oh the persecution. Being told they should recognize people for who they are on a day that is important to them. How will they survive?
We are SHOVING IT DOWN THERE FROATS
They would like that, I think they are all into humiliation as their kink, why else tell such easily debunked lies?
Thank you for posting this. Today, March 31st, my wife and I are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. We do this every March 31st. No matter which day of the week it falls on. Whether it's a holiday or not. But today, I guess we will have to move it to a different date so as not to offend Christians. I wouldn't want Trump, Moses, or former drug addict Franklin Graham pissed at us for celebrating our wedding anniversary on their holey (spelling intended) day. Oh, and by the way, we have a trans child. So I guess we're going to offend Christians no matter what.
Also, what's up with the "religious Easter eggs"? Do they think Jesus was hatched from an egg ?
So in closing, Jesus is dead. He didn't rise from the grave. Nothing to celebrate today. Screw Christians. Hail Satan !! (who doesn't exist either). 🖕😋
Enjoy !! 😊
Joyeuses noces d'émeraude.
Happy emerald anniversary.
Thank you so much 😊
Minor correction. The 40th is Ruby. The 55th is Emerald. In the States, anyway. For all I know, France may use a different system.
I googled it in French. I have Ruby 35 years, Emerald 40 and Orchid for 55.
Why am I not surprised? Our two countries can't even agree on the temperature. Here 37 is damn cold. There, 37 is moderately warm. (Late spring, early summer in South Texas)
Sorry, we will have to disagree again 🤣
37 is hot as hell, either in Paris or Marseille.
In July and August we frequently hit 40C and in the town I grew up in 43 wasn't unheard of.
In this family 31st. March is Littlesister'sbirth Day. The penalties for not remembering that are too horrifying even to contemplate.
LOL. Understood. Happy B'day, Little Sister 😊🎉
Best wishes to you and your lady. Go kick yer heels and enjoy! 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you very much 😊
Congrats on 40th!
Thank you 😊
Happy anniversary!
Thank you very much 😊
Let say Biden did that. So what ?
If we are talking about religious days highjacked by something else can we start by counting how many christians holidays (and I mean all christians' sects and saints from the catholic and orthodox calendars) are Pagans ? Are you sure it's the hill you want to die on ?
Easter is a perfect example- it falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.
As God intended. You gotta work for it.
Bags posted a comment about this on the previous post.
Oester and the egg and chocolate industries are conspiracies to distract from the true meaning of Easter. Pagans have been rebelling against God since the apple.
Good idea.
*Bites into a juicy apple and looks for a book to read*
*sends a copy of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett*
*Make a place for it next to "Les petits dieux"*
Well, of course we knew were this headed. Can’t let a good chance to freak out over a nothing burger pass by. I guess it was a good time to put up my pentagram. Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.
Une photo ! Une photo ! Uhe photo !
https://ibb.co/519xD9d
Hmmmm. How do I do that on this site?
Google photos link?
Ok, I’ll figure it out. I do have a photo. The kids love it
You need a site who (host ?) pictures and share the link in your comment.
Like this
https://ibb.co/YRnNm5F
host is the correct word.
Thanks! That was easy enough
On Easter, I'll have my egg over easy. Take that, wingnuts!
On a biscuit, with sausage and cheese.
Too late here to get a sausage egg and cheese McMuffin.
Y'a pas d'heure pour les bonnes choses.
So true and they stop doing breakfast at 10 a.m.
I thought MickeyD's had gone 24-hour breakfast. It was a hamburger you couldn't get between 5-11am.
They stopped doing that during the pandemic.
Say you are from New Zealand and it's Monday morning, not 1pm Sunday.
11
I like the biscuits better, the muffins are good, but it's hit or miss if they get properly toasted.
Still in the running here. But for me? Bacon, Egg and Cheese McGriddle, please. :9----
I'd buy that for a dollar! 😁
4 quarters don't cost a dollar anymore.
https://imgur.com/gallery/WFQxpm2
The diabetes and colon cancer special. We need these health care jobs; they're important for "the economy."
I do not want to imagine a world where someone like Mike Johnson held the power of life and death. It would be hell on earth. When people become convinced they're operating under divine sanction, they're capable of any horror. America's religious right are some of the first people to claim they're being persecuted, and never pass up an opportunity to celebrate how they're being abused. There is no group who would be more inclined to persecute others if given the opportunity.
🎯🎯🎯
The faux outrage, it burns.
It's not fake outrage. I can tell you from what I've seen on more conservative religious sites that they are up in arms over this.
The ❄❄❄ need to get a life.
Yes, but we are dealing with fanatics.
Oh, it's fake as hell.
Imagine thinking that prayer is more important in schools than feeding hungry kids.
Again, I can disagree with their priorities but their outrage is not fake. It's real even though the reasons for that outrage may be false. They've been fed lies from sources they unfortunately trust. I try to do what I can on more conservative sites to open their eyes.
In other words, they are incapable of thinking for themselves.
As good a definition of religious beliefs as any.
Disavow your silly religion and fake God. That will do alot more than your futile arguments.
Oh, come off it! Those children (they might as well be) are quite willing to get bent out of shape about damned near anything that rubs against their grain. They act like a bunch of over-privileged and under-disciplined Karens, who think they're entitled to their way with a cherry on top when they don't even rate the cherry.
What they really deserve is to be IGNORED. The real shame is that they haven't been.
Yes, ignore them, until they're as unavoidable as your annoying, bullying brother and/or sister at home or a bunch of school bullies that harass you on a daily basis.
I would agree with you except that it's not surprising that people would feel this way if they sense that something as important to them as Easter is being slighted in favor of something they consider to be morally obscene. Others would call this another example of Christian privilege in which it's expected that what's important to us should be definition be important to the nation. As long as they have enough votes in the right states to affect national elections, I suspect that it will be hard to ignore them.
"people would feel this way if they sense that something as important to them as Easter is being slighted in favor of something they consider to be morally obscene"
Well, fuck them. They really need to grow up already.
If you perceived that someone was slighting something which you've built your life around in favor of something you despise then I suspect that you wouldn't be too happy about it either. Even so, responding with hate and lies sure seems to contradict Jesus' statements about loving others and being people of truth. It's not something we Christians should be proud of in how we've responded to this things. Someone waved a red flag of transgender persons and like unthinking animals we're responding without thinking.
You give them too much deference. They deserve scorn and opprobrium not empathy.
One would assume someone genuinely faithful in an all-powerful god would understand that there is literally nothing any human agency can do to harm anything that god does.
To assume that a mere world leader could do anything to harm god's plan... well, Hulk said it best.
Imagine their world of bombarded all day with the dumbest propaganda ever and falling for it every time, and the steam shooting out of their ears 24/7. My theory is we're the dumbest species of all the species.
It's easy to fall into the same trap if you live in an echo chamber be it liberal or conservative or religious or skeptical. That's one of the reasons why I support Hemant and encourage others to do so. Unfortunately, I suspect you're right about the species part.
P.S. How many of the outrage comments are fake "Russian" troll agitators. Who knows.
Not many, my guess. Our homegrown god-botherers are volatile and psychotic enough on their own for this.
Like the one who came here to engage in off subject, fearmongering the other day.
I don't think house speaker Mike Johnson is a fake Russian troll agitator. In my opinion he is a real American troll agitator.
I think he gets his propaganda from them, though. He's exactly the type to read "RT" unironically.
I think most of it starts there, the anti-vax shit going mainstream was their doing. Also the "Texit" bullshit, then actual players amplify it.
They are Anger Addicts, because anger stimulates the "flight or fight" response, so they get a dopamine rush from it. Fox (so-called) News knows this and gives them their daily fixes. I call the phenomena "Poutrage".
This outrage is the equivalent of a drunk driver in a mostly-empty parking lot who manages to run into the only parked car in the whole lot then blames the owner for being in the way. Christians are throwing off some real "how dare you hit my fist with your face!" energy, today.
Unfortunately, you are right. The religious right is going full tilt chasing after this windmill.
Including Dumb Idiot Ham's creation site. He's been chucking out slanderous articles about trans, gays, and other perceived enemies by the hour and by the day.
How dare those Christians have their holiday of torture and death on the same day as Transgender Day of Visibility? I am outraged! It's just a made up holiday that they just started doing to persecute trans people!
Exactly
It’s a slap in the face if your religion is solely based on hating LGBTQ people.
This tempest in a teapot is pretty telling about the folks who are upset, but not much about Biden or transgender people.
King James version: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
New Republican version: "A new commandment I give unto you, That you hate and kill anyone who is different from you. I love you only if you hate all those whom I hate."
I love you only if you stay married and live with the man who beats you and your children. And it's your fault.
That's pretty much what they seem to get, out of that book they seldom read. They don't get context.
What this whole business shows off to me, more than anything else, is how religion is at the heart of the brand of discrimination and bigotry that characterizes the systematic opposition of anything having to do with the LGBTQ+ community, in this case, with particular emphasis on the "T." Their understanding of the human condition is so arrested that they can't deal with the concept of alternative sexuality of ANY sort, from same-sex attraction to a conflict between physical sex and internal gender perception.
Put simply, religion in general and Christianity in particular are ANACHRONISMS which don't belong in a 21st-century reality. That they persist is a problem our culture will be dealing with for a long time, I suspect.
They wish it would be annual “god uses cracked pots like trump” day ONE EVERY EASTER. After all, he suffers like Jesus did from persecution for fake crimes and election fraudfraudfraud
"Easter, on the other hand, falls on a different Sunday each year—sometime between late March and late April."
Get your own Sundays right before you judge someone else's Sundays. Can't even get Sundays right.
Hey assholes- 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 holiday ran into 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴. Maybe do a better job parking it next time.
"Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance"
Loved that scene
If trump’s selling sneakers and bibles, that can only mean he ran out of classified documents to sell.