Endless grift after endless grift by Trump to enrich himself through the office of the Presidency. Rethuglikkkans are silent as the grave.
Where's all the GOP outrage that was on full display when they went after Jimmy Carter for having a peanut farm? They DEMANDED he give it up immediately and Carter did so.
That NSGOP outrage machine was on full display when they accused Biden of just helping his son Hunter with international business deals -- without any evidence. They refuse to apply the rules to Trump because it was never about ethics. It was always about seizing power.
The opening monologue (Trump vs God) and opening song (It Isn't Easy Being God(c)) from Dictator for a Day:
"I was never very religious, never a big believer in God--or as the Muslims call him, Allen; or as the Jewish people call him, Yahtzee--because God never endorsed me....I could probably run for God, and I think I'd win."
It's a cult. This grift is no different from all the TV preachers who sell 'holy water' and other woo merch. If people are stupid enough to cough up $100 for something they can get online for free, they deserve to be separated from their money.
I've known Christians who could have made a lot more money if they stayed in the United States but chose to go overseas as medical staff such as doctors to minister to the needs of others even if they weren't Christians. Yes, there are a lot of hucksters out there in religion but not all of us are like that.
Perhaps. But I've know a lot of people who've done work for non-profit orgs that had nothing to do with christianity. They often volunteered to work without pay because they believed in a cause or a mission. I think good people are motivated to do good because it's in their nature, and you don't have to be religious to be good.
I have been told by a catholic priest that you must be religious in order to do good because if you are not ordered by god to do it, you are doing it out of your own selfish desire to do what you want, even if the action itself is good.
You don't have to be religious to be good. Though, one might quibble over what does it mean to be "good" as different societies have differed over that. Some things like the Golden Rule appear, though, to be the norm among human societies. Even so, I don't think one can doubt that Christianity has encouraged many to do good as with people I've known.
Not all of you are like that. But far too many of you are like that, and far too many of the ones who are not like that fail to condemn the ones who are like that.
I don't think Trump believes in anything other than money and power. It is illegal for a President to profit off his office, but the law never seems to apply to Trump. This country just keeps handing him one pass after another, and I fear we will pay a steep price for our failure to hold him accountable. Trump hawking Bibles to the gullible, makes for a compelling argument in favor of atheism.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Has Congress said anything about a second-hand Boeing 747 yet? Or doesn't it count because Qatar didn't exist at the time?
Trump has spent his entire life flouting the law, and has largely gotten away with it. He was convicted of thirty-four felonies yet sent back to the White House. Something I will never forgive this country for.
Donnie's been violating more than just the one Emoluments Clause... and even if Republicans in Congress wanted to, they couldn't give him a hall pass for 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one. Not that it's made a lick of difference.
Congress seems to exist, in its current state, in name only. It also seems that the reality of the job of being president is catching up with this fraud. As a game show host, he pretended he was a real estate mogul. Most of his businesses, including casinos, were failures. In his first term he never built the beautiful wall, or replaced the ACA with "something much, much better". Now in his second at bat, there are wars raging in the Middle East and in Ukraine and he is helpless to do anything to stop them. His big, beautiful bill is stalled. Business owners and farmers, often his supporters, are pushing back against his roundup of undocumented immigrants. He looked withdrawn and haggard at the military parade/birthday celebration. He left the G7 summit early without explanation. He has no interest in the daily intelligence briefings. He is erratic and has recently lashed out at some of his most ardent supporters - musk, tucker, fox news. The reality that is lost on so many is that he was never who he claimed to be, instead a mere cultivated image of who he thought he was.
In a way, it's a good thing. The more he fleeces his magots, the less they they can move across the country... You saw the results on June 14th, next to no one showed up.
"Judeo-Christian values."
Like slavery ? Misogyny ? Racism ? Bigotry ?
"Instead of Jesus and the Church being the light of the world"
The light of the Western world was the web of Pagan libraries founded by the Greeks about everywhere around the Mediterranean sea. They were destroyed by christians and none other. christians who also destroyed many Natives American cultures. What a light, indeed. Be anti christian, learn something and share it.
When I read about the destruction of all those great libraries of antiquity, and all the knowledge that was lost, some of which still has not been rediscovered (at least as of the late 70's when I was in school), I felt like crying. Christians have cost the world so much and given absolutely nothing except chaos, evil, suffering, destruction, and death in return.
All this information I had at my fingertips in school, and yet it would be another 20-30 years before I would begin to deconvert.
Or be a highly open-minded Christian and side with the secular Christians and non-Christians who have more heart, sense, and brains than those worthless, power-hungry fundies and their stupid followers.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Dumb Idiot Ham selling this cruddy MAGA bible at his putrid creationist faculties alongside his own creationist slog.
"Finally! All the important books I pretended to have read, but never will are included in one handy book!" said Jim Bob Duncan of Calvary Christain Baptist Patriot Eagle church.
Let’s not forget that Karolyn Leavitt and a bunch of MAGAts in his sphere and across the country are claiming he’s losing money by being president. He’s never made so much money. Sure, the salary is less than he would get running his companies, ( only by choosing not to pay his bills) but he is making money hand over fist with all these grifts, the way he charges the taxpayers for secret service to be on his golf courses and stay in his hotels, the foreign diplomats who stay at his hotels, and all the special interests throwing money at him directly to influence his policies.
These people don’t know that we’re not all as stupid as his base.
But he is trying to sell off national parks, even though the money isn’t technically going straight into his pocket. He’s gotten money from the corporations that want to strip mine and clear cut the parks, though. And lots of it.
This is what you get for trying to run a government like a business. Perot tried to do it in the 90s, now an unsuccessful businessman is doing it. It’s worse than everyone said it would be when I was a kid.
I am amused when Trump claims America has "Judeo-Christian roots." He is referring to the Abrahamic religions -- those that revered Abraham as the patriarch. A more accurate term would be the "Islamo-Judeo-Christian roots."
The term Judeo-Christian was manufactured by Christians. It means nothing to people of the Jewish faith. To them, any man who calls himself God is a liar.
And yet they mindlessly call Trump "God," kissed his butt, and worship him shamelessly in spite of the First Commandment which says "You shall not have any gods before me."
Judaism depicts God as...nothing. To them, God is incorporeal. Without physical form. Completely transcendent. Their texts strictly FORBID any attempt whatsoever to create a physical representation of God. It is considered idolatry.
So all those classical paintings you see of an old man in robes and a beard? Those are Christian in nature, not Jewish.
They don't want "Islamo-" appended because Muslims are all filthy brown people and are the source of all terrorism (in their minds). They only append "Judeo-" because it is a way to try and say "We're not 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 Nazis! See! We mention Jews as part of our values! We also have a black friend!"
How long have xtians been bellowing about the Antichrist? Then when someone displaying all the traits fitting the description of the Antichrist comes along, they elevate him to the status of their ressurected Jesus.
There is no way he could autograph a phone like that properly anyway
except perhaps with a sharpie, and it would eventually rub off. It would have to be engraved, and that would probably go through the gold washing to whatever's beneath it cheap ass stuff.
It’s surprising that given his own penchant for trying to think up names for his opponents, none of them has made a determined pitch for using Don the Con. It’s certainly more apt than many of his.
Endless grift after endless grift by Trump to enrich himself through the office of the Presidency. Rethuglikkkans are silent as the grave.
Where's all the GOP outrage that was on full display when they went after Jimmy Carter for having a peanut farm? They DEMANDED he give it up immediately and Carter did so.
No standard quite like a double standard.
That NSGOP outrage machine was on full display when they accused Biden of just helping his son Hunter with international business deals -- without any evidence. They refuse to apply the rules to Trump because it was never about ethics. It was always about seizing power.
Ouais mais, Jimmy Carter got a Peace Nobel prize, it's unfair !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPBH9302-8
He had integrity, and they didn't like it. If all Christians behaved like Carter, we wouldn't need this blog.
And the right never acknowledged his, Obama's, or Hillary's life-long faith. They only like performative christianity.
Man, oh man, how that must stick in his craw.
The opening monologue (Trump vs God) and opening song (It Isn't Easy Being God(c)) from Dictator for a Day:
"I was never very religious, never a big believer in God--or as the Muslims call him, Allen; or as the Jewish people call him, Yahtzee--because God never endorsed me....I could probably run for God, and I think I'd win."
🎶
"When you can't control Michael Cohen
And your only friend left is Roger Stone
It's not easy being God."
Dictatorforadayshow.com
To be fair, they don't have double standards. That implies that they have standards at all.
If it wasn’t for double standards, they would have no standards at all.
“Double standards, that’s like three times the standards. Wait, until I tell daddy, he’s going to be soo proud of me now,” - Eric Trump
The Trump Math checks out.
Those who worship at the feet of Jabba the Hut are just begging to be fleeced
And then fed to the Sarlaac.
Beat me to it.
Jabba had better ethics.
And he was considerably more attractive
Too bad melanoma isn't into cosplaying Leia Skywalker.
Where's the brain bleach?
Ask your dealer.
It's on back order to quell the cognitive dissonance of people who voted for Ted Fucking Cruz, et. al.
And probably smelled better too.
And no feet.
And he was crime boss, and slaver.
And a gourmand with refined tastes.
It's a cult. This grift is no different from all the TV preachers who sell 'holy water' and other woo merch. If people are stupid enough to cough up $100 for something they can get online for free, they deserve to be separated from their money.
Unfortunately, those people also vote.
And breed, must not forget breed (unless the rednecks are fucking barnyard animals).
Not saying they are.
But also, not saying they aren’t…
“𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐵𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 $15 𝑡𝑜 $20 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑠,” 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑. “𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠. … 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑏 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒.”
Grifters gonna grift. Religion has been doing this for millenia, so why wouldn't Don the Con get in on the grift.
"This feels more like a money grab than anything else." Oh, my sweet summer child. Tell me one thing about religion that isn't a money grab.
Pedophilia.
What do I win?
Allegedly that's not a feature of religion.
Allegedly.
Actually, it gives all the indicators of being a no-cost "benefit!" 🤢🤮
Except for the jail time with people who don’t like child molesters.
I've known Christians who could have made a lot more money if they stayed in the United States but chose to go overseas as medical staff such as doctors to minister to the needs of others even if they weren't Christians. Yes, there are a lot of hucksters out there in religion but not all of us are like that.
I suspect those good people would have done good things with or without christianity.
You may be right but Christianity at least reinforced their doing good things even if it was not the only motivation.
Perhaps. But I've know a lot of people who've done work for non-profit orgs that had nothing to do with christianity. They often volunteered to work without pay because they believed in a cause or a mission. I think good people are motivated to do good because it's in their nature, and you don't have to be religious to be good.
I have been told by a catholic priest that you must be religious in order to do good because if you are not ordered by god to do it, you are doing it out of your own selfish desire to do what you want, even if the action itself is good.
Unlike Christian charities, atheist charities give their aid freely and without strings attached.
Usually with Christian charities it's proselytizing that comes first and foremost, not the help.
You don't have to be religious to be good. Though, one might quibble over what does it mean to be "good" as different societies have differed over that. Some things like the Golden Rule appear, though, to be the norm among human societies. Even so, I don't think one can doubt that Christianity has encouraged many to do good as with people I've known.
Absolutely the case, David.
Not all of you are like that. But far too many of you are like that, and far too many of the ones who are not like that fail to condemn the ones who are like that.
"𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑏"
If it looks like a money grab, swims like a money grab, and quacks like a money grab, then it probably is a money grab.
"𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑏"
Really, Rev. Wildsmith? Tell me, what was your first clue?
I don't think Trump believes in anything other than money and power. It is illegal for a President to profit off his office, but the law never seems to apply to Trump. This country just keeps handing him one pass after another, and I fear we will pay a steep price for our failure to hold him accountable. Trump hawking Bibles to the gullible, makes for a compelling argument in favor of atheism.
You forget the third part of his unholy trinity "grab them by the pussy".
Constitution S 1: 9
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Has Congress said anything about a second-hand Boeing 747 yet? Or doesn't it count because Qatar didn't exist at the time?
Trump has spent his entire life flouting the law, and has largely gotten away with it. He was convicted of thirty-four felonies yet sent back to the White House. Something I will never forgive this country for.
Article II: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮."
Donnie's been violating more than just the one Emoluments Clause... and even if Republicans in Congress wanted to, they couldn't give him a hall pass for 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one. Not that it's made a lick of difference.
Congress seems to exist, in its current state, in name only. It also seems that the reality of the job of being president is catching up with this fraud. As a game show host, he pretended he was a real estate mogul. Most of his businesses, including casinos, were failures. In his first term he never built the beautiful wall, or replaced the ACA with "something much, much better". Now in his second at bat, there are wars raging in the Middle East and in Ukraine and he is helpless to do anything to stop them. His big, beautiful bill is stalled. Business owners and farmers, often his supporters, are pushing back against his roundup of undocumented immigrants. He looked withdrawn and haggard at the military parade/birthday celebration. He left the G7 summit early without explanation. He has no interest in the daily intelligence briefings. He is erratic and has recently lashed out at some of his most ardent supporters - musk, tucker, fox news. The reality that is lost on so many is that he was never who he claimed to be, instead a mere cultivated image of who he thought he was.
Most *christians* make for a compelling argument in favor of atheism.
In a way, it's a good thing. The more he fleeces his magots, the less they they can move across the country... You saw the results on June 14th, next to no one showed up.
"Judeo-Christian values."
Like slavery ? Misogyny ? Racism ? Bigotry ?
"Instead of Jesus and the Church being the light of the world"
The light of the Western world was the web of Pagan libraries founded by the Greeks about everywhere around the Mediterranean sea. They were destroyed by christians and none other. christians who also destroyed many Natives American cultures. What a light, indeed. Be anti christian, learn something and share it.
When I read about the destruction of all those great libraries of antiquity, and all the knowledge that was lost, some of which still has not been rediscovered (at least as of the late 70's when I was in school), I felt like crying. Christians have cost the world so much and given absolutely nothing except chaos, evil, suffering, destruction, and death in return.
All this information I had at my fingertips in school, and yet it would be another 20-30 years before I would begin to deconvert.
Or be a highly open-minded Christian and side with the secular Christians and non-Christians who have more heart, sense, and brains than those worthless, power-hungry fundies and their stupid followers.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Dumb Idiot Ham selling this cruddy MAGA bible at his putrid creationist faculties alongside his own creationist slog.
"Finally! All the important books I pretended to have read, but never will are included in one handy book!" said Jim Bob Duncan of Calvary Christain Baptist Patriot Eagle church.
That church name is missing the word "Liberty".
Let’s not forget that Karolyn Leavitt and a bunch of MAGAts in his sphere and across the country are claiming he’s losing money by being president. He’s never made so much money. Sure, the salary is less than he would get running his companies, ( only by choosing not to pay his bills) but he is making money hand over fist with all these grifts, the way he charges the taxpayers for secret service to be on his golf courses and stay in his hotels, the foreign diplomats who stay at his hotels, and all the special interests throwing money at him directly to influence his policies.
These people don’t know that we’re not all as stupid as his base.
But he is trying to sell off national parks, even though the money isn’t technically going straight into his pocket. He’s gotten money from the corporations that want to strip mine and clear cut the parks, though. And lots of it.
This is what you get for trying to run a government like a business. Perot tried to do it in the 90s, now an unsuccessful businessman is doing it. It’s worse than everyone said it would be when I was a kid.
I am amused when Trump claims America has "Judeo-Christian roots." He is referring to the Abrahamic religions -- those that revered Abraham as the patriarch. A more accurate term would be the "Islamo-Judeo-Christian roots."
The term Judeo-Christian was manufactured by Christians. It means nothing to people of the Jewish faith. To them, any man who calls himself God is a liar.
And yet they mindlessly call Trump "God," kissed his butt, and worship him shamelessly in spite of the First Commandment which says "You shall not have any gods before me."
They read it as "you shall no"t have any gods before Trumpy.
The hyphen is also attached with explosive bolts, for when the Nat-Cs don't need the plausible deniability anymore.
The Jewish God didn't have a beard or wear sandals.
Judaism depicts God as...nothing. To them, God is incorporeal. Without physical form. Completely transcendent. Their texts strictly FORBID any attempt whatsoever to create a physical representation of God. It is considered idolatry.
So all those classical paintings you see of an old man in robes and a beard? Those are Christian in nature, not Jewish.
Thanks for posting this. Christians refuse to accept this because they chose to create a deity in their image.
They don't want "Islamo-" appended because Muslims are all filthy brown people and are the source of all terrorism (in their minds). They only append "Judeo-" because it is a way to try and say "We're not 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 Nazis! See! We mention Jews as part of our values! We also have a black friend!"
A black, GAY friend.
A black, gay, circumcised friend.
Well, cut does look better, but that’s no reason to do it to someone who didn’t/can’t consent.
A black, gay, circumcised, trans, muslim friend.
A black, gay, circumcised, trans, muslim, socialist friend.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not socialist! That is a bridge too far!
There was no such thing as 𝐽𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑜-Christian when the Constitution was written.
I said, what does God need with a book?
Jim!
C'mon Bones, it's not as if God's words aren't wort...ohhh, it's money.
Quick OT
Happy Juneteeth, everyone.
Hmmmm ... a bit like wishing us foreigners happy 4th of July. Oh well, I just remembered – Happy Matariki. I wondered why my wife was still at home.
Propaganda + Reactionary Politics + Wealth Envy + Stupidity = the MAGA base.
Ya gotta fit “racist” in there somewhere, Stephen.
True. Next time I have occasion to use it, I'll put it in.
How long have xtians been bellowing about the Antichrist? Then when someone displaying all the traits fitting the description of the Antichrist comes along, they elevate him to the status of their ressurected Jesus.
The irony is thick. It would be laughable, if not so horribly true.
"$1,000 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱."
More like "personally autographed by Trump's autopen." There's no 𝘸𝘢𝘺 he's doing that shit himself.
Ever see his signature? If I were hooked up to an ECG/EKG and saw that, I'd be worried as hell.
Considering the amount of hamberder grease in his diet, he probably used one of his 𝘰𝘸𝘯 EKGs as inspiration.
There is no way he could autograph a phone like that properly anyway
except perhaps with a sharpie, and it would eventually rub off. It would have to be engraved, and that would probably go through the gold washing to whatever's beneath it cheap ass stuff.
I am going to laugh 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 if the sharpie scenario is exactly what happens.
Bible.
It’s surprising that given his own penchant for trying to think up names for his opponents, none of them has made a determined pitch for using Don the Con. It’s certainly more apt than many of his.
Et il l'est, con.