After Trump’s numerous ignorant and frightening statements about NATO, this should be an interesting press conference.
On the other hand, Secretary Stoltenberg may be too professional to bring up Trump’s idiotic blathering.
Will the media go after this low-hanging fruit? I wish the answer to that could be, “Of course they will! That’s what journalists do!” But we shall see.
Charles Pierce goes down to Alabama to find out what makes evangelicals so forgiving of religious fakers like Trump and former governor Bentley.
“The idea that moral hypocrisy hurts you among evangelical voters is not true, if you’re sound on all of the fundamentals,” said Wayne Flynt, an ordained Baptist minister and one of Alabama’s pre-eminent Geethe fundamentals have become. At this time, what is fundamental is hating liberals, hating Obama, hating abortion and hating same-sex marriage.”
So as we all assumed, being a good evangelical christian is all about hating the right people and things.
Press begins to fill East Room for Pres Trump’s joint news conference at 4pm with @NATO SecGen @jensstoltenberg. pic.twitter.com/KVF9gTB2SW
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 12, 2017
@brianstelter So that’s 4 Q’s. TBD if we get any A’s.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 12, 2017
re: #1 Skip Intro
Charles Pierce goes down to Alabama to find out what makes evangelicals so forgiving of religious fakers like Trump and former governor Bentley.
So as we all assumed, being a good evangelical christian is all about hating the right people and things.
This is really the key to any sort of fundamentalism.
First question from the DC press corps. “Mr. President, could you tell us more about that chocolate cake? Do you have the recipe?
Trump is about to have a press conference.
Avoid saying it made him look Presidential.
It will save you from embarrassment this evening.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 12, 2017
re: #1 Skip Intro
Charles Pierce goes down to Alabama to find out what makes evangelicals so forgiving of religious fakers like Trump and former governor Bentley.
So as we all assumed, being a good evangelical christian is all about hating the right people and things.
No shit, that’s all that ever mattered. Just replace Obama’s name with Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter, keep hating abortion and liberals, and replace same sex marriage with gay rights and you have what has driven the Evangelical machine for 40 years now.
re: #1 Skip Intro
Wayne Flynt, an ordained Baptist minister and one of Alabama’s pre-eminent Geethe fundamentals have become
typo? autocorrect-amania?
the Rev. Joe Godfrey, the executive director of the Alabama Citizens Action Program, a church-supported group that holds substantial influence in the Legislature.
but not Sharia Law, right?
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@ddale8 Has he handed him a bill yet?
— Amy All the Time (@taterpie) April 12, 2017
Trump now laboriously reading a prepared statement like a 7-year old reading a book report https://t.co/wneg6uGnc0 pic.twitter.com/l32dinMUWr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 12, 2017
I mean I’m sorry but how else can you explain why Evangelicals abandoned one of their own (Carter) in favor of Reagan? Reagan knew how to play to their resentments just as Trump does now.
“I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete.” — President Trump on NATO
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 12, 2017
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump says it’s time to end the Syria conflict and “let refugees return home.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 12, 2017
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump falsely says that NATO started fighting terrorism after he complained that it didn’t. Now, he says, “it’s no longer obsolete.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 12, 2017
Trump just falsely claimed AGAIN that NATO only started fighting terrorism after he falsely criticized them https://t.co/wneg6uGnc0 pic.twitter.com/bYWkoc7edZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 12, 2017
re: #16 Charles Johnson
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They were fighting terrorism when him and Melania were fucking around behind Marla’s back.
Pres Trump announces he’s sending National Security Advisor McMaster to Afghanistan to coordinate new progress with Afghan leaders.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 12, 2017
re: #11 HappyWarrior
Because you’re not grokking that evangelical is not the same as Evangelical.
The former is about spreading the Good News. The latter is a political organization that started out trying to end-run around desegregation and starting importing more and more elaborate conspiracy theories to create a worldview in which they are the only righteous people (even when they aren’t righteous).
Carter was never their kind.
re: #21 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Because you’re not grokking that evangelical is not the same as Evangelical.
The former is about spreading the Good News. The latter is a political organization that started out trying to end-run around desegregation and starting importing more and more elaborate conspiracy theories to create a worldview in which they are the only righteous people (even when they aren’t righteous).
Carter was never their kind.
Very true.
Wayne Flynt, an ordained Baptist minister and one of Alabama’s pre-eminent Geethe fundamentals have become
That ‘graph confused me. Here’s the original from the NYT:
“The idea that moral hypocrisy hurts you among evangelical voters is not true, if you’re sound on all of the fundamentals,” said Wayne Flynt, an ordained Baptist minister and one of Alabama’s pre-eminent historians. “Being sound on the fundamentals depends on what the evangelical community has decided the fundamentals have become. At this time, what is fundamental is hating liberals, hating Obama, hating abortion and hating same-sex marriage.”
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I’ve made NATO great again in the first hundred days! That’s not easy!”
After hearing #DonaldTrump read his prepared text for his meeting with NATO Secretary General I am convinced he is a borderline illiterate.
— Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) April 12, 2017
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #21 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Because you’re not grokking that evangelical is not the same as Evangelical.
The former is about spreading the Good News. The latter is a political organization that started out trying to end-run around desegregation and starting importing more and more elaborate conspiracy theories to create a worldview in which they are the only righteous people (even when they aren’t righteous).
Carter was never their kind.
I had a administration of justice professor, who had been a Deputy Superintendent with the Virginia State Police, who contrasted “politics” (understanding the public policy process) and “Politics”.
Here’s another head-banging bit from the Munnee Hunnee interview:
We were going to have a 10 or a 15 minute sit-down. It lasted for three hours. Then the next day, it was another schedule, because everything is very orderly with the Chinese, frankly.
And we had meetings scheduled. Well, the 15 minutes on the first day lasted for three hours. The 15 minutes on the second day lasted for two hours, just one-on-one, the two of us with interpreters.
Who the fuck plans a big international event with two 15-minute meetings as the goal for two days of talks? I guess that’s the extent of the yam’s attention span.
Oh, and what’s with his “we had great chemistry” bullshit—he had “great chemistry” with Obama, then he had “great chemistry” with Abe, and with Mitt Romney (another time it was scheduled for a 10 minute sitdown, but expanded) and now with Xi.
Suicidal Oregon dad kills two young daughters, dies in gunfire exchange with cops https://t.co/vNgGeh577v pic.twitter.com/5GjN5P97Cu
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 12, 2017
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’d make sure Obadiah Stane isn’t planning some sort of hit on him.
NATO Secretary General points out that member countries increased spending in 2016 (before the election)
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) April 12, 2017
Yet Trump took credit for this just now. Unbelievable. https://t.co/iiw2sxwUT4
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 12, 2017
re: #23 HappyWarrior
Which is what Reagan and Trump bring to the table as demagogues, by the way.
Reagan did folksy resentment and talking down to anyone that disagreed in that “I don’t need to argue, you’re so dumb and wrong” condescending way and it stuck.
Trump is doing a more aggro version of resentment and condescension.
All parts of the Republican party, even the ones that seem not to mesh, use the same rhetorical structures and tropes, with the ur-premise being that they are a priori both moral and correct, and thus can’t be wrong. As time advances, their distinct religious, economics, and cultural narratives are merging, because the shape matters more than the details.
*blink*
“We may be at an all time low with our relationship with Russia,” @POTUS says, “I don’t know Putin.”
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) April 12, 2017
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn, rebuilt the US military industrial complex and NATO in two months.
re: #11 HappyWarrior
I mean I’m sorry but how else can you explain why Evangelicals abandoned one of their own (Carter) in favor of Reagan? Reagan knew how to play to their resentments just as Trump does now.
Happy, the evangelicals turned on Carter when he had the IRS go after Bob Jones University and segregated academies for IRS violations. Those actions triggered the Hunt Brothers to pump the seed money into Falwell’s Moron Majority.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump news in the last hour:
- I called China a currency manipulator but it now isn’t
- I called NATO obsolete but it now isn’t— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 12, 2017
Oh:
- I said Yellen was keeping rates “artificially low” but now “I do like a low-interest rate policy” https://t.co/ASbZdRcn7T— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 12, 2017
re: #33 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus
Which is what Reagan and Trump bring to the table as demagogues, by the way.
Reagan did folksy resentment and talking down to anyone that disagreed in that “I don’t need to argue, you’re so dumb and wrong” condescending way and it stuck.
Trump is doing a more aggro version of resentment and condescension.
All parts of the Republican party, even the ones that seem not to mesh, use the same rhetorical structures and tropes, with the ur-premise being that they are a priori both moral and correct, and thus can’t be wrong. As time advances, their distinct religious, economics, and cultural narratives are merging, because the shape matters more than the details.
Yeah I know a lot of the Never Trump conservatives don’t want to admit it but Reagan and Trump have a lot in common. You’re absolutely right. A lot of what Reagan did was condescending bullshit disguised as being a witty old man.
re: #36 Joe Bacon
Happy, the evangelicals turned on Carter when he had the IRS go after Bob Jones University and segregated academies for IRS violations. Those actions triggered the Hunt Brothers to pump the seed money into Falwell’s Moron Majority.
Thanks! Did not know that.
“Right now, the world is a mess.” Never not true.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 12, 2017
Meeting with NATO’s secretary general, Trump says of the alliance: “I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 12, 2017
So far, the only campaign promises he’s been willing to keep have been blocked by the courts. https://t.co/p9LRGteQgD
— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 12, 2017
“The world is a mess, but by the time we finished, I think it will be a lot better place to live…right now it is nasty,” @POTUS says
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) April 12, 2017
Trump is asked if he has changed his view of Putin. His answer: “Putin is the leader of Russia. Russia is a strong country.”
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 12, 2017
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump on whether the Russians knew about Syrian use of chem weapons: “I would like to think they didn’t know… but we will find out.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 12, 2017
On China, Pres Trump thinks Pres Xi Jinping wants to help the US on North Korea. If not, US will go it alone - with other nations. pic.twitter.com/2HzHXFpXrA
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 12, 2017
re: #24 Sir John Barron
That ‘graph confused me. Here’s the original from the NYT:
What is most important is determined in the moment, and then the text, the culture, and the ritual can be given new meaning to match that end.
This is what postmodernism was observing—and warning—about the nature of culture. Abstractions are hollow, and can be filled, unfilled, and refilled with something different. Believers can, will, and do deform what they believe over time, and a community of belief can transform “sacred,” “unchangeable” beliefs and not acknowledge the change.
Trump on NATO: They were obsolete, but not anymore
on Jobs rpts: They were wrong, but not anymore
On China: $ manipulators, but not anymore— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 12, 2017
Who will be the first of the media to publicly fellate Trump after this 3rd grade coloring lesson attempt?
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
The key thing being “strong” which DT claims to be and is the only virtue he apparently desires.
“Absolutely no doubt we did the right thing, and it was very, very successfully done, as you well know,” Trump says of Syria airstrikes
“Absolutely no doubt we did the right thing, and it was very, very successfully done, as you well know,” Trump says of Syria airstrikes pic.twitter.com/AJjN4fPatf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 12, 2017
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
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EPA seeks public input on which climate rules to get rid of https://t.co/c85aQh07gM pic.twitter.com/JVpvjInm8i
— The Hill (@thehill) April 12, 2017
Don’t forget in all of this, Russia got the President they wanted. They won. Now we get to see how deep the layer of filth truly is.
good grief
Trump on what Europe has to fear from tensions w/Russia: “ultimately I hope there won’t be fear and there won’t be problems.”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 12, 2017
re: #19 Charles Johnson
This fucking asshole.
He does it because he knows the media and his supporters will let him.
Trump refers to “the Ukraine”
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 12, 2017
BREAKING: Alabama Senate passes bill to allow churches to form their own police departments https://t.co/wuj3PahG3h
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) April 11, 2017
it’s not ‘sharia’ if you’re white https://t.co/yLTyCYLjQM
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) April 12, 2017
Joint news conference runs 20 mins. Four reporters called on to ask questions. Ends with a handshake. pic.twitter.com/GcohFU5l7e
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 12, 2017
This fucker. The dollar is down against the Canadian dollar, the Euro and even the Pound.
North Dakota congressman says Spicer’s Hitler comment is “not without some validity” https://t.co/GgI5YGg8SG pic.twitter.com/Oew9hENyOJ
— CNN (@CNN) April 12, 2017
Disgusting, despicable, ignorant, vile.
Read a history book, sir.
For shame. https://t.co/T6ybVjt5ot— Jordan Horowitz (@jehorowitz) April 12, 2017
re: #61 Kragar
What could possibly go wrong?
re: #63 MsJ
This fucker. The dollar is down against the Canadian dollar, the Euro and even the Pound.
Are we tired of winning yet?
re: #36 Joe Bacon
That’s an interesting piece of history. Wondered, aside from him being a Dem, why they hated him as much as they did.
re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg
What could possibly go wrong?
Pretty sure that is rhetorical… but I shall answer anyway.
You end up with a heavily armed group of people who live in the town ‘Dirty Dancing’ was based off of.
re: #67 plansbandc
That’s an interesting piece of history. Wondered, aside from him being a Dem, why they hated him as much as they did.
Yeah I always wondered too.
re: #69 CongoJack
Pretty sure that is rhetorical… but I shall answer anyway.
You end up with a heavily armed group of people who live in the town ‘Dirty Dancing’ was based off of.
These people must be so fun at parties.
re: #61 Kragar
Can’t wait to see the “shields” or “badges” or “patches”. Should be real good. Id cards should also be telling. Where would they recruit? Hmmmm…
re: #69 CongoJack
Pretty sure that is rhetorical… but I shall answer anyway.
You end up with a heavily armed group of people who live in the town ‘Dirty Dancing’ was based off of.
“Two unarmed Muslim men were shot outside a church in Alabama today…”
re: #71 HappyWarrior
These people must be so fun at parties.
I can see their party flyer now…
Come on down to the town square for the ice cream social.
Do not byob.
Lynching at 7 PM
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ukraine really does not like it when people use a “the” in front of its name. It’s considered insulting by most Ukrainians, and is a reference back to when the Soviets controlled the country (guess which country still regularly uses “the Ukraine” in referencing the country despite official requests going back to the 90s that it’s “Ukraine”).
Sessions: Congress will fund Trump’s border wall https://t.co/QWeuySaQ6H pic.twitter.com/f7P13jWETx
— The Hill (@thehill) April 12, 2017
re: #70 HappyWarrior
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e: #67 plansbandc
That’s an interesting piece of history. Wondered, aside from him being a Dem, why they hated him as much as they did.
Yeah I always wondered too.
Just a guess, but see Charles Pierce’s extracts above. Jimmy Carter’s main “problem” with the Evangelicals was mainly that he was nominally “one of them”, but preferred to focus on the positive aspects of his faith, rather than just making it a matter of who one hated, and how badly. Reagan, despite being a personally irreligious type (as Trump is today) knew the right buzzphrases and catchwords to use to stoke up the hate with the “religious Right”, but also cover it with the right deflective rhetoric.
re: #75 KGxvi
Ukraine really does not like it when people use a “the” in front of its name. It’s considered insulting by most Ukrainians, and is a reference back to when the Soviets controlled the country (guess which country still regularly uses “the Ukraine” in referencing the country despite official requests going back to the 90s that it’s “Ukraine”).
Yep. He should know better but then I remember that he clearly doesn’t give a fuck about Ukrainian sovereignty.
About this police force able to be formed by a church. Does this include African American churches? I foresee issues much like when Reagan did gun control in CA because of “the blacks getting gunz” in reference to the Black Panthers.
I await the RWNJ to say that the Charleston attack would have been prevented if this were in place then.
The final question I have - who would Jesus shoot in the face?
re: #76 Kragar
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re: #77 Jay C
r
Just a guess, but see Charles Pierce’s extracts above. Jimmy Carter’s main “problem” with the Evangelicals was mainly that he was nominally “one of them”, but preferred to focus on the positive aspects of his faith, rather than just making it a matter of who one hated, and how badly. Reagan, despite being a personally irreligious type (as Trump is today) knew the right buzzphrases and catchwords to use to stoke up the hate with the “religious Right”, but also cover it with the right deflective rhetoric.
Very true.
re: #76 Kragar
I thought Mex—-oh never mind.
re: #79 CongoJack
About this police force able to be formed by a church. Does this include African American churches? I foresee issues much like when Reagan did gun control in CA because of “the blacks getting gunz” in reference to the Black Panthers.
I await the RWNJ to say that the Charleston attack would have been prevented if this were in place then.
The final question I have - who would Jesus shoot in the face?
The Bill applies only to that one church.
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us
re: #83 Timothy Watson
The Bill applies only to that one church.
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us
Those SOB
Thanks for that knowledge.
Don’t see anything in there in why they are only allowing this to happen at one location. If it is good for one it is good for all (?).
Edit: altered the post because it looked like i called Timothy a SOB… sorry.
re: #83 Timothy Watson
The Bill applies only to that one church.
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us
Seems Constitutionally questionable…
re: #78 HappyWarrior
Yep. He should know better but then I remember that he clearly doesn’t give a fuck about Ukrainian sovereignty.
If he was intelligent, I’d say it was a signal to Russia. But he’s not, so it’s just a diplomatic nightmare for whoever is running our embassy in Kiev; and whoever at State is responsible for fielding calls from the Ukrainian ambassador.
re: #57 nines09
Don’t forget in all of this, Russia got the President they wanted. They won. Now we get to see how deep the layer of filth truly is.
I think that what Russia actually was aiming for was to smear Hillary and embroil her in more BS “scandals” so as to divide the US even more deeply following what, after all, looked like her near-certain election during most of the campaign. The flukes in the EC turned this nasty little tactic into a strategic goldmine when putin and his merry pranksters got even more division than they could have hoped, along with a president they can manipulate like a marionette.
re: #67 plansbandc
That’s an interesting piece of history. Wondered, aside from him being a Dem, why they hated him as much as they did.
Almost every choice the Evangelical groups in this country have made has been to continue segregation and oppression of women.
This guy has a bright future in today’s GOP!
Larry Pittman, a member of the North Carolina legislature, posted this comment on his Facebook page https://t.co/0Q5JGGte6K pic.twitter.com/OmT8XFT2su
— Yashar (@yashar) April 12, 2017
re: #86 KGxvi
If he was intelligent, I’d say it was a signal to Russia. But he’s not, so it’s just a diplomatic nightmare for whoever is running our embassy in Kiev; and whoever at State is responsible for fielding calls from the Ukrainian ambassador.
I’d argue that the reason he stated “the Ukraine” is because its how it is stated in his Admin and to those he talks to (IE Russians or their proxies). tRump is a child and just uses the lingo that he sees at home. Like a grade school kid yelling “shit” constantly because of what they hear at home.
re: #79 CongoJack
About this police force able to be formed by a church. Does this include African American churches? I foresee issues much like when Reagan did gun control in CA because of “the blacks getting gunz” in reference to the Black Panthers.
I await the RWNJ to say that the Charleston attack would have been prevented if this were in place then.
The final question I have - who would Jesus shoot in the face?
Yeah, re that: here’s the paragraf from Pierce’s piece re the “church police”:
Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department. The church says it needs its own police officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation safe. Critics of the bill argue that a police department that reports to church officials could be used to cover up crimes. The state has given a few private universities the authority to have a police force, but never a church or non-school entity. Police experts have said such a police department would be unprecedented in the U.S.
“4,000” congregants? OK: so we’re talking real megachurch here: just on the size of it alone, one would assume it might want/need a security force (outside of the usual deacons-on-Sunday sort), but why organized as a “police department”?? And how would that even work?
re: #89 bratwurst
This guy has a bright future in today’s GOP!
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— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) April 12, 2017
Trump threatened to withhold payments to health insurers to force Democrats to the negotiating table https://t.co/Es81VmPTQY
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 12, 2017
WASHINGTON—Almost three weeks after canceling a vote on his health-care package over infighting among his fellow Republicans and the opposition of the Democrats, President Donald Trump dug back into the fight on Wednesday, threatening to withhold payments to insurers to force Democrats to the negotiating table.
In an interview in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump said the White House may lack authority to make the payments established under his predecessor to reduce copayments and deductibles for some of the poorest customers who buy insurance under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Cutting off the payments could trigger turmoil in insurance markets.
“I don’t want people to get hurt,” Mr. Trump said. “What I think should happen—and will happen—is the Democrats will start calling me and negotiating.”
re: #91 Jay C
Yeah, re that: here’s the paragraf from Pierce’s piece re the “church police”:
“4,000” congregants? OK: so we’re talking real megachurch here: just on the size of it alone, one would assume it might want/need a security force (outside of the usual deacons-on-Sunday sort), but why organized as a “police department”?? And how would that even work?
Well - I’d say they can have their “police force” given to them by the state (in the form of permission) ONLY if the church starts to pay income and property taxes.
re: #89 bratwurst
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re: #61 Kragar
BREAKING: Alabama Senate passes bill to allow churches to form their own police departments https://t.co/wuj3PahG3h
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) April 11, 2017
it’s not ‘sharia’ if you’re white https://t.co/yLTyCYLjQM
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) April 12, 2017
Taking the “gun church” to the next level? At this point I am not sure that an accountable, state-supervised police department is not the least of several evils. Many politically oriented Evangelical churches, especially in the south, seem hell-bent (so to speak) on turning themselves into fortresses and having an armed presence. In many, this takes the form of hiring private security. This is ok in Texas, where security operators are under fairly tight state police supervision; not so great in Alabama or some other states, where it is much easier to get uniforms and badges and go to work as an armed force. The worst, armed volunteers, are also prevalent and some Houses of Superstition actually encourage certain (white, well-to-do) members to bring their own concealed guns to services. Shooting ranges have joined basketball courts, gyms, and bowling among church-owned amenities in some areas.
I just booked my MIL and her sister some flights to KC at the end of the month…on United. When they asked why I chose United, I told them because they beat their passengers. Their response? “You’re the best son-in-law ever!” Fact is, the prices for first class were good.
re: #98 darthstar
I just booked my MIL and her sister some flights to KC at the end of the month…on United. When they asked why I chose United, I told them because they beat their passengers. Their response? “You’re the best son-in-law ever!” Fact is, the prices for first class were good.
I don’t even buy first class for myself, and you do it for other people! Hey everyone, Darth is wealthy!
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) April 12, 2017
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trying to play hardball with Nancy SMASH?
Oooooh K…let me know how that works out for you.
WASHINGTON—Almost three weeks after canceling a vote on his health-care package over infighting among his fellow Republicans and the opposition of the Democrats, President Donald Trump dug back into the fight on Wednesday, threatening to withhold payments to insurers to force Democrats to the negotiating table.In an interview in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump said the White House may lack authority to make the payments established under his predecessor to reduce copayments and deductibles for some of the poorest customers who buy insurance under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Cutting off the payments could trigger turmoil in insurance markets.
“I don’t want people to get hurt,” Mr. Trump said. “What I think should happen—and will happen—is the Democrats will start calling me and negotiating.”
Don’t expect the Democrats to negotiate anything. This is politics , not business. Why would you expect the Democrats to bail you out for making such a stupid move?
re: #79 CongoJack
About this police force able to be formed by a church. Does this include African American churches? I foresee issues much like when Reagan did gun control in CA because of “the blacks getting gunz” in reference to the Black Panthers.
I await the RWNJ to say that the Charleston attack would have been prevented if this were in place then.
The final question I have - who would Jesus shoot in the face?
Imagine the response if/when a mosque applies for its own police force, which they can justify at least as easily as a fundy mega-church. I’ll leave it that.
Better than that, just imagine a Temple of Satan with its own police force. I bet they could come up with some cool uniforms.
re: #88 Belafon
I stopped attending my in-laws’ church with them when visiting because I found out that they do not allow women to vote on any church business — it is a Baptist church in a Houston suburb. We showed up at their house for a weekend visit and my mother-in-law was home alone. When asked where my father-in-law was, she said, “The church is voting on a new Minister of Music, so he went to vote on that.” I asked why she didn’t go with him, since she is MUCH more involved in the church than he is, and she said, “Only the men are allowed to vote.”
I almost fell over. I told my husband I would not go to church their church again. Since I was raised by a single mom, it hit very close to home that my family would have had no representation had we attended a church like that, and it pissed me off to no end. Still does.
re: #79 CongoJack
About this police force able to be formed by a church. Does this include African American churches?
Well, we’re just gonna approve these police requests one at a time, church by church, not discriminatory at all.
re: #102 Cheechako
Don’t expect the Democrats to negotiate anything. This is politics , not business. Why would you expect the Democrats to bail you out for making such a stupid move?
Seriously…he’s a fucking imbecile.
Sean Spicer pic.twitter.com/epiR35PTYc
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) April 11, 2017
re: #102 Cheechako
Don’t expect the Democrats to negotiate anything. This is politics , not business. Why would you expect the Democrats to bail you out for making such a stupid move?
Next: DT threatens to resign if Dems don’t agree to kill O-care.
re: #102 Cheechako
Don’t expect the Democrats to negotiate anything. This is politics , not business. Why would you expect the Democrats to bail you out for making such a stupid move?
Or, you know, since DT’s party controls the f0cking government, they can assemble a majority of their caucuses in both houses and pass whatever legislation they want.
But yeah, OK, DT, Dems need to negotiate with you.
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re: #91 Jay C
Yeah, re that: here’s the paragraf from Pierce’s piece re the “church police”:
“4,000” congregants? OK: so we’re talking real megachurch here: just on the size of it alone, one would assume it might want/need a security force (outside of the usual deacons-on-Sunday sort), but why organized as a “police department”?? And how would that even work?
Simple. It’s a way to keep the congregation and those that oppose it (church) under control. Been done before.
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— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) April 11, 2017
re: #79 CongoJack
The final question I have - who would Jesus shoot in the face?
I dunno, but there are a lot of very “pious” Americans who would shoot Jesus right in the face if he got in their way.
— Theater of SciFi (@theaterofscifi) April 11, 2017
re: #79 CongoJack
The final question I have - who would Jesus shoot in the face?
But: Isn’t Christianity the “Religion Of Peace” (tm)??????
re: #116 Jay C
But: Isn’t Christianity the “Religion Of
PeacePiece” (tm)??????
re: #117 Belafon
Religion of Piece of Ass, if the media reports are anything to go by.
Evening Lizardim.
re: #99 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
I don’t even buy first class for myself, and you do it for other people! Hey everyone, Darth is wealthy!
I used her card. :)
re: #118 thedopefishlives
Religion of Piece of Ass, if the media reports are anything to go by.
Evening Lizardim.
Who hasn’t snorted speed off a prostitutes ass? It’s good Conservative fun.
Something to read: Chris Reeves puts up his report on the Kansas election.
re: #121 Clearly a Country For Sick Old Haters
Sure you did. Can I borrow $50?
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Sure…Hey someone - give Jeff $50.
re: #118 thedopefishlives
Religion of Piece of Ass, if the media reports are anything to go by.
Evening Lizardim.
I was thinking weapon, but yours works too.
FYI for those who have asked:
No, the media did not identify the wrong David Dao as United’s passenger: https://t.co/tCPh0zLU43 pic.twitter.com/DBpvvNN1AL
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 12, 2017
The origin of the rumor appears to stem from a bit of sloppy Googling by users of a crowd-sourced site called Everipedia, which published erroneous information that then spread across social media and was taken as fact. The site describes itself as “the encyclopedia of everything,” and it functions similarly to Wikipedia, where users contribute the content.
As Dao’s name first began to circulate publicly, users of Everipedia created a page for Dao that identified him as David Thanh Duc Dao, “an American physician based in New Orleans, Louisiana.” To support this identification, users cited links to generic Internet sites that listed the full name of a David Dao who was a doctor in Louisiana — the wrong David Dao.
(Everipedia users would later correct Dao’s page and then identify him with a new name, “David Anh Duy Dao,” “a Vietnamese American physician based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.” This time, the source was court records related to Dao’s indictment in Kentucky, which listed the correct Dao’s full name.)
But it was too late. Social-media users began identifying the United passenger as “David Thanh Duc Dao,” of Louisiana, which later led other users to point out that this was not the same name listed on Dao’s criminal records in Kentucky.
To be clear: the passenger was indeed Dr. David Anh Duy Dao of Elizabethtown, KY, and all of the breathless conspiracy stuff is nonsense.
re: #105 Flying Squirrel Girl
I stopped attending my in-laws’ church with them when visiting because I found out that they do not allow women to vote on any church business — it is a Baptist church in a Houston suburb. We showed up at their house for a weekend visit and my mother-in-law was home alone. When asked where my father-in-law was, she said, “The church is voting on a new Minister of Music, so he went to vote on that.” I asked why she didn’t go with him, since she is MUCH more involved in the church than he is, and she said, “Only the men are allowed to vote.”
I almost fell over. I told my husband I would not go to church their church again. Since I was raised by a single mom, it hit very close to home that my family would have had no representation had we attended a church like that, and it pissed me off to no end. Still does.
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re: #1 Skip Intro
Read the paragraph quoted to my wife and she noted, “What happened to love thy neighbour as thyself?”
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
Meaning Trump’s hoping McMaster is next to a car bomb when it goes off and 45 can put Jared in charge of the NSC.
Trump doesn’t like people with spines around him, but firing McMaster would make Trump look bad. So he’s hoping that the Taliban will handle that for him. Plus Trump will get to host the most bigly exceptional funeral.
The yam might get his own war out of it as well. You can’t be a President if you don’t have a war named after you.
re: #30 FormerDirtDart
Cowardly bastard had the nerve to murder two defenceless children but not enough to use the firearm on himself.
Burn in Hell, asshole,
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #131 Barefoot Grin
This is kind of like what he did to his nephew: “I don’t like to see people get hurt, but…”
yep
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