Excellent iteration. Wish I could bump this to the top.
Excellent iteration. Wish I could bump this to the top.
Dear Kellyanne,
From John Oliver’s show last night (quote copied from WaPo):
I heard he was attending due to a tip off that Hillary’s emails would also be there.
Don’t forget Christian extremist Mikey Pence....
You’d think they’d rally behind the Christian mother who stood behind her husband and weathered his scandals and infidelity to make their marriage work.
But those emails!
Cos “religious” people hypocrites that are full of shit. Yes, I know #NotAllChristians .... but seriously, Christians especially make an art out of making themselves the victims and demonizing anything they don’t deem acceptable.
He is literally laying out the Christian blueprint - don’t think critically.
Or find the 1960 movie version of it, with the great Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry.
Read Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1926. It’s about a religious con man grifting handsomely off of a place called “These United States,” a dreadful, bleak, vindictive country where Jesus got himself all mixed up with PT Barnum, the devil, and a Wurlitzer organ at about the time the first church…
My mom and I got into it a couple months ago regarding the election. She’s a newly born again Christian and a conservative. It’s so hard to have conversations with her over just about anything. We were talking about Trump and I said, he is a pig and an idiot. I will never be behind him. Of course she hated that. Her…
Countercounterpoint: So where are the organized non-Trump Christian churches actively protesting not as individuals but as churches against the GOP and its theocratic overtones? I don’t know of any full churches or church leaders in the US denouncing anti-choice shit, anti-LGBT shit, or even Trump at all. The…
“ideology is not the sole bond between conservative evangelicals and Donald Trump. His dictator-lite charisma is essential to his appeal. To the majority of Americans—those who did not vote for him—Trump has all the allure of the boorish boss who takes too many liberties at the staff Christmas party. But his…
I just almost choked on my drink. Totally worth it.
Last night, Colbert scoffed at people who think that Trump has a well-planned strategy:
“I was going to fire Comey,” Trump told NBC. “Regardless of the recommendation, I was going to fire Comey.”