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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

I noticed right before the Idiot In Chief said “airports” he said “the air...ramparts”.

Was the thought process as follows?

“I’m talking about that old ass war...that America song has “ramparts” in it...I’ll throw that in on the fly to sound smart and historical...wait...are ramparts a real thing?...or is it some made up music word?...oh fuck they’re gonna call me dumb again.... and they have a red glare...what if they’re some commie crap and they make it all about Russia?...quick! think of something that sounds like ramparts and throw it in real quick and I’ll say I was saying that and the ramparts thing is fake news...AIRPORT...yep say that...they had to wind up planes back then so they had to have airports...damn I’m so good at this...who needs speechwriters and fact checking?...those are for pussies!”

But that’s just a guess.

No--that's what's going on.  He had no idea that "ramparts" is a real word.  And we know from previous experience that he doesn't know the words to the Star-Spangled Banner.  

So when he was confronted with a word on his TelePrompTer that he didn't recognize, he did what any person with a 2nd-grade intellect would do--he substituted in a word that he knew.

It's really not that hard to understand.  As someone who has a second-grader living in his house, I see it all the time.

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Well, there are Ramp Agents, maybe not Ramp Arts at airports.  And surely those positions were quite prevalent in 1776.  In fact, one of the first great job creators by Boeing.  

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That's perfect. Lying about something so stupid.

Imagine someone with some humanity and vulnerability like Buttigieg answering a question on that. Yes, I misread the teleprompter. It was a silly mistake. I was honored to be able to speak to the American people on July 4th.

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It was like listening to a 2 year-old get too excited to tell a story that slowly spirals into gibberish... "There were airports. And ram parts. And McHenry. And Mayor McCheese..." ...leaving you feeling like Harold Ramis listening to John Candy explain why he joined the army. "...yeah...uh huh...really? ...oh wow!..."

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And then we all broke our fast at George “the Continental” Washington’s where upon Martha served us a classic breakfast named after her husband. The soldiers rejoiced and proclaimed they would name the army after George.

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No--that's what's going on.  He had no idea that "ramparts" is a real word.  And we know from previous experience that he doesn't know the words to the Star-Spangled Banner.  

So when he was confronted with a word on his TelePrompTer that he didn't recognize, he did what any person with a 2nd-grade intellect would do--he substituted in a word that he knew.

It's really not that hard to understand.  As someone who has a second-grader living in his house, I see it all the time.

And he wants to be my latex salesman.

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Holy shit evangelicals are some dumb-ass snowflakes.  This article lays out pretty much what we've all suspected, but damn...

Why evangelicals love Trump

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The rallygoers (Orlando), he said, told him that Trump’s era “is spiritually driven.” When I asked whether he meant by this that Trump’s supporters believe God’s hand is on Trump, this moment and at the election—that Donald Trump is God’s man, in effect—he told me, “Yes—a number of people said they believe there is no other way to explain his victories. Starting with the election and continuing with the conclusion of the Mueller report. Many said God has chosen him and is protecting him.”

Apparently these folks don't understand confirmation bias.  He's protected because he's filled the courts and his cabinets with a bunch of fanatical sycophants, with the help of the spineless House and Senate GOP.  It's not that hard to figure out.

The fact that they think God, would choose someone like Trump is mind blowing.  Yep, Moses, Jesus, Trump...3 peas in a pod.  Hard to tell them apart, really.

 

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Last week, Ralph Reed, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s founder and chairman, told the group, “There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!”

Reed is partially right; for many evangelical Christians, there is no political figure whom they have loved more than Donald Trump.

I recently exchanged emails with a pro-Trump figure who attended the president’s reelection rally in Orlando, Florida, on June 18. (He spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, so as to avoid personal or professional repercussions.) He had interviewed scores of people, many of them evangelical Christians. “I have never witnessed the kind of excitement and enthusiasm for a political figure in my life,” he told me. “I honestly couldn’t believe the unwavering support they have. And to a person, it was all about ‘the fight.’ There is a very strong sense (I believe justified, you disagree) that he has been wronged. Wronged by Mueller, wronged by the media, wronged by the anti-Trump forces. A passionate belief that he never gets credit for anything.”

The rallygoers, he said, told him that Trump’s era “is spiritually driven.” When I asked whether he meant by this that Trump’s supporters believe God’s hand is on Trump, this moment and at the election—that Donald Trump is God’s man, in effect—he told me, “Yes—a number of people said they believe there is no other way to explain his victories. Starting with the election and continuing with the conclusion of the Mueller report. Many said God has chosen him and is protecting him.”

The data seem to bear this out. Approval for President Trump among white evangelical Protestants is 25 points higher than the national average. And according to a Pew Research Center survey, “White evangelical Protestants who regularly attend church (that is, once a week or more) approve of Trump at rates matching or exceeding those of white evangelicals who attend church less often.” Indeed, during the period from July 2018 to January 2019, 70 percent of white evangelicals who attend church at least once a week approved of Trump, versus 65 percent of those who attend religious services less often.

The enthusiastic, uncritical embrace of President Trump by white evangelicals is among the most mind-blowing development of the Trump era. How can a group that for decades—and especially during the Bill Clinton presidency—insisted that character counts and that personal integrity is an essential component of presidential leadership not only turn a blind eye to the ethical and moral transgressions of Donald Trump, but also constantly defend him? Why are those who have been on the vanguard of “family values” so eager to give a man with a sordid personal and sexual history a mulligan?

Part of the answer is their belief that they are engaged in an existential struggle against a wicked enemy—not Russia, not North Korea, not Iran, but rather American liberals and the left. If you listen to Trump supporters who are evangelical (and non-evangelicals, like the radio talk-show host Mark Levin), you will hear adjectives applied to those on the left that could easily be used to describe a Stalinist regime. (Ask yourself how many evangelicals have publicly criticized Trump for his lavish praise of Kim Jong Un, the leader of perhaps the most savage regime in the world and the worst persecutor of Christians in the world.)

Many white evangelical Christians, then, are deeply fearful of what a Trump loss would mean for America, American culture, and American Christianity. If a Democrat is elected president, they believe, it might all come crashing down around us. During the 2016 election, for example, the influential evangelical author and radio talk-show host Eric Metaxas said, “In all of our years, we faced all kinds of struggles. The only time we faced an existential struggle like this was in the Civil War and in the Revolution when the nation began … We are on the verge of losing it as we could have lost it in the Civil War.” A friend of mine described that outlook to me this way: “It’s the Flight 93 election. FOREVER.”

Many evangelical Christians are also filled with grievances and resentments because they feel they have been mocked, scorned, and dishonored by the elite culture over the years. (Some of those feelings are understandable and warranted.) For them, Trump is a man who will not only push their agenda on issues such as the courts and abortion; he will be ruthless against those they view as threats to all they know and love. For a growing number of evangelicals, Trump’s dehumanizing tactics and cruelty aren’t a bug; they are a feature. Trump “owns the libs,” and they love it. He’ll bring a Glock to a cultural knife fight, and they relish that.

Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, one of the largest Christian universities in the world, put it this way: “Conservatives & Christians need to stop electing ‘nice guys.’ They might make great Christian leaders but the United States needs street fighters like @realDonaldTrump at every level of government b/c the liberal fascists Dems are playing for keeps & many Repub leaders are a bunch of wimps!”

There’s a very high cost to our politics for celebrating the Trump style, but what is most personally painful to me as a person of the Christian faith is the cost to the Christian witness. Nonchalantly jettisoning the ethic of Jesus in favor of a political leader who embraces the ethic of Thrasymachus and Nietzsche—might makes right, the strong should rule over the weak, justice has no intrinsic worth, moral values are socially constructed and subjective—is troubling enough.

But there is also the undeniable hypocrisy of people who once made moral character, and especially sexual fidelity, central to their political calculus and who are now embracing a man of boundless corruptions. Don’t forget: Trump was essentially named an unindicted co-conspirator (“Individual 1”) in a scheme to make hush-money payments to a porn star who alleged she’d had an affair with him while he was married to his third wife, who had just given birth to their son.

While on the Pacific Coast last week, I had lunch with Karel Coppock, whom I have known for many years and who has played an important role in my Christian pilgrimage. In speaking about the widespread, reflexive evangelical support for the president, Coppock—who is theologically orthodox and generally sympathetic to conservatism—lamented the effect this moral freak show is having, especially on the younger generation. With unusual passion, he told me, “We’re losing an entire generation. They’re just gone. It’s one of the worst things to happen to the Church.”

Coppock mentioned to me the powerful example of St. Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, who was willing to rebuke the Roman Emperor Theodosius for the latter’s role in massacring civilians as punishment for the murder of one of his generals. Ambrose refused to allow the Church to become a political prop, despite concerns that doing so might endanger him. Ambrose spoke truth to power. (Theodosius ended up seeking penance, and Ambrose went on to teach, convert, and baptize St. Augustine.) Proximity to power is fine for Christians, Coppock told me, but only so long as it does not corrupt their moral sense, only so long as they don’t allow their faith to become politically weaponized. Yet that is precisely what’s happening today.

Evangelical Christians need another model for cultural and political engagement, and one of the best I am aware of has been articulated by the artist Makoto Fujimura, who speaks about “culture care” instead of “culture war.”

According to Fujimura, “Culture care is an act of generosity to our neighbors and culture. Culture care is to see our world not as a battle zone in which we’re all vying for limited resources, but to see the world of abundant possibilities and promise.” What Fujimura is talking about is a set of sensibilities and dispositions that are fundamentally different from what we see embodied in many white evangelical leaders who frequently speak out on culture and politics. The sensibilities and dispositions Fujimura is describing are characterized by a commitment to grace, beauty, and creativity, not antipathy, disdain, and pulsating anger. It’s the difference between an open hand and a mailed fist.

Building on this theme, Mark Labberton, a colleague of Fujimura’s and the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, the largest multidenominational seminary in the world, has spoken about a distinct way for Christians to conceive of their calling, from seeing themselves as living in a Promised Land and “demanding it back” to living a “faithful, exilic life.”

Labberton speaks about what it means to live as people in exile, trying to find the capacity to love in unexpected ways; to see the enemy, the foreigner, the stranger, and the alien, and to go toward rather than away from them. He asks what a life of faithfulness looks like while one lives in a world of fear.

He adds, “The Church is in one of its deepest moments of crisis—not because of some election result or not, but because of what has been exposed to be the poverty of the American Church in its capacity to be able to see and love and serve and engage in ways in which we simply fail to do. And that vocation is the vocation that must be recovered and must be made real in tangible action.”

There are countless examples of how such tangible action can be manifest. But as a starting point, evangelical Christians should acknowledge the profound damage that’s being done to their movement by its braided political relationship—its love affair, to bring us back to the words of Ralph Reed—with a president who is an ethical and moral wreck. Until that is undone—until followers of Jesus are once again willing to speak truth to power rather than act like court pastors—the crisis in American Christianity will only deepen, its public testimony only dim, its effort to be a healing agent in a broken world only weaken.

At this point, I can’t help but wonder whether that really matters to many of Donald Trump’s besotted evangelical supporters.

 

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I went inside the Trump Passenger Lounge this morning at Yorktown International Airport for my flight back to 1789.  All they were serving was the Continental Breakfast named after George Washington, of course.  

To all you evangelicals, baptist, et. al. nutjobs who think that God is with Trump and laying a protective path before him, think about this tonight...

If your God be with Trump, imagine the power of the God that is against Trump.  If your benevolent and loving God chose this moral wasteland as his servant on Earth, and if anybody who defeats Trump must be evil and not chosen by your God, imagine what that God's plans for you are.  If you truly believe your guy is hand-picked by the Judeo-Christian God and your guy is beat...you really aren't gonna like what happens next.   

And I can only assume that the Continental Army's battling at all the airports were what brought about the demise of Trump Airlines?  

Nevermind, he's President.  Somebody who used to OWN an airline thinks airport battles took place in 1775/76.  Would be like Doug Parker or Gary Kelly declaring airport battles being critical to the Union Army success in the Civil War.  I know he's your President and he can do no wrong, but would you get on a plane that was part of an airline run by a guy who thinks airports have been a think for 244 years?  No, you'd get off, ask for your money back, and try to torch the gate.  

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12 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


Fuck the Russians.

Fuck Trump for being their lackey.

But seriously, fuck the Russians.

Now back to smoking pork butts and drinking beer.

No kidding. Not a huge Trump fan, but fuck off, Russia State TV. You're a lap dog for a murderer. Call us when we start murdering political opponents in the middle of the campaign. Go suck some more potato juice and get a sewage system. 

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The funny thing about the Russian attack in 2016 is the people that took it seriously and learned their tactics/methods were mostly democrats and independents while the Trumpkins screamed “nothingburger!” and ignored it every day.

Something tells me the republicans are in for a rude awakening in 2020.

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Rommel, you magnificent bastard.  I read you book!

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26 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Trump is blaming the teleprompter now? So for eight years the Republican party berated Barack Obama for not being able to speak without a teleprompter and is now subservient to a man who, by his own admission, isn't able to speak without a teleprompter?

to be fair, he's not that great with the prompter either.

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Trump is blaming the teleprompter now? So for eight years the Republican party berated Barack Obama for not being able to speak without a teleprompter and is now subservient to a man who, by his own admission, isn't able to speak without a teleprompter?

 

Teleprompter was a democrat.

Go fuck yourself America.
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Sorry can’t prove it yet but I suspect these airplane battles of 1775 are somehow the work of Space Force bending time.  

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37 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Trump is blaming the teleprompter now? So for eight years the Republican party berated Barack Obama for not being able to speak without a teleprompter and is now subservient to a man who, by his own admission, isn't able to speak without a teleprompter?

 

You know, it’s almost as though the overwhelming evidence demonstrates that Republicans are hypocritical shitbags.  

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He hasn't forsaken me!

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Want to have dinner with me?

 

Sean, Roma, 

Three years ago, I stood on the stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio and promised to be a president who fights for ALL Americans.

The FAKE NEWS media laughed at us and told us we had NO CHANCE to win, but you stood by me and we proved them wrong.

To celebrate all of our unprecedented success, I’m headed back to where our historic journey began...

I’m hosting a dinner in Cleveland, Ohio to commemorate the historic 2016 convention, and I’ve reserved a spot for one very special guest - YOU.

You and a guest of your choice have the chance to join me in Cleveland for an unforgettable experience.

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I can’t wait to have dinner with you soon, Sean.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT immediately to win dinner with me. >>

See you soon!

Thank you,
Donald J. Trump
President of the United States

 

 

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30 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Sorry can’t prove it yet but I suspect these airplane battles of 1775 are somehow the work of Space Force bending time.  

Interesting theory. I personally suspect it was globalists.

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Sorry can’t prove it yet but I suspect these airplane battles of 1775 are somehow the work of Space Force bending time.  

How do you know there weren't planes back in 1775?  Were you there?  Or are you just accepting the "facts" in those lying, liberal textbooks?    

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5 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

It was like listening to a 2 year-old get too excited to tell a story that slowly spirals into gibberish... "There were airports. And ram parts. And McHenry. And Mayor McCheese..." ...leaving you feeling like Harold Ramis listening to John Candy explain why he joined the army. "...yeah...uh huh...really? ...oh wow!..."

He should have ended it with "San Dimas High School football rules!!!".

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7 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

If they think God made Trump win, how are they going to explain it when he loses?

In a similar fashion as when they exalt God when someone recovers from cancer after a vigorous prayer campaign, but don't say shit when the next cancer patient dies after the same effort. God works in mysterious ways....

And sometimes takes days off.

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