I haven't been Christian for many, many years now, but I was raised literally in a church and currently work in one, and I credit much of my propensity towards being a Good Person to that. One thing that has long struck me is the difference between 'gentle Jesus meek and mild' and what the SubGenius call 'Fightin' Jesus' - the one who said, "I come not to make peace, but with a sword".
It seems to me that the fundagelicals have signed on so strongly with the latter that they've lost all touch with the former. I often find myself quoting from the Gospel of Matthew and wondering, do megachurch bibles even *contain* that chapter? It would seem Matthew 25:42 would refute so much of the far right platform ("I was hungry, and you didn't feed me..." etc). I wonder whether appealing to that side of the faith could have any impact on those swept up in the gospel according to tRump - ?
Do people keep tuning in/buying the paper/sharing the posts etc? There's your answer. For them, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Remember that part of the way Howard Stern's ratings went thru the roof was as many or more people who HATED him tuned in every day to see what he would say. The advertisers don't care why they get your eyeballs and ears, only that they do so.
Some people pursue their dreams and some sit on their ass and do nothing. Mitch da Bitch has perfected the art of doing both at the same time. It must be great to be able to count on the "automatically vote Republican" crowd for your success.
OMG, you just took me back (more than) sixty years! Teaching very young children a foreign language by singing a lot of songs is a very effective technique. I can still sing all of those old silly songs.
Hey! I remember what this is! Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts that both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.
It's complex sentence. A complex compound sentence. A coherent complex compound sentence. Shut up. Not crying, you are.
It's practically guaranteed that he won't, really.
You talkin' 2018, right? I'm talking 2010 and 2014.
Tax cuts for the wealthy have never jump started the economy up to now, but that doesn’t mean the next one won’t!
And yet, as Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government--except for all the others which have been tried.
Winnie did come up with a few good one-liners, even if he was a vile, racist, imperialist swine.
NEVER FORGET--the owners, and higher-ranking employees, of the media are rich.
That goes for the "mainstream" media as well as the wingnut media.
Those people love low Rethug taxes on the rich, too.
He had the benefit of leading a major power at the same time as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, all of whom made Winnie look relatively virtuous.
Plus, pardon my situational ethics, but racism and imperialism were not yet widely considered evil during his formative years.
Understood. But the Irish half of me still despises him.
I haven't been Christian for many, many years now, but I was raised literally in a church and currently work in one, and I credit much of my propensity towards being a Good Person to that. One thing that has long struck me is the difference between 'gentle Jesus meek and mild' and what the SubGenius call 'Fightin' Jesus' - the one who said, "I come not to make peace, but with a sword".
It seems to me that the fundagelicals have signed on so strongly with the latter that they've lost all touch with the former. I often find myself quoting from the Gospel of Matthew and wondering, do megachurch bibles even *contain* that chapter? It would seem Matthew 25:42 would refute so much of the far right platform ("I was hungry, and you didn't feed me..." etc). I wonder whether appealing to that side of the faith could have any impact on those swept up in the gospel according to tRump - ?
Do people keep tuning in/buying the paper/sharing the posts etc? There's your answer. For them, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Remember that part of the way Howard Stern's ratings went thru the roof was as many or more people who HATED him tuned in every day to see what he would say. The advertisers don't care why they get your eyeballs and ears, only that they do so.
Some people pursue their dreams and some sit on their ass and do nothing. Mitch da Bitch has perfected the art of doing both at the same time. It must be great to be able to count on the "automatically vote Republican" crowd for your success.
OMG, you just took me back (more than) sixty years! Teaching very young children a foreign language by singing a lot of songs is a very effective technique. I can still sing all of those old silly songs.
Nope. It was cowardly dem congress critters who distanced themselves from Obama, not the other way around.
Some people forget we had dems in 2010 and 2012 running against the ACA.
That's what they used to do in the Kkklansman days
White parents would take the white kids to the lynching picnic right after church.
Many of their on-screen talking heads are making mega-bucks too. Also.
Hey! I remember what this is! Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts that both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.
It's complex sentence. A complex compound sentence. A coherent complex compound sentence. Shut up. Not crying, you are.