I wonder what Republicans are like behind closed doors? In public, they all act like they're trying to behave like a human by using a human operator's manual written by a guy who'd only ever done 80's-era VCR operator's manuals.
I can only give you one data point, my ex-husband whom I divorced in August 2015. My lawyer, who was also a friend from HS, asked me what happened. I said, "He's like the Tea Party, but on steroids. You ask how the weather is - he'll complain about "BS global warming", you tell him about the school play - he'll complain about his property taxes, you tell him the yard looks nice/kids don't have cavities/dog just took a bath - he'll say, "You just live with your liberal, rose-colored glasses on". My friend said, "It's like the whole damned country!"
For the past 9 years, I've been watching my nation replay my marriage nightmare.
I'm OK now (and I think the nation will be too). But it's going to take work and vigilance to fix, restore and renew our spirit. We're never going to return to the 1950's (or whatever era). And we're never going to have our naivete back.
So yes, they act how they think humans would act after only reading an '80's era VCR operators manual.
And thus secured forgiveness of all his sins. Constantine did better by getting a deathbed baptism, thus evading punishment for his many murders, which included his wife and son. Elaine Pagels makes the point that Christianity's big appeal was cheap forgiveness of sins.
For at least the third time since he became a candidate for president, Donald Trump was asked whether he seeks God’s forgiveness. The first two times he said no, but in an interview published Wednesday his answer was a bit vaguer.
Here is the exchange, which ran on the blog of Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist and conservative Christian leader:
Thomas: “You have said you never felt the need to ask for God’s forgiveness, and yet repentance for one’s sins is a precondition to salvation. I ask you the question Jesus asked of Peter: Who do you say He is?”
Trump: “I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won’t have to be asking for much forgiveness.”
Thomas: “Who do you say Jesus is?”
Trump: “Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage and, because I consider the Christian religion so important, somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.”
Last summer, Trump was asked at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit whether he had ever asked God for forgiveness.
“I am not sure I have,” he said then. “I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” He went on to say that he does receive Communion at church.
“When I drink my little wine — which is about the only wine I drink — and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed,” he said. “I think in terms of ‘Let’s go on and let’s make it right.'”
In January, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he doesn’t regret never asking God for forgiveness and doesn’t have much to apologize for.
“I have a great relationship with God. I have a great relationship with the evangelicals,” Trump told Tapper.
“I like to be good. I don’t like to have to ask for forgiveness. And I am good. I don’t do a lot of things that are bad. I try to do nothing that is bad.”
I'm surprised that PAB said that. It would have been more in character to say that Jesus was a total loser, who cured all those people and fed thousands and never got any money. And all his bitching and moaning about the ill treatment of poor people only got him accused of treason and nailed to a cross. The only payoff he got was a cheap placard, INRI, mocking his claim to be King of the Jews. He didn't even know how to get rich as a tax farmer.
"In that interview, Trump claimed Harris suddenly 'turned Black'”
Correction: he says she "turned Buh-Lack." He's always pronounces it that way, in the same way R's replace Democratic with DemocRat to emphasize the "rat."
I see various things saying that Trump thinks he can make up some ground among Black voters. And yet he comes out swinging, attacks Scott the instant he gets the mike. It seems very calculated, but beyond me what the calculation is.
We give him too much credit. Chump is all id. We can't do that because we have to face our consequences. His money has delayed that.
There's no grand strategy, no planning, no calculations. For whatever reasons, a person gets in his sights, and he lashes out. He does what he thinks is going to make him feel good at that moment.
Joke's on the January 6th crowd. If he pardons any of them it will only be a handful of prominent ones, like say the so called shaman. The rest will probably get nothing.
No, he's so lazy and incapable of coming through on any of his promises that he'll fail to sign any pardons. Plus as far as he's concerned all his energy is going to be spent ensuring that he'll be king and he won't need any more votes.
You haven't heard? He'll be so grateful to be back in the White House that he's just going to start giving away pardons he was selling for two million a pop.
That true believer from Bumfuck sitting in his cell waiting for that call is going to be sitting there a long time.
Just by the by, I would vote for a demonic werewolf before I would vote Republican, especially with the King of Trolls and Appalachian Wormtongue at the top of the ticket.
I still remember my bewilderment after Trump told them all to go home. They walked away as if it had been any normal day touring Washington. I couldn’t believe no one was being arrested; I thought if any situation I had ever seen merited mass arrests, it was January 6th. But no, they all drifted away.
Time to find the closest Cracker Barrel. Yamiche Alcindor while talking about 1/6 said her overwhelming feeling at the time was how entitled these people were. How sure they were that they weren't going to get in trouble. As a Black woman this was as stark a representation of white entitlement that she'd ever seen.
I think I was shocked both then and now that people breaking into the Capitol was treated so… dismissively. But I suppose that reflects the attitude of the administration at the time. So, yes. White entitlement.
I live in the suburbs of Saint Paul, so between the rioting over the murder of George Floyd and what little I know of the forces used against civil rights marchers, I have a faint idea. Then I try to dial it up 200% and add a lot more blood. And yet I still expect the reality would be worse.
January 6th was the most egregious misuse of freedom of assembly to ever occur. I can think of nothing that compares. None of the participants deserve the slightest degree of clemency.
January 6th rioters got away with murder. Imagine BLM protestors had done this. The body count would have been dozens and the ones who werent shot at the scene would be all serving 20 to life.
Why can't people push back on Trump's J6 justifications? Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland rioters WERE arrested, charged, and (I'm sure) convicted. Also, too, the DC protest.
To let him keep arguing that nothing happened in those instances is journalistic malpractice.
Seattle, Minneapolis, and Portland are gone. They were burned to the ground by ANTIFAs and BLMs. They don't exist anymore.
The January 6th rioters were peaceful tourists who were willingly let into the building by the same police who were beaten, and were also FBI agents dressed like MAGAts to make Donnie look bad.
It is terrible here in ye olde Twin Cities. We just shuffle around through the embers, searching for the fortitude to survive yet another dangerous day.
Thank heavens we finally have legal weed to distract us.
Donalds is desperately clinging to the hope he might replace Vance on the ticket -- although not as desperately as Tim Scott, who actually went through with marrying a woman.
i really thought tim believed he had dodged a bullet (to coin a phrase) when JD got the nod, but when things started to get ugly he must've decided he finally had to go thru with it.
It's all about control. Trump is being rather straightforward that it is his and his party's foundational belief that you don't get to decide which race(s) you are.
The cool, considerate men (white, Protestant, Eastern) get to. This is the essence of the evil of American white supremacy.
While you're working at fighting injustice, it helps to laugh.
Trump's asinine performance at the NABJ makes me think of a scene from "The Right Stuff" --- The scene in which legendary character actor John Dehner, as pompous TIME/LIFE publisher Henry Luce reserves to himself what is and what is not a proper name for a Mercury astronaut.
After some argument over whether Gus is an appropriate name, Dehner pulls off a subtle but powerful bit of stage business -- he raises a papal Hand of Benediction when he tells Grissom, "All right, you can be Gus."
[INT Day - Office of TIME/LIFE Publisher Henry Luce]
LUCE:
With this one deal I'm giving them $500,000...split seven ways over three years. How does that sound?
Now I want them all to meet my people who will write their true stories. These stories will appear in LIFE under their own by-lines. For example...
"by Betty Grissom..." or,
"by...Virgil I. Grissom."
- Or...
GRISSOM:
Gus.
LUCE
What was that?
GRISSON
Gus. Nobody calls me by that other name.
LUCE
Gus? An astronaut named Gus? ...
What's your middle name?
GRISSOM
Ivan.
LUCE [conferring with aides]
Maybe ... "Gus" isn't so bad. Might be something there.
[thinks. Gestures as a papal blessing toward GRISSOM]
And the rule that white people of that kind laid down for centuries was: Black mixed with anything else makes Black. One drop of blood from Africa makes you Black regardless of any other part of the family tree. Suddenly they're the ones who don't like that rule?
... the elite whites laid down concurrent rules that limited who was said to be white. Nobody was white whose line traced to any culture located within a 500 miles of the Mediterranean Sea (some French excepted) nor any culture east of the line drawn from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic.
From a purely academic perspective it is interesting that as American racist dead-enders have gotten more desperate over the last 60 years, their own definition of white has expanded to include formerly "non-white" groups they long persecuted, such as people of Iberian, Italian and Slavic heritage.
Race is a social construct, and the worst. As Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote in 'South Pacific,' the evil of racism is something that "must be carefully taught."
It's pathetic to watch Trump try so mightily to blow the breath of life into those old evils.
"Nobody was white whose line traced to any culture located within a 500 miles of the Mediterranean Sea"
I guess that makes me an honorary brother, seeing as my Dad's family is originally from the Baeleric Islands smack dab IN the Mediterranean. Of course I pretty much had that base covered by growing up in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. LOL
The main criterion in the old rule about whiteness was Protestantism, thus Irish (although not Mediterranean like the Spanish and Italians) were out, and any of the Orthodox from Greeks to Russians were out, and Jews of course were out of the question. Certain French were accepted if they could claim to be from the Huguenots.
They just further arrogate to themselves to apply their rules as whim dictates. The whole thing is starkly illogical, so logic is not applicable to it.
Exactly this. *They* are the ones who get to decide. What race you are, what gender you are, what counts as family values, or a "real" job, or "common sense".
And they can't stand it that so many people are going "Nah, I'm gonna do this instead".
Trump is a goin’ down, my friends. He will lose by 10 million votes this time around.
I wonder what Republicans are like behind closed doors? In public, they all act like they're trying to behave like a human by using a human operator's manual written by a guy who'd only ever done 80's-era VCR operator's manuals.
I can only give you one data point, my ex-husband whom I divorced in August 2015. My lawyer, who was also a friend from HS, asked me what happened. I said, "He's like the Tea Party, but on steroids. You ask how the weather is - he'll complain about "BS global warming", you tell him about the school play - he'll complain about his property taxes, you tell him the yard looks nice/kids don't have cavities/dog just took a bath - he'll say, "You just live with your liberal, rose-colored glasses on". My friend said, "It's like the whole damned country!"
For the past 9 years, I've been watching my nation replay my marriage nightmare.
I'm OK now (and I think the nation will be too). But it's going to take work and vigilance to fix, restore and renew our spirit. We're never going to return to the 1950's (or whatever era). And we're never going to have our naivete back.
So yes, they act how they think humans would act after only reading an '80's era VCR operators manual.
Ta, MM. Lies and the lying liars who tell them.
Has anybody mentioned the fact that Trump suddenly became a Christian on or around 2016?
And thus secured forgiveness of all his sins. Constantine did better by getting a deathbed baptism, thus evading punishment for his many murders, which included his wife and son. Elaine Pagels makes the point that Christianity's big appeal was cheap forgiveness of sins.
And then Republican Christians of the time realized that forgiveness was a little too cheap and started selling indulgences, the NFT's of the day.
👩🍳 💋. No notes.
NYT June 8, 2016 at 5:38 p.m. EDT
For at least the third time since he became a candidate for president, Donald Trump was asked whether he seeks God’s forgiveness. The first two times he said no, but in an interview published Wednesday his answer was a bit vaguer.
Here is the exchange, which ran on the blog of Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist and conservative Christian leader:
Thomas: “You have said you never felt the need to ask for God’s forgiveness, and yet repentance for one’s sins is a precondition to salvation. I ask you the question Jesus asked of Peter: Who do you say He is?”
Trump: “I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won’t have to be asking for much forgiveness.”
Thomas: “Who do you say Jesus is?”
Trump: “Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage and, because I consider the Christian religion so important, somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.”
Last summer, Trump was asked at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit whether he had ever asked God for forgiveness.
“I am not sure I have,” he said then. “I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” He went on to say that he does receive Communion at church.
“When I drink my little wine — which is about the only wine I drink — and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed,” he said. “I think in terms of ‘Let’s go on and let’s make it right.'”
In January, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he doesn’t regret never asking God for forgiveness and doesn’t have much to apologize for.
“I have a great relationship with God. I have a great relationship with the evangelicals,” Trump told Tapper.
“I like to be good. I don’t like to have to ask for forgiveness. And I am good. I don’t do a lot of things that are bad. I try to do nothing that is bad.”
I'm surprised that PAB said that. It would have been more in character to say that Jesus was a total loser, who cured all those people and fed thousands and never got any money. And all his bitching and moaning about the ill treatment of poor people only got him accused of treason and nailed to a cross. The only payoff he got was a cheap placard, INRI, mocking his claim to be King of the Jews. He didn't even know how to get rich as a tax farmer.
"I have my little cracker" - and Xtians still think of him as "Godly".
What mooks.
Yeah it's not like you have to do any work for that forgiveness.
'So why doesn't Donald Trump play up his Oompah Loompah heritage? Is he ashamed of that part of his ancestry?'
👆
Definitely a Person Of (unnatural) Color
"In that interview, Trump claimed Harris suddenly 'turned Black'”
Correction: he says she "turned Buh-Lack." He's always pronounces it that way, in the same way R's replace Democratic with DemocRat to emphasize the "rat."
I see various things saying that Trump thinks he can make up some ground among Black voters. And yet he comes out swinging, attacks Scott the instant he gets the mike. It seems very calculated, but beyond me what the calculation is.
We give him too much credit. Chump is all id. We can't do that because we have to face our consequences. His money has delayed that.
There's no grand strategy, no planning, no calculations. For whatever reasons, a person gets in his sights, and he lashes out. He does what he thinks is going to make him feel good at that moment.
Joke's on the January 6th crowd. If he pardons any of them it will only be a handful of prominent ones, like say the so called shaman. The rest will probably get nothing.
No, he's so lazy and incapable of coming through on any of his promises that he'll fail to sign any pardons. Plus as far as he's concerned all his energy is going to be spent ensuring that he'll be king and he won't need any more votes.
You haven't heard? He'll be so grateful to be back in the White House that he's just going to start giving away pardons he was selling for two million a pop.
That true believer from Bumfuck sitting in his cell waiting for that call is going to be sitting there a long time.
Just by the by, I would vote for a demonic werewolf before I would vote Republican, especially with the King of Trolls and Appalachian Wormtongue at the top of the ticket.
They'd definitely get things done, but they respect the process.
Demonic werewolves have a certain charm, unlike any member of the trump party.
All that running and jumping and ripping overweight Republicans to shreds certainly keeps them looking hot in their human forms.
I'd vote for that.
I still remember my bewilderment after Trump told them all to go home. They walked away as if it had been any normal day touring Washington. I couldn’t believe no one was being arrested; I thought if any situation I had ever seen merited mass arrests, it was January 6th. But no, they all drifted away.
Time to find the closest Cracker Barrel. Yamiche Alcindor while talking about 1/6 said her overwhelming feeling at the time was how entitled these people were. How sure they were that they weren't going to get in trouble. As a Black woman this was as stark a representation of white entitlement that she'd ever seen.
I think I was shocked both then and now that people breaking into the Capitol was treated so… dismissively. But I suppose that reflects the attitude of the administration at the time. So, yes. White entitlement.
Can you imagine the bloodbath if they'd been mostly Black?
No. I honestly cannot image what would genuinely be American carnage.
I live in the suburbs of Saint Paul, so between the rioting over the murder of George Floyd and what little I know of the forces used against civil rights marchers, I have a faint idea. Then I try to dial it up 200% and add a lot more blood. And yet I still expect the reality would be worse.
January 6th was the most egregious misuse of freedom of assembly to ever occur. I can think of nothing that compares. None of the participants deserve the slightest degree of clemency.
January 6th rioters got away with murder. Imagine BLM protestors had done this. The body count would have been dozens and the ones who werent shot at the scene would be all serving 20 to life.
Why can't people push back on Trump's J6 justifications? Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland rioters WERE arrested, charged, and (I'm sure) convicted. Also, too, the DC protest.
To let him keep arguing that nothing happened in those instances is journalistic malpractice.
Seattle, Minneapolis, and Portland are gone. They were burned to the ground by ANTIFAs and BLMs. They don't exist anymore.
The January 6th rioters were peaceful tourists who were willingly let into the building by the same police who were beaten, and were also FBI agents dressed like MAGAts to make Donnie look bad.
It is terrible here in ye olde Twin Cities. We just shuffle around through the embers, searching for the fortitude to survive yet another dangerous day.
Thank heavens we finally have legal weed to distract us.
In which of those cities did protestors occupy a Federal installation and do $20 million in damage?
Donalds is desperately clinging to the hope he might replace Vance on the ticket -- although not as desperately as Tim Scott, who actually went through with marrying a woman.
i really thought tim believed he had dodged a bullet (to coin a phrase) when JD got the nod, but when things started to get ugly he must've decided he finally had to go thru with it.
Donalds is a lying POS. Just like Donald!
It's all about control. Trump is being rather straightforward that it is his and his party's foundational belief that you don't get to decide which race(s) you are.
The cool, considerate men (white, Protestant, Eastern) get to. This is the essence of the evil of American white supremacy.
While you're working at fighting injustice, it helps to laugh.
Trump's asinine performance at the NABJ makes me think of a scene from "The Right Stuff" --- The scene in which legendary character actor John Dehner, as pompous TIME/LIFE publisher Henry Luce reserves to himself what is and what is not a proper name for a Mercury astronaut.
After some argument over whether Gus is an appropriate name, Dehner pulls off a subtle but powerful bit of stage business -- he raises a papal Hand of Benediction when he tells Grissom, "All right, you can be Gus."
[INT Day - Office of TIME/LIFE Publisher Henry Luce]
LUCE:
With this one deal I'm giving them $500,000...split seven ways over three years. How does that sound?
Now I want them all to meet my people who will write their true stories. These stories will appear in LIFE under their own by-lines. For example...
"by Betty Grissom..." or,
"by...Virgil I. Grissom."
- Or...
GRISSOM:
Gus.
LUCE
What was that?
GRISSON
Gus. Nobody calls me by that other name.
LUCE
Gus? An astronaut named Gus? ...
What's your middle name?
GRISSOM
Ivan.
LUCE [conferring with aides]
Maybe ... "Gus" isn't so bad. Might be something there.
[thinks. Gestures as a papal blessing toward GRISSOM]
All right, you can be Gus.
###
"...cool, considerate men..."
Am I showing my age if I recognize a 1776 reference?
"Always to the right, never to the left..."
And the rule that white people of that kind laid down for centuries was: Black mixed with anything else makes Black. One drop of blood from Africa makes you Black regardless of any other part of the family tree. Suddenly they're the ones who don't like that rule?
You got to remember, they had her pegged as Indian-American, and she didn't get permission to change.
... the elite whites laid down concurrent rules that limited who was said to be white. Nobody was white whose line traced to any culture located within a 500 miles of the Mediterranean Sea (some French excepted) nor any culture east of the line drawn from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic.
From a purely academic perspective it is interesting that as American racist dead-enders have gotten more desperate over the last 60 years, their own definition of white has expanded to include formerly "non-white" groups they long persecuted, such as people of Iberian, Italian and Slavic heritage.
Race is a social construct, and the worst. As Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote in 'South Pacific,' the evil of racism is something that "must be carefully taught."
It's pathetic to watch Trump try so mightily to blow the breath of life into those old evils.
"Nobody was white whose line traced to any culture located within a 500 miles of the Mediterranean Sea"
I guess that makes me an honorary brother, seeing as my Dad's family is originally from the Baeleric Islands smack dab IN the Mediterranean. Of course I pretty much had that base covered by growing up in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. LOL
The main criterion in the old rule about whiteness was Protestantism, thus Irish (although not Mediterranean like the Spanish and Italians) were out, and any of the Orthodox from Greeks to Russians were out, and Jews of course were out of the question. Certain French were accepted if they could claim to be from the Huguenots.
They just further arrogate to themselves to apply their rules as whim dictates. The whole thing is starkly illogical, so logic is not applicable to it.
Exactly this. *They* are the ones who get to decide. What race you are, what gender you are, what counts as family values, or a "real" job, or "common sense".
And they can't stand it that so many people are going "Nah, I'm gonna do this instead".
They don't get to decide
And they hate us as a result
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/magazine/kamala-harris-black-identity-history.html