Month: June 2019

Time’s Up for Doddering Joe Biden

In spite of a series of gaffes and missteps in the last couple of weeks Joe Biden entered the first debate of the primary season as the clear frontrunner.

Biden felt emboldened by the heretical belief shared by most Democrats that the Democratic presidential hopefuls shouldn’t attack each other lest they weaken the eventual nominee. But politics ain’t beanbag and the natural order reasserted itself as the first debate saw most of the candidates takings swipes at the consensus leader.

But it wasn’t Bernie Sanders as expected who dealt the fatal blow, it was Kamala Harris who eviscerated the old doddering politician in a calm and strategic manner. “I do not believe you are a racist,” Harris told Biden, as she unveiled her attack, preemptively protecting herself from attacks by his supporters that she was accusing Obama’s veep of being a racist. She went on to say “it’s personal and it was actually hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States Senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.”

Throughout Harris’ scolding Biden had the chastened look of a Catholic schoolboy being reprimanded by a nun brandishing a ruler. Biden’s response is inconsequential and irrelevant, Harris did to Biden what Lloyd Bentsen did to Dan Quayle.

The most humiliating experience in Biden’s political career could have been avoided if he had simply apologized and admitted he made a mistake immediately after invoking segregationists as an example of being able to get along with everyone. Refusing to apologize only works for one politician, namely Donald Trump, because his base will forgive him for anything, literally anything.

“Anyway, my time is up,” Biden said, as he finished his dramatic interaction with Harris. He obviously meant that his allotted time from NBC moderators was up, but the television audience was thinking: Your time is up, you doddering old fool! We need a young, preferably minority woman to face off against Trump.

When a Democrat running for president invokes segregationists as an example of getting along with political foes his time is up! When a Democratic politician uses states’ rights to defend his position on busing his time is up. When a presidential hopeful is 76-years-old and seemingly incapable of speaking coherently his time is up!

Donald Trump is Above the Law in Real Life and on Twitter

Dozens of women have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct including ogling, harassment, and even rape. Trump has vehemently denied all these allegations, but who are you going to believe, women who have nothing to gain by coming forward or the cretin who was caught on tape boasting:

“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

Last Friday, E. Jean Carroll, a popular advice columnist, alleged that Trump (then a businessman) had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996. The story has almost disappeared from the news, eclipsed by the latest Trump outrages, including him jokingly reprimanding Putin not to interfere with the 2020 elections.

Trump has gotten away with sexually assaulting women since the 1970’s, he has not been accountable by the criminal justice system, or by Republican leaders. For all practical purposes, he’s above the law.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report chronicled multiple contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials, and sets out ten incidents in which Trump possibly obstructed justice. Mueller failed to indict Trump of obstruction only because according to Justice Department regulations a sitting president can’t be indicted.

Trump, Attorney General Robert Barr and Congressional Republicans falsely claimed that the report exonerated Trump from charges of collusion and obstruction. Trump has learned nothing from his ordeal, he recently said that he would accept dirt on a political opponent from a representative of a foreign country, without notifying the FBI. For all practical purposes, he’s above the law.

Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice and a hundred other reasons, but the Democratic-led House of Representatives refuses to impeach him for political considerations. Congress is acting as if he’s above the law.

Trump acts as if he doesn’t have to answer to anyone, he usurps Congressional power by issuing executive actions, and ridicules the other co-equal branch of government, the Judiciary. He lavishly praises tyrants, like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un the Dear Leader of North Korea, he envies their authoritarian systems of government that allows them to act without restraints.

In the real world Trump acts as if he’s a king, because for all practical purposes he is above the law.

Even in the virtual world Trump acts as if he’s above the law. On the social media platforms, especially Twitter, he defames, insults and ridicules his political opponents. Any regular person who acted like Trump on Twitter would have been permanently banned, but he can spread false conspiracy theories, viciously attack people, and outright lie without facing any consequences.

Finally, after millions of complaints that Trump violates the site’s rules prohibiting harassment, and hateful conduct Twitter plans to police Trump’s tweets, adding warning label for “abusive behavior.” Users will have to click on the warning to see the hidden tweet.

Too little, too late! Trump shouldn’t be above the law in real life or online, he should be treated like everyone else.

Donald Trump: Racist, Liar and Rapist

In 2016 Americans displayed remarkable wisdom and discernment in electing a pathological liar, brazen racist, clueless moron and a serial sexual predator as President of the United States and Leader of the Free World.

A rapist thinks that everyone is a potential rapist and that only fear of getting caught prevents the average man from defiling a woman. That’s why Trump didn’t have any reservations about branding an entire nationality, Mexicans, as rapists.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. Trump has vehemently denied the assault, explaining that “she’s not my type.” If someone accused me of rape my default defense wouldn’t be “she’s not my type.” I would vehemently deny the accusation, explaining that I would never violate a woman in such a violent and evil manner.

Rape isn’t a crime of passion, a rapist doesn’t search for the most beautiful or most scantily clad woman to assault. Rape is a crime of control, a rapist looks for the most vulnerable woman to abuse and humiliate.

“She’s not my type” is a phrase that until a rapist would utter, and it’s no surprise that defense/confession emanated from the sphincter-like mouth of the predator-in-chief.

About two dozen women have made credible accusations of sexual assault against Trump, Carroll is the latest and I’m sure she won’t be the last. I believe the women over the chronic liar, who was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women by their genitals.  

Surprise: Racist Donald Trump Against Reparations

President Donald Trump said in an interview on Monday that he thinks the concept of the federal government giving reparations to the descendants of slaves is ‘unusual’ and ‘interesting’ but he doesn’t ‘see it happening.’

USA TODAY

Reparations is a hot button issue on the campaign trail, most of the two dozen or so presidential Democratic candidates support the idea. It was only a matter of time before the stable genius piped in with his thoughts on the controversial idea.

I am “shocked, shocked, shocked” that Trump is against reparations! Who would have thunk that the most racist president in modern history could would express misgivings about the federal government giving reparations to the descendants of slaves. Who would have imagined that the chief executive who has slashed safety net programs that the disenfranchised poor, most of them minorities, rely on isn’t in favor of reparations? Who could have predicted that the man who has delayed replacing the genocidal racist Andrew Jackson with the abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill until he is out of office would look askance at the prospect of reparations? Who could have conceived that the real estate developer who called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five who were unjustly accused would be against justice for the descendants of slaves?

On June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing to discuss legislation introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, calling for the creation of a commission to study the lasting effects of slavery’s legacy and what could be done to make amends.

We can only hope that Trump won’t be president if and when there’s a vote in Congress on giving reparations to the descendants of slaves.

Is Donald Trump Going to Replace Mike Pence With Nikki Haley?

“The headline of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Monday says it all: Trump-Haley 2020.

The time has come to for President Donald Trump to replace Vice President Mike Pence on the 2020 ticket with former American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, concludes Andrew Stein, a former president of the New York City Council and a Democratic supporter of the President. Here’s Stein’s key point:

‘It’s too late for Mr. Trump to revamp his political personality. But with the 2016 election in the past, Nikki Haley on the ticket could tamp down the antipathy for Mr. Trump that seems to afflict so many moderate and Republican-leaning women.’”

CNN

On November 7, 2018, Trump confirmed that Mike Pence would be his vice presidential running mate in 2020. But Trump is notoriously fickle and he may change his mind a dozen times before he begins to campaign in earnest after Labor Day.

The stable genius takes a perverse delight in breaking political conventions and his base wouldn’t be particularly upset if he dumped the obsequious Pence for the more independent Haley.

Trump selected the pious evangelical zealot, Mike Pence, to be his running mate to sure up his evangelical support. By appointed two conservative judges to the Supreme Court and nearly 200 conservative judges to federal appeals courts, it’s a safe bet that white evangelicals will vote for Trump come hell or high water. Trump can replace Pence with any conservative Republican without losing any votes.

This weekend on an interview on Meet the Press Chuck Todd asked Trump whether Mike Pence is 100% on your ticket in 2020, and Trump responded:

“Well, look, look — 100%, yes. He’s been a terrific vice president. He’s my friend.”

Trump may very well have been telling the truth, but if a miracle happens and Pence grows some balls any criticizes his boss for any of his myriad indiscretions or insane policy proposals he may very well be replaced by Haley or someone else.

The pertinent question is whether replacing Pence with Haley would guarantee Trump victory in 2020. It’s incredibly sexist to assert that replacing Pence with a female candidate, however qualified she may be, would motivate women to vote for Trump. Trump has already proven that he’s sexist beyond redemption and suburban female voters aren’t going to vote for Trump just because there’s a woman on the ticket.

In fact after four years of chaos, confusion and buffoonery nobody in his or her right mind will vote for Trump in 2020, regardless whom he chooses as his running mate.

Read More: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/politics/donald-trump-mike-pence-nikki-haley/index.html

Donald Trump Isn’t a Strategic Counter Puncher, He’s a Moron Who Punches Down

Donald Trump’s skin is famous for its orange hue and for its fragile and thin nature.

You’d think that the President of the United States and the Leader of the Free World wouldn’t notice when an obscure blogger, D-list celeb or a hack politician criticized him, but Trump goes ballistic over every perceived slight.

Trump has been labeled a strategic counter puncher but actually he’s a master at punching down, and when you’re the commander-in-chief you’re always punching down.

When the stable genius punches down it lowers his status and elevates his critics. Trump’s punching down strategy exposes him as a thin-skinned narcissist and provides his detractors with a platform to broadcast their views.

When the fucking moron responds to his critics he doesn’t do so by rebutting their arguments by appealing to reason and logic, but by engaging in ad hominem attacks. The perfect arena for Trump to eviscerate his enemies is the toxic cesspool, Twitter. This social media site was custom-made for the grammar-impaired vulgarian.

Trump isn’t going to be brought down by a vicious viral tweet, but at the ballot box. We would be well-advised to expend less energy verbally attacking Trump, and more energy mobilizing our forces to remove him from office by any means necessary.

I imagine the devil has reserved a special place in hell for Trump: A room with floor-to-ceiling windows where he is surrounded by snickering demons firing toxic tweets at him. No matter how fast Trump’s little fingers move he can never keep up with all the insults targeting him.

Trumpism Won’t be Defeated Until White Evangelicals are Discredited

Donald Trump received more than 80 percent support from evangelicals in 2016. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign may have been a publicity and narcissistic enterprise, but white evangelicals considered it a moral crusade to Make America Great Again by turning back the clock on women’s reproductive freedom, gay rights and racial equality.

White evangelicals are very pleased with the two far-right Supreme Court judges that were appointed by Trump, and not to mention the close to two  hundred judges he has appointed to federal appeals courts. They are ecstatic over the setbacks that Trump had dealt to the LGBTQ communities. They have ramped up their efforts to reelect their False Messiah, the moral reprobate is the perfect presidential candidate for evangelicals who are committed to their so-called family friendly causes.

The usual evangelical suspects have earmarked hundreds of millions in their crusade to reelect Trump. Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition is spending tens of millions on a voter mobilization effort that aims to register 1 million Christians in key battleground states. The Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion rights group, has a budget of $41 million this campaign cycle to reelect Trump and other anti-abortion candidates. The Family Research Council is also putting their money where their mouth is and pouring millions into the ungodly mission to reelect the short-fingered vulgarian.

It is manifestly clear that Trump could not have won without the support of white evangelicals, and it’s incumbent upon Democrats, Independents and Republicans who haven’t swallowed the Kool-Aide to redouble their efforts to defeat Trump and destroy the white evangelical movement.

Patriots can take these steps to delegitimize, demoralize and defeat white evangelicals:

Ridicule

There are no sacred cows, and where is it written that religion should be exempt from ridicule? Sanctimonious evangelicals with their penchant for hypocrisy, racism, and misogyny make such easy targets.

Demonstrate

Why in the holy name of God aren’t there any protests at megachurches? White evangelicals support the chaos of the Trump administration, so why not bring some chaos to their churches?

Tax-exempt status

If white evangelical churches are acting like political organizations why not yank their tax-exempt status? I think it’s an abomination that my tax money is being used to support churches that support homophobia, misogyny and xenophobia.

Join me in my mission from God to impeach Trump and to put the fear of God in white evangelicals!

Donald Trump Has an Excellent Chance of Being Reelected

Donald Trump is not a stable genius. He’s an unstable moron. He’s the living manifestation of Murphy’s Law. He has no master plan. He’s not playing three dimensional chess. He’s playing online checkers against a computer set at bonehead level of difficulty. He doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to think three moves ahead. He relies on his gut to navigate the game board. He didn’t win the presidency because of his oratorical brilliance or intelligent campaign strategy. His anti-establishment rhetoric and anti-immigrant message resonated with just enough white evangelicals, blue-collar workers and latent racists to seize the race from the elitist and universally despised Hillary Clinton. Lightening can strike twice. Donald Trump can win reelection. White evangelicals are even more enamored with their False Messiah than they were four years ago. Racists are more emboldened to support the white nationalist-in-chief. God does have a twisted sense of humor. We do get the political leaders that we deserve. A Democrat-controlled House of Representatives that is too cowardly to impeach Trump lacks the moral authority to persuade the electorate to throw the bum out of office. I have the demoralizing feeling that two years from now Democrats will still be debating whether or not to impeach Trump.

Donald Trump, Israel and White Evangelicals

The modern day state of Israel resembles apartheid era South Africa more than it does the Biblical state of Israel. It’s an article of faith for white evangelicals to support Israel religiously even though the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is politically corrupt and morally degenerate. He treats the peace process with disdain, and the Palestinians in the occupied territories with contempt.

White evangelicals are an integral part of Trump’s base, and he knows just how to play them. He pandered to these religious extremists by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol, and relocating the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The cherry on top of the cake was when he recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

Netanyahu knows just how to play Trump, in gratitude to Trump for blessing Israel with all of these diplomatic gifts without having to make any concession to the Palestinians in return he named a settlement in the Golan Heights after him.

At a ceremony to inaugurate the new settlement, Netanyahu stood in front of a gold-trimmed sign that reads “Ramat Trump”, and said:

“We are proud to have the opportunity to establish a new community, and also to honor a big friend…Many years have passed since a new settlement was established in the Golan Heights. Today it is happening: We are making an important step toward the rise of Ramat Trump. It will proudly carry the name of a very great friend of the State of Israel, and I am also very proud to say a great friend of mine—President Donald Trump.”

The only part of the proposed settlement that has been built is the gold-trimmed sign, but that’s enough to stroke Trump’s ego. Trump must realize that in his own country very few public buildings, if any at all, will be named after him when he leaves office, so I’m sure he appreciates Netanyahu’s generous gesture.

Israel will never achieve the grandeur of its Biblical era until it has a Prime Minister who resembles King Solomon more than P. W. Botha, and America won’t be great again until it has a president who resembles Abraham Lincoln more than Richard Nixon.

Donald Trump Treats Michael Mulvaney Like an Impertinent Coffee Boy

Donald Trump is the worst boss in the realm of politics, in comparison Amy Klobuchar is as understanding and patient with her office staff as Sherriff Andy Taylor is with his bungling deputy, Barney Fife.

The stable genius expects devotion and loyalty from his staff, and in return he treats even high ranking officials like coffee boys who should be grateful to be in his presence.

The short-gingered vulgarian brusquely ordered White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to leave the Oval Office when he had the temerity to cough during a televised interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos.

“If you’re going to cough, please leave the room,” Trump blurted as he attempted to answer a question about House Democrats’ attempts to subpoena his tax records. The interview, taped last week in part in the Oval Office, was broadcast on Sunday night.

Trump was so upset by what he perceived as an unforgiveable act of disrespect that he continued to express his displeasure to Stephanopoulos.

“I don’t like that, you know, I don’t like that. If you’re going to cough, please leave the room. You just can’t, you just can’t cough. Boy, oh boy.”

God only knows what would have happened to the hapless Chief of Staff had he passed gas in the presence of his master! I’m guessing he would have ordered Mike Pence to remove his belt, take off Mulvany’s pants and give him the whipping of his life.

Even though interviewing Trump would be the highlight of my life as a blogger, I think I’d rather eat a salad with Klobuchar using combs instead of forks than ask Trump anything.

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A Senile Donald Trump Calls in to ‘Fox & Friends’ on his Birthday

Most septuagenarians celebrate birthdays by putting on their dentures to nibble at a sheet cake from Costco with their fellow nursing home residents whose names they’ve long ago forgotten.

Trump’s mind is as addled as your average nursing home resident, but wealth and privilege has enabled him to move from a mansion to the White House, and he celebrated his 73rd birthday by calling in to the three bobble head dolls/anchors of Fox & Friends: Steven Doocy, Ainsely Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade.

If your senile grandpa calls you on his birthday you will indulge him for a few minutes before cutting him off, but when the demented grandpa is the President of the United States and he’s calling in to his favorite show in his favorite network the three stooges have no recourse but to let him eat up almost an hour of the top-rating cable news program.

The marathon call was a 50-minute stream of consciousness/river of petty vindictiveness occasionally interrupted with a sycophantic comment from dumb, dumber, and bimbo.

I’m not going to get into the substance of Trump’s diatribe for that would be as educational and enlightening as examining my diarrhea after consuming a 7-11  hotdog. Suffice to say that watching Trump call in to Fox & Friends lowered my IQ by 20 points, and raised my blood pressure by 50 points.

Donald Trump’s Disastrous Interview with George Stephanopoulos

Donald Trump’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos was an unmitigated disaster, it exposed the president as unprepared and unpresidential. It’s no wonder that Trump rarely grants an interview with a real journalist, and he prefers to chat with the friendly news personalities of Fox News.

In the most shocking segment of the interview Trump told Stephanopoulos that he’d accept dirt on his opponents offered by other governments and ridiculed the idea of telling the FBI about it. Trump’s answer proves that the only lesson he learned from the Mueller investigation is that he can get away with anything, and he considers himself above the law.

When the stable genius was pressed by Stephanopoulos on why he didn’t answer questions from Mueller about obstruction, the short-fingered vulgarian resorted to name-calling, calling the 5’5” journalist “a little wise guy.” Once again demonstrating that when the fuc*ing moron can’t compete on an intellectual level, he lasing out with juvenile insults.

In one part of the interview the 6’3” buffoon was sitting at the Oval Office while the petite Stephanopoulos was standing, negating Trump’s height advantage and making him appear small. Where the hell are Trump’s handlers, are they too afraid to give him advice?

Stephanopoulos clearly came ahead in the encounter, he refused to be intimidated by Trump’s bluster, and refused to accept his initial disclaimers.

Drag Queens Make Lovely Video for Mike Pence’s Birthday

Gay?

Donald Trump is turning 73 on June 14, and he’s managed to restrain himself from issuing an executive order making his birthday a national holiday. However, he is making a big deal out of his birthday, an email was sent this week to subscribers of the Trump-Pence campaign urging them to sign a birthday card that his lackeys will bestow on him come June 14. Their goal: Two million signatures.

Vice President Mike Pence will turn 60 on June 7, and I know what y’all are thinking: with his constipated smile and his white hair he looks older than Trump. Some kindhearted drag queens are making sure that Pence’s important day isn’t overlooked by releasing a video wishing him a happy birthday by urging people to donate money to LGBTQ organization in the homophobe’s name.

The drag peformers parody Marilyn Monroe’s famous “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” performance to John F. Kennedy by singing the sultry song to Pence.

Many raging homophobes are latent gay men, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Pence bats for the same team as these lovely drag queens.

I bet Pence will play this video every day until he joins the big Broadway chorus line in heaven.

Mike Pence Says Banning Pride Flags at US Embassies is ‘the Right Decision’

Vice President Mike Pence confirmed reports that Pride flags had been banned from U.S. embassies, and expressed his support for the administration’s decision. June is Pride Month, and in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, the vice president said four embassies’ requests to fly rainbow flags, which symbolize LGBTQ pride, were denied.

‘I’m aware that the State Department indicated that on the flagpole of our American embassies, one flag should fly, and that’s the American flag. And I support that,’ Pence said.

CBS News

It’s not exactly breaking news that Vice President Mike Pence supports the administration’ decision to ban Pride flags from American embassies. First of all the obsequious Pence has never publicly disagreed with any of Trump’s policies or statements, and secondly the notorious anti-gay religious conservative considers the Pride flag aesthetically and theologically offensive.

On May 31, 2019 Donald Trump tweeted:

As we celebrate LGBT Pride Month and recognize the outstanding contributions LGBT people have made to our great Nation, let us also stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation.

The stable genius is such a  hypocrite, what better way to stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in countries where they are persecuted, and even put to death, for the crime of being gay, than by allowing the Rainbow flag to fly from U.S embassies?

When he was governor of Indiana Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a law that allowed citizens to cite religious reasons for refusing to serve gays and lesbians. The Vice President’s wife, Karen Pence teaches at a Christian school that bars employees for engaging in homosexual activity. In other words, for as long as they cling to their narrow interpretation of the Bible, Pence and his wife will remain hopelessly homophobic.

The blatantly racist Trump and the zealously homophobic Pence are a threat to our inclusive secular democracy, and everybody who values liberty, freedom and racial and religious harmony should vote this evil men out of office in 2020.  

Read More: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pence-defends-decision-to-ban-pride-flags-from-flying-at-u-s-embassies/

Donald Trump Signed The D-Day Proclamation In The Wrong Place

stable Genius

“Of course, Trump was unlikely to let arguably the single most momentous and traumatic day of fighting of the 20th century upstage him. He was one of 15 world leaders to sign a special D-Day proclamation reaffirming the importance of co-operation and peace, but took the opportunity to remind everyone in Europe who’s the best by completely forgoing basic letter-signing decorum. Nothing says ‘We affirm that it is our shared responsibility to ensure that the unimaginable horror of these years is never repeated’ quite like scrawling your name at the top of a proclamation to show you’re actually the best.”

Esquire

After almost two and a half years in office, Donald Trump has signed myriad executive orders, and you’d think that the stable genius would know that important documents are signed at the bottom.

But it’s probably not ignorance as much as narcissism that compelled the fucking moron to scrawl his signature at the top of the proclamation.

He wanted his signature to stand out, and he didn’t want the name of any of the European leaders to be in close proximity to his own. Just to me sure his signature stood out, he did a John Hancock.

I guess we can’t rule out that the buffoon thought that “D-Day” stood for “Donald Day”, and his autograph deserved a place of honor.

Dear Lord what a moron! Some patriot should tie his tiny hands so he can’t tweet or sign anything.

Read More: https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a27881494/donald-trump-signed-the-d-day-proclamation-in-completely-the-wrong-place/

It’s a Sin for White Evangelicals to Pray that God Protect Trump

“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.” — 1 Timothy 2:1-2

For generations Christians, including evangelicals, interpreted this admonition from the Apostle Paul as a directive to pray that their political leaders were guided by the wisdom of the Almighty. Even in authoritarian states where Christians were persecuted, they prayed that their dictators might bend to the will of God.

These prayers were uttered in the same spirit of a beauty queen contestant’s pontification on world peace during the interview segment of the beauty pageant. No one believes that a beauty queen’s soliloquy on peace will bend the moral arc of the universe toward peace and justice, and no Christian really believes that his supplications for political leaders will have an effect on their morality and adherence to Scripture.

But in the 1970’s with the rise of the Moral Majority, white evangelicals started to equate spirituality with the Republican Party, and instead of praying in a general sense for wisdom for political leaders, they prayed that the Congress and the president would uphold the family values of the GOP: anti-abortion, anti-women, and pro guns, a strong military and prayer in public schools.

Being pro-Republican is so ingrained in evangelical thinking that they now embrace a thrice married real estate huckster and serial sexual predator who became president by demonizing immigrants and palling around with white nationalists.

When white evangelicals intercede with the Almighty on behalf of Trump they don’t pray that he repent of his racism, intolerance and mean and petty ways, they pray that God would defend him from his enemies and bring his racist policies to fruition.  

And they really believe in the efficacy of their prayers, they are persuaded that God is blessing their false Messiah, and his mission to make America Great Again.

We can be faithful to Paul’s teaching to pray for those in high positions without selling our souls to an extreme political ideology. Simply put: If a president’s policies and rhetoric are antithetical to the message of love and peace of the Gospels pray for his repentance, and if he rules with compassion and understanding, pray that God continues to bless him.

But thoughts and prayers and two bucks won’t get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks, vote the short-fingered vulgarian out of office in 2020.

The Old Stumbling Bumbling Joe Biden Returns

For the first six weeks of his campaign, Joe Biden largely drifted above the fray, a front-runner beyond the reach of the masses of the Democratic presidential field. His rivals publicly welcomed him into the race, and not a cross word was said about his moderate policy proposals or his advanced age.

For the first six weeks of his presidential campaign, Joe Biden engaged in a Hillary-like campaign: relaxing comfortably above the fray he barely deigned to acknowledge the existence of his myriad rivals.

His competitors publicly enthusiastically welcomed him into the race, and they treated him with the dame deference that functionaries in North Korea treat Kim Jong-un.

The heresy that Democratic presidential hopefuls shouldn’t speak ill of one another lest they weaken the eventual nominee had taken over the Democratic Party.

But politics ain’t beanbag, in fact it’s not even dodge ball, it’s a WWE Battle Royale where entertainment may be the name of the game, but the contestants suffer real physical injuries.

Miraculously, Biden survived the first six weeks of his campaign without suffering a major blunder, primarily because he barley campaigned and didn’t grant any interviews.

But you can always count on Biden to be Biden, and this week the real bumbling and stumbling Biden surfaced, and his opponents were quick to pounce.

In an unforgivable flub, for someone whose 1987 presidential run was derailed because of plagiarism, his campaign was forced to confess to plagiarizing a portion of the climate change plane he released this week.

On this same fateful week Biden reaffirmed his support of the Hyde Amendment – a measure banning federal funding for most abortions that’s universally opposed by his Democratic challengers – he reversed himself a couple of days later, saying he no longer supports the controversial measure.  

Biden’s rivals from the joke candidates like Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) to serious challengers like Sen. Elizabeth Warren were quick to attack him.

Enough with the kid gloves treatment, if Biden is to survive the Democratic Primary (which I doubt), a little roughing up by his rivals will do him good.

Don’t Ring My Doorbell!

“Have millennials killed the doorbell? People admit they’re ‘too scared’ to answer the ‘aggressive’ ring – and don’t open the door to visitors unless they TEXT.”

Daily Mail

I have watched too many flicks where a knock on the door or a doorbell ring is a prelude to mayhem and murder, and I regard a knock on my door or a doorbell ring as an assault on my safety, privacy and security.

Not that I get many unwanted visitors, the “no soliciting sign”, the four “beware of dog” signs and the alarm company decals tends to discourage Jehovah’s Witnesses, salespersons and brats selling candy to raise money for school activities.

When contractors, friends and family members visit me, they send me a text when they arrive at my home, or they honk the horn (I know really ghetto but not as intrusive and invasive as a doorbell.)

In fact, if it weren’t for doorbell camera systems doorbells would have become extinct by now.

The last time someone knocked on my door, the sun had already set, and without looking to see who it was, I shouted “What the hell do you want?” I didn’t hear a reply and there was no second knock. If you come to my little pink house, think twice before knocking!

Read More:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7107379/Have-Milennials-killed-doorbell-People-admit-theyre-scared-answer-aggressive-ring.html

Move Over Trump Baby Blimp, Here Comes the Farting Trump Robot

“Thousands of Brits took to the streets here Tuesday, where they marched alongside a 16-foot farting robot of Donald Trump and held aloft huge photos of John McCain in an attempt to trigger the president.”

Daily Beast

During Donald Trump’s visit to the UK, the inflatable caricature of Trump (universally known as Trump Baby) was flown in protest of his racism, bigotry, and xenophobia. Basically the blimp is a protest against everything foul that Trump represents.

The balloon which has achieved iconic status was first flown over Parliament Square, London on July 28, in protest of Trump’s first visit to England as president.

Trump Baby has a presence on all the major social media platforms, and he is so popular that he has made appearances at anti-Trump demonstrations in Paris, Buenos Aires and other major cities, and replicas of the beloved blimp have flown over hundreds of anti-Trump rallies all over the world.

Move over Trump Baby, a new Trump protest symbol made its inaugural appearance this week in London. The Trump farting robot sits atop his golden throne (a golden toilet) with a smartphone in his tiny hand. It emits farting noises and the mantra “no collusion.”

I favor the realism school of art, therefore I would have filled the toilet bowl with real excrement, and given Trump’s penchant for golden showers I would have poured urine all over the work of art. But at least the creator, Don Lessem, kept things real my making his penis only three millimeters.

I’ve grown in love with Trump Baby, and I don’t think the Farting Trump Robot will become quite as popular, but kudos to the Brits for being so inventive and creative.

Read More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-in-britain-thousands-of-brits-protest-presidents-visit-alongside-16-foot-farting-robot

Donald Trump Shocks the World With New Hairstyle

On Sunday Donald Trump attended a service for victims of the mass shooting in Virginia Beach sporting a new hairdo.

This is earth shattering news, first of all the evangelicals’ darling attends church only on Easter and Christmas, and secondly he never changes his hairstyle.

Trump’s urine-colored weird hairstyle is his trademark, and he’s never been known to deviate from his peculiar look.

Trump arrived at the church straight from his real place of worship, the golf course, wearing a baseball cap, and some argue that Trump wasn’t trying out a new look, and that he was simply suffering from a case of “hat hair.”

By the time Trump landed in London on Monday he had returned to his signature look that we hate so much.

With his slicked back hair Trump looked normal, we’re talking used car salesman normal, televangelist normal, or creepy old dude trying to look normal,  but somewhat normal nevertheless.

I guess it really doesn’t matter what hairstyle he dons, his mouth still looks like a sphincter, his complexion is still orange, and he still has two or three chins, depending on how many burgers he eats on a given day.

Pic of Trump’s new hairdo:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hairstylists-react-to-donald-trumps-slick-american-psycho-hair?ref=scroll

It’s in White Evangelicals’ DNA to Worship Donald Trump

It’s axiomatic that white evangelicals worship Donald Trump, but let’s examine why this is the case:

White evangelical ministries, for the most part, aren’t hierarchical organizations like the Catholic Church where the local parish priest has to answer to his archbishop, cardinal and of course the infallible pope. Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar aren’t restrained from their wildest impulses by a board of deacons, they answer only to themselves. They justify their most outlandish pontifications, by claiming that the Almighty is speaking through them.

It’s in white evangelicals’ DNA to worship an authoritarian figure like Trump, who disparages the coequal Judiciary and Congress and pretty much does damn well as he pleases.

Evangelical leaders aren’t challenged by their followers because they preach the inspired an infallible Word of God, never mind that Christianity is a Byzantium religion with thousands of denominations, each one with their own unique interpretation of scripture. Trump speaks with the authority of a televangelist, and his sycophants accept everything he says as the Gospel truth even though he’s a pathological liar.

Evangelicals have a binary world view: Christians and sinners. Likewise Trump supporters have a binary belief system: There’s them and then there’s everyone else: liberals, feminists, abortionists, homosexuals, globalists, climate change fanatics …

Evangelical ministers are prone to making crazy promises, “Give to my ministry and I will build the biggest cathedral, the largest university in the world”, all for the glory of God of course. “Give us your tithes and offerings and we will convert the heathen lands of China and Russia”! Trump supporters swallow the buffoon’s incredible claims like: I will build a beautiful 30-foot concrete wall from sea to shining sea.

Evangelical ministers strip their followers of their money and self-respect and in return provide them with a superficial faith that doesn’t sustain them in difficult times. Ditto Trump.

Racist Donald Trump Won’t Swap Harriet Tubman for Andrew Jackson on $20 Bill

The American dynasty was built by the English invaders on the slavery of Africans and the genocide of the indigenous population, and centuries later these two races still lag far behind the white ruling class.

For a short time during the Barack Obama administration we dreamed that we were living in a post-racial society, but the election of Donald Trump has crushed those fantasies and brought us back to reality.

Trump is loath to see even symbolic acts of racial progress, thus he directed his Treasury Secretary to postpone the unveiling of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill until after he leaves office.

The Tubman bill was an Obama administration initiative, and Trump is determined to undermine every initiative and law of the first African American president.

And let us not forget that Tubman would replace the notoriously racist Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, the same bastard responsible for the Indian Removal Act:

At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.

https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears

There is no way in hell that Andrew Jackson a vile racist would be replaced on the $20 bill by Harriet Tubman, a former slave, abolitionist and founder of the Underground Railroad on the watch of the blatantly racist Trump.

Anybody who still thinks Trump isn’t a racist is a liar or a fool.