Frankly it's very difficult to tell the full morons cccksuckers from the half morons, non-cccksuckers, sundry criminals and former corporate CEOs/sociopaths in the Trump septic tank. This is because he provides zero leadership and runs on chaos, confusion, micromanaging and very little sense. On his own Bolton is fully nuts, he wants to start a war with Iran...but I give him credit for taking a stand on shadow diplomacy and profiteering off policy.OBear073akaSMFan said:
SuperHawk he maybe but doesnt mean he does not put country before personal wealth so many of the moron's minions including staff and his paid Republican pipe cleaning congressmen who are wearing out their knee pads!
NYCGOBEARS said:
Don't underestimate the loathing that Bolton may have for Trump. Whatever he is, he's smart.
you're having a tough day. Niners winning, Rep in the WH. It's wearing on you, I get it. Your life will get better. But you must let it.bearister said:
At this point anyone that still supports tRump is either tRump University applicant stupid, a traitor or has a blackened heart.
GBear4Life said:you're having a tough day. Niners winning, Rep in the WH. It's wearing on you, I get it. Your life will get better. But you must let it.bearister said:
At this point anyone that still supports tRump is either tRump University applicant stupid, a traitor or has a blackened heart.
My life will feel immeasurably better when Trump is dead. (of natural causes)GBear4Life said:you're having a tough day. Niners winning, Rep in the WH. It's wearing on you, I get it. Your life will get better. But you must let it.bearister said:
At this point anyone that still supports tRump is either tRump University applicant stupid, a traitor or has a blackened heart.
Goldman Sachs takes bright young talent from America's best colleges and turns them into selfish, shallow, money grubbing yuppies willing to bend the rules who have a 50% chance of reconsidering their career choices when they turn 60 and begin to reconsider their lives.bearister said:
Matt Taibbi is always good for throwing a grenade into a discussion.
We're in a permanent coup
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/were-in-a-permanent-coup
Matt turned a couple of my favorite phrases ever in a piece about the financial collapse of 2008:
"The world's most powerful investment bank," wrote the journalist Matt Taibbi about Goldman Sachs, "is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
I guess you're what Cal Strong refers to being "weak". Be less weak, more like Cal, which is strong.concordtom said:My life will feel immeasurably better when Trump is dead. (of natural causes)GBear4Life said:you're having a tough day. Niners winning, Rep in the WH. It's wearing on you, I get it. Your life will get better. But you must let it.bearister said:
At this point anyone that still supports tRump is either tRump University applicant stupid, a traitor or has a blackened heart.
You remain to kind. Natural causes is not quick enough. The republicans though have criticize our withdraw from turkey..still have no backbone to bring the hammer to the Moron. I'm in favor of death by any means. He is deserving of it!concordtom said:GBear4Life said:bearister said:
My life will feel immeasurably better when Trump is dead. (of natural causes)
Merely losing his life would not satisfy me, I admit. I want him to be either removed from office or voted out in disgrace.OBear073akaSMFan said:You remain to kind. Natural causes is not quick enough. The republicans though have criticize our withdraw from turkey..still have no backbone to bring the hammer to the Moron. I'm in favor of death by any means. He is deserving of it!concordtom said:GBear4Life said:bearister said:
My life will feel immeasurably better when Trump is dead. (of natural causes)
Modern American Christianity (as do many religions throughout history) undergird the political apparatus and social norms to maintain power and control by the elite in a given society. The "faiths" like Evangelicalism is an indoctrinating brew of culture, class, and cultism that is a training ground for blind obedience. It not only fosters, it encourages and rewards, ignorance and intolerance.B.A. Bearacus said:
A significant portion of Trump's Republican supporters are open about their belief in his infallibility: 42 percent of Republicans said there is virtually nothing the president could do to lose their approval. Among Republicans who cited Fox News as their primary news source, this number was even higher, at 55 percent. And Trump's most steadfast supporters are also most likely to condone his behavior: Nearly two-thirds of white evangelicals said Trump has not hurt the dignity of the presidency. By contrast, majorities of all other religious groups said Trump has damaged the image of the office... These numbers reinforce the idea that some of Trump's supporters have come to see American politics as an all-out war.
Funny you should write about Christianity and Trump as I was traveling home I happen to meet a woman who was headed back top Arizona who lamented that Californians were ruining her state with their left wing ideals. She didn't appreciate the changing of her state from red to purple. I asked her where she went to school and she replied Tennessee. I said I went to Cal and that we had played Tennessee in football. She proceeded to tell me that the people of Cal were angry at the Tennessee fans for praying prior to the game. I said that I doubted that her story was true, but she continued to voice her displeasure. She said she was an evangelical and that God should rule all and government should be run with that in mind. The conversation got more bizarre as she said she was a Trump supporter and would vote for Joe Arpaio, who is running for Senate. By the end of the conversation I could only shake my head and think that this woman was drinking the kool aid and there was nothing except for Fox News that would ever change her beliefs.blungld said:Modern American Christianity (as do many religions throughout history) undergird the political apparatus and social norms to maintain power and control by the elite in a given society. The "faiths" like Evangelicalism is an indoctrinating brew of culture, class, and cultism that is a training ground for blind obedience. It not only fosters, it encourages and rewards, ignorance and intolerance.B.A. Bearacus said:
A significant portion of Trump's Republican supporters are open about their belief in his infallibility: 42 percent of Republicans said there is virtually nothing the president could do to lose their approval. Among Republicans who cited Fox News as their primary news source, this number was even higher, at 55 percent. And Trump's most steadfast supporters are also most likely to condone his behavior: Nearly two-thirds of white evangelicals said Trump has not hurt the dignity of the presidency. By contrast, majorities of all other religious groups said Trump has damaged the image of the office... These numbers reinforce the idea that some of Trump's supporters have come to see American politics as an all-out war.
You don't get Trump, and you don't get income inequality, inaction on Climate Change, anti-intellectualism, and FOX news fervor without the way Christianity has evolved in this country and been cynically manipulated by the GOP. There is no honest way you get from the teachings of Jesus to the stamp of approval on the sins of capitalism, and the monolithic voting on abortion and marriage equality (etc) without the intentional, anger-stoking, simplistic propaganda of false faith that is all cover for maintaining a voting base and getting self-serving economic measures out of the masses against their own interest.
It's a farce. It's nothing short of evil.
And all outrage should be directed at the people willing to use God and sincere faith against the less informed, and not at the critics who point out the malfeasance and moral bankruptcy.
It's only personal responsibility when it is someone poor, of color, or who could damage someone who is rich and white. Corporate executives are not responsible for their policy or company actions, just the profits. GOP is not responsible for all the harm they have brought to the country, just the tax cuts for the rich. Trump is not responsible for a single thing he does, but takes all credit for things he literally had no hand in.sycasey said:
When did conservatives stop believing in personal responsibility?
