The Scoldening, Continued: Left Has Its First Second-Term #Resistance Hero, and Surprise! It's a Screechy Lesbian.

I actually don't know if she's a lesbian. She is "lesbian-coded," as the kids say. She looks like a frail genderless Fred Gwynne. I don't know whether I'm supposed to be Vincent Gallo or Vincent Callo with this bitchy "bishop."

Who could have predicted this inevitable betrayal by a drab neurotic leftwing Karen?

President Trump on Wednesday tore into the "nasty" Democratic bishop who lectured him at the National Prayer Service -- as the church leader confirmed she was sending him a political message.
Trump's takedown came after having to sit through Tuesday's service in which the Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde -- the Episcopal bishop of DC -- turned it into a rant about illegal migrants, refugees and the LGBT community.
"The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater," the president wrote on his Truth Social account just after midnight.
"She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way," he said -- saying she did so in a "nasty" tone that was "not compelling or smart."
He singled out the way that the bishop called on him to "have mercy" on immigrant families "whose children fear that their parents will be taken away."
"She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people," Trump wrote.

This Dedicated Servant of Self spared no time in booking herself on to #Resistance propaganda channels.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: The liberal activist bishop who told Trump to show "mercy" to LGBT kids, says she called out the president because it was her responsibility to "counter" him.
Your responsibility is not to turn a sermon into a political debate.
Bishop Mariann Budde joined CNN to double down on her comments from earlier today.
"[LGBT kids and illegals] have been portrayed all throughout the political campaign in the harshest of lights... I wanted to counter..."

“I was looking at the President because I was speaking directly to him.”

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde tells @ErinBurnett about her plea to President Trump pic.twitter.com/1BAi8bx7gk
— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) January 22, 2025

Yesterday, I joked that Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's sermon at the National Prayer Service was more like a screed you'd see on The View. So fittingly enough, today Bishop Budde literally went onto The View, where she told Joy Behar that her moralizing lecture in support of open… https://t.co/l2HctGi8VI pic.twitter.com/OlW45C1DRA
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 22, 2025

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
Her message is about unity which is why she's appearing on the most divisive tv show in the country.

JUST IN: Bishop Mariann Budde continues her media tour, this time on The View, says Trump is the one who is politicizing her political speech.

Remarkable.

Question: "Do you think your message is being misconstrued and politicized?"

Budde: "Oh, well, sure. Yeah. Um, but I think… pic.twitter.com/59layiIYHM
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 22, 2025

Remember when James Carville said the Democrat Party now seemed to be nothing but scolding, preachy women?

Eric Abbenante
@EricAbbenante
James Carville does not back down when confronted about his comments that Democrat messaging is 'too feminine':
Carville: "If you start speaking like NPR, you're going to lose votes. I just don't like the term communities of color.
I live in New Orleans. They got three guys on the street corner. 'Hey fellas how are things in the communities of color today?' They said 'What is this son of a bitch talking about? Jive ass bastard out of here.'"
"We started on this coded language and we let it get away from us."
"Guess where our young male number is going? In the toilet. Because Democrat messaging is too feminine. It just is."
Jonathan Capehart asks Carville about his '"Democratic culture has too many preachy females. Too much 'Don't eat Hamburgers, don't watch football, wear a condom'. Man, shit, leave me alone."

James Carville accurately points out the Democrat party's 'preachy female' problem:
"Democratic culture has too many preachy females. Too much 'Don't eat Hamburgers, don't watch football, wear a condom'. Man, shit, leave me alone."

This is why James married a Republican. pic.twitter.com/I4u8n5t9bn
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) June 13, 2024

Well, as someone said on X: They told Carville to shut up when he said that the Democrat Party's messaging is dominated by "preachy females," but the first well-televised #ResistanceHeroine of Trump's second term is a literal female preacher.

I wish I could find who said that. But I've searched for about 20 minutes and that's all the time I have.

The left is going to see that the tactic it has relied on since 2008 -- just shrieking at everyone to cow them into compliance -- is now hated by a supermajority of the public and will continue backfiring.

Same outlet. Less than 8 years apart.

The seismic, ongoing ideological shift among young men is going to be one of the single most important political trends of the next decade—and has the potential to fundamentally remake American politics. pic.twitter.com/UdE1gvjptu
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 21, 2025

It was a lot of fun to watch young men vote for Trump, because I got to see it unfold firsthand. I know a lot of male Zoomers, just by virtue of the fact that I happen to be one myself.

People in our line of work spend a lot of time dissecting and debating voting trends, but… pic.twitter.com/UIjwc3Os67
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) November 23, 2024

We're not afraid of you screechy, staticky bitches any longer.

Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
The patriot is not interested in the approval of communists.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 She is married to a man and has two children. Nevertheless....

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:31 PM (Jfw7U)

2 Skreeeee!

Posted by: Auspex at January 22, 2025 03:31 PM (j4U/Z)

3 Pictures going around the web of her 6 bedroom, 5 1/2 bath home in a nice DC neighborhood reveal that it's good to be the bishop!

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (Ft5W9)

4 >>>1 She is married to a man and has two children. Nevertheless....

is he a man? Or a "man"?

#IQuestionTheGender

Posted by: ace at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (KRtlO)

5 Frankly I think it was planned.

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (KQk9m)

6 So, which Senate seat does she get appointed to?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

7 My two 21 year old Grandsons are Trumpers.. My 18 year old Granddaughter is a no...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (VE6XX)

8 does she have a bishopric?

Posted by: ace at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (KRtlO)

9 the Honorable Herman Munster was the best part if that movie

Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (1Idb6)

10 Not first but I feel sure Edgar is a lesbian as well as demonic.

I am glad it did this from the pulpit to raise this issue up with her rainbow flag. This is what churches like this asked for when they allowed them to get a foothold.

So just imagine what the children are taught.

I think this demonic spite from the pulpit is going to backfire like a flatulent faggot.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (gi+MR)

11 Marianne Elmer Fudd?

Posted by: XTC at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (sm6Pk)

12 Is a jive a** bastard adjacent to a jive turkey?

Posted by: Piper at January 22, 2025 03:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

13 *of

Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 22, 2025 03:34 PM (1Idb6)

14 Please stop insulting women by calling it a woman

Its not a woman

I dont know what it is, but Im sure some of the DNA it retains comes from the Ents of Middle Earth

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 03:34 PM (HYKHz)

15 >>>2 Is a jive a** bastard adjacent to a jive turkey?

I dunno. The former sounds worse.

Posted by: ace at January 22, 2025 03:34 PM (KRtlO)

16 Married doesn't mean straight , all I know is that dike can play!
Rip Thorn

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (KQk9m)

17 >>>9 the Honorable Herman Munster was the best part if that movie

GAY!

Posted by: Senor Chang at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

18 She is married to a man and has two children. Nevertheless....

**********************

This just goes to show that women have never been the source of all that ails us

It's been simps and soys and all the gay boys

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (HYKHz)

19 Lots of lesbians and homosexuals are married with kids… now as to defining “ marriage”….

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (PCK5/)

20 Looking at the pics in the NY Post link -- she has to read her sermon from a tablet? Really? As I say this, one of the Catholic priests assigned to my church does it from his cell phone. Gospel and then his homily. In both cases, it infuriates me to no end.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (N39Ws)

21 People are just catching up. It's some years ago I heard that the way to rebel against your parents was to smoke cigars and vote Republican.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (1bNHn)

22 Not lesbian but a Karen

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (VE6XX)

23 And now the "norm" that all Presidents attend a "prayer service" at this Cathedral in which Democrat Presidents are praised and Republican Presidents are publicly lambasted for the MSNBC audience will be "broken" by Trump to the wailing of the usual hysterical women like Bill Kristol.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (ssz2a)

24 Like I was saying yesterday, this was going to become a big news story.

I suspect this was because Trumps team didn't have the foresight to vet this woman and didn't find a way to get a different church, different preacher, or to get her to change her sermon.

BUT maybe this is Trumps team playing 3D chess.

Let's hope so.

Either way, I'm sure it will blow over.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (uCjyK)

25 Bitch fell out of the ugly tree and hit every damn branch on the way down.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (2UnvF)

26 Simps and soys and all the gay boys and the men who allow them to rule the country.

So yeah...it's the men's fault.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Jfw7U)

27 This is what churches like this asked for when they allowed them to get a foothold.
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1 Timothy 2:12
New International Version
12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;

Why set an alarm, struggle to get the kids ready, and all of the other things that are part of going to church if you're not really into what the Bible says?

Posted by: Crusader at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (azSra)

28 hectoring is BAD you guys!

...but they can't stop doing it

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Pv3Rg)

29 Absolutely, Donna.
Karen supreme.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Jfw7U)

30 >>>She looks like a frail genderless Fred Gwynne.

--

Damn, ace, your Celebrity Doppelganger app is lit! Is it available on Google Play?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (wzAuc)

31
I suspect this was because Trumps team didn't have the foresight to vet this woman and didn't find a way to get a different church, different preacher, or to get her to change her sermon.

The Inaugural events were done by the Senate which was under the Dems... Blame them

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (VE6XX)

32 Another below-the-surface factor is the rivalry between northern and southern California. Northern Calif holds themselves superior to So Cal in all things. Better schools, more water, more history, etc.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (QGaXH)
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In the real Northern California, we considered San Francisco part of Southern California.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (6K6Eu)

33 19 Lots of lesbians and homosexuals are married with kids… now as to defining “ marriage”….
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (PCK5/)

I know of a gay uncle, married with children, who recognized his gayness and came out of the closet when they were young adults. To live with his lover man who had done the same.

I think in this case their wives were beards. I don't know what the male term is if the wife bishop is a lesbian lover.

Maybe a "moustache."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (gi+MR)

34 He looked ... like a man.

Posted by: Ms. Swan at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (aD39U)

35 I didn't watch the video of her sermon. I think-from the comments it was really inappropriate and rude, but since Amy Klobachar-D (sp) apparently arranged many inauguration events I am not surprised. Didn't they have a prayer thing at an Episcopal Church for Biden?. Not surprised she went on "The View" either. Jesus clearly endorses all left wing politics, don't you know/sarc/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (MQJVv)

36 My son is Trump positive, as are all his friends (except one guy who they like so much, they tolerate his Harris vote)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (dj34x)

37 1 She is married to a man and has two children. Nevertheless....
Posted by: lizabth

Looks like a quare, talks like a quare, acts like a quare...

I'm putting her down as "quare."

Posted by: Auspex at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (j4U/Z)

38

Bearded tranny pron video maker, "Buck Angel," is doing a livestream right now, tearing apart the woke fake "bishop's" gaslighting & fearmongering (her words).

Yeah, so, for those who don't know, and it's best you don't, "Buck Angel" is an older woman who is a tranny and made herself look like a mini biker dude, tattoos, beard, muscles, etc. And she does pron in which she has sex with other freaks.

So, when she pulls her pants down, she's got a pussy. But everything else, yeah, she's all "man."

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (RDFmy)

39 24 Like I was saying yesterday, this was going to become a big news story.

I suspect this was because Trumps team didn't have the foresight to vet this woman and didn't find a way to get a different church, different preacher, or to get her to change her sermon.

BUT maybe this is Trumps team playing 3D chess.

Let's hope so.

Either way, I'm sure it will blow over.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (uCjyK)

========

Democrats lost because their messaging was like this woman.

Public displays that Democrats are refusing to listen to the voters and continue to be screechy and unbearable are not bad for Trump.

Also, this is inside the Beltway news that does not reach those not plugged in. It's background noise like 99% of what happens in DC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

40 21 People are just catching up. It's some years ago I heard that the way to rebel against your parents was to smoke cigars and vote Republican.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (1bNHn)

Heh. If only we had any TV executives around with a pair of gonads. An "All In The Family" reboot.

Rob Reiner sitting in a shitty old recliner angrily reading Reddit out loud to his family, and his MAGA zoomer kid always says in reply, "Shut up, Meathead."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 03:39 PM (+iIV1)

41 9 the Honorable Herman Munster was the best part if that movie
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He was good - very good - but Morrisa Tomei stole the show.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)

42 I don't know what the male term is if the wife bishop is a lesbian lover.

Maybe a "moustache."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM

I'm going with "merkin".

Posted by: Bert G at January 22, 2025 03:39 PM (VARTN)

43 Real Christian churches don't have women preachers.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 22, 2025 03:39 PM (pohLc)

44 Is this “church” tax-exempt? Don’t we have a whole bunch of new IRS agents?

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at January 22, 2025 03:39 PM (QRV42)

45 Per Jack Straw, her son worked with Jack Smith at ICC.

Total set-up progressive theatre.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (Hkcdp)

46 Mexican word of the day- Bishop.

"Will somebody shut this bishop?"

Bishop.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom ! Kid at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (hirWM)

47 I'm so glad all men are straight arrow Biblical preachers./sarc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (MQJVv)

48 show "mercy" to LGBT kids

----

And by "mercy", they mean telling mentally ill kids that all their problems are because they were "born into the wrong body" and rushing them into life-altering medications and surgeries instead of getting them help for their underlying mental health issues.

Along with pressuring effeminate gay dudes and butch lesbians into identifying as trans.

Oh, and pressuring lesbians into sucking cock if the attached incel creep identifies as a woman.

Wow. Much mercy. Very compassion.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (jleHU)

49 The old cliché was "kid from conservative family goes off to college and becomes a liberal." We're witnessing a total inversion of that dynamic.

WTF??? - Alex P. Keaton

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (Aqu9a)

50 Dear Leftists:
The thing about relying so much on Daddy Government to do everything you want is some day he's "just gonna go out to get some cigarettes real quick."
I'm sure he'll be back soon.
/s/ Reality

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (I9fAe)

51 Church's tax exempt status questionable as of yesterday.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)

52 In Divinity school, or wherever this crazy beeyotch trained, don't they have lessons in rhetoric? Pastors really should be more skilled in preaching to people.

Posted by: fozzy at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (7PM4P)

53 I am also pretty confident the probably gay bishop is a vegan based on her strange eyeballs lacking an essential vitamin or mineral. Probably lives on lettuce and various other things I don't wish to discuss from my throne.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (gi+MR)

54 I didn't watch the video of her sermon. I think-from the comments it was really inappropriate and rude, but since Amy Klobachar-D (sp) apparently arranged many inauguration events I am not surprised. Didn't they have a prayer thing at an Episcopal Church for Biden?. Not surprised she went on "The View" either. Jesus clearly endorses all left wing politics, don't you know/sarc/
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (MQJVv)
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Fen, she used that self-righteous tone I dislike so much, since it begins with the implication "I am moral and right, and you need improvement".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (dj34x)

55 Attacking someone verbally in a Church service wasn't very Christian of her was it...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (VE6XX)

56 Sounds like a Cultural Marxists Church.

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (fwDg9)

57
She is married to a man and has two children. Nevertheless....
Posted by: lizabth

Yeah, probably not a "man." Or she's a man. One or the other. There's No Way that dyke is in a normal relationship.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (RDFmy)

58 She is married to a man and has two children.
_____

Did she name one of the kids Edgar after her middle name?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (fs1hN)

59 Is the reverend single?

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (0xo8i)

60 O.K. Once again, bowing out from this thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (MQJVv)

61
So do we get a reverse All In the Family, where the Archie character is some moralizing lefty, and Meathead is a based MAGA type?

Well Archie wouldn't be male, but a Karen type. Her husband, if he was still around would be the dingbat Edith type.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

62 The Inaugural events were done by the Senate which was under the Dems... Blame them
Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (VE6XX)

Sigh.

He's the President. He can say "I'm skipping the whole thing" if he wants to.

Let me put it another way: do you think Obama's team would have allowed him to be sermoned at by some bible thumping southern baptist on TV in front of the entire country?

Of course not. They would have worked behind the scenes to make sure that didn't happen.

So Trump's team either didn't know this was coming and was incompetent, OR they knew this was coming and decided, for whatever reason, that it was either neutral or good to do.

If Trump's team is incompetent, it doesn't portend well to the next 4 years.

If this was planned for some reason, then fine. In the grand scheme of things, this is a nothingburger.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

63 I'm Rick James, bishop.

Posted by: Rick James at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (JdxE1)

64 Honestly, I don't think Trump's team is to blame here. This was an historical event of long standing. Who was to know this gal would have a little pulpit-fuss.

Just ignore the harridan, and she will go away.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (Jfw7U)

65 I have a pretty good rule of thumb when it comes to how the children of illegal immigrants should be handled. I recall my biblical readings and think to myself:

"Now, what would Abraham do in a situation like this?"

Posted by: Orson at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (dIske)

66 In Divinity school, or wherever this crazy beeyotch trained, don't they have lessons in rhetoric? Pastors really should be more skilled in preaching to people.
Posted by: fozzy at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (7PM4P)
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she's Episcopalian. They teach smug.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (dj34x)

67 Join us this Sunday for our bible class entitled "Mary, Jesus and Luke, A Biblical Throuple" followed by the All-NAMBLA Choir singing a litany of show tunes for your enjoyment before we celebrate in marriage Mary and Sue Klumpbutt from our LGQTBZ bridge club. Bring the kids and receive a free Bullet vibrator for you or a loved one! Look for our rainbow flags off the Interstate on the frontage road.

Posted by: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, LGQTBABC Advocate and democrat shill at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (R/m4+)

68 Not a lot of repentance in her church I'll bet.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (aD39U)

69 Bearded tranny pron video maker, "Buck Angel," is doing a livestream right now, tearing apart the woke fake "bishop's" gaslighting & fearmongering (her words).

Yeah, so, for those who don't know, and it's best you don't, "Buck Angel" is an older woman who is a tranny and made herself look like a mini biker dude, tattoos, beard, muscles, etc. And she does pron in which she has sex with other freaks.

So, when she pulls her pants down, she's got a pussy. But everything else, yeah, she's all "man."
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (RDFmy)

Buck Adams >> Buck Angel

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Aqu9a)

70 PScreach!

Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (1iy5Z)

71 Americans being murdered by illegals is simply the cost of cheap lawn care, chicken processing plants being run on profitable lines by multinational corporations, and affordable maid/child care providers.

am I doing this right?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (D7oie)

72 She looks like a frail genderless Fred Gwynne.

The two what?

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

73 Damn.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (0xo8i)

74 Soon.

Posted by: Millstone at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (aD39U)

75 No...she is married to an actual man. Honestly people...you don't NEED to be homosexual to act this way.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Jfw7U)

76 aw why fen?

I have short hair (I get the Italian fro so it's better to keep it clipped. it only grows outwards)

I dress uber lib and have all the "signs"

who cares? I sure don't!

I can still make fun of this pasty hectoring karen

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Pv3Rg)

77 >>>Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter
The patriot is not interested in the approval of communists.

Nice!

Posted by: m at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (VnUSN)

78 He's the President. He can say "I'm skipping the whole thing" if he wants to.

Seriously ? I'm not gonna blame Trump for this one.. You go right ahead and do it...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (VE6XX)

79 Yvonne DeCarlo was hot.
Grand Priestess Edgar Budde not so much.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (/U5Yz)

80 I suspect this was because Trumps team didn't have the foresight to vet this woman and didn't find a way to get a different church, different preacher, or to get her to change her sermon.

From what I read it's a ceremonial thing the President is expected to attend, kind of like the White House Correspondent's Dinner. And I think it will suffer that same fate now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (2ocoG)

81 Old Libs: Who cares what clergy think! Close the churches!

New Libs: Listen to the clergy going after Trump!

Posted by: Frank Kennedy at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (+oR7L)

82 How many illegals has Budde welcomed into her home?

I bet the number is zilch, nada, none.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (vBmjk)

83 So who exactly was responsible for booking speakers at the Nat'l Prayer Breakfast or whatever that was

because that person needs to be fired

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (AOsQT)

84 What a freaking snowflake. Both Trump and his followers who are contorting themselves in horror over a bishop asking for mercy for children...like he was assaulted or something.

It's the definition for "stochastic terrorism". "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"

You'll notice that gutless bag of shit didn't have the courage to say that shit to her face when he had the chance. He waited to spew his vomit on his social media, like the lily-livered coward that he is. Now, he'll go hide behind the thugs he just pardoned

he had someone else fire the Female Coast Guard 4 Star Admiral who has done exemplary job. Trump is a woman abuser in absentia.

"A nasty woman." A nasty Bishop. sums up how Trump feels about women in general. I don't think I've ever heard him use it for a man.

MAGA turns on Christianity. Attacks the words of Jesus Christ. Who among the monied evangelicals will join him in the attack ?

Video of that event is amazing. Camera was on The Family as it reacted to the Bishop's words. Lots of smirks and eye rolling. But if looks could kill, Melaria murdered the Bishop. Have never seen anyone look so mean.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (ycI94)

85 I would do her...........

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (c1UUT)

86 She's a man!

At least that's what I thought when I first saw her photo from afar.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (d9fT1)

87 I'm going with "merkin".
Posted by: Bert G at January 22, 2025 03:39 PM (VARTN)

Oddly, and possibly sadly, I know what this is.

Read today she lives in a $2million home with six bedrooms. Surely she can house a few trans illegals! Otherwise a hypocrite in the pulpit!

Throws tomatoes! And rutabagas! Rotten Hillary cabbages!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (gi+MR)

88 Seriously, she looks like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that got thrown.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (0xo8i)

89 Does xhe run the church by the Whitehouse? The one that burned?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (aD39U)

90 No one believes she’s authentically religious. But we’re required to accept the misrepresentation.

Posted by: 13times at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (9iRcG)

91
Trump should have ignored this old beyotch. By demanding an apology, he gave her power.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (+oR7L)

92 84 he had someone else fire the Female Coast Guard 4 Star Admiral who has done exemplary job. Trump is a woman abuser in absentia.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (ycI94)

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Examples, please!

How was the Coast Guard woman great at her job?

Thanks!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

93 Wasn't this the National Cathedral? They operate St. Albans School, I believe, from which politicians like Al Gore sprout.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (dj34x)

94 “I was looking at the President because I was speaking directly to him.”

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde tells @ErinBurnett
about her plea to President Trump

These people are discomfited because the top position in their pecking order is taken, and they don't think that's fair. People should HAVE to listen to them, dammit!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (xCA6C)

95 78 He's the President. He can say "I'm skipping the whole thing" if he wants to.

Seriously ? I'm not gonna blame Trump for this one.. You go right ahead and do it...

oh you guys didn't watch it live!

she was one of the speakers. The others were fine. (if boring)

it was a prayer breakfast. only this ol' boomer chick went goofy. and btw the eye rolls alone were worth it. Usha is quite good with the eye roll too!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

96 Democrats lost because their messaging was like this woman.

Public displays that Democrats are refusing to listen to the voters and continue to be screechy and unbearable are not bad for Trump.

Also, this is inside the Beltway news that does not reach those not plugged in. It's background noise like 99% of what happens in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

If there was a strategy behind it, fine.

My concern is that in 2016, Trump had no strategy and squandered a lot of what could have been a huge opportunity on nonsense.

He claims to have learned from that and surrounded himself by better people.

If that's the case, and those better people weren't fully aware of what this lady was going to say before she said it, that heavily hints to me that this Trump term will be a re-run of last one since this is such an easily avoidable situation.

Obviously I have no inside information, and am just reading tea leaves here.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (uCjyK)

97 Edgar? Not even men have been named Edgar since the 19th century

Posted by: Josephistan at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (ixyiv)

98 Bishop Mariann Budde tells "The View": Attacking Trump during prayer service was about "unity"

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (RHGPo)

99 If you have any history with the Episcopal Church, you know they routinely attack people (like us) this way. It's honestly not so far out as you imagine.

And no...they don't really do repentance personally and seriously, but they sure tell those who don't agree with them to repent. Like Trump. This is SOP for the Episcopalians.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Jfw7U)

100 Attacking someone verbally in a Church service wasn't very Christian of her was it...
Posted by: It's me donna

Depends on how much they deserve it, and how adversely the behavior would affect the congregation if it were not addressed.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (hB7mE)

101 I have a different view: this is great, yuge, like the bestest thing ever.

At a time when Trump and MAGA are becoming cool -- or at least cooler -- the new Great Resister is a ... creepy, scoldy, ugly, harpy Lezbitch.

Can we have asked for a better opponent than this weirdo? "Hey all you on the fence, do you want to stand with us cool kids with the pretty wives and tall sons and positive, optimistic view of the future? Or do you want to stand with this mutant librarian screeching about cutting off your kids' balls?"

Very easy sell, guys.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

102 How many illegals in her house? Just enough to keep the gardening done and the house sparking clean.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Jfw7U)

103 I don't know why Trump did not select Franklin Graham to do the Prayer Session ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Oal3t)

104
I watched that frail woman and I actually felt sorry for her. She struck me as misled, well-intentioned, confused, abused etc. Someone whom Hillary bullied and mean-girled as a kid.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (T3es0)

105 Pictures going around the web of her 6 bedroom, 5 1/2 bath home in a nice DC neighborhood reveal that it's good to be the bishop!

==

Very lucrative to be a Democrat bishop!

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (g47mK)

106 She oversees a denomination that is quickly emptying out. Starting as early as WWI America's mainstream Protestant denominations embraced a worldly relativism and postmodernism that begs the question, why bother going to church at all? At the same time, those denominations enjoyed a massive increase in foundational wealth brought on by the postwar economic boom that relieved them from any reliance on tithing members.

I mean people can and do embrace woke and LBGTQvomit activism without ever stepping foot in the National Cathedral, which begs a certain question for the Bishop. I'll let the two Bobs ask it.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (GD2xa)

107 In the real Northern California, we considered San Francisco part of Southern California.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Yeah, people don't realize how much of the state is north of San Fran. San Fran is actually part of the midsection of the state.

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

108 President Don Black would not attend such an event

nor the WHCA dinner

for the Thanksgiving turkey stunt, he would chop of the turkey's head and hand the rest to the White House chef

The SOTU would be a PDF in email

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (AOsQT)

109 How was the Coast Guard woman great at her job?
____

Her job was to DEI the CG. She probably did an exemplary job.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (fs1hN)

110 65 I have a pretty good rule of thumb when it comes to how the children of illegal immigrants should be handled. I recall my biblical readings and think to myself:

"Now, what would Abraham do in a situation like this?"
Posted by: Orson at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (dIske)

Send Sherman out to raze their towns and ammo magazines.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (+iIV1)

111 Edgar Cayce > Edgar Budde

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (vBmjk)

112 103 I don't know why Trump did not select Franklin Graham to do the Prayer Session ????

he wasn't in that position. he was a guest. of course the left does not know how to properly host/run an event.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (Pv3Rg)

113 "Dad, I think I'm a girl!"

The correct answer is :

"Fuck You, son, no you aren't, now go lift some weights or I'll punch you."

Posted by: XTC at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (sm6Pk)

114 96 He claims to have learned from that and surrounded himself by better people.

If that's the case, and those better people weren't fully aware of what this lady was going to say before she said it, that heavily hints to me that this Trump term will be a re-run of last one since this is such an easily avoidable situation.

Obviously I have no inside information, and am just reading tea leaves here.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (uCjyK)

========

Again, this is happening at the same time that Hegseth got confirmed, Holman is starting mass deportation operations, the DOJ is firing bureaucrats, Trump is firing military officials, and Trump rescinded every government executive initiative for DEI and affirmative action.

There's, "This doesn't look good." And then there's "I'm ignoring everything else that's happening right now to focus on this one, unimportant event that has no effect on policy as a sign that all is lost."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

115 Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter

The patriot is not interested in the approval of communists.

----------------

Communists, Traitors ... Toh-May-Tow, Tah-Mah-Tow.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (gBrUT)

116 Did I get double willowed? Was anything I wrote worth posting once let alone again? No? Well here it is anyway:

Meagain wasn't doing something personal, she was the attack dog that was going to take down Trump on behalf of her corporate GOPe masters at the time. And she seemed enthusiastic about it.

She then courted the Megaleft and NBC and then predictably no one wanted her so she's back to throw popcorn to the original simps.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (HjfEo)

117 He's the President. He can say "I'm skipping the whole thing" if he wants to.

Seriously ? I'm not gonna blame Trump for this one.. You go right ahead and do it...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (VE6XX)

I tried that with broccoli. No traction. Wasn't prudent. Thousand points of light.

Posted by: Zombie George HW Bush at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (Aqu9a)

118 A nasty woman." A nasty Bishop. sums up how Trump feels about women in general. I don't think I've ever heard him use it for a man.
***

He clearly hasn't been paying attention

Posted by: LASue at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (xv6Ce)

119 She still looks damn good though. And her interview with Kirsten Powers remains a classic.

I remember that not only did my wife call me to tell me she saw it live but it actually got headlined here shortly thereafter. Imagine - a routine daytime FNC interview was such a bone breaker, it went immediately "viral", practically before there was such a thing.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (HjfEo)

120 I watched that frail woman and I actually felt sorry for her.

==

I feel so sorry for her , that I am willing to take her 6 bedroom 5.5 bath house in DC to make her feel closer to Jesus.

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (g47mK)

121 86 She's a man!

At least that's what I thought when I first saw her photo from afar.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (d9fT1)

Stephen King's fraternal twin. They live in peace with 40 stray cats who refuse to use litterboxes. The smell will knock you dead before they open the door. In Vermont. Drive old smelly Prius. Scold anyone they meet. Wear stinky cardigans with moth holes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (gi+MR)

122 Edgar? Not even men have been named Edgar since the 19th century
Posted by: Josephistan

One of the in-house attorneys I worked with in my last job had a son named Edgar.

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

123 Is this the thing where you give them clout by even talking about them?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (bss/y)

124 e's the President. He can say "I'm skipping the whole thing" if he wants to.

Seriously ? I'm not gonna blame Trump for this one.. You go right ahead and do it...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (VE6XX)

yeah its crazy to put any blame on Trump or his team for this.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (D6PGr)

125 91
Trump should have ignored this old beyotch. By demanding an apology, he gave her power.

Posted by: Frank Barone

Not really, no one that is not an AWFL will pay any attention to her girlboss whining. AWFL's already hate Trump anyway. No one who is a persuadeable vote in minority or young male communities, as Ace illustrated, gives a shit about an old lesbian hectoring someone.

I think even younger white women (especially non-college attendees) are getting tired of the whole AWFL agenda. Their lives get worse while the AWFLs prance around their Sabbat fires.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (ctrM5)

126 She oversees a denomination that is quickly emptying out.
____

US Episcopalians or UK Anglicans, who gives up the ghost first?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (fs1hN)

127 This is a pure distraction.

You are missing the main event.

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (RHGPo)

128 101 Can we have asked for a better opponent than this weirdo? "Hey all you on the fence, do you want to stand with us cool kids with the pretty wives and tall sons and positive, optimistic view of the future? Or do you want to stand with this mutant librarian screeching about cutting off your kids' balls?"

Very easy sell, guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Remember when the screechy haradrins were yelling at Hegseth and Hegseth then didn't lose a single Republican vote in his confirmation a few minutes ago?

The screeching doesn't even work on GOPe Senators.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

129 A chick named Edgar? Right. Adam's Apple?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (JdxE1)

130 Nasty is the original n-word

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (HjfEo)

131 Edgar Winter >> Edgar Cayce > Edgar Budde

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (/U5Yz)

132 Trump should have ignored this old beyotch. By demanding an apology, he gave her power.

Hard to do when she's all over the airwaves....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (VE6XX)

133 I still like how "compassion" in her view is trapping millions in low-paying menial jobs with no possibility of escape just so she doesn't have to pay too much for her latte.

And it compassion to allow millions of children to be sold into lives of sexual slavery in order to maintain that flow of constant downward pressure on wages.

She probably opened at least one sermon with a "stolen land" acknowledgment too.
'Cause it also compassionate to mouth nice, contrite words while expecting other to alleviate the poverty of the Reservation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (I9fAe)

134 @101. I agree. It's more hilarious than irritating.Last few screeches of this sort. Enjoy 'em...LOL!

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (Jfw7U)

135
Edgar? Not even men have been named Edgar since the 19th century
Posted by: Josephistan

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She's married to Mr. Budde, so Edgar might be her maiden name.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (T3es0)

136 "Now, what would Abraham do in a situation like this?"
Posted by: Orson at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (dIske)

Send Sherman out to raze their towns and ammo magazines.
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Snort.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (Wg6v7)

137 "Dad, I think I'm a girl!"

The correct answer is :

"Fuck You, son, no you aren't, now go lift some weights or I'll punch you."
Posted by: XTC

I mean, you could do some inquiry about why he thinks that, and then tell him that whoever gave him the idea was lying and shouldn't be trusted.

Y'know, actual useful parenting? but sure, go straight for the punching.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (hB7mE)

138 135
Edgar? Not even men have been named Edgar since the 19th century
Posted by: Josephistan

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Edgar Wright is one of the best filmmakers of his generation!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

139 In the real Northern California, we considered San Francisco part of Southern California.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Use of the word “hella” is the real boundary line. San Francisco is Northern California.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (p7RhN)

140 41 9 the Honorable Herman Munster was the best part if that movie
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He was good - very good - but Morrisa Tomei stole the show.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)

Some people thought that Tomei had no business winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but I defy anyone to remember her competition for the award. All famous actresses, but completely forgettable movies: Husbands and Wives, Enchanted April, Howard's End and Damage. My Cousin Vinny stands the test of time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (0TZUr)

141 Depends on how much they deserve it, and how adversely the behavior would affect the congregation if it were not addressed.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (hB7mE)

That is NOT how Paul said to deal with it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (pohLc)

142 Perhaps this woman should crack open a bible at some point and learn what it says.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (lTGtQ)

143 She oversees a denomination that is quickly emptying out. Starting as early as WWI America's mainstream Protestant denominations embraced a worldly relativism and postmodernism that begs the question, why bother going to church at all? At the same time, those denominations enjoyed a massive increase in foundational wealth brought on by the postwar economic boom that relieved them from any reliance on tithing members.

We just hired a new minister who was a seminarian at our church about 12 years ago. I heard from a number of people who said if it was a liberal preaching liberal bs from the pulpit they were leaving the church. Apparently, the discernment committee got the message, because the new guy is conservative. In fact, his ordination got delayed by the bishop because he wouldn't get with the liberal gay program back when the Episcopal church was cutting its own wrists over gay bishops.

My point is that we may have finally reached a turning point. Maybe, maybe not.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (xCA6C)

144 131 Edgar Winter >> Edgar Cayce > Edgar Budde
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (/U5Yz)

Dude.

Posted by: Edgar Allen Poe at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (bss/y)

145 Musk pouring cold water on the "Stargate" announcement. As soon I saw Sam Altman was involved, I new Musk wasn't going to like it.

Musk says they don't have the capital they're promising.

Posted by: WisRich at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (G0vdT)

146 Edgar Winter?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (JdxE1)

147
*shrugs*

The Episcopal Church. What did anyone expect?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (dxSpM)

148 @132 Very true. A shrug of the shoulders and a Trumpian smirk would have served well here.

Maybe with a smiling Vance-glance thrown in.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (Jfw7U)

149 >>>>>> I watched that frail woman and I actually felt sorry for her. She struck me as misled, well-intentioned, confused, abused etc. Someone whom Hillary bullied and mean-girled as a kid.

She’s the wolf.

Posted by: Little Red Riding Hood at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (9iRcG)

150 82 How many illegals has Budde welcomed into her home?

I bet the number is zilch, nada, none.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (vBmjk)

Au contraire, Anna! Once or twice she let the gardener use the half-bath attached to the garage.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (a/dOO)

151 The Episcopal Church has experienced fluctuations in membership over the years. Here are some key points regarding membership by year:

In 2009, the Episcopal Church had about 1.8 million baptized members.
By 2011, it was the 14th largest denomination in the United States, with an estimated 1.2 percent of the adult population or about 3 million people self-identifying as mainline Episcopalians.
In 2013, the church had 1,547,779 active members.
In 2019, the Episcopal Church reported 1,800,000 members.
In 2020, the church reported a decline, with 1,584,785 members, a drop of 61,000 members from the previous year.
By 2023, the number of active baptized members in the U.S. was 1,432,082.

The Episcopal Church has seen a steady decline in membership since the 1960s, with notable drops in recent years. You many now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (aD39U)

152 President Donald Trump began to fire career employees at the Justice Department on Wednesday, a move that signals his promise of purging the administrative state has begun.

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (RHGPo)

153 Edgar Cayce > Edgar Budde
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (vBmjk)

Edgar Cayce > Edgar-Bug >> Edgar Budde

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (Aqu9a)

154 Remember when James Carville said the Democrat Party now seemed to be nothing but scolding, preachy women?

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But enough about Don Lemon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (L/fGl)

155 104
I watched that frail woman and I actually felt sorry for her. She struck me as misled, well-intentioned, confused, abused etc. Someone whom Hillary bullied and mean-girled as a kid.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office
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Bullshit. She had voice and agenda and chose to do this for the lefty cause. Wouldn't have appeared on the View otherwise.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (ctrM5)

156 Again, this is happening at the same time that Hegseth got confirmed, Holman is starting mass deportation operations, the DOJ is firing bureaucrats, Trump is firing military officials, and Trump rescinded every government executive initiative for DEI and affirmative action.

There's, "This doesn't look good." And then there's "I'm ignoring everything else that's happening right now to focus on this one, unimportant event that has no effect on policy as a sign that all is lost."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

If they're adopting the Obama Stray Voltage plan, then I rescind all doubts. Have Elon march around frog stepping and harpy lesbos yelling at Trump if it's part of a strategy to get actual shit done.

I just hope it is part of a strategy. Time will tell.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (uCjyK)

157
I feel so sorry for her , that I am willing to take her 6 bedroom 5.5 bath house in DC to make her feel closer to Jesus.
Posted by: runner

==========

That does eat away at my sympathy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (T3es0)

158 Cultural Marxists don't have to be LGBQXYZ, just promoting it

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (fwDg9)

159 Yeah, this op as well as the “Elon is a Nazi” insta-scandals are a great reminder of how ridiculous biased and bad the MSM are.

That they could turn this on at noon on Monday is quite a sight after 4 years of hiding and lying about Biden’s health, and suppressing/censoring critics.

I don’t think they know how obvious they are, nor how everyone now mocks and ignores this crap.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (Hkcdp)

160 >>99 If you have any history with the Episcopal Church, you know they routinely attack people (like us) this way. It's honestly not so far out as you imagine.

And no...they don't really do repentance personally and seriously, but they sure tell those who don't agree with them to repent. Like Trump. This is SOP for the Episcopalians.
Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM

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^^^This has been the one-pager on Episcopalians since back when Methodists and Lutherans were conservative. Long time.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (wzAuc)

161 If you have any history with the Episcopal Church, you know they routinely attack people (like us) this way. It's honestly not so far out as you imagine. And no...they don't really do repentance personally and seriously, but they sure tell those who don't agree with them to repent. Like Trump. This is SOP for the Episcopalians. Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Jfw7U)

All true. She was preaching to her own choir.

Why is there a National Cathedral run by the Episcopal Church that hosts all these things? Seems to me that violates the Establishment Clause.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (r5tfK)

162 Just stop with all this. Quit having these public services.

Posted by: Easy at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (Qe178)

163
This is good. This is exactly what we want our enemies focusing on while President Trump cleans house.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (RDFmy)

164 Obviously I have no inside information, and am just reading tea leaves here.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (uCjyK)

"The black pill is the gayest thing in existence" - Raz0rfist, 2024.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (2ocoG)

165 I don't think hardly any Alpha males in college have been liberals except maybe those on the basketball or football teams as they are dominated ? influenced by Dem voters IYKWIM. I think that is why so many white NBA coaches are Dems.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (D6PGr)

166 If that's the case, and those better people weren't fully aware of what this lady was going to say before she said it, that heavily hints to me that this Trump term will be a re-run of last one since this is such an easily avoidable situation.

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Maybe Trump knew what was coming -- and wanted a national audience to witness the insufferable bitch embarrass herself.

I thought it was mistake for Trump to debate F. Joe early -- but my liberal friends who witnessed that debate were totally demoralized as a result.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (gBrUT)

167 This mutant's "husband" must be sick of her shit. She looks like she got two black eyes.

Posted by: FLanole at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (ZnrCl)

168 This "Bitchop" looks just like that titless harridan who was thrown off a flight for hassling some nice young man in a Trump shirt.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (wBaIH)

169 What has happened to the Episcopal church?
They have moved so far left.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (NpAcC)

170 Runner, are you certain she believes in Jesus?
Anyone know if she even mentioned him on Tuesday?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (Hkcdp)

171 156 If they're adopting the Obama Stray Voltage plan, then I rescind all doubts. Have Elon march around frog stepping and harpy lesbos yelling at Trump if it's part of a strategy to get actual shit done.

I just hope it is part of a strategy. Time will tell.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (uCjyK)

========

I'm not saying this was planned. It most likely wasn't. I'd bet they'd rather it hadn't happened, that they had vetted and tried to change speakers.

But the context of the event in the face of the other events of the past few days, including the 200 executive orders which included freeing 1500 1/6 prisoners makes it feel...small.

Because it is.

The left is trying to make something of it by extending the woman's 15 minutes on The View because they have nothing else.

Seriously...this is the best attack they've had since they were ratioed about Musk's movement of his arm. And that sucked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

172 So, the unholy woman didn't also use it as an opportunity to pray for more abortion? What kind of a fake Christian is she?

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2025 03:53 PM (0Htd1)

173 Al I can say is she seems to be enjoying the TV cameras

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:53 PM (VE6XX)

174 94 “I was looking at the President because I was speaking directly to him.”

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde tells @ErinBurnett
about her plea to President Trump

These people are discomfited because the top position in their pecking order is taken, and they don't think that's fair. People should HAVE to listen to them, dammit!
Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (xCA6C

How very brave and courageous of this unholy coward! Church is a safe place to do this because many won't stand up to call them liars.

The Trump and Vance family did not budge. Good. Laser eyed Melania I hope put a vex on the biddy. I doubt this beetch would talk this way without being behind a pulpit in CHURCH where people are on their best behavior. It was mean, petty and evil as well as cowardly.

To top it all off, she is demonic and ugly.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:53 PM (gi+MR)

175 Demanding an apology is a classic leftist tactic. He will not be subordinated by anyone and she tried with her "lecture".

Just roll with it and enjoy, very few do it like DJT.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:53 PM (HjfEo)

176 The Episcopal Church. What did anyone expect?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (dxSpM)

To be fair, even the Church has parishes where they are essentially Unitarians.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 22, 2025 03:53 PM (bss/y)

177 when the young men shift, the young women will follow

prediction: by 2035 the AWFL will be an extinct species.

Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (dCxaZ)

178 Protestantism has waay too many offshoots

just use the Bible

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (AOsQT)

179
does she have a bishopric?
Posted by: ace

As I understand it, she's the bishop in charge of the National Cathedral where the service was held. I know that place is Episcopalean.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (CE2fs)

180 BUT maybe this is Trumps team playing 3D chess.

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To be fair I doubt Trumps team has time to play 3D fucking chess with a butch idiot of a priest who is irrelevant

theyre too busy trying to deport a billion psychopath illegals that have invaded this country

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (HYKHz)

181 Another plethora. This time of Edgars.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (Aqu9a)

182 At a time when Trump and MAGA are becoming cool -- or at least cooler -- the new Great Resister is a ... creepy, scoldy, ugly, harpy Lezbitch.

Can we have asked for a better opponent than this weirdo?

You can say the same about Kamala. It's like the quote from the Israeli where they asked the secret of their military success and he said something like "having Muslims as enemies".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (2ocoG)

183 Tim Kazurinsky has really let himself go.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (pIfcn)

184
Rush Limbaugh (ppuh) used to talk about this dilemma: When some lefty loon attacks with nonsense, do you respond or ignore.

If you respond, you "elevate" and "get drug down to the attacker's level". But if you don't respond, then it remains out there, and people wonder, well, he didn't say anything, so maybe the attacker is right.

Trump goes the first route, with anybody. You attack him, he goes nuclear.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (w6EFb)

185 This is like that puffed-up shit they were all mimicking from Ruth Ginsberg.

That "I dissent" shit or whatever.
I can't remember. It was stupid.

And they all thought it a clever retort.

From a loser. 'Cause she was the loser in that decision.
So.
Whatever losers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (I9fAe)

186 US Episcopalians or UK Anglicans, who gives up the ghost first?

Posted by: Chuck Martel

They are one and the same. After the revolution, the anglicans in the US changed their name, but nothing else.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (lTGtQ)

187 thought it was mistake for Trump to debate F. Joe early -- but my liberal friends who witnessed that debate were totally demoralized as a result.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (gBrUT

Maybe, just maybe, and hear me out here, Trump knows what he's doing with this narrative framing and publicity shit? Maybe?

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (HjfEo)

188 MAGA turns on Christianity. Attacks the words of Jesus Christ

***************

Dear DU troll: youre an atheist fuckball, the fuck do you care?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (HYKHz)

189 Chick should change her name to Karla Malden...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wtvvX)

190
Protestantism has waay too many offshoots

just use the Bible
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (AOsQT)

__________

*polite cough*

That's how you get all the offshoots.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (dxSpM)

191 I'm kinda surprised they haven't tried to impeach him already based on something some guy heard, about a thing he thinks is super important or somthing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (b4o9z)

192 The braying will recede into the background, an a lovely stillness will envelop us as we go about our daily business.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (4780s)

193 @161 Because of it's history, nothing more. Maybe that will change next go 'round. But I doubt it.

Vance is Roman Catholic if I recall, so maybe he can switch it out in 2028.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (Jfw7U)

194 126 She oversees a denomination that is quickly emptying out.
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US Episcopalians or UK Anglicans, who gives up the ghost first?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (fs1hN)

My guess would be US. UK still has a lot of people that love the royal family, and the King is the head of the Anglican Church, so for that reason it will hang on for as long as the monarchy does.

Interestingly, the Anglican Church of North America had a schizm from the Archbishop of Canterbury over woke stuff a couple of years ago. So even though we call ourselves Anglicans over here, our Bishops here aren't under the UK church's authority.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (GD2xa)

195 96
If I remember correctly, Dr. Ben Carson did the same to Obama at the same event. So, just try not let your panties get too wadded up

Posted by: extybeebum at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (4UqBy)

196 188 MAGA turns on Christianity. Attacks the words of Jesus Christ

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Dear DU troll: youre an atheist fuckball, the fuck do you care?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (HYKHz)

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"Christianity means being beaten by secularlists and asking for more while giving all of your money to Caesar to take care of your neighbor."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

197 >>>Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (ycI94)

Oh, my goodness.
Thank you for going into the swamp for us.

Posted by: m at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (VnUSN)

198 The pink bishop is worse than a caricature of a cleric, she is total inversion of it. A Christian cleric's job is to help people come to Jesus not to lampoon him.

In fifteen minutes she advocated for everything Jesus stood against, particularly the transgendering of children. I know what Jesus would say to her, "Get thee behind me, Satan".

Posted by: Decaf at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (unUNN)

199 does she have a bishopric?
Posted by: ace

AFAIK, her genitalia are normal.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (xCA6C)

200 > 1 She is married to a man and has two children. Nevertheless....
Posted by: lizabth

Huh. My bad. I assumed that "Edgar" was "her" name before "she" transitioned.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (W5ArC)

201
Her offspring are named Rose and Wilbur.

Yeah, there's mild humor behind both made up names.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (CE2fs)

202 Why would he go to a service given by a woman?
Certainly not a Christian service.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (JdxE1)

203 The left is in disarray everywhere: even Aunt Jemima is coming back to food stores. By the way all of the objecting to Indian names for teams, Black faces on packages, is because the left is deeply racist and only wants to see white faces everywhere. The destruction of Confederate monuments and names for military bases and schools is the Democrats trying to erase their past.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (Da7Vv)

204 Some people thought that Tomei had no business winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but I defy anyone to remember her competition for the award. All famous actresses, but completely forgettable movies: Husbands and Wives, Enchanted April, Howard's End and Damage. My Cousin Vinny stands the test of time. Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (0TZUr)

Every man in America was in love.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (r5tfK)

205 She oversees a denomination that is quickly emptying out.
____

US Episcopalians or UK Anglicans, who gives up the ghost first?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 22, 2025 03:48 PM (fs1hN)

We're always around five years behind the crazy on the other side of the pond, so I say the Anglicans. By the time Trump leaves office, they'll have declared the koran to be a book of the Bible

Posted by: Josephistan at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (ixyiv)

206 Maybe, just maybe, and hear me out here, Trump knows what he's doing with this narrative framing and publicity shit? Maybe?
Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (HjfEo)

A guy who was one of the most famous TV stars in America before he ran for President understands the media and Hollywood? P'shaw.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (2ocoG)

207 No offense to horde-lings still in the Episcopal/Anglican church but they've abandoned the basic tenets of Christianity decades ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (sAmhv)

208 Screeching Lesbian as the face of the resistance was the free square on my bingo card.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tT6L1)

209 Protestantism has waay too many offshoots

just use the Bible
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM

That's how we got so many branches. No Magisterium to burn the heretics.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (aD39U)

210 Does anyone remember way back when, when Chick-Fil-A came under real scrutiny (maybe around 2012)?

Some dink associate professor filmed himself hassling the teenage girl at the drive-thru and ended up getting his ass fired.

But on the way in, he saw some kids walking up and assumed they must be protesting too.

These people have zero idea that there is a world beyond their purview. None. Carville is 100% right and it won't matter in the least.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (KbCG3)

211 Posted by: Easy at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (Qe17

163
This is good. This is exactly what we want our enemies focusing on while President Trump cleans house.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (RDFmy)

Appropriate AMEN!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (gi+MR)

212 I heard today that Woodrow Wilson's bones are buried in the National Cathedral?

That's enough reason to never enter ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (gBrUT)

213 Depends on how much they deserve it, and how adversely the behavior would affect the congregation if it were not addressed.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (hB7mE)

That is NOT how Paul said to deal with it.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

Well, not when addressing a single person, no. And certainly not in this case.

But in general, if there is widespread misbehavior in one's church that one knows about, it is the pastor's job to address it. Yes, in the sermon. Yes, publicly.

And if the people engaging in that misbehavior feel called out or attacked, even though the pastor doesn't address them by name or give any identifying information, well... that's called "pricking their consciences."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (hB7mE)

214 Frankly I think it was planned.
Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (KQk9m)

Sure its an op, but a really *bad* op. You've declared Trump Hitler for a year, shot at him a few times. Now you beg for mercy?? Not a good look.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (n7h9X)

215
So it appears that fuckface susan collins is the only Republican Shit to be "troubled" by the ongoing smear campaign against Pete.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (RDFmy)

216 Why is there a National Cathedral run by the Episcopal Church that hosts all these things? Seems to me that violates the Establishment Clause.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 22, 2025 03:51 PM (r5tfK)

we are not a catholic nation, the Baptists didn't want it and the Methodists would have hung those felt banners all over it.

Seriously though, the Episcopalians were the majority church that had the money and the status to start the national cathedral

Posted by: Kindltot at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (D7oie)

217 Why would he go to a service given by a woman?
Certainly not a Christian service.

I think most of the folks here would go to one of Fen's services. I'm pretty confident she's actually read the Bible, which is a claim I can't make for this "bishop".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (2ocoG)

218 62 He's the President. He can say "I'm skipping the whole thing" if he wants to.

Let me put it another way: do you think Obama's team would have allowed him to be sermoned at by some bible thumping southern baptist on TV in front of the entire country?

Of course not. They would have worked behind the scenes to make sure that didn't happen.

So Trump's team either didn't know this was coming and was incompetent, OR they knew this was coming and decided, for whatever reason, that it was either neutral or good to do.

If Trump's team is incompetent, it doesn't portend well to the next 4 years.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

Nah. Dems are The Resistance. They can't help themselves.

Posted by: m at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (VnUSN)

219 US Episcopalians, IMO, gave up the ghost first. British state church Anglican soon after.

There are conservative Anglican churches, though. And a lovelier service you will not see, IMO.

I love the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.

I say this as a Reformed Calvinist type person.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Jfw7U)

220
James Hacker: Humphrey, what's a Modernist in the Church of England?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Ah, well, the word "Modernist" is code for non-believer.

James Hacker: You mean an atheist?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, Prime Minister. An atheist clergyman couldn't continue to draw his stipend. So, when they stop believing in God, they call themselves "Modernists".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (dxSpM)

221 She looks like a frail genderless Fred Gwynne.
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Please tell me she has the Hermann Munster shoes, too.

Posted by: scampydog at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (2bFN5)

222 She's a false prophet and a media whore.

Posted by: Biergood at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (PwgSL)

223 215
So it appears that fuckface susan collins is the only Republican Shit to be "troubled" by the ongoing smear campaign against Pete.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (RDFmy)

So, he still has the votes...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (exHjb)

224 President Donald Trump began to fire career employees at the Justice Department on Wednesday

Boy, are they going to find a warm welcome out in the real world! "You gladly did what to the American people...for pay?!"

Posted by: t-bird at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (xw/ji)

225
Sen Kennedy on the new fake "affadavit" bullshit on Pete: "I've seen this movie before."

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:58 PM (RDFmy)

226 216 Why is there a National Cathedral run by the Episcopal Church that hosts all these things? Seems to me that violates the Establishment Clause.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
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Privately funded.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (ctrM5)

227 New some, comply. The nightmares will likely subside

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (QSrLX)

228 Ok. I did have two questions Sorry. It was a prayer service . What scriptures did she use and why was it necessary to preach? Would have been appropriate to talk about prayer and give a brief homily on the importance of prayer in the Bible and praying for leaders without a hectoring tone. She evidently made it into the church version of a sort of struggle session.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (rE1vb)

229 There are no tranny children. There are however children who have been groomed into a sick fetish. And we need to start imprisoning those Groomers

Posted by: 18-1 at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (t0Rmr)

230 > Screeching Lesbian

I saw Screeching Lesbian open for Melissa Etheridge at the Lilith Fair back in '97.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (W5ArC)

231 199 does she have a bishopric?
Posted by: ace

AFAIK, her genitalia are normal.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (xCA6C)

THIS, right there, is why I blow by like a flatulent cow now and then. Blows a kiss from a former supermodel!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (gi+MR)

232 MAGA turns on Christianity. Attacks the words of Jesus Christ. Who among the monied evangelicals will join him in the attack ?

Video of that event is amazing. Camera was on The Family as it reacted to the Bishop's words. Lots of smirks and eye rolling. But if looks could kill, Melaria murdered the Bishop. Have never seen anyone look so mean.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (ycI94)
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The godless opining on Christianity. *insert eye roll here

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (tT6L1)

233 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

So they get to control where Trump goes and doesn't go just by having some idiot there? Seems to be light on strategic brilliance.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:59 PM (HjfEo)

234 Female and scoldy is moldy.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (fV+MH)

235 Vance is Roman Catholic if I recall, so maybe he can switch it out in 2028.
Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM (Jfw7U)

God Emperors really ought to be inaugurated in Latin, i've always thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (+iIV1)

236 Maybe, just maybe, and hear me out here, Trump knows what he's doing with this narrative framing and publicity shit? Maybe?
Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (HjfEo)

Oh come on! Trump know anything better than the randos that comment at the HQ? Whatchutalkinboutwillis?!!!!

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. I'm a dangerous radical. at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (89Sog)

237 From the Nate Hochman tweet:

Anyone who regularly interacts with Gen Z boys — the normal, not-especially-political ones — can tell you what I mean: It's not just that their specific political views are more right-wing. (Although they are). It's that they are more right-wing, at the most core level. It's in the jokes they tell, the podcasts they listen to, the things they praise or consider "cool" versus the things they mock or deride — it's a very fundamental shift that goes beyond any one specific issue. And it's not going to go away anytime soon.

Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (dCxaZ)

238 These people have zero idea that there is a world beyond their purview. None. Carville is 100% right and it won't matter in the least.
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Waffle fries are now covered in pea juice.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (Wg6v7)

239 188 MAGA turns on Christianity. Attacks the words of Jesus Christ

Say the people who never read the Bible.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (sAmhv)

240 Yes...let's imagine incompetence and a dismal four years as the result of a silly cat-lady screed.

The Trump team was doing the historical thing. Trump can (and needs to) learn to let these things go. Water of a duck's back.

Ninnies gonna ninny.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (Jfw7U)

241 TULIP!

Posted by: Zombie John Calvin at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (R/m4+)

242 One of my pet peeves is the use of Jesus' instruction to let he who is without sin cast the first stone to justify all manner of despicable behavior. They leave out Jesus next words to the sinful woman to go and sin no more. These people want applause for sinning more. And more.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)

243 223 215
So it appears that fuckface susan collins is the only Republican Shit to be "troubled" by the ongoing smear campaign against Pete.

Posted by: Soothsayer
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Eh, to some extent, Collins is allowed to go off the reservation when it does not matter. Her vote was not needed so she gets to vote against to keep her seat in Maine.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (ctrM5)

244 237 From the Nate Hochman tweet:

Anyone who regularly interacts with Gen Z boys — the normal, not-especially-political ones — can tell you what I mean: It's not just that their specific political views are more right-wing. (Although they are). It's that they are more right-wing, at the most core level. It's in the jokes they tell, the podcasts they listen to, the things they praise or consider "cool" versus the things they mock or deride — it's a very fundamental shift that goes beyond any one specific issue. And it's not going to go away anytime soon.
Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (dCxaZ)

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Junior talks about being Sigma with his friends.

It's like Alpha, but more.

He's 10.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

245 Many others have made the observation that Amy Klobuchar (D) was in charge of inaugural events like the one we're currently discussing. I believe it is a tradition that the party in power plans these events, so blaming Trump for the politician preacher isn't fair. If I am wrong, others should correct me.

Posted by: PennaLady at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (y6jPI)

246 Same people lectured that Trump was "dumb" for walking into the lions den of the black press bullshit event. Maybe he's not dumb and maybe he has different priorities than you.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (HjfEo)

247 168 This "Bitchop" looks just like that titless harridan who was thrown off a flight for hassling some nice young man in a Trump shirt.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (wBaIH)

And for those who haven't seen that video, it is glorious
https://youtu.be/8nOu0WiuSIo?si=RmBkzN5SaQZHMKIB

Posted by: Josephistan at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (ixyiv)

248 I still don’t understand why trumps team can’t see this stuff a mile away.

Female bishop Episcopalian? The analogy to Obama never sitting in front of some fringe evangelical church is a good example. Would never happen

I think trump handled it fine, it’s why isn’t his team better?

Only a woman would do something like this, Babylon Bee nailed it.

Posted by: Maroon at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (sTCj5)

249 Edgar Winter?
Posted by: Boss Moss a

Capt. Flagg in MASH, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

250 If there's one thing we DON'T want, it's for this woman to be appointed to a titular see.

What? "Titular see" doesn't mean that?

Never mind.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (W5ArC)

251 @235 Preach! That's be pretty wonderful...lol!

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (Jfw7U)

252 Screeching Lesbian as the face of the resistance was the free square on my bingo card.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tT6L1)

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Mine was "Make PussyHats Great Again -- Now With Transgender 'Women!'"

Needless to say, thus far I am disappoint ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (gBrUT)

253 Ok. I did have two questions Sorry. It was a prayer service . What scriptures did she use and why was it necessary to preach?

the best part is, she started out by saying she wasn't going to get political

all they know how to do is L-I-E

Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (dCxaZ)

254 Maybe this latest generation will be like Gen X, which came of age during Reagan. Not all were conservatives by any means, but most were certainly turned off by what Democrats of that time Dukakis, Mondale, Carter etc. were pitching.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (CwhoI)

255 243 223 215
So it appears that fuckface susan collins is the only Republican Shit to be "troubled" by the ongoing smear campaign against Pete.

Posted by: Soothsayer
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Eh, to some extent, Collins is allowed to go off the reservation when it does not matter. Her vote was not needed so she gets to vote against to keep her seat in Maine.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:00 PM (ctrM5)

Which is probably what Fetterman is allowed to do now in PA for the same reason...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (exHjb)

256 Leftists like this bishop, the View harridans, and Joy Reid are now only virtue signaling to each other. They are not making many new converts to the Leftist Pseudo-Religion. The US Left had captured every victim group it possibly could by the 2022 mid-terms. Now some groups are defecting and individual voters in most of the remaining captured groups are also defecting. The hard-core Leftists will use Trump47 to increase the amount and volume of their h@te messaging. They have to, to keep their bedrock political base on the plantation and reliably voting for the Leftists.

Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (aBgBM)

257 MAGA turns on Christianity. Attacks the words of Jesus Christ

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I bet that DU commenter would be surprised that Jesus took a whip to people in the churc (temple) and constantly whacked the Pharisee priests upside the head with a clue bat.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (D6PGr)

258 I think this Bishop is going to be at Superbowl LIX if you know what I mean

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (HjfEo)

259 Edgar Buchanan >> all other Edgars

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

260 Democrat party's 'preachy female' problem:
"Democratic culture has too many preachy females. Too much 'Don't eat Hamburgers, don't watch football, wear a condom'. Man, shit, leave me alone."

Well, you know he's a Democrat because he objects to any attempts to get men to take responsibility for where they spread their seed.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (hB7mE)

261 Protestantism has waay too many offshoots

just use the Bible
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:54 PM (AOsQT)

__________

*polite cough*

That's how you get all the offshoots.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 03:55 PM (dxSpM)

Which Bible? One of the first things that happened when Protestantism got going was everyone made their own Bibles.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (n7h9X)

262 Like John Calvin this bish is a heretic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (JdxE1)

263 The godless opining on Christianity. *insert eye roll here
Posted by: blake
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All their life is spent in opposing Christianity becuz being faithful is defined as being 'mean' to idiocies such as love is love, Islam is a religion of peace, Coexist, and other such howlers.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (ctrM5)

264 If Trump's team is incompetent, it doesn't portend well to the next 4 years.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

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This is day 3 of his administration. Have a drink or several.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (2UnvF)

265 95 78 oh you guys didn't watch it live!

she was one of the speakers. The others were fine. (if boring)

it was a prayer breakfast. only this ol' boomer chick went goofy. and btw the eye rolls alone were worth it. Usha is quite good with the eye roll too!
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

Thanks for this report!

Posted by: m at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (VnUSN)

266 She does not appear to be a lesbian. She's married to a man and has 2 kids.

If she wants to ease the fears of gays, lesbians and "trans" people she should openly condemn all the lies that she and her ilk have told about him for years and beg their forgiveness for having told them herself (if she has) and for her failure to condemn them when they were told and assure them that he has no intention of harming any of them.

Posted by: RonF at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (l8nW6)

267 She's a malignant c*nt. Pardon my French
-- Not St. Paul, the other one: Paulie Walnuts, Soprano Family

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (wBaIH)

268 @ 241 Solves a lot of theological fuss right quick.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (Jfw7U)

269 So Trump's team either didn't know this was coming and was incompetent, OR they knew this was coming and decided, for whatever reason, that it was either neutral or good to do.

If Trump's team is incompetent, it doesn't portend well to the next 4 years.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

They knew what was coming. This is the Episcopal Church, after all - they're as liberal as it gets. There's footage of Budde wanting to get rid of Trump back in 2020, during the Summer of Love Riots.

The Dems are still playing by a 1.0 playbook, which worked like a charm against the GOPe, and arguably Trump 1.0. This is a different Trump than was around before. The Dems haven't had the time to come up with a new playbook against Trump 2.0.

I am concerned about the post-Trump GOP. I can't see anyone - not even Vance - able to do what Trump is doing now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (0TZUr)

270 I think this Bishop is going to be at Superbowl LIX if you know what I mean
Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 04:02 PM (HjfEo)

She's dating that Tight End now too?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (n7h9X)

271 NYT Claims Trump Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

272 I often wonder why Carville is a dem. Maybe just a job.

Posted by: javems at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (8I4hW)

273 Queens locals fed up with the conditions along Roosevelt Avenue are hoping the new Trump administration will help “clean up” the area besieged by crime they say has been committed by homeless migrants.

A group of residents, including ex-Democratic state Sen. Hiram Monserrate, penned a letter Tuesday to President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, requesting federal assistance after claiming state and local leaders weren’t doing enough to improve safety.

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (RHGPo)

274 271 NYT Claims Trump Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’
Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

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I bet it's true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

275 I have a different view: this is great, yuge, like the bestest thing ever.

At a time when Trump and MAGA are becoming cool -- or at least cooler -- the new Great Resister is a ... creepy, scoldy, ugly, harpy Lezbitch.

Can we have asked for a better opponent than this weirdo? "Hey all you on the fence, do you want to stand with us cool kids with the pretty wives and tall sons and positive, optimistic view of the future? Or do you want to stand with this mutant librarian screeching about cutting off your kids' balls?"

Very easy sell, guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

Agree. It was a good look/lesson on why Trump won. The difference was there for all to see and hear.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (g8Ew8)

276 BITCH SET ME UP!!

Posted by: Trump at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (1iy5Z)

277 Junior talks about being Sigma with his friends.

It's like Alpha, but more.

He's 10.

lol

(why am I laughing? I think I should be scared now)

Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (dCxaZ)

278 "Pictures going around the web of her 6 bedroom, 5 1/2 bath home in a nice DC neighborhood reveal that it's good to be the bishop!"

Is it in fact hers? Or does it belong to the Diocese?

Posted by: RonF at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (l8nW6)

279 Which is probably what Fetterman is allowed to do now in PA for the same reason...
Posted by: Nova Local

Probably. Fetterman is the new Manchin and Sinema. Senate leaders more or less hate their party's bases because it interferes with uniparty grifting operations.

It was the Dem base that doomed Sinema and Manchin (and Tester) were no longer able to hide their D-votes in Red States. Senate is becoming much more homogeneous in that respect.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:05 PM (ctrM5)

280

Nate Hochman

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Jan 22, 2025
@njhochman
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My parents are Democrats. My brother and I both moved right in college. I know countless other young guys who had the same experience. The old cliché was "kid from conservative family goes off to college and becomes a liberal." We're witnessing a total inversion of that dynamic.

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I saw that coming but not to this spectacular extent. It is logical in the sense that children need to rebel against their parents to stake their own personality. With liberal parents the only option kids have is to go conservatives.

The same reaction happened in the 60s and 70s when kids went liberal to differentiate themselves from their parents. We are only at the beginning of this wave so so I hope more young people join the pendulum swing back to sanity.

Posted by: Decaf at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (unUNN)

281 There are no tranny children. There are however children who have been groomed into a sick fetish. And we need to start imprisoning those Groomers
Posted by: 18-1

Crazy Woke-o-palian bishop + millstones. Some assembly required.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (L/fGl)

282 JD Vance is only a couple years older than my eldest son.

Weird. I am at the leading edge of Gen-X. But I feel old now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Week 2 of Funemployment at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (Ad8y9)

283 I am concerned about the post-Trump GOP. I can't see anyone - not even Vance - able to do what Trump is doing now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (0TZUr)

it won't matter because the culture is tacking rightward as we speak

Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (dCxaZ)

284 So far Trump is doing 100% of what we want, but I guess we should dump Trump because some bitch “bishop” couldn’t help but use her sermon as a political soapbox.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (XxG/N)

285 The Dems are still playing by a 1.0 playbook, which worked like a charm against the GOPe, and arguably Trump 1.0. This is a different Trump than was around before. The Dems haven't had the time to come up with a new playbook against Trump 2.0.

I am concerned about the post-Trump GOP. I can't see anyone - not even Vance - able to do what Trump is doing now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (0TZUr)

This was a waste of time for the Dems. A wispy don't hurt me whine isn't going to make Trump blow up in a public, and the slight eyerolls were perfect. The babykiller dems have no hold on the truly religious and everyone can sympathize with a bored 'yes dear' and moving on.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (n7h9X)

286 > Is it in fact hers? Or does it belong to the Diocese?
Posted by: RonF at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (l8nW6)

I'd reckon the diocese. Otherwise she'd have to pay taxes on it.

It's a nice grift, if you can get it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 22, 2025 04:07 PM (W5ArC)

287 The left always fails to mention that illegal immigration doesn't always end well for the immigrents. It's not all Coming to America stories.

What about the children sold into prostitution or harsh labor? F'k them I guess becasue the left has some myth about illegals all living the good life.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 04:07 PM (b4o9z)

288 NYT Claims Roosevelt Labeling Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor 'a Date Which Will Live in Infamy’ Could ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’

Posted by: Us vs. Yuck at January 22, 2025 04:07 PM (qUkBO)

289 277 Junior talks about being Sigma with his friends.

It's like Alpha, but more.

He's 10.

lol

(why am I laughing? I think I should be scared now)
Posted by: kallisto
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A Sigma, if you care to go by Vox Day's definition who originated the term, is someone not amenable to outside pressure, but not what you call a 'team' player. They answer to themselves, not others and don't often aspire to be leaders of men but rather leaders of themselves.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:07 PM (ctrM5)

290 in my opinion this Lady Bishop gave the GOP another win.

its just another example of the Left having zero self-awareness.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 04:07 PM (D6PGr)

291 279 Probably. Fetterman is the new Manchin and Sinema. Senate leaders more or less hate their party's bases because it interferes with uniparty grifting operations.

It was the Dem base that doomed Sinema and Manchin (and Tester) were no longer able to hide their D-votes in Red States. Senate is becoming much more homogeneous in that respect.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:05 PM (ctrM5)

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Fetterman is going to be allowed so many more "bipartisan" votes because Republicans are going to pass everything they can with more than bare majorities. Schumer won't need Fetterman's vote to kill anything.

Cloture votes? It's either getting 7 Democrat votes or 0. Majority votes? It's getting at least 50 Republican votes or 53. That gives Fetterman so many opportunities to say, "I bucked Schumer" even though it's completely meaningless.

We'll hear a lot about him because the media will pimp him as the moderate who can win in PA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

292 247 168 This "Bitchop" looks just like that titless harridan who was thrown off a flight for hassling some nice young man in a Trump shirt.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 03:52 PM (wBaIH)

And for those who haven't seen that video, it is glorious
https://youtu.be/8nOu0WiuSIo?si=RmBkzN5SaQZHMKIB
Posted by: Josephistan at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (ixyiv)

That's so great!

Posted by: m at January 22, 2025 04:07 PM (VnUSN)

293 "...even Aunt Jemima is coming back to food stores."

An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM

--

And they're still micro-aggressing me.

Posted by: Michelle Obama in a head wrap at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (wzAuc)

294 NYT Claims Trump Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’
Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

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I bet it's true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
******
What will we do without our avocado toast?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (NpAcC)

295 287 The left always fails to mention that illegal immigration doesn't always end well for the immigrents. It's not all Coming to America stories.

What about the children sold into prostitution or harsh labor? F'k them I guess becasue the left has some myth about illegals all living the good life.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Dems always get upset when someone interferes with the slave trade.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (ctrM5)

296 Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (dCxaZ

Should have billed it as a lecture.

Just for fun I am going to find a way to invite Trump to the church I serve . I doubt theI invite will ever reach him, but the guy next door who is an academic Dean and who had Harris signs out will have a meltdown if President Trump actually shows up. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (9eESs)

297 So, she prefers 9mm over .45 ACP, eh?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (a3Q+t)

298 J6 Investigation To Move To Judiciary Committee To Help Republicans Uncover FBI Abuses

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (RHGPo)

299 I am concerned about the post-Trump GOP. I can't see anyone - not even Vance - able to do what Trump is doing now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (0TZUr)

it won't matter because the culture is tacking rightward as we speak
Posted by: kallisto at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (dCxaZ)

The MSM is too topheavy to dominate more nimble platforms like X and Youtube which are increasingly dominant. Top down campainging works poorly there as opposed to grassroots podcast and platforms.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (n7h9X)

300 Anyone who regularly interacts with Gen Z boys — the normal, not-especially-political ones — can tell you what I mean: It's not just that their specific political views are more right-wing. (Although they are). It's that they are more right-wing, at the most core level.

The elites pushed for decades that being the political opposite of your teachers is the coolest thing you can do. Then they flooded the public school system nationwide with not-even-hiding-it Marxist activist teachers. And it's surprised Pikachu faces all around that kids, especially boys, are rebelling against that?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

301 294 I bet it's true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
******
What will we do without our avocado toast?
Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (NpAcC)

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How much of the AZ economy is reliant on cartel activity? I'd bet it's material and significant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

302 222 She's a false prophet and a media whore.
Posted by: Biergood

I'll buy the false prophet part but the whoring?

Not with your dick and dollar fifty.

Posted by: Auspex at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (j4U/Z)

303 274 271 NYT Claims Trump Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’
Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

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I bet it's true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

It's how much a bag now?

Well fuck. I guess i have enough to get through the work day today, and i'll just call in sick the rest of the week.

Posted by: Warai-otoko's Millennial Work Ethic at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (+iIV1)

304 [i215
So it appears that fuckface susan collins is the only Republican Shit to be "troubled" by the ongoing smear campaign against Pete.

Posted by: Soothsayer

I would have thought the Parkinson's would have won by this time. I was wrong.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)

305 My dad was pretty conservative and Mom was sort of liberalish.

My sister was sort of a Democrat but I'm a right wing fascist.

Point being, I'm not sure the lefty/righty rightly/lefty can really be used to predict what direction things are going.

It may be people are tired of walking on egg shells and are finally realizing what freedom truly is.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (tT6L1)

306 Being a heathen, I'm going to throw this out there, anyway.

Romans 3:31
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Posted by: Orson at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (dIske)

307 He's 10.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

OMG! When did he grow up ! I remember when he was born !

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)

308 I understand that she appeared on "The View."

Did she chastise those bitches for being whores?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (ZmEVT)

309 285 The Dems are still playing by a 1.0 playbook, which worked like a charm against the GOPe, and arguably Trump 1.0. This is a different Trump than was around before. The Dems haven't had the time to come up with a new playbook against Trump 2.0.
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I told 'em, they gotta run a pick six!

Posted by: Assistant Volunteer Coach and Shower Inspector Walz at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (qUkBO)

310 People who ask What would Jesus do should remember that womping people with a bull whip is on the table.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (2UnvF)

311 Just for fun I am going to find a way to invite Trump to the church I serve . I doubt theI invite will ever reach him, but the guy next door who is an academic Dean and who had Harris signs out will have a meltdown if President Trump actually shows up. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 04:08 PM (9eESs)

Write Elon or Barron, they have his ear and might share the humor of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (n7h9X)

312 ‘Wicked’ Star Ariana Grande Licking a Donut Calls Trump Exec Order Recognizing Only ‘Male and Female’ an Attack on Trans People

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (RHGPo)

313 I wonder who booked this woman, and why.

Posted by: bluebell at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (79pEw)

314 And whats with this J6 granny who refused trump's pardon while saying all kinds of shit like " we were wrong , and accepting the pardon is a disgrace to the capitol police and the rule of law' etc etc.

Ok granny, rot in jail then.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (VwHCD)

315 293 "...even Aunt Jemima is coming back to food stores."
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This is good to hear. Jemima always had a winning smile. Any word on the Redskins?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (Wg6v7)

316 307 He's 10.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

OMG! When did he grow up ! I remember when he was born !
Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)

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You may be thinking of Second Junior who is 5.

I don't think I was commenting when Junior was born. I may be wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

317 Not if he turns the tables first.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (JdxE1)

318 > Did she chastise those bitches for being whores?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (ZmEVT)

I'd be skeptical that anyone would pay for that, except that I live in a town with two major military bases and have seen the quality of the associated street hookers first-hand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (W5ArC)

319 I don't trust these generals not to obstruct/slow-walk Trump's border commands.

breakingdefense.com

"Hours after being sworn in as the 47th president, Trump began signing a flurry of executive orders and actions, including one presidential action declaring a national emergency on the Southern border and then an executive action calling on the Pentagon to clarify the military’s role “protecting the territorial integrity of the United States.” In that second one, he gives the Secretary of Defense 10 days to deliver a Unified Command Plan tasking US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) with the border mission.

Following delivery of that plan, USNORTHCOM head Gen. Gregory Guillot will have an additional 30 days to craft a commander’s estimate of just what it will take to “seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities.”"

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (V6W16)

320 >>>This Dedicated Servant of Self spared no time in booking herself on to #Resistance propaganda channels.

Who elected her Narcissist in Chief?

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (i24o9)

321 312 ‘Wicked’ Star Ariana Grande Licking a Donut Calls Trump Exec Order Recognizing Only ‘Male and Female’ an Attack on Trans People

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (RHGPo)

Offensive to the mentally ill.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (ynpvh)

322 People who ask What would Jesus do should remember that womping people with a bull whip is on the table.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (2UnvF)
And the tables have been turned over. Bible doesn't specify what happened to the stuff on the moneychanger's tables.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (n7h9X)

323 I would have thought the Parkinson's would have won by this time. I was wrong.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)

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She has Parkinson's? I just thought she was retarded.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (2UnvF)

324 Episcopal bishop of the Church founded by Henry VIII.
Satan from Satan.

Posted by: Sheriff Farley at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (QxEBj)

325 284 So far Trump is doing 100% of what we want, but I guess we should dump Trump because some bitch “bishop” couldn’t help but use her sermon as a political soapbox.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Optics people are people that care more about appearances than policy. And anyone telling you they are afraid of what others say is actually saying something about themselves.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (ctrM5)

326 before we celebrate in marriage Mary and Sue Klumpbutt from our LGQTBZ bridge club. Bring the kids and receive a free Bullet vibrator for you or a loved one! Look for our rainbow flags off the Interstate on the frontage road.
Posted by: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, LGQTBABC Advocate and democrat shill at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (R/m4+)

This seems oddly specific

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (/6GbT)

327 No such thing as "trans kids" or a transition. It's a lifetime of hormones and butchery.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (2NXcZ)

328 Vance is Roman Catholic

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I don't know if BJ Clinton was Catholic or not be he was definitely roamin'.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (L/fGl)

329 Whores today aren't what they were in my time.

Posted by: Babylon at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (a3Q+t)

330 Scoldy Christians have to be at least as popular as bread mold. Trump needs to tread lightly.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (HjfEo)

331 NYT Claims Trump Labeling Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’
Posted by: SMOD

In other words:
It would be a shame if taking down cartels hurt the black market or illegal donations to the DNC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (lTGtQ)

332 And now the "norm" that all Presidents attend a "prayer service" at this Cathedral in which Democrat Presidents are praised and Republican Presidents are publicly lambasted for the MSNBC audience will be "broken" by Trump to the wailing of the usual hysterical women like Bill Kristol.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (ssz2a)

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Should he win the next election I hope JD starts a new tradition and insists on going for the inaugural prayer to the Catholic church. Presidents should be entitled to choose where and with whom they pray.

Posted by: Decaf at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (unUNN)

333
I'm genuinely surprised biden didn't blanket pardon the entire FBI. Really, I am. Indeed, I'll bet me left nut they considered it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (RDFmy)

334 You may be thinking of Second Junior who is 5.

I don't think I was commenting when Junior was born. I may be wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

hmmmm

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (g47mK)

335 ‘Wicked’ Star Ariana Grande Licking a Donut Calls Trump Exec Order Recognizing Only ‘Male and Female’ an Attack on Trans People
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Stopped clock, etc etc etc.

Its an "attack" if by attack you mean he called them out on their bullshit (or sincere mental disorder for a few). Its however not an "attack" if by attack you mean he ordered them to be rounded up and placed in camps.

Posted by: Crusader at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (azSra)

336 325 Optics people are people that care more about appearances than policy. And anyone telling you they are afraid of what others say is actually saying something about themselves.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (ctrM5)

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Optics have their place.

3 days into a new administration is not that place.

Optics are about convincing people of things. The public doesn't need convincing for almost 2 years. The GOPe in Congress isn't being convinced by this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

337 >>285 The Dems are still playing by a 1.0 playbook, which worked like a charm against the GOPe, and arguably Trump 1.0.

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They don't have a remotely plausible "Illegitimate President" footstool to stand on and look tall.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (wzAuc)

338 I am concerned about the post-Trump GOP. I can't see anyone - not even Vance - able to do what Trump is doing now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

I disagree strongly, and urge you to be of good cheer. We have lots of rising stars: Vance, DeSantis, Youngkin..., you name it. We have a strong bench, and it's getting stronger. No, they aren't going to be just like Trump, but that's a good thing, because people tend to get tired of the same old same old, no matter how good it is for them.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (xCA6C)

339 312 ‘Wicked’ Star Ariana Grande Licking a Donut Calls Trump Exec Order Recognizing Only ‘Male and Female’ an Attack on Trans People

Posted by: SMOD
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She should rush out and marry one of those troons then to demonstrate her faithfulness to the cause.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (ctrM5)

340 I saw the prayer of Rev Sewell and listened to Budde's preaching. I know which church I choose.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (W/lyH)

341 hmmm.... so, if you ever assisted with a person putting a fraudulent gender on their passport, is that Subornation of Perjury?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (+iIV1)

342 I was raised in the Episcopal church. This is not my Episcopalian church!

Posted by: mindful webworker's cell at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (KF1Ep)

343 >>> So far Trump is doing 100% of what we want, but I guess we should dump Trump because some bitch “bishop” couldn’t help but use her sermon as a political soapbox.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (XxG/N

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I would have walked out. Thank goodness PDT is a better man than me. And I’m serious.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (JfxgE)

344 This Bishop doesn't seem to accept that the Episcopal Church is not nor ever has been been a Kingmaker.

A hysterical public tantrum is apparently how they solemnly and respectfully portray their Church.

Disgraceful.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (ky8PV)

345 323 I would have thought the Parkinson's would have won by this time. I was wrong.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (/U5Yz)

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She has Parkinson's? I just thought she was retarded.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

She shakes worse then the paint mixer at Ace hardware. I assumed it be Parkinson's.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (/U5Yz)

346 329 Whores today aren't what they were in my time.

Posted by: Babylon at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (a3Q+t)

I have a few Thots on that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (ynpvh)

347 bluebell. Klobuchar and the why was self evident

Posted by: Ben Had at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (oT+t6)

348 313 I wonder who booked this woman, and why.

Posted by: bluebell at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (79pEw)

They needed an Anglican because DC area. Maybe she is the least wacko Anglican bishop in the area?

Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (aBgBM)

349 I watched that frail woman and I actually felt sorry for her. She struck me as misled, well-intentioned, confused, abused etc. Someone whom Hillary bullied and mean-girled as a kid.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

Nope. AWFLs like that scrunt made my life as a preacher's kid miserable, and by extension, that of my mother, and my father. She can get spit roasted on two of satan's demon's barbed cocks for all i care about her, her bs message, and the assholes that promoted her into the Peter Principle position of incompetence she holds.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (MsrgL)

350 You may be thinking of Second Junior who is 5.

I don't think I was commenting when Junior was born. I may be wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)
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I want to say Jr 1 was about 2 when you started. You did talk a bit about Jr 2 before he officially entered the world.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (tT6L1)

351 I disagree strongly, and urge you to be of good cheer. We have lots of rising stars: Vance, DeSantis, Youngkin..., you name it. We have a strong bench, and it's getting stronger. No, they aren't going to be just like Trump, but that's a good thing, because people tend to get tired of the same old same old, no matter how good it is for them.
Posted by: Archimedes

DeSantis is showing in Florida that he has no f*cks to give on policy. We will see if Vance learns that lesson as VP. Youngkin is the quiet type so we will see about him.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (ctrM5)

352 So far Trump is doing 100% of what we want, but I guess we should dump Trump because some bitch “bishop” couldn’t help but use her sermon as a political soapbox.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 22, 2025 04:06 PM (XxG/N)

Always consider the source of the bitching. Methinks a few of them bitch about everything no matter how good it might be.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (g8Ew8)

353 >>> Episcopal bishop of the Church founded by Henry VIII.
Satan from Satan.
Posted by: Sheriff Farley at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (QxEBj)

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Well,f rom what I've learned from Oversimplified on utewb, that makes sense.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (JfxgE)

354 Breaking News: Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde has accused Pete Hegseth of sexually assaulting her in a Fresno Talbot's in 1994.

Posted by: Camel's got back at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (qUkBO)

355 Whores today aren't what they were in my time.

Posted by: Babylon at January 22, 2025 04:12 PM (a3Q+t)

I have a few Thots on that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (ynpvh)

In my day, attention seeking women had to show their assets in public like respectable ladies.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (i24o9)

356 Optics people are people that care more about appearances than policy. And anyone telling you they are afraid of what others say is actually saying something about themselves.

Posted by: whig

Well said.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (lTGtQ)

357 Optics have their place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM

On top of rifles, and increasingly, pistols and shotguns.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (a3Q+t)

358 Time to revoke a bit o the ole Tax exempt status for a certain church.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (QAkQ3)

359 Comment 246 by "...":

"Same people lectured that Trump was "dumb" for walking into the lions den of the black press bullshit event. Maybe he's not dumb and maybe he has different priorities than you."

Recall that the phrase "walking into the lions den" comes from a story of Daniel. He walked into the lions' den because of the edict of Darius, King of the Medes and Persians, that no one worship any God but him. Daniel continued to pray to the God of Israel and Darius, unwillingly but forced by his own edict, sent him into the lions' den. But because he was faithful and trusted in God, Daniel emerged unharmed and Darius sent Daniel's enemies (who had tricked Darius into issuing the edict hoping that it would result in Daniel's death) into the lions' den instead.

Based on that, "walking into the Lions' den" is exactly what Trump should have done, and continued to do.

Posted by: RonF at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (l8nW6)

360 I don't claim a political label. Republicans have a platform that most closely follows my own positions and morals so that's who I have supported. The democrat platform is written by Satan who hates America so I've decided to oppose them.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (D6PGr)

361 Off traitor sock.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (i24o9)

362 ...even Aunt Jemima is coming back to food stores."

An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 22, 2025 03:56 PM

Now do the Land O'Lakes Indian maiden.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Week 2 of Funemployment at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (Ad8y9)

363 337 >>285 The Dems are still playing by a 1.0 playbook, which worked like a charm against the GOPe, and arguably Trump 1.0.

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They don't have a remotely plausible "Illegitimate President" footstool to stand on and look tall.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (wzAuc)

The GOP, for all their impotent fecklessness, still wield considerable money and power. They've learned that the star of progressivism is setting, and there won't be much in the way of graft to be had if they keep their wagons hitched to the old uniparty.

Don't trust them any farther than you can throw them, but by all means use their money and connections and then discard them when they've served their purposes. They won't mind. They're used to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (+iIV1)

364 Can we have asked for a better opponent than this weirdo?

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Its always a shrieking shriveled up harpy femcel representing the left

see:

Shrillary
Coconut Harris
Fauxcahontas
Ford Pintos

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (HYKHz)

365
That tranny I mentioned above was just saying in her livestream that, [paraphrasing but very close] yeah, there are only two genders, that's what being trans is about, going from one to the other.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:15 PM (RDFmy)

366 >>> 312 'Wicked Star Ariana Grande Licking a Donut Calls Trump Exec Order Recognizing Only 'Male and Female' an Attack on Trans People
Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (RHGPo)

FFS, idiots....

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

Posted by: that kid from Kindergarten Cop at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (NtUSo)

367 And Joy Reid and a whole lot of media is slamming Detroit Minister Lorenzo Sewell's "Over-The-Top" prayer at the Inauguration.

But he was also on Fox News last evening, is a gentleman and would welcome Joy Reid, too.

So a much classier person than that from the left preaching to the president and vice president from pulpit.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (NFX2v)

368 And now this is a gun thread!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (b4o9z)

369 Wait - NUT is worried about the hurt feelings of drug cartels?????

This is hilarious!
Where’s Pelosi to lecture us on their spark of humanity or whatever?!?

They got nothing but MORE COWBELL!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (Hkcdp)

370 348 313 I wonder who booked this woman, and why.

Posted by: bluebell at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (79pEw)

They needed an Anglican because DC area. Maybe she is the least wacko Anglican bishop in the area?
Posted by: Gref
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DEI department of the Episcopalian Church. She is bishop of the DC diocese which is a plum spot due to all the political movers and shakers that show up at the Episcopal Churches in DC for convenience.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (ctrM5)

371 They needed an Anglican because DC area. Maybe she is the least wacko Anglican bishop in the area?
Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (aBgBM)
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Good grief, how high would the wacko bar have to be if she's the best they can do?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (tT6L1)

372 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (fdOPY)

373 This "Bishops"crap is a typical Dem sideshow. As long as Trump stays focused on cutting the size of government and reducing the power of the imperial city than she's irrelevant. Trump demanding an apology is just him being Trump. He's still on the attack against the left in government

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (6v8aM)

374 bring Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the butter girl back!

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

375 I don't trust these generals not to obstruct/slow-walk Trump's border commands.

breakingdefense.com

"Hours after being sworn in as the 47th president, .” In that second one, he gives the Secretary of Defense 10 days to deliver a Unified Command Plan tasking US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) with the border mission.

Following delivery of that plan, USNORTHCOM head Gen. Gregory Guillot will have an additional 30 days to craft a commander’s estimate of just what it will take to “seal the borders "

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 22, 2025 04:11 PM (V6W16)

All it takes is pulling out the last plan for this and touching it up a little. If there is no plan then fire the generals down to bedrock. There's always a plan.

I remember reading articles about US plans for attacking Canada in the 30s, and Canada's plan for invading us right back (these were sensibly, lightning raids rather than take and hold).

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (n7h9X)

376 Henry the Eighth I am, founded the Episcopal Church so he could divorce some bint?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (JdxE1)

377
"Mr. President, how do you answer Bishop J. Edgar Budde's sermon."

"I don't take the ravings of heretical schismatics seriously."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (dxSpM)

378 The lady of the cloth was on the rag.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (4useT)

379 I would have walked out. Thank goodness PDT is a better man than me. And I’m serious.

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Theres no way i could do what Trump does. I would have gone full post office rage rampage by now

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (HYKHz)

380 Breaking News: Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde has accused Pete Hegseth of sexually assaulting her in a Fresno Talbot's in 1994.
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At least it wasn't a Cheesecake Factory.

Posted by: Crusader at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (azSra)

381 Archimedes

DeSantis is showing in Florida that he has no f*cks to give on policy. We will see if Vance learns that lesson as VP. Youngkin is the quiet type so we will see about him.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:14 PM (ctrM5)
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Scott Walker looked mighty impressive in Wisconsin. But he became all GOPpy went he took the national stage. I thought this would be the guy to punch back. But no.

Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (1iy5Z)

382 I would have walked out. Thank goodness PDT is a better man than me. And I’m serious.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (JfxgE)

I would have done more than walked out, so you're both better than me. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (VwHCD)

383 You all know Jesus would agree with the good bishop.
Posted by: Sid at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (fdOPY)

How to prove you've never read New Testament without saying you've never read the New Testament.

Posted by: LASue at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xv6Ce)

384 Pierre Poilievre is the Canadian Trump. If anything, he's even better at humiliating the media.

https://is.gd/pexTj5

Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xCA6C)

385 338 I am concerned about the post-Trump GOP. I can't see anyone - not even Vance - able to do what Trump is doing now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris

I disagree strongly, and urge you to be of good cheer. We have lots of rising stars: Vance, DeSantis, Youngkin..., you name it. We have a strong bench, and it's getting stronger. No, they aren't going to be just like Trump, but that's a good thing, because people tend to get tired of the same old same old, no matter how good it is for them.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (xCA6C)

I definitely want to be of good cheer; I've waited for this moment for so long that I definitely want to savor what Trump is doing. However, I do think about that last 'bench' that the GOP had, back in 2015/6. I thought that was the strongest one in my lifetime, and they folded like cheap suits before the Trumpinator. He was the only one with real courage, it turned out. I hope that this new bench of ours is learning at the feet of the political master. Trump is a once in a century political talent.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (0TZUr)

386 Illegal immigration puts children in danger. Period. The left is living in a make belive world where illegal immigration is a postive thing. It's so dumb, I question all their IQ's

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (b4o9z)

387 Well,f rom what I've learned from Oversimplified on utewb, that makes sense.
Posted by: Turn 2

Oversimplified is my grandson's favorite web site. He's waiting patiently for a new episode.

Posted by: Tuna at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (oaGWv)

388 The gal is the bishop of the DC Episcopal Diocese. No one booked her. It's her gig. It's her space.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (Jfw7U)

389 Lots of lesbians and homosexuals are married with kids… now as to defining “ marriage”….
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (PCK5/)
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Well considering less than 1% of all marriages are between same sex people, it cannot be a lot.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (GZYu7)

390 Bluebell, if this was part of the inauguration, then it was likely Klobuchar who booked the event.
Just a guess…

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (Hkcdp)

391 Secretly I admire everything her/them said.

Posted by: Pope at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (/U5Yz)

392 347 bluebell. Klobuchar and the why was self evident
Posted by: Ben Had at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (oT+t6)

That was my thought - this was a set up to give her a platform and some sound bites.

I truly hope it bit her in the behind.

Posted by: Moki at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (wLjpr)

393 Now the other ministers were invited. Likely by her or similar.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (Jfw7U)

394 I don't know if BJ Clinton was Catholic or not be he was definitely roamin'.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex

He is not Catholic. That's why he took flack for taking Communion in a Catholic church he visited during his Presidency.

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

395 Slow Walking Generals get the boot. There are plenty of Qualified Colonels that would love a promotion.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (D6PGr)

396 I don't like cheesecake.

There, I said it.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (fV+MH)

397 >>> And now this is a gun thread!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (b4o9z)

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WTH? Did I already miss the bewb thread portion?
*kicks rocks*

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (JfxgE)

398 If Trump's team is incompetent, it doesn't portend well to the next 4 years.

If this was planned for some reason, then fine. In the grand scheme of things, this is a nothingburger.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)
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I would suggest that if you can say this, over this incident and be truly worried, you haven't really been paying attention over the last 48 hours.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (GZYu7)

399 Illegal immigration, the only thing the left doesn't want to regulate into extinction.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (tT6L1)

400 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
AOC is upset that Laken Riley Act aiming at cracking down on criminal illegal immigrants will be signed by Trump and will hurt you as an American citizen.

The gaslighting is astounding!

https://tinyurl.com/yrxnfsc5

Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

401 FFS, idiots....

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.
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And Leon's getting larger!

Posted by: Crusader at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (azSra)

402
Anyone remember Mitch Daniels?

Oh what high hopes we had for Mitch...

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (RDFmy)

403
So when the Republicans are organizing one of these shindigs, can we get Bishop Athanasius Schneider to speak?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 04:20 PM (dxSpM)

404 The most important question is does Chocolate Jesus approve of Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 22, 2025 04:20 PM (B77Ne)

405 There, I said it.
Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (fV+MH)
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Really?

Posted by: Mae West at January 22, 2025 04:20 PM (tT6L1)

406 bring Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the butter girl back!
Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

also the black chef on the Cream 'o' Wheat boxes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Week 2 of Funemployment at January 22, 2025 04:20 PM (Ad8y9)

407 I don't like cheesecake.

There, I said it.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (fV+MH)

More for me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 04:20 PM (i24o9)

408 While I think Trump should keep his eye on cutting stuff, he should definitely figure out a way to shove this up Klobuchar's nose

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 22, 2025 04:20 PM (6v8aM)

409 Wicked Star Ariana Grande Licking a Donut Calls Trump Exec Order Recognizing Only 'Male and Female' an Attack on Trans People
Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 04:10 PM (RHGPo)
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So, nobody, then. Okay.

Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2025 04:21 PM (1iy5Z)

410 Today I signed pardons for the millions of witches who will be burned at the stake during the Trump administration.

Except for Nancy Pelosi, I don't pardon that witch.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 22, 2025 04:21 PM (Y1oIY)

411 And now this is a gun thread!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM

It could be a boob thread but ... well ..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 04:21 PM (aD39U)

412
Was Mitch Daniels the one who ABSCONDED?

Is that the wrong word?

Who was it who Disappeared to South America for a few days, presumably chasing his mistress?

Was it Mark Sanford?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:21 PM (RDFmy)

413 Can we get this Pompous Circumstance over with already?

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:21 PM (fV+MH)

414 Bill Clinton used to carry around the seven pound coffer table bible.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 04:21 PM (JdxE1)

415
Mark Sanford was another one we adored before he revealed his true form, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (RDFmy)

416 The thing is, the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer includes prayers for these kinds of events. All she had to do was use one of them. She chose not to, and given none of the events organizers has criticized her, she was not instructed to keep it simple.

It was planned. This is what the Left does.
I am glad Trump and Vance didn’t take the bait and make a bigger deal about it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (Hkcdp)

417 380 Breaking News: Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde has accused Pete Hegseth of sexually assaulting her in a Fresno Talbot's in 1994.
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At least it wasn't a Cheesecake Factory.
Posted by: Crusader at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (azSra)
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If it's not in her hippocampus, it didn't happen.

Posted by: WisRich at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (G0vdT)

418
Good grief, how high would the wacko bar have to be if she's the best they can do?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (tT6L1)

A former friend went to a DC episcopal church with a gay priest who lived with his Filipino escort.

Posted by: Moki at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (wLjpr)

419 I guess I don't understand
how can there be so many interpretations of one Book

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (AOsQT)

420 >>> Oversimplified is my grandson's favorite web site. He's waiting patiently for a new episode.
Posted by: Tuna at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (oaGWv)

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I believe the 2nd Punic War (part 3) came out 4 days ago.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (JfxgE)

421 The Dems are still playing by a 1.0 playbook, which worked like a charm against the GOPe, and arguably Trump 1.0. This is a different Trump than was around before. The Dems haven't had the time to come up with a new playbook against Trump 2.0.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:03 PM (0TZUr)

The Dems need a new playbook for more reasons than Trump 2.0. Have you heard many Democrats talk about black slavery reparations lately? Every time they do it pisses off more Hispanics, Asians, Indians (dot), and other minorities. The Dems seem to have finally figured this one out. Constantly pimping unions as the true way forward for American workers has also become a net loser for the Dems, I believe.

Posted by: Gref at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (aBgBM)

422 415
Mark Sanford was another one we adored before he revealed his true form, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (RDFmy)

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Dude was kind of awesome as SC governor.

Brought a pig to the SC state house floor when he vetoes a bill filled with pork.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

423 This just goes to show that women have never been the source of all that ails us

It's been simps and soys and all the gay boys
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (HYKHz)

Have to start with the original prime unmoved mover. He started this whole fucking mess.

Posted by: Accountability is divine at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (ybSPO)

424 Was it Mark Sanford?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:21 PM (RDFmy)
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Off gallivanting around with his mistress, if I remember correctly. Guy turned out to be a lunatic. Fortunately, his wife wasn't a power mad political wife and divorced him. May have even hit him with a restraining order.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (tT6L1)

425 I don't like cheesecake.

There, I said it.

Posted by: eleven

It has always been confusing for me. Is it cheese, or cake? I don't think you can put cheesecake on a sandwich, but then again, you don't put cheese in a cake.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (lTGtQ)

426 Hadrian, the Republicans invited Franklin Graham.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (oT+t6)

427 There, I said it.
Posted by: eleven

There! I've said it again.

Posted by: Bobby Vinton at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (4useT)

428 VOTE VANCE!
Posted by: Sid at January 22, 2025 04:16 PM (fdOPY)

Patience, Dunce.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (aD39U)

429 427 There, I said it.
Posted by: eleven

There! I've said it again.
Posted by: Bobby Vinton at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (4useT)

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That is the word that the Knights who until recently said Ni cannot hear!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

430 Optics have their place.

3 days into a new administration is not that place.

Optics are about convincing people of things. The public doesn't need convincing for almost 2 years. The GOPe in Congress isn't being convinced by this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Optics are appearances that bear the same relationship of rhetoric to dialectic.

Anyone using optics (other than firearms as noted) is telling me that they accept media framing of events. That increasingly is only true of people that watch the media all the time.

I would suggest anyone interested in public opinion read a book on polling by a former well regarded one, Yankelovich called Coming to Public Judgment. Basically, once the public has come to public judgment on a person or issue, 'optics' are simply bleating in a whirlwind.

This is why lawfare ultimately failed--the Left and even the GOPe have been so transparent in claiming Orangeman Bad that they destroyed their own credibility so that persuadeables don't exist anymore on that issue.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (ctrM5)

431 anotherone bites the dust...
https://tinyurl.com/dejxxmfh

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. I'm a dangerous radical. at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (89Sog)

432 Grande used to be pretty hot. She the wall really young.

I think she's anorexic and has something that's making her hair fall out. I think its a nutritional thing myself.

Girl can sing though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (D6PGr)

433 However, I do think about that last 'bench' that the GOP had, back in 2015/6. I thought that was the strongest one in my lifetime, and they folded like cheap suits before the Trumpinator. He was the only one with real courage, it turned out. I hope that this new bench of ours is learning at the feet of the political master. Trump is a once in a century political talent.

And where are they all now? Nowhere. It's Trump's party now. There has been a yuge purge of the GOPe RINOs. Sure, some still exist, but they're powerless, and know they'd better get on board if they want to keep their seats.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (xCA6C)

434
I have to admit I'm worried.

The Democrats have the Scoldy, Ugly, Lesbian-Adjacent Screaming Feminist Bony White Woman Demographic locked up!!!

Wait till they join up with the Scoldy, Ugly, Lesbian-Adjacent Screaming Feminist Lardbucket White Woman Demographic!!!

Who can stand before that?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (iJfKG)

435 The most important question is does Chocolate Jesus approve of Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde ????

"Obama doesn't really like the ladies, Trebek" - Sean Connery

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (2ocoG)

436 bring Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the butter girl back!
Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

also the black chef on the Cream 'o' Wheat boxes.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Week 2 of Funemployment at

I think his name was Kareem Owheet.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (gdPBL)

437 Trump is a once in a century political talent.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (0TZUr)

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Even back in 2016 I was hoping he would mentor and groom (original meaning) a group of talented & worthy MAGA acolytes.

I'm hoping he's at least doing it with JD ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (g/JNk)

438 I disagree strongly, and urge you to be of good cheer. We have lots of rising stars: Vance, DeSantis, Youngkin..., you name it. We have a strong bench, and it's getting stronger. No, they aren't going to be just like Trump, but that's a good thing, because people tend to get tired of the same old same old, no matter how good it is for them.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 04:13 PM (xCA6C)

And the Dems since Reagan have only been able to win by hiding what they really wanted to do from the voters. It is far harder to do that in general, and most of the Dems don't think they need to hide it.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (n7h9X)

439 Is SCRUNT a word? Because I feel it should be a word. A melange if you will of screeching c***

Posted by: Stacy0311 at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (K861k)

440 1 She is married to a man and has two children. Nevertheless....
Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:31 PM (Jfw7U)

In fairness, the ability to tell your average female Episcopalian from lesbians requires state of the art gaydar that few can afford in our troubled economy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls -- jon favreau truther at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (YVuAl)

441 27 This is what churches like this asked for when they allowed them to get a foothold.
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1 Timothy 2:12
New International Version
12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;

Why set an alarm, struggle to get the kids ready, and all of the other things that are part of going to church if you're not really into what the Bible says?
Posted by: Crusader at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (azSra)

Oh shit, now you've gone and done it...

Posted by: Brace your loins at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (ybSPO)

442 I guess I don't understand
how can there be so many interpretations of one Book
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM

A good part of it was written without vowels.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (aD39U)

443 It's rather funny that the Dems are trying to get in on the immigration revolution. Now asking Thune to have bipartisan talks on the issue.

Nasty Senate Dems block the 'Born Alive' abortion protections.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (Jfw7U)

444 Mariann Edgar "Butch" Budde

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (/lPRQ)

445 Off gallivanting around with his mistress, if I remember correctly. Guy turned out to be a lunatic. Fortunately, his wife wasn't a power mad political wife and divorced him. May have even hit him with a restraining order.
Posted by: blake
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Sanford lost his seat in Congress during his comeback attempt in the primary. Nancy Mace holds it now. Think his Argentinian mistress dumped Sanford before that even.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (ctrM5)

446 Boston Cream Pie and Cheese Cake should switch nouns.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (D6PGr)

447 The left has a simplfied, childlike understanding of illegal immigration. They think they all come here and go to college or start a business.

It's really sad and pathetic how out of touch with reality the are.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (b4o9z)

448 >>>Grande used to be pretty hot.

=====

IKR?

--- Dan Schneider

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (JfxgE)

449 @440 Yes, hence the nevertheless....

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (Jfw7U)

450 He is not Catholic. That's why he took flack for taking Communion in a Catholic church he visited during his Presidency.
Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

He was Southern Baptist (in name only), a member of the church my husband went to in Little Rock.

Posted by: Moki at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (wLjpr)

451 Not the right thread for this comment, but I've been checking out 2Way with Mark Halperin on YouTube. Probably the best political commentary on that forum; he's got Sean Spicer (R) and Dan Turrentine (D) as co-hosts. It's what Morning Joe should have been, TBH.

Anyway, Turrentine made a very interesting comment today about why Biden didn't run against Hillary in '16. He says - as FACT - that Obama said to him that if Bien crossed Obama to run against Hillary that 'nothing would have been off limits' to throw against Joe. Meaning that all the Biden Crime Family dirty laundry would have been aired back in 2016.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (0TZUr)

452 They should make up some chocolate Jesus's for Easter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (JdxE1)

453
Hadrian, the Republicans invited Franklin Graham.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (oT+t6)

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Too squishy. The Rev. Gino Jennings would be a hoot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (dxSpM)

454 433 And where are they all now? Nowhere. It's Trump's party now. There has been a yuge purge of the GOPe RINOs. Sure, some still exist, but they're powerless, and know they'd better get on board if they want to keep their seats.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (xCA6C)

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They went nowhere because the donor class told all of them to be wholesale in support of amnesty and open borders, and they all complied (except Ted Cruz, which is probably why he lasted as long as he did in that race).

The donor class was not going to let their effort to completely take over the Republican Party through the lens of open borders die. They had the RNC autopsy of 2012 to back them up.

My question is: What is the Republican donor class like right now? Because they're going to have a very big say in how the Republican Party operates post-Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

455 I'd like to have heard Vance verbalize his reaction to the rant (although the eye roll was great).

"Well, she began to ramble so my mind drifted to all the important work we have ahead of us... "

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (wBaIH)

456
Sanford, Renee Elmers, the other guy, Mia Love,...

They all got their just deserts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (RDFmy)

457 A former friend went to a DC episcopal church with a gay priest who lived with his Filipino escort.
Posted by: Moki at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (wLjpr)
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yer saying the bar is so high as to be virtually invisible?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (tT6L1)

458 They love death, don't they.
What if they knew the struggling new born was to grow up trans. Would they save it then?

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (Jfw7U)

459 Who can stand before that?!?!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 22, 2025 04:24 PM (iJfKG)

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At least they're not advocating for child sex and mutilation.

Oh, nevermind ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (Hk0bN)

460
Who was Elmers squatting on, again?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (RDFmy)

461 Greatest meal I ever had was eating an entire Boston Cream Pie whilst high as a kite.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (fV+MH)

462 bring Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the butter girl back!
Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

also the black chef on the Cream 'o' Wheat boxes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Week 2 of Funemployment at January 22, 2025 04:20 PM (Ad8y9)

All thats left is the lily white quaker oats dude. The dems/Klan is appeased.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (VwHCD)

463

Obviously this was a plant.

She also looks like a plant.

Posted by: E Buzz at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (JROaS)

464 445 Sanford lost his seat in Congress during his comeback attempt in the primary. Nancy Mace holds it now. Think his Argentinian mistress dumped Sanford before that even.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (ctrM5)

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He held the seat from 2013 to 2019. He lost the primary (Katie Arrington, I think) in 2018 after being "principled" to resist Trump in all forms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

465 A former friend went to a DC episcopal church with a gay priest who lived with his Filipino escort.
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All of the church's inside District of Chazz house their wonky rejected laity. It the way it is.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (Wg6v7)

466 442 I guess I don't understand
how can there be so many interpretations of one Book
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM

A good part of it was written without vowels.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 04:25 PM (aD39U)

Oh so it's the Hebrews' fault.

Posted by: Just kidding at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (ybSPO)

467
Flake?

I think biden gave flake an ambassadorship.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (RDFmy)

468 Hard be believe but Father Guido Sarducci would have been a step up from Budde.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (tT6L1)

469 Trump is a once in a century political talent.

*******************

Gen Z will be crying to their grandkids about how special he was

we shall never see his like again

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (HYKHz)

470 Those bags under her eyes. Crimeny. How much coke did she snort at seminary? Sometimes dead is better.

Posted by: mishdog at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (/wVE1)

471 It has always been confusing for me. Is it cheese, or cake? I don't think you can put cheesecake on a sandwich, but then again, you don't put cheese in a cake.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (lTGtQ)

It's also better described as a PIE rather than a cake.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (n7h9X)

472 I don't like cheesecake.

There, I said it.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (fV+MH)

This weekend the beautiful and exploratory Mrs naturalfake bought some Wensleydale Cheese infused with Lemon and Honey.

It tasted exactly like cheesecake.

To no one's surprise at all, I suppose.

Not sure what the point of it was.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (iJfKG)

473
I'm reading that the military, NORTHCOM, has been tasked to take over "operational control" of the US Southern border.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (w6EFb)

474 I feel good about Vance 2028.

Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (1iy5Z)

475 I'll take my preacher pounding the podium and thumping the bible.
I'll take my preacher challenging me to be better in my walk with God.
I will not take being spoken to in such a condescending and snotty way.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (W/lyH)

476 Now I want some cheesecake.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (aD39U)

477 474 I feel good about Vance 2028.
Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2025 04:28 PM (1iy5Z)

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He's well positioned now.

But 4 years is 4 years.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

478 I believe the 2nd Punic War (part 3) came out 4 days ago.
Posted by: Turn 2

Thanks. I'll make he knows if he doesn't already.

Posted by: Tuna at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (oaGWv)

479 I don't like cheesecake.

There, I said it.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (fV+MH)
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I'll have yours, then. I love it1

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (6K6Eu)

480 Its for the kids and, "besides its all your fault."

Got it. Now, as has been said before, "Fuck off."

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (QSrLX)

481 456
Sanford, Renee Elmers, the other guy, Mia Love,...

They all got their just deserts.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (RDFmy)

A parched and grainy fate

Posted by: Gobi somewhere else at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (ybSPO)

482 I guess I don't understand
how can there be so many interpretations of one Book
Posted by: Don Black

Because it was written a long time ago, in ancient languages, and in cultures that were much different from ours.

Having worked as a translator myself, I can tell you that it can be difficult enough to translate between two modern languages that belong to the same language family (Russian and English, in my case). When you have to translate from ancient languages, two of which are not Indo-European, the problems become even greater.

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

483 Is SCRUNT a word? Because I feel it should be a word. A melange if you will of screeching c***

*****************

Scruntycocklimperkiller always had a nice ring to me

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (HYKHz)

484 Bring Friar Tuck back !

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (g47mK)

485 Greatest meal I ever had was eating an entire Boston Cream Pie whilst high as a kite.
Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (fV+MH)

How the dickens did you get the pie high?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (n7h9X)

486 My question is: What is the Republican donor class like right now? Because they're going to have a very big say in how the Republican Party operates post-Trump.

That's actually one of the extraordinary things about 2024 - the Republicans more or less Great Replaced the donor class, with an assist from the Biden junta's amateurish attempts to play Mafia with Silicon Valley.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (2ocoG)

487 I don't like cheesecake.

There, I said it.
Posted by: eleven

Heretic! Burn the witch!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (L/fGl)

488 479 I don't like cheesecake.

There, I said it.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:19 PM (fV+MH)
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I'll have yours, then. I love it1

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (6K6Eu)

I'm more into beefcake myself. mmmm.

Posted by: Petey Bootyjuice at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

489 Key lime cheesecake is the snizz.

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (77rzZ)

490 This weekend the beautiful and exploratory Mrs naturalfake bought some Wensleydale Cheese infused with Lemon and Honey.

Cheese, Gromit!

Posted by: Wallace at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (PiwSw)

491 Hadrian, the Republicans invited Franklin Graham.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 22, 2025 04:23 PM (oT+t6)

___________

Too squishy. The Rev. Gino Jennings would be a hoot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (dxSpM)

*tugs collar nervously* Sorry. Already booked that day.

Posted by: Bishop T.D. Jakes at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (Aqu9a)

492 412
Was Mitch Daniels the one who ABSCONDED?

Posted by: Soothsayer
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Mitch Daniels got cucked by his wife who left him for another dude and then he later accepted her back. Pretty much killed his desire for a political career I suspect. He was or is the current head of Purdue University and by all accounts has done excellent in that job. Know some kids attending there.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (ctrM5)

493 420 >>> Oversimplified is my grandson's favorite web site. He's waiting patiently for a new episode.
Posted by: Tuna at January 22, 2025 04:18 PM (oaGWv)

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I believe the 2nd Punic War (part 3) came out 4 days ago.
Posted by: Turn 2 at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (JfxgE)

It did. They guy promised it would come out a year after 2nd Punic War, Part Deux - and it did, with one day to spare (!). It's excellent.

He said that the Third Punic War would come out 'eventually'. So, once you've seen this last one, don't hold your breath for the next one.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (0TZUr)

494 486 That's actually one of the extraordinary things about 2024 - the Republicans more or less Great Replaced the donor class, with an assist from the Biden junta's amateurish attempts to play Mafia with Silicon Valley.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (2ocoG)

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The old donor class went all in on Pence and then Haley.

The new donor class is effectively just Elon Musk.

It's not a terribly tenable long term situation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

495 I can't imagine Rev doing anything remotely like this.

Posted by: Grammie's phone at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (HUq5R)

496 have some cheesecake

https://tinyurl.com/2s3vhz3n

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (AOsQT)

497 419 I guess I don't understand
how can there be so many interpretations of one Book
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 04:22 PM (AOsQT)

There really aren't.

But people from Literal Day One have treated that book as if it were some kind of magic totem that confers authority and not as a simple Testament of the One who really has authority (and why He does, and why we ought not forget that).

In the early days every screwball jackass in the greater eastern mediterranean and west asia was claiming they "found" some additional book or another that proved that Jesus was on their side and everyone should do things their way.

To this day people still whip out snippets of scripture that have nothing to do with anything as justification for whatever stupid hobby horse they're on, or whatever bug they got up their ass. That's not the Book's fault.

Having a Bible and not praying to and speaking with the Lord yourself is a lot like having a Chilton's manual but never even having seen a 1970 Torino. But which is more important? The Truth? Or subjugating people?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (+iIV1)

498 Wondering if I have a random piece of Costco cheesecake in the freezer. Going to go check.

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (Jfw7U)

499 "How the dickens did you get the pie high?
Posted by: Oldcat"

Contact high. After me and the pie merged into one being.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (fV+MH)

500 I like Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake. I had a sister who scoped it out and determined the best stuff they had.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (JdxE1)

501
Has Congress officially extended the Trump 2017 Tax Cuts, yet, and made them permanent?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (RDFmy)

502 Having worked as a translator myself, I can tell you that it can be difficult enough to translate between two modern languages

**********************

Bias and being a woke asswipe plays a role too

I was watching Das Boot and they literally censored the german speech that mentioned plowing through the strait of gibraltar is "like plowing a virgin" to "like going through the eye of a needle"

Not quite the accurate translation you censorious schmuck twinkies

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Mighty Fondler of MAGAshambas at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (HYKHz)

503 My question is: What is the Republican donor class like right now? Because they're going to have a very big say in how the Republican Party operates post-Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

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Are the billionaire Tech Bros now backing or supporting Trump a new donor class that will replace the old GOPee donor class?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (Hk0bN)

504
yer saying the bar is so high as to be virtually invisible?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (tT6L1)

I went with her to a service once and met him, and thought "What's off here?" Then he left with said escort, and I asked my friend how he was the pastor. "I don't care who he sleeps with, he believes the right things!" She didn't elaborate what those were.

Um, okay. The whole church is infected.

Posted by: Moki at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (wLjpr)

505 Having worked as a translator myself, I can tell you that it can be difficult enough to translate between two modern languages that belong to the same language family (Russian and English, in my case). When you have to translate from ancient languages, two of which are not Indo-European, the problems become even greater.
Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

The bible also quotes idioms with which we are unfamiliar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (aD39U)

506 But which is more important? The Truth? Or subjugating people?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (+iIV1)

History would indicate the latter.

Posted by: Controlling the means of control at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (ybSPO)

507 Residents under mandatory evacuation in northern Los Angeles County in first significant wildfire outbreak since fatal fires, By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN

"Fire crews are battling a swiftly growing blaze dubbed the Hughes Fire burning near the town of Castaic, a suburb in the foothills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County. Residents in the immediate vicinity of Castaic Lake are under mandatory evacuations, according to the LA County Fire Department.

As of 12:30 p.m., about 90 minutes after it started, the fire had burned more than 3,400 acres, according to Cal Fire. The fire began at 10:53 a.m. and burned 500 acres in one hour, Cal Fire said. That’s equivalent to a spread rate of about a football field burned every 10 seconds.

Images showed a large plume of smoke moving west toward Interstate 5 as flames burned near Castaic Lake in the grassy hills just north of Santa Clarita."

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (NFX2v)

508 503 Are the billionaire Tech Bros now backing or supporting Trump a new donor class that will replace the old GOPee donor class?
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 04:32 PM (Hk0bN)

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I dunno.

And what happens if Musk suddenly decides that we went too far deporting people and we need to open the floodgates again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

509 Greatest meal I ever had was eating an entire Boston Cream Pie whilst high as a kite.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (fV+MH)

Reminds me of a funny story about a friend's kid brother and brother's friend who got really high in the friend's car, got the munchies, but were so broke that they only had enough for a loaf of bread.

Friend said his car looked like a bread loaf murder scene in there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (i24o9)

510 463

Obviously this was a plant.

She also looks like a plant.

Posted by: E Buzz at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (JROaS)

*perks up*

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (0TZUr)

511

NOOOOd

noooD

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (RDFmy)

512 The Rt. Rev is just textbook Episcopalian, or "Episcopagan" for those familiar with that dying mainline church. Pride flags, SJW "homilies," and the like are par for the course.

Amazing that the Episcopal Church was once called "the Republican Party at prayer."

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (uY1j2)

513 My SIL is a Episcopal priest. She and my retired attorney brother are hard left. Hard. Don't see them very often, but when I do I try to keep politics out of the conversation.

Posted by: Indiana Lurker at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (3ZVqj)

514
nodododdo

noood

Go

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (RDFmy)

515
But which is more important? The Truth? Or subjugating people?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 04:31 PM (+iIV1)

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Subjugating people. Definitely.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (dxSpM)

516 Obviously this was a plant.

She also looks like a plant.

Posted by: E Buzz at January 22, 2025 04:27 PM (JROaS)
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My ferns are much hotter.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at January 22, 2025 04:34 PM (1iy5Z)

517 Because it was written a long time ago, in ancient languages, and in cultures that were much different from ours.

Having worked as a translator myself, I can tell you that it can be difficult enough to translate between two modern languages that belong to the same language family (Russian and English, in my case). When you have to translate from ancient languages, two of which are not Indo-European, the problems become even greater.
Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

I remember an anecdote that when Spain was translating the bible for its own language they brought in some jews for the Hebrew books and they got stuck on the prophecy in Isaiah 'A virgin shall give birth to a son...' but their Hebrew book just had a word meaning young woman. So not wanting to deny the virgin birth of Jesus, they left the word untranslated.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:34 PM (n7h9X)

518 One sliver of Key Lime Pie and I'm full for a week.

Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2025 04:34 PM (fV+MH)

519 I like Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake.
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The waitresses at the Pasadena one were pretty hot, back in the day.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 22, 2025 04:34 PM (6K6Eu)

520 Key lime cheesecake is the snizz.
Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 04:30 PM (77rzZ)

ProTip: Do not combine as Key Lime's pH will throw off the snizz's pH and you'll get a meringue infection.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 04:34 PM (Aqu9a)

521 My question is: What is the Republican donor class like right now? Because they're going to have a very big say in how the Republican Party operates post-Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The truth was all along that the donor class of corporate types seeking cheap labor along with the others ones oriented on sucking on the government teat were not needed by the GOP.

Do what the base wants, you get the small donors necessary to run and the big donors no longer matter as much for down ballot races.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:35 PM (ctrM5)

522 Do not go gently over to that good nood!

Posted by: Axeman at January 22, 2025 04:35 PM (1iy5Z)

523 If Jonathan Edward's were still preaching, he'd need a better metaphor than spider to describe Budde.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 22, 2025 04:35 PM (L/fGl)

524 I dunno.

And what happens if Musk suddenly decides that we went too far deporting people and we need to open the floodgates again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

he wants to deport as many peeps to Mars as he can, don't worry on that score.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:36 PM (n7h9X)

525 501. Has Congress officially extended the Trump 2017 Tax Cuts, yet, and made them permanent?
Posted by: Soothsayer

No

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 22, 2025 04:37 PM (NFX2v)

526 447 The left has a simplfied, childlike understanding of illegal immigration. They think they all come here and go to college or start a business.

It's really sad and pathetic how out of touch with reality the are.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

The left is simply rebellion against their society and status quo. Anything that brings down current society is what they want. Nihilism are their true values.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:37 PM (ctrM5)

527 526 The left is simply rebellion against their society and status quo. Anything that brings down current society is what they want. Nihilism are their true values.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:37 PM (ctrM5)

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Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism but at least it's an ethos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

528 If Jonathan Edward's were still preaching, he'd need a better metaphor than spider to describe Budde.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 22, 2025 04:35 PM (L/fGl)

Remember a Dave Allen video (brit comedian) where a brimstone preachers was giving a rip roaring sermon, ending with a vision of sinners in hell in torment, wailing and gnashing GNASHing their teeth in agony

A little old lady in front asked, "But Reverend, I don't have any teeth"

He raged back "TEETH will be PROVIDED!!!"

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 04:40 PM (n7h9X)

529 501. Has Congress officially extended the Trump 2017 Tax Cuts, yet, and made them permanent?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Trump held separate meetings with House and then Senate leaders and members. Much of what is desired comes from the limitations imposed on reconciliation in the Senate. Senate rules permit that being used twice in a Congress and the Senate parliamentarian rules on what has germane budget effects and what does not.

Non-germane items that do not affect the budget can then be filibustered as they cannot be included in the reconciliation package.

So the controversy is over separate smaller bills or one big package slid through by reconciliation. House and Senate differ on that apparently.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:40 PM (ctrM5)

530 The old donor class went all in on Pence and then Haley.

The new donor class is effectively just Elon Musk.

It's not a terribly tenable long term situation.

There's more to it than that (the A16Z guys, Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison), and Trump also reportedly got tons of small donations.

But I think the effects of money in winning an election are also greatly overstated. Kamala was defeated mostly by being herself, although my favorite conspiracy theory remains that she lost because Michael Malice did the emperor's new clothes thing about her obvious alcoholism on Joe Rogan's podcast.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 04:41 PM (2ocoG)

531 Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism but at least it's an ethos.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Most movements posit a figleaf over Nietsche's Will to Power for its elites. The current left in world affairs doesn't even try to do that anymore.

Thanks for the reminder of Sanford's second flameout trajectory. SC could use a man like DeMint again.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:42 PM (ctrM5)

532 530 But I think the effects of money in winning an election are also greatly overstated. Kamala was defeated mostly by being herself, although my favorite conspiracy theory remains that she lost because Michael Malice did the emperor's new clothes thing about her obvious alcoholism on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 04:41 PM (2ocoG)

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It's not about winning elections.

It's about affecting candidate behavior and rhetoric.

Trump was able to waltz in during 2016 because the donor class had forbidden anti-amnesty/immigration talk from their candidates, 14 of the 15 (Cruz being the exception). Trump wouldn't have been able to make a serious dent in the primary if someone like Scott Walker had said, "Close the border." But they didn't. They all became mealy-mouthed losers on the issue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

533 531 Most movements posit a figleaf over Nietsche's Will to Power for its elites. The current left in world affairs doesn't even try to do that anymore.

Thanks for the reminder of Sanford's second flameout trajectory. SC could use a man like DeMint again.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:42 PM (ctrM5)

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Further backstory on the Sanford flame out:

Arrington lost the general election to Jim Cunningham (I think that was his name). SC-1 was in Democrat hands for a whole term. Nancy Mace then won in the next election.

I mean, I have my problems with Mace, but she's a step up from Sanford as Rep.

The lesson being: losing a safe House seat for a term to get someone better is possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

534 Breaking News: Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde has accused Pete Hegseth of sexually assaulting her in a Fresno Talbot's in 1994.
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FFS. I WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD THEN!!

Posted by: Hegseth at January 22, 2025 04:46 PM (YnLVJ)

535 The waitresses at the Pasadena one were pretty hot, back in the day.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 22, 2025 04:34 PM (6K6Eu)

I think her name was Penny. She was cute!!

Posted by: Dr. Leonard Hofstadter at January 22, 2025 04:48 PM (iODuv)

536 But I think the effects of money in winning an election are also greatly overstated. Kamala was defeated mostly by being herself, although my favorite conspiracy theory remains that she lost because Michael Malice did the emperor's new clothes thing about her obvious alcoholism on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Back when I did empirical research, I did a fairly massive study with some colleagues over campaign spending of House members and their ability to turn money into winning (and vote percentages). Had about a decade worth of data using primaries and general elections as some other factors are involved in general elections. Used the House because larger dataset for stats.

Turns out campaign spending was a cubic function in House seats. You need a certain amount of spending to do well then all of a sudden, you see spending more means you have a strong competitor so likelihood of winning goes down, but at a certain stage, if you can swing it, you can buy an election by spending grossly disproportionate amounts (Michael Huffington for a CA House Seat) and Corzine in NJ (not in dataset but example). They used their own money to win.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)

537 If nobody has posted it yet, The Bee naturally has a scathing satire: https://tinyurl.com/23tbcsc4

Posted by: Saber Alter at January 22, 2025 04:53 PM (AZg1Q)

538 FFS. I WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD THEN!!
Posted by: Hegseth at January 22, 2025 04:46 PM (YnLVJ)

Having once been a 14 year old boy, this does not help your defense.

Posted by: Priaptic Teenage Pug Mahon at January 22, 2025 04:59 PM (Ad8y9)

539 Spelling errors make it moar funnier!

Posted by: Priaptic Teenage Pug Mahon at January 22, 2025 05:00 PM (Ad8y9)

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