Then there is the Fox shill Greg Gutfeld claiming the "activist Pope" wants a TV show on MSNBC.

Projection by proxy? :p

My next thought was Oh Gawd! When Trump loses he's bound to become a horrible TV news presence.

I can see The Handmaid's Tale being perceived in a similar light: banned because it had an anti-Trump theme. :p

What they'll probably do is try to get a court to put a stay on the funds until the legality of the process is established. That would not allow the felons to vote and would certainly push any decision till after the election, by which time nobody will give a damn.

When asked for his favorite Bible verse he couldn't even come up with John 3:16.

Shall we see if we can get that going on Reddit? :p

Isn't that the one about wrestling?

Are you sure it's not about promoting liberal values of communism?

Notice my use of the word "accusing". I didn't say it was equivalent. As a former history teacher I am well aware of the whitewashing of history we have taught in our schools. As I've said before, Trump wants the Disney version of Pocahontas, not the Trail of Tears, or the story of broken treaty after broken treaty taught.

Ironic, innit?

And even an equal opportunity racist:

""After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews 'are only in it for themselves' and 'stick together' in an ethnic allegiance that exceeds other loyalties," White House officials told @gregpmiller "

https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/s...326593536?s=19

:id:

You really should have warned people to keep their irony meters away from your post.

"Republicans have threatened to oust Speaker Nancy Pelosi if she tries to impeach Donald Trump for a second time.

Now House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says he would introduce a motion to remove Pelosi if she acted.

Any “motion to vacate” the speaker’s chair would need Mr McCarthy and Republicans to secure a majority of House members to oust Ms Pelosi.

Republicans currently hold only 198 seats, versus 232 for Democrats.

“The president is supposed to move forward and they will. The Senate is supposed to take the action and they will, it’s their constitutional right and they are following through,” the California Republican told reporters on Wednesday.

“And I will make you this one promise, listening to the Speaker on television this weekend, if she tries to move for an impeachment based upon the president following the Constitution, I think there will be a move on the floor to no longer have the question of her being Speaker.

“She may think she has a quiver, we do too.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...?ocid=msedgdhp

This. Trump is an extreme present hedonist. This is from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, PhD and Rosemary Sword's excerpt from Dr. Bandy Lee's book:

Oh, he's still just growing up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...63d_story.html

May I suggest the No Donalds Society.

This is also covered in Zimbardo and Sword's excerpt:

However, his niece, Mary, also believes a traumatic event left Donald emotionally stunted and think the traumatic event was the illness of his mother when he was IIRC about 4. After she almost bled to death after a hysterectomy, she was never really well again and withdrew into herself leaving the raising of Donald to his elder sister, Maryanne.

Talk about a completely empty threat. If he had that much backing, there could be no vote to impeach.

He's taking lessons in blustering from Dear Leader.

All due respect to her expertise, but Mary is really reaching with that crap.

Donald was a spoiled rich kid for whom there were no real risks and no real consequences. His father continued treating him as such well into his adult life, bailing him out whenever Donald was in need, teaching him that he could **** up and **** people over and not have to worry about anything coming back on him. Donald spent all that time telling anyone who'd listen what a genius he was, while consistently failing at everything he tried to do. His image was everything, the facts meant nothing.

I don't buy for a second any explanation that lays the blame for his various pathologies on his mother dying when he was 4, except perhaps in the sense that she might have been a good influence on him.

His mother didn't die then. She lived to be 88. But if she was sick when he was a child and then became distant and rejecting, that would go a long way to explaining why someone would be desperate for attention and adulation.

And apparently she lived long enough to express disappointment in her boy:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8037181.html

I misunderstood.
It apparently didn't get him to try very hard at anything. As far as I can tell, his only job (apart from his reality show) has been throwing his father's money around like he earned it.
Good for her. Her son has been a piece of **** for a very long time.

With the potential Supreme Court nominee being a catholic woman, already there are accusations that the democrats are "anti-catholic." Despite the fact that the 2020 democratic presidential nominee is catholic, and Nancy Pelosi is also catholic.

Clearly, the party is anti-cath9l8c.

I saw a survey today where 49% if catholic Republicans said that Joe Buden is at least "somewhat" religious.

63% said that about Donald Trump.

Get that? 2/3 of republican catholics think Donald Trump is at least "somewhat religious."

Would the fact that he worships himself make that technically true?

Todays Trump presser

"I wish a lot of luck to Harry, 'cause he's gonna need it" -- Trump disses Meghan Markle

"I have tremendous trust in these massive companies that are so brilliantly organized in terms of what they've been doing w/the tests. I mean, I don't know that a government as big as we are could do tests like this"- Trump downplays govt's role in approving a coronavirus vaccine

Asked for his thoughts on the Breonna Taylor case, Trump praises Kentucky's AG (whose name he can't remember!) as "a star"

Trump says he has to take "an emergency phone call" and walks away while ignoring a reporter's shouted question about what his message is to people who are upset over Breonna Taylor's killing

"I have tremendous trust in these massive companies that are so brilliantly organized in terms of what they've been doing w/the tests. I mean, I don't know that a government as big as we are could do tests like this"- Trump downplays govt's role in approving a coronavirus vaccine

She is black, and Trump don’t like ‘em. Uppity women!

Q: Will you commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election?

TRUMP: "We're gonna have to see what happens."
"get rid of the ballots and there'll be a peaceful ... it won't be a transfer frankly it will be a continuation."

Kids who crave attention can seek it in good ways or bad. Sounds like Trump got his attention by lying, stealing and hurting people.

The family way.

Doesn't matter if they read it or not if they're quite willing to lie. It's even fair to say that they might be motivated to lie if 1984 serves as a potential stumbling block to their tactics and goals - which for certain parts of the right have long been to create exactly the situation that 1984 is warning against.



I suppose that I may as well respond to that with a little bit of a semantic reminder. In the disputed sentence, I said "I'd say that it's nigh certain that he knows quite well that he's applying inconsistent standards and is doing so quite intentionally." That's not saying or implying that Trump actually has standards, that's just pointing out that he knows that he's being inconsistent and is being intentionally inconsistent much of the time. That sentence is largely just building on the previous sentence that points out, for example, the Big Lie tactic.

I see 1984 as not anti-right are anti-left wing dictatorships so much as anti all totalitarian regimes, even though it reflects Orwell’s disillusionment with the Soviet system in particular. What is most scary is how predictive it is of Trump’s tactics: the big lies, the unfazed ability to maintain one “truth” and then switch to the opposite “truth” with no apology or even recognition of there being a change, the “one minute of hate,” etc. What amazes me is how ramped up Trump’s approach is even to the book. Not just a few “big lies” but many each day. The number of self-contractions within a single speech. Not a minute of hate each day but a vomiting up of hours of hate day after day. I can’t wrap my brain around how it isn’t recognized by most of his audience.

I understand he liked the original Aunt Jemima. Made great pancakes. Said “sir” a lot. I understand she was not a recent “immigrant.”

I think he recently quoted her: “Sir I have to thank you again for giving me that recipe. They are perfect beautiful pancakes. And my husband Ben thanks you for the rice. You are a genius cook.”

To be clear, I wasn't saying that 1984 was anti-right. Rather, I was pointing out that certain groups with sway on the right in the US have been working to embrace and implement authoritarianism or otherwise upend the government (and, for example, make it small enough that it can be "drowned in a bathtub" so that the very rich can run roughshod over the rest of us) for a long while now.

the shape of things
 

Historian KC Johnson tweeted, "'It's hard to imagine a figure less qualified (or appropriate) to launch this sort of initiative than Trump." Elsewhere he offered a critique of the 1619 project. He and others have pointed to a lengthy rebuttal of this project at the World Socialist Web Site, which interviewed a number of distinguished historians. More recently the WSWS wrote, "The Times’ “disappearing,” with a few secret keystrokes, of its central argument, without any explanation or announcement, is a stunning act of intellectual dishonesty and outright fraud."

I have little doubt that Trump's preferred telling of our history would be sanitized and Bowdlerized. It is not that actual American history lies in between him and the 1619 project. I prefer to think of the truth as being the third point in an isosceles triangle.

We have a choice this election between two people who have been to that church. One was invited and walked through the front door. The other needed the National Guard, police on horseback and tear gas to just be able to stand on its patio.

If you're still voting for Trump in November, it means you're a moral sinkhole.

yeah, but Trump talks directly to God...

...and God tells him he would definitely like to go golfing this weekend. Right after eating that bucket of fried chicken.

I suggest you read up on the importance of the relationship between mother and child in the healthy psychological/emotional development in early childhood. That he, like his siblings, hungered for their father's attention and approval speaks volumes. Trump's own children, especially Don Jr. and Eric, do exactly the same thing for the same reason: they were pretty much ignored as children by him and their almost doggish devotion to him now is embarrassing to watch.

The fundamentalists don't think Trump is a real Xian anyway. They regard him as a useful heathen.