RE: The Westboro Baptist Church is coming to invade my city!
February 11, 2011 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2011 at 1:24 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(February 11, 2011 at 12:57 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:(February 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm)IronicAlchemist Wrote: A Glenn Beck worshiping friend?! That sounds terrible.
His worldview (which probably describes a lot of Fox cultists):
Friend A is our age and screwing a 37 year old married guy with two kids.
Friend B is our age and also screwing a guy around that age, but he's single.
Friend B gets condemned, partly because he hasn't known her as long and partly because happens to know that Friend A "has a moral compass". Mind - he knows she's fucking a married guy.
This is the thought process behind these freaks.
[snark] Hey, at least A isn't having sex outside of marriage. True, it's someone else's marriage but hey, it's still sex within a marriage of sorts. [/snark]
Seriously, he's not alone. How many Republican sex scandals and reports of adultery have there been among "family values" politicians where these guys are still in office and being taken seriously as presidential candidates. A former friend of mine railed endlessly against Clinton's adultery and how it shows him to be untrustworthy yet worships Giuliani who is a known adulterer. Newt Gingrich is still being taken seriously by the family values crowd despite his serial adultery. He once reportedly said to his wife, "it's not important what I do but what I say" or words to that effect. Craig, Sanford, the list goes on. I can't comprehend their thought process either.
(February 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Beck helps him hate Obama and the economy.
There's another line of reasoning I can't comprehend.
I remember how A-Theist was talking about how the stimulus hasn't worked and the economy is in terrible shape. What? Do you even remember what it was like just before Obama took office? The freefall? The panic? The massive financial corporations going under? The auto industry about to go bye-bye? Staring into the abyss of another Great Depression? Any of this ring a bell? He's not alone.
Sluggish and unstable recovery > total economic meltdown.
Pretty basic logic really. Why is that so hard to understand?
And after 30 years of trying tax cuts to stimulate economic growth and failing to get results, can we stop pushing that failed idea now? "Government has a spending problem". Yeah, Reagan said this and yet somehow even when Republicans are in complete control they can never cut enough spending. There just isn't 700 billion in waste that can be painlessly cut out without touching defense spending.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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