Amateur Hour Running Wild!

[vorlon13]

Plagiarizing such a high visibility source  is REALLY FUCKING STUPID.

It might be one of them thar 'clue' things I keep hearing about.

[Minimalist]

I love how this trivial shit is the thing the media has decided to focus on, out of all the obscene nonsense that's come out of the convention.

If Michelle Obama had done it the republicunts would be forming 10 congressional investigations on it.  Fuck every last one of those sleazebag motherfuckers.

[vorlon13]

Another problem for the Christers here.

Essentially, they've let the sinner (Trump) edit the sin list, and he did so in his favor. (Do I need add, NOT in Jesus favor ? Yeah, I suppose I do, this entire Jesus/adultery/Bible thing doesn't seem to be registering) (at all)

Even as recently as the Reagan era, there was party sensitivity to religious conservatives whose political support was desired, even to the extent of discouraging Maureen Reagan from attending the RNC convention that nominated her father.

The reason?

She was Ronald's offspring from his FIRST wife, not the SUBSEQUENT wife, Nancy Reagan. The pols knew rubbing the fundamentalists and the evangelicals noses in a gross violation of Jesus definition of marriage as "One man, one woman, once" would be either throwing votes away (bad) or towards Jimmy Carter (worse).

This ploy of seeking votes from religious folks, by politicians who in their private lives scoff at the tried and true Biblical values those religious folks take seriously, by variously shading and hiding and obscuring and deflecting and distracting is called

PANDERING.

From Wiki:

Pandering is the act of expressing one's views in accordance with the likes of a group to which one is attempting to appeal. The term is most notably associated with politics. In pandering, the views one is expressing are merely for the purpose of drawing support up to and including votes and do not necessarily reflect one's personal values.



And to further illuminate this; pandering is a bad thing. See, Ronald Reagan (and many other politicians) say one thing, and do (did) another. The problem of course is, once a person like this is elected, he certainly isn't going to enact legislation that will in any way curtail his fun. Regardless of what you, the religious folks thought you were being promised when you voted for them.

See, it is VERY easy to SAY the right things, the things you want to hear, it's the DOING that is hard. So when sincere religious folks fall for this bullshittery from politicians that are openly and notoriously corrupting your faith in the public arena, they are doing a bad thing. Jesus doesn't approve.

And now we have Trump, who is only mouthing what the religious folks want to hear, and he is also now adding more and more Bible verses to the "lets just skip over that" list. And the verses he is chucking out from under these religious folks, are, of course, the ones he is having trouble COMPORTING himself to.

The correct response is not to vote for him, the correct response is to WITNESS THE LIVING WORD OF CHRIST to Trump and all the folks he is DECEIVING.


Once again, I am so happy to be clearing up yet another deeply mysterious aspect of faith for the faithful.




You're welcome.

[Jackalope]

Seriously, "Yeah, sorry, Melania was nervous and looked to other examples of speeches by aspiring First Ladies. Apologies all around."

It's out of the next news cycle for the most part if they did that. With the exception of RawStory and sites like it that would squeeze everything they could out of it, you wouldn't hear about it again.

Instead, you hear the Trump people blaming Hillary for this, quoting My Little Pony, saying this "common words and phrases" bullshit, and outright denying that anything even happened. And so it remains in the news, because it is comical and just shows once again that Trump and his campaign have no fucking clue what they're doing.

The way they handled this....If I was a Trump.guy - and let's be clear that I'm not - but if I was, I'd find the excuses to be more than a little insulting.

[vorlon13]

Trumps son was on ABC EVening News tonite and he sounded eerily like a Mormon apologist tryng to wrest Melania from the gathering shitstorm.

It was disturbing.

[Excited Penguin]

Trumps son was on ABC EVening News tonite and he sounded eerily like a Mormon apologist tryng to wrest Melania from the gathering shitstorm.

It was disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVl7yAiBwrk

[SteelCurtain]

I made a wordcloud from the first two nights of the RNC:

[The Valkyrie]

Every time I read the latest Republican antics I always think: