Jesus or Trump?: A Short Note to Fellow Christians
By: Jeff Hood
Below is a transcript.
This is not just any transcript.
This is a transcript of the President of the United States repeatedly telling lies that undermine our democracy.
I found this on Patheos , a website that hosts a number of religion-oriented blogs.
The fact that millions of Americans claim to be followers of Christ and followers of Trump... at the same time... mystifies me. Christ preached love; Trump preaches hate. They are antinomic. Anyone who thinks about this for even a moment must see that the two are incompatible.
... or is this more proof the the followers of Trump do not think?
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Below is a transcript. This is not just any transcript. This is a transcript of the President of the United States repeatedly telling lies that undermine our democracy.
Such lies are very likely to incite violence if the election maintains its' current course and Trump loses the presidency. In fact, earlier today Trump's friend/former advisor Steve Bannon's YouTube account was suspended and he was banned from Twitter because he encouraged COVID19 response leader Dr. Fauci and FBI Director Wrey to be beheaded and their heads to be placed on spikes in front of the White House. All over the country, people are preparing for war because they feel like Trump is telling them to .
Tonight, the three major television networks (ABC/NBC/CBS) all cut away from his address due to the amount of lies that were being shared. Fact checkers have almost universally declared that the majority of Trump's words this evening were false .
This is no ordinary transcript. This is evidence…evidence that Trump is prepared to do whatever it takes / tell whatever lies are necessary to maintain power. Tonight, we have arrived at an hour of decision…Jesus or Trump? Choose wisely. The integrity of your soul / and perhaps our faith hangs in the balance.
Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood, November 5, 2020
Source: Rev
Donald Trump: (00:02) Thank you very much. Thank you.
Donald Trump: (00:08) Good evening. I'd like to provide the American people with an update on our efforts to protect the integrity of our very important 2020 election. If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late, we're looking to them very strongly, but a lot of votes came in late.
Donald Trump: (00:36) I've already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, to name just a few. We won these and many other victories despite historic election interference from big media, big money, and big tech. As everybody saw, we won by historic numbers, and the pollsters got it knowingly wrong. They got it knowingly wrong. We had polls that were so ridiculous and everybody knew it at the time.
Donald Trump: (01:06) There was no blue wave that they predicted. They thought there was going to be a big blue wave. That was false. That was done for suppression reasons. But instead there was a big red wave, and it's been properly acknowledged actually by the media. They were, I think, very impressed, but that was after the fact. That doesn't do us any good.
Donald Trump: (01:26) We kept the Senate despite having twice as many seats to defend as Democrats, and in a really much more competitive states. We did a fantastic job with the Senate. I think we're very proud of what's happened there. We had many more seats to defend. They spent almost $200 million on Senate races in South Carolina and Kentucky alone, two races, and hundreds of millions of dollars overall against us.
Donald Trump: (01:57) At the national level, our opponents major donors were Wall Street bankers and special interests. Our major donors were police officers, farmers, everyday citizens. Yet for the first time ever, we lost zero races in the House. I was talking to Kevin McCarthy today. He said he couldn't believe it. Zero racist, very unusual thing, zero, and actually won many new seats with, I think, many more on the way.
Donald Trump: (02:24) This was also the year of the Republican woman. More Republican women were elected to Congress than ever before. That's a great achievement. I won the largest share of non-white voters of any Republican in 60 years, including historic numbers of Latino, African American, Asian American, and Native American voters. The largest ever in our history. We grew our party by 4 million voters. The greatest turnout in Republican Party history.
Donald Trump: (03:00) Democrats are the party of the big donors. The big media, the big tech, it seems, and Republicans have become the party of the American worker, and that's what's happened. And we're also, I believe the party of inclusion. As everyone now recognizes, media polling was election interference in the truest sense of that word, by powerful special interests.
Donald Trump: (03:25) These really phony polls, I have to call them phony polls, fake polls, were designed to keep our voters at home, create the illusion of momentum for Mr. Biden and diminish Republican's ability to raise funds. They were what's called suppression polls, everyone knows that now, and it's never been used to the extent that it's been used on this last election.
Donald Trump: (03:51) To highlight just a few examples, the day before election, Quinnipiac, which was wrong on every occasion that I know of, had Joe Biden up by five points in Florida, and they were off by 8.4 points and I won Florida easily, easily. So they had me losing Florida by a lot and I ended up winning Florida by a lot. Other than that, they were very accurate.
Donald Trump: (04:22) They had him up four points in Ohio and they were off by 12.2 points, and I also won Ohio, great state of Ohio very easily. And the Washington Post said, "Biden up 17 points in Wisconsin," and it was basically even. They were off by about 17 points, and they knew that, they're not stupid people. They knew that. Suppression.
Donald Trump: (04:49) There are now only a few states yet to be decided in the presidential race. The voting apparatus of those states are run in all cases by Democrats. We were winning in all the key locations by a lot, actually, and then our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away in secret and they wouldn't allow legally permissible observers.
Donald Trump: (05:15) We went to court in a couple of instances and we were able to get the observers put in. And when the observers got there, they wanted them 60, 70 feet away, 80 feet, 100 feet away or outside the building to observe people inside the building. And we won a case, a big case, and we have others happening.
Donald Trump: (05:33) There are lots of litigation, even beyond our litigation. There's a tremendous amount of litigation generally because of how unfair this process was, and I predicted that. I've been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. It's really destroyed our system. It's a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt, even if they aren't by nature, but they become corrupt. It's too easy. They want to find out how many votes they need, and then they seem to be able to find them. They wait and wait, and then they find them, and you see that on Election Night.
Donald Trump: (06:09) We were ahead in vote in North Carolina by a lot, a tremendous number of votes, and we're still ahead by a lot, but not as many because they're finding ballots all of a sudden. "Oh, we have some mail-in ballots." It's amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one-sided too. I know that it's supposed to be to the advantage of the Democrats, but in all cases they're so one-sided.
Donald Trump: (06:34) We were up by nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania. I won Pennsylvania by a lot. And that gets whittled down to, I think they said now we're up by 90,000 votes and they'll keep coming and coming and coming. They find them all over and they don't want us to have any observers. Although we won a court case, the judge said, "You have to have observers." Likewise in Georgia … And they're appealing, actually they're appealing. We want a case that we want people to watch and we want to observers and they're actually appealing, which is sort of interesting. I wonder why they'd appeal? All we want to do is have people watch as they do the vote tabulations.
Donald Trump: (07:16) Likewise in Georgia, I won by a lot, a lot, with a lead of over getting close to 300,000 votes on Election Night in Georgia. And by the way, got whittled down and now it's getting to be to a point where I'll go from winning by a lot to perhaps being even down a little bit.
Donald Trump: (07:37) In Georgia, a pipe burst in a far away location, totally unrelated to the location of what was happening and they stopped counting for four hours. And a lot of things happened. The election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats. We also had margins of 300,000 in Michigan. We were way up in Michigan, won the state. And in Wisconsin, we did likewise fantastically well, and that got whittled down. In every case, they got whittled down.
Donald Trump: (08:12) Today, we're on track to win Arizona. We only need to carry, I guess, 55% of the remaining vote, 55% margins, and that's a margin that we've significantly exceeded. So we'll see what happens with that, but we're on track to do okay in Arizona. Our goal is to defend the integrity of the election. We'll not allow the corruption to steal such an important election, or any election for that manner. And we can't allow silence, anybody to silence our voters and manufacture results.
Donald Trump: (08:46) I've never had, I've been doing a lot of public things for a long time, I've never had anything that's been as inspirational by people calling, talking, sending things to us. I've never seen such love and such affection and such spirit as I've seen for this. People know what's happening and they see what's happening and just before their eyes, and there are many instances which will be reported very shortly.
Donald Trump: (09:16) There's tremendous litigation going on, and this is a case where they're trying to steal an election. They're trying to rig an election and we can't let that happen. Detroit and Philadelphia, known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country easily, cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential race, a very important presidential race.
Donald Trump: (09:39) In Pennsylvania, Democrats have gone to the State Supreme Court to try and ban our election observers and very strongly. Now we won the case, but they're going forward. They don't want anybody in there. They don't want anybody watching them as they count the ballots, and I can't imagine why. There's absolutely no legitimate reason why they would not want to have people watching this process, because if it's straight, they should be proud of it. Instead, they're trying obviously to commit fraud. There's no question about that.
Donald Trump: (10:20) In Philadelphia, observers have been kept far away, very far away. So far that people are using binoculars to try and see, and there's been tremendous problems caused. They put a paper on all of the windows so you can't see in, and the people that are banned are very unhappy and become somewhat violent.
Donald Trump: (10:41) The Eleventh Circuit ruled that in Georgia, the votes have been in by Election Day, that they should be in by Election Day, and they weren't. Votes are coming in after Election Day. And they had a ruling already that you have to have the votes in by Election Day. To the best of my knowledge, votes should be in by Election Day, and they didn't do that. Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly, I really believe that. That's why they did the mail-in ballots, where there's tremendous corruption and fraud going on.
Donald Trump: (11:15) That's why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures whatsoever, and I've told everybody that these things would happen because I've seen it happen. I watched a lot of different elections before they decided to go with this big, massive election with tens of millions of ballots going out to everybody. In many cases, totally unsolicited.
Donald Trump: (11:43) This was unprecedented in American history. This was by design. Despite years of claiming to care about the election security, they refuse to include any requirement to verify signatures, identities, or even determined whether they're eligible or ineligible to vote. People are walking in there, they have no idea. They just take in the numbers. They're writing down things, the workers, and doing a lot of bad things. And we have a lot of information coming and litigation that you'll see that will shake even you people up, and you've seen it all.
Donald Trump: (12:16) The officials overseeing the counting in Pennsylvania and other key states are all part of a corrupt Democrat machine that you've written about. And for a long time, you've been writing about the corrupt Democrat machine. I went to school there and I know a lot about it. It hasn't changed since a long time ago and hasn't changed. It has gotten worse.
Donald Trump: (12:36) In Pennsylvania, partisan Democrats have allowed ballots in the state to be received three days after the election, and we think much more than that, and they're counting those without even postmarks or any identification whatsoever. So you don't have postmarks, you don't have identification.
Donald Trump: (12:56) There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place, and I wouldn't say has the best reputation for election integrity. Poll workers in Michigan were duplicating ballots. But when our observers attempted to challenge the activity, those poll workers jumped in front of the volunteers to block their views so that they couldn't see what they were doing and it became a little bit dangerous.
Donald Trump: (13:32) One major hub for counting ballots in Detroit covered up the windows again with large pieces of cardboard, and so they wanted to protect and block the counting area. They didn't want anybody seeing the counting, even though these were observers who were legal observers that were supposed to be there.
Donald Trump: (13:49) In Detroit, there were hours of unexplained delay in delivering many of the votes for counting. The final batch did not arrive until 4:00 in the morning. And even though the polls closed at 8:00 o'clock, so they brought it in and the batches came in and nobody knew where they came from.
Donald Trump: (14:06) We've also been denied access to observe in critical places in Georgia. In multiple swing states, counting was halted for hours and hours on Election Night. With results withheld from major Democrat run locations only to appear later, and they certainly appeared and they all had the name Biden on them, or just about all. I think almost all. They all had the name Biden on them, which is a little strange.
Donald Trump: (14:34) I challenge Joe and every Democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes because they talk about votes and I think they should use the word legal, legal votes. We want every legal vote counted, and I want every legal vote counted. We want openness and transparency, no secret count rooms, no mystery ballots, no illegal votes being cast after Election Day. You have Election Day and the laws are very strong on that. You have an Election Day and they don't want votes cast after Election Day and they want the process to be an honest one. It's so important.
Donald Trump: (15:09) We want an honest election and we want an honest count and we want honest people working back there because it's a very important job. So that's the way this country is going to win. That's the way the United States will win, and we think we will win the election very easily. We think there's going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof, and it's going to end up perhaps at the highest court in the land, we'll see. But we think there'll be a lot of litigation because we can't have an election stolen by like this.
Donald Trump: (15:43) And I tell you, He trum Small elections were a disaster. Small, very easy to handle elections were disastrous. This is a large scale version, and it's getting worse and worse every day. We're hearing stories that are horror stories, absolute horror stories, and we can't let that happen to the United States of America.
Donald Trump: (16:11) It's not a question of who wins, Republican, Democrat, Joe, myself. We can't let that happen to our country. We can't be disgraced by having something like this happen. So it will be hopefully cleared up. Maybe soon, I hope soon, but it'll probably go through a process, a legal process. And as you know, I've claimed certain states and he's claiming states and we can both claim the States, but ultimately I have a feeling judges are going to have to rule. But there's been a lot of shenanigans and we can't stand for that in our country. Thank you very much.
Crowd: (16:49) Mr. President [crosstalk 00:16:50]
Speaker 3: (16:49) Why are you undercutting this process, sir?
Speaker 4: (16:51) Are you being a sore loser?
Speaker 3: (16:52) Haley, why is the president undercutting this process?
Speaker 4: (16:54) Haley, are you …
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These are Trump's own words. Can any thinking person really listen to them and not realize that the speaker is a serial liar?
The only conclusion I can find is that anyone who does not qualify Trump as a serial liar is NOT a thinking person.
I couldn't even read them. I hate listening to or reading anything coming from this guy because it is incoherent nonsense.,
Your guy apparently won...why the hell does it matter what Trump says now. In the midterms the House will overturn and the Repubs will still control the Senate. Harris won't get anything accomplished.
Because he isn't going to go away and he has millions of cult followers lapping up every word he says
Because you say he apparently won. When you, his supporters, can say Biden definitely won it'll be over and America can move on.
Trump is a fake Christian who put on a show for his faithful followers.
Ironically his followers now have a genuine lifelong practicing Christian as president-elect. Is partisanship stronger than religion?
This is especially interesting for those who believe that God determines the leaders of nations.
Great point! God sure does change Her mind a lot... but then that's a woman's privilege, isn't it??
I find it curious observing proclaimed devout religious individuals heaping sycophantic praise onto the faux Christian Trump while demeaning fellow devout Biden as a person; all the while believing that God picked Biden.
Does not a certain individual here refer to "The Great Deceiver" every now and then and follows Trump? Oh the irony.
I find it curious - shocking - that these people are not driven mad by the cognitive dissonance. Since that doesn't happen... and they are fervent about Trump... the only conclusion is that they don't give a shit about Christ.
These Christians...
You are kinder than I. I tend to think they are insane. That can be the only explanation for such illogic and/or irrationality.
Exactly. As I pointed out, there are people who believe God appoints the leaders of nations. They believe God appointed Trump and thus that God appointed Biden. Yet they will sycophantically praise Trump while taking the cheapest of shots against Biden.
My only explanation is that there is no real thinking taking place, just parroting. The cognitive dissonance does not emerge because the contradiction is never recognized.
They aren't smart enough to recognize it. These people are very stupid.
And that's it! There is no introspection - it HAS to be right because they FEEL it's right.
I think this is the wrong question. Neither is applicable.
Over the last year or so, I've come to realize that Trumpists are not wrong because their thinking is flaky. Trumpists are wrong because they do not think at all.
From birth, and all through life, a person learns by copying. Then, that person acts as they have learned. There is no need to think. Ever. A person may lead a happy and productive life by acting as they have learned... by copying.
There is no need to think. We'd be paralyzed if we had to think about every movement, every action, ... Most of our actions are by rote. I'm thinking about my composition here, but not about my typing, nor about 99% of what I can observe going on around me...
Some of us do think, part-time. We collect data, sift through it to decide what is pertinent to what we want to achieve, and then make a plan. We follow the plan, checking our adherence, until success or failure.
But thinking is hard. It requires meticulous effort. It is much, much easier to come to a decision without that effort. Just do as always, ever since childhood: copy other people! Do as The Leader says!
This is scary, when projected onto the nation. Undoubtedly, there are also some on the Biden side who don't think, either, but have followed their own leaders. I can't avoid the conclusion that a large majority of the American people... never thinks.
That's gotta be wrong, but I can't find the flaw.
Part of the problem is, some people prefer not to think and want to let others do their thinking for them.
It is the blind partisanship phenomenon; not exclusive to Rs.
We see that play out right here on NT. Parroting with the inability to resolve the contradictions of the parroting. When the contradictions are noted, the parrot dismisses the contradiction and keeps on squawking. Not sure what goes through such a mind but I am grateful that my mind does not suffer from such a malady.
I'm taking this a lot further.
Most human beings never think.
They learn by copying, and live their lives repeating what they have learned.
Since they do not think, they cannot formulate an opinion. They substitute opinions copied from others.
These people feel no cognitive dissonance due to contradictory opinions because they do not understand their opinions.
These people do not debate their opinions because they do not understand them.
In general I think you are correct. Not going to nit-pick.
This,
by the way, is a fine example of taking things personal.
Nope. Didn't say that.
Where does he say as much, MUVA? I know you attribute those views to him. Where in his words do you find support for your statements about his views?
Where do you see Bob looking down on tradespersons?
Well, hell, then we could allege anything about anyone here on NT based on one's claim of accumulated comments.
In my experience, I have no reason to believe that Bob looks down on blue collar workers. In fact, given Bob is a committed social democrat who also supports socialist ideas such as workplace democracy, even a cursory reading of his comments would show that he is anything but what you allege.
Well, that was a mature response. So, you can't support your statement, and will be rude to anybody who asks you to do so?
On Saturday, I asked a family member who is "in to" Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) to be on the look out for what I call, "the Flip." How the many, many networked "churches" will not self-correct to support the democrat president in the White House in 2021 as it did for the republican president of 2018 - 2020.
I asked the family member to watch these TBN networked pastors and leaders "demonize" and malign Joe Biden, a life-long fellow spiritual and person of great faith, with subtlety and even pointed insults.
Why will they not support Biden? That is, what is the underlying logic they are using?
The easy answer is they will say that he is a liberal and chooses 'worldly' policies over good and godly policies. The more complex answer is their churches have sown their lot with Donald Trump as "spiritual head" to lead them out of a 'generational' political wilderness. That is, these churches will totally miss the plot of Joe Biden's life of selfless service, devotion to truth, and a love for God - in order to continue aligning themselves with a god-less, unforgiven, reprobate Donald Trump who thinks spirituality and faith is about transacting (performing 'works') to gain rank and status in the kingdom of Heaven.
Critical thinking is good. It helps one to make good decisions. An example good decision for a religious organization is to align with those who are carrying out what your religious views would seek.
So what is a godly policy of Trump that these organizations follow?
How is seeking (at least per the words) to raise the standard of living for poor Americans a god-less policy?
Is there any real thinking going on here?
No.
As I indicated elsewhere, Trumpsters do not think. Literally.
It seems they they tend to parrot more than think. Or let other do the thinking for them.
1. First, let me say that there is good(ness) in the white conservative Evangelical Church ("evangelicals") as an institution remind girls, women, and the all-important males involved that human life should never be relegated to the 'mechanics' of sexual pleasure - specifically when the consequences of sperm meeting egg is new life! Therefore sperm and egg are "highly valued" and scripturally 'highly favored" as the vehicles which have driven life for untold centuries and indefinitely will drive us into the future.
Problems arise when these "Evangelicals" attempt to make life "priceless" and each expenditure of sperm or egg result in a new life which captures "immature" people who only were after the "mechanics" up in an impossible to maintain relationship or permanency. These situations in the history of the world can end bad for female-male-offspriing.
2. "Evangelicals" have lassoed individualism and solvency into a covenant they strike with God giving them the land: This land. Thus, these people strike a balance with what it takes to 'barter, sell, and possess' and have means under the fearsome eye ('glare') of a God who can claw back the land at any time through attrition, atrophy, or vengeance.
Such "evangelicals" raise their off-spring to "possess," "shepherd," and "abide" strictures on their lives from cradle to grave. Thus, they must produce in myriad ways or suffer losses, ruin, destruction, or death in exchange for having this life.
Problems arise, because not everybody in this country is white, conservative, "Evangelical," or belonging to a religious state of being! Thus, the land invites in outside freer thinkers who simply want to live in the spaces designated for living and enjoying this one life they view themselves as making their best life ever (and only).
3. When these "evangelicals" pull 'the Flip' on President Elect Biden they will accuse him in their pulpits and television mediums of "virtual signaling" that he is a good and godly follower after the one true God - while hypocritically being a leader to grant freedoms to people unadorned for it because they ignore God and its righteousness.
Problems arise because God is love. God is Alpha and Omega. God is master planner extraordinaire. God is patient. God is willing and able to save one person at a moment in time of 'choosing' —even at the threshold of a single life ending.
Therefore, those who THINK they are aiding God through selfish expediency, politically charged and impatient short-cuts, and human schemes to deny others in and out of matters on faith or their own chosen version of faith -the very values God expresses through putting it down in a book cheapen the spiritual experience and the breadth, height, width, depth, of just how mature God wants people of faith to place on display.
And yet the top goals of evangelical voters are to criminalize women's reproductive choices which would imprison millions of women and their doctors, undoing marriage equality and allowing legal discrimination.
That is just what evangelicals are advocating!
The Mike Huckabee or Newt Gingrich or Franklin Graham types of evangelicals! To be clear, many other evangelicals are politically free and open to all others! (Smile.)
Yes, those are the official leadership of the evangelical movement and they all advocate for ungodly abhorrent political policies Christ would surely oppose. That is the point. Those men you listed define the political agenda of evangelicals. You do not. You are an outliner.
That's my opinion, too.
In fact, IMNAAHO, most people do not think. Ever.
They copy.
They copy behavior. They copy opinions. They copy emotions.
A person can live a happy and productive life, always copying.
Never thinking.
That's a very interesting proposition. It "rings" true. But I've never heard it.
Could you point me to an article or two? I follow blog-aggregator Patheos fairly closely, but have never come across this compact. That's not to say that there are no evangelicals who hold with this idea, only that I haven't seen them.
True.
My main man, Fred Clark over on slacktivist , calls himself an evangelical.
The problem is that the "political evangelicals" are the natural allies of conservative media. They get far more coverage than the evangelicals who actually try to follow Christ.
I don't believe all evangelicals are doing that
Trump never professed to being a Christian himself.
what's this?
and this:
notice how the anchor says they are praying with him
Yes, he did. In fact, he said he's a "very good Christian."
Since it's Trump, he rambles quite a bit, but go to the 6 minute mark.
Checkmate
That's not fair!
You're using facts!
I didn't do it! Sandy did it!
It was a team effort. Not that it's hard to counter Greg's baseless assertions. The hardest part was listening to Donnie talk.
Yes... but you did it first, and I Replied before I read Sandy's post.
But, yeah... She's just as guilty as you about using facts. Shameful!
And you're proud of it!
Next thing you know, you'll be putting up videos...
... ... ... oh wait...
Donald Trump is not a good Christian, I know how come he is not too!
IMHO.
Trump is clearly not a Christian, yet the far right evangelicals happily threw their support to Trump, even after knowing that trump is probably the least "Christlike", president in history.
Why? Two reasons..
1) Mike Pence. Trump picked Mike Pence as VP to secure the Evangelical vote. That was literally the only reason, (well, that and Mike Pence is a weak leader).
2) Reversing Roe v. Wade.
The simple fact that right wing Christians would follow and support Trump proves that they are willing to sacrifice their morals in favor of getting the government to do what they want.
If they are going to sacrifice their morals for political points, they should lose their tax exempt status.
The thing is, in Pence, they still had to ignore a lot of behavior that wasn't exactly Christ-like.
True. Pence is no angel.
It mystifies me how anyone who is religious can with a straight face support trump in any way, shape or form or claim that God had a hand in him getting elected in the first place.
So to them I say, God is correcting that mistake by denying trump a second term and having Joe Biden elected.
God is inerrant. Thus the cognitive dissonance of the belief you described continues.
I agree with you, it boggles the mind how someone can hold that God appointed Biden and then criticize Biden; or how a devout religious person can heap sycophantic praise on faux-Christian Trump while creating absurd negative allegations against a lifelong practicing Christian Biden.
Just judging by my friends on FB, white rural and suburban women were unnaturally attracted to Trump. I can only assume he made them feel safe and they believed he was ordained by their faith.
Speaking of Christians.. Why do they think they are the only valid religion in the USA?
I loved the blinking eyes & open mouth look when he was informed the person picks the what they are sworn in on. I think it should be the a copy the Constitution. Do away with the religious aspect all together since they are taking a pledge to the US, it should be the Constitution.
Same. You could just hear the "Whuuuuuuuuttt?" going through his mind.
Gomer might have been quicker on the uptake.
That should be a skit on SNL
This is HUCKABEE on TBN (Trinity Broadcast Network) on Sunday night, November 8, 2020:
SHOW Opening remarks:
It May Be Over But America Still WON! | Huckabee
Phrases of Interest to Find.
"Ballots Not Bullets."
"Parking Lot Inauguration."
"Cool Basement at White House."
Is this 'soft' propaganda? Your thoughts?
This is HUCKABEE on TBN (Trinity Broadcast Network) on Sunday night, November 8, 2020:
SECOND interview: "Newt" remarks:
How Trump Will CONTINUE To Shape AMERICA | Newt Gingrich | Huckabee
Is this 'pysche' manipulation for book profits, future events, or both?
The Stepford Wives idea wasn't far off. My retarded philandering cousin Newt looks and sounds like a normal human being
but he's a Stepford.
Chuckles.
The three lines you've excerpted are the heart of the video. Overall, it's a well written lie
Huckabee gives lip service to democratic processes... but at the same moment, he undermines those processes by leaning into ridiculous memes.
It's deeply disgusting.
Just now seeing your comment I have quoted here with question. I brought it down here because Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee are par for the course on my point about individualism and solvency ('gold-standard' is an ad-sponsor on Huckabee.) and this republican candidate (2016) is now on the Christian broadcast channel - TBN (Trinity Broadcast Network where he combines politics, flags, 'mom's apple pie,' patriotic jingoisms, and veterans into a conservative boiler pot.
Incidentally, the very next show segment is former President Reagan son, Michael Reagan, hawking 'wares' and books on the value of War II vets to this country and how conservatives can continue to send money and buy books promotions so some charity "project" can benefit.
It's a real time operation of "buying and selling" and repackaging the 'land' for another generation of 'customers'!
Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't understood it in that way.
Merchandising is a big deal, all across the right. I'd like to have the revenue from all those MAGA caps!
Merchandising is an insidious self-sustaining cycle. A person who has spent money won't ever admit they were stupid. On the contrary, they'll spend more and more.
Right-wing websites are plastered with ads.
Grifters gotta grift.
Actually, if you have the time, you (all) have got to see this one. Check out this 'bilking' of the conservative audience live and in television-land. While watching do realize that Huckabee is probably profiting from TBN (donations) too! Oh, and note the provocative caption for the video (draws 'em right in).
Color me confused: World War 2 veterans need another charity? Really? How come? Lookit:
That Time Ronald Reagan Took A JOY RIDE With A COMMIE | Michael Reagan | Huckabee
To be clear, it is those conservative (and others) money to spend as they see fit, but really. . . Mike Reagan? Are there no nearer in time projects to 'tackle'? Shouldn't some projects simply "age out"?
For $250 you get.... a brick.
Nah... Huckabee couldn't be a huckster.....
This is their concept of wholesome 'merican living. Everybody sitting around in their "comfy" sweaters, hugging their guns, and sedated. Moreover, there is nothing wrong with that—if you can get to that spot in life.
However, there is much unrest, unfairness, and tumult in this country and in the surrounding world -we must strive to fix this- not tell ourselves none of this is happening as we sweep it all under the floorboards of our minds.
"Greed is good!" has been a Republican credo for decades.
They gave up on Jesus a long time ago for grievance politics and lying politicians who give them a promise of something now while Jesus takes a back burner with his promise for the afterlife. Where is the massive Republican right wing adoption agency willing to pay for every baby that a mother cannot support. Instead of taking the Christian way, they rail against abortion but never put their actual religion or their money where they say their values are. They have no values other than a holier than thou attack on any this one social issue they have no intention of ever solving by helping poor women. A true Christian would have a mother's home shelter for women and babies and an adoption agency bigger than any Mega Church if they actually wanted to be a Christian and offer Christian charity to solve a crisis they say exists. Quit forcing your political or religious beliefs on others. All the money and time spent on the pro-life issue could have paid for many women to keep their babies.
Yup...