So the boss of a major news network, doesn’t watch the news. Got it.
Fox might be hiring.
What’s the point of accepting responsibility if you’re not willing to pay the price? Empty words.
Uh, huh. Pull the other one.
Suck shit, Eastman:
Basse or Haute Aphasia?
SDMB obscure literary reference #3,582,179
I read that the $60 bible is to circumvent the prohibitions of churches to finance political campaigns …
They dont finance campaigns, but the might be buying 1000s of overpriced bibles … and who knows even a sharpie-sketch of jesus - incredible fine art, people who saw it had tears in their eyes - for $1.000,000.- or three
Does that saying apply if both the sticker and the stickee are batshit crazy?
How would you say ‘Don’t stick your dick in the crazy’ in Latin? I tried Ne in insanis pene haereas, but on re-translation it came out ‘Don’t get stuck in a crazy situation’ in Google Translate. ‘Do not insert your penis into a crazy person’ came out as Noli mentula in furiosum hominem inserere – 'Don’t put your brains in a mad man…
That was some Smapti-level stuff. Well done.
All the iterations of this joke are beginning to annoy me. They resemble what I’d expect to see when people actually buy into the basic premise that the supernatural (and a supernatural with a teleological underpinning, at that) exists. Seeing it around here is a real downer for me.
Either one sounds correct…some do think with it.
I get that. Allow me to respond as I’ve told that joke I’m sure in this thread, and I told it at least in one other thread.
For me personally, I don’t view this as a joke about spirituality or religion at all. (Gosh I’m about to explain the logic behind a joke, I feel so dirty…)
If we make the assumption, granted it’s a heck of an assumption, that what Trump and other so-called Christians claim to believe, that their religion is literally true, then not only Trump but I’m sure a large portion of them, have violated every single one of The commandments in seven deadly sins several thousand times over at least. If what Christians believe is true, then Trump should not be going anywhere near a Bible or a church. The fact that they don’t see this is an insult to them.
It’s not a joke about religion really, it’s about Trump and his supporters hypocrisy. It’s pointing out that they don’t even believe what they claim to believe. If they did this wouldn’t be happening. Which is a lot to cram into what is essentially a one sentence joke. Here on the board I feel like those assumptions are pretty wildly carried by most of us and can be assumed. The “burning Bible” example, the people who get it will get it. I would never tell this joke to a Christian or a trump supporter because they wouldn’t get it.
That’s a problem with jokes in general. They require both the speaker and the audience to carry the same assumptions. And then the joke teller needs to head off the assumptions that are made. That’s what creates the punchline.
For the record I don’t consider myself a christian. I really don’t consider myself religious at all really. When I was younger I thought about religion a lot, now nowhere near as much. As a matter of fact I don’t think about religion much at all unless it’s specifically intersects something I consider more important like politics.
This reminds me of the debates over the use of the phrase “come to Jesus meeting” after Biden used it at the sotu. Not taking a side necessarily, but it’s a sensitive subject I agree. And we need to examine our use of language over subjects like this. That phrase is widely thought of as not being religious anymore even though that’s where it’s origins obviously are at. It’s just a phrase people use now and everyone understands it.
This. If you believe in the bible, how can you stand behind the multi-divorced guy that talks about grabbing women by the pussy, talks of two Corinthians, brags about paying nothing in taxes, hates on non-whites, etc. I’m an atheist, and from my point of view, if I am wrong and there is a god, Trump should be one of the first to get hit by a lightning bolt (I believe god does strike out from time to time - see Exodus). Trump is the complete 180 from what I would expect “Christians” to view as “Christ-like”. But they love the guy. I guess the Antichrist is to appear at some point before the end of times and he’s about as anti-religion as anyone I’ve seen so maybe they love him despite his wickedness because they know he will trigger the end times.
John Eastman, the alleged lawyer behind Trump’s coup memo, is being disbarred.
For quite a few of them, ISTM, that’s all that matters to earn their support.
Is there a list somewhere of all the GOP/Trump lawyers that have faced or are facing sanctions or disbarment? I can’t keep up, but it must be getting pretty long.
I’ve used it on two Christians, and they both thought it was pretty good. No MAGA folk yet but one day….
And all I could find was a list of lawyers who have pled guilty to crimes or left his employment. I bet it’s a long list.
Note the title of this thread – we’re guilty of the same hope. 
What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
Trump’s Roldex
Umm, I think there’s a qualitative and quantitative difference between those of us who are feeling a karma-style schadenfreude when the bad actions of trump and his enablers come back to bite them on the ass, and trump’s famous petty vengefulness. 