Last one – probably 
“I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.”
–Donald Trump
[You know who wasn’t a whiner? Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, GHW Bush, Bill Clinton, GW Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.]
His supporters – not a cohort known for learning – certainly learned this behavior.
And we’re all the worse for it.
It was the inaugural prayer service for fucking Donald fucking Trump it could not be other than a grotesque spectacle.
Lol.
You are concerned that the bishop shouldn’t speak their mind during her own sermon.
This means:
A) you don’t know what a bishop is/does.
B) you don’t know what a sermon is.
C) you are very, very good at being concerned.
Being a middle aged woman lecturing and imploring Trump to act like a decent adult human being. How dare her presume to deliver a sermon to him from her pulpit!
And if we want to talk about performative bullshit, what is the unrepentant serial philanderer, accused (and tacitly acknowledged) sex predator, bigot, dog-whistling-to-White-Nationalists, recidivous huckster who has previously imposed a policy of family separations just to harm and strike fear in immigrants, suppressed efforts to contain a pandemic, hawking his bastardized God Bless the USA Bible, spreading conspiranoia and threatening nuclear retribution to various nations, threatening to invade or start trade wars with strategic allies doing in a church, anyway?
Fuck him; if he doesn’t want to be preached at, he can stay home and tweet out insults to random celebrities on Sunday morning.
Stranger
True that. No one forced him to pretend to be religious that particular day.
A sermon – which is what Bishop Budde was giving – is an oration…or, in other words, a lecture (as defined by being an instructional speech). It’s not a dialogue.
Moderating:
This is a personal attack. Knock it off. It’ll be a warning next time.
Exactly. God bless her. Those attacking her now for her plea (not “demand”), those who profess to be Christians, reveal themselves for just who they really are.
In particular, it’s his go-to term for women who have the temerity to stand up to him, and call him out on his crap.
It’s good to see Christians pushing back against hate and fear. As I’ve told multiple friends, you can see exactly how far Republicans have strayed from Christ’s message when they are outraged by a call for mercy.
Trump heard to say after the service: “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and promoted in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born clerk!”
correct, but an oration given to the community in attendance as a whole, not to an individual in the audience.
yes, my reference to a dialogue in my first post was that if she did want to address Trump individually, a more appropriate forum for that would have been a private dialogue, not the public sermon.
Do you feel that faith leaders and people of conscience, who are troubled by Trump’s policies and public statements regarding marginalized people (undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ, etc.) should not publicly make any statements in disagreement with him – including to his face? Do you not feel that it’s important for Americans who support Trump’s policies hear that he is taking actions which are clearly in conflict with any sort of actual, Bible-based Christian teachings?
One of my biggest frustrations with what has transpired in the last 10 weeks is just how readily people – including business leaders – who had not formerly been particularly supportive of Trump have been lining up to kiss his ring, and publicly support him, out of (a) fear of being on his bad side, and (b) in hopes of being the recipients of his favor.
Also, do you have any actual expectation that Trump would willingly entertain a private conversation with someone like Bishop Budde? And, that he could possibly be swayed by the words of a liberal Christian minister?
Bishop Budde had, for lack of a better term, a bully pulpit at that service, and, IMO, a moral obligation to speak truth to power at that moment.
Colbert’s show Wednesday suggested that if Trump is looking for a religion where he doesn’t get preached at about mercy and compassion, he should join the Cult of Cthulhu.
As if Trump would be able to string a coherent sentence of multi-syllabic words together like that.
It was a post-inaugural “Presidential Prayer Service” given at the Washington National Cathedral which has been the default venue since Reagan’s second term and every successive president except Bill Clinton. It is literally a service given in prayer for the nation and the incoming President’s leadership of it, and it is quite normal for the Presiding Bishop to specifically address the guest of honor.
The Great Old One doesn’t like to be that close to an entity of such deep and abiding evil even greater than its own.
Stranger
Radical? “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.”. Man, that is crazy far left, no? 
cheese & crackers.
Love, not hate. Tolerance not bigotry. “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them”
Apparently that is a “radical” notion.
Neither am I- I am a “doubter” But hell, those ideas would be great for anyone.
Nice one!
FYI everyone, This is what Henry II said about Thomas Becket .
Jesus didn’t pull any punches when He directly called the Pharisees hypocrites and spiritually dead inside but look holy on the outside (whitewashed tombs). He spoke directly to them and they deserved it. (Matthew 23:26-28)
She told it like it is.
T
Bishops are not supposed to preach the Gospel in a cathedral?
What an odd stance to take.
Exactly. Right place, right time.
Wrong President and wrong followers.