Well I don’t want Mara-Lago to get flattened just because the building in and of itself is a beautiful historically significant old home that hopefully someone else will own one day and do it much better justice.
Messing up some real estate isn’t going to faze him one bit. What else does he care about? Certainly not a dictionary.
The only thing you can take away from Trump that would truly wound him would be his inflated sense of self, so if Irma can find the pump he uses to jack up his ego every morning and permanently disable that joker, I’d absolutely pray for that!
I always ask my myself “why is anyone asking this guy what he thinks? Could his opinion be any less relevant than my mother’s neighbor who stands in his driveway in his underwear?”
I lived in Jacksonville between 1987-2008 and have to disagree with the statement that it’s blue. They voted for Trump, and have much more in common politically with the panhandle than with Orlando or Miami. The city overall was quite conservative the entire time I lived there. There are pockets of liberalism and blue voters (including my friends who have stayed there after college), but a lot of those blue voters are African-American, and north Florida has a longtime problem with voter suppression and gerrymandering.
I don’t believe in magical thinking either. But some people do. There are people who believe that the path of a hurricane is a sign of God’s displeasure. And if you’re the kind of person that believes that, shouldn’t you be trying real hard to figure out what it is that God is aiming hurricanes at?
As people have continuously reminded us since last November, it doesn’t matter who people vote for. The only thing that’s important is how states vote.
I was responding as if I were speaking to an individual with that sort of belief - one who had presumably brought up the idea of deity directed weather, because I sure wouldn’t.
Am I going to piss up the rope of addressing such people en masse? No - the Nyes and Tysons of the world are better at it than I. But faced with an individual who started the conversation - I have and will call BS, not encourage them to continue tilting at windmills. I see your point about their internal logic, but I won’t suffer that sort of fool without some kind of pushback.
Subtract from the total number of people who wanted Clinton to win those who didn’t PRAY for her to win (for reasons of godless heathenism or Clinton malaise) and perhaps it’s true that more people prayed for Trump to win.
I voted for Clinton but did not pray for her to win.
(Although frankly if I could go back in time and do that one over, I’d pray, light candles, and perhaps even sacrifice a lamb for a Clinton victory.)
As enjoyable as I find puritan bashing, I think nearly all people who suggest God’s Wrath are just funning you: deadpan humour is often, happily enough, taken as truth.
I have never once met anyone in Britain, not even Ulstermen and Scots, who could believe God punishes people with disasters, and Britons are no more intelligent than Americans.
Of course, there are people who believe These are the End Times, but that is another thing and probably comes from watching those godawful millennialist American TV fictive series, as on the SyFy Channel more than their equally devout readings of Revelations.
