# Michael Flynn's Shining City on the Hill - For Christians Only **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 15, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397 "2021-11-15T16:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/421 "2021-12-16T02:26:26Z")
> [@webwarrior](#): > > Oh, I get it now. A little editorializing in the title. Very clever. Man, you’re a trifle slow, ain’tcha? Like, not all there. Not right in the head. Elevator does not go to the top. This reading and comprehension thing is probably a socialist plot, right? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/422 "2021-12-16T03:20:27Z")
Could be Communist now, don’t be hating. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/423 "2021-12-16T03:36:49Z")
Thank you for the well written analysis of the thread title, I only wish I could have done as well myself. I would have made the effort, but, here in front range Colorado, have had power back on for only a few hours and still no internet - so making do with my cellphone’s wifi hotspot along with half the city, which is giving me near dial-up quality speeds. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/424 "2021-12-16T04:13:14Z")
Well, it _is_ the highway to Hell. Potentially the _literal_ highway to Hell. That road runs up to Michigan City, Indiana, and there’s an unincorporated township [in Michigan named Hell.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan?wprov=sfti1) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/425 "2021-12-16T11:50:00Z")
> [@webwarrior](#): > > Oh, I get it now. God can see your heart. And God knows that you are spectacularly stupid. ---
**Author:** ![webwarrior](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/webwarrior/32/9529_2.png) [@webwarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/webwarrior)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/426 "2021-12-16T12:55:38Z")
This site is the web forum equivalent of “The View” Only things missing are Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg. Rock on, geniuses. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/427 "2021-12-16T13:16:24Z")
> [@webwarrior](#): > > Only things missing are Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg. Rock on, geniuses. Nothing says ‘genius’ like misspelling ‘Whoopi’. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/428 "2021-12-16T13:22:58Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Man, you’re a trifle slow, ain’tcha? Like, not all there. Not right in the head. Elevator does not go to the top. It takes him an hour and a half to watch **60 Minutes**. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/429 "2021-12-16T14:27:09Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > let’s not do any additional detective work on this _sadly puts away deerstalker hat_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/430 "2021-12-16T14:38:03Z")
> [@webwarrior](#): > > Rock on, geniuses. We shall, moron. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/431 "2021-12-16T20:10:06Z")
We get it. You’re old. You’re a clueless old fart and no one cares what you think. The world you grew up in is gone. The mean new world refuses to kowtow to you just because you’re a white guy. You’re dick doesn’t work anymore and neither do you. Your wife got fat, or left you, or both. Your kids don’t respect you, they listen to rap and take drugs and don’t go to church. And they laugh at you. They’re all laughing at you. We’re all laughing at you. You’re a caricature, a joke. Your life sucks, mostly because you’re a relic from another era. Your only solace is Sean and Bill O’Reilly and Tucker and a fat elitist slumlord that conned you into believing he can roll back time and unbreak your relentlessly flaccid member by putting on a magic red hat with magic words on it. But he can’t fix you. He’s a loser, a losing loser that lost. And you are a loser in thrall to a losing loser that lost and lost and lost and just can’t stop losing. Your little four year fever dream is over, and we’re still indoctrinating your spawn and sending minorities to steal your jobs and elections. But you have a plan to trigger us, one that apparently consists of comparing us to wealthy and successful TV personalities and dying of a preventable illness. That’ll show us, I guess. I had fun laughing at your sorry saggy old man ass, but I’m bored now. Unless you want to enlighten me about the fantastical revelations regarding Israel and Covid that are going to break in the Washington Post any day now. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/432 "2021-12-16T20:29:11Z")
Note to self: Remain on @Ann_Hedonia’s good side. This may be the second note to self on that. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/433 "2021-12-16T20:56:12Z")
^ QFT. One thing that bothers me — at least a bit — is that being old (74), white, and fat, I tend to give the immediate impression of being in ww’s camp. And perhaps I did have that mindset, for a while. Then I went to a Jesuit high school, and oddly enough since then I haven’t been able to look at the world that way again. Which distresses me not at all. ---
**Author:** ![webwarrior](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/webwarrior/32/9529_2.png) [@webwarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/webwarrior)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/434 "2021-12-16T21:18:06Z")
I appreciate your candor, but you didn’t tell me anything about yourself that I didn’t already know. Just more of same. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/435 "2021-12-16T21:34:31Z")
> [@webwarrior](#): > > I appreciate your candor, but you didn’t tell me anything about yourself that I didn’t already know. Hey, she didn’t want to tell about herself, but about _you_, dumbass. And she did it excellently. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/436 "2021-12-16T21:50:04Z")
Well boy howdy, I agree with you! I allready knew that Ann\_Hedonia was an excellent judge of character, and her accurate description of you just confirmed that. Sad little man with a sad little life. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/437 "2021-12-16T21:57:12Z")
Down to “I know you are but what am I?”, I see. How amusingly pathetic you are. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/438 "2021-12-17T03:07:29Z")
Except that, due to certain anatomical differences between Ms Heodnia and him, it even fails as a “rubber and glue” argument. In the interest of fighting ignorance some kind person should sit down with webwarrior and explain the differences between guy parts and lady parts, but I’m not going to volunteer. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/439 "2021-12-17T04:20:35Z")
Am I the only person who thinks that Joy Behar looks like Bette Midler? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/440 "2021-12-17T04:53:20Z")
No. The first time I ever saw Joy and didn’t know who she was, I thought she was Bette. Seriously. [![](https://pics.me.me/thumb_na-totallylookslike-com-joy-behar-bette-midler-joy-behar-totally-looks-50889825.png) ](https://pics.me.me/thumb_na-totallylookslike-com-joy-behar-bette-midler-joy-behar-totally-looks-50889825.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397.md?page=23)