# 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:** 24
**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 20, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/461 "2021-12-20T00:35:38Z")
When you have a little bit of both, you’re untouchable. ---
**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 20, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/462 "2021-12-20T00:37:02Z")
That sounds like a job for a miracle worker. ---
**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 20, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/463 "2021-12-20T00:38:23Z")
That’s personal experience, Bobo. Like I say, 1980’s before the Kenyan came along and transformed the city. They’d go in after 9:00 and write up the reports. Ever wonder why so many killings and so few charges ever filed? ---
**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 20, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/464 "2021-12-20T00:40:55Z")
What’s with the obsession with peni around here? ---
**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 20, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/465 "2021-12-20T00:49:46Z")
Who’s from Kenya? I don’t follow. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/466 "2021-12-20T00:56:24Z")
His wife’s lover. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/467 "2021-12-20T02:08:46Z")
> [@webwarrior](#): > > That’s personal experience, Bobo. Like I say, 1980’s before the Kenyan came along and transformed the city. They’d go in after 9:00 and write up the reports. Ever wonder why so many killings and so few charges ever filed? It’s so sad to watch you try to provoke liberal tears. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/468 "2021-12-20T03:23:22Z")
> [@webwarrior](#): > > peni That’s “penises” or “penes”, technically: Latin third-declension nouns in -is pluralize to -es. You’re mixing it up with second-declension nouns in -us with plurals in -i. > [@webwarrior](#): > > the Kenyan Wow, I can’t remember the last time we had an actual birther-conspiracist on these boards. Even most of our trolls don’t go that deep in the ignorance. Or perhaps you just choose to refer to former President Obama by his ancestral ethnicity, the same way you choose to refer to former President Trump as “the German”. ---
**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 21, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/469 "2021-12-21T23:18:26Z")
Well, while webwarrior apparently continues his trolling (I’ve ignored him as he isn’t even entertaining) - we have new news of Flynn that surprises, well, absolutely no one. > **[Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/politics/michael-flynn-lawsuit-january-6-committee/index.html)** > > Michael Flynn, the embattled former national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, is suing to block a US House subpoena for his phone records. For anyone that the preview doesn’t load for, it’s just what it says on the tin, with no additional info, MF (and doesn’t that abbreviation make me snigger) is suing to block the House’s access to his phone records. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/470 "2021-12-22T15:36:36Z")
Flynn isn’t the only douche canoe suing the 1/6 committee. > **[Alex Jones sues Jan. 6 committee in bid to evade deposition](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/alex-jones-sues-jan-6-committee-bid-evade-deposition-n1286337)** > > The committee is scheduled to question the Infowars host on Jan. 10. ---
**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 22, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/471 "2021-12-22T17:00:51Z")
These lawsuits are nothing more than mobsters suing the FBI for daring to investigate them. They need to be tossed out of court quickly, and with extreme prejudice, with costs against the plaintiffs, and sanctions against the lawyers who helped with this attempt to subvert the course of justice. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/472 "2021-12-22T20:59:03Z")
That didn’t take long: > **[Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/michael-flynn-january-6-lawsuit/index.html)** > > Michael Flynn has swiftly lost his bid in court to block a possible House select committee subpoena for his phone records and to hold off demands he speak to the panel investigating January 6. ---
**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 22, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/473 "2021-12-22T21:37:37Z")
Sadly, he’s not being denied on grounds that it’s ludicrous, but that with no definite timeframe ahead for his information, he has no need of an ‘emergency’ stop. ---
**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 23, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/474 "2021-12-23T01:17:39Z")
I think it’s likely that Flynn’s documents will show that he (and others) were actively conspiring to bring down the government of the USA. Perhaps with the assistance of foreign actors. ---
**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 23, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/475 "2021-12-23T13:45:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Perhaps with the assistance of foreign actors. What, like Piers Morgan? ---
**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 23, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/476 "2021-12-23T13:57:14Z")
If Piers Morgan gets locked up too, that’d be an actual bonus. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/477 "2021-12-23T13:59:28Z")
That’d be funny, but given Flynn’s known associations, I suspect @Euphonious_Polemic meant agents for Turkish president Erdogan. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/478 "2022-02-01T04:26:45Z")
Since this became the default Pit thread for Michael “I never met a Dictator I didn’t Like” Flynn, I thought I’d share some recent allegations. [https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/trump-executive-orders-seize-voting-machines/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/trump-executive-orders-seize-voting-machines/index.html) > The idea of using the federal government to access voting machines in states that Trump lost was the brainchild of retired Col. Phil Waldron and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, the sources said. Both Army veterans spread misinformation about the election being stolen from Trump. The above snip being the most pertinent piece of course. Not proven, although I suspect as more documents are released it will be confirmed based on his actions and statements to date. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/479 "2022-02-18T18:12:46Z")
Follow up on the prior post regarding Flynn’s involvement with the draft executive orders to seize the voting machines ( with copies of the leaked emails!) - > **[Read the emails showing Trump allies’ connections to voting machine seizure push](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/09/trump-emails-voting-machines-election-00007449)** > > The conversations shed light on the visibility that Washington lawyer Katherine Friess and Texas entrepreneur Russell Ramsland had into the election subversion push. And since this is the pit, included one line from the article: > Flynn noticed a problem with the document Waldron had sent: Its title misspelled the word “analyze.” > > “I reviewed,” Flynn replied half an hour later to Waldron, Kerik, and Friess. “Fix the spelling error in the title. Ensure it gets a legal review, but this is ready to go from my standpoint. Thanks for getting the key points in.” Fucking really? It’s all great except for that one typo that I bravely fixed for you? Run it past the crack (smoking) legal team and lets go? 🙄 On a note more directly related to the OP, he also reportedly egged on the Religious Right with his assertation that leftists would find Jesus to be a domestic terrorist due to his actions against the moneylenders, which required a degree of Religious Right doublethink and contortions that bent my brain. But since I haven’t been able to find a well documented source other than the quote in [Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/michael-flynn-claims-jesus-would-called-domestic-terrorist-today-endorses-mastriano-1667263), I feel it’s a bit unfair to assume the details. Then I reminded myself, it’s the Pit. So fuck him. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/480 "2022-02-20T13:20:08Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Follow up on the prior post regarding Flynn’s involvement with the draft executive orders to seize the voting machines Speaking of spelling errors I think there’s an unneeded “r” twelve words into your sentence. 😄 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397.md?page=25)