Perhaps the OP typoed the title: a D instead of an L. Of course, that would not be news…
Yes, like that. I don’t see anything in the quote that would make it small.
Use the “Small” command – put the word “small”, bracketed by < >, in front of your small text, then the word “/small”, again bracketed by < >, after your small text.
I cropped myself out.
I haven’t seen pictures of you being posted, have I? Then don’t judge.
plonk
Ah - some tags make you SMALL and some tags don’t turn off small like they’re suppose to.
Hopefully, Death’s speech-to-text engine is more compatible with Discourse so we’ll the know the news is authentic when we get it….
One tag makes you larger
And one tag makes you small
And the ones that Zotti gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Cecil
When he’s ten feet tall
* drops acid, rans away applauding…
Fireworks for sure. Just now mushroom clouds please.
I sort of want a flagpole so I can leave the flag all the way up.
So last night I was watching Sunday Night Football on NBC. My Lions weren’t doing well, so sometime during the second half I put the TV on mute and ‘rested my eyes’.
I woke up sometime between 2-3am to see a closeup of JD Vances’ face as he spoke seriously into the camera. I thought "is this it? Did trump die overnight, and Vance is already breaking the news with an early-morning address to the public? I fumble for the remote to unmute…
…it was a rerun of ‘Meet the Press’.
Needs more eyeliner.
A Trumpy phallic display.
That’s not JD Vance, that’s Medusa. You should out a spoiler alert on it so that people aren’t inadvertently turned to
So today’s headline is “Trump Looks Forward to Going to Hell”, right? Would that make his Christians sit up and take notice?
If he really does (versus just blathering to the press), it’d surprise me. Everything I’ve always read about Trump indicate that he’s not religious, likely doesn’t believe in the afterlife, and certainly is not a person of faith. I suspect that that’s part of why he’s so focused on success and gain in the mortal world, because to him, that’s all there is.
In my entirely speculative view, I think it’s less actual consideration of the implications of an afterlife and more wanting to be seen as someone who of course will go to Heaven and hang out with all the cool people. He’s like Brent in “The Good Place” - the thought that he isn’t one of the bestest people ever and that God won’t greet him personally at the Pearly Gates and say with tears in His eyes “Sir…< insert rest of joke here >” simply won’t occur to him in any coherent form.
I’m not much of a believer in an afterlife either but if there is one, I’m sure that the one he ends up in will have a special place for him.
Did Trump not once say he did not think he had anything for which God needed to forgive him? Plus there’s referrring to Communion as a cracker, “Two Corinthians”, Bibles as merch, etc.
He always struck me as what I call an American social/cultural Christian, the kind who just goes thru the motions at Xmas, Easter, funerals and weddings but has the theological sophistication of a preteen child at Sunday School (who did not want to be there).
Yes, though IIRC, that was in response to a specific question posed to him by an interviewer; it wasn’t something which he volunteered on his own.
At the most, yeah. I think he says certain things now about God and faith (again, mostly when he’s asked in an interview) to mollify MAGA Christians, but it’s not something that he thinks about on a daily basis, if at all.
Trump views everything in life as transactional, and for him to be interested in a transaction, he has to perceive it as being of benefit to him, personally, right now – and for him to be getting the better end of the deal.
Impending death makes people incredibly scared and some of them get frightened into turning to religion in their last days both as a comforting thought and in a pascal’s wager sort of way I think. I don’t think Trump is anywhere near finding genuine faith but I would imagine his mortality and any potential afterlife could be on his mind.