madmonk28:
His base will love it
Probably, but at this point he’s trying to convince people who aren’t his base to vote for him. His base is already represented in the polls giving him a 6-10 point loss.
:smack:
Perhaps directly from beneath. For that dramatically evil effect.
kitap
June 2, 2020, 1:20pm
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Maybe a klieg light will fall on him.
FOX “news” reported that Marco Rubio defended the president bizarre trip to the church and the removal of protesters, and the rubber bullets and tear gas thrown at them I may add, by claiming that the protesters stayed next to the church after the curfew time of 7:00.
Time magazine and others report that the bullets and tear gas from the police started falling on the crowd just right after 6:30 and 15 minutes before 7:00.
GIGObuster:
FOX “news” reported that Marco Rubio defended the president bizarre trip to the church and the removal of protesters, and the rubber bullets and tear gas thrown at them I may add, by claiming that the protesters stayed next to the church after the curfew time of 7:00.
Time magazine and others report that the bullets and tear gas from the police started falling on the crowd just right after 6:30 and 15 minutes before 7:00.
Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a presidential photo op - Anchorage Daily News
Given Pence’s conspicuous absence from Trump’s Via DoloRacist walk, Little Marco must have had the VP positions waved under his nose and taken a long, deep inhale.
enipla
June 2, 2020, 2:20pm
28
Well, he said there are lots of ways to get light into the body to kill COVID. Hope they use a 5 cell Mag Light on him.
Some have the light of greatness shone upon them.
Others must have it thrust within them.
I think that the video of the police assaulting the Australian news crew and other protestors as they were trying to leave is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in a very long time.
We are in a lot of trouble.
BigT:
Some do. I’ve encountered them. They argue that the bad stuff is all the media taking him out of context. They spread memes that make him out to be Christian. They repeat the lies by the preachers who are using him as a useful idiot as if they were true. Or they believe in Q-Anon crap that he’s secretly fooling the godless liberals for some greater purpose.
I mean, there’s a reason that guy made those painting with Jesus and Trump together–while painting him as opposing Obama like an antichrist.
Just because those in charge understand doesn’t mean they aren’t manipulating people under them. It’s kinda what these types do.
A friend of mine not only believes this, but has said on numerous occasions that any sins/trespasses Trump had committed prior to his 2016 campaign don’t matter, because they were before God chose him (Biden’s, of course, matter because he’d always had a career in politics, so he was already in the public eye).
ThelmaLou:
WHOA! :eek:
Good one.
Thanks. Just came up with it.
I release it into the public domain.
I wonder if anyone has made up a bible quote of Jesus encouraging violence? I wonder how many would believe it?
not_what_you_d_expect:
I think that the video of the police assaulting the Australian news crew and other protestors as they were trying to leave is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in a very long time.
We are in a lot of trouble.
We’ve been in trouble since November 2016.
It’s just becoming more obvious.
Matthew 10:34
Of course, it would be taken out of context.
He’s incapable of reaching anyone but his base. If he can stoke white fear of blacks enough, and suppress voting, that might be enough to get him re-elected.
Not news but another good contemporaneous account by priest at St. John’s :
Rev. Gini Gerbasi, an Episcopal priest in D.C., said that federal police used tear gas to expel her and other people from St. John’s Episcopal Church property to make way for President Donald Trump’s photo-op staged there on Monday evening.
The priest, who said she was wearing her clerical clothing at the time, described how the police had breached church grounds and began spraying tear gas, effectively chasing out her seminarian, herself and others on the church patio from the premises.
“The police in their riot gear with their black shields and the whole bit start pushing on to the patio of St. John’s Lafayette Square,” Gerbasi said.
The priest told Religion News that she was unaware of the reason for the violent expulsion until after the President began the photo-op, during which he held up a Bible without bothering to enter the church itself.
“That’s what it was for: to clear that patio so that man could stand in front of that building with a Bible,” she said.
**QuickSilver **was faster indeed, I was going to link to that report.
A bit more from it:
The photo opportunity had an eerie quality: Trump said relatively little, positioned stoically in front of the boarded-up church, which had been damaged the day before in a fire during protests sparked by the death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis.
The church appeared to be completely abandoned.
It was, in fact, abandoned, but not by choice: Less than an hour before Trump’s arrival, armored police used tear gas to clear hundreds of peaceful demonstrators from Lafayette Square park, which is across the street from the church.
Authorities also expelled at least one Episcopal priest and a seminarian from the church’s patio.
Man, everything Trump touches dies…Trump reportedly demanded his church photo op because he didn’t like being mocked for hiding from protests in a bunker
NDP
June 2, 2020, 6:47pm
40
Trump’s attempt at piety reminds me of this scene from Richard III (Act 3, Scene 7).
