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From nojo:

It always arrives with the force of a hurricane.

Trump provokes. America reacts.

Every time.

Without fail.

It’s happening right now. Trump provoked. Something about Baltimore. But it wasn’t really about Baltimore. It was about the black congressman representing Baltimore. It was about the black people living in Baltimore.

But it wasn’t even about that.

It was about black people.

That was the provocation.

Every time. Black people. Brown people. People from shithole countries. People from shithole cities. People who aren’t white. People who don’t know their place.

Them.

Every time.

And every time, it works.

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From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:

We have seen in white Evangelicals and Donald Trump, a level of mercy they were simply incapable of during the previous eight years.

Yes, he said he could grab women by the pussy.
Yes, he said he “moved” on a married woman, “like a bitch.”
Yes, he said that he “tried to f*ck her.”
Yes, he’d been credibly accused by multiple women of sexual assault.
Yes, he’d been an unapologetic serial adulterer.

A Presidential candidate representing the Christian “Families Values” party with this growing resume of immorality. Certainly, this kind of abject ugliness would have been a spiritual disqualifier, for men and women who were morally offended by President Obama in a tan suit? For a people fully outraged at Michelle Obama’s bare upper arms? For believers indignant at the phrase “Happy Holidays” on a coffee cup?

For Christians apparently sickened by the then President’s supposedly brilliantly-hidden Muslim faith?

Surely Trump’s putrid moral malfeasance would be a deal breaker for faithful disciples of Jesus.

Nope.

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From News Corpse:

It has long been said of Donald Trump that he is behaving like a cornered criminal who shoots wildly in all directions out of fear and desperation. That characterization has never been more true than now. With the congressional Mueller hearings concluded, Trump seems to recognize the legal jeopardy he faces. Mueller’s testimony, while not particularly dramatic, did establish that Trump and his associates welcomed and encouraged Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, and then lied in order to cover it up (aka obstruction of justice).

Now Trump is lashing out with some of the most nauseating assaults on anyone he perceives to be his enemy – which is not just his political opponents, but at least half of the American people. In a White House press avail on Friday, Trump did what he does best: Whine! Then he focused his attention on his archenemy, President Barack Obama. This was a bizarre rant that could only have been triggered by his personal hatred and racism.

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From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

Shameless Christians, forgetting the Good Book condemns bearing false witness (Romans 13:9), lie about atheists and defame their character.

Why do Evangelicals act this way towards atheists? The short answer is that for Evangelicalism to have value, there must a clear distinction between good and evil; Christian and atheist. Evangelicals present themselves as pillars of moral virtue — that is until they are caught with their pants down, and then they are just like the rest of us, they say — so it necessary for atheists and other non-believers to be portrayed as people lacking morally and ethically. The Christian life is presented as the most awesome experience ever — all praise be to J-E-S-U-S — so it is necessary for atheists and other non-believers to be portrayed as having empty lives lacking meaning, purpose, and direction.

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From PZ Myers:

I agree completely on the importance of church/state separation, and I think it’s important to get religion out of our schools, for instance. But why? Think about the deeper motivations behind atheism.

There are many reasons why people should oppose religion. I oppose it because it’s antithetical to good science, and that religion is used by people to endorse ideas that are contrary to the evidence. I consider that a very good reason.

Another very good reason, though, is that religion is behind many of the most repressive policies in this country.

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• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged offers a realistic lament, that folks like … well … like me, I suppose, were too optimistic about Mueller’s putting a face and a voice to the Mueller Report. The media world has changed with technology. Everyone seems to be a theatre critic, losing the overarching view, focusing on the superficial.
   
• Okay, we do not consider Fox News as a dispassionate provider of factual truth. Scotties Toy Box presents a category by category contrast of coverage between two First ladies that is startling even to someone expecting it (which is to say me).
   
• News Corpse reports as my President gets angry, again, at Fox News because of “Fox Polls, which have always been terrible to me.” Perhaps this is not a marriage made in heaven after all? Nope. We dare not hope for so much.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony points out how hating immigrants is economically self-destructive, AND that this administration wants to end, not just illegal immigration, but all immigration. Actually, there is one large group of immigrants that my President is on record as wanting to encourage, having them skip to the head of any line, going past any legal requirements. Care to guess who?

Continue reading “Mueller Theatre, Trump Out-Foxed, Immigrants, Trump Jesus, Bernie”

 
From Infidel753:

In Blade Runner (1982), Hauer played Roy Batty, a “replicant” (android) manufactured to serve as a soldier in space warfare, who is marked for death because he has illegally come to Earth. In this immortal scene (use fullscreen), knowing his end is near due to his built-in fixed lifespan, he saves the life of the agent assigned to kill him, then ruminates briefly on his imminent death — Hauer ad-libbed Batty’s final speech:

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