Religion

Puzzlement…

by MyBaconPress

He goes to Springfield Ohio and tells them about the pet eating. It’s not true, but Springfield MAGA will vote for him anyway.
He goes to Aurora Colorado and tells them about the gangland takeover. It’s not true, but Aurora MAGA will vote for him anyway.
He goes to California and tells them California sucks. That’s not true, either, but California MAGA will vote for him anyway.
He claims schools are helping kids get sex change operations without parental permission and, amazingly, in ONE DAY! That’s absolutely not true, but MAGA will vote for him anyway.
Did you hear that Trump tried to withhold disaster relief aid for states that didn’t vote for him? What a petty piece of…um, work. White House staffers had to show him that he was harming RED voters before he agreed to send aid. That one IS true, but no matter. MAGA will vote for him anyway.

As it happens, Trump has a real advantage in this election. He’s not constrained by anything restricting – like truth. He gets to say anything he wants to say, at any time, about anybody and it just never matters to MAGA. They dismiss his lies as “just Trump.” And it IS “just Trump.” Trump never tells the truth (unless it somehow serves him), but instead of counting that against him, they just dismiss the lies and overlay the Trump they’d prefer to see. That might be anything, and, often, it is.

That means Kamala is actually running against a specter, a phantom, an illusion. She sticks to the truth and runs a traditional campaign while he blathers whatever pops into his head in the moment and pretends to be whatever they want him to be – and they LOVE him for it. No, they LOVE the qualities they make up and assign to him. They simply DO NOT see the difference. There really ARE none so blind as those who WILL not see.

When I listen to MAGA describe the utopia that was under Trump, I throw up in my mouth, a little. There’s not one piece of legitimate information out there, not ONE, that backs up the claim that all was well under Trump. But don’t try to tell MAGA. They know what they know and they’re not going to let facts get in their way.

Trump benefited from Obama’s economy for a long while after taking office. Failings started creeping in as he started taking action. (He single-handedly decimated the American Soy bean trade.) Then he let Covid run rampant for political reasons and killed over a million Americans. Do you know which segment of the economy thrived while Trump was in office? The segment the provided the refrigerated trailers hospitals used to stack all the bodies that were piling up. Remember that?

After his attempted coup, when he finally left office, the economy was flat-lined. Only the most important workers, mostly the lowest-paid, menial workers, were still working. As a direct result of Trump’s failures, this country was literally in the worst shape she’s been in since the Great Depression. That’s HARDLY Utopia – and those are just the facts.

The current polling says Trump is not only even with Harris, he’s pulling ahead in some places. How? How does that happen? Look, I know MAGA glorifies his name and his deeds but the rest of us? We know better. So how is he gaining on Kamala? One answer I know is that there are always some “Never Trumpers’ who manage to find their way back to Trump, after all, so there’s going to be some gain from that.

But those were fringe MAGA to begin with. They buy the stories to a degree but they’re not all in. Trump’s antics seriously turn them off – but they just can’t quite bring themselves to vote Kamala and they DO intend to vote. So, they’ll hold their noses and pull the lever for Trump. They figure a lying incompetent is better than a Democrat. How dumb is that?

But many of us on the left were planning to do the same thing for Biden. The difference? I submit that, despite MAGA lies, Biden has had a pretty successful Presidency. Perfect? No, of course not. But there aren’t 18-wheeler trailers stacked high with dead Americans parked outside of every hospital in the nation, so there’s some improvement shown there.

Yesterday, I posted a bit about all the various and sundry ways Trump fits the Biblical description of the Anti-Christ. Maybe THAT explains why people continue to support him. Nothing else does. Of course, if he IS the Anti-Christ, he’s bringing cheating metaphysical energy with him and, theoretically, he can’t lose. If you think about it, MAGA is literally about to unleash hell on Earth…

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“Hey, did he leave office or not?” I get that argument from MAGA whenever the topic of January 6th comes up. Americans who know, suggest from time to time that Trump tried to stay in power illegally through a coup. MAGA responds by pointing out that he DID, in fact, leave office on January 20, 2021, which is true.

But their meaning is that leaving office is proof that Trump never even tried to steal the office. It isn’t, and the position is just stupid. Here, let me blow that one up for you. DID Hitler try to take over all of Europe and wipe out all the Jews? I say he did. For their argument to hold water, MAGA has to hold that, because he failed, he didn’t even try. You’d have to ask the 6 million murdered Jews or any one of the 60 million people killed during WWII to know for sure, I guess.

Failure is NOT proof there was no attempt…

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Rejecting Israel’s position doesn’t mean I automatically support Hamas or Hezbollah. Put THIS in your pipe and smoke it: I think BOTH sides are wrong. There, how’s that? I don’t approve of the Hamas attack on October 7th. I don’t approve of Israel’s “response.” I understand Hamas started the current shooting. I also understand Israel has extended and now expanded this damned little war for their own purposes.

How far back do you want to go? I know that Jews and Arabs lived side by side on that land for centuries. (The Arabs weren’t yet Islamic. It didn’t exist.) I accept and hold to this day, the Jews NEED a state of their own. When Israel was created, Arabs were forcibly removed from land that had been owned by Arabs for generations. The Arabs in question were “relocated.” Just…forced out. The Palestinians have NEVER accepted that situation. I’m not sure they hate Israel. I’m pretty sure they hate what Israel has done to them.

So who “started it?” The Palestinians who fought back after being forcibly removed, or the Israelis who did the forcible removal in an effort to create their home state? I mean, really, this region is a mess and has been since Britain decided to stick their noses in. I’m not sure one could make a final, certain case that one side is wrong and one side is right.

But I’ll tell you this; I think BOTH sides are wrong to keep turning to guns, rockets, and bombs to try and make their point. The ongoing killing isn’t going to get anybody anywhere…

Guess What? The Bible DOES Talk About Trump…

by MyBaconPress

Alright, this is Sunday, and as the First Speaker of the Doctrine of Universal Harmony, I think I ought to talk religion from time to time – especially on Sunday. So here is my sermon for this fine day. I hope it offers some insight. I know the people who need it most won’t accept it and that’s too bad, but if YOU see it, it will arm you with even more information about who represents evil in this race…

I think I started calling myself an atheist around age 14. I call myself an atheist because I had never seen anything from the Bible that might cause me to believe it as anything more than a story – and it’s a kind of weak story at that. There are LOTS of plot holes and inconsistencies and some of it seems to have been written on LSD. (It was probably peyote. LSD didn’t exist back then…) To be sure, I didn’t stop checking out religions at 14, but I was quite comfortable with the designation for myself.

You see, I was raised in a fairly religious household. We weren’t evangelical or fundamental but we did go to church regularly (read: without fail), my parents didn’t just attend, they participated, and we had ministers hanging around our house throughout my younger years. (My father had intended to be a Methodist minister but ended up in education, instead.) But one does NOT just easily walk away from the threats and fears (I mean, “teachings”) inculcated into a child’s mind before they can even think. It’s rather scary.

So, I hung around different faiths, trying to see if any of them could offer up some answers to questions I had that, in my mind, MUST have answers. I hung with the Baptists for a while. I hung with Catholics for a while. I even hung with an offshoot of Islam called the Baha’i faith for a while. (I don’t think they like being identified as an offshoot of Islam, but they are.) I never found answers and over time, decided that’s because the answers don’t exist. I don’t DO “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” According to the story, he’s supposed to be teaching us. One does NOT teach by telling people there’s something they MUST know, now guess what it is.

But who could spend so much time with religions and not have some of that stuff rub off on them? Nobody, that’s who. I’m no different. So I’ve got all these notions kicking around in my brain. It’s weird, being an atheist who references the Bible on a regular basis, but here I am. I like the philosophies. I mostly reject the theologies. I’ve gone on that way for, like, well, let’s just say a LOT of years. So, imagine my surprise when I realized I was seeing actual things, theological things, from the Bible that were supported by real life evidence – and ALL of them describe one man, Donald J. Trump.

If you count yourself a Christian but you support Donald Trump, this list is for you. Don’t worry. I don’t have any idea that you might re-consider your support. At this point, your fate is probably sealed. (That’s not up to me.) But you ought to know what you’re doing, according to the book you pretend to revere. So, what DOES the Bible say about Trump, I mean, the Anti-Christ? Actually, a LOT. Listen, this is LONG. Get a cup of coffee, relax, settle in, enjoy.

Oh, I should probably add that I didn’t pull all of these together. There’s a person on the web who did a video on the topic. I took his good work and ran with it. I don’t know his name, or I’d credit him. Or, if you’re MAGA, I don’t know his name so you can’t attack him.

I’ve written before that I like the King James Version (KJV) for it’s fiery orations but I ALSO like the New American Standard Bible (NASB) for easier understanding. Those “Thees” and Thous” get awfully confusing sometimes. So, I’ve referenced those two Bibles, depending on which translation I thought was most clear. MOST come from the NASB. Feel free to look them up. You can double check to see if you’ve been deceived by something I wrote, or warned…

For your edification:

The Anti-Christ will come in his own name and he will be accepted…
“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.” (John 5:43 NASB)

Who promotes his own name more than Donald Trump? He slaps it on buildings. If you want to be in Trump’s good graces, say his name. Trump has come in his own name. The pseudo-Christian community has embraced him like he’s the second coming of Jesus. (Hey guys, wrong direction, there…)

The Anti-Christ has the mouth of a lion…
“…and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne, and great authority.” (Revelation 13:2 NASB)

A lion’s mouth and roar are one of the lion’s defining characteristics. It lets every other animal know that the lion is king of the beasts. In the Bible, having a mouth like a lion means you roar a lot in an attempt to let everyone know YOU are king, especially when you feel threatened. Think of the way Trump attacks his accusers and rejects all responsibility for wrong-doing. Many of Trump’s supporters have actually embraced seeing him being portrayed as a lion even though the Bible describes Satan as a lion walking around seeking someone to devour…
“…be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” (1 Peter 5:8 NASB) See?

The Anti-Christ is called the little horn…
“…behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the previous horns were plucked out before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like human eyes, and a mouth uttering great boasts.” (Daniel 7:8 NASB)

‘The Little Horn’ is one of the names given the Anti-Christ in the Bible. It refers to an actual horn but in this case, the horn was a metaphor. Just for fun, in the King James version, the word ‘trump’ appears twice, both times, in reference to a small trumpet. In this case, the horn (or trump) had eyes of a man and boasted great things.

The Anti-Christ is named the man of sin…
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that the man of sin be revealed, the son of Perdition.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3 KJV)

I’ve said before, Trump is the physical embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins. But if you’re unsure, listen to him. He BRAGS about his lust, his greed, his wrath, his vengeance, and his inability to forgive.

The Anti-Christ is named the Lawless One…
“Then that lawless one will be revealed.” (2 Thessalonians 2:8 NASB)

This is part of the previous entry and is pretty self-explanatory. It’s interesting to note that the King James version refers to “that Wicked” instead of the “Lawless One.” A ‘man of sin’ and the ‘Lawless One’? BOTH seem excellent descriptions of Trump…

The Anti-Christ is deceitful and arrogant and magnifies himself above others…
“And through his shrewdness He will make deceit a success by his influence; And he will make himself great in his own mind…” (Daniel 8:25 NASB)
“After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.” (Daniel 11:23 NASB)

Trump is filled with excessive pride about himself and he commonly exhibits contempt for people around him.

He’s not who he says he is. To hear him tell it, nobody knows more about anything good than Donald Trump. He knows it best. He knew it first. Maybe he invented it, he doesn’t know. But only if it’s something he counts as good. If not, he knows nothing about it, never heard of it, has no idea. Kind of a genius/moron…

The Anti-Christ is extremely boastful…
“Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and boast against every god and will speak dreadful things against the God of gods.” (Daniel 11:36 NASB)
“A mouth was given to him speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.” (Revelation 13:5 NASB)

Trump regularly describes himself as the best, the smartest, the greatest, the most successful. Hey, let’s play a game of ‘Who Said It?’ Satan or Trump?

“You know I’m the coolest that’s ever come around.
You’ll notice things get hotter whenever I’m in town.
I mean I gotta be the coolest. Who else could it be?
Everybody knows who’s really cool…Me!

Let’s face it, I’m the greatest. I’m Mr. Number One.
My hometown built a statue to their favorite son.
I mean, I gotta be the greatest. I’m just a ball of fun.
I mean, I’m definitely the greatest. I’m also the coolest.

You can’t leave a package like me sitting on no shelf.
Let me tell you I’m so cool, sonny, I’m gonna save a little for myself.

Come here, come here, baby, Come over here a minute.
Who is the coolest? I mean how do I look?

You know the day I was born there were these four dudes up on a hill.
And they saw this star hanging out over town and the whole world seemed to stand still.
It made the Sunday papers. I guess it proves for sure…

I am the coolest. I’m also the greatest.
I am the baddest, I am the smoothest.
I’m just the best…”

Okay, trick question. The answer is Alice Cooper (a minister’s son) who captured Trump’s message back in 1976 with his album ‘Alice Cooper Goes To Hell.’ In the song, Satan is singing. (It’s a great album…) But it could easily have been Trump – and you know it…

The Anti-Christ will be a despicable person…
“And in his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the majesty of kingship has not been conferred; but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue.” (Daniel 11:21 NASB)

The King James version describes the Anti-Christ as a vile person. Vile, despicable, despicable, vile. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. He lacks class and decency. He’s a crass and vulgar person. This is a guy who rapes women, brags about it, and then doesn’t understand why the women in question are upset, suggesting it’s some kind of “honor” to be raped by Trump. Yeah, that’s despicable.

The Anti-Christ will disguise himself as an angel of light…
“For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” (2 Corinthians 11:13-14 NASB)

This passage might be the most important on this list right now. It teaches that the Anti-Christ will come as a strong supporter of Christianity and of Israel and masquerade himself as a defender of Christian values. He’s the kind of guy who might use violence to clear a path so he could get to a photo op outside a church (they wouldn’t let him in) and have a picture of himself taken while holding a Bible – upside down; The kind of guy who is SO religious, he knows to refer to one of the books of the Bible as “Two Corinthians.” Who does that?

The Anti-Christ will throw truth to the ground and do as he pleases…
“…and it will hurl truth to the ground and do as it pleases and be successful.” (Daniel 8:12 NASB)

“Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and boast against every god and will speak dreadful things against the God of gods; and he will be successful until the indignation is finished, because that which is determined will be done.” (Daniel 11:36)

Yeah, sure, this means he’s a pathological liar but, really, the truth just holds no value to him. He’ll use it if it works in his favor. He’ll set it aside if it doesn’t. And it’s all the same to him. It’s always to his advantage to leave people wondering what’s true and what’s not and if he can arrange that by lying willfully about everything, he will…and does…

The Anti-Christ will deny the Father and the son…
“This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.” (1 John 2:22 NASB)

Trump, himself, said he never seeks God’s forgiveness. He doesn’t think he needs it. Christians are supposed to seek forgiveness from time to time…

The Anti-Christ will love money as it’s the root of all kinds of evil…
“For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10 NASB)

Hey, here’s a quote from Donald Trump: “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy for money. I grabbed all the money I can get, I’m so greedy.” Also? He’s SO evil…

The Anti-Christ is revealed by the falling away…
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that the man of sin be revealed, the son of Perdition.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3 KJV)

The people who fall away from the faith (MAGA), will fall towards the man of sin. This refers, specifically, to falling away from the teachings of Jesus and towards the Anti-Christ. So, they become someone who claims Christianity but rejects the teachings of Christ. Those people are readily identifiable when they espouse positions that are directly opposed to the teachings of Jesus. Pay attention to the person THAT person gravitates toward. The person they gravitate toward (Trump) is the Anti-Christ…

As an adjunct to that verse, the Bible talks about how Satan deceives the fallen Christians…
“For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness…” (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 NASB)

Second Thessalonians, I’m sorry, I obviously meant ‘Two Thessalonians.’ What was I thinking? I guess that’s what I get for not knowing the Bible as well as the Trumpster. Anyway, that passage is reinforcing the idea people will believe what is false and they WILL be judged for it in the end, even though they were deceived. Put more simply, MAGA faith in Trump instead of God is going to cost them, bigly, in the afterlife.

The Anti-Christ has the ultimate ego to call himself God…
“…the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 NASB)

No, he doesn’t SAY he’s God. He just claims the power of God. His followers may not realize it, but every time he claims to be the “only one who can save us,” he’s equating himself with God, and that’s a very clear no-no. It’s the result of his unbelievable, unrestrained ego…

The Anti-Christ understands ‘dark sentences…’
“And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.” (Daniel 8:23 KJV)

“Dark sentences” is also translated as “sinister schemes.” Donald Trump very definitely understands sinister schemes…

The Anti-Christ will amaze the world…
“I saw one of his heads as if it had been fatally wounded, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast;” (Revelation 13:3 NASB)

He’s running around right now talking about how he MAY have been “shot in the head.” I guess the ear IS attached to the head so, technically, it’s correct. I think “shot in the head” evokes a different image than a teeny, tiny owie to the ear but, whatever. Then his ear “healed” miraculously (most likely because there was never any injury) and people noticed. MAGA fell into line and is following after the beast right now.

The Anti-Christ will know great success…
“And his power will be mighty, but not by his own power, and he will destroy to an extraordinary degree and be successful and do as he pleases; He will destroy mighty men and the holy people.” (Daniel 8:24 NASB)

Trump’s power is unquestionably mighty but he gets great support from conservative and even mainstream media. Conservative media just lies for him and mainstream media tends to “clean up” his insanity. It’s so bad, a name has been coined for the process: “Sanewashing.” But he’s not using his power to help anybody but himself. In fact, he harms people with his word and he does, in fact, “destroy mighty men” with his lies…

The Anti-Christ has a stout look…
“…that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts, and which was larger in appearance than its associates.” (Daniel 7:20 NASB)

The King James version uses the word ‘Stout’ instead of ‘larger in appearance.’ ‘Stout’ is defined as haughty, full of oneself, and even heavyset. Frankly, I think the angel was just calling the Anti-Christ a fatty, but it IS an apt description of Trump…

The Anti-Christ spreads strife…
“A worthless person, a wicked man, is one who walks with a perverse mouth, who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who points with his fingers; who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, who spreads strife.” (Proverbs 6:12 – 14 NASB)

Trump is running around right now spreading strife. His lies about the help available to the victims of Helene and now Milton are keeping people who believe him from seeking the help they need and that IS available. He’s actively harming people in an effort to score a few political points. But if we’re honest, this is just the latest example. Trump harms people all the time – and every time he does, MAGA defends him and doubles down on their faith in him. Their faith…IN HIM. I kinda wonder why the “jealous God” of the Bible doesn’t just…slap him down…

The followers of the Anti-Christ see him as a unique, unstoppable force that can’t be fought against…
“And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’” (Revelation 13:4 KJV)

For clarity: “And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” (Revelation 12:9 NASB)

See? I told you it was long. It’s a pretty scary read, eh? I’d bet buttons to beans MAGA never made it through the list. They wouldn’t dare. Once they realized how accurate this is, they declared it bullshit and went back to their doom scrolling. Kudos to those who started, though, and kudos to you for making through. Now you know more than you knew before. Me, too, but I’ll tell you this: I wish I didn’t. I wish it didn’t fit so effing well. I wish people who call themselves ‘Christian’ would take it to heart. But I know many won’t…

Fakin’ It…

by MyBaconPress

Wow, Trump’s choice of a running mate, JD Vance, seems to be hurting the ticket. What, for having a little sex with a couch? I’ve never done that, never even thought about it. But hey, maybe it was a really sexy couch. For being a fraud? MAGA doesn’t care about frauds. MAGA depends on fraud. MAGA is built on fraud.

Now, suddenly, it’s MAGAGOP that wants to replace a candidate. To be clear, Trump keeps saying he’s fine with Vance. Possibly, Vance wrote the biggest check and it cleared first, so Vance is the guy. But the base doesn’t seem happy.

Apparently, he’s not too magnetic at the microphone. So far, he’s been nothing but storms for the campaign. He’s pretend Appalachia, and very likely pretend MAGA. He was once a ‘Never Trumper’ but seems to have gotten over that.

It’s weird. I know how they feel. The left was just in the exact same conundrum a mere two weeks ago. Knowing you have a candidate who doesn’t appeal to people is challenging. But what does Trump do?

If he keeps Vance on the ticket, he’s hurting his own chances in the election. If he dumps Vance, I guarantee you the left will pounce on that as an error Trump made. (At least, this corner of the left will.) Trump picked him. Trump named him as the running mate. Trump thought he would be good for the ticket. Trump was wrong. WAY wrong. I wonder if MAGA will be able to see that their infallible leader made an egregious mistake.

No, I don’t. They see it. They just re-write it to make Trump a hero anyway. Or, they’ll suddenly embrace Vance. Either way, they won’t have to face the reality that Trump messed this one up pretty badly – just like everything else he touches…

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MAGA keeps trying to convince somebody, somewhere that it’s absolutely unacceptable that people in the White House may have lied about Joe’s situation. (They haven’t.) They’re acting like it’s a major breach of ethics to lie. Excuse me a moment.

A-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Oh, tears! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha – Oh, my sides hurt. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha… heh, heh… ohh…

I think the party that LIVES on lies trying to make a single, possible lie into the worst thing ever might be among the funniest things we see all summer…

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One of the stories MAGA loves to tell is that illegals are bringing Fentanyl into the country. It turns out – you’ll never guess – they made that up! It turns out, if you ask former head of Border Security Gil Kerlikowske, nine out of ten convicted Fentanyl traffickers are US Citizens. He even says the cons KNOW that most of the traffickers are US Citizens. It’s just a nice, little attack line they made up out of whole cloth because they don’t have anything real to complain about.

I guess that’s why the cons were so comfortable shooting down that bi-partisan border bill, written by a Republican, supported by Dems AND the border patrol, and denounced by Donald J. Trump because he didn’t want Dems to have a “win.”

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Wait, was it just yesterday I wrote, “I find it ironic as hell that it’s the pseudo-Christian community ushering in the age of the Anti-Christ by putting their faith into this Earthbound clod but, hey,that’s how the Bible said it was going to happen…”

In fact, it was. So, here. A little bit of support for my position. Shall we open our Bibles to Second Timothy? Not ‘Two Timmy,’ as some Trumps might have it. It’s toward the back. A lot of the pseudo-Christians never got that far. Ah, here it is.

2 Timothy 3, “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God…but they will not make further progress; for their foolishness will be obvious to all…”

Does any of this sound like any (every) MAGA you know? It seems, to me, to be a pretty accurate (read: perfect) description. Leave it to the “lovers of light” to lead the world into the darkest darkness…

Inexplicable…

by MyBaconPress

Bill Maher’s show, ‘Real Time’ is broadcast on Friday nights. I usually don’t watch until Saturday sometime. That was true again this week. He had Tulsi Gabbard on as a guest. It was the second time in a week I watched cons come out and lie (no surprise there) with absolutely NO pushback. The first was the debate, itself. Trump just stood there and lied. Nobody fact-checked him at the time.

With one exception, that includes Biden, which was one of Biden’s problems. The one exception? Trump said there was no inflation under him. Biden pointed out that was because the entire economy had flat-lined and there is no inflation where there is, essentially, no functioning economy. But other than that, Trump just lied and Biden just couldn’t hit those easy pitches at all, let alone out of the park.

But, then, on ‘Real Time,’ Maher let Gabbard get away with it, as well. She spewed the lies. Maher, mostly, sat there and let her. Very little pushback, very little correction of the record. I’m curious why Democrats aren’t calling out MAGA lies. It’s not that hard. The lies are obvious and have been debunked completely. When MAGA tries to repeat them to me, I respond with, you know, facts. MAGA doesn’t like facts, but I still think they’re important. Apparently, that’s quaint, these days.

The Dems are going to foist Biden on us, like it or not. The very LEAST they could do is try to look like they’re putting up a fight. When you just sit there and let the liars lie, you’re NOT putting up a fight of any kind. In a very real sense, you’re enabling the liars. Hell, you might as well be Fox Not-News!

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But not every false statement is provably false. Some are more… opinion oriented. For example, in the debate, Trump pointed out (correctly) that Putin took land under Obama and Putin has taken land under Biden but never even tried when Trump was in the Oval. That makes perfect sense to me. I believe (but can’t prove) Putin went to a LOT of trouble to get his mole into the White House and he wasn’t going to do ANYTHING to mess with that coup. In my opinion, Trump had FAR more value to Putin in other ways, like complete access to American intelligence. What, you think Trump stole all of those classified documents because he likes paper?

I also suspect Trump is playing word games when he insists he didn’t have sex with a porn star. I mean, he had sex with her but if he doesn’t count her a “star,” then he didn’t have sex with a porn star. Yeah, weasel words but that kind of parsing is right up Trump’s alley. I DO, however, feel obligated to point something out. Trump didn’t have sex with Daniels while Melania was pregnant. He was having sex with Karen McDougal while Melania was pregnant. (That would be the whole time. It was an ongoing affair.) He had sex with Daniels AFTER Barron was born…

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I don’t really expect tired old Sleepy Joe to just step down quickly. There’s a process to this. Acceptance can be hard to achieve. Meanwhile, people are doing what they can to try and prop him up. Some call the debate “just a bad performance,” a one-off. Some point out how hard it would be to get someone to replace Biden.

They have a point. Replacing Biden at this point would be difficult. But NOT replacing Biden is suicide. So which do you want, difficult or suicide? Some lovely choice there, eh? Bill Maher once referred to Biden as Ruth Bader Biden. It’s a reference to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decision to stay on the court rather than step down just because she was old and dying of cancer. That selfish, short-sighted decision set the stage for the end of Roe (and, apparently, the United States as a whole) and now Biden is making the same, selfish, short-sighted decision…

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Recently, in an effort to show everyone just how awesomely Christian the state is, Louisiana required every classroom in the state to post Jewish Law on the walls, for some reason. Not to be outdone, in an effort to show everyone just how awesomely Christian that state is, Oklahoma is going to require teachers to teach the Bible in their classrooms.

Do you think they’ll focus on that story about the time the daughters get their father drunk so they can have sex with him? You know, for the benefit of the children. No? Maybe it will include the OTHER time the daughters got their fathers drunk and had sex with him. Yeah, that IS an uplifting book of purity, isn’t it? No? How about the story where a man orders his slave to perform a task, which she does, and afterwards, he has her put to death and her body cut into pieces and spread to the four corners of his kingdom, do you think they’ll cover that one?

I guess it doesn’t matter. It’s all a show. A kind of competition. How Christian can WE appear? Here’s how dumb I am: when I think about Christianity, I like to look to Jesus and the words he taught. I don’t much care about some televangelist’s interpretation (that somehow always puts money into the televangelist’s pockets). So, since this is Sunday, let’s just take a look at what Jesus thought of these ostentatious displays of pseudo-Christianity.

Please open your Bibles to Matthew 6:5. 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”

That’s the New International Version. I still like the King James, which includes the line “Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.” Jesus really thought one’s Christian works should be handled privately…

Dear Wonder Christians,
You REALLY should be embarrassed that I’m an Atheist and I know – and live – your favorite story book FAR better than you… (Apparently, I’m still working on the ego thing…)

Insupportable…

by MyBaconPress

So, not for nothing, but I’ve noticed that every time some natural disaster or other bad thing happens to a city with a reputation for tolerance, the pseudo-Christians slither out of the woodwork to claim the disaster was “God’s wrath” for their sins.

But there’s this town called Ayetoro in Nigeria. It was founded specifically to be a “Christian community.” It’s being consumed by the ocean as climate change advances. I haven’t heard even ONE pseudo-Christian “leader” insist it might be God’s wrath. But I’ve noticed God isn’t doing anything to protect them, either. It looks, to me, more like science is going to science and denying science doesn’t change that one iota.

The numbers in the weather reports aren’t looking any better, either. It’s already hot this summer. Yeah, I know, keyword: summer. But this is shaping up to be one of the hottest summers on record and then? I hear experts (because I still listen to experts) saying to get used to it. Future summers promise to be even hotter.

Hey, we had our chance to intervene. We COULD have taken steps to avert the disaster. We still could, although at this point the effort would have to be huge and painful – and when have humans ever signed up for that voluntarily? But conservatives would have to confess to being wrong (or lying) about science and, more importantly to the power people, it would have been bad for business.

Humanity has done this more than once, make a harmful decision in deference to some greedy power. In the 5th century, after the fall of Rome, the church took over as the primary source of power and, in an effort to maintain that power, plunged the western world into a knowledge vacuum that came to be known as ‘The Dark Ages,’ a term currently being downplayed.

The church held absolute sway for something like 700 years. It was good for the church – they got fabulously wealthy – but very bad for humanity. We just…stalled. For 700 years! Now we’ve done something similar, this time for political and financial reasons. Denying climate change was very good for business, but very bad for humanity.

Evil people doing evil things with the help of the ignorant and stupid? It seems to be the human way. I suspect it’s going to cost us dearly…

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In what will certainly be recognized as no surprise at all, both Hamas and Israel have rejected the peace plan the US put forth. Hamas said no because giving up the hostages leaves them vulnerable to Israeli aggression, so they refused unless a permanent cease fire was in place. Israel said no because if they cease their fire, they can’t very well drive all the Palestinians into the ocean, now, can they? So, the fight continues.

Wait, did I say continues? No, I mean “expands.” Israel and Hezbollah are squaring off, too. Apparently, Palestinians in the West Bank aren’t comfortable just watching Israel wipe out all of the Palestinians in Gaza. Go figure.

At this point, I’m pretty sure Israel and the Palestinians are going to fight to their own destruction regardless of what anyone else does. If you want to see how it plays out, just watch the episode of Star Trek, the Original Series called, ‘Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.’ I just wish Israel wasn’t using American weapons to do it…

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I’ve seen the video. I don’t think Biden “froze up” during the LA event hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and attended by Barack Obama. It looked, to me, like Biden was doing what politicians do, standing there for a moment so photographers could get a clear photo. We’ve all seen it, two politicians shaking hands and standing still and smiling for the cameras for a moment or two. It looks weird, but there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for it and everybody understands what is going on.

But I’ll tell you the truth, I think Biden made it easy for the right to mischaracterize his actions (0r lack thereof) in that moment.

Both sides are trying to show that the other guy is unfit. Biden is old. He LOOKS old. He acts old. But he’s still competent. Trump is ALSO old. HE looks old, too, though not quite as old as Biden. Trump really does lose control of his speech from time to time and the dude rambles. But let’s call it a tie on “old, with the occasional senior moment” and move on to the next categories.

On the economy? Trump crashed the economy with his fecklessness. Biden brought the recovery. That’s a clear Biden win. NEITHER Trump nor Biden have any good answers for the border. I’m calling that one a tie, though it was brought about that way by Republican obstruction. Biden is being hurt in 2024 by the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that started in 1948 while Trump has the luxury of sitting on the sidelines sniping. That’s a Trump win, even though he didn’t have to do anything for it but run his mouth.

Biden wants to preside over a constitutional government that tries to bring the best to everyone. Trump wants a dictatorship that serves himself first and other wealthy people second, all at the expense of the masses. Biden clearly wins that one. Trump has more convictions that Biden. LOTS more.

Trump has lost in civil courts AND criminal courts. Trump is currently on his bicycle, trying to stay out of any MORE criminal courts because he KNOWS he’ll be convicted, even if MAGA doesn’t. I think “most criminal convictions” works against a person, though MAGA thinks it’s his badge of honor.

On balance, Biden has been a better, if not perfect, President. But Biden is clearly, far and away, the better MAN. He has better morals, better understanding of the issues, and better ability to work with the world to solve problems. Trump is just…a problem all by himself.

Here’s the test: One doesn’t have to lie about Biden to present him as competent and decent. MAGA cannot tell the truth about Trump, even to themselves. Here’s the rule: Any position that depends on lies for support doesn’t deserve to be supported…

Cheap…and Fake…

by MyBaconPress

Cheap Fakes…they’re the talk of the town, right now. It seems the right is carefully editing video of Biden in ways intended to make him look like a doddering old fool. They’re not AI generated, so they’re not ‘Deep Fakes.’ They’re just actual video, edited in a way that takes away context and leaves Biden appearing clueless.

For example, in one video, Biden wanders over to the edge of a stage and seems to just stand there. Oh, the old guy! But he was really trying to talk to a guy who parachuted into the event as a part of it. Edit out the parachutist, leave Biden, he looks like he’s staring into space. Clever.

Of course, this is MAGAGOP’s response to all the video out there of Trump just…locking up or forgetting names and rambling incoherently for minutes at a time. The difference? Nobody on our side has to carefully edit anything. Trump glitches. Video catches it. The left highlights it. Nobody on our side is “faking” anything…

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I hear that Trump’s PAC, ‘Pay My Legal Bills, Rubes,’ no, wait… that’s not it. It’s really called, ‘Save America.’ (He means, ‘Save ME!’) I may have whiffed on the name but that IS what he uses that particular Political Action Committee for, to pay his legal bills. Anyway, it’s running out of money.

The estimate is that he (I mean MAGA) spends $5 million a month in legal bills and his lifestyle…and Melania’s hair. But he has less than $4 million left in his PAC. Since he doesn’t use his own money for anything, MAGA will simply have to give more and the RNC will have to pony up and shift some money his way. They will, too. They already have a plan in place to skim $5000 off the top of large donations and shift it to the legal fund.

All of that will cut into his campaign funds, which might explain why he’s holding rallies outdoors in searing heat. Cheaper venues. MAGA IS sending more money but it looks like it’s becoming a question of trying to keep up with his profligate spending of their money…

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I recently mentioned that Trump is claiming Biden will be amped up on drugs for the debate. Remember, every conservative accusation is a confession. It was the Trump White House that was awash in drugs. We know it. We have the paperwork that shows the pharmacy there was constantly filling orders for unknown people and setting up drug packages for overseas trips and other little “get ’em the drugs” things.

So, of course Trump accuses Biden of using drugs. It’s how he confesses…

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Louisiana is moving forward with it’s plan to put the 10 Commandments into every classroom. I hope their intent is to demonstrate hypocrisy, because they’re demonstrating hypocrisy in a spotlight and in full view of everyone. Thou shalt not kill, lie, steal, or commit adultery? To the best of my knowledge, Trump has broken all but one. I have no information that he has ever killed anyone.

But the entire GOP is one big lie, these days, stealing money from donors who believe the stories, and their poster boy seems to love adultery, considering he commits it every chance he gets.

Still no word on why the so-called “Christian” community so fervently embraces the Jewish law and not the Grace of Jesus in the Beatitudes. It just doesn’t make sense to me. Why would they reject ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the Sons of God?’

Wait a minute. I think I see the problem. THOSE morals – the ones Jesus advocated – teach people to treat others with respect and dignity. MAGA likes the punishing rules better…

D-Day, June 6th, 1944…

by MyBaconPress

I suspect most thinking Americans know that Donald Trump’s relationship with God is, um, non-existent. He avoids questions on the topic by talking around them. At one point, he refused to name even a single favorite Bible verse because, he claimed, it was “too personal.” What horse-hockey. I’m a freaking atheist and I have a favorite Bible verse! But MAGA lapped it up like a kitten at a cream bowl, just like they always do.

Oh, MY favorite verse? It’s Matthew, Chapter 7, Verse 5. You know the one. It’s the one where Jesus tells his followers not to be hypocrites. You’re not going to look it up, are you? Okay, it goes, “Thou hypocrite,” – I like the King James Version for fiery rhetoric – “first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”

After his Felony criminal conviction, he was asked on a softball ‘Fox and Fiends’ Interview, “What’s your relationship with God like, and how do you pray?”
“OK, so I think it is good,” Trump replied. “I do very well with the evangelicals. I love the evangelicals. And I have more people saying they pray for me ― I can’t even believe it. They are so committed, and they are so believing…”
He thinks he has a good relationship with God because he does well with evangelicals? I’m not sure that’s how it works. He’s the living embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice, Wrath, and Sloth. I suspect those aspects of his reality would go FAR further in God’s thinking – along with the actual acts of stealing, lying, sexually molesting, adultery, and even having a God before God (himself, of course) – than whether evangelicals vote for him…

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You know those movies about high school where there’s some pampered bully who runs roughshod over everything and everyone in sight, often by instigating others to do his evil bidding? He usually stands opposite of the star, who eventually overcomes the abuses of the bully. I have no doubt in my mind that Trump was that bully in high school, just like he’s that bully now. Where, I wonder, is the hero who eventually overcomes the abuses of this bully?

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Today, June 6th, is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Europe that was the beginning of the end for the Nazis in Europe. As the United States hurtles toward our own Authoritarian Fascist destruction at the hands of those “so believing” MAGA, I’m reminded of the 80 year rule. History repeats in roughly 80 year cycles. (No, it’s not perfect. It’s an average, but it’s a solid average, one you can trust.)

My own thinking for why the 80 year cycle is, that’s how long it takes us, collectively, to forget. Those of us who are interested have seen the film of the destruction of Germany and Japan. We’ve read the books and learned a lot about that war. But we had to make an effort. It didn’t just come to us. And since so many people do not pursue that kind of history, they never really understand it, hence, they forget – and then humanity has to do it all over again.

The Nazis were not good for Germany. MAGA is not good for America. In the 1930’s, thinking Germans found themselves overrun by foolhardy followers. In the same way, in the 2020’s, America finds itself overrun by the same crowd. People in Germany couldn’t stop Hitler from coming to power. If we’re not very careful, Americans are not going to be able to stop Trump from coming back, either. Germany was decimated. ALL of it, whether one supported the Nazis or not. If America continues to follow the same path, America will be decimated, too. ALL of it, weather one supported MAGA or not.

The people who COULD have stopped Hitler in Germany, the wealthy and powerful, decided, instead, to try to use him to their advantage. Other people, the day-to-day workers, weren’t concerned enough about Hitler, thinking yes, he’s a demonstrable buffoon, but he can’t do much damage due to the structure of the government.

I used to try to imagine and understand their shock as the realized they couldn’t control him and he didn’t give two figs about the structure of government. He just dismantled said government and did what he wanted to do. Sadly, I no longer have to try to imagine how the thinking people in Germany felt. I’m feeling the very same way, most days, as far too many Americans embrace the once-unimaginable in ‘Hitler 2, Donald Trump.’

I’ll tell you this: It’s really ironic as hell. This is the anniversary of the day Americans fought and died to put a stop to Fascist Authoritarians, occurring at a time that the US is falling into the clutches of Fascist Authoritarians…

Faith…

by MyBaconPress

Okay, sorry about yesterday. On the one hand, I think I wrote a solid assessment. I think it’s solid enough that, obviously, I fear it. On the other hand, it was pretty depressing. Well, unless you’re MAGA. If you’re MAGA, the looming specter of the fall is your goal, so the transition to dictatorship is good news to you. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right?

But then I got a ray of hope. Did you see what happened to Trump at the Libertarian convention? Oh, MAN, did he get booed. By conservatives! And the energy wasn’t tepid, either. The crowd shouted him down – and he had a microphone (and, likely, a teleprompter)! He didn’t expect it. MAGA had tried to pack the audience so the Libertarians couldn’t get to their own seats in the convention hall. The idea was, MAGA would cheer everything Donny says, like they do, and leave the impression that Libertarians love trump, too.

But they don’t seem to. MAGA moved in early, to steal the seats (because MAGA will steal anything) but it was a bit TOO early. The Libertarians caught on to what was happening and came in and a confrontation began. The Libertarians wanted their seats. MAGA wasn’t moving. The Libertarians finally just created a human wall in front of MAGA and blocked their view – and shouted as loudly and long as they could.

I’ve seen video of the event. When the booing started, Donny looked shocked. He tried to talk to the crowd but they weren’t interested in any of his lies and just kept shouting and heckling. So, Donny did what Donny does. He got aggressive. He tried to shame them into compliance, like he does with so many Roepublicons. He tried quoting an article that suggested that Libertarians should vote for Trump and the house erupted again in jeers and boos.

So, he went to his stand-by; ridicule, “Only if you want to win. Only if you want to win. Maybe you don’t want to win. Maybe you don’t want to win. Only do that if you want to win. If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your 3% every four years.” His face got redder and redder. He smiled, but his tone was clearly not happy and his face was deep red. His anger was clear.

In fairness, the crowd quieted a bit after Donny promised to commute the sentence of Lance Ulbricht, an on-line drug dealer who created a web presence called the ‘Silk Road’ and was sentenced to life in prison. (Besides, all that shouting is tiring.) He lied to the crowd about things he would do for them. He said he would put Libertarians in his Cabinet. He pandered to them about a couple of their other pet priorities and they listened. But then he asked again for their support and the chorus of boos came flying back in his face.

After the speech, people in the crowd indicated they knew he was lying. One guy was quoted as saying, “He’s full of shit.” Nobody in the crowd bought his bunk and they know the list of his failures as well as anyone. In fact, the thing that seemed to distinguish MAGA from Libertarian is that the Libertarians seem to be better informed conservatives. Corporate media focuses so heavily on MAGA, I didn’t even know there were informed conservatives…

I found it… heartening. Many in the crowd who define themselves as MAGA, today, once defined themselves as Libertarian. Now there’s a clear schism and the Libertarians seem to have caught on to Donny’s game. I’ll tell you this: As I indicated yesterday, odds seem long but, hey, maybe MAGA can learn, too. Hope springs eternal, I guess…

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Have you heard that in Louisiana, MAGA has passed a law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom? Sure, it’s a violation of the Constitution’s separation of church and state but they don’t care and if it gets to THIS SKCOTUS (Supremely Kangaroo Court of the United States), anything might happen. Those clowns don’t give two figs about what the Constitution says. They rule on their “feels” – and payments received, of course.

So? The Ten Commandments in every classroom. For the LIFE of me, I can never understand why so many American pseudo-Christians put their faith in Jewish law over Christian teachings but, by now “Christian hypocrisy” seems like a redundancy. (I mean, you DO know the Ten Commandments come from the Jewish Torah, right?)

In my experience, most of the people in “love” with the Ten Commandments don’t know the Ten Commandments and I’ve realized – even if they haven’t – they’re in trouble with the very first one. The first commandment isn’t “Thou shalt not kill.” That’s the sixth. Seems like it should have a top priority, to me, but to God, it comes in sixth.

Number One? “You shall have no other gods before me.” Uh-oh. What about Donny? He makes the very same commandment to his acolytes – and they comply. EVERY time. (Have you heard Nikki Haley has caved also?) So, how do they reconcile that? TWO deeply insecure, emotionally messed up entities vying for the loving eyes of their devotees could create confusion.

I suspect the pseudo-Christian MAGA would push back, “We don’t think Trump is God.”
“Really? Wow, you sure act as though you think he’s God. You treat him as infallible. You treat him as all-powerful and all-knowing. Isn’t that Yahweh’s shtick?” I guess they’ll have to put God and Donny in a cage and let them fight it out. (You’d think whichever one actually IS “all-powerful” would have something of an advantage…)

If I was a teacher in Louisiana, I would, of course, comply with the unconstitutional law. (Hey, lighten up. I’m a school teacher in Louisiana. I’m likely struggling financially and can’t afford to lose my job on principle.) But in MY classroom, right next to the Jewish Ten Commandments, I’d put an equally prominent display of the Christian Beatitudes.
“The what?” The pseudo-Christians ask.
“The Beatitudes. Um, the teachings of Jesus? Blessed are the poor? Blessed are the meek? Blessed are the pure in heart? Does any of that sound familiar?”
“What are you, a commie?”

The Bahá’í have a similar list of beliefs. I’d post THAT, too. I’d put ’em ALL up. Those kinds of collections of ideas, regardless of the source, tend to have positive messages so I know my students would be okay. My problem would be the parents, of course, but I’m not sure how they would criticize the display. The Ten Commandments are there. That’s what the law said I have to do, that’s what I did. (Hmm, maybe I would lose my job on principle…)

I guess I’ll just have to hang on to, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5: 1-12, NKJV)

Republican Morals…

by MyBaconPress

This being Sunday, and me being the First Speaker of the Doctrine of Universal Harmony, I thought I’d give a sermon today on morals, focused on those as displayed by conservatives in general and the Republican Party as a whole. I’ve heard a LOT about Republican morals. I mean, they talk and talk and talk about how moral they are and conversely, how IMMORAL the Democrats are. I’d like to check that. I’m not going to pay much attention to the words they use. People can – and commonly will – lie. But people also tend to live their morals, right? So, let’s pay less attention to the words they can string together and pay more attention to what they do, positions they support, shall we?

To start with, it has long-since become crystal clear that conservatives abandoned the values of Jesus years ago. They have absolutely NO use for the teachings nor examples brought by Jesus. Apparently, He’s kind of a bleeding heart snowflake. They keep pretending He’s important to them so it’s hard to say exactly how long ago they turned their backs on him, but think back to when they all decided the Ten Commandments should be in every courtroom in the country. Right around then, they began embracing more eye-for-an-eye, Jewish law stuff. But the Ten Commandments are still pretty good moral guidance, right? Don’t steal, don’t lie, don’t kill. Good rules, all. So let’s use the Ten Commandments.

Well, five. The Five Commandments. I mean, let’s face it, the first five are really just kind of a whiny, insecure God commanding that you can’t like anybody better, ever. He should probably get some counseling. That kind of insecurity can really eat at you, you know? Put you in a real smiting mood. And it could be dangerous. What if, say, the self-described “jealous God” got all upset about something and, in an uncontrollable emotional outburst, wiped out all of human kin—? Oh. Sorry, that’s really a different topic. I didn’t mean to digress…

Back to the subject at hand, Republican morals. Okay, so people are people and some are going to commit adultery but I’m not focused on individual actions so much as what the larger group does and so far, I haven’t seen ALL Republicans endorse…Oh, crap. I forgot about cheatin’ Donny. Cheated on his first wife. They don’t care. Cheated on his second wife. They don’t care. Cheated on his third wife. They don’t care. Based on their actions, I’d say Republicans are a-okay with adultery. One Commandment gone. (I thought I was starting with an easy one…)

How about Thou shalt not bear false witness, also called lying. We’re considering their actions, here, and not their words because lying is all they know how to do. They lie about everything, all the time. They CAN’T win on fact so they try to win on fiction. It doesn’t work but they lie about that, too. THEN they lie about lying about the lie. I can’t even give them half-credit for that one so now we’re at two of the five in the dust bin.

Thou shalt not steal? Sure, I hear them scream (see the previous paragraph) but at every turn, it’s Republicans trying to steal elections. THEY rig them. THEY make rules barring people they don’t want voting (because they’ll vote Democrat). THEY gerrymander. THEY want and make rules in which Republicans and Republicans, alone, get to decide which votes “count.” I see THAT as stealing and NOBODY does it better – or more aggressively. But if you can’t make the leap to a metaphorical theft, they’re in full-throat support of letting Donny get away with his fraud, for which he has ALREADY been convicted. Fraud is direct theft AND lying, so they get a two-fer on that one. Three down.

There are only five of these things and they’re 0-3, so far. At best, they might make 40% of the Five Commandments if they can just keep the last two. Let’s find out.

Not covet? Are you kidding? Conservatives are driven by coveting. Money, mostly, but coveting is coveting and they fail that one, too. They want what Donny pretends to have. They want it bad. They also, always, covet bigger guns. Zero for four. That’s pretty embarrassing, yes? At this point, the best they can do will be supporting only 20% of the Five Commandments. I shouldn’t do this, but if they only embrace one Commandment, I’ll still give them credit – and they’ve still got the biggie; no killing.

No, no they don’t. They go back a LONG way with their willingness to kill if they don’t get what they want. The American Civil War was all about slavery, of course, but it only happened because conservatives were angry at not getting their way. They killed over 600,000 Americans over it.

But more recently, remember back when someone was mailing military-grade Anthrax to various Democrats? That guy (the chief suspect, anyway), Bruce Ivans, turned out be a conservative. He took personal responsibility for his actions by committing suicide with, of all things, Tylenol. Why he didn’t use Anthrax, like he chose for others, I’ll never know…

During Covid, cons killed their aging parents and grand-parents by the thousands in order to make a political point. When thinking people tried to get them to consider someone besides themselves, they actually laughed out loud and dismissed such concerns with words like “co-morbidities.” “Oh, those old people shouldn’t have been old. It’s their own fault!” Then, they refused to cooperate and killed tens of thousands of people. They continue to make jokes about Covid defenses to this day.

Now they’re back to mailing stuff, in this case, Fentanyl-laced envelopes to election workers, hoping to maybe, God willing, kill a few of them. There is a belief out there the actual phrasing of the Commandment was ‘Thou shalt not murder’ as opposed to kill. Based on the number of hits God orders in the Bible, I’d guess the word was actually murder, not just kill. But the cons have murdered and would be murdering more people if they could just make it work. Hammer to the head, anyone?

So there are five relevant Commandments they pretend to believe and they don’t live any of them. They praise adultery and covet wealth. They lie – ALL the time. They certainly steal and, God help us, they’ll kill, for real, just to make a political point. I should add, I know they say the exact same things about Democrats and progressives. The difference is, I can point to very specific, well-known examples as evidence. They can only report pretend events – that cannot be verified – they heard about from their third cousin’s, ex-wife’s, brother-in-law’s uncle’s friend.

I’ll tell you this: It seems pretty clear to me that the words ‘Republican’ and ‘Morals’ have no place in the same sentence…amen.

Beams and Motes, Logs and Specks…

by MyBaconPress

I read that Patrick Kennedy has been asked not to receive “holy communion” in a row with a Catholic Bishop over his stance on abortion.

Really?

Do you suppose the Catholics are worried about the falling number of young boys available for molestation?  For my money, the Catholic Church has the exact same “moral authority” as NAMBLA.  Do you suppose the church has taken the same stance toward its pederast priests?

“You hypocrite“, Jesus said, “first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”  (Matthew, 7:5)

Maybe someone should introduce the Catholic Church to the teachings of Jesus…