What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[Artaxerxes]

It's been a tool of this exact kind of political control for almost 2000 years. He's continuing a noble tradition.

Indeed, the Bible being full of 'love thy neighbour' text and also being used by murderers to justify murder isn't a surprise.

Also a lot of the Bible is full of smite that fucker as well btw.

 

[gentlegreen]

Some interesting segues as per usual from Chris in NSW.
EDIT:- oops he gets a bit into "2 planes, 3 buildings and sod all evidence at the Pentagon "conspiracy towards the end ...

 

[NoXion]

Must say, I've found the pearl clutching in many quarters at Trump using A BIBLE as a prop for a political photo op a bit ridiculous. It's the bible guys. That's what it's for.

I think some Christians would disagree with you on that one. As well as some literary critics.

 

[killer b]

Sure they would. 2000 years of history says they're full of shit tho.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

The thing about the Bible is that it is a very long book, written by a variety of people with different religious and political stances over many centuries. Hence it can be used to justify Tolstoyan anarcho-pacifism, but also warmongering fascism and genocide. It can be argued to stand for passive submission to authorities through to revolutionary resistance. I would guess the kind of people Trump is using it as a visual aid to appeal to are those who like things as described in the Old Testament Book of Joshua, which is an account of ethnic cleansing, genocide, war crimes and territory seizure - all “approved by God”.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

And it is not an Old/New Testament split either - the New Testament may have lots of peace and love, but also the underlying threat that God will either actively condemn or at least allow the torturing of people for eternity if they don’t believe in exactly the right way - what is the right way being an argument that has led to “Christians” intermittently slaughtering each other for several thousand years....

 

[Humberto]

Yet if Christianity didn't exist, something else would have filled the space.

 

[butchersapron]

The most well-known argument, the so-called Cyrus defense, holds that just as God used the ruler of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great, as a vessel to free Jews from the Babylonians, so can God use the ungodly Donald Trump as a vessel to free Christians from the captivity of a secular state. The conservative Supreme Court justices he appoints will overturn Roe v. Wade and protect Christian religious freedom from the LGBTQ movement. This is actually a longstanding Christian defense for ungodly political leaders, even used by German Christians who supported Hitler. Its emergence in the Trump era demonstrates how quickly evangelicals abandoned their apprehension to embrace a figure they believed could overcome their enemies.

 

[Sprocket.]

See it’s worked, it’s got folks discussing the ethics of Christian belief instead of slagging Trump off.
He does believe what it says, basically the bible is God saying, if you don’t do what I say I’ll slap you down. Trump thinks the same.

 

[Yossarian]

The thing about the Bible is that it is a very long book, written by a variety of people with different religious and political stances over many centuries. Hence it can be used to justify Tolstoyan anarcho-pacifism, but also warmongering fascism and genocide.

We'd better hope Trump never actually reads it then.

 

[existentialist]

We'd better hope Trump never actually reads it then.

He'll have people to do that for him.

 

[Nylock]

He will not be pleased that fox is airing this ad.

Hopefully it will end up triggering the aneurysm that the world's been waiting for....

 

[NoXion]

See it’s worked, it’s got folks discussing the ethics of Christian belief instead of slagging Trump off.

Both are happening at the same time. People are pointing out Trump's cynical use of Christian religious symbols (despite himself not being at all Christian) for base political ends, and how that fails to jive with a significant portion of the Christian audience that he is trying to appeal to with such stunts. That sounds pretty slaggy-offy to me.

This is an entire thread dedicated to slagging off Trump. So in light of that it's a little irritating how some people are basically trying to backseat moderate sub-topics that naturally crop up within the thread, by implying that any such diversions are somehow part of some super-clever master plan to distract everyone from Trump. The orange twat is a fucking narcissist (there's that slagging off that's supposedly not happening any more!), so why the fuck would he want to distract attention away from himself? Especially by personally appearing in a public broadcast with a book in hand?

 

[chandlerp]

He found something else to blame on Obama too. Apparently the bunker was a mess and inadequately supplied. Prick.

 

[Orang Utan]

He will not be pleased that fox is airing this ad.

Who should they vote for then?

 

[gentlegreen]

Is Trump at any physical risk from Whitehouse insiders ?

 

[gentlegreen]

Who should they vote for then?

Massive amount of nose-pinching involved ...

 

[bimble]

Who should they vote for then?

Theres a republicans for biden group. I think that ad might be from them but not sure. They have lots of money.

New GOP group launches $10 million campaign to get Republicans to vote for Biden over Trump

A new project to encourage Republicans to support former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump has launched a $10 million ad campaign targeting GOP-leaning voters in top swing states.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Ax^]

He found something else to blame on Obama too. Apparently the bunker was a mess and inadequately supplied. Prick.

it was Dusty because protesters never force Obama to go cower in the bunker ...

odd remark really

 

[WouldBe]

Is Trump at any physical risk from Whitehouse insiders ?

I hope so.

 

[DexterTCN]

Legal Eagle explains the multiple ways in which Trump's church action was so egregious in America.

 

[gentlegreen]

Theres a republicans for biden group. I think that ad might be from them but not sure. They have lots of money.

New GOP group launches $10 million campaign to get Republicans to vote for Biden over Trump

A new project to encourage Republicans to support former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump has launched a $10 million ad campaign targeting GOP-leaning voters in top swing states.

edition.cnn.com

Might as well - perhaps that's what the Democratic Primaries were about

 

[two sheds]

Legal Eagle explains the multiple ways in which Trump's church action was so egregious in America.

and a reporter asks "is that your bible?"

 

[gentlegreen]

The long version ...

 

[Ax^]

and a reporter asks "is that your bible?"

like this bit aimed at the gun and Christian right nut cases

 

[NoXion]

Legal Eagle explains the multiple ways in which Trump's church action was so egregious in America.

I saw this video yesterday! I'm subscribed to this channel, and it's a very different tone from the rest of his videos that I've seen. It really hit home for me how things are a bit different this time.

 

[Sunray]

Bunker Boy has decided to build a wall around the Whitehouse.

Mexico should offer to pay.

He's such a pussy.

 

[DexterTCN]

and a reporter asks "is that your bible?"

Missed a chance to ask 'your upside down bible'. Kicking themselves now.

 

[DexterTCN]

Bunker Boy has decided to build a wall around the Whitehouse.

Mexico should offer to pay.

He's such a pussy.

 

[Brainaddict]

I keep hoping that he's misjudged how much of a secure base he has and that the ever-increasing craziness and fascist tendencies will lose him the election. But I just don't know any more.