Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Baptist Minister Friend Randy Carter's Facebook Exchange With A Congregant Concerning Her Evangelical Trumpism Moved Me To Aggregate "All" My Trump Posts From The Last Decade. Here Is That Anthology.


Querida

I am so happy to hear you’re on board for the last leg of your flight!

Yoo-hoo!!!

I look forward to getting the full scoop.

I just woke up — 1 pm, Oaxaca time.

Looking ahead…

I’ve bitten off a big internet project, i.e., putting my best Trump posts in a single file so they are all available in one place for interested people to scroll. 

I am alternating these links with pertinent memes.

I was motivated to do this by Baptist minister friend Randy Carter, two of whose blood children grew up with Maria and Danny. 

Randy and Becca have five (?) other adopted children, mostly from Russia.

Randy and Becca are self-evidently generous, kind, loving, service-oriented people in whom the holy/wholesome spirit is deeply embedded - and shines through.

I will mention that Trump’s ascendancy among the conservative members of Randy's prior congregations, has caused him lots of psycho-spiritual turmoil.

It is perfectly clear to any open-handed virtuous person (who believes in the cornerstone of Truth) that Trump is, at bottom, a consumingly cruel, solipsististic, compulsive liar who is full of sh*t. 

In any event, yesterday when Randy came to the defense of the innocent fellow, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was "mistakenly" seized by ICE and sent off to El Salvador‘s infamous Mega Prison — never to be seen again — one of his congregants went bonkle-donk, enumerating in her snitty, snarky, presumptuous way a litany of half-baked reasons why Randy was making the nation's situation worse by offering his divisive view. 

I must say that for twenty years I have appreciated Randy’s calm reasonability as he (methodically, reasonably, and informed by deep scholarship) tries to put these “lost souls” back on The Way

For targeted purposes, I can pretty much use Randy's approach, but only at wide intervals. If I had to eat Randy's daily bread, I'd go nuts. (I remember your recent comment to me, which I reflect upon like a medal of honor: "If you were born black, Alan, you'd be in prison now."

It's no secret that when "truth-justice" are at stake, I have trouble containing myself. 

Plus, I have spent too many years in the labor-intensive undertaking of gathering solid, corroborable information about Trump -- and then collating it reasonably -- so that anyone interested in Truth will find therein a dependable tool for tracking down Truth. 

In this new blog post, I also provide ample hyperlinks to "pave the way forward." 

Te quiero muchísimo, mi amor!

Ale’ 🌈💘🍀
Cynthia replied to my email above, saying she liked the idea of a guaranteed minimum income, and I replied to her as follows:

Querida,

Thanks for your message.

I’m happy to hear you made it through the night - and with Misha “riding shotgun!”

Today, I hope to complete my Trump blog post, the one motivated by Baptist Minister friend, Randy Carter’s Facebook exchange with a conservative Christian, who reminds me - as they often do - that, "in the mouths of most conservative Christians, the ‘word of God’ is indistinguishable from personal opinion."

As Obama observed in his 2020 book, we are living in a deep epistemological crisis. 

Right "up there" with The Tower of Babel.

Yet, there are (effectively) NO conservative Christians who even know what an "epistemological crisis" is, or who give a shite.

Jesus is their Lord and Savior, and even if they have to consider Donald Trump as “part of the package that makes salvation possible," they are TOTALLY ON BOARD!

Make no mistake…

These are the same people who single-handedly put Donald Trump into The Oval Office... not just once, but —flabbergastingly! — twice. (And the second time, they mustered a clear plurality of popular votes!)

“Giving Trump a Mulligan” is like giving imprisoned Olympic doctor Larry Nassar a weekend pass to an all-girls’ gymnastics camp.

As an aside, I will mention that the scores of girls molested by Nassar were molested even though they kept telling their parents that Nassar was molesting them.

But Mom and Dad — respectable middle class, Americans -- did not believe their girls.

Almost always we believe "the putative authorities."

The abused girls' parents refused to believe their own kids with the same blind intensity that "conservative" "Christians" (who are neither) insist on believing that Trump is Jesus’ right-hand man!

On a lighter note…

Did you hear that the one about the remote island (where Trump is trying to impose tariffs) has 217 inhabitants, all of whom believe there are only two kinds of people — those who believe there are only two kinds of people… and those who don’t.

“The saved.”

And “the damned.”

*****

You are fabulous, my Dear.

"Conservative" "Christians" are fabulists, lying with the same relentless persistence as their cult leader. 

*****

Te quiero muchísimo.

Ale’ 🌈💘🍀

PS I have a meme, which shows a finger-waving Pharisee, with acaption that reads: “If you spend any time, trying to determine who is ‘saved,’ you’re not.”



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Dear reader,

Among the "Trump links" below, I have interspersed blog posts that contain information (and principles) which I have found useful in my pursuit of truth. 

This latter kind of "epistemological link," I have distinguished from my Trump links by using purple typeface.

I did not devote much energy to linking my memes with the themes of the blog posts on either side of them. 

So please don't try to discern linkage where there may not be any.


The Characteristic That Unifies The Five Archibald Siblings: Enter Mario Cuomo, Martin Scorsese And Pope Francis, Stage Left



Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Theory Of Stupidity", Developed During Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power 

"I Am Fully Bilingual And Spend Four Months A Year In Mexico. Neither I, Nor You --  Nor Anyone YOU (Or I) Know -- Has Ever Seen, Or Interacted With, A Member Of MS-13" 

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/i-am-fully-bilingual-and-spend-three.html

Christians Were The Only Americans To Ever Wage War On Christmas (NPR)


Christians Ignore Jesus' Direct "Commandments" But Are Punctilious About Things He Never Said

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/christians-ignore-jesus-direct.html


I am continually surprised to find that "conservative" "Christians" are such manifestly fearful people. It's as if their engagement with God-Universe-Divine-Milieu is a neverending attempt to justify the fear they constantly live with, as if fear (frequently morphing into abject terror) is a God-given inevitability, and that they are authorized to fight their fears by any means necessary. And they do this mostly by being ever "at the ready" to champion their Second Amendment rights, and, whenever they deem it necessary, to shoot their ungodly surfeit of firearms at other human beings.
They prefer to use pistols which are specifically designed to kill human beings.
Makes you want to be a Christian, no?

The New Testament Parable Of "The Widow's Mite," Relativity, Perfection And Contextualization: "The Chances Of A Refugee-Terrorist Killing An American Are 3.6 Billion To 1"


"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is Not Only Real, But Foundational

Donald Trump: "Now You Can Be Hateful, And Feel Good About It"


Pax on both houses: Cartoon: "Don't Monkey This Up!"

A Letter (Inspired By Thomas Merton) To My Lost Soul Conservative Christian, Trumpista



Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/fr-thomas-merton-explains-in-16-words.html

If you don't "get it," the following meme may help.

Alan: Conservatives would love to be more charitable 
-- you know, like Jesus when he fed the multitude --
but, lamentably, the lazy, ne'r-do-well, parasitic slackers just don't deserve it.

"The Best, Imposed As A Norm, Becomes Evil," Trappist Monk, Fr. Thomas Merton


"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

"The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil."
(Let this sink in...)

Thomas Merton And Anne McCaffrey Describe The Fatal Flaw Of "Conservative" "Christians" (... Who Are Neither)


The 20th Century Writers Who Have Been Most Influential in the Development of My "Outlook" and Worldview are Ivan Illich, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Neil Postman and G.K. Chesterton




Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"

How To Save "Conservative" "Christians" From Themselves: An Experiment In Reading About Notable Human Beings As A Path To Truth And As An Antidote To Presumption, Self-Righteousness And Hubris 


The 20th Century Writers Who Have Been Most Influential in the Development of My "Outlook" and Worldview are Ivan Illich, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Neil Postman and G.K. Chesterton


Who Woulda Thunk It?!?  Shakespeare, Einstein, J. B. S. Haldane And Wendell Berry Converge On Truth


Compendium Of Best Hannah Arendt Posts


Neil Postman, Author Of "Amusing Ourselves To Death," A Great 20th Century Book

"How Do You Tell 40% Of Americans They Should Care About Other People?" 
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-do-you-tell-40-of-americans-they.html

A Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken


The Normalization Of Cruelty During Donald Trump's Administration: A Compendium


"Cruelty Is The Point": An Update On Donald Trump And His White "Christian" Base


Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Trump-Cult Cruelty



Trump's Rallies Define His Vision Of Liberty: The Right Not To Care About Other People

The Only Card In Trump's Deck Has The Picture Of A Victim On It | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

A Surpassingly Good Video: "If You Don't Think Trump And Trumpistas Are Hypocritical, Dishonest, And Stupid, You Will!"


"The Divinity Of Donald Trump"
The Daily Show
Another surpassingly good video


"A Must-See Video Collage Of Trump's Arrogance: If You Are Even Vestigially Normal, You Will Sicken"

"The Daily Show" Lets Trump Cultists Reveal Their Own Stupidity And Obsequious Boot-Licking

Jaw-Dropping Stupidity: 3 Short Videos That Will Change Your View Of American Politics Forever


Compendium Of Pax-Barbaria Posts Concerning Absolutism, Authoritarianism, Fascism And Trumpism



"The Exquisite Ignorance Of Trump Supporters"


Trump, along with his suck-ups, achichincles and cultists, are deranged.

They have taken leave of their senses.

They live lives that automatically morph reality into an enveloping delusion in which their fundamentally fact-free world is not only portrayed (to others and to themselves) as true, but as "God's Truth." 

The patients are in charge of the asylum, and presume their asylum is The Promised Land.

They make their proclamations of faith with the same decerebrate certainty that "good Germans" manifested in The Third Reich.


My working hypothesis is that Trump cultists want liberals dead, whereas liberals only want Trump cultists to leave them alone - just as an earlier generation of conservative Christians left them alone when they were backwoods snake-handlers instead of snakes.
 
It never occurs to Trump cultists -- particularly self-righteous "Christian" "conservatives" (who are neither) -- to “live and let live.”

These folks are dominance-submission hierarchs, and nothing but total domination is even open for consideration.  

These "true believers" are absolutely certain God is on their side, and that the rest of us infidels are damned to The Lake of Unquenchable Fire.

And so, since “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it,” they take it upon themselves to be dictatorial-and-cruel because that’s what their God is, and that’s what their God ordains.  

It is hard to see a way out of this muddle.  

Trump mocks a sex assault victim | The Seattle Times

The Whiskey Rebellion, George Washington And Seneca Indian Genocide... 

(I grew up in Seneca country.)

Trump Cult: A Study In "Folie à Plusieurs"

Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Racism -- Specifically Trump's Racism -- And Two Tests To Determine If YOU Are A Racist... Or Even A Christian


The Perfect Photo To Epitomize The Horror Of Trump: Not Only Does He Inflame The Worst Angels Of Our Nature, HeTeaches His Followers That It's Okay -- Indeed, Virtuous - To Laugh At Murderous Cruelty


Trump Is The Most Gifted Criminal Genius In The History Of The World - A Houdini Who Can Make Personal Responsibility Disappear. "Malignant Messiah" Can Shoot Someone On 5th Avenue -- In Broad Daylight -- And Not Lose Any Voters. But "Getting Away With Murder" Is The Least Of It. "Lingering Orange Fart" Attempted A Coup D' Etat And Then Persuaded Half The People That He Deserves A Mulligan


What Is Most Remarkable Is That Trump - And His Crime Family - Are Open About Their Criminality


How To Save "Conservative" "Christians" From Themselves: An Experiment In Reading About Notable Human Beings


"50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He's 50" /// "My Favorite Books"


Best "Pax" Posts About The Criminality Of Donald Trump, His Family And "The Best People"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/best-pax-posts-about-criminality-of.html


Americans Think Foreign Aid Consumes 1/3rd Of GNP. This Percentage Is Totally Hallucinated. Nevertheless, This Preposterous % Is What The Dimwits Believe. They Believe It Because They Don't Read And Don't Know How To Read With A Discerning Eye. Indeed, Many Of "The Benighted" Don't Read At All. And When They Do, Their "Reading List" Is All "Confirmation Bubble" Bullshit. They Live In The Dark Because They Don't Want Any Light That Will Oblige Them To Think. Bertrand Russell Observed That "People Would Rather Die Than Think. And Many Do." In Their Cave-Dark World, The Trolls Want Visceral Inflammation Immeasurably More Than They Want Knowledge Or Truth.



"How Do You Tell 40% Of Americans They Should Care About Other People?" 
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-do-you-tell-40-of-americans-they.html

"The Facts Are In: The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalleled At Catastrophe"



"If Trump Voters Listened To Reason, They Wouldn't Be Trump Voters"



Brilliant talk by David Brooks given to a British Audience:

Put moral formation at the centre of your society” David Brooksspeech was challenging and thought provoking, calling for us to reassess ...
How do nations recover from decline? In this discussion our panellists explore history, spirituality, and politics to uncover the forces ...



Verbatim Quote


"The GOP Deliberately Crafted An Ignorant, Prejudicial, Hateful Constituency"

(And Conservative Christians Proclaimed Themselves The Embodiment of Love)


I Applaud Donald Trump: The Most Important Thing Said At The Republican Candidates' Debate
(Giving credit where credit is due.)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/02/i-applaud-donald-trump.html
the best thing said


Here's where American conservatives ran off the rails:

"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." Denis de Rougemont



Master Compendium Of Trump's Mendacity: Malignant Messiah Lies More Easily Than He Metabolizes. (Or... You Know He's Lying Because His Lips Are Moving.)


Trump's Sister, A Retired Federal Judge, Says Malignant Messiah Is "An Untrustworthy, Cruel Phony" Who "Lies", "Cheats"


Trump's Mobster Model Of Government In Which Brazen Lies Are Routinely Represented As Truth


Donald Trump, Felon: Starting With His Trump University Scam And Itemizing His Criminality On Through His First Wife Ivana's Accusation Of Violent, Hair-Tearing, Penis-Penetrating Rape



If Malignant Messiah's Quest For Power Meant That Trump Would Defecate In God's Mouth, He Would Do It In A Heartbeat

Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University


Married Couple Say Trump Defrauded Them Of $35,000.00 But Will Vote For Him Anyway


New Meme Featuring Mafia Don, And A Compendium Of His Lifelong Criminality
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/02/new-meme-featuring-mafia-don-and.html


Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty


Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies



Trump first laid Melania aboard Jeffrey Epstein's "Lolita Express" 
Why these tapes didn't become a HUGE story is anyone's guess.
Satanic intervention?

Pray for mercy.


How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies 

"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Trump, Toxic Christianity And Cruelty As A Moral Obligation"



The United States Of America: "We're #1" (Ah! The Shame...)


Christian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies



"Conservative" "Christians" Only Believe In "God" And Themselves... And The Two Are Pretty Much Interchangeable
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/conservative-christians-only-believe-in.html


"The Only Card In Trump's Deck Has The Picture Of A Victim On It"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-only-card-in-trumps-deck-has.html

In his first administration, His Malignancy already hired "the best people." 
And then, he either fired them, or they quit.
This time around, he's starting with the dregs.


Here's where American conservatives ran off the rails.

"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." 
Denis de Rougemont

The following post is A BIG DEAL

The Elimination Of "The Fairness Doctrine," And Commencement Of Degenerate, Chaotic Governance



For a really deep dive...

Is Ortega Y Gasset The Most Important Modern Philosopher? The Most Discerning Prophet?


The Incipient Unraveling Of The Western World As Seen By Visionary Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1929)



"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
(I am flabbergasted that Americans don't perceive the bedrock treachery.)


"Compendium: Trump And His Minions Lie-And-Mislead More Easily Than They Metabolize, With A Special Guest Appearance By Master Bull-Shitter, Kayleigh McEnany"


"Truth Infuriates People Whose Lives Are A Lie"


"Trump Lies Shamelessly, Compulsively, Continuously... And His Followers Suck The Sludge"

"The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil" - An Open Invitation To Christian Conservatives



"Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies"


"How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies" 

Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty


"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness, Nor Uplift In Trump's America"


A Comprehensive Review Of Trump's Racism (Featuring "Must-See Mash-Up Of Trump's Racist Preaching")


"Cruelty Is The Point": An Update On Donald Trump And His White "Christian" Base


The Monstrous Cruelty Of Family Separation, A Heinous "Crime Against Humanity"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-brutal-cruelty-of-family-separation.html


 Conversation With A White, Conservative Christian Concerning Trump's Family Separation Policy

Family Separation And The Satanic Cruelty Of Most Republicans



Here is the death and injury toll from January 6th.
(Trump flat out lied when he said no one died.)


The Sermon on The Mount

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount



"More Of Trump's Cruelty"



Best "Pax" Posts About The Criminality Of Donald Trump, His Family And "The Best People" 
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/best-pax-posts-about-criminality-of.html  


Roger Stone: Members Of Trump's Inner Circle Are Unusually Likely To Be Convicted Felons  
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/roger-stone-members-of-trumps-inner.html

Trump's Evil Twin, Roger Stone: To Grasp The Vility Of Both Men, See This Netflix Documentary


"Must See" GIPHY Of Trump Partying With Jeffrey Epstein At Mar-A-Lago



Listen to the Epstein Tapes
Trump was Epstein's best friend.
Trump first slept with Melania on "The Lolita Express"

Biblical "Literalism" And The Cultivation Of Hatred


"You've Been Trumped" (made in 2011, 4 years before Trump's presidential campaign) is the most revealing Trump documentary.
It was produced, directed, filmed and financed in Scotland where Malignant Messiah presumed he could push around an entire native community whose ancestors lived in that place for hundreds if not thousands of years.
This film reveals "The A-hole" at his most loathesome.

The Bible's Two Versions Of The Decalogue Are Different. Read The 1st Commandment



"Trump Openly Admits That The Republican Party Cannot Win Without Cheating, And The Most Effective Cheating Is Race-Based Voter Suppression


Wherever you reside on the political spectrum, the following article will prove to YOUR satisfaction that the Republican Party's allegations of widespread voter fraud are themselves fraudulent, and that proof of GOP fraud was generated by Trump's own Voting Fraud Commission.

We Americans have short memories, but do not forget this. Mention it in all your political conversations.

Trump's Handpicked Kansas Secretary Of State - Attorney General, Kris Kobach, Is Emblematic Of The Bullsh*t Nonsense That Has Become The Bogus Essence Of The Republican Party

(The factual information in this post is ALL you need to know to realize that Trump's allegations of voter fraud, are - by his own admission - unadulterated bilge.) 

During The 2016 Presidential Election, Trump Paid A $130,000.00 Bribe To Prostitute-Porn-Star Stormy Daniels To Keep Her Mouth Shut

“Daddy said a Republican was somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating 
unless he knew somebody else was hungry.”
Mary Karr, The Liars' Club | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details



Contemporary "Conservatives" Assume They're SUPPOSED To Lie And Cheat. If You're Not Cheating, You're Not Trying Your Hardest To Win 
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/conservatives-assume-theyre-supposed-to.html    


Whatever we're embedded in, we know it's a mystery.
so let's spend far less time (and energy) pretending we "know" what it is, and what it's all about.
Have faith in whatever you want.
But please don't pretend to be a know-it-all.
We know very little.
We can know very little.


"Compendium Of Voter Fraud And Voter Suppression In The 2020 Election"  
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/voter-fraud-and-suppression-in-2020.html


Liar. Cheat. Traitor. Thief.

The Corrosion Of American Democracy And The Ascendancy Of A Police State



By my lights, Wendell Berry is front-runner for America's greatest living prophet.

The End Of Democracy: Trump's Love For "The Poorly Educated," And Opinion Trumping Truth


Donald Trump
"Putin America First" | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
"Donald Trump's Identity Revealed"


Keep it simple.

What America's Coprophage Sludge-Suckers Need To Know


The Corrosive Effects Of Conspiracism: The Quickest Way To Twist Truth, Manufacture Falsehood, And Fertilize Dimwitted Delusions So That The Right-Wing Always Benefits... While Fascists Are Ever Eager To Feed On The Feces Of Their Train-Wreck-Dumpster-Fire-F*ckup



Trump makes his minions believe absurdities.


Hannah Arendt
Intellectual Titan

Alan: From lack of intelligence, lack of learning, lack of insight, or plain ol' malice-malevolence, Trump and his cultists do not understand that the erosion of trust in constitutionally-mandated political institutions contributes mightily to the degradation -- if not the collapse -- of Democracy itself. 

20th century intellectual titan, Hannah Arendt -- who attended the Nuremberg Trials and coined the phrase "the banality of evil" -- has a lock-tight grip on this corrosive political process.

Here's how it unfolds...


Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details

How Trump Trashes The Underpinnings Of Truth-And-Faith-In-Shared-Values So That The Resulting Chaos Creates Cultists Conditioned To Believe Falsehood Over Truth: 20th Century Intellectual Titan, Hannah Arendt, Analyzes This Corrosive Mechanism


Bill Maher Describes Addlepated Trumpism As It Is. Hannah Arendt Explains "How" Trumpism Came Into Being


Trump Trashes Troops: Dialogue With "Christian" "Conservative" Friend About Truth, Faith, And "Absolute Faith Corrupting As Absolutely As Absolute Power"



Brigham Young: A Case Study Of The Corruption Caused By The Absolute Faith Of "True Believers"
Religion, Perfectionism, Savonarola and The Pending Apocalypse of The Republican Party (This Post Was Written In 2012)

Nicholas Kristof Explores The Atlantic Magazine Article Detailing Trump's Disparagement Of American Troops


Nicholas Kristof Follows Up On Trump's 280 Campaign Promises To See How He's Did


Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts On Cheating (Among American Conservatives And Inside The Republican Party) - As Prelude To The Destruction Of Democracy


Tom Tomorrow: "The World's Greatest Democracy" (With Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts)


Trump's Long History Of Inciting Violence And The Deadly Outcome Of His Inflammatory Rhetoric


Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World-- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion

Capitalism: A 2023 Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts



This is where the Republican Party was 150 years ago:

Yes, the above Lincoln quote fact checks.

"The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions" And The "Mobocratic Spirit" That Will Destroy Them: Abraham Lincoln's Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838 


"Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank Figliuzzi


Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Wikipedia

Lincoln's Observation On America's Suicide


Lincoln: Truth Is Everything

Two Things You Would Swear -- With God As Your Witness! -- That Abraham Lincoln Never Said. (And Neither Of These Observations By Honest Abe Are EVER "Shared" By Trump Cultists.)


Compendium Of Best Pax-Barbaria Posts About Abraham Lincoln (... And The J-6 Insurrection That Lincoln Prophesied)


If ANY Democrat - even a mentally ill one who'd stopped taking his meds - had attacked the Capitol Building (much less called for the hanging of vice-president Pence), every "conservative" in America (bleeding at the eyes, their carotid arteries pulsing purple) -- would demand that the seditionist-traitor be drawn and quartered on the National Mall, his dismembered body parts then stuffed in a gibbet to be hung over Pennsylvania Avenue until every bit of flesh had rotted away and the bones had bleached titanium white.

But when actual seditionists are Trump supporters -- not to mention Trump himself -- they are lauded as True Patriots.

Trumpistas make the original Pharisees look like Mother Theresa on steroids.

Inflammatory rhetoric and ubiquitous self-victimization are ALL the Republican Party's got left - a party comprised of liars, miscreants and malevolent lickspittles who would eagerly sell their souls to Satan for pragmatic political advantage. For all I know, they may have done so already.
It's not like Republican malice is anything new:
Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"


This is not about Democrats and Republicans. This is about sentient beings and The Lizard People.

George Orwell And Aldous Huxley Describe "The Perfect Dictatorship" (But Don't Worry... It Couldn't Happen Here.)


"It Can't Happen Here," A Novel By Sinclair Lewis (What Will Happen When America Has A Dictator?)



Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World-- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion

Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters From An American" Probes The Motivation Behind Republican President Teddy Roosevelt's Full-Throttle Commitment To Progressivism



Is it just me?

Or, do more and more Americans look like they fell out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting?

Asking for a friend...

Lindsey Graham: "If We Nominate Trump, We Will Get Destroyed... And We Will Deserve It"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/lindsey-graham-if-we-nominate-trump-we.html


"General James Mattis Describes Trump As A Near-Nazi Turncoat-Enemy Of The American People"


"Follow-Up To Jim Mattis' Reference To Trump As An Ignorant Dolt Who Doesn't Read"



Except for the Roman soldiers, there are NO white people in the Bible.
(And when Italians started migrating to America, "The Know Nothings" of the late 19th century - who were the forebears of today's Trump devotees - said they were black people.) 
I sh*t you not.


A great many Christian conservatives - especially those who consider Trump as the next best thing to The Second Coming, don't love enough to recognize Truth.

Why Trump Is Demonstrably Unfit For Office (Not Even Trump Cultists Can Counter This Description Of Fact)


If You Do Nothing Else Today, Read The Following Opinions By Four U.S. Generals Hand-Picked By Trump To Be Part Of His Inner Circle


Retired Generals Say Prospect of Trump Immunity Is Nation’s ‘Greatest Threat’: Would They Be Obliged By Their Solemn Oath To "Support, Preserve And Protect The Constitution" To Perpetrate A Coup?



"Make Your Bed": Admiral McRaven Leaves His TED Audience Speechless: What American Generals Think About "The National Security" Threat Who Lives In The White House

"The Conspiracy Chart": An Inverted Pyramid From "Detachment From Reality" To "Reality Groundedness"




"The Deadly Oppression Of Black People: Best Pax Posts"

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." 1960, remark to Bill Moyers, "What a Real President Was Like," Washington Post, 13 November 1988

"I love the poorly educated." - Trump, 2016


Daniel Webster Prompts A Review Of Conspiracism And Its Destructive Role In American Politics


You will be hard-pressed to find a Trump supporter who did not support The Iraq War.


But then there's this...

Spot-On Truth-Teller Donald Trump: The Most Important Thing Said At The Republican Debate

(Give credit where credit is due)

How Do We Know What We Think We Know? "Sound Thinking Is An Acquired Skill, Seldom Possessed By Trump Followers." Trump Cultists Confuse Noisy Echo Chamber Opinionization With Thinking. They Are, In Fact, Too Stupid (Or At Least Too Stupefacted) To Know They're Stupid


Compendium Of Best "Barbaria" Posts About Politically-Motivated Violence


"Trump And His Cultists Are Arsonists Pretending To Be Firefighters"


Thomas Merton: "Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality"



There were LOTS of Republicans who would have voted to impeach Trump
if they didn't put political expediency over conscience.
Every one of them is an oath-breaker.

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: American Political Violence Is Almost "Exclusively" Right-Wing


Trump's Long History Of Inciting Violence And The Deadly Outcome Of His Inflammatory Rhetoric


If Barack Obama Had Said Any Of These Things, Every "Conservative" In America Would Have Called For His Head - But Only After Drawing And Quartering



Trump autographs bible.

He hasn't even read it.

If you think His Malignancy has read it, just how gullible are you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUngQUCsyE

Trump has never even asked for forgiveness, and is quite happy with that fact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zvtl5emEEI




The Normalization Of Cruelty During Donald Trump's Administration: A Compendium



A Compendium Of Pope Francis' Links With An Inter-Related Critique Of "Conservative" "Christianity" (Which Is Neither)

For theological insight, the following shtick by Emo Philips is worth St. Thomas Aquinas' entire "Summa Theologica."

"Emo Philips Tells A Story About Heretic Scum. Trump Picks Up Where Emo Leaves Off"



Like many other self-professed Christians, Laura Ingraham Occupies The Borderland Between Fascism And Crazed Christianity


Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor

Dr. Laura and Leviticus
(I did not see this coming.)

The "President" Questiona A Prig
Martin Sheen In The West Wing

The God Of The Bible Commands All Men To Stone Rebellious Children To Death. (In The Quran There Is Nothing As Cruel As God's Deuteronomic Demand That Your Own Children Be Killed For The Triviality Of Adolescent Rebelliousness)

The God Of The Bible Commands All Men To Stone Rebellious Children To Death. (In The Quran There Is Nothing As Cruel As God's Deuteronomic Demand That Your Own Children Be Killed For The Triviality Of Adolescent Rebelliousness)

This is the one

Biblical Violence: Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran? Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"


Compendium Of "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Abortion, And The Indispensable Distinction Between "Pro-Life" And "Pro-Birth"



John Pavlovitz: "The Miserable People" And "The Kind Of Christian I Refuse To Be"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/john-pavlovitz-miserable-people-and.html


 "Make Your Bed": Admiral McRaven Leaves His TED Audience Speechless: What American Generals Think About "The National Security" Threat Who Lives In The White House


Journalists Should Be In "Emergency" Mode
Journalistic Method Needs To Be Redefined To Deal With Trump's Re-Definition Of Bullshit As Normalcy
"On The Media"


Of The 20 Most Crime Ridden States, All But 6 Are Blood Red (And 2 Of Those Have Been Red Until Recently); Of The 9 Least Violent States, 7 Are Blue

The Most Enjoyable And Most Politically Useful Step You Can Take Today Re: The Lincoln Project's YouTube Channel: It's ALL Here, And Super Easy To Navigate


Trump Picked A Fight With McCain Campaign Manager And Lincoln Project Co-Founder Steve Schmidt And Was Immediately Reduced To Cinder


They "got it" from their vengeful God.


Be careful which God you worship.

Three More Trump Administration Speak Out Against Trump, Including Gen. McMaster - One Of Donald's Hand-Picked "Best People" - Says America Is In Greater Peril Now Than On 9/10/2001



Conservative Christians Get Trapped In Cruelty By The Rigidity Of Their "Goodness." If eternal torment is how their God has arranged humankind's basic behavior modification paradigm, then, 'Torture it will be!"

And so, we end up trying to believe that God is "kind and loving" 
even though--  when he took His "best shot" -- he actually designed the Universe so that -- if the Book of Revelation is right -- most souls will end up roasting for eternity, without surcease or possibility of reform.
(Many conservative Christians argue from Revelation that of all the billions of humans who will ever live only 140,000 will be saved, 12,000 for each of Israel's 12 tribes,

Sounds to me like the "conservative," "Christian" God tortures people for no good purpose.


Columbus trafficked girls as young as 9.

Better "woke" than ignorant of our actual history. 


A Short Account Of The Destruction Of The Indies

The Whiskey Rebellion, George Washington And Seneca Indian Genocide... 

(I grew up in Seneca country.)


Scumbucket Conservative Christian Televangelists Scam Their Followers As Skillfully As Trump Scams His.

Retired Four-Star General McCaffrey: “President Trump Is A Serious Threat To US National Security”



Gonna be lots of surprises at The Pearly Gates!


QAnon Is A Right-Wing Device To "Re-Brand" Insanity As Sanity So That Trump's Relentless March Toward Fascism Is Not Just Considered Normal, But Godly



The above Twain quote fact-checks.


We don't hear much (if anthing) about QAnon these days.
That's because conservatives only need to get exciting over the lie du jour.
And any lie will do.

"QAnon Anon"

Alan: During my 1950s' childhood, any weirdo-relative living in an in-law apartment would have become a candidate for "insane asylum committal" as soon as s/he started spewing the kind of lunatic ideation that consumes Trump Cult, a coven of crazies who subscribe to QAnon, a new secular religion with its own messiah (i.e., Donald Trump) and its own resurrection (i.e., John Kennedy Jr. is not dead). 

And that's just the beginning.

Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton are members of a vast Hollywood (and Democratic Party) cabal that operates a massive sex slave trade which also kills children, cannibalizing them in Satanic blood rituals.

If you've got the stomach, you can learn more about this epochal normalization-of-insanity at:

QAnon Is Nucking Futs: A Clearing House For Crazy People (Which Continually Tells Them THEY Are The Sane Ones)



QAnon Thinks Donald Trump Is God And Tom Hanks Is The Devil... And Oprah Is Part Of A Vast Hollywood Conspiracy That Kills - And Eats - Children. (I Am Not Kidding)



Online Conversation With Trumpista QAnon Supporter Who Alleges John Kennedy Jr. Is Not Dead But Waiting For A "Safe Opportunity" To Emerge From Hiding To Declare His Wholehearted Support For Donald Trump
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/online-conversation-with-trumpista.html


Chris Hedges' WikiQuote Page


When Jesus returns, he'll pack.

A Smith & Wesson beats 4 Gospels.


The above observation (by my one-time confessor) is so magnificent I could die happy if I ever came up with a line so overflowing with genius, insight and wit.

Bill Maher Describes Addlepated Trumpism As It Is. Hannah Arendt Explains "How" Trumpism Came Into Being


Deism And "Founding Fathers" Links


Video Of Trump Mocking Murder Victim For Crying Out, "I Can't Breathe"


"Donald Trump And His Group Of Alleged Wife-Beaters Are All Cut From The Same Cloth"


Pedophile Trump And His Wife-Raping, Wife-Beating, Pedo-Friendly Swamp



Multiple Fox News Reporters Confirm "Trump Treats Troops Like Trash"


"Trump Backs Accused Child Molester Roy Moore For Senate"  ///  Ivanka Trump On Roy Moore: "There's A Special Place In Hell For People Who Prey On Children"


Donald Trump: Who The Hell Has Friends With Five Pedophiles?!?
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/donald-trump-who-hell-is-friends-with.html


Donald Trump's Sexual Assault Allegations
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations


"Lest We Forget, Trump Raped His First Wife: Read Ivana's Trump's Description Of The Terrifying Act"


"Taliban Endorses Trump" (This Is Not Parody)

Extraordinary Interactive "Mapping Corruption" In The Trump Administration Exhibit


Watch Jimmy Carter's Eye-Popping Commentary On Then-President Donald Trump, Whom Jimmy Considered An Illegitimate President Due To Russia's 2016 Election Manipulation



Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"

ALL The "Fire And Brimstone" J.D. Vance Unloaded On Donald Trump Back When Vance Was A "Never Trumper"



Cuomo's 1984 Keynote Address (Entire)
(This is a brilliant speech!)

Master Compendium Concerning Trump World's Active Antagonism To Truth, Passion For Falsehood, And Promotion Of Conspiracism To Undermine Truth, Knowing That The Resulting Chaos Will Foster Fascism



No wonder Trump "loves the uneducated."

They vote for him because he's the only candidate in whom they see themselves reflected.  And perfectly so.

(No wonder His Malignancy wants to eliminate the Department of Education.)


About that "one day..."

We are all Energizer Bunnies now.

Unless, of course, His Malignancy's destruction of the economy counts as compying with some implicit campaign promise...

Trump's Criminality: A Compendium - "The GOP's Relationship With Donald Trump Is Like A Guy Waking Up Handcuffed To A Dead Hooker"



Melania Trump, Illegal Immigrant: Worked Illegally In U.S. Without Visa, Then Gamed System With Help Of Her Crime Family Husband

Trump Promises Press Conference To Explain Melania's Apparently Illegal Immigration Process: He Needs To Be Called On This


David Cay Johnston On Trump's Treason And Lifelong Criminality (Johnston Is A Trump Biographer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist And Syracuse University Law Professor)



David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"

Donald Trump Lives Is A Backed Up Sewer: Here Is His Rap Sheet. Here Is His Satanic Majesty's Sacrilegious Litany


Boston College History Professor, Heather Cox Richardson, Examines The Eyepopping, Synapse-Crackling Chicanery In North Carolina's Republican Party (Which Is Not Qualitatively Different From The Chicanery Perped By The GOP Everywhere Else)



A highly informative case study:

Last Night's Broadcast Of  "60 Minutes" Investigates "Election Truth" With Special Emphasis On Voting Results In The State Of Georgia In 2020
(I also encourage you to view the next post in which Trump's own administration admitted - with COMPLETE, STRAIGHTFORWARD CLARITY - that there was NO ELECTION FRAUD in Georgia, just as there was NO ELECTION FRAUD anywhere in the "United"States)

The Biblical Dispute Over Trump's Christianity, And How National Cathedral Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Revealed The Core Contempt Trump's Whole Family Has For The Actual Teaching Of Jesus


Videotape Of Trump Family's Encounter With Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde At The National Cathedral



Conservative Christianity, Armageddon As Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, And Return To The Neolithic

Conservatives And Liberals: "How We Ended Up In Two Totally Divided Camps, Both Convinced They're Absolutely Right"



America's Oligarchy wants the undeserving poor to die off.
If it's a long and painful process, no matter.
The transcendentally important thing is to just let 'em die.
Eliminate the excess population as Scrooge put it!


This is one of my more important essays:
"The Greatest Generation: Labor, Capital And Betrayal Of The Social Contract"

Trump Is The Most Gifted Criminal Genius In The History Of The World - A Houdini Who Can Make Personal Responsibility Disappear. "Malignant Messiah" Can Shoot Someone On 5th Avenue -- In Broad Daylight -- And Not Lose Any Voters. But "Getting Away With Murder" Is The Least Of It. "Lingering Orange Fart" Attempted A Coup D' Etat And Then Persuaded Half The People That He Deserves A Mulligan


Short Form:
How The Values Of "Strict Father" -- Or "Nurturant Parent" -- Control Our Political Views
George Lakoff

Long Form:
"Strict Father" And "Nurturant Parent": The Two World Views That Determine Our Political Values

Trump's Appointment Of Ex-Con Charles Kushner As Ambassador To France Reveals The Slavish Nature Of His Malignancy's "Christian" "Conservative" Achichincles



Conservative Christianity, Armageddon As Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, And Return To The Neolithic

Conservatives And Liberals: "How We Ended Up In Two Totally Divided Camps, Both Convinced They're Absolutely Right"



"The Greatest Generation: Labor, Capital And Betrayal Of The Social Contract"

The Insuperable Stupidity-Perversity-Ignorance Of Diehard Trump Supporters



It Has Come To This. How Do We Tell The Truth To 40% Of Americans?


How You And I And Everyone Can Create REAL Damning Evidence To Justify Any Damn Thing - Divorce; One's Religious Faith As "The One, True Religion"; Donald Trump As A Godsend; The Advisability Of Provoking Armageddon, Hitler's Heinous Extermination Of Jews

If You Don't Know That Liberal Democracy Is A Centuries-Old Political And Philosophical Institution That Toppled The Dominance Of Monarchy/Authoritarianism And The Secular Power Of "The Church," You Don't Begin To Know Enough To Be A Responsible Citizen

Trump Has Created A "Sick Society: Those People Hate Democracy So Much!"

The Lewis And Clark Expedition -- An Object Lesson In Critical Race Theory (CRT): Who Was The Black Man York?


"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/bad-religion-compendium.html

"Everything Jesus (And The Apostles) Had To Say About Rich People And Poor People"


A Shared Passion For Whiteness And Cleanliness

Compilation Of Similarities Between Trump And Hitler


Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details

Here Is A Superb Litany Detailing The Many Non-Negotiable Reasons Why "The Resistance" Will Not "Work Together" With Trump


The Biblical Dispute Over Trump's Christianity, And How National Cathedral Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Revealed The Core Contempt Trump's Whole Family Has For The Actual Teaching Of Jesus


The Hardest Lesson: People Want To Be Lied To | The Hardest Lesson People Want To Be Lied To. They Are Not Just Ignorant. They Are Aggressively Ignorant. Boastfully Ignorant. Evangelically | image tagged in trump and falsehood,trump's genius for lying,trump's populist appeal,trump's lies | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

A Brilliant, Hyperlinked Compilation Of Trump's Abominations: 19 Doozies That Make People Who Are Left-Of-Center Think Most Trump Supporters Are Stupid, Ignorant, Or Both



Hold the Mofo's feet to the fire on tariffs.
Don't accept a lick of his backpedaling, bullshit or bafflegab.

Donald's Doozies: A Yuge (And Yugely Incomplete) Compendium Of Trump's "Pants On Fire" Lies
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2023/05/donalds-doozies-yuge-and-yugely.html

The Real World Implications Of Trump's Bald-Faced Lie That "Global Warming Is A Chinese Hoax"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-real-world-implications-of-trumps.html


Trump cultists will be more upset because I've "touched a nerve"
than they'll be upset with Trump contiually bullshitting them.
For ten years now!


"A Gangster In The White House," By David Frum, The George W. Bush Official Who Coined The Phrase "Axis Of Evil" 
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-gangster-in-white-house-by-david-frum_21.html 

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: "The Word Of God" And "Trump's Word" Share The Common Taproot Of Bad Religion

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-picture-is-worth-thousand-words-word.html

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were In November, 2020 (When Trump Lost To Biden)?

How Do We Know What We Think We Know? "Sound Thinking Is An Acquired Skill, Seldom Possessed By Trump Followers." Trump Cultists Confuse Noisy Echo Chamber Opinionization With Thinking. They Are, In Fact, Too Stupid (Or At Least Too Stupefacted) To Know They're Stupid.



Hey, "deal maker!"
Ukraine ring a bell?

Trump Lies In Such Ceaseless Torrent That Any Normal Person Who Tried To Tell That Many Lies Would Sicken At The Mendacious Monster They'd Become



Master Compendium Of Pax-Barbaria Posts On Trump's Compulsive Mendacity: All Lies, All The Time (Or Damn Close...)

According to NYT's Fact Checkers, Trump - During His Presidency - Told 9 Times As Many Falsehoods As The Number Of Stars You Can See From A Cloudless Mountain Top On A Crystal Clear Night


After Four Years In Office, 30,573 False And Misleading Claims Is Trump's Final Lie Tally


The Unfathomably Putrescent Depth Of Trump's Compulsive Mendacity


Looking At The Possibility Of A Military Junta To Replace Donald Trump --- "A Domestic Threat To The Constitution" --- In The Event Of His Malignancy's Victory On November 5th



Not long ago, EVERY American conservative would have condemned Trump as a moral monstrosity.


Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" - And Current Worship Of The Wrongness

My Correspondence With KK, A Christian Conservative Trump Cultist: How I Have Tried To Rescue Her From The Rabbit Hole Of "Christian" Nationalism As Popularized By The Hateful, Retaliatory Politician I Call "Malignant Messiah"




"You Still Don't Get It? Trump Colludes By The INACTION Of NOT Obstructing Putin's Meddling"


"This French philosopher is the only one who can explain the Donald Trump phenomenon: It's All About Professional Wrestling"


NPR: 4 Ways Trump's Campaign Is Like Professional Wrestling

If You Don't Have Time To Read The Text, At Least Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Brilliant (Post-Trump-Conviction) Monologue... And Then Riffle Through The Memes



George Carlin: Everything You Need To Know About American Society And Politics

This Week Stephen Colbert Delivered What I Consider His Best Monologue Ever: "Donald Trump Is A Fascist"



Trump And His "Conservative" "Christian" Cultists Deserve To Be Called Out For Their Anti-Christ Destructiveness
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-and-his-conservative-christian.html

My God, This Is Brilliant! "Trump Arrest Video." "The Mills Of The Gods Grind Slow, But Fine": "There's A Gangster In The White House"



The purpose of Trump's ubiquitous non-diclosure agreements is to PREVENT truth from "getting out."
(It feels to me that legislation that enables people to sell away their 1st Amendment rights should be prohibited. Anyhow, non-disclosure agreements have been foundational to Trump's rise to power.)


All "Lincoln Project" Videos


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Over time, I hope to complete this post by posting all my worthy memes about Donald Trump and Bad Religion,

I'll get started now...



So...

Consider this.

If, as Trump claimed, Biden stole the election,
why didn't he steal it in 2024, when Joe was already in power and controlled "the ropes" of government.


Trump and MAGA world want torture even if it doesn't work as well.
If they are to believe in their punitive God, then hellish torment MUST work.

"How Self-Taught Philosopher-Longshoreman Eric Hoffer Judges A Government, Or A Way Of Life"

San Francisco Stevedore Eric Hoffer, Greatest Autodidact Of The 20th Century: Quotations 


A BRILLIANT Animation About German Lutheran Pastor Deitrich Bonhoeffer (Hung For His Role In A Plot Against Hitler) Who Concluded That 'Stupidity Is More Difficult To Remedy Than Malice'


Compendium Of Christianity Posts: Why "Conservative" "Christians" Are All Going To Hell (If There Is A Hell...Which I Don't Believe)


What May Happen At The "Pearly Gates?" The Moment Of Death "In The Afterlife"


Capitalism Is Coming To The Crunch: Will People "Just Say No," Or Will Capitalism Say "We're Going To F*ck The Biosphere In The Name Of Profits Over People."  (A Great "Media Matters" Podcast From NPR)




What Happens When You Die? | Your Last Day On Earth, The Person You Became Will Meet The Person You Could Have Become | image tagged in the afterlife,death,karma,heaven and hell | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

And I have a hunch the outcome will be heavenly or hellish.
What makes us think that "getting into heaven" is a kind of credal game.
"I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior!"

And, "presto, change-o!"

I don't think so.

I think we need to work at the transformational work of becoming the kind of loving, giving, open-handed person that will automaticlly want to "jump right in" because heaven is HOME; whereas those who are crimped, cramped, cold and witholding -- and, God forbid, "cruel" --will find themselves beyond the reach of God's salvation because they have not prepared themselves to be happy there.
These folks want to be made happy.
They don't want to do the things that will make them happy.

C.S. Lewis' book, "The Great Divorce" explores my idea beautifully.


Trump is The Swamp





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