Summary
Donald Trump, who attended the national prayer service following his inauguration, and his allies attacked Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde after her sermon criticized his treatment of marginalized communities.
Trump called her a “Radical Left Trump hater” and criticized her sermon as “boring” and “nasty.”
Fox News and GOP Rep. Mike Collins joined in, with Collins absurdly calling for her deportation.
Critics noted the hypocrisy in Trump’s selective embrace of religion, celebrating faith only when it aligns with his political agenda, and warned of the Streisand Effect amplifying Budde’s message.
Religion must be celebrated, protected and venerated,
No. No it must not. This completely unnecessary statement severely degrades the credibility of the rest of the piece.
The Aztecs used to use human sacrifice every day as part of their religious ceremonies. Shall we “celebrate, protect, and venerate” that?
What about modern day religions that practice genital mutilation? Or other completely abhorrent practices?
No: Religions should be viewed with skepticism and a critical eye. All throughout history they have been responsible for some of the worst of all human behavior and even to this day continue to lead people towards dark, unethical paths.
“I’m not convinced that faith can move mountains, but I’ve seen what it can do to skyscrapers.” -William H. Gascoyne
Deport her to where? She’s an American. You can’t deport a citizen of your country to another country.
I guess they wanna deport her back to…New Jersey?! Lmao
A fate worse than death!
Even the mildest of mild criticisms bite him to his core.
Such a thin skinned little bitch, but all fascists are at their core.
All bullies are cowards
He sent photos of his hands to the editor of a satirical newspaper for decades because they joked repeatedly that he had small hands.
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/2/11148356/donald-trump-short-fingers-small-hands-vulgarian
This has to be used to his opponents advantage. Too bad Democrats are his opposition, because they seem cool with him.
“DNC leaders slam Trump’s latest controversy, says ‘that’s not very nice’ on president’s recent comments toward church leader”
Fox News and GOP Rep. Mike Collins joined in, with Collins absurdly calling for her deportation.
Pause on this moment. Don’t pass by it and write it off as more fantastical nonsense.
Hold it up to the light, really examine it. They want to start to detain millions of supposedly-illegal people, and “deport” them. Some of them were born here. Some of them came here as small children. But they’re going to be “deported,” presumably to somewhere vaguely related to where they “came from.” That’s going to happen. Whether it happens on the scale of millions like they want to do remains to be seen. But it’s definitely going to happen to some number of people, and federal law enforcement is making a push to gain the ability to kick in some random person’s door and force them to leave the country, and to start to do it at a pretty massive scale, whatever they can raise up the manpower for.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this. Why do they fantasize sometimes about “deporting” anyone who makes them unhappy? Even if they’re not Hispanic or any sort of immigrant, legal or illegal?
They didn’t arrive at the word at random. There’s a specific pattern of thoughts that makes them start reaching for the idea of deporting her, instead of charging her with a particular crime or anything like that. And there’s a specific type of law enforcement agency and justice system that’s generally in charge of deportation proceedings, that is different from the normal structures of civilian law enforcement and a jury of your peers.
Private prisons in the US are already work camps. They will just become a lot more concentrated when all the immigrants have to be housed there. Not as a final solution of course. That comes later.
Mostly people died in the camps of disease and the general lack of care for human life requirements. There were some specific death camps, but there were way more work camps, about 30,000 in total.
Anne Frank wasn’t gassed “on purpose,” she died of typhus.
It’s feels like it’s because deep down they all know ‘deport’ means ‘forced work camp’ since no country will actually take them.
It’s so transparent and yet so few really do pause on this moment and understand the severity of what this means for this kind of talk to be normalized so soon. For a Seig Heil to be normalized so soon and excused as “misunderstood.” They have no principles, none, there is no bottom and they find a perverse joy in hurting those they have power over.
People need to be aware of just how deep in this we are.
Yeah. I think the predictable trajectory of “We deported all the Mexicans, oh no who will work the fields for $10/hr, oh wait we have all these prisoners, problem solved, oh wait we don’t have enough prisoners” needs to be getting talked about a lot more than it is.
That will only happen when they run out of children for labor. Republicans in Iowa, for instance, want to lower the fine for child labor from an already low $10k down to $2500.
Even children you have to pay. Prisoners are 100% cheaper, and also don’t come with any health and safety limitations. You can just send them out in the hot sun without much water, and if they die, you have more.
Why do they fantasize sometimes about “deporting” anyone who makes them unhappy? Even if they’re not Hispanic or any sort of immigrant, legal or illegal?
Because they want to define what it means to be American. That definition conveniently includes themselves and people who think like them, and excludes Others.
Correct. You broke the code.
They are defining “American” as anyone who’s on their team, and anyone not on their team as “not American,” and in parallel to that they’re setting up specific and powerful systems to punish people who aren’t real Americans.
If he’s allowed to eliminate parts of the 14th Amendment, none of this really matters anymore because that means he can eliminate any part of the Constitution, which means the Constitution becomes completely worthless.
Honestly, how dare a religious leader preach mercy? xD
The irony of this whole situation is insane. Republicans get horny for ‘free speech’ but then when someone says something they don’t like, they want them deported. Trump wants to instil religious values in the country, except when those values don’t match up his agenda. What a weird time we live in.
Trump wants to instil religious values in the country,
He doesn’t and never did. He doesn’t give a shit about Christianity, he didn’t even touch the Bible at the inauguration. Leaning on the “family Christian values” thing was just a campaign crutch both for him and the rest of the GOP to turn out voters for fascism.
The last time that despot touched a Bible he held it upside down for a publicity shoot in front of a church that had no idea he was doing that.
There are other religions besides Christianity that Trump might be promoting. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
C̵’̴t̴h̸u̴l̶h̴u̷ ̴2̸0̸2̶8̵:̷ ̴N̴o̸ ̷L̴i̴v̵e̶s̸ ̵m̷a̴t̶t̸e̴r̷.̴
It’s almost as if the cornerstone of the GOP is hypocrisy… Almost…
;)
Fox News and Mike Collins want her deported? She was born in New Jersey. They seem to want to “deport” anyone they don’t like.
You’re so close to getting it.
Finally we will find out what would have happened if Hitler had nukes. Can’t wait.
This actually made my stomach drop.
We live under a fascist regime. Now what?
I thought he was the good Christian man that all the pious needed to vote for to save Amerixa? Did my state’s “Christian Voter’s Guide” lie to me???
I am targeting them as pieces of human shit.
Did Trump have anything to say about the Nazi salute, or just the inclusivity message?
Personally I think he’s conflicted about it, because it’s a gesture of fealty to his fuhrerhood, but it took some media attention away from HIM.
He let Musk kiss his boot for it. Didn’t need to say anything.
Musk deep-throated that boot
It really must be exhausting talking in such hyperbole all the time.
It actually seems quite easy for them.
Because they are so “religious”.
Removed by mod
…what‽
I’m not sure you know anything about Wiccans.
lol, Wiccans? What’d they say?
Something about how they are the actual Pizzagate cult. Legitimizing Pizzagate alone is enough to disregard whatever they say. Been to Comet Ping Pong. Mediocre pizza. Good beer selection. No basement (at all) filled with children on their way to be sacrificed in a satanic ritual for adrenochrome.
Ugh, that’s sounds awful, So it’s like Chuck-E-Cheese but with beer?
Not really. It is basically just a standard higher end pizza place. They have some ping pong tables out back and I think a few pinball machines. It’s not specifically kid oriented. When I went, I only saw two or three kids. There were probably a ton more but you have to know the password to use the magic portal to the basement to see the others.
