thanks, craig, perfect ad for the times. sounds like the narrator is ronnie reagan jr. here’s more about the ad: ‘Golden orange god’: Ex-Republican explains why ‘the evangelical church has failed this country’ (msn.com) Former Republican and Capitol Hill communications director Tara Setmayer on Tuesday criticized the right-wing evangelical Christians who continue to stand behind Donald Trump, by pointing to an ad that her organization, The Lincoln Project, recently released. MSNBC’s Joy Reid, during a conversation with Setmayer on the latest episode of The ReidOut, played the ad, which was created in response to Trump’s campaign team’s recent “God created Trump” ad. In The Lincoln Project’s video, the narrator can be heard saying, “God made a dictator. God said I need a wicked man to lead the common folk with hatred and fear, so God made a dictator. God said I need a corrupt man who is above the law and immune from justice. So god made a dictator. God said I need a man who will use violence to seize power. So God made a dictator. God said I need a man whose followers will call black ‘white,’ call evil ‘good,’and call criminals ‘hostages.’ So God made a dictator.” Calling the ad “brilliant,” Reid then asked Setmayer, “who’s the target audience?” The former GOP communications director replied, “Well, the target audience is actually everyone, because I think that at this point a lot of people are not paying attention. It’s not necessarily the MAGAs who are in the death cult — the religious christian nationalists death cult, because obviously they’re unmovable. But it’s to everyone else who isn’t part of that to get them to realize this is real, this is something that millions of people in this country believe, and we need to juxtapose that image with what the choices are coming up in this election cycle. it’s a binary choice. Donald Trump’s campaign actually has been showing a similar ad called ‘God made Trump.’ That’s why we responded. We said, ‘Oh, no, no, no. God also allowed for dictators too. So let’s show the blasphemy that’s coming out… Read more »
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned in a CNN town hall Tuesday night that Republicans are “going to lose” the 2024 election if they nominate former President Donald Trump. DeSantis sought to make the case that Trump’s legal issues would follow him throughout the campaign and alienate key GOP voters.
I hope for once that RonDuh is right because Republicans are going to nominate Dumbass.
While I’m not in the camp of the believers, if there is a God and that God has any human qualities, and there is any iteration of that God reflected in the stories in the Bible that reflects the qualities of that God, I cannot imagine what iteration of that God Trump would represent perhaps other than the cruel God that inflicted vengeance on those who did not worship and follow him. Springing to mind initially are Adam and Eve, Lot, (or Moore properly Lot’s wife), Jonah, everyone on earth except Noah and his family, and Jesus. All of them show a God who inflicts unimaginable cruelty on those he created and those he supposedly loves. Now I can buy into Dumbass being a creation of that God.
not only do politicians fear for their jobs if they speak up but even religious leaders are scared and for reasons such as this reported back in august He was a church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis : NPR He criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention’s response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside. Who is he? Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention. […] Suddenly, in 2021, Moore found himself resigning from his post and on the outside of a denomination that had, up until that point, defined his life. […] Moore is now the editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today magazine and has written a new book, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America, which is his attempt at finding a path forward for the religion he loves. […] What is he saying? Moore spoke to All Things Considered’s Scott Detrow about what he thinks the path forward is for evangelicalism in America. On why he thinks Christianity is in crisis: It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — “turn the other cheek” — [and] to have someone come up after to say, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?” And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, “I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,” the response would not be, “I apologize.” The response would be, “Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.” And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis. On how he begins to address the issues he sees: I don’t think we fix it by fighting a war for the soul of evangelicalism. I really don’t think we can fix it at the movement level. And that’s one of the reasons why, when I’m talking to Christians who are concerned about this, my counsel is always “small and local.” I… Read more »
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has been hospitalized for an infection, his Washington office announced Tuesday.
Grassley, 90, is “receiving antibiotic infusions at an area hospital to treat an infection,” his office said in a statement. “He is in good spirits and will return to work as soon as possible following doctors’ orders.”
Grassley’s spokesperson, Taylor Foy, said Grassley went to the hospital Sunday where they did tests to make a diagnosis and begin the infusions. That treatment is ongoing.
[…]
Foy said he could not share any information about how long Grassley might remain in the hospital. But he said Grassley is expected to make a full recovery.
Iowa’s senior senator is the most senior member of the chamber, and has held the seat since 1981.
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Love the new LP ad. Will they air it (or something) during the Super Bowl? I don’t know if that’s an AI-generated voice or an actor, but dang, it sounds like Mike Huckabee.
“The Escambia county school district, located in Pensacola, Florida, removed several dictionaries and encyclopedias from school libraries after school officials determined that the books violated Florida law HB 1069.”
“The law, signed by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, last year, restricts access to materials containing “sexual conduct” in Florida classrooms.”
Habba: You were a regular at Elaine’s, right?
Carroll: Yes.
Habba: It’s hard to get into, isn’t it?
Judge Kaplan: It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s why it’s hard to get into
Just learned of another tradition/festival/event that has been going on so long no one really knows how it came to be. Until someone about twenty years younger says something like “oh my friends and I started that when we were in grade school, because we read about (name festival) and decided we wanted one too”. There are so many of these that I have read about, even been asked about, and I look confused or answer “I have no idea what you are talking about”. The interviewer than says something about how the festival obviously is very old, it sounds old. Or rather to me it sounds made up. Let the festivities start~
This is one that is in a small town in the middle of no where, where I have many cousins. I am sure they were the ones who made it up fifty years ago.
Mitt Romney: “I think a lot of people in this country are out of touch with reality and will accept anything Donald Trump tells them. You had a jury that said that Donald Trump raped a woman. And that doesn’t seem to be moving the needle. There’s a lot of things about today’s electorate that I have a hard time understanding.” (CNN)
Harry Litman
It matters a lot that we’re not in the courtroom to see jury reaction & the overall vibe, but seems as if Habba is unskilled, uncharming, and unrestrained. This is her most important task; and she may be pleasing her cloddish client but not likely to be scoring points w/ jury.
“Barely six weeks into his term, Argentina’s new libertarian, chainsaw-wielding president has laid out his vision on a global stage…”
“Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral. If you make money, it’s because you offer a better product at a better price.”
~Yeah, that’s why. Not lack of competition or situational price gouging or owning politicians.~
“…Milei argued that what he called “socialism” had done nothing but plunge Argentina into poverty, and that free-market capitalism was the only system that could generate true prosperity — both for his country and others.”
“The case of Argentina is an empirical demonstration that — no matter how rich you may be, or how much you may have in terms of natural resources… or how many bars of gold you may have in the central bank — if measures are adopted that hinder the free function of markets, free competition, free price systems, if you hinder trade, if you attack private property, the only possible fate is poverty.”
“On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Milei had openly criticized what he labeled the “socialist agenda” of the World Economic Forum to reporters traveling with him on a commercial flight to Switzerland.”
“Among his most radical plans, Milei has pledged to ditch the peso as Argentina’s official currency and replace it with the US dollar.”
“Such a move would prevent Argentina’s central bank from printing more pesos to help the government continue paying interest on its debt and avoid default — something it has done for years — and effectively hand the reins of monetary policy over to the US Federal Reserve.”
“An Ecuadorean prosecutor, who was reportedly leading an investigation into an attack on a local TV network, was assassinated on Wednesday…”
“Suarez was leading the investigation into the storming of local network TC Television by armed men while it was broadcasting live on January 9.”
”The storming of the TV network came as the country was rocked by explosions, police kidnappings, and prison disturbances after Ecuador President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency last Monday after notorious gang leader Adolfo “Fito” Macias allegedly escaped from a prison in Guayaquil.”
“Fito is the leader of Los Choneros, one of Ecuador’s most feared gangs – linked to maritime drug trafficking to Mexico and the United States – that also works with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and the Oliver Sinisterra Front in Colombia.”
“Ecuador is nestled between two of the world’s largest cocaine producers, Peru and Colombia, and its deep ports have made it a key transit point for cocaine making its way to consumers in the United States and Europe.”
“Its dollarized economy has also made it a strategic location for traffickers seeking to launder money.”
“…the Tribune produced subsequent reporting showing numerous other white supremacists were embedded in the Defend Texas Liberty orbit, including Chris Russo, a longtime Fuentes associate who is currently the leader of the anti-immigration campaign donor group, Texans For Strong Borders PAC.
In December, a watered-down ban on associating with Holocaust deniers, antisemites and Nazi sympathizers was narrowly defeated by the executive committee of the Republican Party of Texas. Defend Texas Liberty was by far the biggest donor to the Republican Party of Texas last year.”
“…the political action committee received no new donations from Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, the two West Texas oil billionaires who have given more than $100 million to Defend Texas Liberty and other groups as part of an ongoing attempt to push Texas to the far right and purge the state party of more moderate voices by funding primary challengers against them.”
“…as other donors and political action committees were doling out millionsof dollars ahead of this year’s March primaries — Defend Texas Liberty gave just $10,000 to one candidate, state Rep. Steve Toth, R-Woodlands. Defend Texas Liberty spent about $200,000 over the filing period, with $140,000 going to a polling company and $15,000 going to television advertisements.”
Lincoln Project’s answer to Trump’s God Made Trump ad…
thanks, craig, perfect ad for the times. sounds like the narrator is ronnie reagan jr. here’s more about the ad: ‘Golden orange god’: Ex-Republican explains why ‘the evangelical church has failed this country’ (msn.com) Former Republican and Capitol Hill communications director Tara Setmayer on Tuesday criticized the right-wing evangelical Christians who continue to stand behind Donald Trump, by pointing to an ad that her organization, The Lincoln Project, recently released. MSNBC’s Joy Reid, during a conversation with Setmayer on the latest episode of The ReidOut, played the ad, which was created in response to Trump’s campaign team’s recent “God created Trump” ad. In The Lincoln Project’s video, the narrator can be heard saying, “God made a dictator. God said I need a wicked man to lead the common folk with hatred and fear, so God made a dictator. God said I need a corrupt man who is above the law and immune from justice. So god made a dictator. God said I need a man who will use violence to seize power. So God made a dictator. God said I need a man whose followers will call black ‘white,’ call evil ‘good,’and call criminals ‘hostages.’ So God made a dictator.” Calling the ad “brilliant,” Reid then asked Setmayer, “who’s the target audience?” The former GOP communications director replied, “Well, the target audience is actually everyone, because I think that at this point a lot of people are not paying attention. It’s not necessarily the MAGAs who are in the death cult — the religious christian nationalists death cult, because obviously they’re unmovable. But it’s to everyone else who isn’t part of that to get them to realize this is real, this is something that millions of people in this country believe, and we need to juxtapose that image with what the choices are coming up in this election cycle. it’s a binary choice. Donald Trump’s campaign actually has been showing a similar ad called ‘God made Trump.’ That’s why we responded. We said, ‘Oh, no, no, no. God also allowed for dictators too. So let’s show the blasphemy that’s coming out… Read more »
CNN:
I hope for once that RonDuh is right because Republicans are going to nominate Dumbass.
While I’m not in the camp of the believers, if there is a God and that God has any human qualities, and there is any iteration of that God reflected in the stories in the Bible that reflects the qualities of that God, I cannot imagine what iteration of that God Trump would represent perhaps other than the cruel God that inflicted vengeance on those who did not worship and follow him. Springing to mind initially are Adam and Eve, Lot, (or Moore properly Lot’s wife), Jonah, everyone on earth except Noah and his family, and Jesus. All of them show a God who inflicts unimaginable cruelty on those he created and those he supposedly loves. Now I can buy into Dumbass being a creation of that God.
Paraphrasing Jimmy Carter: ‘If Jesus knocked on the door of many so-called evangelicals they would turn him away’
not only do politicians fear for their jobs if they speak up but even religious leaders are scared and for reasons such as this reported back in august He was a church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis : NPR He criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention’s response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside. Who is he? Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention. […] Suddenly, in 2021, Moore found himself resigning from his post and on the outside of a denomination that had, up until that point, defined his life. […] Moore is now the editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today magazine and has written a new book, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America, which is his attempt at finding a path forward for the religion he loves. […] What is he saying? Moore spoke to All Things Considered’s Scott Detrow about what he thinks the path forward is for evangelicalism in America. On why he thinks Christianity is in crisis: It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — “turn the other cheek” — [and] to have someone come up after to say, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?” And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, “I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,” the response would not be, “I apologize.” The response would be, “Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.” And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis. On how he begins to address the issues he sees: I don’t think we fix it by fighting a war for the soul of evangelicalism. I really don’t think we can fix it at the movement level. And that’s one of the reasons why, when I’m talking to Christians who are concerned about this, my counsel is always “small and local.” I… Read more »
Oh god, if there is a god,
Save my soul, if I have a soul.
—Ernest Renan
you know who she’s talking about…
pneumonia? which in olden days was called “the old man’s friend”
Iowa US Sen. Chuck Grassley hospitalized for infection (desmoinesregister.com)
I think he should resign. He’s too old.
He should let go and let God.
Republicans go to great lengths to find out what they “should” do. Then they’ll do anything but that.
A republican would rather climb up a tree and lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.
Love the new LP ad. Will they air it (or something) during the Super Bowl? I don’t know if that’s an AI-generated voice or an actor, but dang, it sounds like Mike Huckabee.
Evangelical speak with forked tongue.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/florida-schools-ron-desantis-ban-books-sexual-content
“The Escambia county school district, located in Pensacola, Florida, removed several dictionaries and encyclopedias from school libraries after school officials determined that the books violated Florida law HB 1069.”
“The law, signed by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, last year, restricts access to materials containing “sexual conduct” in Florida classrooms.”
E. Jean is courageous to face the viper in his pit. Nothing is sacred or sacrosanct to him. He’ll spit anywhere.
The jury is brave too. It is risky to be in any way involved in holding this snake to account.
Those Pentecostals are crazy. Nutz I tell ya.
HOW ITS GOING:
Habba: You were a regular at Elaine’s, right?
Carroll: Yes.
Habba: It’s hard to get into, isn’t it?
Judge Kaplan: It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s why it’s hard to get into
Chump speak with forked face.
Just learned of another tradition/festival/event that has been going on so long no one really knows how it came to be. Until someone about twenty years younger says something like “oh my friends and I started that when we were in grade school, because we read about (name festival) and decided we wanted one too”. There are so many of these that I have read about, even been asked about, and I look confused or answer “I have no idea what you are talking about”. The interviewer than says something about how the festival obviously is very old, it sounds old. Or rather to me it sounds made up. Let the festivities start~
This is one that is in a small town in the middle of no where, where I have many cousins. I am sure they were the ones who made it up fifty years ago.
Mitt Romney: “I think a lot of people in this country are out of touch with reality and will accept anything Donald Trump tells them. You had a jury that said that Donald Trump raped a woman. And that doesn’t seem to be moving the needle. There’s a lot of things about today’s electorate that I have a hard time understanding.” (CNN)
figure it out, Mitt
Harry Litman
It matters a lot that we’re not in the courtroom to see jury reaction & the overall vibe, but seems as if Habba is unskilled, uncharming, and unrestrained. This is her most important task; and she may be pleasing her cloddish client but not likely to be scoring points w/ jury.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/economy/milei-argentina-speech-world-economic-forum/index.html
“Barely six weeks into his term, Argentina’s new libertarian, chainsaw-wielding president has laid out his vision on a global stage…”
“Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral. If you make money, it’s because you offer a better product at a better price.”
~Yeah, that’s why. Not lack of competition or situational price gouging or owning politicians.~
“…Milei argued that what he called “socialism” had done nothing but plunge Argentina into poverty, and that free-market capitalism was the only system that could generate true prosperity — both for his country and others.”
“The case of Argentina is an empirical demonstration that — no matter how rich you may be, or how much you may have in terms of natural resources… or how many bars of gold you may have in the central bank — if measures are adopted that hinder the free function of markets, free competition, free price systems, if you hinder trade, if you attack private property, the only possible fate is poverty.”
“On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Milei had openly criticized what he labeled the “socialist agenda” of the World Economic Forum to reporters traveling with him on a commercial flight to Switzerland.”
“Among his most radical plans, Milei has pledged to ditch the peso as Argentina’s official currency and replace it with the US dollar.”
“Such a move would prevent Argentina’s central bank from printing more pesos to help the government continue paying interest on its debt and avoid default — something it has done for years — and effectively hand the reins of monetary policy over to the US Federal Reserve.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/world/ecuador-prosecutor-cesar-suarez-assassinated-intl/index.html
“An Ecuadorean prosecutor, who was reportedly leading an investigation into an attack on a local TV network, was assassinated on Wednesday…”
“Suarez was leading the investigation into the storming of local network TC Television by armed men while it was broadcasting live on January 9.”
”The storming of the TV network came as the country was rocked by explosions, police kidnappings, and prison disturbances after Ecuador President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency last Monday after notorious gang leader Adolfo “Fito” Macias allegedly escaped from a prison in Guayaquil.”
“Fito is the leader of Los Choneros, one of Ecuador’s most feared gangs – linked to maritime drug trafficking to Mexico and the United States – that also works with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and the Oliver Sinisterra Front in Colombia.”
“Ecuador is nestled between two of the world’s largest cocaine producers, Peru and Colombia, and its deep ports have made it a key transit point for cocaine making its way to consumers in the United States and Europe.”
“Its dollarized economy has also made it a strategic location for traffickers seeking to launder money.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/17/texas-defend-liberty-ken-paxton-republicans/
“Defend Texas Liberty promised big primary spending. Then its leader met with an Adolf Hitler fan.”
“Stickland hosted notorious white supremacist and Adolf Hitler admirer Nick Fuentes for nearly 7 hours.”
“…the Tribune produced subsequent reporting showing numerous other white supremacists were embedded in the Defend Texas Liberty orbit, including Chris Russo, a longtime Fuentes associate who is currently the leader of the anti-immigration campaign donor group, Texans For Strong Borders PAC.
In December, a watered-down ban on associating with Holocaust deniers, antisemites and Nazi sympathizers was narrowly defeated by the executive committee of the Republican Party of Texas. Defend Texas Liberty was by far the biggest donor to the Republican Party of Texas last year.”
“…the political action committee received no new donations from Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, the two West Texas oil billionaires who have given more than $100 million to Defend Texas Liberty and other groups as part of an ongoing attempt to push Texas to the far right and purge the state party of more moderate voices by funding primary challengers against them.”
“…as other donors and political action committees were doling out millionsof dollars ahead of this year’s March primaries — Defend Texas Liberty gave just $10,000 to one candidate, state Rep. Steve Toth, R-Woodlands. Defend Texas Liberty spent about $200,000 over the filing period, with $140,000 going to a polling company and $15,000 going to television advertisements.”
Maybe we should start a polling company.
There’s a tv channel which shows Johnny Carson re-runs. This one is during Geo H W Bush’s term and one of the guests tonight is Helen Thomas.
just looked on the tubi app, which is free- every Carson since 1974 is up, watching 2/2/1974 now
…weird to see it in such clarity and not on an old fritzing Zenith
Aww, sad.
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