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When wearing a dark suit with a red tie outside a New York courthouse says, "I'm a deplorable hypocrite"
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/05/when-wearing-dark-suit-with-red-tie.html"I don't find anything unusual about a fundamentalist theocrat who thinks the Bible is the supreme law of the land attending the legal proceedings of an adjudicated sexual assailant and world class fraudster and con-man for cooking the books to to cover up hush money payments he made to a porn star to conceal his adulterous affair. Do you?" Maryland Representative Jaime Raskin in The Beast
Do I find it unusual that a fundamentalist theocrat, a conservative, Evangelical Christian, and Republican, is choosing political expediency and partisan loyalty over patriotic American values and over the doctrine, theology and practice of his own Christian faith?
No. I don't find it unusual. It's typical of the kind of hypocrisy demonstrated by fundamentalist, conservative, Evangelical Christians who are elected to public office.
But I do find it deplorable.
This particular Speaker of the House is turning out to be the one who typifies the dishonesty, duplicity, and lack of moral character that has become the trademark of both American Evangelical Christianity and of the Republican party and its politics that has moved to completely undermine the Constitution and government of, by and for the people, and replace it with some form of Christian nationalist "theocracy." I put that in quotes, because there is considerable doubt that what they would come up with would have anything to do with any god, much less the one whom they claim to believe in, and follow, identified by the writers of the sixty-six books of the Protestant Bible.
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When wearing a dark suit with a red tie outside a New York courthouse says, "I'm a deplorable hypocrite" (Original Post)
lees1975
May 2024
OP
shouldnt they be back in dc to do the peoples business, whoops , i forgot, they cant. dont want to, dont know how.
AllaN01Bear
May 2024
#5
yepprs . on all counts im hoping for 1 more house r to retire. please o pretty please .
AllaN01Bear
May 2024
#10
I see that Gaetz and Boebert will be making appearances at the courthouse. MTG will likely be next.
sop
May 2024
#6
We are a laughing stock to the world. Maybe Canada should start building a wall.
Jack-o-Lantern
May 2024
#11
rubbersole
(8,421 posts)1. Repub playbook has devolved to...
...dupe the religious
disenfranchise POC
demonize anyone "different"
cheat and lie whenever necessary
It's all they've got.
AllaN01Bear
(22,982 posts)4. going on forever. si. same ole song and dance .
twodogsbarking
(12,228 posts)2. Let's all stick to reality. Just a thought.
33taw
(2,742 posts)3. I'm not sure this is the right group for a New York City jury.
AllaN01Bear
(22,982 posts)5. shouldnt they be back in dc to do the peoples business, whoops , i forgot, they cant. dont want to, dont know how.
lees1975
(5,868 posts)9. If they're all in New York
Then can't the Democrats pull a sneaky one and get some things done while they're out of town? That should be worth a try.
AllaN01Bear
(22,982 posts)10. yepprs . on all counts im hoping for 1 more house r to retire. please o pretty please .
sop
(11,093 posts)6. I see that Gaetz and Boebert will be making appearances at the courthouse. MTG will likely be next.
When Gym Jordan shows up odds are he won't be wearing a suit.
mwb970
(11,691 posts)7. What terrible people these "Christians" are.
Raven123
(5,972 posts)8. I've heard of the Red Hat Society, but not the Red Tie Toadies
Jack-o-Lantern
(1,010 posts)11. We are a laughing stock to the world. Maybe Canada should start building a wall.