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Dec 27, 2023·edited Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

How on earth a single "real" Christian (as opposed to all of the christians who are anything but) can support someone who posts something so disgusting and antithetical to everything Jesus taught on one of the two holiest days in the Christian calendar, is far, far beyond my ability to comprehend.

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Slow down Kathy. I don't think real Christians support the orange blob. Real ones don't yell about how devout they are.

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They are the silent majority???? Not where I live, sad to say. They are proud Pharisees

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??????

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I'd like to think that Christians of my parents generation are the majority, and the Pharisees are the fringe. Falwell used to call them the Silent Majority. Rethinking that, maybe that generation of Christian is why we have the Pharisees. Anyway, sorry if I confused you. I take it all back, having ditched christanity myself

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Replying to Jeri, who commented on my comment and I had no idea of what she meant.

Maybe I misunderstood you about Christians, not being one myself, but knowing many, who are appalled by Trump. It sounded to me that you were lumping them all in one basket. Linguistics, semantics, maybe.

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You'll notice that I use a capital "C" for Christians who follow Jesus's teaching. The lower-case christians are all liars and not Christian at all.

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Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

In my VA County, ruby red, we still have a local paper. A friend (who's also a pastor) had her Reader Commentary published today under the title "Trump's dangerous rhetoric." Brava! And of course, now that Trump's Christmas hate has added to her argument, the local cult is even more rabid. They explode like mold spores with every depraved remark by their leader.

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Keep us posted of the response to the local pastor. A Brava to her from here as well. Let's hope your VA County isn't like the Colosseum, so to speak......

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Dec 27, 2023·edited Dec 27, 2023

Linda, Kudos to your pastor friend. One of my published letters resulted in receiving an anonymous snail mail letter in response, well written albeit with a litany of Fox News talking points. My first thought➡️This is creepy. Second thought➡️They must be desperate.➡️Third thought➡️They want me to stop writing…..Hell, No !!!

Keep at it all ! ✍️📲📣💲🏃🏻‍♀️

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" explode like mold spores"..... brilliant, esp for us in the humid south!!!!

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Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

A therapist told me that shame manifests itself in two ways, depression or rage. Wisdom I have never forgotten.

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I suspect that T suffers from both... can't bear the depression that tells him that he's really a loser so explodes in rage in an effort to overcome his depression.

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A good explanation.

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dead-on, I'd say.

and as I've said before, it used to work fine for him when he had those "friends" who were essentially all chosen to OBEY him or they weren't gonna be there. thus, he was able to evade his enemies. but he was PRESIDENT (I just crossed myself ironically) and it no longer works. it still might work at his rallies, but those rallies ain't life itself.

in the same way, I have little doubt that his financial shenanigans of over-and under-valuing property is something pretty much ALL big NYC real estate guys do. but they're smart enough to mostly avoid "retail politics" so that nobody's gonna look real close. when you're president, it's obviously different. as he's discovered.

and it's driven him insane. to be sure, it wasn't much of a trip from TFF Default to Genuine Crazy.

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Correct. Just add the “and/“ before the “or”.

Rage often bubbles up from the depth of depression.

Salud.

🗽

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He is proof. Fred still ruling

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Dec 27, 2023·edited Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

Tom thank you cannot imagine anyone

Saying the horrendous things he said as his Christmas Addres😢😢💔broken human being ..Tom you’re first thing I read as I arrived home from Volunteer work At Hospice Hospital…your truth written so clearly gives me HOPE…TRUST YOU!!!

Come On Let’s Get Out the Vote for Biden

Vote 2024 for our President Joe Biden✅

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Well, Tom, this time, you almost make me feel sorry for the, hmmm, welll, whatever he/it is. Then I remember he would rather see us dead and I snap out of it.

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He is a pathetic excuse for a human being, but beyond any hope of redemption. The phony redemption of the Franklin Graham types is just what he ordered.

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just seeing or hearing the two words "Franklin Graham" make me giggle, but it's a curdling, nauseated giggle.

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He is the epitome of evil in my view. Phony and not a bit funny, in my humble opinion.

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I try not to state the obvious.

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I'd like to think that my comment would be obvious to any but the brain dead. Not so these days.

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You would think that this rabid rant by Trump would provoke a flood of rebuke from the Christian pastors in his entourage---let's start with Mike Johnson (not holding my breath, or asking the sun to stop moving while we wait.......) and go up or down the list. They have no clue what the True Message of Jesus is---of love, justice, compassion, mercy, ministry to the poor and outcast---I could go on. And of course, you just have to look for the blue (politically speaking here) to see where concern for the poor and outcast is to be found; where justice and compassion matter-----not enough of these two but both are there. We really are at the parting of ways in this society---we're choosing which way to go---life or death....... (There is a Jewish/Christian scripture passage about this kind of choice, life or death. It's best to choose life.........for us and for our children.)

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And the evangicals think Trump is a savior? On one of

the holiest days of the year,

he spews hatred!

"Christ" mas, Trump. Can you

dig it, orange baboon?

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Some psychologist once wrote that children are our true legacy, so ol’ Fred Trump really produced some legacy…and he wasn’t alone because there are millions more out there like trump, such as the toadies and enablers who flock to his side and to his rallies, who were/are the products of their upbringing. Some legacy…the banality of evil, indeed…

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Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

I’m reading Adam Kinzinger’s book Renegade in which he describes the Independent Fundamental Baptist religion which is so loyal to 🎃🤡💩 that they believe him to be a “good Christian.” Will they now excuse this insane rant by a creature unfit to be president? It’s time for a locked room with padded walls.

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For them.

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Fox will clean it up, like they cleaned up every pile of Schitt that he dumped.

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Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

“The bloated meat sack that is called Donald Trump” is so appropriately descriptive of this narcissistic raging lunatic. A classic line that had me in stitches. Thanks for that one, Tom.

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Got a giggle or two out of me too.

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Dec 27, 2023·edited Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

May 2024 be the year that remedial class students attending the University of Life finally gain some comprehension in understanding the Laws of metaphysics. That MAGAnets attract irony filings, and shall continue to do so in courts throughout America.

Is Drumpf's Tempest approaching? https://youtu.be/9D2R69gVyZ0 (15 minute rock song by Tool)

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May it be so, don’t assume anything. Evil has a head start

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Fine work Tom.

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Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

Trotting out one of the greatest hits: I and the public know/what all schoolchildren learn/ those to whom evil is done / do evil in return. Jesus, how hard is this to remember?

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What happened in Tulsa? HIs rallies are always full of childish bluster, but he won't regard them as humiliations as long as he gets a decent crowd of magats who cheer him on. Was it a poor turn out? (I sure hope so!)

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It was very poor turnout. And he had been told there would be so many people they would have to accommodate them outside the arena. If I recall the arena was only about half full. 😹 That’s when he fired his campaign manager...old what’s his name who’s only success was burning through the money.

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Not even half full - the entire upper seating was empty.

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Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

And he was fooled by a bunch of tic tok kids. I don’t remember the exact details but I think they reserved thousands of seats that remained empty😹

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You remember right.

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but wasn't that something like a year ago?

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I know a lot of “TikTok kids. I love when their tech savvy gets things done efficiently. They are smarter politically than given credit for. They just respond in a diff mode than we “did or do”.

Salud, Karen. Happy New Year!

🗽💜

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Salud, Christine! Happy New Year to you🌻

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That's even better.

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IIRC, that wasn't the first time either. I recall something about tickets required for entry at a "rally", maybe in his pre-2016 campaign, when tik-tok users signed up for thousands of tickets then (of course) didn't show up. Or did show up for anti-T demonstrations outside the arena. Somewhere in Texas or Arizona?

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It’s not just flyover country - there are plenty of his supporters back here in the East and in cities. The only solution is election annihilation!

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Flyover Loserville doesn't exist merely in flyover country, but wherever it is, it gets flown over by everyone else.

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Texas has lost its mind, mainly due to the evil trio and their monied control of everything, especially elections. They ride immigration (and hatred of others) to a ruling stranglehold. Tell me why nobody goes after the “coyotes” who are behind this immigration flood. Just a mystery to me..

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Paxton has an ego more bloated than chump. So embarrassing that Texas has turned to weaponized ignorance and stupidity.

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Dec 27, 2023·edited Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

Obv Mr. Trump missed Heather Cox Richardson’s Christmas message. Dr. Richardson reminds us that Christmas marks the return of the Light. A force that will never surrender to mere darkness.

Observe the dwindling of what is Trump in the New Year.

People that live with Light will never surrender it. It’s ours to share and grow.

Salud and Happy New Year.

🗽💜

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Dec 27, 2023·edited Dec 27, 2023Liked by TCinLA

"Olangapo boom-boom girl?" Now that's a phrase I haven't heard in a long time. A long time (like, 40 years ago long). Even though the naval station and NAS Cubi Point are gone, Olangapo still trades in what they always traded in, only for civilian tourists and expat workers these days. (EDIT: apparently with the new mutual defense treaty, parts of the old naval base will be re-opened for USN use, as of 2022.)

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The asshole of Asia.

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I had to look it up!

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