Ed Young is the head pastor of Houston’s Second Baptist Church.  Second Baptist Church has about 65,000 members across five campuses. It has an annual budget of $53 million. Young races between the “campuses” on his own personal helicopter.

A few years ago, a family won a giant lawsuit against Second Baptist because one of the youth ministers was messing around with little girls. It soon came out that the church knew about it and pawned the youth minister off on another church just to hide him out.

From his wide experiences with the ungodly, Pastor Ed Young passed judgement.

For white Christian Republican pastors stung by election results, it is no longer enough to just say Democrats are wrong.

The Democratic Party is “basically godless,” a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention said in defeat on election night.

So, maybe he’s preaching to the wind?

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Remember when Trump denied that he used his personal iPhone to tweet and sent the denial from his personal iPhone?  I loved that.

Now, I’m wondering if this misspelling of Adam Schiff is purposeful or if he’ll deny that, too.

By the way, I don’t think he knows what conflicted means.  And, he sent it from his iPhone just after midnight.

And, he doesn’t understand the different between a special prosecutor and the attorney general.

Thanks to Jan for the heads up.

Most of us normal people regularly ask the question, “What is it going to take to get Trumpists to turn against him?”  Thousands of lost jobs from his trade war didn’t do it; his sucking up to Vladimir Putin and other despots didn’t do it; North Korea caught building more nukes didn’t do it; roller coaster markets didn’t do it; his continuous lying didn’t do it;  his globally embarrassing performance at the Paris Armistice Day ceremony didn’t do it; not showing up for Veterans’ Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery didn’t do it; his incessant sophomoric tweeting didn’t do it; 22 indictments, 5 guilty please, and 8 convictions of his cronies didn’t do it;  it’s seems that NOTHING gets through.

Until yesterday.  Yesterday, Trump, while visiting wildfire ravaged California with Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown,  Trump babbled really stupid shit about Finland and raking forest floors.  He made these idiotic statements on national television in the wake of thousands of destroyed homes and businesses, over 70 confirmed deaths and more than A THOUSAND people missing.  Apparently, we’ve found the limit; doing that is what it takes to turn Trumpists against him.  Kirk Ellsworth, whose family suffered catastrophic losses in the destruction of Paradise, California, responded to Trumps idiocy, saying:

“My kids lost everything. I voted for him – and now? He can kiss my red ass.  What he said was ridiculous. It hurts my heart. A lot of us voted for him and he [talks] down to us?”

There you have it.  Apparently for Trumpists to see the light, they (and their families) have to suffer catastrophic personal losses before the scales fall from their eyes so they can see the light.  Such is the totality of the delusions of the Trumpist hoard.

After Trump did that whole Rake the Forest thing that El Jefe talks about below, the Finnish president took time out of his busy day to assure everyone that he has never discussed the raking of the Finnish forest with Donald Trump, even though Donald Trump says they did.

But President Sauli Niinistö of Finland told Ilta-Sanomat, the country’s second-largest newspaper, on Sunday that he never discussed raking with Trump during their brief meeting in Paris last weekend, where the leaders attended various commemorations marking the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I.

He did tell Trump that Finland is a forest nation, but rakes?  Nope. He’s never heard of that. Does Trump think they can’t hear him in Finland because it’s like a long ways away and they don’t speak in English, so how do they know what he says in California?    There a 5 million people living in Finland.  Finland is 130,666 square miles.  You do the math because Trump can’t.

And, I bet you a shiny dime that if you took rake with five assorted garden instruments, say, like a shovel, a hoe, a post hole digger, and a spade, Trump would not be able to identify which one is the rake.

I’m not going to comment on Trump’s visit to wildfire-ravaged California beyond saying this is the latest episode of Trump holding the position of number one global embarrassment.  What an idiot.  In his own words:

On forest management:

“You’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important. You look at other countries where they do it differently and it’s a whole different story.”

“I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We have a much different—we’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things. And they don’t have any problem.  And when it is, it’s a very small problem, so I know everybody is looking at it to that end and it’s going to work out, it’s going to work out well.”

On climate:

“Maybe it contributes a little bit. The big problem we have is management.”

“No. No. I have a strong opinion: I want great climate, we’re going to have that.”

Again, this guy is an idiot.  ‘Nuff said.