O Holy Night
“Merry Christmas to all! Over two millennia ago, a new hope was born into the world, a Savior who would offer the promise of salvation to all mankind. Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King.”
New King? Really? Honey, that right there is some mighty fine kissing-up.
Reince says we misunderstood him and he means Jesus Christ both times. Oh, I think we understand just fine, Reince. Just fine.
I ain’t even religious an’ I know this is scary.
1There is something evil about these people.
There are many things evil about these people.
I hope that everyone had a good Christmas. And that it wasn’t our last.
2O Holy Night?
More like “Oh, Holy Crap!”.
3Told ya so three days ago: “…(…nepotism and ‘royal’ succession (look for the new theocratic justifications in a few months)”.
Guess I was a bit optimistic on the timeline, they’re already crowning “The Hollow Cheato” (apologies to Shakespeare, the BBC and Dick III).
https://juanitajean.com/north-carolina-no-longer-a-democracy/#comments
FYI: ‘The USA is ‘no longer a democracy’, unless y’all are willing to fight for it…figuratively, and literally when it comes…the John Birchers are now consolidating absolute power behind the scenes.
Willkommen im Vierten Reich! Kangsŏng Daeguk! DPRUSA #1!
4Sandridge, the Third Reich had its claws in this country just prior to WWII and tried to grab my maternal grandmother – actually her bank account. She told them where to go and how to do it. We jumped all over the Nazis in this country and across the pond and we will do it again if we have to. And yes, I say yes, there is an equivalency at work here!
5I don’t know about a new king, but we’re certainly hearing from the same old court jester.
6Sorry, I can’t hear y’all over the sound of my dry heaves.
7Maggie, I would like to hear more about your grandmother. Tell us more.
8Dog whistling from coast to coast. Do we hear it? Yes we do, and we clearly understand snacilbupeR/NaziKKK bullsh*t when we hear it. Any of those “Christian” conservatives gonna speak up to complain about this attempt at sacred equivalence? Hell no! The Irreligious Wrong has exposed their hypocrisy. Their loss of members is already increasing. The stream of millennial defectors from wing nut churches will become a flood.
9Hearing Reince Priebus (sounds like a venereal disease) expounding on the meaning of Christmas is absolutely nauseating, so I am joining Rhea’s club of heavers. These KKKristian hypocrites have caused so much suffering and are poised to let loose another tidal wave of cruelty. Hope their stoopid supporters drown in it.
10Okay, let’s be sure to put this into perspective. It’s really irrelevant exactly what was said; what is relevant is that the press quoted a Trump mouthpiece and that the Trumpettes don’t like that.
11maggie,
I’m very familiar with the history of the “German American Bund” (Wiki link below).
And of course the Bush family’s (Prescott) business connections to the Nazis (Thyssen-Krupp mega-arms, steel…), even though they’re not much more German than say, the British royal family….
“In 1939, a New York tax investigation determined that Kuhn had embezzled $14,000 from the Bund. The Bund did not seek to have Kuhn prosecuted, operating on the principle (Führerprinzip), that the leader had absolute power. ”
“For True Americanism”
(sound familiar?):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GAB_Rally_Poster.jpg
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The Bund were quite active for a while in many US places, they even established a number of ‘training camps’ where the members were further indoctrinated away from the mainstream and prying eyes. Curiously, those places are even today quite RW politically…
Even though there were/are a large number of German ancestry people in Texas, the Bund got little traction here.
I think (IMO) because most of the early German emigrants to Texas were of the “Freethinker” turn of mind. They were deliberately leaving what many felt were oppressive political and religious conditions in Germany then, and weren’t going to put up with it here even later on.
Hell, many of them weren’t supportive of the Confederacy and paid the price (many killed, property seized, etc.)
I remember hearing mention of it from some of my older kinfolk (who spoke German at family get-togethers), post-WWII of course. My most conservative grandmother was fond of the infamous Fr. Coughlin though, an early version of Flush Limpballs IIRC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought#United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters#United_States
12Give it up Rancid. You’re never going to be regarded as more than the court jester, one of Dear Leader’s many eunuchs.
13I think I know that the republican court jester thought he was just extolling Jesus as a sop to the religious right wing, I am going to cling to the coronation of the cocksplat twist with all my might. The whole party of whores (my apology to decent working girls) needs to suffer greatly.
14Rein Preib’s grammar is convoluted and he could use another run-through of the scripture. “Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate …” . Just as the three wise men did what? According to all the Bibles I’ve ever read, the angels did the heralding. The 3 wise men showed up much later to pay homage.
15Right on, treehugger! Those kings were latecomers to the manger. And the new King, Jesus Christ, would be appalled at the Rethug’s plans to disenfanchise immigrants, rob them of healthcare, throw millions of seniors into poverty by screwing up Medicare and Social Security, and granting the ultra rich tax cuts which will implode all social service and governmental income. The fake news has given birth to fake kristians and fake americans. Down with the Republican party and its evil policies.
16Well, I suspect a lot of professed Christains’ knowledge base is the Nativity scene, with Wise Men, Angels, Shepherds, and Livestock all glommed in together, along with a stable which for some reason only has 3 walls.
You know how they are about literal interpretation.
17Laura, pardon the tardy response. Just yesterday I finally was able to sit down in my living room and enjoy it as it was just before the holiday deluge! My maternal grandmother came from apparently some really tough bleep people. From what I heard and eventually learned enough from what I didn’t hear, she was a descendent of the Junkers, those guys in Prussia. Her family left Europe about the middle of the 19th century aiming for the U.S. but were dumped from their ship for some reason in Montreal or possibly even Quebec. Grandma was actually born in Renfrew, Ontario as the family trudged towards the state of Michigan. She had siblings already on the ground and some that arrived later in the U.S. I doubt seriously if any of them got as much as four years of education as all of them went to work quite young, she being trained as a seamstress. After marriage to my grandfather who may or may not have been born here, she was the iron center of the family, saving up enough money to buy a big house and take in boarders. This eventually led to the purchase of more real estate and middling size buildings that were turned into apartments. She was also a member of the local parish church. The Nazi party of the late thirties was highly disciplined and organized. They had a way of finding out who the “true” Tuetons were and went after them with a message from the “vaterland” that they thought none of them could turn down. Well, grandma being mostly made of iron scared the hell out of the guys who came to her door. She actually had a regulation billy club by then and knew how to use it. And no, there weren’t any repercussions aimed at her. She also notified a friend of hers, a Jewish woman in the neighborhood, to take cover. Those two old ladies were thick as thieves right up to the end. My paternal side was also awesome. So you see, I have a lot to live up to!
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