The Last Damn Thing
I have a beloved friend who is a retired Presbyterian minister. He’s as liberal as they come, you know, like Jesus. He’s also non-judgemental, you know, like Jesus. He’s in his upper 80’s and except for a few incidents daily of “why did I come into this room,” his mind works like it did in college.
Last week, he tried to convince me that maybe, just maybe, Trump is the anti Christ. Let me say here that I don’t believe in Armageddon. He’s not sure that he does either, but if it is true, it could be Trump. He teased me that I should go get some locust spray.
And then, the Washington Post prints this today.
Oh yeah, that’s exactly what I wanted to see.
Oh well, at least we don’t have to go out and stock up on hurricane supplies. We’ve got that covered.
For those keeping track, the hurricane season starts June 1st.
Evangelicals warned us for years that the Anti-Christ was coming. When he finally showed up, they elected him president.
1Unless it starts sooner. I know of no hurricane that reads a calendar.
2I will beg your pardon(s) in advance.
Matthew 7:
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
At best Boss Tweet is a false prophet, at worst…
3A Very Good Job (At Slow-Rolling, Mass Negligent Homicide)
Edit: On a day the U.S. saw over 139,000 cases and at least 2,425 deaths, the ever-classy Trump boasted his briefings’ “ratings” reached “Bachelor Finale, Monday Night Football type numbers.” The photo of these bodybags was taken by an anonymous New York City hospital nurse who said he wanted to show “the ghastly reality” of COVID-19 deaths.
Nigh on speechless: Thanks to months of criminal-level denial, delay, extortion, ineptitude, “hoax” bullshit and then the breezy claim a U.S. coronavirus death rate of 100,000-ish would show he’d done “a very good job,” Trump said Tuesday that the country could see up to 240,000 deaths – an obscenely preventable number that dwarfs the roughly 3,500 deaths in China, with over four times our population, as well as deaths in Italy and Spain.
The scale of Trump’s governmental failure, “so complete and so sweeping it borders on the incomprehensible,” began as far back as January – or in truth three years ago – with a White House that was a “ghost town of scientific expertise…rudderless, blindsided, lethargic, and uncoordinated.” It remains on grotesque display every day as COVID-19 spreads and Trump has “chosen to stand down, do nothing, let people die and (let) it ravage America” – especially, grotesquely, its blue states. Left to their own devices by a leader who miraculously hasn’t heard about any problems with testing, states are struggling to get masks, beds, gloves, ventilators and other vital equipment from a narcissistic toddler-cum-mob-boss who’s repulsively playing politics with people’s lives by demanding fealty first.
full article with photos:
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2020/03/31/very-good-job-slow-rolling-mass-negligent-homicide
4Boy Miss JJ – you are just a bounty of good news! I’m Presbyterian – of the same liberal persuasion – and I think Revelation was just in the inventory so it got included. But it does say the anti-Christ is beautiful so it can’t be his majesty, unless I have a warped sense of beauty! And maybe we should warn HEB etc. that June 1st will be here too soon!
5It’s all that hot air coming from DC.
6Might want to consider as part of the apocalypse scenario the 6.5 richter scale earthquake they had two days ago just spittin distance from Yellowstone, you know where that super-volcano is located. That sucker is just looking for an excuse to go off, and the Trumpster just might be the one!
7I didn’t see the address to post, but go Benjamin L. Corey’s website and search for Antichrist. Corey is a theologian and former fundie who lays out a Biblically based argument that Dumb$hit Donnie is the Antichrist, although he doesn’t come out and say it. Interesting read, even for a Heathen like me.
8@Ralph #1 – Stole it for the Book of Faces! Thanks for the laugh!
9Jared Kushner ‘s building is located at 666 5th Ave. – just saying.
105:00 pm starts a Monty Python marathon on BBCAMERICA.
11The Life of Brian followed by The Holy Grail.
Like Grandma Ada, I’m one of those liberal Presbyterians, but I’ve been having the same thoughts as your minister friend lately. He causes the sighted to be blind. He is the Father (Son?) of lies. Rather than healing the lame, he ridicules them. He is the biggest money changer in the Temple, etc. etc.
12If those damned godbotherers want to believe god will Rapture them in his house after what they have done, that is their problem. I just wish they would have faith that god will do it in his own good time and stop doing all they can to make it happen.
13After reading that Washington Post article, I think I can safely say that Mother Nature is thoroughly pissed at the human race.
14My lovely lady told me about a Facebook post she saw.
15The very people who’ve been indignantly outraged for 8 years about 4 Americans dying in Benghazi find the idea of 100,000 to 250,000 Americans dying perfectly acceptable.
Apparently if Libyans kill us, we need to bomb ’em into plasma. But if heyzeus does it, it was meant to be, so meh.
@Henry #8–I looked up the Benjamin Corey website and read the post on the AntiChrist. Holy Moley! It is very convincing! Here is the url: https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
He has another good post entitled ’10 Signs You Are Worshipping Trumpianity Instead of Christianity’: https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/10-signs-youre-actually-following-trumpianity-instead-of-christianity/
16North African nations are already experiencing plagues of locusts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51348517
17I never credited Dan Patrick with having a sense of humor.
18But he’s tried re-writing the “bring out your dead” scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
But apparently being a RWNJ kills any remaining vestiges of irony.
Glad you’re stocked up, Ms JJ. I checked out that model the feds are pushing, and it predicts Texas hitting its COVD peak in 34 days, so early May.
19Fwiw: I heard a news blurb early this morning that the contract to replenish the national [federal] stockpile/inventory of PPEs, respirators, ventilators, etc., just somehow ‘expired’ last effen summer; and wasn’t renewed until early this year.
Pure Rethug stupidity, or pure Rethug malice?
[I suspect that this stockpile was probably originated under one of the Obama admin health and pandemic plans, probably all canceled by now.
In other news, Dr. Fauci has been a target of RWNJ threats [who else] and now has a security detail.
FuxNooz and other RW media is still, more subtly, pushing the idiocy of ‘it’s a [demonrat] hoax, a chinese plot, blahblah’.
20With a bit of luck we could have a major MAGAot and Kristian Evangelitaliban Extinction Event if they keep on believin’.
After all, 2-4million dead don’t sound too bad, as long as most are in the mentioned groups.
We really don’t need an intensified tornado season: We’ve already been directly hit by two. The last one was a mile wide and completely enveloped my town.
21Goodness, James #21 – hunker down and stay safe!
22Of course Trump isn’t the Anti-Christ. That is an obviously heretical doctrine, quite aside from inflating his importance.
Trump is Gog, and Putin is Magog. This is incontrovertible.
23I understand Gov. Brian Kemp (R) of Georgia (no better than Greg Abbott of Texas) said yesterday, publicly, that the ability of Covid-19 to move from person to person without the infector showing symptoms was totally unknown until “the last 24 hours”. The corona virus family causes the common cold, which we all know (or should know) can spread a cold if someone sneezes before they feel sick. MOST viruses can cause disease before the source person shows that they’re sick. (We still touch each other, and surfaces, and cough and sneeze without being sick…as with the huge burst of oak pollen we had this year…glad I planted all those oaks, but once a year, yikes!)
Either Governor Kemp had never paid attention to what actual doctors and epidemiologists said, or he lied, and either is reprehensible.
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