Walter Schaub for the comedy win! (Regarding the hallucinatory tweet)

[Grasswire2]

Who knew Schaub was so funny?!


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Link to tweet

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[roscoeroscoe]

1. That's funny

Good one!

[Mike 03]

2. Luckily, I didn't have anything in my mouth when I read that.

[mr_lebowski]

3. Yea verily nt

[spanone]

4. trump is a fucking clown.

[Hekate]

5. Yowza

[tanyev]

6. "The beast was allowed to brag and claim to be God, and for 42 months it was allowed to rule."

Revelation 13:5

[Maeve]

16. Yeah, that would at least mean we'd be rid of him by the end of summer!

[erronis]

23. Thanks for that reference. I also see "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things..

"And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months."

Can't say I ever made it beyond genesis when I was 8/9. The begats gat to me.

[tanyev]

33. This is a great article about how well Trump lines up with descriptions of the Antichrist.

Not that I believe the Book of Revelation is anything more than an allegory for what was happening in the world at the time it was written. Still, I keep this article handy for friends and acquaintances who do think it’s prophecy.

I grew up in the rapture-me-outta-here end times movement, and have spilled no shortage of ink critiquing it– even poking a bit of fun at it. As a theologian I fall into a category of belief that sees biblical prophecies about “the end” as being events that have mostly been fulfilled in the past, but I try to hold that belief gently and recognize I could be wrong.

Here are the no-kidding-not-satire-prophecies and signs of the antichrist the Bible tells us to watch out for… and that blew my mind by the time I was done:

The Antichrist will be a man who is exceptionally arrogant and will be known for giving boastful speeches.

“I could hear his boastful speech…”
Daniel 7:8, Revelation 13:5
So, as you keep your eyes peeled for the Antichrist, be sure to keep in mind that it won’t be a quiet leader who is deceitfully humble and flies under the radar– The Bible says it will be someone who loves to give speeches where he boasts about himself.

The Antichrist will make fake news popular and will be a chronic liar. His followers will believe his delusions because they hate the truth.

“He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior… He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them.”
Daniel 8:25, 2 Thess 2:10

Daniel 8 and 2nd Thessalonians 2 are incredibly descriptive warnings to help us recognize the Antichrist. Predicting that under his rule “deceit will prosper” warns us to look for someone who calls the truth “fake news” and who is known for constantly lying.

In fact, the Antichrist lies so much that the Bible stops calling him the Antichrist and starts calling him The Liar– using the definite article for effect– as if he begins to personify fake news and lies.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

[yonder]

35. That was interesting.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

36. Thanks for the link!

[PCIntern]

7. Truly LOL.

[KT2000]

8. LOL! Who knew??

[wryter2000]

9. OMG

Edited to add: The sound of his own wheels drove Trump crazy. Verily.

[Grasswire2]

27. and yea too

I love the word "verily" as well as the word "behold"

[left-of-center2012]

10. Had to 'google' him

Walter Michael Shaub Jr. is an American attorney specializing in government ethics who, from January 9, 2013 to July 19, 2017, was the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Shaub

[stopdiggin]

11. DJT .. trying to be

weighty or profound .. or Christianish .. or leaderish ..
Oh .. who the f*** knows.
One really weird dude.

[txwhitedove]

13. Exactly tRumpish. His name will forever be a curse.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Jared, or whoever Trump's gofer is today, appears to be channelling the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

interpreting woeful happenings as signs of God's displeasure:

This year the sun was eclipsed, on the eleventh of May;... This same year there was a great plague in the island Britain
...
This year came dreadful forewarnings over the land of the Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons flying across the firmament. These tremendous tokens were soon followed by a great famine: and not long after, on the sixth day before the ides of January in the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the church of God in the Holy-island, by rapine and slaughter.
...
Then too was seen,
high in the heavens,
the star on his station,
that far and wide
wise men call --
lovers of truth
and heav'nly lore --
"cometa" by name.
God's vengeance then
throughout the land,
and famine scour'd the hills.

(...and then soon, in the same year, during harvest, appeared "cometa" the star (Sign of doom); and then came in the following year a great famine (Sign of doom), and very manifold commotions among the English people.)
...
In the one and twentieth year after William began to govern and direct England, as God granted him, was a very heavy and pestilent season in this land. Such a sickness came on men, that full nigh every other man was in the worst disorder, that is, in the diarrhoea; and that so dreadfully, that many men died in the disorder. Afterwards came, through the badness of the weather as before mentioned, so great a famine over all England, that many hundreds of men died a miserable death through hunger. Alas! how wretched and how rueful a time was there! When the poor wretches lay full nigh driven to death prematurely, and afterwards came sharp hunger, and dispatched them withal! Who will not be penetrated with grief at such a season? or who is so hardhearted as not to weep at such misfortune? Yet such things happen for folk's sins, that they will not love God and righteousness.

http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/society/millennium/mille3quotes.html

Now you know why he stares at eclipses.

[ancianita]

17. This is great. Thank you.

I'm sorry I never got to read any copy the Chronicle, just excerpts from the Venerable Bede.

I just ordered it.

[RVN VET71]

32. The sorry attempt at biblical (KJV) dialect

is to emphasize to those with eyes to see and ears to hear whatever it is that Trump's handlers want them to hear that Trump is, after all, the one "Chosen" to lead 'Murica back to righteousness. I find this cheap and sloppy tweet to be very disturbing because it is directed at a very specific group of Trump's loyalists who actually believe -- or want to believe -- that he is, OMG, "heaven sent" like King David.

[malchickiwick]

14. Jackson Browne should be pleased.

Yes, Jackson Browne, who wrote it with a bit of help from Glenn Frey, and recorded a terrific version before the Dude's most-hated band ever did.

[Grasswire2]

25. thanks!

Yes. Credit the lyricist. Always.

[CaptYossarian]

15. The "great and powerful Plague" sounds like L. Frank Baum.

The rest of it sounds like Clark Griswold praying for dead Aunt Edna.

[tavernier]

19. ...

[Grasswire2]

26. hahahaha! nt

[nuxvomica]

18. This sounds like Stephen Miller's speechifying

He tries to sound lofty but it always comes out woolly. Yes, there's been a lot of death, but destruction? He threw that in because it sounded good, a classic example of woolly prose. People who write like that are like the cargo cults of the South Seas, building facsimiles of airplanes that can't fly. They've seen people use rousing words, felt duly roused by same, and try to use the same ones whether they have any logical bearing on the meaning.

[yonder]

20. Tis a hoot.

[tecelote]

21. ...And then came a plague, it was named Trump and it expected all to bow down before it.

America guffawed, voted it out and the World was never the same again!

Thank God.

[ET Awful]

22. That must be a verse from Two Corinthians

That was the book about fine leather upholstery.

[erronis]

24. Bejeesus and Beelzebub. I'm getting an biblious edjicashun Liberty U standards today.

Not something I normally come to DU for.

https://www.npr.org/2016/01/18/463528847/citing-two-corinthians-trump-struggles-to-make-the-sale-to-evangelicals

There were a few stumbles during Donald Trump's sojourn to Liberty University on Monday.

He mispronounced a book of the Bible. He cursed — twice. And on Martin Luther King Day, the GOP presidential candidate said he was honoring the slain civil-rights leader by dedicating to him the record crowds he says he drew for the school's opening convocation. (Students are required to attend.)

"We're going to protect Christianity. I can say that. I don't have to be politically correct," he thundered at the beginning of his speech at the conservative evangelical university.

Then he moved on to cite "Two Corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ballgame. ... Is that the one you like?" Trump asked. "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

That's a verse that's etched on campus buildings, but that verse comes from "Second Corinthians" — not "Two."

Students in the room snickered and laughed, and advisers to two of Trump's top rivals, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, were quick to point out the gaffe on Twitter.

[agingdem]

28. someone needs to tell trump

The Ten Commandments was a movie and he aint no Charlton Heston...

[niyad]

29. There is no way covidiot45 wrote this. Not even jarvanka. Hopey, maybe??

[OMGWTF]

30. OT, but we can use a slight diversion -- We were driving through Winslow, AZ early one morning

and asked my husband to pull over on the side of the road going through town (Route 66) because I wanted to stand on a corner and call my brother who was a rock musician. I knew he would get my corny joke.

I got out of the car, heard something, and looked behind me. There was a huge mural of a blonde female driving a flatbed Ford, a statue of a guy with a guitar, and speakers belting out "Take it Easy." Now, I was even more delighted with this idea. I called my brother and said, "I am standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona." He said, "Why?" and I replied, "Because it's such a fine sight to see." I have a picture of me with the guitar dude statue. I travel a lot (until recently) and this is one of my favorite memories from my many road trips.

[niyad]

31. So, you f'n MURDERER? You FINALLY admit that this is "a great and powerful plague"????

After months of "it's a hoax, no big deal, under control, going away "????? Months of this crap, with people suffering, dying, starving?? You damned bastard.

[calimary]

34. Indeed! Who knew?

LOVE this!

[Maraya1969]

37. Go. Taketh it easy......