Holy shit - he's at a prayer breakfast talking about Arnold and his ratings and asking

[Laura PourMeADrink]

people to pray for Arnold? whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

yesterday saying Australian deal a "dumb deal", using the word "bigly"

[femmocrat]

1. WTF?

This is not normal.

[KittyWampus]

2. He's talking about The Apprentice/Arnold at a Prayer Breakfast?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Yes and how the ratings were SO good with him running the show and said "We all know how that

turned out" Arnold not doing well - please pray for him

[NotThisTime]

7. I couldn't sleep all night because of this Australian incident and now I listen to this bullshit.

[KittyWampus]

8. Get off DU and do something enjoyable. NOW. Log off for at least a day and don't listen to news.

We will all be here when you get back.

Every time I walk away from it all, I come back so much stronger and happier.

PLEASE log off for your mental health.

Read a book, go for a walk, pick up a new language, learn to play the recorder, watch a Disney movie.

[Guilded Lilly]

28. Thank you, KittyWumpus! Hear her.

[demmiblue]

3. It is amazing, isn't it?!

[Drahthaardogs]

4. LOL

Hilarious

[bravenak]

6. This is crazy

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Now he's talking about "cutting off heads" - nice breakfast topic

[demmiblue]

10. I think he said it 3 times.

[Cracklin Charlie]

29. Whose head?

My granddaughter would cut my head off if I change the channel from Elmo.

[demmiblue]

11. When he uses that weird soft voice, it makes my shudder.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Is this teleprompter?

[demmiblue]

16. Yes, except at first (with the Apprentice bit).

[wordpix]

18. must be - he's XanaxTrump today, low energy

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. He's become Jeb !! Maybe it's the Propecia - did you see how that came

out yesterday?

No...fatigue is not listed

Less serious Propecia side effects may include:

impotence, loss of interest in sex, or trouble having an orgasm;
abnormal ejaculation;
swelling in your hands or feet;
swelling or tenderness in your breasts;
dizziness, weakness;
feeling like you might pass out;
headache;
runny nose; or
skin rash.

The sexual side effects of Propecia (decreased libido, trouble having an erection, ejaculation problems) may continue after you stop taking this medication. Talk to your doctor if you have concerns about these side effects.

[VOX]

36. There's certainly been no swelling of the hands.

[demmiblue]

12. Two things that I get out of this speech, so far:

1. FEAR!

2. RELIGION (with the underpinnings of Christian militancy)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. He said "Hell with it, I'll appoint the chaplain for another year"

[Cracklin Charlie]

31. Did he really say that?

He has lost his cotton-pickin' mind.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. YES.. "cotton pickin mind" haven't heard that in years. love it CC !

[Ms. Toad]

38. I got a dirty stare when I last used that phrase -

Although the phrase I used was cotton-pickin' hands. (As in, "get your cotton-picking hands off of my stuff&quot

I stopped to think what I wactually saying - where the phrase might have come from. I'd never thought about it before. What I realized that what I was almost literally saying was, "get your dirty black (slave) hands off my stuff."

I checked afterwards - and although it isn't universally considered racist, it is by enough folks that that was the last time I said it.

FWIW

[Cracklin Charlie]

40. No racism intended.

In my family, the hands that picked the cotton were all poor white people, who picked that cotton to provide for the family.

[Ms. Toad]

41. I wasn't assuming there was.

It had literally never occurred to me until my use of that phrase was met with such stony silence.

[wordpix]

15. ISIS cuts off heads!! And drowns people in cages!

I don't doubt that's true but wtf?

[Hayabusa]

17. He sounded like he was always a few lines away from declaring

us the United Theocratic States of America.

[demmiblue]

22. Yep... that is my impression, as well.

#8 Religion and Government are Intertwined

Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

I personally do not like the concept of a prayer breakfast, no matter who in in charge.

[demmiblue]

19. "We are being taken advantage of by every country in the world, virtually"

[Deb]

20. Take a tip from the beauty pageants-

pray for world peace. bigly

[Raine1967]

21. here is video:

Link to tweet

[Judi Lynn]

37. Cheap, stupid, empty. He's so pointless. The right-wing deserves him. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Sick of religion in any form or fashion, period. Whole lot of grief for little gain.

Just the way I feel.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Especially when religion is coupled with hatefulness (like people not giving a shit about

those who have no home, those who can't afford to see a doctor, those who are running for their lives, including children)

[SamKnause]

30. You are not alone !!!!!!!!!!

[liberalmuse]

26. I hope he prayed for Fredrick Douglass, too.

He's not getting any younger, after all.

[underpants]

27. "The hell with it"

[bdamomma]

32. read this article

trump is not a christian.

I am including this Democracy Now article and recording.

Just a snip too.

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/10/donald_doesnt_know_anything_author_david

AVID CAY JOHNSTON: I did not appreciate, until I worked on the book, that while Donald holds himself out as a devout Christian—"No one reads the Bible more than me"—while he has all these pastors embracing him as a good Christian man, Donald aggressively, thoroughly and at great length, in many forums, denounces Christianity. His personal motto is "always get revenge," whereas the message of Jesus Christ was "turn the other cheek." And these ministers, some of whom I’ve written to and haven’t—they haven’t responded at all—continue to embrace him. And I find it very troubling. Donald has beguiled them with flattery. If they continue, now that my book is out, if they know about it, to do this, they are then deceiving their flocks, and that’s evil. But Donald himself doesn’t care about these things. He will tell you any lie. He can’t quote a single line from the Bible. Not one. And yet he says, "No one reads the Bible more than Donald Trump." If you ask him, "Well, what do you like in the Bible?" "Oh, there’s so many. There’s so many. I just—there are so many, I can’t choose."

[3catwoman3]

33. Donald Trump is no more...

...a Christian than my cats are.

And my cats know enough to poop in their litter boxes, not all over the country and the Constitution.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. Ha. Just hear he actually said he grew up in a "church house". they were laughing about it

church house (grew up in an actual church)? or like churchy-type house where it was religious environment. Said he was just reading someone else's words of TP

[3catwoman3]

39. I was listening to Lawrence O, who quoted it...

...as "churched" house, which is even odder.

I did not take our sons to church when they were kids, as I wanted to be the only one teaching them about spirituality. I found that I was quite hesitant about telling people this, because when you say admit you don't go to church, or don't take your kids, you are often regarded with suspicion and wariness, as if you were some sort of subversive.

I finally came up with my own term. Some people home school their kids. I home churched mine. We talked about all manner of things relevant to spirituality and living an enlightened life. Our sons, now 24 and soon to be 27, are decent, moral, compassionate, open-minded and thoughtful young men who care about others and the planet.