kpete
kpete's JournalDear Sarah, I imagine you feel like an innocent victim in all this--I think you got off easy.
Dear Sarah,
MAY 1, 2018 /
Ive been trying to reach you for a few days, but I know youve been busy lately with this whole White House Correspondents Dinner businesswhich I imagine youre already pretty sick of talking about.
Honestly, I am too.
Please know this has nothing to do with that.
This is about youand its about Jesus. (Well, sort of.)
You see, Im a Christian and Ive heard you claim that youre a Christian tooand watching you work recently, it got me thinking:
How does she do it?
What I mean is, how do you reconcile your supposed faith in Jesus of Nazareth, with your current position as a mouthpiece for this morally malignant President?
As a professed Christian, how do you make peace with the reality that you regularly mount the largest bully pulpit in the nationand you lie for a living on behalf of a serial predator?
How do you square your Christianity with the realization that you are the most visible and vocal surrogate for a man who is by nearly every measurementfully devoid of Christlikeness?
Look, all Christians (myself included), feel some measure of fraudulence as we live this life while claiming were trying to perpetuate the character of Jesus in the world.
None of us can avoid the hypocrisy inherent in professing faith in a perfectly loving, compassionate, merciful Saviorwhile being profoundly flawed human beings. That tension and duplicity are ever-present.
But this isnt that.
This is about actively working for the opposition.
This is about purposeful betrayal of your namesake.
This is about conspiring with the enemy.
I watch you every week as you repeatedly distort the truth,
as you attack journalists who come carrying facts.
as you vilify politicians who oppose your employers malfeasance,
as you categorically defend his every vile statement, every personal attack, every nonsensical Tweet, every baseless firing, every legislative assault.
I watch your face contort with the unmistakable tells of a person who doesnt believe a word theyre saying; one whos sold their soul and is now hopelessly trapped in a lie about a lie about a lie.
I wonder what Jesus-story you tell yourself, about the fact that every week you stand in front of a microphone and willingly perpetuate falsehoods that do great harm to millions of people?
That has to be roughor maybe it isnt.
Maybe its a breeze for you now.
Maybe youve convinced yourself its somehow all the Lords work.
Maybe youve been on this slippery slope of deception for so long that you actually believe the lies now too.
Or maybe your Jesus and my Jesus are just that different.
Maybe your Jesus is good with deporting immigrants.
Maybe your Jesus celebrates the poor staying poor.
Maybe your Jesus is fine with affairs with porn stars.
Maybe your Jesus is totally cool with supremacist Cabinet members.
Maybe your Jesus amens the banning and the wall-building.
Maybe your Jesus sanctions the fear of brown people.
Maybe your Jesus is pleased with sick people going broke trying to not die.
Maybe your Jesus applauds the racism and the bitterness and the cruelty.
Maybe your Jesus somehow blesses the lies you broker in on behalf of the monster you work for.
If that is your Jesus, Sarahthen know you are evangelizing brilliantly right now.
You are spreading the Gospel of that Jesus exponentially.
You are a powerful preacher of that Jesus to the watching world.
But for my money, that Jesus is the reason so many people want nothing to do with Christianity anymore.
Its why the Church is hemorrhaging.
Its why the pews are emptying.
Its why people run from Christians.
I imagine you feel that thirty seconds of jokes from a comedian is terrible treatment; that you feel unfairly bullied, that feel that you didnt deserve to be personally attacked.
I imagine you feel like an innocent victim in all this.
Given the countless hours youve spent lying to the world and claiming Jesus while youve done itI think you got off easy.
Author & Pastor:
https://johnpavlovitz.com/
CNN 8/17-US intel intercepted Russians re:"conversations w Manafort-encouraging help from Russians"
Big Reminder
1. Most interesting Mueller Q is on "any outreach by...Paul Manafort to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign"
2. Recall CNN scoop Aug'17:
US intelligence intercepted Russians relaying "conversations with Manafort, encouraging help from the Russians":
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/991321205796950016
More Appropriate WH Correspondent's Association Dinner Jokes For 2019
APRIL 30, 2018
MORE APPROPRIATE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION DINNER JOKES FOR 2019
TEDDY WAYNE
Good evening, and welcome to the 2019 White House Correspondents Association dinner. After last years uproar, Ive been instructed to use only dignified language and humor considered appropriate for our current cultural discourse.
Low-IQ crazy Kellyanne Conway is here tonight. Kellyanne came to Mar-a-Lago three nights in a row around New Years Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also graced us with her presence. She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.
I see Fox News in the back, which is a failing pile of garbage and the enemy of the American people. I never watch Sean Hannity, who I once called the dumbest man on television!
A few members of the Trump cabinet showed up this year, such as Liddle Jeff Sessions, who lied to Congress under oath. He is an untruthful slimeball. And theres Mike Pence, who is weak, both physically and mentally. Dont threaten gay people, Mike!
Im so glad to see the Trump family represented. Lets see, theres Crooked Don Jr., who embarrassed himself and the country with his email lies. I refuse to call Ivanka Trump a bimbo, because that is not politically correct. And lets not forget Eric, who should be forced to take an IQ test. Not very bright.
As for the First Lady, I did try and fuck Melania. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch. Then all of a sudden I see her, shes now got the big phony tits and everything. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, Im automatically attracted to beautiful I just start kissing them. Its like a magnet. Just kiss. I dont even wait. And when youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab em by the pussy. You can do anything.
In closing, I will reserve my most civil words for the president himself, who has finally made an appearance at this dinner. Bad (or sick) guy!
with links:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/more-appropriate-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-jokes-for-2019
Good evening, and welcome to the 2019 White House Correspondents Association dinner. After last years uproar, Ive been instructed to use only dignified language and humor considered appropriate for our current cultural discourse.
Low-IQ crazy Kellyanne Conway is here tonight. Kellyanne came to Mar-a-Lago three nights in a row around New Years Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880410114456465411
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also graced us with her presence. She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/27/donald-trump-alicia-machado-miss-universe-fox-and-friends
I see Fox News in the back, which is a failing pile of garbage and the enemy of the American people. I never watch Sean Hannity, who I once called the dumbest man on television!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/business/trump-calls-the-news-media-the-enemy-of-the-people.html
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/940223974985871360
A few members of the Trump cabinet showed up this year, such as Liddle Jeff Sessions, who lied to Congress under oath. He is an untruthful slimeball. And theres Mike Pence, who is weak, both physically and mentally. Dont threaten gay people, Mike!
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/917734186848579584?lang=en
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984763579210633216
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984767560494313472
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/976765417908776963
Im so glad to see the Trump family represented. Lets see, theres Crooked Don Jr., who embarrassed himself and the country with his email lies. I refuse to call Ivanka Trump a bimbo, because that is not politically correct. And lets not forget Eric, who should be forced to take an IQ test. Not very bright.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/754303051389861888
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/692312112115380224
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/621783757532626944
As for the First Lady, I did try and fuck Melania. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch. Then all of a sudden I see her, shes now got the big phony tits and everything. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, Im automatically attracted to beautiful I just start kissing them. Its like a magnet. Just kiss. I dont even wait. And when youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab em by the pussy. You can do anything.
In closing, I will reserve my most civil words for the president himself, who has finally made an appearance at this dinner. Bad (or sick) guy!
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/837996746236182529?lang=en
Hope I got all the links right, but here:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/more-appropriate-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-jokes-for-2019
via:
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/991080034302603265
Wake Up - Before it's too late (1950s edition)
In case you think politics has gotten ugly recently, Willis Smith (assisted by a young Jesse Helms) won this race in 1950 unseating an incumbent senator in the process.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/991316379327516672
Chapelle re: Wolf: "I gotta respect the gangsta"
Lovely snippet:
https://twitter.com/The_UnSilent_/status/991165633256620032
The "I can't believe that comedienne would say something so vulgar" starter pack.
http://liberalsarecool.com/post/173470835511/have-morals-that-reverse-on-a-dime-the-fuck-your
Netanyahu: Don't look here where we're shooting children, look over there at Iran -by Juan Cole
What is going on now is an attempt to pull the wool over peoples eyes about that and to con them into spending $6 trillion on another ruinous Middle East conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a notorious warmonger, serial liar and supremacist racialist who used to lead the closest thing Israel has to a fascist party until parties even more extreme got elected to parliament, is attempting to bamboozle the clueless Trump into getting on a war footing with Iran.
Netanyahus breathless announcement that there was a potential weapons aspect to Irans nuclear enrichment program has been known for a decade and a half.
Netanyahu even seems to have provoked the White House to issue a communique falsely stating that Iran has a weapons program presently, which it promptly had to retract. The incident is so scary because it shows how easy it is to manipulate the erratic Trump and his not-ready-for-prime-time staff. That sort of thing, David Frum said on Twitter, can cause a war. And he should know.
But the retraction is incorrect, as well. Iran in the distant past had done some things that would be helpful if it had launched a full blown weapons program. It never did launch such a program.
...............
So why try to put Iran on the front burner of American war-making? It is a desperate attempt on Netanyahus part to divert world attention from the ongoing Israeli Apartheid discrimination against the stateless Palestinians, which it militarily occupies (directly with jackboots and colonial settlers on the West Bank, indirectly with military encirclement and the sniping of innocent protesters in Gaza).
In recent weeks, Israeli snipers have used live ammunition to kill some 40 and wound hundreds of Palestinians who were unarmed and peacefully protesting their imprisonment in the Gaza Strip (70% of their families were kicked out of their homes in Israel and now live in squalid refugee camps while European Israelis took over their houses and farmland and are living it up). The sniping victims have including children, journalists, demonstrators distant from the Israeli confinement fence, and worshipers at prayer with the mention of God on their lips. Shooting unarmed people who pose no threat is a war crime, and doing it systematically amounts to a crime against humanity. So too is the crime of Apartheid described in the Statute of Rome as a crime against humanity, and Israel manifestly and robustly practices Apartheid against the Palestinians under its military heel.
the rest:
https://www.juancole.com/2018/05/natanyahu-shooting-children.html
Gates To Trump: Offered White House Position Is 'Not A Good Use Of My Time'
When Bill Gates brought up the vacant White House science adviser position to President Donald Trump in an Oval Office meeting last month, Trump immediately offered him the positiononly to be rebuffed.
Thats not a good use of my time, Gates responded, according to an interview he did with medical site Stat published Monday.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gates-told-trump-that-white-house-adviser-would-be-a-good-use-of-my-time
https://www.statnews.com/2018/04/30/bill-gates-vaccine-trump-meeting/
Mueller says he needs to question Trump -To see if he acted with "Criminal Intent" when firing Comey
This seems key.
Whether or not Trump would ever be charged w/obstruction...
...Mueller told Trump's lawyers that he needs to question Trump to determine whether he acted with "criminal intent" in firing James Comey:
https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/991276837790765056
Trump: "No questions on Collusion"?
13 of the questions are about collusion and theres no indication its an exhaustive list. (Also the questions were leaked by someone who got them from Trumps lawyers)
44. What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign [incl. Manafort] to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?
45. What did you know about Russian hacking, use of social media or other acts aimed at the campaign?
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/991270739608309760
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/991268364722065408
https://twitter.com/amyfiscus/status/991117277880815616
https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/991157106861596672
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/questions-mueller-wants-to-ask-trump-russia.html
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