Okay, this is going to be something of a roundup, because there is a whole lot of facepalm to be had on this fine Sunday. We start with that Prince of Purple Prose, Lance Wallnau, who simply gets goofier and more absurd as he attempts to find good things about the Tiny Tyrant. His latest took place on a Christian Cruise of Nuttery.
“That same unpredictable, erratic Twitter twitch that he has is in the hand of the Lord,” Wallnau said, asserting that Trump’s tweets about China forced Chinese president Xi Jinping to come to America “to try to just get a handle on him because he’s tweeting these crazy tweets.”
That meeting was fortuitous, he explained, because it happened just as Trump ordered airstrikes on Syria for its use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Wallnau said that “it was the hand of the Lord” that Trump bombed Syria while President Xi was visiting because that move showed China that it must take steps to rein in North Korea.
On top of that, Wallnau celebrated Trump’s ignorance about world events, saying that he doesn’t have to understand these sorts of issues because “when you are anointed, you can get away with a lot of things.”
Where to start? I suppose ‘unpredictable, erratic Twitter twitch’ suits Jehovah well enough; it is a bundle of psychopathy, whims, and tantrums. I rather doubt the Tiny Tyrant’s Twitter Twitch has forced anyone to do anything. Meetings with global leaders is standard protocol anytime there’s a new president Fucking Idiot in the white house. The supposed reason for the Syria bombing was Ivana Jr’s upset over those poor babies. I expect it was more in the line of “I can use my toys! Look what I can do!”
I have described the current regime in terms of Nineteen Eighty-Four more times than I can count, and now I don’t think that’s quite enough. Yes, people can get away with a lot of shit here in Amerikkka if they have enough money, are white, and in particular, in politics. We have an outdated constitution, which is closer to dogma than policy, and a highly broken, fucked up political system. It’s not being anointed. Although, I wouldn’t be averse to oil being dropped all over Donny, followed by a ton of glitter. I’m evil like that.
Via RWW.
Yesterday, Religious Right pundit Michael Snyder unveiled “a list of 100 things liberals hate about America,” warning that if liberals get their way, “the country that you and I love so much today will be gone forever.”
The list of things liberals hate about America includes big trucks, big cheeseburgers, Jesus, Israel and Dolly Parton.
Oh, Sweet Zombie Jesus, this post would be a mile long if I tackled each item on the list. I will note that Jesus comes in at #29, well below both Trump and Pence. Pretty sure that qualifies as some kinda sin. If you’d prefer to stay away from Charisma News, and who could blame you, RWW has the full list. And for the record, I like Johnny Cash. Just sayin’.
And then there’s trumPence, trying to sound all veeply, opining over why climate change became an issue at all:
Pence hailed Trump for demonstrating “leadership” by pulling out of the international accords and standing “without apology for the American people.”
He added that he was perplexed as to why people, particularly liberals, even care about climate change: “For some reason or another, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left in this country and around the world.”
I can answer your bafflement, sir – we don’t want to fucking die, and we don’t want to live in utter hellholes, tortured in every way, before we fucking die. Not so sure if I mind if you drop dead and spare us the oxygen.
Via RWW.
And last, we have that sterling moron, Wayne Allyn Root, who, after boasting about his abilities to beat the shit out of a liberal, went on to whine about how mean young people are, especially on Twitter. After that, he went on a rant about race. I’ll let you good folks click over and read that part, I haven’t had enough tea or functioning server for that one yet.
Despite his tough talk, Root spent a good portion of his radio program yesterday complaining that vulgar liberals were being mean to him on Twitter, at one point saying that calling him “old” is no different than calling a black person the N-word.
Root said that he has been the target of “the most disgusting, low down, revolting profanity-laced, filthy, wash your mouth out with soap gutter language you ever heard from liberals” on Twitter. He was particularly upset by the fact that “every single young liberal in the world, every single one of them [was] calling me ‘old man,’” despite the fact that he is only 55 years old.
“There’s no difference in when you call someone ‘old’ versus when you call someone the N-word,” Root said. “There’s no difference. It’s a lack of respect. It’s filthy. It’s disgusting.”
Root said he was shocked by the racism of the “millions and millions of Hillary voters, Bernie voters, Obama voters, liberals in general, young liberals who think anyone over the age of 30 should be called an old effin’ white man.”
“Every young liberal in this country, from what I’ve seen answering me, needs a bar of soap to wash their filthy little mouths out and maybe a mother with some class who would have taught them something about how you speak to somebody,” he stated.
I’m 59 years old, looking at 60 in November. Yeah, I’m old. So what? I know when I moan about old people, in particular, old white men, it’s not their age as much as that their brains atrophied about 50 years previously. As an old hippie, I well remember don’t trust anyone over 30. We had that on stickers, man. Nothing new under the sun, and at 55 years old, Root should at least be aware of hippies and the counterculture. It’s not an insult to be called old. Lots of places, societies have a great deal of respect for their elders. I suggest if you’re getting such flak, it’s because your tiny pea brain is indeed atrophied, and there’s that whole fucking idiot business. You really need to climb down off that cross, Mr. Root, it’s very flimsy and about to collapse.
That is just a bafflingly stupid list. Like you, I couldn’t go into all the things wrong with it without writing a book, but I do have a couple of questions:
First, why does Michael Snyder list (1) the U.S. Constitution, and then go on to list the first, second, and tenth amendments at (55, 56, 57)? Is he not aware that they’re a part of the Constitution?
Why is (76) Benjamin Netanyahu on a list of things liberals hate about America? For that matter, why is (77) Israel?
I am a little surprised that Snyder managed to resist listing “the military” along with the four branches he mentions. He really seemed to struggling for some (most) of the list. Also, what about the Coast Guard? Will no one think of the Coast Guard?
In other words, he’s never been in a real fight. I have little trouble believing that he’s beaten people before, but it’s almost certainly been as a part of a mob assaulting someone for the crime of not being a straight, white, cis-, Christian man. He’d never pick a fight with someone where he didn’t know that he had every advantage going in to it.
Vucodlak, I suspect Snyder had a very hard time coming up with 100 things, the list is so obviously padded, it’s ridiculous. As for Israel, oh, well, us liberals aren’t in favour of just wiping out those pesky indigenous Palestinians, therefor, we are standing in the way of the apocalypse, ’cause you know, we just don’t want Jesus to come back. (And he’s quite easy to block, apparently.)
That’s true. There’s really no way to apologise for being that massively stupid and genocidal.
“I’m 59 years old, looking at 60 in November. Yeah, I’m old. So what? I know when I moan about old people, in particular, old white men, it’s not their age as much as that their brains atrophied about 50 years previously. As an old hippie, I well remember don’t trust anyone over 30. We had that on stickers, man. Nothing new under the sun, and at 55 years old, Root should at least be aware of hippies and the counterculture. It’s not an insult to be called old.”
I turned 62 in February and I had exactly the same thought. I get called old every day on the internet and my response to those people is ‘you have an incredible talent to state the obvious’. I don’t get mad about it, I laugh about it. They too, will one day be old, so buck up Mr. Root and get over yourself. You don’t get respect because you show no respect for anyone who isn’t just like you. What a pissant.
I will say this much -- at 55, Root looks a helluva lot older than I do. I guess being an obnoxious, judgmental asshole of a doucheweasel isn’t good for your looks.
I wonder if Snyder actually knows anything about Johnny Cash’s political beliefs. I suspect Cash might have been a bit more liberal than is acceptable to someone like Snyder.
It’s like Alex Jones being only 43: Fascism is bad for your skin.
Giliell:
Really? Wow.
Timgueguen:
I suspect that list was actually 5 items long, but “100 things” sounds much more impressive, so he just tossed anything and anyone on it.
Snyder’s surprisingly defensive of beef: #37, #51, #59, #68. Obsessed much?
At #40, he just stops trying.
I feel like I should respond thoughtfully to each point, but would be a clear waste of effort. Like responding to creationists who’d like to change their minds but “just want to see proof.”
Curious Digressions:
I’m pretty sure Snyder thinks all liberals are of the crunchy granola type, and either vegetarian or vegan.
Yes, I felt that way too, as did Vucodlak @ 1, but it would go on for half of forever, and be so redundant, much like the list. And no, I don’t think it would do any good. People like Snyder have their preconceived notions, and they won’t be pried from them.
First, young conservatives are even more foul-mouthed than young liberals. You can’t claim vulgarity is unique to progressives when neo-fascist teenagers spend their time inventing new racial slurs and threading to rape and murder people.
Second, notice how the big tough conservatives who call themselves politically incorrect and call progressives snowflakes react with horror at bad language on Twitter and being called old.