Oh, there’s no end to the defenders of the Great Vulgarian™. This time around, it’s Mary Colbert, who makes the case for the Tiny Tyrant’s rough language.
Colbert said that Christians who oppose Trump because of his use of “rough language” must also “have a problem with Jesus because he spoke to the Pharisees and Sadducees and said, ‘You vipers, you snakes.’ He referred to Herod as a fox and then there is the account of the woman he called a dog. So if you want to find offense, you’ll find offense in anything.”
Oh look, someone in the bible isn’t consistent, what a shocker. Yes, Jesus was often an asshole, and easily irritated, to say the least. That shouldn’t make being an asshole an admirable thing. From Mark 7:
7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
That’s right shitty behaviour, but it’s also not “grab them by the pussy”, and it certainly doesn’t justify Trump in any way.
Colbert said that Trump “is a man of his word, he says what he means and he means what he says.
No. Just no. Trump is not a “man of his word” at all, in any fashion. He spews shit, turns right around and denies spewing shit, spews different shit, lather, rinse repeat. Trump is also quite well known for going back on his word when it comes to things like paying employees or his bills. Trump doesn’t mean what he says, he doesn’t have the slightest idea of what he means, he just brays, and if he thinks at all about what he said, it’s after he’s vomited words all over the place. As for “means what he says”, is that like the whole healthcare and wall business? Because he didn’t get very far with that nonsense, did he?
Well, what character does that imitate? Who is that? God. God says what He means and He means what He says, so I believe that God saw in the character of Donald Trump a fighter.”
:chokes on tea: Jehovah is one of the most awful, evil, psychopathic characters ever invented. The Tiny Tyrant is an awful, evil, amoral narcissist. Yeah, okay, it’s a good fit, but that doesn’t make it right. Trump is not ‘god’, and he’s not emperor, and he’s not specially chosen.
“The church has had its butt kicked for the last 100 years,” Colbert said, adding that God chose a brawler like Trump because He knew that America could not survive with a “mamsy-wamsy, love and peace kind of a president.”
The ‘church’ needs its collective arse kicked a whole lot more. Seems to me that uStates could really do with a mamsy-wamsy, love and peace kind of a president. A real president, one who knows how to do the job, and doesn’t think pursuing peace, inclusivity, and justice is stupid. I’d be good with that. I’d certainly be happier with that than a madman always eyeballing nukes.
I have to say, some of his epithets are brilliant marketing/framing.
Other than that, he’s about as articulate as someone who’s been slamming his head against a wall, hard, for decades.
Marcus:
You’re assuming he came up with such. I wouldn’t give him that much credit.
The Angry Cheeto is a bullshitter par excellance. He may actually believe every single word he says, at the specific moment he says it… and then go on to forget it the instance he says some other word that contradicts what he said before. ‘Truth’ is not a concept that the Cheeto has any acquaintance with; for the Cheeto, it’s all about motivating
those inconveniently animate propsother people to do what he wants them to do.Agreed that our President’s comments usually reflect little thought. They sound more like almost pure id with a modicum of warped ego applied. They are a reflexive noise, as changeable as the wind in a hurricane. Trump has no understanding of either the sweep or the detail of history or of our Constitutional traditions. He does not understand science any better than theology, and it sounds as though he is in ‘denial’ concerning his own bodily processes (witness his diet preferences, and his choice of doctor). The venom he spews does resonate with a substantial percentage of the American public. They are his True Believers and their faith will not be shaken.
True, I lost count of how many times “fuck” appears in the Sermon on the Mount.