Bingo.
Trainor represented the Republican National Committeeâs platform committee and did some work for the Trump campaign during the Republican National Convention.
That should set off some alarm bells for the Muehller investigation and Congressâ investigative committees.
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Whereâs your jar? I owe $10âŚ
âThere are no Protestants in heaven, just as there are not other religions in heaven,â
As part of my advanced directive I would like to emphasize that if by some chance there is a mix-up in the after-life I do NOT want to be sent to this particular heaven under any circumstances whatsoever. Thank you.
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I feel like someone should point out that this is not, in fact, Catholic doctrine.
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And Steve Bannon says evangelicals support illegal immigrants because they need them to fill their churches.
Your government, clergy, coming for you after they finish with the media.
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May you be touched by his noodly appendage.
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Youâll probably be OK. Youâll just have to tiptoe past their door on the way to your final destination (and most of the rest of the doors too).
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[quote=âmothermachree, post:26, topic:62154â]
One of the most pernicious of these influences comes from the radical right wing of a Church that opposes all those things fiercely and unapologetically and dogmatically. We need to be able to find a way to talk about this openly, forcefully, without deteriorating into anti-Catholic bigotry.
[/quote]Your point is well presented, but I would argue that the dogmatic, authoritarian, fascistic, and ultra-rightist elements of the HRC have always been, and still remain, dominant in the church. There has always been a distinct difference between the loving rhetoric presented for public consumption, and the cruel actuality of the church in practice. It canât be passed off as a few bad apples.
It is not bigotry against the church to point out what has gone on in the recent past, the distant past, and the very moments that we now inhabit. The HRC is distinctly in its policies anti-woman and anti-gay. It is still covering up crimes committed by its clergy in every country in which it operates. It is using financial engineering to avoid paying compensation for those crimes. At the moment, it happens to have a pope who better understands public relations than his predecessors, and in fact may be slightly less authoritarian than his immediate predecessor, but who still harbors and protects Cardinals and Bishops who have condoned, or themselves committed, horrible sins against children which the most secular among us can identify as monstrous.
The HRC has no moral authority. It has forfeited it for all time. It is an anachronistic throwback to a medieval, uneducated time when it figured out how to gain and keep power over its members. It is no mystery why it seeks to increase its membership among the most uneducated, and the most desperate of the third world. And also why its membership in the US is waning. It canât happen fast enough.
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Godwinâs Law suspended: #churchnazi
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Are you really looking for an answer, 
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I envy you faithful types. My own faith keeps wavering.
I keep moving from one church to the other: from Pastafarianism to Church of the Sub-Genius to the Satanic Temple and back again.
Something tells me I can be a member of all three at once, however, so Iâm going to get all three bumper stickers.
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Pastafari! Conquering lion of the tribe of food-ah!
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I suspect there were a lot of teenage sons who said, âDonât lay YOUR crap on me! Keep it up and Iâm going to start talking about all the things you say and do so people will know Iâm not the perv in the familyâŚâ And when the kidsâ mothers backed them up, all those dads wanting to hide their proclivities from the public had to scapegoat the âlow level staff personâ to preclude a nasty public divorce.
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Good point. They probably wonât be able to hear me anyway over the din of all the angelic fighting and arguing going on in their little room.
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Doesnât matter what you say - theyâll find it bigoted and fall back on their âpersecuted majorityâ mindset.
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[quote=âj.dave, post:23, topic:62154, full:trueâ]
This unnamed-staffer-inadvertently-hitting-the-like-button thing is just epidemic, isnât it?
[/quote]Frankly, Iâd rather have a staffer âlikingâ porn than re-tweeting this crap.
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I know. But Iâm not doing it to try to win hearts and minds that I know I canât win, Iâm doing it because it seems morally imperative to me not to fall into the intellectual laziness of that kind of bigotry.
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Heâs a Trumpeterian with shades of Trumpolicism, which grew from Trumpaism, before the Chocolate Cake Diet, which gave rise to Trumpalianism.
But he lovingly supports the Donaldutherans.
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Iâve just never found a way to engage people like that, who are like those undersea critters who are glued to rocks for life and who fire poison darts whenever something brushes against them. Iâm trying to sell my pigwhistle tutoring business before I go insane.
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