The chairman of the Federal Election Commission thinks the November election amounts to a “spiritual war.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1332873
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1332873
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So one of the top people put in place to ensure that our elections are free and fair feels he’s on a religious crusade to ensure that Trump stays in office…
I’m gonna miss our democracy, it’s had a decent run.
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Guess this guy does want to panic people. "…I am appalled at what I see happening in Portland and other places around the country where peaceful protests have been turned into riots, to where you have cities that are completely overrun,”. That’s a flat-out lie.
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The chairman of the Federal Election Commission thinks the November election amounts to a “spiritual war.”
They wear you out, don’t they, these thugs?
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This guy is what is wrong with this country. Elections are not wars either religious or otherwise. He needs to resign.
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Oh for CHRIST’S sake you sanctimonious little twits…NO IT IS NOT a ‘war’ against religion or any OTHER thing you and your ilk want to scare people with. Your pandering a$$ should be FAR AWAY from government since you clearly don’t understand how this country works.
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John Adams, like many of the Founding Fathers, was a Diest.
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“What we see going on around the country is complete anarchy…"
I don’t know about all around the country, but for sure it applies to the Boston Celtics locker room.
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Sniffit was/is right…these Christo-fascists are the most dangerous people on the planet. SMH…
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All religious extremists are the same. And they’re all a danger to a functional society.
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You can’t wear a tie/pocket square combo like that and claim you’re at war with anarchy.
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Certainly a truth they can’t face: the fundamentalists from every religion are interchangeable, the very opposite of exclusively correct.
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I couldn’t agree more. But it’s funny how the people in this country always seem to overlook the homegrown Christian-based right wing terrorists who are actually doing most of the religious violence on American soil (9/11 being an obvious exception).
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“It really is a battle between good and evil because I think you have those that believe in the Constitution and preservation of the republic versus those that are pushing just for flat-out anarchy.”
That flat-out anarchy thing sounds a lot like “deconstruction of the federal state”.
And he can take his self-righteous bullshit and stick it.
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Bring him down. We cannot afford to have him leading the FEC. He should be a bishop somewhere, not a man in charge of making sure the election process is fair.
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“…Trainor, who’s a practicing Catholic,… “
He needs a lot more practice.
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BBBBWWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Your comment made me go back and look at his picture. And I couldn’t stop laughing !!!
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In Religion News Service’s own interview Friday with Trainor, who’s a practicing Catholic, the FEC chairman misquoted John Adams as saying “the Constitution presupposes a Christian moral people, which means you have to have that underlying principle in order for the Constitution to function and work properly.”
Adams did not say that, but in 1796 he signed the Treaty of Tripoli, which specifically stated that “As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”
Wait, what? Adams said the exact opposite of what Trainor interpreted him as saying.
Actually, this makes sense. Everything he says is true, just 180 degrees away from what’s he’s saying. Our current Constitutional crisis is solely due to the actions of Trump and his Republican collaborators.
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Rather than a link to the agit-prop slop Church Militant site, this story should have just provided informational context about what a clownshow of GOP shilling and nonsense it is:
It’s as bad a Gateway Pundit.
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