Later this month is the 400th anniversary of the Defenestration of Prague. I have trouble wrapping my head around the 30 Years’ War, let alone the Holy Roman Empire. It’s tough to imagine the religious fervor. I don’t think anyone who participated could understand the horror they were unleashing.
The world seems very very different from ours. And yet 400 years seems like not much time at all.
” … Mitt Romney lashed out at the decision to have a controversial evangelical leader give a blessing at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Monday, calling him a ‘religious bigot.’ [Romney] criticized the inclusion of the Rev. Robert Jeffress — the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas who is also an an adviser to President Donald Trump.”
Jeffress’ past pronouncements include:
“The Bible says this land belongs to the Jewish people — period.”
“Islam is a false religion that is based on a false book that was written by a false prophet. … If you sincerely follow the tenets of Islam, then you will end up in hell when you die.”
“By upholding God’s pattern for sexuality — a man and a woman in a marriage relationship — Jesus automatically condemned any deviation from that pattern.”
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/05/14/romney-criticizes-robert-jeffress-ahead-of-jerusalem-embassy-opening/23434012/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: How would you feel if a foreigner came to your country and preached that kind of hate and intolerance?
Even here in America, with our freedom of speech and religion, that kind of rhetoric closes minds and creates division. The fact you’re free to say it doesn’t make saying it responsible or constructive. People like Jeffress are a cancer in our society.
That Trump choses this guy as his spiritual adviser and sends him to Jerusalem to represent the American people is just further proof of Trump’s unfitness for public office.
Stock market up yet again and the Dow is now nearly at 25,000.
Completely coincidentally, of course, is a WaPo piece published today about Democrat nervousness that their blue wave is disintegrating.
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Roger Rabbit Commentary: How would you feel if a foreigner came to your country and preached that kind of hate and intolerance?
Turns out, ’bout the same as I do when an American like Obama’s former pastor does it. Or Keith Ellison’s good friend Louis Farrakhan.
Hate and intolerance are no more acceptable when spoken by people you favor, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
“Liberals must arm.” A fucking asshole has written that, repeatedly, on this site.
“Count von Thurn turned to both Martinice and Slavata and said ‘you are enemies of us and of our religion, have desired to deprive us of our Letter of Majesty, have horribly plagued your Protestant subjects… and have tried to force them to adopt your religion against their wills or have had them expelled for this reason’. Then to the crowd of Protestants, he continued ‘were we to keep these men alive, then we would lose the Letter of Majesty and our religion… for there can be no justice to be gained from or by them’. Soon after, the two Regents and their secretary were defenestrated, but they survived the 70-foot (21-metre) fall from the third floor. Catholics maintained the men were saved by angels or by the intercession of the Virgin Mary, who caught them; later Protestant pamphleteers asserted that they survived due to falling onto a dung heap, a story unknown to contemporaries and probably coined in response to divine intervention claims.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Yeah, going to the king for permission to kill Protestants who refuse to become Catholics is a good way to get your ass thrown out of a window. But it sounds like the Protestants should have picked either a higher window or a harder dung heap.
@3 “Hate and intolerance are no more acceptable when spoken by people you favor, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.”
The problem with this particular screech is that I’m not a fan of either Farrakhan or Wright (assuming that’s who you’re referring to), which makes you either a liar or a dumbass.
“‘Liberals must arm.’ A fucking asshole has written that, repeatedly, on this site.”
Rightwing loudmouths talk about putting liberals in “concentration camps” or “executing” us, and rightwing militias arm to the teeth and talk about starting a “civil war” and “watering the tree of liberty” with our blood, and I’m a “fucking asshole” for suggesting we should prepare to defend ourselves? Sorry, but I’m not willing to be frog-marched to a shooting pit by your friends; think of me as more like a Warsaw Jew, and go fuck yourself.
Protestants throwing Catholic bullies out of windows in 1418 and liberals arming themselves against rightwing bullies in 2018 have one thing in common: Self-defense.
And if you’re not willing to passively submit to being murdered by Nazis or their functional equivalent, Doctor Dumbfuck thinks you’re a “fucking asshole.”
How does someone become such a fucking dumbfuck? And what’s his plan for when they come for him? I’ll bet he’s already got an AR-15 or two stashed in his farmhouse.
Returning to @3, I don’t blame Doctor Dumbfuck for condemning Farrakhan’s and Wright’s shit-spewing, although it should be noted those guys aren’t foreigners, and it’s not exactly the same thing when your fellow citizens do it; that makes it a kind of family affair, as when an offspring or sibling joins the Republicans or skinheads.
Nevertheless, I feel roughly the same way he does about their shit-spewing: It’s free speech that must be protected from government interference, but reprehensible speech that should be condemned (except I’m not sure how willing to defend free speech he is).
So my question is, does Doctor Dumbfuck think it’s okay for Trump to send someone like Jeffress to Jerusalem to shower his brand of blessings on our embassy there? How is that different from Obama sending Farrakhan or Wright to Jerusalem to speak for the American people — which Obama DIDN’T do?
Now that you know the difference between Trump and Obama on this, and you know where Roger Rabbit is on this, where is Doctor Dumbfuck on this?
So now getting fired is being “provided severance”?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/young-dolph-gives-20k-to-baristas-fired-for-playing-his-song-get-paid-in-shop_us_5af98995e4b032b10bfce3c0
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Working hard to get ahead is a myth provided by the people who provide severance. If you don’t work, you can’t be provided with severance. I don’t work; do I need to explain why? Nah, I think you get it.
I’m not a rap fan, never listen to it, so I had to look up the lyrics to the “song” in question, and I can see why a staid university administrator might object to it being played in a campus coffee shop, due to the vulgarity and other language involved. If you’re unfamiliar with it, let’s just say it’s raw. On the other hand, college students aren’t children, so are you going to censor what they hear or not? If this guy was a free-market capitalist or a libertarian, he’d let the market decide, i.e. if the customers don’t like it, they can walk out and take their business elsewhere. But who the hell listens to the lyrics of coffee shop muzak anyway? Much abrew about nothing, if you ask me. A tempest in a teapot blown up into a national controversy by an overzealous campus poobah and a kneejerking employer. I’m glad I don’t attend that school or work in that coffee shop.
The quality of GOP candidates, never high to begin with, is going downhill fast:
“A GOP candidate running for South Dakota’s lone seat in Congress said last year that a terrorist attack would help him win a contested primary, and also suggested members of the U.S. military are ‘mercenaries for Saudi Arabia.'”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/south-dakota-congressional-candidate-terrorist-attack-win-primary_us_5af4acf8e4b00d7e4c18c57d
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Just yesterday, Doctor Dumbfuck was drooling over polls that purportedly show the “blue wave” dissipating. Against candidates like this? Really? Oh, I suppose it’s possible the GOP could still win elections if you assume the quality of Republican voters is deteriorating as badly as their candidates are. He can always argue the entire GOP is now one gigantic rotten apple.
“If North Korea takes bold action to quickly denuclearize, the United States is prepared to work with North Korea to achieve prosperity on the par with our South Korean friends” SS Pompeo
That’s sitting well with our long standing ally North Korea.
@11 Next week he’ll give China permission to keep stealing our intellectual property.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/14/marco-rubio-slams-trump-reversal-on-chinese-company-zte.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Trump’s “art of the deal” follows the Neville Chamberlain model.
IAEA/Reuters -Intellegence suggests North Korea’s nuclear testing facility has suffered a catasrophic cave in.
Kim Jong Un – We will voluntarily dismantle our testing facility.
45 – See, I did that. They are dismantling the testing facility
Kim Jong Un – I will go to Singapore and offer you three quarters for your worthless paper dollar. Three is better than one
“Stock market up yet again”
The rich are far more likely to own stocks than middle or working-class families. Eighty-nine percent of families with incomes over $100,000 have at least some money in the stock market, compared with just 21 percent of households earning $30,000 or less, a recent Gallup survey found.
All levels, right? Yawn…
@14 I read in the Seattle Times this weekend that Seattle-Tacoma’s per capita income is about $64,000, which I surmise means that a couple without children need $128,000 to be average. You can’t “live rich” on that income around here. But I suppose a retiree living on his options trades can always buy a few acres of wasteland in central Oregon, throw up a horse shed with salvaged lumber, and make a trip to town to visit the food bank once a week if he has to.
Latest casualty figures from Gaza: At least 90 dead, about 2,000 injured. Looks like Trump started a war.
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It’s a door that swings both ways. The very same exceptions to 1st amendment protections that permit university admin to exclude Nazi organizers and Klan recruiters from holding public events on campus also empower uni admins to fire somebody for “offensive” music.
Keep in mind that these exceptions were fully developed during the Nixon admin in order to crack down on anti-war demonstrations. Although they were really first instituted legally during periods of patriotic fervor when JWs refused to recite the pledge of allegiance on demand and got kicked out of public schools for the sake of “maintaining the educational environment”.
When you get your “information” from the “sources” that Doctor Dumbfuck uses, you end up looking like a fool or worse.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/2018-midterms-house-races/index.html
The White House, of course, blames the Palestinians for not peacefully submitting to being a conquered people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-backs-kushner-blames-hamas-palestinian-deaths-n874036
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The Palestinians haven’t done themselves any favors by engaging in terrorism, kidnapping, murder, etc. But you can’t expect them to live in eternal submission, either. Jews need a homeland; the Holocaust made that clear, and the U.S. should support an Israel committed to a just peace. But Palestinians need a homeland, too, and there will never be peace as long as Israel is taking their land and subjugating them. I’ll bet nearly every American would fight if s/he was forced to live like the Palestinians. So why is it so hard for some Americans to grasp what is required to bring about peace in the Middle East, and that Trump’s provocative policies are taking us in the wrong direction? And does anyone besides the GOP boneheads in the White House and Congress fail to see that the entire Muslim world will interpret his actions in our name as anti-Muslim bigotry?
EPA boss Scott Pruitt, who’s been living it up at taxpayer expense, claims he needs extra security because he’s received threats. But ABC News says he requested this security within minutes after being confirmed, before he’d been on the job for even one day.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pruitt-requested-247-security-day-epa-internal-watchdog/story?id=55159257
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When your day is done, and you want to ride on…
@16 “Looks like Trump started a war.”
No, Trump didn’t start the war, those folks have been at each others’ throats for a very long time. What Trump did was pour gas on it and lob some white phosphorus bombs on it. Mission accomplished!
@1 he’s only a religious bigot because he spoke out against Mormons.
If Romney had any balls or decency he would have called out the guy for what he is by just labeling him a bigot and Fuckwad.
““Liberals must arm.” A fucking asshole has written that, repeatedly, on this site.”
Dude you are the fuck that said gay people should arm.
“Hate and intolerance are no more acceptable when spoken by people you favor…..”
Please Bob, your preaching is so pathetic coming from you and the intolerant Republicans.
You Bob, are lower than Trump. You are a sicko.
“Sorry, but I’m not willing to be frog-marched to a shooting pit by your friends; think of me as more like a Warsaw Jew, and go fuck yourself.”
Right on brother – even if I have to use my two hands and choke them to death!
@25 Of course, he’s quoting me out of context, which is a standard technique of liars, but most of my HA brethren are onto that one. For example, I posted on 11/3/10 @3:
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
“LIBERALS MUST ARM!!!
“The goatfuckers have told us they intend to kill us, and we should take their word for it.”
and Boob himself made my point by spewing on On 12/29/17 @52:
“Google ‘roger rabbit liberals must arm horsesass.org’ and you’ll see hits going back more than a decade. An example:
“Better education through genetics? | HorsesAss.Org
horsesass.org/better-education-through-genetics/
10. Roger Rabbit spews: Tuesday, 6/6/06 at 12:03 pm. Even in our own supposedly ‘civilized’ country, we have right-wing motherfuckers wildly applauding agitators like Ann Coulter when she says liberals should be ‘executed.’ Liberals must arm! These motherfuckers aren’t joking when they say they want to kill us. And the …
“There, Don Joe, now you can blame Ann Coulter for Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit being an asshole.”
There, now, you have the context for “Liberals must arm.” Boob aka Doctor Dumbfuck is calling me an “asshole” for suggesting that we should defend ourselves against his ilk instead of passively allowing ourselves to be murdered by them.
Btw, it isn’t just me who thinks the right has become homicidally threatening. For example, about a year ago, someone posted on Reddit:
“Anyone feel the right is getting increasingly dangerous these days? People need to find means to defend themselves, especially members of groups that might be targets of victimization. We need to tell people to arm themselves, and tell people they know to arm themselves, and so on.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/5g8mt1/we_should_start_a_campaign_to_get_liberals_to_arm/
I guess Doctor Dumbfuck is upset because if he comes for me, instead of letting him shoot me like a “good” little rabbit, I’ll kick his shins, bite his ankles, and rip his toenails off. Rightwing stalkers, like other hunters, have been spoiled and aren’t used to the prey fighting back.
I’m kinda surprised the Jews didn’t riot today, too. I hope this at least opens their eyes to what Trump really thinks of them.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/evangelica-pastor-jews-embassy-jerusalem_us_5af944fde4b0e57cd9faf4ff
Why would Jews riot senile idiot wabbit? America actually did something it promised for decades under Trump!
Till Next Time!
How would you feel if a foreigner came to your country and preached that kind of hate and intolerance?
Did Jeffress say those things in Israel senile idiot wabbit? Did Jeffress mention those things in an Arab country?
Or, as Puddy suggests, this is another of your liquid BULLSHITTIUM farts that stain your Depends? Only your stooooooooooooopid libtard friends continue eat the shit you pixelate. Real Americans see through that fart fog you leave in each thread!
Till Next Time!
Of course, he’s quoting me out of context
Awwww poor senile idiot wabbit. You quote Real Americans out of context or misconstrue their perfect prose in every thread!
Till Next Time!
@28 “Did Jeffress say those things in Israel senile idiot wabbit? ”
Does it matter whether he did? It’s what he believes, and he’s who Trump chose to speak on his behalf. See #27 for further clarity.
@30 Why don’t you give us an example to prove your point, if you have one. I provide examples all the time. Most of what we get from you is incomprehensible gibberish.
““Liberals must arm.” A fucking asshole has written that, repeatedly, on this site.”
Wow now that’s three things the hanging human tea bag licker has written something Puddy agrees with!
Till Next Time!
roger senile idiot wabbit proves the old adage
You’re never too old to learn or say something stupid.
Till Next Time!
How would you feel if a foreigner came to your country and preached that kind of hate and intolerance?
roger senile idiot wabbit farts “I provide examples all the time.”
Where’s the proof senile idiot wabbit? This has to be one of your easiest deliverances then!
Still waiting for the senile idiot wabbit to demonstrate where Jeffress said this outside of America! All we see about is a whole bunch of blather!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Till Next Time!
This chick must have gotten on teevee with her looks, because she sure doesn’t have any brains.
“These people need to understand that it’s a privilege to be an American and it’s a privilege that you work toward. It’s not a right. You don’t just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice,” she said.
“That’s not what this country is based on. We are based on the rule of law, and we believe in bringing the best people into this country to make it even better. We don’t believe in importing poverty. Trust me, I live in California. We have enough poverty. We have enough issues. We don’t need any more.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tomi-lahren-immigrants_us_5af9b26ae4b09a94524ac468
Unless, of course, you’re born here like she was, in which case you get to be here without any skills, education, or knowing anything, just like she is because she was born here.
She blathers about “rule of law.” Well, crime statistics show our native-borns commit crimes at twice the rate of undocumented immigrants, so if you want to reduce crime, keep the illegals and deport citizens.
They’re also less likely to be unemployed, and they’re not as lazy, as the white males who populate the GOP’s rank and file. Another reason to keep them and kick out our citizens, if you want a better and more productive society.
http://time.com/money/4268940/.....ants-work/
They also pay taxes,
https://itep.org/immigration/
and serve in our military (something many Republican politicians including Trump were unwilling to do); sometimes heroically, as “one in five Medal of Honor recipients is an immigrant.”
https://immigrationforum.org/blog/new-americans-in-the-u-s-armed-forces-fact-sheet/
@34 When you learn, you aren’t stupid anymore, which you haven’t learned yet.
@35 “outside of America”
Wherein a colossal dumbfuck assures us that Hitler issuing an order from his office in Berlin to kill all the Jews didn’t matter in Poland, Ukraine, or Lithuania.
Or, as another example, sending Heydrich to Czechoslovkia is all you need to have good relations with Czechs.
Yeah, it’s not surprising the hate-spewing loon thinks sending a preacher who preaches that Jews will go to Hell for being Jews to Jerusalem is a reeaaal good idea, one he endorses wholeheartedly.
So much unintelligible loon hate. And nobody here has a loon decoder ring that works. SAD!
It hit 85 in Seattle yesterday and today. The weekend forecast for Phoenix is 105. Globull warming? What global warming? I don’t see no globull warming!!
@39 Even if you did, it would still come out as unintelligent gibberish. You can’t get E=mc2 from a lizard’s brain. GIGO.
@41
What? GIGO? Piddles has an Ivy League education (or so he claims).
The only reason they let people like Piddles and GWB into Ivy League schools is they know somebody needs to define the lower half of the curve, why not bring a “legacy” in and help out the really smart folks that the Ivy League schools admit by being curve fodder.
Maybe what Piddles meant to say was his Ivy League education was really from Luther Burbank.
“Of course, he’s quoting me out of context”
And, of course, we’ve all understood the “liberals must arm” thing from the get go. This is just one way Doctor Dumbfuck is a dumbfuck. For this kind of thing to be effective, there’s got to be some truth to it. When comments elicit an eye roll instead of an ouch, somebody’s some got work to do. But dumbfucks gotta dumbfuck, so what can you do?
@43 Let ’em roll. How would we amuse ourselves around here without the Two Stooges Comedy Hour, starring Dumbfuck and Piddles?
@ 12 RR:
More like the Vidkun Quisling model.
When the millions of tons of crops left to rot in our farmer’s fields for lack of labor results in 1000% food inflation and riots in the streets, you can damn well bet that Fat Donny will welcome Russian “peacekeepers” to “assist” the local Police in “suppressing the insurrectionists”.
They’ll have plenty of domestic supporters of course, and a ready source in the EvilAngelical churches for local recruits eager for permission to round up and exterminate the non-europeans that make up a large portion of the population. The christian reconstructionists are already becoming more openly vocal about demanding increases in military assistance to local “law” enforcement efforts in the crackdown on non-white demographics.
ALL non-white demographics.
So, SpittlePuddles might have to take note of that.
And Puddles? You still ain’t White, dumbass. No matter how hard you try to act like you are. If you don’t end up in a shooting pit or a gas chamber, or deported to Liberia or whatever, you just might end up with a steel collar welded around your neck and harvesting vegetables or butchering cattle for the billionaires to eat, with a large, extremely unintelligent sadist watching you work, and making sure you keep the pace going.
On another note, If they have nothing to hide, why are they hiding it?