How will the religious voters cast their votes? It does seem the White evangelicals are tied to the hip with Trump. He has done a lot of what he promised them and could still achieve more if reelected. Whether these things benefit most Americans is for you to tell us.
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Trump is so full of kindness, love, and empathy, how could a decent, Christ-loving Christian not vote for him? He’s cured covid-19 in the US; put an end to racism here, and made the country open and loving toward all people regardless of religious belief or background. Trump is love incarnate. The Christ reborn in modern times. What a wonderful, wonderful man he is. ๐
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Trump is sent by the angels. God’s chosen one. He should be president for life and even in the future life
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The very fact that these “evangelicals” believe in some invisible airy-fairy being, who lives somewhere “up there” and who “talks” to them through the muscles of their heart and/or the neurons of their brain, totally demonstrates their intelligence level. Thus, their support of the orange-faced nincompoop is not at all surprising.
Besides, it’s more than clear they (and Gawd) have forgiven him for all his past indiscretions and believe he’s now a true Christian at heart. So goodness sakes! Certainly he’s the one to continue leading this country and bring us all to our knees in forgiveness.
Amen. Amen. And A-women.
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Nan, don’t you god chooses the sinners among us to shine a light on. Those Christians surely don’t give a damn about Trump’s transgressions. God will judge him
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“God will judge him” — true enough — at least according to believers. But that doesn’t stop them from condemning everyone else who commits sins of the flesh. speaks with forked tongue, and/or shows NO love to those less fortunate.
You know and I know … hypocrisy abounds.
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Hypocrisy…..they are blind to it
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According to Pew Research, white evangelicals now only account for 16% of the adult American population, while the number of “nones” has risen to 26%; so the real question is: how will the other 84% be voting?
https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace
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Good question. Only your countrymen and women can answer
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I think Mr. Trump will win a second term because:
– Joe Biden can’t remember what day it is or what city he’s in, and
– the progressive faction of the Democratic party has lost the plot.
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I think Trump will win because there is a majority of Americans who think he is good for the country
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Yep. No way Trump loses. I live in a country of raging fucking idiots. Half the people who can vote, don’t. And a majority of those who can look at Trump and say, “Yep! THAT’S my guy!!!” Fucking idiots. Also, Trump will do all within his power and the power of Barr’s Justice Dept to ensure votes are suppressed and delayed so his chances will be at around…oh…say…100%. However, mine is not the main opinion on this matter. Polls look awful for our Princess ‘n Chief. Doesn’t matter. Trump wins and America will finally be the broken 3rd world country I’m confident it can be. You go MAGA folks!!! Now, I’m off to run my campaign of gassing and cremating the poor, the disabled, illegal immigrants, Biden supporters, liberals in general, atheists, and all other stains on my great, Christian land. We can’t be free until ALL of these fucking parasites are “taken care of.” Permanently. GO TRUMP!!!
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Actually I forgot about voter suppression. There are many things working for Trump. Beating him might not be easy even with the bungling of covid response which we all know is a hoax
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Actually, it’s his bungling of covid that, IMO, makes him vulnerable and makes my certainty that he will win…well…less certain than it was in Feb. However, until he doesn’t win, I say he’s unbeatable. God-like. A dynamo of excellence so superb that he can clearly say things like “Man, Woman, Person, Camera, TV” and have 65 million idiots cheer it on as if it is not only brilliant but profound and meaningful. I live in a country filled with Christians…..OOPS….I meant idiots. (Sorry).
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One and the same.
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Hahaha.
He’s the epitome of excellence. He knows everything the experts know. We live in strange times, my friend
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The only cure for stupid is either epiphany or death. And they will all die morons. Any self proclaimed x-ian who would vote for the orange idiot has been sleeping through the sermons they attend.
Hypocrites love being hypocrites. Badge of fucking honor.
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Wish there was a “love” button for this comment!
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Well, I’m feeling the love. Does that count? ๐
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They don’t attend the sermons. There is covid,๐
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https://www.joemygod.com/2020/08/scamvangelical-to-hold-2500-person-in-person-event/
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Let’s just hope once they attend, they will stay there for 14 days.
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Awwwww. We need tiledb to come and concern troll us about how it is all about how the Eastern Northern Ohio Community College Social Justice Club was mean, mean I tell you, to some avowed Nazis last year (according to the endlessly circulated story on Sinclair Broadcasting and Breitbart). THAT is the reason for Trump.
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LOL!
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There was a very…challenging…blogger I sometimes followed whose main theme was much of the social justice stuff was “allowed” by the Powers That Be because it didn’t fundamentally threaten the Big Picture. The War State. Socialism of Risk and Privatization of Profits. Patriarchy (in reality). The Chair of the Feminism Studies Department of said “university” didn’t have that much power, so…. fulminate away, kiddos!
Interestingly enough, a pair of urban planning gurus who are largely on opposite sides of the debate (one is a Barry-ish fan of disperse suburbia, the other thinks it is a fiscal disaster) have published a book called https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Neo-Feudalism-Warning-Global-Middle/dp/1641770945
Anyway, the “clerisy”, the intellectual elite, has little real money or power except for social and intellectual justifications for the whole system. And the true elite DO, per tiledb, provide lip service to the ideals and justifications of the clerisy. And this means, again as tiledb would note, some people and classes are victimized in the name of the “religious” ideologies of the clerisy, But the money and real power still resides, 99%, in the corporations, the billionaires, the First Estate.
I need to read this book. ๐
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Please read the book and tell us what you think of it.
The powers that be allow people to vent so the state is not threatened
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I need to stop reading the Internets so much so I can actually read more books! ๐
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No no, I would miss you and that’s not interesting
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Does sound very good.
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Hahaha.
Brian, tildeb will not be happy with you
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And I am often one of his more sympathetic ears! i dislike the ineffective and endless parsing of group identity and victimization politics even as I understand where and why it arose. Yet he often goes completely off the rails and sounds like my Trumpalo Evangelical acquaintences!
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Hahaha. He would make for a good preacher man
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Despite the support from white evangelicals, Trump is still doing worse in polling right now against Biden. Things are a lot worse for the GOP this election overall right now. Here in Alabama, the GOP candidate for senate is leading the incumbent Democrat by about 10 points. He should be winning by about 30.
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Trump might survive the bad polls. The others maybe not
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I think he’ll win handily, but, I must say, my opinion is in the minority here, and Covid-19, something Trump was and is totally unprepared for, is kicking his ass. He’s losing points among the elderly, AND, he’s literally losing the elderly as they are dying from Covid, this is very bad for him. However, he will win and I’ll say that and be prepared for it until he doesn’t. When he does, all I can say is, “World, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet!”
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I know too many people who are doubling down. “Maybe the problem is not the politicians. Maybe the problem is the people” G. Carlin. RIP
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Carlin was right.
The problem is the people. They choose their representatives- their betters or should it be those most like them?
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Oh, for sure. If you can look at this bumbling, sissified, beta, orange-ass bitch and say, “Dats my guy!!! He’s an alpha,” you’re an idiot. Period.
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“…and anointed of Gawd”. Don’t forget that, Versus a calm, dignified church-goer like Obama who is somehow the Spawn of the Debbil.
Eventually, if they and their hero don’t completely destroy the United States, will their support for him be one of the nails in the coffin for American-style evangelical Protestantism? The numbers are not looking good, I read? But still, they have 400 years behind them, so I am sure they will survive. Dreaming of Gilead the whole time.
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He is doing god’s work. How can he not win?
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I concur
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If he does win, you are right, we haven’t seen nutting yet
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Right now, the data and analysis I’m seeing from FiveThirtyEight is pretty promising. They accurately predicted how Trump’s win would happen in 2016.
Trump’s only chance right now is to hope that he can blame Democrats for the suffering he’s caused. That’s not likely at all.
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Sadly, though, 10% means that another hard right religious nut and (closet) racist goes to Washington. And remember that the Democratic incumbent barely beat one of the creepiest men in recent Senate history, But you know all this.
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I understand the worry, but Trump being reelected might not guarantee a GOP majority in the Senate, and thereโs no indication the GOP will get its majority back in the House. Historically, if he gets reelected, itโs going to push Congress further to the left. And Congress can do things to limit the damage of a 2d Trump presidency.
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