Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Sunday Thoughts:

On Thursday morning, before President Mental Case launched into his cursing, scorched earth, rage-filled shitshow in the East Room of the White House, he attended the National Prayer Breakfast. (That's where the original version of the above picture was taken). Instead of a spiritual message of humility, he used the opportunity to whine and try out some of his newest unhinged material. The breakfast, which started back in 1953, is traditionally a bipartisan event, and event where attendees traditionally check their worst politics at the door and concentrate on their faith as it relates to their personal lives and its role in our society; at least that's what the event purports to be. Said Rev. Tom Lambrecht, general manager of the conservative United Methodist magazine Good News:

A bipartisan prayer breakfast is the last place one would expect to find attacks on political opponents.

This year, things started out relatively normally, although conservative keynote speaker Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and former president of The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, made a point of saying words that were clearly directed at Trump when he spoke of the need to follow the teachings of Jesus and love one's enemies since that is the only way to engage in a productive dialog for the greater good and establish reconciliation and hope. When the president followed Brooks, he definitely wasn't having any of that. He was set on being as vindictive, petty, irrational, and as true to self as possible as he pointedly attacked, among others, Mitt Romney and fellow attendee Nancy Pelosi.

I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say, "I pray for you" when they know that that's not so. So many people have been hurt, and we cant't let that go on. And I'll be discussing that a little bit later at the White House.

Unsurprisingly, the words of Arthur Brooks had clearly gone unheeded. Trump had begun his speech by saying that he didn't agree with Brooks although what Brooks was doing was quoting the lessons and advice attributed to Jesus Christ. In other words, Trump had no time for Jesus or anything that's at the root of Christianity for those who actually believe in the religion as it claims to be. No humility or Christian love was coming from the recently impeached Donald J. Trump. That idea is lost on a man who is incapable of love for another. The brand of Christianity that Trump likes is the hate-filled kind. His evangelical supporters who mix with Christians who at least make a show of adhering a little more closely to the tenants and Ideals of Christianity, will of course love him for that. They love him just the way he is. He is they and they are him.