Good morning from my Hunker-Bunker overlooking the Puget Sound from the hills of West Seattle. It is sweltering 30° F outside right now and I am a bit pissed off this morning, after finding out that Amazon has been double-charging my credit card for the past three week to the tune of $4166.24. The ONLY way I would have noticed it, was because I’ve been waiting on a refund from Amazon on this particular card for an item I returned two months ago. (They have still failed to refund the money, and it looks like I might have Aaron file a lawsuit against Amazon.
Seven days until oblivion.
I haven’t quite decided HOW I am going to end this site. Just that it will be ended with prejudice on February 1st.
Or thereabouts. I may not actually be available on February 1st because I may be in the hospital, ‘under the knife’. Apparently the doctor has decided that I possess something inside of me that I shouldn’t be allowed to keep.
I may decide to let it ride, since I am terminal anyways and I am not convinced of the ‘benefits’ of this particular surgery.
Day Two of The Adventures in Trumpism is over and I have to say my gut is sore from all the uncontrollable giggling and guffaws. I don’t thing you people have any idea what you’ve gotten yourselves into — but it might be entertaining to see the collective looks on your faces when it finally occurs to you.
Me? I’m long past the point of giving a flying fuck about any of it. I was long past that point sometime around 2022-ish, if not a bit earlier. I’ve been living on borrowed time for a while now, and thankfully, I will probably not be around to see the final curtain call on this country.
It seems to me that over the past forty years or so, we’ve jumped from one extreme to the other. We can’t seem to find that ‘happy medium’ in our politics that would make the most people happy. It also doesn’t help when most of the bullshit comes from people who came from somewhere else and have decided that things need to change HERE.
If we are going to deport people, let’s deport EVERYONE who wasn’t actually born here. Send them all back to whatever “shithole” country they crawled out of. Start with Elon Musk. Strip him of all the wealth he accumulated here and send his fat ass back to South Africa.
Yeah, that would also probably include me. I was born in Canada to American parents who happened to be visiting relatives in British Columbia when I unexpectedly popped out early one day in 1951. This little ‘accident’ has given me a ‘dual citizenship’ now allowing me to collect Social Security from both the US AND Canada.
FUN FACT: Cannookistan pays almost double in Social Security benefits of what I get here in the US.
Unless, of course, Canada becomes the “Fifty-First State” as Trumpkins has proposed. Ugh.
I am in a holding pattern at the moment with my new podcast studio. Yesterday, as I was putting the studio together, I ran out of room and will have to rethink the way I lay it out. Mainly, I need to mount my monitors on the wall instead of the desk. So now I am waiting on a couple of wall mounts.
My wife is in the process of trying to talk me into a fourth channel. I am already putting together the following three channels:
Music Reaction Channel
This will be a channel where I introduce different people to artists and/or music they’ve never heard of. For example, you may have noticed that I’ve posted a few videos of a young independent musician out of the UK, who went for over ten years suffering from the effects of Lyme Disease before doctors finally figured out (by accident) what was actually wrong with him.
Product Review Channel
I have signed up with the Amazon Associates program where they will send me products to ‘unbox’ and review in a podcast. I get to keep the product and get paid a flat rate depending on how many views I receive. Also, I get to keep all of the ad revenue. I have also signed up with Blackmagic Designs, WalMart, and Target.
Hotel Maintenance Channel
This one is kind of a freebee for me. Being the Director of Assets for a local hotel chain, I also oversee the maintenance and engineering for the chain. It was my idea to set up a program of ‘best practices’ for the entire company, and this private channel will be a repository of how-to videos on various pieces of equipment throughout all of our properties. For example, I have a how-to video on installing an Assa-Abloy RFID lockset in a hotel door.
I’ll take this raw video and add some more production value to it.
So the Wife-Unit wants me to do another ‘reaction’ channel, but this time for the news.
I dunno. It’s the one thing that I am really trying to get away from. I mean, I already ‘react’ to the news just by posting it here. Most of the time I am rendered speechless by the news, so a channel that shows my reaction to the news might look something like this:
I’m not going to rule it out, but I also wouldn’t count on it.
But hey, speaking of the News, let’s do some reactions here…
Pumped up Kicks
Teen fatally shoots a female student and himself at Antioch High School in Nashville, police say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria Wednesday left a female student dead and another student wounded, nearly two years after another deadly school shooting in the city that ignited an emotional debate about gun control in Tennessee.
The 17-year-old shooter, who was also a student at Antioch High School, later shot and killed himself with a handgun, Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference. Police identified him as Solomon Henderson.
Police Chief John Drake said the shooter “confronted” student Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, in the cafeteria and opened fire, killing her.
The wounded student was grazed by a bullet. He was treated and released from the hospital, Drake said. Another student was taken to a hospital for treatment of a facial injury that happened during a fall, Aaron said.
Metro Nashville Police, federal and state agencies are examining “very concerning online writings and social media posts connected to 17-year-old Solomon Henderson” as they work to establish a motive, police said in a statement Wednesday evening.
Investigators at this point have not established a connection between Henderson and the victims, and police said the gunfire may have been random, according to the statement.
Two school resource officers were in the building when the shooting happened around 11 a.m., Aaron said. They were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria and by the time they got down there the shooting was over and the gunman had killed himself, Aaron said.
The school has about 2,000 students and is in Antioch, a neighborhood about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of downtown Nashville.
MY TAKE:
I remember when Columbine happened. It was front page, wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling news coverage for three weeks. If I remember correctly, this was worldwide news because it was so unheard of.
Now with each subsequent school shooting, there has been less and less coverage. Now a school shooting barely gets any attention
Did you know there have been FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX SCHOOL SHOOTINGS since Columbine?
The religious right is so fucking concerned about zygotes and non-viable clumps of cells, but can hardly give a shit when an actual living child is killed by another actual living child.
Basically, once a child is out of the womb and breathing on their own, many of you couldn’t give less of a flying fuck if that child is tortured, sexually molested, trafficked or outright killed.
It sure seems like y’all’s priorities are way out of whack.
And about as Christian as the the tires on my car.
The US Constitution is just a bunch of words…
How Trump’s birthright citizenship order could affect children of legal visa-holders
Legal experts warn that those whose parents are on work and student visas won’t be exempt from the implications of the new order.
As immigrants across the U.S. contend with President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, legal experts are sounding the alarm on what it will mean for visa-holding families.
The order, issued Monday on Trump’s first day back in office, declares that not all children born in the U.S. are automatically granted U.S. citizenship. Specifically, for children whose parents are either undocumented or on temporary visas — for work, travel or school — citizenship will not be a given.
For some Asians, who dominate high-skill work visas like the H1B and student visas like the F1, this prospect could be life-altering, experts say. If one parent is not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident at the time of the child’s birth, the order says, their child will not be a citizen.
Experts say that this is in direct violation of the Constitution and that the Supreme Court may not uphold it, but many immigrants are already afraid. Bethany Li, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, says she sees Trump’s move as an attempt to exclude certain groups based on race.
“This order doesn’t just target undocumented people,” Li said. “It targets people that come in through student visas. It targets people who have tourist visas. That order, ultimately, is about who Trump considers American.”
Twenty-two states and several other entities have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration contesting the order, which experts say violates the 14th Amendment, which says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The Trump administration didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s order argues that the clause “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” disqualifies children of these groups.
Experts say that beyond being unconstitutional, the order has the potential to create some bureaucratic headaches, as certain countries don’t automatically give citizenship to those not born in the country — even for children born to parents who are citizens — meaning some kids might be temporarily stateless.
“There could be a whole generation of stateless children who are not citizens in the United States, but they’re not citizens elsewhere either,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus, one of the organizations that is suing the Trump administration over the order.
MY TAKE:
Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. – Emphasis mine
The Right Wing Supreme Court is always blathering on about “original text” and all that, right?
Well take a real close gander at that first sentence. I don’t think it could get any clearer than that.
UPPITY-DATE: A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour repeatedly interrupted a Justice Department lawyer to ask how he could consider the order constitutional. When the attorney, Brett Shumate, said he’d like a chance to explain it in a full briefing, Coughenour told him the hearing was his chance.
The temporary restraining order sought by Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington was the first to get a hearing before a judge and applies nationally.
The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and a number of immigrants rights groups across the country. The suits include personal testimonies from attorneys general who are U.S. citizens by birthright, and names pregnant women who are afraid their children won’t become U.S. citizens.
Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, grilled the DOJ attorneys, saying the order “boggles the mind.”
“This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour told Shumate. The judge said he’s been on the bench for more than four decades, and he couldn’t remember seeing another case where the action challenged so clearly violated the constitution.
MY UPPITY-DATED TAKE:
I know John Coughenour fairly well. He is a Reagan appointee, and has been on the bench for a LONG time. In that time, he has only been reversed once by the Appellate court, but even that was overturned by the Supreme Court in the long run.
It is a safe bet that he is more of an expert in Constitutional law than any of the fucknozzles currently stinking up the Big Bench.
“It boggles the mind”, and “blatantly unconstitutional were just a few of the words that Coughenour had to say today. There was even a “you cannot be serious…” uttered.
Look, agree or not, the wording of the 14th Amendment is VERY clear. A person with a third-grade reading and comprehension can easily understand that the law is clear: if you were born in the United States, you are a US citizen. Period, End. There is no wiggle room, no exceptions real or imagined. It’s as plain-texted as it can be. It was written exactly as intended, and there is ample caselaw going all the way back to 1898 with United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US 649 (1898).
I was on my way home in the car a little while ago, and I heard some GOP stumblebum talking about impeaching Coughour for his ruling.
Good luck with that.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Oh My!
What is DEI, and why is it dividing America?
Diversity, equity and inclusion programs have come under attack in American boardrooms, state legislatures and college campuses – and now broadly across the federal government.
President Donald Trump hours after swearing in this week began making good on promises to wage a war against such policies, inking an executive order banning efforts such as “environmental justice programs,” “equity initiatives” and DEI considerations in federal hiring.
The fledgling Republican White House also ordered employees of federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices to be put on paid administrative leave. And DEI is in the crosshairs of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, who last year called DEI “just another word for racism.”
The changes come as wealthy corporate leaders, including billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and conservative activist Robby Starbuck, have decried diversity programs on social media. In step, some US companies – including the nation’s largest employer, Walmart – have backpedaled on some DEI initiatives, including racial equity training programs for staff and evaluations designed to boost supplier diversity.
DEI has also been used to criticize and discredit high-ranking lawmakers and local officials. Most recently, in the wake of the deadly Los Angeles County wildfires, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley came under attack for her focus on DEI efforts in the department including recruiting a more diverse force.
“DEI means people die,” Musk said in an X post, resharing a local news story about Crowley being the department’s first female chief.
Scott Jennings, a CNN political commentator, also condemned Crowley.
“We have DEI, we have budget cuts and yet I’m wondering now, if your house was burning down, how much do you care what color the firefighters are?” Jennings said on CNN’s “News Night with Abby Phillips.”
Former Vice President Kamala Harris also became a target for conservatives.
MY TAKE:
This whole thing is another fake argument. It really bothers the Right because it doesn’t allow for them to hate other groups of people like they’d really want to.
Businesses voluntarily started leaning towards diversity in order to attract new customers/clients. They figured out a while ago that if they only marketed to white males 18-45, they’d be missing out on over fifty percent of the population. So they adapted to become more ‘inclusive’.
Does this mean that a DEI program can’t be taken too far?
No, of course not. Just like being anti-DEI can also be taken too far in the opposite direction.
Maybe one day society won’t need to be thinking about DEI or Affirmative Action or whatever, because we might someday be able get by without hating the differences in other people.
But I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Up in Flames
Firefighters battle to maintain the upper hand on a huge fire north of Los Angeles
CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 people being put under evacuation orders or warnings.
The Hughes Fire broke out late Wednesday morning and in less than a day had charred nearly 16 square miles (41 square kilometers) of trees and brush near Castaic Lake, a popular recreation area about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week.
Though the region was under a red flag warning for critical fire risk, winds were not as strong as they had been when the Palisades and Eaton fires broke out, allowing for firefighting aircraft to dump tens of thousands of gallons of fire retardant. The Palisades and Eaton fires have killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 14,000 structures since they broke out Jan. 7.
The California fires have caused at least $28 billion in insured damage and probably a little more in uninsured damage, calculated Karen Clark and Company, a disaster modeling firm known for accurate post-catastrophe damage assessments.
Meanwhile, California Republicans are pushing back against suggestions by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans that federal disaster aid for victims of wildfires should come with strings attached. Trump plans to visit the state to see the damage firsthand Friday, but it wasn’t clear whether he and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will meet during the visit.
MY TAKE:
Isn’t Trump supposed to be visiting getting in the way in Los Angeles today? If so, I’m expecting to hear his lecture on how California should be raking the forests and all that idiocy.
Personally, I’d hand Trump a Pulaski and put his ample ass to work so he can have a better understanding of how all of this actually works.
(Yes, dear readers, I’ve spent some time on forest fire lines when I was much younger, and I am more than certain that I have a MUCH better idea of how all of this works than most of you.)
Republicans, in their voluntary ignorance, do not believe that the climate has been changing for the worst, and because of that, really cannot equate the increasing storm patterns and the fact that there has been a DROUGHT going on throughout the Western states for about fifteen years now. California is now dry twelve months out of the year. Right here in Washington, we have forest fires in the middle of our rain forest now. Go figure.
Instead, it is much easier for them to blame Democrats for these fires than it is to accept the fact that we are, in fact dealing with climate change issues that you don’t believe exist.
Until you can finally wrap your tiny minds around those facts (or even facts in general…) then we are going to always have problems.
The failing of Cable News
CNN Cuts Jobs, Prepares New Streaming Rollout
Cuts affect roughly 200 employees, or about 6% of news network’s workforce
CNN is laying off roughly 200 employees, or about 6% of its workforce, as part of the cable network’s shift towards digital and CEO Mark Thompson’s push to launch a streaming service.
“The changes we’re announcing today are part of an ongoing response by this great news organization to profound and irreversible shifts in the way audiences in America and around the world consume news,” Thompson wrote in a memo to staff Thursday.
The business environment for cable television has been on a downward path for years, thanks to cord cutting and a growing distrust of legacy media. CNN averaged 578,000 prime-time viewers in the three months through December, down by nearly 75% from its peak in the fourth quarter of 2020.
CNN’s recovery hinges on digital expansion. In October, the network said it would ask users to pay a $3.99 monthly fee for unlimited access to CNN.com, putting in place a subscription paywall that would kick in after readers accessed a certain number of free articles.
CNN in turmoil as anti-Trump star Jim Acosta ‘threatens to quit’ over midnight slot move
CNN anchor Jim Acosta is reportedly considering quitting the broadcaster after being demoted from his prized 10 am show and threatened with banishment to the ‘Siberia’ of broadcasting.
On Thursday, rumors that Acosta has lost his morning show were confirmed by CNN boss Mark Thompson as 200 layoffs in the TV division were announced.
He’ll be replaced at that time by The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown.
The New York Times reported that Acosta is in talks with CNN bosses about another as yet unconfirmed role.
But claims the anti-Trump anchor is destined for a graveyard slot at midnight are said to have him pondering his future.
The LA Times reported that Acosta may now ‘exit the network, according to people familiar with his thinking.’
Meanwhile, Fox News reported that Acosta is ‘getting hosed’ inside CNN’s offices over his ‘shocking’ demotion.
An insider suggested that accepting a midnight-to-2 am slot is his ‘only path forward’ at the network.
Acosta’s 10 am ratings are good – but his notorious past clashes with Donald Trump are said to have made network bosses nervous as Trump begins his second term as president.
His verbal sparring matches with the administration and the president himself saw him lose his press pass at one point, before CNN successfully sued for breach of constitutional rights to get it back.
However, network chiefs are said to be keen to water down the theatrics and believe moving Acosta to, ‘the Siberia of television’, is the way to do it.
MY TAKE:
Okay, this is an easy one for me, and I am sure not quite the answer that you would expect or even think about…
Cable News is so yesterday. It’s about as relevant as AM radio. Or radio at all. Broadcast TV isn’t doing so hot these days either. There aren’t enough birdcages to line or fish to wrap for newspapers to remain viable. So yeah, they are all pretty much dying.
WHY?
Well, we have a couple of new generations who do not get their news and/or information from radio or TV. They are getting all of their news and information from social media and podcasts.
I literally have a fucking television studio in my Hunker-Bunker now! All I need to do is flip a switch and I can ‘broadcast’ news and information out to thirty different platforms all at once and gain a solid viewership. With eight billion souls in this world and 5.2 billion of those on Social Media, I am sure to have at least a shitload of people agree with me enough to follow me…
It might surprise some of you to learn that there are hundreds of thousands of social media accounts that have more followers than FOX News has viewers. This means that less and less people over time will be tuning into dinosaurs and fossils like CNN MSNBC and FOX.
But I am tickled pink over the idea that Accosta is upset that he’s being put out to broadcast “Siberia”. I’m sorry, but there isn’t anyone in cable news THAT fucking important. This is coming from someone who believes that Rachel Maddow is TOO smart for TV.
But I could never accuse Accosta of being anywhere near as intellectually smart as Maddow.
Disgruntled Editors at WAPO
The editorial was “unconscionable,” Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss writes
One of the Washington Post’s longest tenured editors denounced the paper in stark terms on Wednesday night, declaring that it has “utterly lost its soul” after publishing an op-ed drawing false equivalence between pardons issued by Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
“The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable,” David Maraniss, a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner who has been with the paper nearly 50 years, wrote on Bluesky. “The newspaper I’ve been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.”
The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I’ve been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
— David Maraniss (@davidmaraniss.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Maraniss didn’t link to the editorial in question, but he appears to be referring to one actually published late Tuesday by Jason Willick, titled “The Biden-Trump pardons show collapsing executive restraint.”
Among its arguments, the op-ed says “it’s debatable which president’s abuse of the pardon power on Monday… was more damaging,” and describes them as “tit-for-tat escalations.”
While it does refer to Trump’s mass-pardons for Jan.6 insurrectionists “indefensible,” it largely treats Biden’s preemptive pardons of people Trump has threatened to persecute with state power as, effectively, morally equivalent.
MY TAKE:
If I were ruling the world (and thankfully, I am not) I would outlaw unilateral pardons by the Executive. Since Trump’s first term of pardoning blatant criminal acts, the use of the executive pardon has become meaningless. It’s just become a way to reward loyalty, and nothing more.
I am pissed off that Joe Biden felt the need to pardon his family preemptively. I also think it may come to bite him in the ass later on.
Here’s the dealio about a pardon or clemency:
By accepting a pardon or clemency, a couple of things happen. The first thing that happens is that when you accept a pardon or clemency, you are admitting to the fact that you committed a criminal act as described in the charging papers and subsequent conviction. You are literally being PARDONED for your bad behavior.
If you haven’t been convicted of a crime — or in the case of Biden’s family members who haven’t even been arrested or charged with a crime — then by accepting that pardon, you are admitting to wrong doing for which you are being PARDONED for.
To put it a different way, a person cannot be pardoned if he or she hadn’t committed a crime. I’ll let that one sink in for a moment…
But it doesn’t end there. Oh no…
Let’s assume that the Biden family members each accept the pardon. (they haven’t yet, btw, they were just granted them. They still have to affirmatively accept them.)
Once they’ve accepted the pardon, they can be subpoenaed to testify under oath by any court or legislature in the country, and be required to testify. They cannot claim the Fifth Amendment, because they are protected by the pardon. They CAN be forced to testify against others involved in whatever scheme they’ve been pardoned from, and failure to do so truthfully can and will end up with criminal charges.
I fully expect the Trump Justice Department to still go after the Biden family with a lot of fishing expeditions. Each one of these “investigations” will wind up costing the family millions of bucks in legal fees — which would kind of be the point, wouldn’t it?
More Pyramid Schemes
Trump Inauguration Pastor Launches His Own Crypto Coin Hours After Ceremony: ‘Have You No Shame?’
Other X users called him a “grifter” and “fake Christian.”
Michigan Pastor Lorenzo Sewell gave a stirring benediction at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, but it was what he did afterward that has people talking.
Within hours of invoking Martin Luther King, Jr. during his prayer, the 43-year-old pastor turned to X to promote his newly launched cryptocurrency.
“The crypto community was kind enough to send me $Lorenzo, so I have permanently locked my tokens into a Liquidity Pool, so that I will never sell on the community but rather just earn fees as our token continues to flourish!” he captioned his X post. “Amazing day, all the Glory to God!”
In the accompanying video, Sewell asked his followers to do him “a favor and go and get that coin” to help him accomplish God’s vision on Earth.
“I want you to be able to see politics become manifest not just in a way where we’re praying over political gatherings but where we’re seeing us become the hands and the feet of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Would you help me? Would you help us in this endeavor?” he pleaded in the video.
The crypto community was kind enough to send me $Lorenzo, so I have permanently locked my tokens into a Liquidity Pool, so that I will never sell on the community but rather just earn fees as our token continues to flourish!
Amazing day, all the Glory to God!
CA:… pic.twitter.com/kAZFL3mMmb
— Pastor Zo (@pastorzosewell) January 20, 2025
MY TAKE:
In case you haven’t quite figured it out yet: Crypto currency is a modern-day Pyramid scheme. The people who start the currency are the ones who make the money and everyone else ends up holding the loss.
It’s just one more grift.
“Don’t you be talking that Christian shit in MY church, bitch!”
President Donald Trump was left in disbelief as he was forced to listen to a woke bishop deliver a stunningly negative sermon calling for him to show ‘mercy’ to illegal immigrants and transgender children.
On the first full day of Trump’s presidency Marianne Budde, the left-wing Episcopal Bishop of Washington, unleashed a wild lecture claiming trans kids were ‘fearing for their lives’ due to him being in the Oval Office.
Trump sat stony-faced in the front row, next to First Lady Melania Trump, as the prelate told him illegal immigrants were not criminals and he shouldn’t deport those with children.
Bishop Budde, 65, addressed Trump directly in a highly political speech from the pulpit during a traditional inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral.
She told Trump: ‘I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country that are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.’
The liberal clergywoman then asked Trump to have mercy on illegal immigrants.
She said: ‘The people who pick our crops, and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals, they might not be citizens or have the proper documentation.
‘The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.’
Trump maintained his calm and appeared to look on slightly wearily after a full day and night of Inauguration festivities.
But some other members of the congregation seemed uncomfortable as they listened to the bishop’s diatribe.
Trump is now demanding an apology from the Bishop for daring to be Christian in front of him
Oh Good. Let’s deport the bitch!
Prominent Republican demands Trump deport bishop who preached mercy
Georgia Congressman Mike Collins has called for the deportation of the bishop who urged Donald Trump to “have mercy” on the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants.
Trumpworld has erupted in the wake of Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s direct appeal to the president in the inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C on Tuesday, just two days into his second term.
Sharing a clip of the sermon on X, Collins called for Budde to be “added to the deportation list”, a day after Trump began signing a deluge of executive orders related to immigration.
“The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,” the GOP congressman wrote on Tuesday.
Budde was born in New Jersey in 1959 and is a U.S. citizen — therefore, she cannot be deported.
It is not clear how Collins plans for Budde to be deported, nor where she should be deported to. The Independent has contacted his press office for clarification.
Upon finishing her sermon, Trump said something to Vance which caused him to shake his head. Leaving the cathedral, reporters asked the president what he made of the service.
“Not too exciting, was it. I didn’t think it was a good service. No, they can do much better,” he was recorded saying.
Meanwhile, in a fiery rant on TruthSocial late on Tuesday, Trump wrote that Budde owes “the public” an apology.
MY TAKE:
How can you spot a fake Christian?
Look for the person who doesn’t understand basic Christian teachings and scripture.
Is there ANYTHING this ‘so-called Bishop’ said that Jesus Christ himself wouldn’t have said or has already said in scripture?
And what, exactly, was “nasty” about what she said?
Then there is the twat from Georgia who now wants to ‘deport’ this Bishop — for I’m guessing, being Christian”?
Hoo boy.
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