Wait is this real or a meme
Yes.
Isn’t it normal etiquette to take off the hat in a church?
Bro they already took off their white hoods in the house of God. Give them a break.
99% of “normal etiquette” is just a bunch of outdated rules that make no sense. If even the “return to tradition” crowd is starting to feel comfortable wearing hats to church, it may be a sign that nature is healing.
not really
Traditionally, men should remove their hats during prayers or hymns, whereas women might choose to keep their decorative hats on. However, this practice can vary greatly depending on the denomination and local customs. Observing other attendees and being aware of the norms can help you navigate this aspect with grace. src
given this wasn’t even a service, but just using the space as a venue, i will say that the hats are the least disgusting thing happening in the image
Normal for them. His staff used to sit with their bare feet on the couches in the oval office.
I have no love for his staff, but why is sitting on a couch with your shoes off bad, especially in a high-stress environment?
Maybe because it makes your couch smell like feet? I honestly don’t understand etiquette either.
That would be a different couch from the ones I’ve ever owned.
Sitting sideways on a couch reading a book is quite comfortable and plenty of people (myself included) don’t wear shoes or socks at home, especially in the summer.
None of the people wearing a hat in that picture would be able to spell etiquette without a K. They love their Ks.
I like a good multilayered burn
Depends on what’s being burned, and in whose lawn…
Not if the hat wearer bears the mark of the devil on their forehead
Not if the hat wearer bears the mark of the devil on their forehead
We don’t need to see the MAGA mark on their forehead to know its there. The hat on top of it already says MAGA.
I’m doubt the church is real, because I got no reports of Trump instantly burning to ash the moment he set foot in it.
The church is definitely real. God on the other hand…
So you want god to do the work, that you’re supposed to do? Do we live in a democracy or a theocracy?
If the USA is a country that is a democracy, can be answered only by a tentative yes for now. There are too many things wrong with the voting system and disenfranchisement and systemic failures around court appointments for a definitive yes.
Apart from that, we live in a world where gods don’t exist, but not everyone agrees on that.
Did you reply to the wrong person? Your response to my comment implying that God doesn’t exist makes no sense.
It’s meant for both of these statements. Do we expect god to turn trump into ash or is it our job to build a good society?
“God helps those who help themselves”
“God works through us”
“God chooses imperfect vessels.”
Sorry officer it wasn’t me who threw gasoline on Trump and lit him on fire. God just works in mysterious ways, ya know?
"God gave me a high powered sniper crossbow for a reason, officer. I just made sure His Will was done by executing 5 obviously criminal SCOTUS “justices.”
The implication of GP is that it’s our job to turn Trump to ash (and I think that’s the intended interpretation).
Funny if you to believe any of these clowns have seriously been in a church before.
There’s no hate like Christian love.
Why?
Some of the worst people I’ve ever known were from when I had to go.
Trump people only “identify as religious” they aren’t the terrible people that traditional attend and hate. Lol I’m sure there is a slight overlap in the Venn Diagram.
I live in the Bible belt and can tell you: the evangelical megachurches are chock full of Christian nationalists.
Sure, there are factions in the GOP that don’t really care about religion , but the SCOTUS wouldn’t have overturned Roe if the hardcore religious zealots didn’t work for decades to get it done.
The protesters at abortion clinics were bussed there by the churches a lot of the time; they’re not outliers here. They are the engine that runs the party here in Texas.
That’s one wall I wish we could build just separate all those nutjobs
Fellow Bible belt dweller. Can confirm.
Slight overlap?
It’s probably practically a circle.
“In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.”
Problem is that if you even read the Gospel of Luke or even Matthew alone, it basically already contradicts a lot of Trumpian rhetoric
This has never stopped anyone, in the contrary, religion demands you to go against evidence and just believe. See https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John.20.29&version=NIV
Nice way to cherrypick the verse and remove context 🤦
It’s part of a wider account of Thomas literally seeing the risen Christ in front of him and still not believing. So Thomas insists that he touches His wounds. And this is simply Jesus’ response blessing him who believes what he saw with evidence, but also blessing those who haven’t witnessed the resurrection and risen Christ.
So He blessed two groups of believers: Those who critically investigate the resurrection narrative, and those who didn’t feel the need to.
I, personally, fit into the former category.
Nice way of accusing me of removing context while doing it yourself.
Assuming that what is written is true - and not just a folk tale like the Little Red Riding Hood, which is more probable - and that this specific God exists and became his own son and then died and got resurrected.
If we take into account the context that this text has been written several hundreds of years after it happened, anyone alive back then and also today can *only* be one of those who believe without seeing, because we can’t go back in time to experience it ourselves like Thomas or the other apostles did.
So, we can’t be the one “who believes what he saw with evidence”. And we can only be “those who haven’t witnessed the resurrection and risen Christ”. And this is one of the fundamentals of any religion, but especially Christianity where you have to believe in Christ otherwise you will go to hell.
There is also the subtle nuance that if there is evidence then you don’t need to believe, you just know.
With this context, at least I come to the conclusion that “religion demands you to go against evidence and just believe”, otherwise you will go to hell, which nobody wants.
He meant black as in its painted black not that it’s predominantly attended by black people.
Source on this?
Republicans are full of hate and lies.
the fact this isn’t front page photo in every newspaper in the country tells you precisely how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for democracy. the fact trump keeps saying there’s “88,000” missing illegal aliens during bidens admin so he can keep repeating the number 88 over and over and over again, and THAT is not front page news how the presumptive Republican nominee for President is coding neo nazi slogans into his speeches says everything about how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for the democracy,
there are some righteous journalists, there are some righteous media outlets, but they are too few and far between to drown out the incessant “both side” fucking nonsense which will see fascists come to power, and end their freedom of the press. the owners, and shareholders of these media outlets trade on the immediate eyeballs they can leverage into short advertising revenue
once the fascists take power and start curtailing these media companies rights to free press, they’ll sell out, or simply abandon them, to go hide behind their walled communities, safe from the ruin they will have facilitated in the ruination our best effort egalitarian secular democracy
and so it goes
Either it was all white people, or the white people and black people wouldn’t sit together. I don’t know which is worse.
The worse one is when black folx can’t even get into their own church because a flock of white fascists took it over.
Amen
If I recall from the articles about this event. The pastor, who is black, invited Trump. In a funny twist as well, the former mayor of Detroit (also black) was there to speak about how great Trump is. Which is fine, except that Trump pardoned him at the end of his presidency because the man was convicted and guilty of: Obstruction of justice (x2), assault of a police officer, racketeering, tax evasion, extortion, mail fraud.
However even at the event that Kilpatrick was attending with Trump, while singing his praises, didn’t endorse him.
Leave it to a religious leader and the Mayor of Ballmer to overlook the needs of their audience by pandering to fascists…
When has it been any different?
A lot of anti-abortion black people (single issue voters) and wealthy capitalist/Democrats are the party of Dr King voters support him. The venn diagram overlap would be money.
This is the best possible outcome we can hope for considering his last visit to a church… Which isn’t saying much. 100% less teargas this time!
I definitely would rather be trapped with a bear.
As a dude, I’m starting to understand the analogy…
I mean just because the church is black - it might have be a satanist church and that’s why they painted it black - doesn’t mean that the people inside have to be black.
I am wondering if the parish at this church is majority white normally anyway. I had a friend in high school whose family went to the evangelical church in town and they were white. He invited me one time, and I was surprised that there was only about 3 black people in attendance. I expected it to be mostly black people because that’s how this denomination has been presented and stereotyped in media.
If you look at the photos of the church at other times, you see a whopping TWO white people … total … and it appears they’re with their spouses and mixed race kiddos.
What media? There are non-denominational evangelical churches that are predominantly * one race, some are a fair mix.
Also, what is up with the red shirt guy?
What media?
Like… Anything? TV, movies, etc. And my dumbass was thinking baptist. IDK how I got those names mixed up 🤦♂️. The kind of church with a big-ass choir and does a lot of high energy singing.
I was also very confused reading your previous comment, because of all the different names for black churches, “evangelical” is not a word I’d pick to describe them.
Also, I think it’s important to clarify that the various black “baptist” denominations are very much not the same thing as “Southern Baptist”!
Maybe the word you were looking for was something like “gospel.”
Gospel! That’s the one. Holy shit my mind is mush today.
The kind of church with a big-ass choir and does a lot of high energy singing
Could be any, in a large enough area. AME Zionist, Baptist, Holiness, Methodist, noon-denom, pick one. I didn’t šay Catholic because I’ve never visited a mostly black Catholic Church, but I went to a Catholic Church with a black priest. But high energy singing, though.
It’s like where’s Waldo but I think I see three.
Source?
https://x.com/McNamaraWDET/status/1802092715825647735
Russ McNamara is the Detroit reporter mentioned.
Lol I love that the only black guy apparently in the audience was this guy
I can’t tell if that shirt is intended to be ironic or not.
I was originally thinking it was ripping on Trump, but if it’s ironic and it’s actually in support of Trump, then damn that’s some next level shit. This is why Poe’s Law is a thing.
See to me it seems clearly in support of Trump. At least that was my guess about the shirt creators intention. So it would be wearing it ironically if this guy was there to protest against Trump. But it’s hard to tell these days, like you say poe’s law and all.
the fact this isn’t front page photo in every newspaper in the country tells you precisely how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for democracy. the fact trump keeps saying there’s “88,000” missing illegal aliens during bidens admin so he can keep repeating the number 88 over and over and over again, and THAT is not front page news how the presumptive Republican nominee for President is coding neo nazi slogans into his speeches says everything about how much the media wants the horserace, and not the best outcome for the democracy,
there are some righteous journalists, there are some righteous media outlets, but they are too few and far between to drown out the incessant “both side” fucking nonsense which will see fascists come to power, and end their freedom of the press. the owners, and shareholders of these media outlets trade on the immediate eyeballs they can leverage into short advertising revenue
once the fascists take power and start curtailing these media companies rights to free press, they’ll sell out, or simply abandon them, to go hide behind their walled communities, safe from the ruin they will have facilitated in the ruination our best effort egalitarian secular democracy
and so it goes
Wait what’s up with the 88 thing
It’s a secret-ish Nazi/neonazi sign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. So 88 is a common dog wistle for neo-nazis and white supremacists to say “heil hitler”.
Being born in '88 must suck.
As someone who used his birthyear in his first reddit account i can confirm
TBH the less I hear about Trump aside from his prison sentence, the better. He’s not POTUS, there are real issues to talk about.
It’s pretty interesting how you somehow turned this into a both sides hyperbole.
So you go on this rant about how mainstream media has assisted the slide into fascism, how Democrats will be the savior or free speech and ethical journalism.
I seem to have missed what the DNC have done to fight back against this slide into fascism for the past 50 years. In fact they actively helped Trump get elected because he’d be easier to beat.
Can you explain what Democratic leaderships plan is to right the list and get this country functioning again?
And here you come, saying they are both bad and we shouldn’t concentrate on Trump and instead “what about the democrats!”
How do you mentally take rage about the current state of journalism actively ignoring and encouraging Republicans bad behavior to mean “both sides”?
What media companies are you talking about? You mention there are some righteous ones but they’re too few and far between. All of the other ones are owned by like 5 right wing billionaires. Those few and far between ones are all we have.
