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More sleaze in the Jerry Falwell Jr. scandal... (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2020 OP
This is certainly worth watching. TheCowsCameHome Aug 2020 #1
I like to watch. Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2020 #34
Lol! yardwork Aug 2020 #39
The Chauncey Brothers TheBlackAdder Aug 2020 #49
OK, Jerry, control yourself! RVN VET71 Aug 2020 #70
Here we go. MontanaMama Aug 2020 #2
Agreed, but when students get dragged into the mix, it's about to get very, very real. Wow. nt crickets Aug 2020 #5
Oh yeah...100% MontanaMama Aug 2020 #7
Same. The pool boy situation is just emblematic of their gargantuan hypocrisy. crickets Aug 2020 #11
Never underestimate the capacity for fundies to rationalize. Wednesdays Aug 2020 #36
No kidding. Just look at the MAGAts. calimary Aug 2020 #48
It all the Devil fault Kaiserguy Aug 2020 #64
Hypocrisy is the obvious thing to call them out on, but also the least effective. soldierant Aug 2020 #45
Liberty U will have a terrible time Captain Zero Aug 2020 #55
Liberty Univ. challenging Hillsdale College... Grins Aug 2020 #69
They will fall from grace, but ten others will take each of their places. Blue_true Aug 2020 #13
Do whatever you like Ferryboat Aug 2020 #61
Kick dalton99a Aug 2020 #3
K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #4
... Nevilledog Aug 2020 #6
+1 n/t. rzemanfl Aug 2020 #8
Kind of makes you wonder what else goes on at that farm. TheBlackAdder Aug 2020 #47
... Celerity Aug 2020 #9
I noticed that the pictures taken on the infamous yatch showed several Blue_true Aug 2020 #10
They don't buy those yachts for Grouper fishing. Chainfire Aug 2020 #18
The Grouper part likely applies, except it doesn't refer to a fish. Blue_true Aug 2020 #20
Groper Fishing obamanut2012 Aug 2020 #59
They won't talk unless they get a mega book deal to tell all. They're "conservatives". BComplex Aug 2020 #60
You got that pitch perfect right. nt Blue_true Aug 2020 #68
Do Pool Boy & Rent Boy hang out? Same circles, Miami appalachiablue Aug 2020 #12
Hoo boy... Blue Owl Aug 2020 #14
Whoa! Demovictory9 Aug 2020 #15
Went to clutch my pearls, had none. I'll be laughing my ass off. Falwell deserves the humiliation tulipsandroses Aug 2020 #16
OH - I love those! Tammie Faye Bakker was epic! Totally Tunsie Aug 2020 #52
'Well that escalated quickly.'. Volaris Aug 2020 #17
The knob will be involved somehow, too. Wednesdays Aug 2020 #37
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!! calimary Aug 2020 #50
I wonder if some young women will be coming forward Ilsa Aug 2020 #19
Like the old saying goes, first one to confess get the best deal. Blue_true Aug 2020 #22
Ah, Jessica Hahn, where are you? RVN VET71 Aug 2020 #71
"PORN" again Christians W T F Aug 2020 #21
You will be surprised what happens in some churches. nt Blue_true Aug 2020 #24
Conservative Christians are the biggest consumers of porn. SunSeeker Aug 2020 #54
The entire gop image is just complete filth now. And yet, the evangelicals remain loyal lindysalsagal Aug 2020 #23
Birds of a feather Kaiserguy Aug 2020 #65
mic drop TeamPooka Aug 2020 #25
If all parties are consenting adults then Jerry's sex life should have been no one's business TlalocW Aug 2020 #26
Giancarlo SHOULD profit off the truth. Why not? The book might be a best seller! Illumination Aug 2020 #27
I'll wait for the movie ToxMarz Aug 2020 #29
Are you sure you want to go to the theatre?... Illumination Aug 2020 #31
I didn't know there were any of those XXX odeons any more Wednesdays Aug 2020 #41
Wonder if there's any drive-in theatres left? Only thing is, the windows would get all Illumination Aug 2020 #43
Ew. nt crickets Aug 2020 #38
Fifty Shades of Falwell n/t Yavin4 Aug 2020 #32
As expected, Liberty University students were targets of scumbag Falwell. sarcasmo Aug 2020 #28
I'm just sorry that Jerry Falwell Senior isn't still here Raine Aug 2020 #30
Exceptionally well said!! StevieM Aug 2020 #51
How anyone Windy City Charlie Aug 2020 #33
The plot thickens n/t hibbing Aug 2020 #35
Next thing you know.... kentuck Aug 2020 #40
Cohen coverup greblach Aug 2020 #42
curious - Failwells ever show up at Epstein's? sensing a full circle here someplace... bringthePaine Aug 2020 #44
Not to worry. He, realizing his sin, will ask Jesus for forgiveness. 3Hotdogs Aug 2020 #46
Sounds like Falwell Jr. was using his VA farm for sex trafficking of Liberty U coeds. SunSeeker Aug 2020 #53
More Proof colsohlibgal Aug 2020 #56
I hope the m$ is all over this. Cha Aug 2020 #57
Are all Evangelicals sexual predators. Sure seems that way. OregonBlue Aug 2020 #58
Has there been any indication of a connection between falwell and epstein? niyad Aug 2020 #62
This Reminds Me of the Time I was on a Beach on the Black Sea Coast of Romania panfluteman Aug 2020 #63
America is an advanced nation Kaiserguy Aug 2020 #66
I wonder how many times BGBD Aug 2020 #67
Porn to be wild? czarjak Aug 2020 #72

MontanaMama

(24,651 posts)
2. Here we go.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:14 PM
Aug 2020

This is going to be ugly for the Falwell’s and rightly so. Honestly I don’t give a crap what these two/three do in their private lives...who wants to do who and who likes to watch...as long as everyone consents and no one is exploited. It’s only when these folks take the moral high ground and point fingers at others or deem the lives of others immoral or work to take rights away from others that I have an issue with them. I hope the fall from grace for these hypocrites is epic.

MontanaMama

(24,651 posts)
7. Oh yeah...100%
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:17 PM
Aug 2020

I was only speaking about the Falwells and the pool boy. You just KNOW there are students involved with these creeps. Nine of that is okay. I hope they have supportive families and good lawyers.

crickets

(26,168 posts)
11. Same. The pool boy situation is just emblematic of their gargantuan hypocrisy.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:24 PM
Aug 2020

As for the students, if their parents have any sense, they'll be yanking their kids out of Liberty U right and left.

I hope they have supportive families and good lawyers.


Absolutely agree.

soldierant

(9,304 posts)
45. Hypocrisy is the obvious thing to call them out on, but also the least effective.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 10:25 PM
Aug 2020

They are ready for that one. that fall back (no pun intended) on the "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone verse. That, and public repentance, and in a few years they are back. Maybe not exactly where they were, but back to grifting and deceiving the most spiritually vulnerable among us.

Case in point Jim Bakker (and his silver solution and his apocalyptic food packages.)

But also Joel Psteen who has never really paid a price though he has been exposed as a fraud multiple times.

We are better off to leave the term hyposciry out and stick t provable criminal charges and service of time in prison.

Captain Zero

(8,814 posts)
55. Liberty U will have a terrible time
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 11:06 PM
Aug 2020

Disentangling university funds from Falwell. And next up students telling tales out of school.

Grins

(9,343 posts)
69. Liberty Univ. challenging Hillsdale College...
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 04:51 PM
Aug 2020

...as the most immoral, fake conservative college in the country. It’s going to be tough, but I think Liberty can do it!!

(If you do not know: In 1999 Hillsdale’s religious conservative president resigned after a suicide on campus.
Of the wife of his SON.
Who said Hillsdale president had been fucking for YEARS.
Read that again.
The guilt got to HER and she shot herself.
The wonderful conservatives on the board -
defamed the suicide victim as a “pathological liar"
As if that mattered.

Wait! What? There’s more???

Like Newt Gingrich, the now-fired Hillsdale President later divorced his wife when she was diagnosed with cancer.)

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
13. They will fall from grace, but ten others will take each of their places.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:29 PM
Aug 2020

I honestly gave up on organized religion as a young teen, I saw too much wrong stuff happen in church. Organized religion has largely become an exercise of exercising power over someone else. There are still some churches and sects that practiced charity and uplifting their fellow human beings in meaningful ways, but they are few.

Ferryboat

(1,249 posts)
61. Do whatever you like
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 02:38 PM
Aug 2020

Just leave kids out of it.

Of course those who hold themselves up as a paragon of virtue deserve what they reap.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. I noticed that the pictures taken on the infamous yatch showed several
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:22 PM
Aug 2020

pretty young women who didn’t appear to be there with a companion. It would be informative to know what was happening on that boat, but it is doubtful that anyone will talk.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
20. The Grouper part likely applies, except it doesn't refer to a fish.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:11 PM
Aug 2020

A party boat typically is just that, only if it’s walls could talk.

BComplex

(9,813 posts)
60. They won't talk unless they get a mega book deal to tell all. They're "conservatives".
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 10:13 AM
Aug 2020

They only do stuff for money or power.

tulipsandroses

(8,192 posts)
16. Went to clutch my pearls, had none. I'll be laughing my ass off. Falwell deserves the humiliation
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:42 PM
Aug 2020

I suppose he'll be doing a Jimmy Swaggart I have sinned crying session in the future?

Volaris

(11,524 posts)
17. 'Well that escalated quickly.'.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:04 PM
Aug 2020

This was a 5, (maybe a 6 if you include the inherent comedy value).
Now it's at a 10. Who wants odds on if the knob goes all the way to 11?

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
22. Like the old saying goes, first one to confess get the best deal.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:15 PM
Aug 2020

Confess, say the pool boy is telling the truth and sell the rest of her recollections to a soft porn mag for a couple million, the mag gets boko sales and she gets the green. The ones that wait are going to lose out.

TlalocW

(15,674 posts)
26. If all parties are consenting adults then Jerry's sex life should have been no one's business
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:31 PM
Aug 2020

But he made it his business to get into other people's (LGBTQs) sex lives so I see this as justice.

TlalocW

Raine

(31,125 posts)
30. I'm just sorry that Jerry Falwell Senior isn't still here
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:42 PM
Aug 2020

to have to share the humiliation and hypocrisy of his POS depraved pervert son ... sigh.

StevieM

(10,578 posts)
51. Exceptionally well said!!
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 10:42 PM
Aug 2020

If I recall correctly, Jerry Falwell Sr. was the great rival of Jim Bakker, and was relentlessly critical of him at the time.

I wonder if this is the type of behavior that Falwell would have said caused the 9/11 attacks, or if he would have limited his attacks to abortionists, feminists and gays, like he said at the time.

Windy City Charlie

(1,178 posts)
33. How anyone
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:47 PM
Aug 2020

How anyone can sit there and fall for the phony evangelist act is beyond me. The way they act self-righteous and can arrogantly judge find fault in others and how they should live their lives. Anytime I've seen any of them, that the reason they put on the phony act is because they're trying to disguise that they're no different than the ones they're preaching to, if not worse.

kentuck

(115,286 posts)
40. Next thing you know....
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:57 PM
Aug 2020

...he'll be on video, picking up a cheap prostitute on Bourbon Street.

For all have sinned and come short.....

And begging forgiveness on live TV.

3Hotdogs

(15,162 posts)
46. Not to worry. He, realizing his sin, will ask Jesus for forgiveness.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 10:25 PM
Aug 2020

Jesus will forgive him so he can go back to Liberty U.

SunSeeker

(57,918 posts)
53. Sounds like Falwell Jr. was using his VA farm for sex trafficking of Liberty U coeds.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 10:57 PM
Aug 2020

I wonder if that young woman knew Falwell used her naked pic to arouse his pool boy. Well, she knows now.

colsohlibgal

(5,276 posts)
56. More Proof
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 11:27 PM
Aug 2020

Proof that the Republicans are top notch Hypocrites.

And just as always they will haul in votes from the ignorant.

panfluteman

(2,191 posts)
63. This Reminds Me of the Time I was on a Beach on the Black Sea Coast of Romania
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 03:07 PM
Aug 2020

I told a young Romanian guy the story of Jimmy Swaggart and his tear laden confession on national TV. This was right after the fall of communism in Romania, when Romania was trying to catch up with the West. After he heard the story, his jaw dropped wide open, and then he stared at me in utter disbelief. Finally, he said, in Romanian: "I thought that America was an advanced nation!"

Kaiserguy

(740 posts)
66. America is an advanced nation
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 04:06 PM
Aug 2020

It is in an advance state of decay and decadence Now more than ever thanks to Trump/Putin the GOP and the GOP base

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