I have an acquaintance, well sort of family member, he's married to a cousin of mine.

[The Polack MSgt]

But even in coal country that isn't really family.

Any way he was a decent guy when we met. He was an electrician working for a county in northwest Georgia.

I saw him go from being a Paul Harvey conservative to Rush Limbough ditto head and Fox News fan, all the way down the rabbit hole to fucking MAGA status.

We rarely speak, but when we do, he'll often repeat an old Paul Harvey saw. You've probably heard it - The stupid shit about "The best trick Satan ever played was convincing liberals he doesn't exist."

Well, it's cookout day tomorrow, and I am ready with a reply. One that you're all free to use tomorrow, or any day you'd like.

"The greatest trick Satan ever played was to convince Republicans that Jesus hates the same people they do."

[Walleye]

1. Perfect!

[Chi67]

2. Good one!

I'll use it the next time I have the need!

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Perfect!

My former boss used to put Paul Harvey on his radio at lunch time and play it really loud. I guess he thought we all wanted to hear it. (We worked in cubicles with one open side to a common area). Uugghh

[magicarpet]

4. Well,... your name will be scratched from that Christmas card list.

Smirk/Giggle

[The Polack MSgt]

6. Fingers are crossed!

[Laffy Kat]

5. Excellent! Let us know how it goes.

Enjoy the cookout, too!

[The Polack MSgt]

8. Just took the beans out of the oven and transferred 'em to a crock pot

Chicken is in brine. and I have good solid apple and pecan wood to cook on.

It'll be fine

[Laffy Kat]

9. Whatever you're cooking sounds yummy! nt

[BOSSHOG]

7. Smack him down MSGT

Potential reply from a magat, Who’s Jesus? Their lord and savior is the pure as the driven snow trump.

But you are right. They just know that they hate only those who deserve to be hated.

My wife and I take a $100.00 worth of groceries to the local food pantry every month. A fellow citizen said in so many words let ‘em buy their own groceries. I said if they could there would be no need for a food pantry and there are children involved. I wasted my time. When billionaires are buying Supreme Court justices we can buy store brand peanut butter for kids who don’t get much else. We see them at least once a month.

[UpInArms]

10. Or ... the best trick Satan ever played was to convince

all the Xian’s tfg was a man of gawd

[UTUSN]

15. Also, that tfg loves them while he absolutely *despises* them.

[flying_wahini]

11. I would remind him that the devil isn't trying to convince the libs, he's here for the

Evangelical faction, and they bought Trumps shit hook,line and sinker.

They will follow him all the way to hell.

[AKwannabe]

33. ☝️

[Talitha]

12. That's an epic comeback!

I'd pay to see the look on his face.

[The Polack MSgt]

13. I't'll be the same expression that serves as his usual everyday face

Vaguely uncertain but arrogantly confident that belittling you is the same as winning.

[brer cat]

14. That's a great reply!

btw In case you don't know, northwest Georgia is MTG's home base. It's no wonder he is cracked.

[Warpy]

16. Sometimes the best comebacks have to percolate through

then mellow and then ferment a little.

That's a good one.

[dchill]

17. That's better than anything I might have said!

[irisblue]

18. Master Sargent, you got a roll of tums for tomorrow

[electric_blue68]

19. Very good! Sorry about your friend, though.

[KJohnson]

20. I also like . . .

"The greatest trick Satan ever played was to convince Fundamentalists Christians that they are followers of Jesus."

[Demobrat]

21. Wow. That's great.

Put me on the list of people who wish they could be there.

[SouthernDem4ever]

22. "And now you know the rest of the story"

[AKwannabe]

34. This too

Made me laugh

[ret5hd]

23. Putting that in my clap-back bank.

[summer_in_TX]

24. Brilliant!

And there’s truth there too. Evil is a real thing and it masquerades as respectable quite often. Wears suits, hangs out in think tanks, the media and the halls of Congress. Those susceptible believe the legion of voices spouting the propaganda all dressed up as men and women who are to be respected.

Joseph Campbell said that myth is a form of truth, when the truth is too vast and mysterious to be adequately expressed in words.

[Pepsidog]

25. I like it but fear it maybe too much for their tiny brains to understand.

[calimary]

26. Excellent! Please let us know how it went!

[TeamProg]

27. Ooooo, I like it. nt

[AverageOldGuy]

28. Tell him . . .

Christians warned us for 2,000 years that the Anti-Christ would appear. In 2016, he appeared and the Christians elected him President.

[SunSeeker]

30. Ha!

That will trigger the MAGAt for sure!

[AKwannabe]

35. True

This. I believe. former guy IS antichrist

Yup MAGAs will soon find out

[Ziggysmom]

29. Damn, that's perfect! I gotta write that down. I keep a list of zingers and try to remember

them. Sometimes I let myself get upset and can't remember a stinging reply quickly. I'll practice this one. Thank you!

[SunSeeker]

31. Awesome!

[AKwannabe]

32. Satan also convinced

MAGAs that djt WAS/IS God.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

36. The guy who called a foreigner a dog to her face

Doesn't hate the same people that traitor thugs do?

The guy who called other Jews a pit of vipers?

The guy who was okay beating the crap out of people for doing something non-violent he didn't like?

The guy who thinks it's a splendid idea to torture people forever for disagreeing with him?

You might want to go back and read the book for once, to see what he was really like.

[The Polack MSgt]

50. Cousin, I am not a Christian and have never claimed to be one on this site.

Including now.

This is just a bit of verbal Judo - Tossing the weight of his remark back at him.

I've zero interest in arguing spiritual beliefs, and even less in denigrating them or attacking the people who hold those beliefs.

[Mike Niendorff]

37. ...

They've made a god in their own image.


MDN

[ScubaSteve]

38. I am Donald J Trump, millionare, I own a mansion and a yacht

"The greatest trick Satan ever played was to convince Republicans and Evangelicals that he is Donald Trump.

[The Polack MSgt]

48. "I may be a skwewy wabbit, but I ain't going to Alcatwaz"

One of the best Bugs cartoons ever.

This one is the all-time champ.

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[Farmer-Rick]

39. Off topic .....Paul Harvey, a flash from the past

My Dad use to listen to him and chuckle...Now, the rest of the story...Not sure if dad found his logic so silly or if he agreed with the man. My father pride himself on his logical thinking.

The radio station also had Pete Wambach. He was famous for how he said “It's a beautiful day in Pennsylvania!” To this day when it's beautiful outside, I catch myself saying that in his voice. I'm saying it today.

Now back to your efforts to keep us all sane.

[Grins]

55. Paul Harvey was an FBI snitch.

So was Reagan.
And John Wayne.

[thatcrowwoman]

40. ⚡️that one should leave a mark!⚡️⚡️

Then again, it may not even register in his MAGA-mind until too late for his “snappy” comeback.
🕊thatcrowwoman

[mgardener]

41. Sounds similar to an Anne Lamott quote.

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

[The Polack MSgt]

44. Thank you. I knew I was just moving the scrabble tiles around of an older quote.

But was not sure of the original wording or the source.

[Trueblue Texan]

42. "You an be certain you've created God in your own image...

...when it turns out he hates the same people you do." That's an approximate quote. I think I read that in Bird by Bird.

[bora13]

43. it's all a popularity thing in their minds

[Sky Jewels]

45. Sidenote, but I'm always entirely amazed that some "modern" people

still believe in magical beings like Satan and Jesus. It was understandable when these mythologies were created by relatively isolated and primitive societies and few realized that the Earth orbited the sun and there was very little understanding about our status as recently evolved primates on one little planet amongst mega trillions... but that's another issue...

[highplainsdem]

46. Great reply, Sarge! But I hope you won't need to use it today - that your RWNJ relative will

keep his mouth shut on the subject of politics.

My family includes both liberals and RWers including RWNJs, but most of us have learned to steer clear of the subject of politics when we get together.

The worst offender is someone who went from liberal to RWNJ, like your relative. From someone who mocked Rush Limbaugh - and was embarrassed that her current, third husband listened to him - to someone who watches and listens to only RW media, and owns and sometimes wears a MAGA hat.

Converts can be the most annoying proselytizers. They think that if they were converted, everyone holding their former beliefs can and should be.

She complained to me once that her Democratic sister-in-law minded being called a commie.

I laughed at her.

She's been so brainwashed by RW propaganda that she thinks she can enlighten everyone else about politics, and it infuriates her that she hasn't been able to convince me (a poli sci major with debate experience) of the alleged error of my ways.

I used to send her links to articles refuting what she said if she emailed me some inane RW argument, but she told me proudly that she never read them. So I stopped replying to her emails, and she stopped sending them. She'll still bring up politics occasionally if we're talking, but I just laugh, and if that makes her hang up or storm away, that's just fine.

[StarryNite]

47. I hope Sarge doesn't need to use it too.

But if he does I hope he tells us about how it went and the look on the jerk's face when he replied with that awesome comeback.

[highplainsdem]

52. I want to hear about the reaction, too.

[republianmushroom]

49. Like the posting

[DownriverDem]

51. So very true

trump's latest is that he plans to get Biden if he's elected in 2024. Why isn't he muzzled?

[Martin68]

53. I love your comeback. And the sequence you describe, from Paul Harvey to Limbaugh to Fox was

what exactly I saw happen to my parents.

[Grins]

54. Mine!

- The greatest trick the Reich-wing media ever pulled is pretending that Republican racism did not exist before Trump.

- The greatest trick the conservatives ever pulled is pretending that 'Trickle-down' economics works.

- The greatest hoax conservatives ever played on "the base," was to convince them the rich pay too much in taxes.

- The greatest hoax conservatives ever played on "the base," was to convince them God chose them to run for office.

- The greatest hoax conservatives ever played on "the base," was to convince them affordable health care was a threat to America!!!

- The greatest hoax conservatives ever played on Evangelicals was to convince them to support adulterers and rapists.

- Conservatives believe any election they don't win is illegitimate, because the other guys aren't supposed to win so any change to the rules is justified.

- Conservatives only watch Fox News because it’s reinforcing what they already believe.

- Conservatives believe you can "pray-away" fires and droughts.

- Liberals want to make a government that responds to the needs of people. Conservatives want to keep people on their knees and convince them they're walking upright.

- A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

- Conservatives say they love and respect the U.S. military while simultaneously believing their gun collection is preventing a tyrannical government military take-over.

- Conservatives are the same people who believe all of history began on a glide down an escalator....

- Conservative Republicans believe that Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor, but not that Roy Moore made sexual advances on young women and girls.

- Conservatives shit the bed whenever liberals point out their racism, and authoritarianism. And then one of their blind acolytes opens his pie-hole and shows them who they really are.

- The only good thing Donald Trump has done is to reveal how Evangelicals were fake 'Christians,' all along!

- Liberal Christians love Christ. Conservative "Christians" love the cross.

[TigressDem]

56. Nah, BEST trick Giving people a NEW GOD.

Thou Shalt Not Have Any God Before Me



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WHAT IS SCARY....


I didn't know there were at least TWO.
The second one built so people could touch it and get healed from COVID.
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His OWN line of Gold Coins
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BUT THESE STATUES ARE INTERESTING...

TRUMP'S FOLLIES enacted by "living statues"....




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[Girard442]

57. Actually, the best trick Satan ever played on humans was to convince them he DOES exist.

Why try to address your own failings and the failings of society at large when you can blame everything bad that happens on a horned, barbed-tailed supernatural being that smells of sulfur.

When Flip Wilson said, "The devil made me do it." at least he was being funny.

[StClone]

58. Harvey? Skeleton's closet

Here are some amazing facts about Paul Harvey. His WW2 military career lasted about 14 months. He was discharged from the Army Air Corps on Section 8 charges.

In 1951 at the height of the Red Scare Paul Harvey had been criticizing the Federal government's perceived poor security. Harvey was arrested for breaking into the Argonne National Laboratory. Oh well here is the rest of the story...

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