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PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:15 PM Sep 2017

Damned if he did... Truth about Trump & the dark, evangelical hypocrisy thrust upon Pres. Obama

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Daily Kos

Around this time last year, President Obama visited flooded areas of Louisiana. At the time of his visit, 13 deaths had already occurred; 7 trillion gallons of rain had already dropped; 24 inches of rainfall had already been measured; $15 billion in damages had already been estimated. Evangelicals lambasted President Obama for not visiting sooner.

Yesterday, Trump visited a dry airport near the flooded areas of Texas. At the time of his visit, 16 deaths had already occurred; 11 trillion gallons of rain had already dropped; 49 inches of rainfall had already been measured; $50 billion in damages had already been estimated.

Trump didn’t hug a neck, kiss a cheek, wipe a tear. He didn’t encounter water falling from the sky or puddling upon the earth. He didn’t mention the loss of a police officer or the drowning of a family of six. And evangelicals offered no criticism of Trump.

Because they are hypocrites. Because they treated President Obama in the manner we would have expected racists to treat him.

Read more: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/31/1695100/--Damned-if-he-did-Proof-of-Trump-the-so-called-evangelical-racist-hypocrisy-against-Obama?detail=emaildkre



Daily Kos might not a totally 'pure' mainstream source, but I felt like you should all see this because it is so true. I loved Obama, though I disagreed with him on a couple of things. But he was my president, and I was proud of him, and proud to be an American during his time in office. This shows the ugliness of racism, and puts the shortcomings of the current orange occupant of the White House in stark contrast.

Obama was a class act. He had the respect of the world.

Trump is frittering away the greatness of this nation we love, and replacing it with small-minded hatred, racism and right wing nationalism.

Obama is a statesman.

Trump is a clown.
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Damned if he did... Truth about Trump & the dark, evangelical hypocrisy thrust upon Pres. Obama (Original Post) PatrickforO Sep 2017 OP
Well, Donald has (falsely) claimed to have seen the Houston devastation first hand. keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #1
He saw it on teevee, that's the same as reality to his demented brain. flibbitygiblets Sep 2017 #2
I've seen a little on tv. keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #15
Flyover? KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #16
not lbn, its analysis and opinion nt msongs Sep 2017 #3
Everything you said, Patrick, except for "frittering" I'd say... Hekate Sep 2017 #4
The most important thing to remember is that Evanglicalism has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with world wide wally Sep 2017 #5
Tax their sorry asses out of existence Glorfindel Sep 2017 #7
Thanks for speaking the truth. classof56 Sep 2017 #8
Bravo! luvtheGWN Sep 2017 #13
That is a good way of saying it Cosmocat Sep 2017 #12
Truer words have never been written TBA Sep 2017 #6
++++ Agree iluvtennis Sep 2017 #10
The Curse of Ham - very interesting! Glorfindel Sep 2017 #14
"Daily Kos might not a totally 'pure' mainstream source" - what's a pure source? mahannah Sep 2017 #9
I know people get cranky when this is pointed out, but the primary sin was not his skin Cosmocat Sep 2017 #11
With the fascist religious right taking over our government , speaking truth to power may put us geretogo Sep 2017 #17
That's 10 cubic miles of rain. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2017 #18
Locking - this is opinion, not news muriel_volestrangler Sep 2017 #19

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
1. Well, Donald has (falsely) claimed to have seen the Houston devastation first hand.
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:20 PM
Sep 2017

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
2. He saw it on teevee, that's the same as reality to his demented brain.
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:25 PM
Sep 2017

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
15. I've seen a little on tv.
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 04:42 PM
Sep 2017

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
16. Flyover?
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 04:51 PM
Sep 2017

Prolly did a flyover in AF-1 just like Shrub with Katrina. Impresses the golf club sector of his base.

msongs

(67,193 posts)
3. not lbn, its analysis and opinion nt
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:26 PM
Sep 2017

Hekate

(90,188 posts)
4. Everything you said, Patrick, except for "frittering" I'd say...
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:35 PM
Sep 2017

..."Throwing away hand over fist. Selling to the highest bidder. Trampling in the mud."

Like you, I loved having Barack Obama be my president. He did us proud. Increasingly, he seems better than we deserved.

world wide wally

(21,718 posts)
5. The most important thing to remember is that Evanglicalism has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:37 PM
Sep 2017

Religion, the church or God in all honesty.
They are NOTHING MORE THAN a tax exempt arm of the Republican party.
PERIOD

Don't ever give them credit for anything more.

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
7. Tax their sorry asses out of existence
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:51 PM
Sep 2017

Why should organizations that are nothing more than right-wing political entities be tax-exempt?

classof56

(5,376 posts)
8. Thanks for speaking the truth.
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:56 PM
Sep 2017

Took me a long time to come to this realization. I'm now done with these phony "god-fearing" miserable excuses for human beings. In fact, I'm now an avowed atheist. I hate what they've done to our country.

luvtheGWN

(1,336 posts)
13. Bravo!
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 04:13 PM
Sep 2017

And about the comparison of Dolt45 to Obama --- it only serves to polish Obama's already shining reputation.....

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
12. That is a good way of saying it
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 04:06 PM
Sep 2017

nm

TBA

(825 posts)
6. Truer words have never been written
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:44 PM
Sep 2017

Evangelicals by and large are racists... You know... The Curse of Ham (Google it if you dare).

iluvtennis

(19,756 posts)
10. ++++ Agree
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 04:00 PM
Sep 2017

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
14. The Curse of Ham - very interesting!
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 04:16 PM
Sep 2017

The descendants of Ham were cursed with blackness and servitude. The descendants of Ham include Jesus as a descendant of Solomon by Bathsheba, a Hittite descended from Canaan, Ham's fourth son. Nothing could be clearer in the Biblical texts, but point this out to your average evangelical and watch heads explode!

4. Four Sons of Ham
1. Mizraim (Egypt)
2. Cush (Sudan, Ethiopia)
3. Put (Lybia)
4. Canaan (Hivites, Jebusites, Arvadites, Girgashites, Amorites, Arkites, Sinites, Hittites,
Sidonians, Perizzites, Zemarites)

mahannah

(893 posts)
9. "Daily Kos might not a totally 'pure' mainstream source" - what's a pure source?
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 03:58 PM
Sep 2017

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
11. I know people get cranky when this is pointed out, but the primary sin was not his skin
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 04:06 PM
Sep 2017

it was the D on his voter ID card.

They did the same shit to Bill, they did the same shit to Hillary.

Seriously had Hillary been POTUS and did the same exact things at the same exact times as BHO, she would have gotten the same bullshit.

Hell, she isn't even POTUS and every response from these idiots regarding 45s never ending stream of fuck ups is, "leftist, Hillary, Hillary, Leftist, socialism ... "

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
17. With the fascist religious right taking over our government , speaking truth to power may put us
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 05:26 PM
Sep 2017

truth seekers in internment camps in a few years . Jerry Fallwell will be the guard at the front gate .

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
18. That's 10 cubic miles of rain. . . . . nt
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 05:40 PM
Sep 2017

muriel_volestrangler

(101,144 posts)
19. Locking - this is opinion, not news
Fri Sep 1, 2017, 06:02 PM
Sep 2017

Please repost in GD. Thanks.

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