Look! Right Reverend Mariann Budde criticized him to his face [View all]

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U.S. President Donald Trump hit out Wednesday at a bishop who directly called on him to show mercy to immigrants and LGBTQ+ people.

During the inaugural prayer service Tuesday at the Washington National Cathedral attended by Trump, Vice President JD Vance and their families, the Right Rev Mariann Budde delivered a sermon in which she appealed to Trump to be merciful to minorities, “some who fear for their lives.”

“In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now,” Budde said, referring to “gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families.”

Most “immigrants are not criminals,” she added. “They pay taxes and are good neighbors."

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No death squads are coming, nobody snatched her up in the middle of the night, the Episcopal Church wasn't declared a terrorist organization.

These right-wing authoritarians want you to be scared, end of democracy, just submit, blah blah frickity blah. Let's all hide, run for Canada...

They'll say they have a mandate.
They'll say they are backed by God.
They'll say they are unstoppable due to plutocrats like Elon Musk (but they're not elitists by the way because... reasons)

The tragedy of Uvalde shown us something though... the moment that right-wing authoritarians and so-called tough guy conservatives actually encounter something that does not go their way, they will use kids and teachers as human shields. Of course, nobody is shooting anybody here, but I'm starting to think that we can go low, we can fight dirty, we can advocate for jury nullification for nonsense conservative laws, we can talk about what to do in The Way Forward, and we can use tough but non-violent tactics like those described in the works of Gene Sharp... and the only shooting they are going to do is a yellow stream in their pants.

If I'm wrong, they are free to track me down and do what they're gonna do. But I am not wrong, so they can throw a temper tantrum... but that is all it is going to be.