In the classic movie comedy “Kingpin”, Woody Harrelson is an amoral, washed-up bowling phenom pretending to be an Amish fellow named Brother Hezekiah. At a dinner with an Amish family, he attempts to demonstrate his religious bonafides by using the catch-all quote, “Well, you know what the Bible says about that. It’s against it.”
Yesterday President Trump, campaigning in Ohio, pulled out all of the stops yesterday, accusing Democratic candidate Joe Biden of every manner of sin.
“Take away your guns, take away your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything,” Mr. Trump stated from behind the presidential podium. “Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He’s against God. He’s against guns. He’s against energy.”
Holy crap, this Biden guy is the devil incarnate!
I don’t know much about Joe Biden except that he was a long-time Senator, served as Vice President to Barack Obama for eight years, and is well thought of in Washington D.C. by members of both parties.
In all the years in public, I don’t recall him advocating the scrapping of the Second Amendment or doing away with energy. Heck, we need energy…don’t we? If Joe Biden got rid of our energy, how would we heat our homes or drive our cars? Hmmmmm.
The stuff about religion, though, that is hard to swallow.
Joe Biden is a practicing Catholic, has been all of his life, and constantly credits his faith for helping him negotiate difficult times. He actually attends church, sings the hymns, reads the Bible, and listens to the sermons.
That he would be in favor of “no religion”, would want to “Hurt the Bible. Hurt God.” or be “against God” seems an ill-fitting description of Mr. Biden, of all people.
Brother Hezekiah (excuse me, Donald Trump) on the other hand uses religion as a salesman’s prop and has difficulty even holding a Bible, like it’s red hot.
He disregarded his wedding vows (three times!), violates several of the Ten Commandments every day, can’t recite a single verse from the Holy book, and recently used a D.C. church as a campaign backdrop where he awkwardly held a Bible for photos, after tear-gassed peaceful protesters were shoved out of his way by camouflaged Federal goons.
The word “hypocrite” comes to mind.
Speaking of that, Brother Hezekiah’s asshole buddy, the Reverend Jerry Falwell Jr. really stepped into it this week.
The pompous blowhard, who happens to be President Trump’s staunchest evangelical Christian supporter, was “outed” as a lecherous redneck when photos of him and a gal pal surfaced on social media. The Reverend was holding an alcoholic beverage, his stomach was exposed, and his zipper was down on his pants, exposing his undies. His right arm was draped over the shoulder of the young lady who was also scantily clad. It looked like they had been partying pretty hard.
Suffice it to say, the optics of the situation were not good, particularly for the pious man who manages the super religious Liberty University, which has propriety standards for its students that goody two shoes Pat Boone would be hard-pressed to satisfy.
Jerry Fallwell Jr., son of Jerry Fallwell Sr., he of “moral majority” fame, has evidently fallen far from the tree. He will now have more time to campaign for Brother Hezekiah because the Board of Directors of Liberty University decided that he should take an “indefinite leave” to ponder his behavior and seek advice from God.
Back in 2016, when candidate Donald Trump tripped over his own Johnson re: the “grab ’em by the pussy” video, it was Jerry Fallwell Jr., speaking for the evangelical Christian community, who said that, “We’re going to give Mr. Trump a mulligan on that.”
Now, it’s Mr. Fallwell that could use a mulligan…from God.
If Joe Biden was half the devil that President Trump makes him out to be, he would use this juicy stuff in his campaign ads.
But, no, all he did was publicly categorize Brother Hezekiah’s comments as “shameless”.
As they were.
UPDATE: This week Joe Biden picked California Senator Kamala Harris. a Black woman, to be his running mate in the 2020 election. Harris is also an ex-District Attorney and an ex-Attorney General of California. She has some credentials.
President Trump immediately labeled her “nasty”, which is the derogatory term he uses for any female that asserts herself in a man’s world. He was particularly incensed at her conduct in the 2018 Senate confirmation hearings for would-be Supreme Court Justice Brett Cavanaugh. Senator Harris asked Cavanaugh some tough questions about his past behavior which made him squirm.
It is apparent that Donald Trump expects women reporters and politicians to “know their place” and not confront him or his people with embarrassing issues. Senator Harris, an ex-prosecutor, will give him fits.
The Fox News campaign wing of the 2020 Trump re-election machine immediately went into overdrive attempting to slur the Harris candidacy in any way that it could. Before the week was over, the “birther” conspiracy that Trump rode hard in 2016 was re-applied to Senator Harris who was born in Oakland, California in October, 1964.
Evidently, because her parents immigrated to the United States almost sixty years ago from India and Jamaica, the new “birther” allegation concludes that Harris is not-American (or Caucasian?) enough.
The U.S. Constitution, a document which many MAGA folks are unfamiliar with, grants automatic citizenship to any person born in the United States.
Period. (This is, of course, why President Trump’s political base is so opposed to illegal immigration.)
Duh.