hero Bishop lectures Dear Leader, and Republicans lose their shit

three cheers for the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde

courage is in short supply these days.

reporters have abrogated their duty to, y’know, report. pundits are falling all over each other in a mad dash to proclaim Donny presidential.

Republicans have been completely neutered, and dithering Democrats can’t seem to figure out that they’re supposed to be the opposition party. John Fetterman is taking thumbs-up selfies with January 6 insurrectionists. what the fuck are you doing, John?

all of which is why it’s awesome to see a woman of the Church call out Dear Leader — right to his insipid scowling face.

“I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. there are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives. and the people — the people who pick our crops, and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals — they may not be citizens, or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. they pay taxes, and are good neighbors.”

oh, fuck yes. meet your newest hero: the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of Washington.

Bishop Budde took one look at Donny and his family seated before her in the Washington National Cathedral, and decided there was no fucking way she was going to obey in advance — and so she unloaded on Donny, saying what few people are brave enough to tell him: stop being a cruel and spiteful asshole.

so, how did the thin-skinned Rage-Baby-in-Chief take it? he power-loaded his diaper, of course.

“not too exciting, was it. I didn’t think it was a good service. no...they can do much better.”

of course Donny didn’t like it. Donny expected to have his ass kissed — to be told that he was God’s Own Avatar of Retribution on Earth, because that’s how Donny sees himself. how dare some woman priest ask him to please be kind and considerate.

the Bishop’s words ate away at Donny all day — and sure enough, the grievance-monkey was up past midnight, still whining about it on his failing app.

“The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart. She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people. Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions. It is a giant crime wave that is taking place in the USA. Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job! She and her church owe the public an apology!”

what an insolent fucking child. you have to love the hypocrisy here. it’s perfectly okay for some mega-church evangelical to tell his flock to vote for Donny because Democrats are demons from hell — somehow, that’s not “bringing politics into the church” — but asking Dear Leader to follow the lessons of the Bible? that makes you a ‘radical left hard line Trump hater.’

oh look, it’s the dumbest dipshit on Capitol Hill, Concussed Tommy No-Helmet. stand back everyone — Senator Tuberville is struggling to form an opinion.

“you think you’ve seen it all. of course I’ve been up here in this clown show for four years in Congress and watched the radical left spew hate all over the place and push an agenda that I don’t even recognize. but for this bishop to do this to president Trump after a weekend of, as you said, talking about god more than ever, talking about how he was spared to give an opportunity maybe to change this country back to something that it should be, it just absolutely amazes me how far these people go.”

Christ on a corn pone, Senator, dial the indignation down a bit. all Bishop Budde did was to ask for a little compassion. it’s not like she oh, I don’t know — got mad about losing an election and sent a mob to the Capitol to bludgeon cops with fire extinguishers and overturn an election.

but that’s where the bar is set in the MAGAsphere today. asking Dear Leader to please maybe be less of a dick is now considered ‘hate speech from the radical left.’

the most asinine take came from Georgia Rep. Mike Collins, the reliably-immature performative-nonsense tantrum-muppet who shoots voting machines for fun.

“The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.”

deported to where, Mike? back to New Jersey? because that’s where Rev. Budde was born.

MAGA hates it when religious leaders pull stupid stunts like following the teachings of Jesus. fuck compassion and love, that shit’s for losers.

this guy is more to their liking. meet Lorenzo Sewell, the Grifter Priest of MAGAville.

on Monday, Reverend Sewell gave the benediction at Donny’s inauguration. hours later, he became the latest goniff to hawk his own fake money — because that’s what you do now, when you rise through the ranks of the MAGA Cinematic Universe: you pick the pockets of the rubes.

you’ll never guess what happened next. actually, you will totally guess what happened next, because these crypto schemes always follow the same template: the insiders made a mint, and the marks lost their shirts.

One investor lost $120,000 after they sold their tokens for almost half of their buying price.

Another big loss involved a trader who invested $87,000 to buy the pastor’s memecoin and ended up selling for $11,300 ― a $75,000 loss.

as I never tire of saying, a trump supporter and their money are soon parted.

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here’s something we’re going to be seeing a lot of in the days and weeks to come: voters who fucked around, and are now shocked to be finding out.

President Trump’s near-total pardon of Jan. 6 rioters was denounced by the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the U.S., and the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday.

nobody should be surprised that the Jan 6 insurrectionists got pardons. Donny never shut the fuck up about how unfair it was that these innocent “freedom fighters” got treated so badly. that Donny was going to pardon them was never a secret. it was part of every stump speech — a thing that got mentioned just as often as Hannibal Lecter and the weird battery-defying sharks.

but now the Fraternal Order of Police is claiming to have been completely blindsided by Donny doing something he promised to do all along. so, good job — you voted for the guy who just took a big shit all over your profession, and you got nothing in return. any one of us could have told you this was going to happen.

oh, and the price of eggs? still high — if you can find them at all.

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