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Richard Roe's avatar

Regarding "equal time" for political parties on non-news shows like Stephen Colbert, Colbert gives more than ample coverage on the Trump and the Republican side of the aisle. What Trump and the Repubs don't like about it is that it's true and damaging to them.

Sarah Quinn's avatar

Excellent writing Mary. This is the best piece I have read today. Despite the content you still managed to make me laugh. Thank you.

Jack McGowan's avatar

Yes, you highlight the arc and sweeten it with humor and irony. Thank you

Linda Allewalt's avatar

The god talk is silly. Everyone knows that god is about the size of a human brain because that is where god resides...in individual imaginations, and no where in reality.

Kathryn Travers's avatar

YAY New Mexico!! YAY Melanie Stansbury!!! AND...HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!!! Let this be the beginning of the end of nasty craziness...Les Bon Temps Roule.....

Jay Wilson's avatar

Good to know the Trump has been "totally and completely exonerated" of any and all Epstein related deeds. So I guess there's no need to withhold the remaining 3 MILLION documents, right?

Julie Bannerman's avatar

Proverbs 6 (since Mike Johnson likes to quote the Bible):

A scoundrel, an evil man

Lives by crooked speech,

Winking his eyes,

Shuffling his feet,

Pointing his finger.

Duplicity is in his heart;

He plots evil all the time;

He incites quarrels.

God hates six things -

And abominates seven:

A haughty bearing,

A lying tongue,

Hands that shed innocent blood,

A mind that hatches evil thoughts,

Feet quick to run to evil,

A false witness testifying lies,

And one who incites siblings to quarrel.

This came to mind reading Mary’s perfect recap of the press conference (enduring the misery of watching it so we don’t have to)….

Christine Lee's avatar

Little Mike Johnson checks every box. Do they have a different book than the rest of us? Their Republican god seems to fit in the hall closet, only brought out for show.

Bradley  K Monson's avatar

...regarding the current shrink wrapping of Christianity to fit into the current Republican model... I think it may behoove us to think this may have happened before. After all, how many of us, when we think of Jesus, view him as white? He was not. He was a Jew, a Semite. He grew up close to Gaza. If it were possible to drop Jesus, his twelve disciples and the first two centuries of believers into Gaza tomorrow, I bet nobody could distinguish them from Gazans. Nor, I believe,would we care. We, in America, like our Jesus white and Republican.

The current epiphany of consciousness in regards to molding Christianity into a more pleasing form has been going on for millennia. It is, in its basic form, idolatry. And... its our own fault for not valuing history enough to even recognize our own Christian origins.

David E. Roy  Ph.D.'s avatar

How can we overcome the FBI hold on the documentation?

Kelly's avatar

Wow. You and Shanley are a powerful force!