Another big fat nothing burger. Trump plays these fools like a fine Stradivarius violin. We've got two and a half more years of this. Mental illness is skyrocketing already. Some people aren't going to make it through his term. Trump isn't changing.
Sasha, as usual, you have a thoughtful and reasonable take on this latest “horror.” At first glance, the meme looks sacrilegious, but further examination shows it to be Trump portrayed as a healer of America. There are bigger things out there to worry about.
I'm not sure how my response to another comment ended up connected to this part of the thread, but at any rate... I took no offense to the meme either. My point was that it really doesn't matter if he makes an apology for the meme. I'm not going to sit around waiting for it to come because I couldn't care less if he did.
There is a little bit of entertainment value watching so many people going batsh!t crazy over something so stupid.
I'm a Christian and I'm not offended at all. I don't care if he "saves us" in a suit or depicts it in a picture of himself in a robe. He doesn't think he's Jesus, but he is attempting to save our country, and doing a damn good job of it.
You nailed it, Sasha. He probably saw the humor behind the statement it made, and did not realize people would see it as him trying to identify as “Jesus”.
I don’t think Trump wants to be thought of as Jesus, I think he was making a clear point that he is doing the work that the pope should be doing, and better. God uses man to do His will.
His post about the pope was completely accurate too. The pope never spoke out about the genocide of Nigerian Christian’s, or Iran killing over 40,000 of its own citizens - but when someone tries to stop them THAT’S worth a public statement? Trump is pointing out the hypocrisy. But just like in the days of Jesus, speaking truth to religious leaders can get you killed, or at the very least hated.
Good points all. Unlike our Pope, Christ was smart enough to stay in his own lane — Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. The midterms are upon us and Dems delight in splitting the Republican vote over any marginal issue they can blow up. The Pope is being manipulated by liberals who wouldn’t give him the time of day except to badmouth Trump.
It's tiring, Sasha. That's the issue with it. It's tiring. I'm tired of him and the juvenile social media mic drop rants. I'm glad he won -- the alternative would be horrific, but stuff like this is tiring. I can't defend it. I can't condone it. I'm just exhausted by it.
If he could knock this off and just run the country it'd be a wonderful thing. But yeah, I'm tired of the act. From all accounts, this is either not who he really is or he is this online goon who doesn't know when to not click send/like on something.
It's tiring. That's all. Fix our country. Stuff like this doesn't fix anything. It's just stupid. And I'm tired of stupid. And yes, all of the Dems are stupid so don't take this as any kind of endorsement of those morons either.
Well congratulations. You now validate what the Left was saying back in 2016. I don't feel that way. Tiring is being indicted, impeached, convicted of a felony, shot in the head. This is just a bummer. Big difference.
I didn't validate anything. I had an honest reaction. I'm tired of his social media antics and would prefer him just to run the country well (which I think he is doing) and ignore that stuff. His social media messaging is borderline moronic at times. It barely aligns with what he says in public. I'm not even sure it is him making those posts. And the left is no winner in this regard. Acting like someone being tired of Trump's social media antics makes the left's antics okay isn't what I was saying and you know that. They suck. And the fact that he or someone on his team are sharing these ridiculous posts is juvenile. I don't need him to be a regal statesman -- I would just like him to chill with the stupid overwritten tweets and liking dumb memes like this. That's it.
I pretty much agree. My theory is that that picture was posted by a Nork. But then, and apparently, Trump adopted and posted it. Unforced error. No message discipline.
As to Pope Leo, he is way too pacifist for my liking. If being Christian means forgiving those who kill and rape us, then I can't agree. The bible is full of prayers to God from those who wage war, and Pope Leo is in no position to tell us which prayers are answered.
Well, you do have one thing wrong. We are supposed to forgive for anything and there are many who are able to do so. God bless them. But Christianity is founded on the very principle that we forgive. Period.
But shouldn't one have to acknowledge their transgressions and express contrition before others extend forgiveness? Otherwise, "forgiveness" is just a get of jail card for perps... and it re-victimizes the one who was transgressed against. Just sayin'.
The act of forgiveness isn't for the perpetrator, it's for the victim. When a victim decides/chooses to forgive his perpetrator, he allows God to be the ultimate and only judge. Maybe the perpetrator will seek forgiveness --believe it or not, Jeffrey Dahmer did--or maybe they won't. God then judges accordingly. What happens on this earth is equivalent to one grain of sand, if that. Consider all of the grains of sand on earth and know that is eternity. I want to spend eternity in heaven, most likely with a stop in purgatory if I'm being truthful, and that requires Christian behavior that sometimes seems incomprehensible.
Quite frankly, who is the victim in this case? There isn’t one. If you’re offended, don’t view. Easy peasy. Way too many people think way too much about insignificant stuff.
I was replying to Pacifius on the general concept of forgiveness.
So here's a simple example of what you're talking about. My 47 years long friend offends me with her words/actions. I finally grasp this been going on for most of those 47 years and I've tolerated it because there have been other great parts of our friendship. She wants to sort out why I'm being "cool" with her in my communication. I try to explain as best I can. After almost 2 hours, it's going nowhere, and she says to me, "I apologize but..." I told her that's not how sincere apologies operate. I really don't have anything to forgive her for cuz I know this is who she will always be, but I do so for my own sake. I pray for her and step away from the friendship. She chooses not to forgive because she instead sees herself as the victim.
Point being, both of us thought we were "victims" and that's very much like what's happening with Trump in the situation. Each person will decide if they hold on or if they walk away.
Madabout, your theology is a little hard for me to follow, but I like the place it is coming from. As for me, when the time comes, I better keep a go bag ready. Could be in purgatory for a long time.
Forgiving someone doesn't EXCUSE the offense. You can forgive them and still hold them accountable for whatever they did. Forgiving them is more about letting go of the anger and resentment for their "trespasses" against you. It lifts the burden from you a d let's them know that you are not going to dwell on the past. If you keep replaying their actions in your head YOU are the one who suffers most.
Would people rather go back to importing millions from the third world? Political prosecutions? Seeing the POTUS bow down to foreign leaders? Letting NATO and especially Europe insult and hate us while doing nothing to help themselves or contribute in any discernible way toward a “shared defense”? Encouraging children to mitigate themselves?
I just don’t get it. The alternative to Trump is literally giving into evil. It’s choosing to re-empower the Reddit crowd, the people who avoid the arena by hiding in front of computers and hating everybody who achieves more.
People need to live lives apart from the internet. Getting outraged over these things is a path to misery and I reject it.
Trump is Trump. And he is his own worst enemy. He probably liked the meme because it shows him helping Americans and didn't think beyond that. I wish he would shut up sometimes but that is silly because he never will because Trump is Trump. And I still support him.
Trump posted a meme. Okay. Let’s talk about Pope Leo. He has done nothing but excoriate Trump since Trump won because Trump cut off the NGO money that church has grown to depend on. Unhappy with the millions of illegal immigrants here? Who do you think brought/ facilitated them? Catholic Charities was a big player. And where are the children that Catholic Charities just dumped into the country and now many of these children cannot be found.
I’m Catholic. I stopped giving money to the church when I realized it was going to pay for the perverse habits of the priests.
The church has been vorrupted for years. Rumors have been floated that the pope wants to join Christianity with Islam- creating Chrislam- the world’s next dominant religion. Leo certainly isn’t moving to protect Catholicism .
When taken together with what he had to say about our American Pope what he’s saying is I, DJT, am trying as hard as I can to do God’s work on earth. You, Pope Leo need to stop getting political talking points from David Axelrod. You’re not responsible in terms of fixing anything so do yourself a favor and deal with God’s work not virtue signaling and kissing up to Muslims.
As a Catholic, who actually goes to church, I find this Pope and the last Pope just ridiculous and almost anti Christian in many ways. And the Catholic charities was /is one of the biggest human traffickers in the world using tax dollars to bring illegals here and they should be ashamed. I get quarterly begging from them, they are included on the yearly begging from the diocese and I will never give them a dime.
Jesus said render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. The Pope should stick to God.
If so called Christians are exercised by a stupid picture easily ignored, then they are the coreligionists of the nutty Muslims who rail against the depictions of Mohammed. But then I’m sure a majority of the tut tutters are those who likely never step foot in a church and are just DNC directed assholes.
In fact I just called the diocese and even though money is fungible and it makes not a scintilla of difference, and told them that I did not want one thin dime or the penny they no longer make going to Catholic charities be it local or National from my contribution as they are one of the biggest human traffickers in the world. I could tell the development director was not happy with my trafficking statement and she insisted that she would make a note of my objection. So Catholic diocesan workers wouldn’t lie right? but it sure makes me feel better.
Pope Leo is polarizing the church. Not sure how he is being a peacemaker himself in driving an ever deeper wedge between conservative and progressive Catholics. I too am Catholic. Confused by and disappointed in Pope Leo. Bishop Barron had a measured response to all this brouhaha. He’s always a reliable voice of reason (and of course disliked by the right and the left!). Insane times.
The US has been in trouble for a while. The 70s is when really took off — especially with stagflation. But the American dream of old is gone and everything else is an attempt to use the image of the past to build a false reality: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-the-american-dream-died-in-1973
Franklin, not sure "the American dream" is completely dead, but it sure did begin it's current decline in the year 1973, I agree with you on that. .. But that does not necessarily mean that it will decline forever.. Or then again, maybe it will...
I agree and this note in the essay looks like an example; “I do not believe Trump posted this, “depicting himself as Jesus Christ.” I think he saw it, liked it, and posted it, not realizing that it would be considered blasphemy. “ because it infers knowing (or at least believing to know) the inner thinking of Trump.
"I accept him, warts and all, because he is the guy who has the audacity to run again after they impeached him twice, indicted him four times, raided Mar-a-Lago, convicted him of a felony, lied about him, called him every name they could come up with from Hitler to pedophile, and now, to war criminal." You left out, they literally tried to kill him, end his life, in front of everyone including his kids and grandkids!
Yeah, Bridget Phetasy hit the nail on the head: everybody in a position of power is full of shit, including and especially the Pope... Don't forget, that before there was Jeffrey Epstein, there was a Catholic Church enabling and protecting pedophiles for centuries... When do all of the those files get released? Oh yeah, never.
Thank you Sasha. It’s refreshing to follow and support a writer/poster who gets it and writes out the words and thoughts in my brain so succinctly. You’re my pragmatic thought twin and I love ya for it.
Trump has deleted the post.
It’s a shame so many Trump supporters have the emotional intelligence of a 12 year old lil girl. Or a Democrat
Quit overreacting. It’s a meme for f sake.
It says more about the maturity of the audience than about Trump.
Don’t like it. Move on
Like it , move on.
Whining like children is why our country is so F ed up.
And an old one at that. I’ve seen it before.
Everybody makes mistakes …even presidents. Like you said.. time to move on to more important issues.
We’re fed up with this wannabe dictator and his lack of decency as well as his profound stupidity and malignant narcissism.
Get the Democrat talking points out of your own eye. Dullard
You got a mouse in your pocket?
Why?
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world.
What part of "ye" is so hard for you to understand?
Another big fat nothing burger. Trump plays these fools like a fine Stradivarius violin. We've got two and a half more years of this. Mental illness is skyrocketing already. Some people aren't going to make it through his term. Trump isn't changing.
Sasha, as usual, you have a thoughtful and reasonable take on this latest “horror.” At first glance, the meme looks sacrilegious, but further examination shows it to be Trump portrayed as a healer of America. There are bigger things out there to worry about.
No, a realist! The Democrats are holed up on trans ,republicans on Israel .
Really ? How very brave of him!
Never a dull moment in the Trump administration.
His mental decline is surely showing! The number one narcissist !
Well, the last President in “mental decline” hung around for four years and his party was going to try him for a second four.
Not a fan of the Democrats , but the MAGGOT crowd is worse.
Hurray for Hungary!
Pick a side. That’s how it works.
You don’t have to like either side!
So you’re just a gadfly.
Not surprising. But, will he actually put out an apology? Im not holding my breath
FFS, WHO CARES?
Exactly. I’m Christian.
This isn’t offensive.
It’s a meme.
I'm not sure how my response to another comment ended up connected to this part of the thread, but at any rate... I took no offense to the meme either. My point was that it really doesn't matter if he makes an apology for the meme. I'm not going to sit around waiting for it to come because I couldn't care less if he did.
There is a little bit of entertainment value watching so many people going batsh!t crazy over something so stupid.
It’s all they’ve got.
It's an old meme, been around who cares
Grow up.
Narcissism isn’t a. Virtue
Neither is judging.
I'm a Christian and I'm not offended at all. I don't care if he "saves us" in a suit or depicts it in a picture of himself in a robe. He doesn't think he's Jesus, but he is attempting to save our country, and doing a damn good job of it.
You nailed it, Sasha. He probably saw the humor behind the statement it made, and did not realize people would see it as him trying to identify as “Jesus”.
I don’t think Trump wants to be thought of as Jesus, I think he was making a clear point that he is doing the work that the pope should be doing, and better. God uses man to do His will.
His post about the pope was completely accurate too. The pope never spoke out about the genocide of Nigerian Christian’s, or Iran killing over 40,000 of its own citizens - but when someone tries to stop them THAT’S worth a public statement? Trump is pointing out the hypocrisy. But just like in the days of Jesus, speaking truth to religious leaders can get you killed, or at the very least hated.
Good points all. Unlike our Pope, Christ was smart enough to stay in his own lane — Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. The midterms are upon us and Dems delight in splitting the Republican vote over any marginal issue they can blow up. The Pope is being manipulated by liberals who wouldn’t give him the time of day except to badmouth Trump.
Remember, Time Magazine had a cover photo of the Disgrace to the Human Race depicting him like he was wearing a halo
He's Putin's puppet and he's destroying America's infrastructure, knowledge base, reputation, and external trade.
I thought he was Israel puppet.
Make up your mind 😂😂😂😂😂
The only you are able to believe that is because you have been worshiping in the cult of an Iranian puppet for twenty years
He’s Netanyahu’s puppet…does whatever that criminal wants.The Pope is so far ahead of him in intelligence and leadership that it makes Dump furious.
lol
It's tiring, Sasha. That's the issue with it. It's tiring. I'm tired of him and the juvenile social media mic drop rants. I'm glad he won -- the alternative would be horrific, but stuff like this is tiring. I can't defend it. I can't condone it. I'm just exhausted by it.
If he could knock this off and just run the country it'd be a wonderful thing. But yeah, I'm tired of the act. From all accounts, this is either not who he really is or he is this online goon who doesn't know when to not click send/like on something.
It's tiring. That's all. Fix our country. Stuff like this doesn't fix anything. It's just stupid. And I'm tired of stupid. And yes, all of the Dems are stupid so don't take this as any kind of endorsement of those morons either.
Well congratulations. You now validate what the Left was saying back in 2016. I don't feel that way. Tiring is being indicted, impeached, convicted of a felony, shot in the head. This is just a bummer. Big difference.
A felony that was BS to begin with.
I didn't validate anything. I had an honest reaction. I'm tired of his social media antics and would prefer him just to run the country well (which I think he is doing) and ignore that stuff. His social media messaging is borderline moronic at times. It barely aligns with what he says in public. I'm not even sure it is him making those posts. And the left is no winner in this regard. Acting like someone being tired of Trump's social media antics makes the left's antics okay isn't what I was saying and you know that. They suck. And the fact that he or someone on his team are sharing these ridiculous posts is juvenile. I don't need him to be a regal statesman -- I would just like him to chill with the stupid overwritten tweets and liking dumb memes like this. That's it.
Ignore it then. No one's forcing you to look at it.
Hey how's Luna doing?
I pretty much agree. My theory is that that picture was posted by a Nork. But then, and apparently, Trump adopted and posted it. Unforced error. No message discipline.
As to Pope Leo, he is way too pacifist for my liking. If being Christian means forgiving those who kill and rape us, then I can't agree. The bible is full of prayers to God from those who wage war, and Pope Leo is in no position to tell us which prayers are answered.
Pope should be talking about persecuted Christians in Iran and other countries. I'm Catholic, I am concerned, he should be asking DJT for help
Well, you do have one thing wrong. We are supposed to forgive for anything and there are many who are able to do so. God bless them. But Christianity is founded on the very principle that we forgive. Period.
But shouldn't one have to acknowledge their transgressions and express contrition before others extend forgiveness? Otherwise, "forgiveness" is just a get of jail card for perps... and it re-victimizes the one who was transgressed against. Just sayin'.
The act of forgiveness isn't for the perpetrator, it's for the victim. When a victim decides/chooses to forgive his perpetrator, he allows God to be the ultimate and only judge. Maybe the perpetrator will seek forgiveness --believe it or not, Jeffrey Dahmer did--or maybe they won't. God then judges accordingly. What happens on this earth is equivalent to one grain of sand, if that. Consider all of the grains of sand on earth and know that is eternity. I want to spend eternity in heaven, most likely with a stop in purgatory if I'm being truthful, and that requires Christian behavior that sometimes seems incomprehensible.
Quite frankly, who is the victim in this case? There isn’t one. If you’re offended, don’t view. Easy peasy. Way too many people think way too much about insignificant stuff.
I was replying to Pacifius on the general concept of forgiveness.
So here's a simple example of what you're talking about. My 47 years long friend offends me with her words/actions. I finally grasp this been going on for most of those 47 years and I've tolerated it because there have been other great parts of our friendship. She wants to sort out why I'm being "cool" with her in my communication. I try to explain as best I can. After almost 2 hours, it's going nowhere, and she says to me, "I apologize but..." I told her that's not how sincere apologies operate. I really don't have anything to forgive her for cuz I know this is who she will always be, but I do so for my own sake. I pray for her and step away from the friendship. She chooses not to forgive because she instead sees herself as the victim.
Point being, both of us thought we were "victims" and that's very much like what's happening with Trump in the situation. Each person will decide if they hold on or if they walk away.
Madabout, your theology is a little hard for me to follow, but I like the place it is coming from. As for me, when the time comes, I better keep a go bag ready. Could be in purgatory for a long time.
Are you from Maryland? Me too.
No, the Midwest. What part is hard to follow?
Forgiving someone doesn't EXCUSE the offense. You can forgive them and still hold them accountable for whatever they did. Forgiving them is more about letting go of the anger and resentment for their "trespasses" against you. It lifts the burden from you a d let's them know that you are not going to dwell on the past. If you keep replaying their actions in your head YOU are the one who suffers most.
Between the things Trump actually says and does and the thing AI does "for" him, he is losing R voters. Something's gotta give.
Thank you! 🙏 i imagine there are plenty who feel like this — but don’t want to vocalize it, so thank you!
Then get the log out of your own eye and grow up.
Whining like a little girl is why you’re tired. Not Trump.
Trump should delete this one. Over the top. There’s only one Lord and Savior and it isn’t DJT.
Would people rather go back to importing millions from the third world? Political prosecutions? Seeing the POTUS bow down to foreign leaders? Letting NATO and especially Europe insult and hate us while doing nothing to help themselves or contribute in any discernible way toward a “shared defense”? Encouraging children to mitigate themselves?
I just don’t get it. The alternative to Trump is literally giving into evil. It’s choosing to re-empower the Reddit crowd, the people who avoid the arena by hiding in front of computers and hating everybody who achieves more.
People need to live lives apart from the internet. Getting outraged over these things is a path to misery and I reject it.
I meant “mutilate” not “mitigate”. I spelled it correctly but my iPhone changed the word and I can’t seem to edit.
Whoever owns the auto correct feature at Apple should be fired with extreme prejudice.
You own it. Just quit using it
Trump is Trump. And he is his own worst enemy. He probably liked the meme because it shows him helping Americans and didn't think beyond that. I wish he would shut up sometimes but that is silly because he never will because Trump is Trump. And I still support him.
I disagree. His enemies are his worst enemy.
Lol true but he gives his enemies too much to work with.
I Think that if Trump posted a comment about the weather today he would be attacked for it by the insane.
Such an incredible nothingburger.
Trump posted a meme. Okay. Let’s talk about Pope Leo. He has done nothing but excoriate Trump since Trump won because Trump cut off the NGO money that church has grown to depend on. Unhappy with the millions of illegal immigrants here? Who do you think brought/ facilitated them? Catholic Charities was a big player. And where are the children that Catholic Charities just dumped into the country and now many of these children cannot be found.
I’m Catholic. I stopped giving money to the church when I realized it was going to pay for the perverse habits of the priests.
The church has been vorrupted for years. Rumors have been floated that the pope wants to join Christianity with Islam- creating Chrislam- the world’s next dominant religion. Leo certainly isn’t moving to protect Catholicism .
That’s what we get for having a woke American as Pope.
When taken together with what he had to say about our American Pope what he’s saying is I, DJT, am trying as hard as I can to do God’s work on earth. You, Pope Leo need to stop getting political talking points from David Axelrod. You’re not responsible in terms of fixing anything so do yourself a favor and deal with God’s work not virtue signaling and kissing up to Muslims.
As a Catholic, who actually goes to church, I find this Pope and the last Pope just ridiculous and almost anti Christian in many ways. And the Catholic charities was /is one of the biggest human traffickers in the world using tax dollars to bring illegals here and they should be ashamed. I get quarterly begging from them, they are included on the yearly begging from the diocese and I will never give them a dime.
Jesus said render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. The Pope should stick to God.
If so called Christians are exercised by a stupid picture easily ignored, then they are the coreligionists of the nutty Muslims who rail against the depictions of Mohammed. But then I’m sure a majority of the tut tutters are those who likely never step foot in a church and are just DNC directed assholes.
In fact I just called the diocese and even though money is fungible and it makes not a scintilla of difference, and told them that I did not want one thin dime or the penny they no longer make going to Catholic charities be it local or National from my contribution as they are one of the biggest human traffickers in the world. I could tell the development director was not happy with my trafficking statement and she insisted that she would make a note of my objection. So Catholic diocesan workers wouldn’t lie right? but it sure makes me feel better.
Pope Leo is polarizing the church. Not sure how he is being a peacemaker himself in driving an ever deeper wedge between conservative and progressive Catholics. I too am Catholic. Confused by and disappointed in Pope Leo. Bishop Barron had a measured response to all this brouhaha. He’s always a reliable voice of reason (and of course disliked by the right and the left!). Insane times.
Brilliant.
Devout (very broken) Christian here. Trump has my back by his actions. This doesn't even register.
William, are you saying that “actions speak louder than words”? (That's a saying I made up myself!) 😂👍😂
All Bullshit
Stop listening to this shit
Focus on what’s really going on!
Sadly it gets harder and harder to know what’s going on and it’s destroying our country.
It’s is being done on purpose. The U.S is in trouble!!!
The US has been in trouble for a while. The 70s is when really took off — especially with stagflation. But the American dream of old is gone and everything else is an attempt to use the image of the past to build a false reality: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-the-american-dream-died-in-1973
Franklin, not sure "the American dream" is completely dead, but it sure did begin it's current decline in the year 1973, I agree with you on that. .. But that does not necessarily mean that it will decline forever.. Or then again, maybe it will...
Can I get an Amen!
Never pay attention to those who claim to know the inner thoughts of another person.
I agree and this note in the essay looks like an example; “I do not believe Trump posted this, “depicting himself as Jesus Christ.” I think he saw it, liked it, and posted it, not realizing that it would be considered blasphemy. “ because it infers knowing (or at least believing to know) the inner thinking of Trump.
True, but at least she posted it as opinion rather than settled fact. It’s a slippery business.
Fair enough
"I accept him, warts and all, because he is the guy who has the audacity to run again after they impeached him twice, indicted him four times, raided Mar-a-Lago, convicted him of a felony, lied about him, called him every name they could come up with from Hitler to pedophile, and now, to war criminal." You left out, they literally tried to kill him, end his life, in front of everyone including his kids and grandkids!
Yeah, Bridget Phetasy hit the nail on the head: everybody in a position of power is full of shit, including and especially the Pope... Don't forget, that before there was Jeffrey Epstein, there was a Catholic Church enabling and protecting pedophiles for centuries... When do all of the those files get released? Oh yeah, never.
Thank you Sasha. It’s refreshing to follow and support a writer/poster who gets it and writes out the words and thoughts in my brain so succinctly. You’re my pragmatic thought twin and I love ya for it.
Thank you Miss Sasha, I have come to deeply love and respect what you are doing.