"Gold claimed “the vice president’s absence robbed the event of some of its electricity,” though it’s unclear how much electricity a Catholic event can generate. "
Look, if the Catholic church didn't let rapists, accused rapists, and people who covered up for rapists speak at their functions, they'd have to cancel 99.9% of their functions.
The YouTube comments for this video were surprising and very disturbing. Surprising that trumpanzees bothered to watch it or maybe they commented without watching.
Yikes, between Trump's mouth farting, Schumer's headshaking and Dolan's rank hypocrisy... Harris was correct by staying on the campaign trail in Wisconsin.
Wow look at them deploying the Biden Paradox on Kamala Harris right there. No matter what choice she made it was going to be the wrong one. Then if she skipped the Wisconsin campaign event and god forbid lost that state to President Klan Robe, we'd have all the "Aaaaaahhhh she shoulda campaigned in Wisconsin tut tut tut!"
I feel like I've hit my limit with the passes (due to Murc's Law) that President Klan Robe gets for his classless, shitty and fascist behavior.
And hell I am not even sure Greg Gutfeld is this hackish as far as potential "joke" writers. President Klan Robe's material sounds like something Herr Miller or Jizzy Divan would've written.
The best thing about this event was Chuck Schumer's visible cringing. Attending that must've felt like getting a colonoscopy without anesthetic.
This is probably that requisite politician kayfabe they have to do because the purpose of the event is ideally supposed to transcend politics. Of course, under Murc's Law that's only the responsibility of the Democrats.
I was just lamenting on Pervert Justice that people don't have a sense of history when it comes to trans people. Mention trans folk and suddenly the topic is so frighteningly out of the public's comfort zone that they refuse to connect us and our issues with anything that has come before, however obviously related.
The same seems true of the Catholic Church and its history of abetting rape. Timothy Dolan is not free of the taint of enabling rapists' access to victims, and one would think that the man going on to hire a rapist as the entertainment for his charity ball would draw many condemnations of this obvious sign that neither Dolan nor the RCC has learned the necessary lessons from the Spotlight shined on their history of grotesque sexual abuse.
Instead we get nothing from the NYT or any outlet of similar national note.
For this man to promote a rapist -- I mean, for anyone to do so, but in particular this man who has asserted his intent to make the church better on this issue than it has been in the past -- is nothing less than obscene.
Thanks for pointing this out, CD. I was going to comment about the world’s largest pedophile ring hosting adjudicated rapist and alleged pedophile at their “charity fund-raiser”.
There was an earlier substack (The Friendly Atheist, I think) about how much money the LA RCC has had to pay to settle SA cases (over $1B). I’m not sure, but for Al Smith Charity Fund Raiser, I wouldn‘t be surprised if charity begins at home.
I'm glad Harris skipped this event. This is another event like the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner that needs to go into the dustbin of history given what we're dealing with.
These were all institutions that were pleasurable, even good for the country, at a different time when both parties were putting up serious, competent candidates who may disagree--vehemently!--on policy but ultimately both loved the country and on some level operated on good faith. It just doesn't work when you have a genuine monster like Trump hobbling around in his skin suit lashing out with cruelty at a world that he believes owes him.
Well, in fairness, the WHPC dinners are often memorable, and hilarious. Obama got under Donnie’s thin skin big-time in 2011, right before he left the stage to oversee the killing of Osama bin Laden. Colbert gorgeously skewered the MSM on their own turf in 2006, and in 2018, Michelle Wolf ripped the media, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, several new ones. Now THAT’s entertainment!
Oops, forgot that I also wanted to comment on this:
>> Donald Trump yukked it up at the Al Smith Dinner last week like an old, mentally incontinent Andrew Dice Clay. It was a disgrace, a further normalization of a monster. <<
This is the second time in hours I've seen a reference to Andrew Dice Clay. This one depicts Trump as a less competent ADC. The previous one depicted North Carolina Lieutenant Governor (and gubernatorial candidate) Mark Robinson exactly the same way.
Apparently when he managed a Papa Johns he liked to hop next door to the porn shop where he would share free pizza and tell homophobic jokes. He just wanted to be the centre of creepy fuckers' attention. Not at all unlike Trump.
I know it sounds stupid but I nearly cried watching the clip of Obama and McCain at the dinner. Must have been that wave of nostaligia from when two candidates from opposing parties could get together and have a little fun without one of them turning it into a nasty insultfest.
Holy cow! According to Wikipedia, Al Smith not only won South Carolina in 1928, but he had the largest margin of either candidate - 82.85%! Maybe SC officials let the Black voters in the state vote by accident, and white voters stayed home.
Presidential votes in the South pre-Civil Rights Era was crazy. Like the Deep South picking liberal Adlai Stevenson over Ike, because Party of Lincoln. Yet "upper south" states going for Ike in that same election. And virtually all the voters in those states at that time were white. I wonder what was going on there.
Religious leaders lamenting the dropoff in adherents should take some time to consider whether it could be due to letting people like Trump identify with them. There's probably no better way to tell a religiously open-minded person that the church is not for them than watching church leaders share a stage with a man who is so transparently using them for his own devices and promoting nothing more than open cruelty.
And the funny thing is the Bible is full of warnings about this sort of thing. I guess a lot of people have just skipped those sections and got lost in the "begats".
Sounded like Donnie was sorting through files of dirt he’d had his henchmen dig up on his opponents, and, no doubt for decency’s sake, had rejected the “nasty one.” Then he of course uses it.
The buck always stops with someone else. "I take no responsibility at all" for the pandemic should have been the end of his political career, yet we live in a demented country.
Reminder: Charles Manson never kill anyone himself (that we know of), but was convicted of murdering Sharon Tate and others in 1969. He instigated members of his cult to commit the murders in order to start a race war, which thankfully did not happen. trump is guilty of treason, and murder, even though he didn't storm the Capitol himself on J6, or killed anyone that day or in 2020 during the pandemic. He instigated members of his cult to storm the Capitol and to kill Speaker Pelosi and VP Pence, but while unsuccessful, they did kill. Before that, due to his mishandling of the Covid pandemic, millions of Americans died needlessly. He's a traitor and a murderer. Shame of the organizers of the Al Smith dinner inviting him and yukking it up with him, and his cruel attempts at humor. Good for the VP not attending. It was more important for her to be in Wisconsin. As for the NYT, and it's hacks, they are a lost cause.
Nope
The Party That Cannot Tell You What A Woman is, Mad Men Will Not Vote For Them. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-party-that-cannot-tell-you-what
If Jean-Paul Sartre Was Black He'd Be Ta Nehisi Coates https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/if-jean-paul-sartre-was-black-hed
You Do Not Put Fish Oil in a Lamborghini https://shorturl.at/pDZgB
“Sure, he never literally slapped someone.”
I feel a qualifying ‘that we know of.’
Hand on heart do you think Trump has never slapped the flunky who forgot to ‘hold the tomato and green things’ on his daily burger?
Or Don Jr?
I could well imagine Trump slapping someone with much less provocation than will.
Anyway, well done VP Harris for not normalising Trump, even if NYT can’t help itself.
Would you want to be the guy caught gently joshing with Hitler at a charity gig?
"Gold claimed “the vice president’s absence robbed the event of some of its electricity,” though it’s unclear how much electricity a Catholic event can generate. "
PFFBVBBTTT /spews coffee
LOL - I suggest we not ask the altar boys. ;)
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Look, if the Catholic church didn't let rapists, accused rapists, and people who covered up for rapists speak at their functions, they'd have to cancel 99.9% of their functions.
The YouTube comments for this video were surprising and very disturbing. Surprising that trumpanzees bothered to watch it or maybe they commented without watching.
Yikes, between Trump's mouth farting, Schumer's headshaking and Dolan's rank hypocrisy... Harris was correct by staying on the campaign trail in Wisconsin.
Wow look at them deploying the Biden Paradox on Kamala Harris right there. No matter what choice she made it was going to be the wrong one. Then if she skipped the Wisconsin campaign event and god forbid lost that state to President Klan Robe, we'd have all the "Aaaaaahhhh she shoulda campaigned in Wisconsin tut tut tut!"
I feel like I've hit my limit with the passes (due to Murc's Law) that President Klan Robe gets for his classless, shitty and fascist behavior.
And hell I am not even sure Greg Gutfeld is this hackish as far as potential "joke" writers. President Klan Robe's material sounds like something Herr Miller or Jizzy Divan would've written.
The best thing about this event was Chuck Schumer's visible cringing. Attending that must've felt like getting a colonoscopy without anesthetic.
I just kept thinking, WTF is Chuck Schumer doing there, yukking it up with these basketfuls of deplorables? The whole thing was like a bad skit.
This is probably that requisite politician kayfabe they have to do because the purpose of the event is ideally supposed to transcend politics. Of course, under Murc's Law that's only the responsibility of the Democrats.
I was just lamenting on Pervert Justice that people don't have a sense of history when it comes to trans people. Mention trans folk and suddenly the topic is so frighteningly out of the public's comfort zone that they refuse to connect us and our issues with anything that has come before, however obviously related.
The same seems true of the Catholic Church and its history of abetting rape. Timothy Dolan is not free of the taint of enabling rapists' access to victims, and one would think that the man going on to hire a rapist as the entertainment for his charity ball would draw many condemnations of this obvious sign that neither Dolan nor the RCC has learned the necessary lessons from the Spotlight shined on their history of grotesque sexual abuse.
Instead we get nothing from the NYT or any outlet of similar national note.
For the record:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/opinion/cardinal-dolan-and-the-sex-abuse-scandal.html
https://www.chrisoleary.com/sins/Dolan-Cardinal-Timothy.html
For this man to promote a rapist -- I mean, for anyone to do so, but in particular this man who has asserted his intent to make the church better on this issue than it has been in the past -- is nothing less than obscene.
Thanks for pointing this out, CD. I was going to comment about the world’s largest pedophile ring hosting adjudicated rapist and alleged pedophile at their “charity fund-raiser”.
There was an earlier substack (The Friendly Atheist, I think) about how much money the LA RCC has had to pay to settle SA cases (over $1B). I’m not sure, but for Al Smith Charity Fund Raiser, I wouldn‘t be surprised if charity begins at home.
That's an especially salient point.
I'm glad Harris skipped this event. This is another event like the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner that needs to go into the dustbin of history given what we're dealing with.
I'd say, at least until we bleach the house... scrub it with steel wool.
These were all institutions that were pleasurable, even good for the country, at a different time when both parties were putting up serious, competent candidates who may disagree--vehemently!--on policy but ultimately both loved the country and on some level operated on good faith. It just doesn't work when you have a genuine monster like Trump hobbling around in his skin suit lashing out with cruelty at a world that he believes owes him.
Well, in fairness, the WHPC dinners are often memorable, and hilarious. Obama got under Donnie’s thin skin big-time in 2011, right before he left the stage to oversee the killing of Osama bin Laden. Colbert gorgeously skewered the MSM on their own turf in 2006, and in 2018, Michelle Wolf ripped the media, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, several new ones. Now THAT’s entertainment!
Red Mass.
Oops, forgot that I also wanted to comment on this:
>> Donald Trump yukked it up at the Al Smith Dinner last week like an old, mentally incontinent Andrew Dice Clay. It was a disgrace, a further normalization of a monster. <<
This is the second time in hours I've seen a reference to Andrew Dice Clay. This one depicts Trump as a less competent ADC. The previous one depicted North Carolina Lieutenant Governor (and gubernatorial candidate) Mark Robinson exactly the same way.
Apparently when he managed a Papa Johns he liked to hop next door to the porn shop where he would share free pizza and tell homophobic jokes. He just wanted to be the centre of creepy fuckers' attention. Not at all unlike Trump.
*Surprised Pikachu Face!*
“mentally incontinent”
Perfect. I am brazenly stealing this.
SER is the best.
I often steal from SER. He's too good a writer not to.
I know it sounds stupid but I nearly cried watching the clip of Obama and McCain at the dinner. Must have been that wave of nostaligia from when two candidates from opposing parties could get together and have a little fun without one of them turning it into a nasty insultfest.
Holy cow! According to Wikipedia, Al Smith not only won South Carolina in 1928, but he had the largest margin of either candidate - 82.85%! Maybe SC officials let the Black voters in the state vote by accident, and white voters stayed home.
Presidential votes in the South pre-Civil Rights Era was crazy. Like the Deep South picking liberal Adlai Stevenson over Ike, because Party of Lincoln. Yet "upper south" states going for Ike in that same election. And virtually all the voters in those states at that time were white. I wonder what was going on there.
Religious leaders lamenting the dropoff in adherents should take some time to consider whether it could be due to letting people like Trump identify with them. There's probably no better way to tell a religiously open-minded person that the church is not for them than watching church leaders share a stage with a man who is so transparently using them for his own devices and promoting nothing more than open cruelty.
And the funny thing is the Bible is full of warnings about this sort of thing. I guess a lot of people have just skipped those sections and got lost in the "begats".
Exactly!
“That’s a nasty one,” he added. “I told these idiots that gave me this stuff, that’s too tough.”
I mean, I have no way of controlling the words that come out of my mouth, let's blame someone else. Vote for me. The buck stops at my handlers.
Sounded like Donnie was sorting through files of dirt he’d had his henchmen dig up on his opponents, and, no doubt for decency’s sake, had rejected the “nasty one.” Then he of course uses it.
The buck always stops with someone else. "I take no responsibility at all" for the pandemic should have been the end of his political career, yet we live in a demented country.
Reminder: Charles Manson never kill anyone himself (that we know of), but was convicted of murdering Sharon Tate and others in 1969. He instigated members of his cult to commit the murders in order to start a race war, which thankfully did not happen. trump is guilty of treason, and murder, even though he didn't storm the Capitol himself on J6, or killed anyone that day or in 2020 during the pandemic. He instigated members of his cult to storm the Capitol and to kill Speaker Pelosi and VP Pence, but while unsuccessful, they did kill. Before that, due to his mishandling of the Covid pandemic, millions of Americans died needlessly. He's a traitor and a murderer. Shame of the organizers of the Al Smith dinner inviting him and yukking it up with him, and his cruel attempts at humor. Good for the VP not attending. It was more important for her to be in Wisconsin. As for the NYT, and it's hacks, they are a lost cause.
I bring up this very point when the MAGAt’s talk about how unfair it is cuz HE didn’t kill anyone directly.
I'm surprised Trump hasn't started publicly praising Charles Manson at his rallies, though I think it's only because it hasn't occurred to him yet.
it's not like he knows the difference between Manson and Hannibal Lector anyway.
In his heart of hearts, he admires Manson.
He's getting recognized more and more every day!
"Why couldn't they have just settled things at that party Sharon Tate was having?"