Reminder: while Islam does not recognize Jesus as divinity like Christianity does, he is seen as one of the Prophets, along with the likes of Abraham, Moses and Muhammad. So despite everything else, ISLAM shows more respect to JESUS CHRIST than Trump, or indeed most US Evangelicals.
Take solace in that Trump is a few years past average lifespan of an American male. And American presidents has lifespan of about 73 years which is a few years shorter.
If dementia doesn't get him out, old age might get him out.
he then canceled a contract for $ 11 million with the Catholic church to help the children of immigrants. (we jail the parents, we assume responsibility for the children)
Even the crackhead who fights off invisible bats at the train station has the moral highground on the US. I don't get how the people of that country get surprised. Well actually I do. They never had an education system
Hey those crackheads can be fine, upstanding people. I ran out of gas once in the middle of the night and some crackhead rolled out of the bushes on the side of the road, shirt half-off, eyes bulging, and incoherently helped me push my car to the nearest gas station. All while a cop sat and watched.
Iām not religious, but threatening the Pope and then depicting yourself as Jesus has to be worth ten broken mirrors and a herd of black cats running under ladders. Just sayinā.
At this point, penance from Trump would be appointing a new head of the FBI and AG, ordering them to prosecute his entire administration, many members of Congress, and everyone in the Epstein files, turning his entire family's wealth over to charity and then turning himself and JD Vance over to Iran for prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity. And that's just to start.
Then JD Vance told the pope he doesn't know shit about theology and Hegseth, a rabid 'christian' quoted a fake bible verse because he's never read the bible.
Don't you remember Michael fucking everything up ca. 2017? "The UK left Europe and the Jacksonville Jaguars are good somehow?" or something. Yeah that's all his fault.
I've always had this theory that the world we live in is already hell, and that we're doomed to be reincarnated until we've learned enough lessons that we deserve to pass into the good place when we die.
There's a theory in quantum physics (I am not a physicist so I may get this ass backwards) where something can be both a wave and a particle and it won't know what it is until after it's observed.
I think something like that happened in our future and the ripples are flowing backwards to us to change the effect from a particle to a wave, because Something was observed.
Splintered timeline that should never have happened because of something that hasn't happened yet.
A time traveller arrived in March of 1996, making the www public to avert WWIII. But doing that only delayed the inevitable, causing a host of other problems that in the initial timeline had been solved by the death and destruction reducing the earth's population.
Subsequent timeline incursions to try and fix this have only made it worse, to now where we are looking at the inside of a grandfather paradox where things get so bad the time machine doesn't get built.
Pretty sure Bulletin 1147 is wrong. These things would have been invented anyway, it just would have taken decades or even centuries longer without wartime R&D budgets and technical incentives. We'd only now be landing on the moon for the first time if it wasn't for the cold war.
I'm not a man of any sort of afterlife beliefs, not on any sort of principle, but because I know I don't know. I can almost subscribe to this though, because no day has felt real in the last year and a half, at all. This is such a nightmare. A constant, unbelievable nightmare that you'd normally wake up during and realize how insane of a situation your brain made up. But it seems to be real so far and I don't like that. I hope I'm in a coma so bad.
Hmm, that was just the regular mirror universe. In the episode where Worf is jumping through dimensions (Parallels?) there is one where the Bajorans are aggressors and blow up a Federation listening array.
Your comment illustrates the reason why THIS guy's speech resonated with so many people that they forgot he was the villain. https://youtu.be/G0AXgaFqEas
Yup... The same people who used to freak out about the antichrist and the mark of the beast on your forehead, are always in their mage branded hat on their forehead and protecting a pedo that tried to pass himself off as Christ.
Technically, yeah. But if there's an unofficial "leader of all Christiandom," it kind of falls on the Pope by default. Catholics are like 1.3 billion people. And while Protestants are over 900 million, no one Protestant denomination has more than about 100 million. Eastern Orthodox is a little over 200 million. So Catholicism is larger than the rest of Christianity combined, and about 6x bigger than the next largest Christian faith denomination. Tl;Dr: Pope is a big deal.
Additional minor context, Eastern Orthodox is kind of on the opposite end of the spectrum than the Protestants and push come to shove are more aligned with the Catholics religiously.
Iāve lived through manifestations of that more than once.
The first was in 1983, when Longview Christian Academy (an independent Baptist private HS) cancelled a basketball game (and all other athletics) with our Catholic private HSā¦after they found out we were a Catholic private HS.
Nevermind that the schoolās name (āCistercianā) has ALWAYS & ONLY been associated with Catholicism since the monastic order was founded in the late 900s. š¤
Man, Iām sorry to hear that - thatās more overt than anything Iād ever faced in Texas. My experience was only that friends were constantly trying to āconvertā me.
Actually, and whilst ill admit i havent been on Truth social (yuck) to check myself; several of the news shows I listen to in the UK have said that tens of thousands of people on there were mad as hell at him for it.
And then after getting called out on that image, Trump deleted it hoping everyone would conveniently forget, and when they didn't tried to pretend "oh l didn't realize, I thought I was a doctor."
Did you hear how he came up with that? He was told that the official strategy was to say that the image was doctored. And he got confused and started saying that it was an image of him as a doctor.
I think actually he claimed they took the image down *because* it made him look like a doctor. Which obviously is damaging to his "anti-medicine" image.
If you're giving money to Evangelicals but not Catholics (or Muslims, let's be honest there too) you're not taking a stand for secularism, you're just being a bigot.
The point is "no institution above another" and we are playing pretty explicit favorites right now.
and what religious charity aiding migrants has the same reach and connections...? Keep in mind, many of the migrants are religious themselves, so that helps them be more approachable.
not from my experience. I've worked with Catholic halfway homes before, and while priests and nuns may pop by, the facilities are just like any others, just with a cross or two in the hallway. Catholic hospitals are the same.
Do you think that the people getting help really care? The Salvation Army is pretty religious but I know some people who have gotten help battling addiction and getting work because of them while they're not even religious. A helping hand is a helping hand even if the other hand has a bible in it.
Yes, religions take advantage of desperate people. I do not blame the desperate people. Our tax dollars should not be enabling religions to take advantage. Enable non-religious charities instead.
jonnnney
The timeline exists because all you did was vote. Voting is the bare minimum.
unluckyandbored
Islam takes religious iconography VERY seriously.
NKato
A common misconception among Christians is that Jesus isn't a figure in Islam. He actually is.
eromitlab
That's how shitty Turmp and this clown car of grifters are
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I know the Iranian leadership are not good people, but you have to admit they're being hilarious.
Fuckimgurcunts
The word "itself" is the tiny detail that just sets this off as pure platinum š¤£šš¤£
ChazzK
Reminder: while Islam does not recognize Jesus as divinity like Christianity does, he is seen as one of the Prophets, along with the likes of Abraham, Moses and Muhammad. So despite everything else, ISLAM shows more respect to JESUS CHRIST than Trump, or indeed most US Evangelicals.
TsukariYoshi
This is news to a lot of Americans who only know Islam as "that guy the terrorists worship or something"
blacksheep214
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
Epstein who? What were we talking about? It's hard to remember with all of these distractions
BenderRodriguz1010
OdinYggd
Iran could decree that it shall now be called the Straight of Epstein, and trump would abruptly never speak of it again.
myusernameisbrunhilda
Wilykat
Take solace in that Trump is a few years past average lifespan of an American male. And American presidents has lifespan of about 73 years which is a few years shorter.
If dementia doesn't get him out, old age might get him out.
raisedonadrywell
We're living in interesting tines.
Jagshusband
Trump then pulled 11 million in funding for a catholic charity, supporting migrant children in retaliation.
cuttysark
I am happy to say I don't have to explain it
TheRealArclight
albakSPrince
he then canceled a contract for $ 11 million with the Catholic church to help the children of immigrants. (we jail the parents, we assume responsibility for the children)
eastend666
Accurate and eloquent.
GuysJustWannaFish
And NO ONE who has a trump flag in their yard has taken it down. A lot of trump 36 or 28 flags around here
Mansoor68729
If only Marty could go back and fix this Biff controlling America...
mightybushkin
The Golden Age of Dumb
Uonnay
Even the crackhead who fights off invisible bats at the train station has the moral highground on the US.
I don't get how the people of that country get surprised.
Well actually I do. They never had an education system
linkdude212
Hey those crackheads can be fine, upstanding people. I ran out of gas once in the middle of the night and some crackhead rolled out of the bushes on the side of the road, shirt half-off, eyes bulging, and incoherently helped me push my car to the nearest gas station. All while a cop sat and watched.
Jace99
Iām not religious, but threatening the Pope and then depicting yourself as Jesus has to be worth ten broken mirrors and a herd of black cats running under ladders. Just sayinā.
linkdude212
At this point, penance from Trump would be appointing a new head of the FBI and AG, ordering them to prosecute his entire administration, many members of Congress, and everyone in the Epstein files, turning his entire family's wealth over to charity and then turning himself and JD Vance over to Iran for prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity. And that's just to start.
notifybay151
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cuprohastes
Then JD Vance told the pope he doesn't know shit about theology and Hegseth, a rabid 'christian' quoted a fake bible verse because he's never read the bible.
DYLANLEE79
Guys... I think we may have died during COVID and this is the bad place.
Feralkyn
Don't you remember Michael fucking everything up ca. 2017? "The UK left Europe and the Jacksonville Jaguars are good somehow?" or something. Yeah that's all his fault.
NeoNeanderthal
It is. You didn't.
stillnodog
DYLAN figured it you? DYLAN?! Yea, this is a new lowā¦
(But yeah this is definitely the bad place if there ever were oneā¦)
PosthumousExile
It certainly is. But tbf I started off in the bad place. I must have eaten a tomato or bought flowers as a kid and died
hwatL4bloopy
Lol I'm Buddhist, this is the bad place.
Malak224
Itās like that South Park episode where everybody went to hell because āThe Mormonsā was the correct answer.
hwatL4bloopy
Oh, the cycle of rebirth is returning to a place of suffering until we learn to escape
Firestar002
If it isnāt, I REALLY hope this will count as ātime servedā
HighSorcerer
I've always had this theory that the world we live in is already hell, and that we're doomed to be reincarnated until we've learned enough lessons that we deserve to pass into the good place when we die.
crazyspelling
Uhhh, I think a couple billion people have had that same idea. There might even be more than one major world religion about that.
HighSorcerer
I wouldn't know, I don't really pay attention to religions, major world or otherwise.
Kodan00
The timeline split when they shot that damn gorilla and now everything is fucked.
huey9k
Fucking Large Hadron Collider...
kahooki
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ParryLost
Nah, it was the Mayan calendar; the world really did end in 2012
WholeWheatBunnyHugger
paynoattentiontousernames
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1stDrunkJoe
Naw! If that were true I wouldn't be about to watch SpongeBob with my daughter but I can see your point.
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
There's a theory in quantum physics (I am not a physicist so I may get this ass backwards) where something can be both a wave and a particle and it won't know what it is until after it's observed.
I think something like that happened in our future and the ripples are flowing backwards to us to change the effect from a particle to a wave, because Something was observed.
Splintered timeline that should never have happened because of something that hasn't happened yet.
keillrandor
The problem is that we only detect things by their inefficiency...
OdinYggd
A time traveller arrived in March of 1996, making the www public to avert WWIII. But doing that only delayed the inevitable, causing a host of other problems that in the initial timeline had been solved by the death and destruction reducing the earth's population.
Subsequent timeline incursions to try and fix this have only made it worse, to now where we are looking at the inside of a grandfather paradox where things get so bad the time machine doesn't get built.
lovehandlesmessiah
And as usual, someone dint read Bulletin 1147. https://reactormag.com/wikihistory/
OdinYggd
Pretty sure Bulletin 1147 is wrong. These things would have been invented anyway, it just would have taken decades or even centuries longer without wartime R&D budgets and technical incentives. We'd only now be landing on the moon for the first time if it wasn't for the cold war.
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
I'm not a man of any sort of afterlife beliefs, not on any sort of principle, but because I know I don't know. I can almost subscribe to this though, because no day has felt real in the last year and a half, at all. This is such a nightmare. A constant, unbelievable nightmare that you'd normally wake up during and realize how insane of a situation your brain made up. But it seems to be real so far and I don't like that. I hope I'm in a coma so bad.
philmoregraves
Buddy it was harambe's death that set this wheel in motion
Anonypuss
Where's my free frozen yoghurt tho
jackal12345
David Bowie's death took the toothpick out of the burger that is reality and now it's slopped out all over our laps.
liveOffOfDownVotes
The problem is this is the actual GOOD place. It's just that we soiled it with greed and compulsory behaviour making it feel evil.
awkungen42
Shit, I don't think I did something bad enough to end up here, but well.. here we are. Cheers.
CheeseB0t
You're just blocking it out. The longer you hold out the worse the torment will get.
Toqom
We died in 2012
lovehandlesmessiah
A weasel got caught in the Large Hadron Collider and now weāre in one of those āBajorans are now the bad guysā parallel universes.
LankyBootyGriswald
This is what I commonly refer to as ground zero for this fucked up time line.
billstranger
Oooh, sexy bad major kira.
Felderburg
Hmm, that was just the regular mirror universe. In the episode where Worf is jumping through dimensions (Parallels?) there is one where the Bajorans are aggressors and blow up a Federation listening array.
billstranger
It's been a minute.
lovehandlesmessiah
Kudos. I almost posted that exact comment word for word. Your Trek-fu is strong.
Felderburg
Thank you!
TrumpRapesAndEatsChildren0002
Saw this on Mastodon: "Up until 2016 everything was mostly normal, and then we teleported to Waffle House." - yeah, i concur. And i like that idiom.
ArkoneAxon
Your comment illustrates the reason why THIS guy's speech resonated with so many people that they forgot he was the villain. https://youtu.be/G0AXgaFqEas
Probablyimaginary
Baits Trump into depicting himself as Mohammad
LZorro
Even if he did, how could you tell?
Probablyimaginary
Knowing him he'd have a fucking name tag in thd AI rendering.
Hashbrown123
Because it would be an incredibly offensive stereotype.
Nukls
Help Us Harambe
senyu
https://imgur.com/Zighhmv.png
joeyecho101
Harambe left this place long ago
jetah
and it's been going to shit ever since...
friendsofsandwiches
Harambe tried to warn the kid who fell in, but then...
Willk95
Punch is here to help restore the timeline
johneventually1
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Cornflakes91
punch shot harambe?!?!
JohnnySilverballs
Meanwhile, the dipshit-ass trump supporters, who call themselves "Christians" no less, are cheering it on and loving every moment of it.
areyouelonmusk
Pwnd the libs so hard bro
loxiabun
Yup... The same people who used to freak out about the antichrist and the mark of the beast on your forehead, are always in their mage branded hat on their forehead and protecting a pedo that tried to pass himself off as Christ.
MiserCrass
One or two say 'naw that aint cool' but will still vote for the pedoparty next election.
Trankia12
Theyāll still vote for exactly Trump again if given the chance!
Clockworkdancerobot
"We're losing our homes! We're losing our jobs! We're paying more in groceries!"
akelamishari
I thought Christians didnt follow the Pope and it was just the Catholics?
JohnnySilverballs
Fuck if I know. It's all the same cult crap to me.
TakeAChillPill16
Technically, yeah. But if there's an unofficial "leader of all Christiandom," it kind of falls on the Pope by default. Catholics are like 1.3 billion people. And while Protestants are over 900 million, no one Protestant denomination has more than about 100 million. Eastern Orthodox is a little over 200 million. So Catholicism is larger than the rest of Christianity combined, and about 6x bigger than the next largest Christian faith denomination. Tl;Dr: Pope is a big deal.
MakeItBackAlright
Additional minor context, Eastern Orthodox is kind of on the opposite end of the spectrum than the Protestants and push come to shove are more aligned with the Catholics religiously.
wumpyflappysnurp
Thatās because southern baptists an evangelicals donāt view Catholics as Christians ā¦for some strange reason
lovehandlesmessiah
Theyāre all racist Calvinists at heart. Itās the same dance, just different songs in minor keys and out of tune.
Dannyalcatraz
Iāve lived through manifestations of that more than once.
The first was in 1983, when Longview Christian Academy (an independent Baptist private HS) cancelled a basketball game (and all other athletics) with our Catholic private HSā¦after they found out we were a Catholic private HS.
Nevermind that the schoolās name (āCistercianā) has ALWAYS & ONLY been associated with Catholicism since the monastic order was founded in the late 900s. š¤
wumpyflappysnurp
Man, Iām sorry to hear that - thatās more overt than anything Iād ever faced in Texas. My experience was only that friends were constantly trying to āconvertā me.
Dannyalcatraz
That incident was far & away the worst. It actually made the national news.
MOST of the rest have been snide comments. I let most of them slide, but I occasionally push back on the stupidest ones.
JohnnySilverballs
Sounds like some of those "no true Scotsman" things to me.
sistermoon
I didnāt realize that. Isnāt Catholicism the original Christian religion though? I guess they probably have a made-up answer to that
Photeus
"THEY AREN'T DOING IT RIGHT"
Thats about what it amounts to.
McMasterx
"Worshipping saints is against God's commandment to only worship him, that's why we only worship Jesus, God, and trump."
QotU
Anti-Catholic sentiment runs so deep that it was scandalous to many Christians that JFK became president.
The KKK was/is also virulently anti-Catholic.
FrancsTireur
Actually, and whilst ill admit i havent been on Truth social (yuck) to check myself; several of the news shows I listen to in the UK have said that tens of thousands of people on there were mad as hell at him for it.
CheesecakePi
And then after getting called out on that image, Trump deleted it hoping everyone would conveniently forget, and when they didn't tried to pretend "oh l didn't realize, I thought I was a doctor."
Emjayen
Lying through one's teeth like a naughty child is characteristic of conservatives.
georgejimmydoodle
Did you hear how he came up with that? He was told that the official strategy was to say that the image was doctored. And he got confused and started saying that it was an image of him as a doctor.
lovehandlesmessiah
It amazes me that decaying lump of fat in his head can generate enough electricity to move his decrepit frame.
Photeus
Oh the rest is just running on layers of built up drugs in his system. A precise chemical mixture of Adderall with a hint of cocaine.
Username62611
I think actually he claimed they took the image down *because* it made him look like a doctor. Which obviously is damaging to his "anti-medicine" image.
Puppies717
West didn't they replace it with Rfk Jr? Or Dr. Oz.
azazyel
Don't forget Trump also pulled funding from Catholic charities
Leaps
Good. The government should not be spending our tax dollars on religious institutions.
knotwingknot
If you're giving money to Evangelicals but not Catholics (or Muslims, let's be honest there too) you're not taking a stand for secularism, you're just being a bigot.
The point is "no institution above another" and we are playing pretty explicit favorites right now.
Leaps
I agree.
eetsumkaus
even when that charity was aiding migrants?
Leaps
Give the money to a non-religious charity that aids migrants. I'm all for aiding people, but not when it comes with a side-dose of cancer.
eetsumkaus
and what religious charity aiding migrants has the same reach and connections...? Keep in mind, many of the migrants are religious themselves, so that helps them be more approachable.
azazyel
As long as the money goes to those who need it and the don't preach or try to convert I'm fine with it
Leaps
I guarantee any help the recipients were getting was surrounded by religious iconography.
eetsumkaus
not from my experience. I've worked with Catholic halfway homes before, and while priests and nuns may pop by, the facilities are just like any others, just with a cross or two in the hallway. Catholic hospitals are the same.
azazyel
Do you think that the people getting help really care? The Salvation Army is pretty religious but I know some people who have gotten help battling addiction and getting work because of them while they're not even religious. A helping hand is a helping hand even if the other hand has a bible in it.
Leaps
Yes, religions take advantage of desperate people. I do not blame the desperate people. Our tax dollars should not be enabling religions to take advantage. Enable non-religious charities instead.