On Holy Tuesday Jesus rode into town on an ass. The previous day he had turned over the tables at the temple of the moneychangers and so on Tuesday the boss men were there to see him and ask him to account for himself. In today’s version of the Trump Testament, the ass will ride into New York in an SUV and the boss men will fingerprint, photograph and arraign him. And if you don’t think that the evangelicals are conflating these two events to be of equal importance, you don’t sufficiently appreciate just how crazy they are. The Intercept:
It would probably be better for the Christian nationalists of MAGA world if Trump surrendered next Friday, which is Good Friday, the day when believers observe Christ’s crucifixion. Holy Tuesday is a middle-of-the-week drudge day of Holy Week, and biblical scholars have spent a millennium trying to piece together what they think Jesus was doing that day. But the generally accepted version of what happened on Holy Tuesday will still fit nicely into the narrative of victimhood and righteousness that Christian nationalists have built around Trump. […]
The MAGA crowd has frequently compared Trump to Jesus, and now they are beginning to make the connection between Trump’s latest legal problems, Jesus Christ, and the liturgical calendar.
In fact, the right-wing outrage that erupted after Trump’s indictment in New York was disclosed on Thursday has already taken on an apocalyptic tenor, and MAGA-world characters are beginning to fill their biblical roles. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who has come to symbolize MAGA in Congress, immediately vowed to go to New York to support Trump; she seems to be fulfilling the role of Mary Magdalene, who washed Christ’s feet with her tears and later witnessed his crucifixion. Of course, Michael Cohen, Trump’s onetime lawyer and the star witness against him in the New York case, is being cast by MAGA world as Judas. What could be better for Trump than to have a MAGA minister standing outside the courthouse on Tuesday quoting Matthew?
Michael Cohen as Judas. Actually, just the inverse is true. Donald Trump played Judas to Michael Cohen, like he does to everybody in his circle. It’s only a question of when Trump does it. Cohen was loyal to a fault. He said he would “take a bullet” for the man. Trump’s the one who betrayed Cohen’s loyalty, not the other way around.
As to Marge as Mary Magdalen, why not? Then I guess we could have Boebert as Rebecca. Maybe Sarah Palin as Mary? It’s going to be a little difficult to cast Mary, since Trump is going on 77, so we would need a Republican mommy figure that’s pushing 100, but if anybody has any ideas, speak up, by all means. And if you want to cast the rest of this biblical right-wing shit show from Hell, please be my guest.
Let’s see what Pat Robertson says. He split from Trump a while back, but if he senses a dollar extra in the collection plate, he might change his tune very fast. Robertson always admired Trump’s money making ability. In the world of prosperity consciousness, money is the one, true and only God and don’t think they didn’t admire Trump for being able to generate it.
You are spot on. As someone who follows the blathering of the false Trump “prophets”, let me tell you; today’s sermons were filled with comparisons of Trump and Jesus. One actually said, “Hosanna, blessed is Trump who comes in the name of the Lord”.
You suggest these Christaliban Evangelical asshats equate Trump with Jesus. I disagree. In their fucked up minds Trump has REPLACED their Jeebus and now sits at the right hand of God the Father. Hell, to many of them he’s tossed God aside like a piece of trash! These folks are truly out of their fucking minds. Since they believe in the old testament fire & brimstone God and all that wrath instead of the new testament message of love, acceptance and helping those less fortunate that Jesus preached about you’d think that God would give them a good dose of that old testament stuff. Lightning bolts turning them into a pile of ash and so on. For those who wonder what makes people like me agnostic and doubt the existence of God these people being here causing all the grief they inflict instead of having been sent to hell where they belong is why.
Why are these political, hypocritical, delusional asshats still tax exempt? I ask you.
Religious beliefs, by their very nature, do not have to be consistent, logical, fact based, etc. In fact, one can look at all religions and see they cannot pass the smell test. Since religion is based on “belief”, hypocritical and delusional should be the expectation.
The rules for tax exempt status for religions are pretty easy to follow and it takes very little effort to become tax exempt. John Oliver did a show on televangelists (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg) that makes very clear just how easy it is to get the exempt status. Give a look-see ’cause it’s funny too.
I studied tax law in graduate school and the professors made it very clear just how big a joke the tax exempt status given for religions was. They were universally contemptuous.
“christians”.
What a bunch of losers and assholes….
They’re a full-blown cult.
Now we know why tRump delayed his surrender until Tuesday. It had nothing to do with his SS guys needing time to prepare. It was all about imagery, inserting Rump into the Jesus narrative. Who thinks this stuff up? Can’t be Magaman himself. He doesn’t have the imagination for it.
Hey spike. Check out the cannabis laws put in place by the criminal Nixon for political reasons. So what part of ‘consistent, logical, and fact based’ is the LAW following? At least religious beliefs aren’t given guns and jails to back up their bullshit. Oh, and over 50 years to undo this injustice to tens of millions hasn’t been enough time for those logical and rational political leaders to fix it.
Who did not see this coming?
I actually can picture Trump** at the Crucifixion – as the thief who mocked Jesus so brutally that the other thief couldn’t take it and told him to shut up. Trump** excels at brutal mockery.
I’m a little confused here the way you wrote that. Which one is the ass and which one is Trump. On second thought, does it really matter. The ass is probably smarter than trump. That brings up a question. How do you check the IQ of an ass. I guess we could use Trump as a test subject. Being a human being it is believed that we can communicate with him on sum level. I think I will go back to the ass.