Twitter had Trump, MAGA, and Satan all trending at the same time early on Saturday morning. That’s not an unusual intersection for those three tags at all, but how they come together today is somewhat unusual. Breitbart is running an “exclusive” story right now and it’s a marvel in conspiracy theory and fake news. I won’t link it to it, but if you want to Google it, you can read the following:
“It is appalling and insulting that Joe Biden’s White House prohibited children from submitting religious egg designs for their Easter Art Event, and declared Easter Sunday as ‘Trans Day of Visibility,’” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Breitbart News on Saturday. “Sadly, these are just two more examples of the Biden Administration’s years-long assault on the Christian faith. We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Sigh. Okay. First of all, March 31 is Transgender Visibility Day. Every year. This year March 31 is also Easter Sunday. That’s a movable feast kind of a proposition. Easter is on different dates in different years. Next year Easter will be on April 20, almost a full three weeks later. Why? It has to do with the vagueries of the lunar calendar.
So once again Joe Biden is an anti-Christian monster and Donald Trump is our savior. And Trump is eating this up with a spoon. He’s taken the opportunity to blast the Breitbart article on both Truth Social and Twitter.
There is no reason to apologize for "Transgender Day of Visibility" has been on March 31 for YEARS. There's no reason to ignore it because it just happens to fall on Easter this year.
The only need for apology that will never happen is from BIGOTS who want to divide us.— LINDZEE (@WVUMAMA2) March 30, 2024
And Man of God Donald Trump Jr. responded with the statement, “This is the left’s new religion. They want people worshiping the trans flag instead of God.”
Religion was pushed to the forefront of the political discussion this week when his father, former President Donald Trump, decided to hawk $60 Bibles amid financial woes that include legal fees linked to civil and criminal trials and dwindling campaign coffers.
“Just what the world needs,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd quipped Saturday, “a soul cleanse with a grifter Bible, where the profits could well be going to pay legal costs in trials about breaking commandments — bearing false witness to try to steal democracy, coveting a porn star, then paying the star hush money to keep quiet about the sex.”
Trump also managed to pull artwork into the 2024 presidential race debate by sharing images of Biden hog-tied, raising concerns that his increasingly aggressive rhetoric could result in violence against elected officials.
“No one is saying Trump can’t campaign or that he can’t criticize Biden,” former prosecutor Joyce Vance said in her plea for greater restrictions against the former president.
“What he can’t do is suggest Biden should be kidnapped, knocked out & bound in the back of a pickup truck. I can’t believe that I have to write that out—there is no universe in which that’s acceptable.”
And Tommy Tuberville, the man who hands down took the title Stupidest Senator from Ron Johnson, contributed this.
These people really are sick, twisted, and demented. Yeah, we are a cult that worships Satan. There is no reasoning with these people because they are mentally ill. pic.twitter.com/hvaThR4q6y
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 30, 2024
I don't believe in "Satan," but if there are any "Satan Worshippers" around, they are Trump supporters. Trump is EXACTLY the way "Satan" is described. He's the OPPOSITE of the way "Jesus" is described. Trumpers LOVE to HATE. They LOVE all that is CRUEL. They LOVE hurting.
— Michelle (@Michell33650674) March 30, 2024
So once again, what have we learned?
- Trump is fine for promoting violent imagery of Joe Biden on social media;
- Trump is fine for making threatening comments about the daughter of a judge presiding over one of his criminal cases;
- Joe Biden is a so and so because he allowed a holiday which has been a holiday for years to be celebrated on Easter Sunday, because that’s where it happens to fall on the calendar this year.
Every time you compare the *egregious* behavior of the two men, Trump’s transgressions are always ten times as worse, yet we’re supposed to excuse and normalize them.
Hate to break it to you Xians, but Easter wasn’t yours to begin with.
Didn’t it occur to you that a day commemorating a historical event (your boy waking from a coma after three days), falls on a different day each year? The Sunday following the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox was originally a Pagan fertility festival (Eostre, where the word Estrus comes from). That’s where the dyed eggs and rabbit references come from.
Also, December 25 was the Winter Solstice in Pagan Rome and celebrated as the feast of the sun god. The alleged birthplace of Jesus was in the northern hemisphere and ain’t no way shepherds were out in the fields tending their sheep in the dead of winter.
Indeed. In December/winter in the middle east, way back in the day, flocks were not out in the fields. Even today many sheep/cow herders bring in their flocks/herds in the fall to protect the animals from the various things that happen to these critters in the cold and wet weather. Today we do have hybrid cattle certainly who do not need much tending when the weather gets bad (know a rancher who told me about her hybrids and how she just doesn’t have the time to get the herd rounded up and shit when the weather goes to hell–the cattle do fine because they’re bred to). Back in the day there were no hybrids and things like hoof rot were pretty serious to those who make a living from their flocks/herds. Point is, as Michael stated, there were no shepherds watching over their flocks in the fields-the flocks were corralled. The middle east might not have gotten snow but they damned sure did get rain in the winter.
“….and the disciples gathered at the empty tomb, followed a rabbit and then hunted for painted eggs………”
Yep. Easter eggs are Christianity exemplified, they are as Christian as Santa, or Christmas trees.
“Sigh. Okay. First of all, March 31 is Transgender Visibility Day. Every year. This year March 31 is also Easter Sunday. That’s a movable feast kind of a proposition. Easter is on different dates in different years. Next year Easter will be on April 20, almost a full three weeks later. Why? It has to do with the vagueries of the lunar calendar.”
Actually, Easter’s date has nothing to do with the “lunar calendar” (it’s actually the “lunisolar calendar” which combines features of the lunar and solar calendars). Per the Wiki page on Easter and its “Date” subsection”
“In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April, within about seven days after the astronomical full moon.”
Additionally, Easter isn’t even March 31st for all Christians. For Eastern Orthodox Christians (Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc), Easter falls on May 5 this year and roughly 1.5% of Americans belong to one of the various Eastern Orthodox churches (I wonder if there will be any attacks on stores having “Cinco de Mayo” displays or if these “concerned” Christians are going to get up in arms over Cinco de Mayo falling on Orthodox Easter?). Last year, there was just one week difference between Western and Orthodox Easter while, next year, both branches will observe Easter on the same date.
For what it’s worth, Orthodox branches use the term “Pascha” (or a local variation) instead of “Easter” and the word for Easter in most countries with European-based languages is based off of “Pascha”: “Pascua” in Spanish, “Pasqua” in Italian, “Páscoa” in Portuguese, “Pâques” in French, “Pasg” in Welsh/Cymric, “Påske” in Danish and Norwegian, “Påsk” in Swedish, and “Pasen” in Dutch; in Scots Gaelic, it’s “Càisg” and in Irish Gaelic, “Cáisc” (though both languages usually use a definite article which causes a phonetic change to the first letter) and both languages have an initial “k”-sound letter due to a millennia-old linguistic change of the “p” sound to a “k” sound.
Only English and German use the *pagan* influence of Eostre/Ostara for “Easter” and “Ostern,” respectively.