Is Douchelini in Jail Yet??

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Gag me with a rusty spoon: Make America Pray Again? Gah.

You've got to think about it from the other end: he's going to make many otherwise not too religous people pray that he will not become #47.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Free]

I'm voting for Buden!

 

[Lexxi]

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"STOP INFLATION"? So no more growth, prosperity, etc.?

Inflation itself isn't the problem, it's stagflation, hyperinflation, etc., and a growing cost of living that doesn't match a similar growth in income.

 

[Cristiano]

Once again, MAGA stands for Making Attorneys Get Attorneys:

Judge recommends ex-Trump election lawyer John Eastman be disbarred

 

[Free]

And here I thought it was merely another opportunity to show himself as the antichrist.

 

[Noodles]

Why do you think his ex-wife is buried on the grounds of one of his golf courses?

Tangentially related

I remember there being speculation he had not buried her, but had buried evidence. If the golf course were forced to sell as part of this, I wonder if it would be worth the new owners digging her up.

 

[Noodles]

I'm voting for Buden!

I always loved their lunch meat.

Wait, that's not right either.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Tangentially related

I remember there being speculation he had not buried her, but had buried evidence. If the golf course were forced to sell as part of this, I wonder if it would be worth the new owners digging her up.

That was the joke!

 

[Cristiano]

LOL the Trump bible story gets even more bizarre as usual. It is a fucking scam:

 

[Soen Eber]

LOL the Trump bible story gets even more bizarre as usual. It is a fucking scam:

At 6:24 - "Oh the plywood!" *chokes*gags*

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

But why $60, you might ask? Glad to say because of the extra value we put in it: it is a copy of the King James Bible that also includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the “handwritten chorus” to the country song “God Bless the USA,” by Lee Greenwood

 

[Veritable Quandry]

But why $60, you might ask? Glad to say because of the extra value we put in it: it is a copy of the King James Bible that also includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the “handwritten chorus” to the country song “God Bless the USA,” by Lee Greenwood

For those who refuse to Google all of these public domain documents.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

AoC is fired up about the vote to oust Ilhan Omar

 

[Noodles]

But why $60, you might ask? Glad to say because of the extra value we put in it: it is a copy of the King James Bible that also includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the “handwritten chorus” to the country song “God Bless the USA,” by Lee Greenwood

Nah, my guess is $88 was "too obvious."

 

[Casey Pelous]

For those who refuse to Google all of these public domain documents.

Colbert on this: "And if you act now, we'll include a copy of the lyrics to Camptown Races AND a picture of Steamboat Willie!"

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The crooked Bible salesman in American popular culture -- seems Trump is conforming to a powerful stereotype here.

Why Trump Selling Bibles Now Is Too Perfect

This totally tracks.

slate.com

Evernote link

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Paper Moon was the first thought I had when I saw he was selling bibles.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Paper Moon was the first thought I had when I saw he was selling bibles.

This might be a closer parallel

By contrast, in the Coen brothers’ bluegrass-fueled jailbreak comedy adaptation of The Odyssey, the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the psychotic, one-eyed, loquacious Bible salesman Big Dan Teague (John Goodman) never appears to be innocent. Big and sweaty, he makes no secret of the fact that “it’s all about the money, boys.” After all, he declares, “people are looking for answers, and Big Dan sells the only book that’s got ’em.” Teague might be a smooth talker when it comes to selling “the truth,” but he beats Ulysses (George Clooney) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) senseless with a tree branch before running off with their car and cash.

Big Dan is also a member of the Ku Klux Klan and an active participant in an attempted lynching in the movie. Through this side of his character, the story adds to the Bible salesman trope, linking violence and theft disguised by religion to the South’s history of racial violence in the name of “culture and heritage.” Big Dan’s career as a Bible salesman is a metaphorical hood that allows him to get away with theft, while his Klan hood allows him—and the rest of the hate group—to get away with murder at night while maintaining the veneer of upstanding citizens by day.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I love how when you first see Goodman in O Brother he is clearly doing the part of the Cyclops in The Odyssey. But he has two good eyes. But later he is introduced as the Grand Cyclops in his Klan robes.