(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . It's the Hypocrisy AND the Theocracy, Stupid! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-11-06 Three years ago, voters denied Donald Trump’s bid to re-up. To this day, he and most of his cult deny that fact- while smearing to highest Heaven anyone who tries to heal our Trump-maimed body politic. In a broad sense, there’s been nothing new under the sun. According to the centuries old, grossly underreported, ever-more-prevalent (especially in politics) Christian antinomianism heresy, a ‘special’ person or group can (and should) chart his, her, or its own course- free, in effect, from moral, behavioral, or legal constraint. (As you might imagine, that boils down to ‘we’re so great that whatever we do is fine by, nay, beloved of the Almighty.’ That is to say, ‘Bow to us while we play God.’) The devil take the hindmost; full screed ahead. In keeping with that, the Odious Orange Ogre- who rarely-but-fervently styles himself Christian- admits (on tape) that he has felt free to habitually “grab” random women’s nether zones (a spree of evildoing that DOZENS of women corroborate). You might say antinomianism denotes ‘freedom for me and my side, but not for thee and thy side.’ Enter Trump surrogate Kelly (Mrs. Mike) Johnson. On anything or anyone not 100% sexually conventional, the self-styled squeaky clean House Speaker’s spouse dumps brimstone by the boatload. Trouble is, some of her purportedly least favorite things have been unabashedly indulged in by none other than Big Blonder Himself. Indeed, her list (see Salon’s “A Kind of Stepford Wife…,” 11/1/23) of damnable delectations includes adultery. Fornication. Homosexuality. Bisexuality. Incest [cf., by the way, the quintessentially antinomian Genesis 19:30-38]. Bestiality. And the ever-amorphous “pornography” (which neither she nor the Bible makes bold to define). Oops. Perhaps she fails to notice how much truck Big Blonder Himself has had with some of the above. Voila. The perfect storm- in the person of Stormy Daniels. Soon after presumably vowing, to our now ex-FLOTUS Melania, to forsake all others, The Donald dallied with said porn star. (Let it be stressed: rather than “forsaking,” he went a-fornicating! And a-pornicating! With a cynosure of “pornography,” no less! And that spells A-D-U-L-T-E-R-Y!) Surely our vigilant, vice-averse Kelly should be up in arms, ready to launch an internecine coup!!! Oh, well. Mike, her spouse, is now the Trump Cult’s rising star. He claims his worldview on any issue embodies pure, distilled Scripture. (Translation: he’s WAY holier-than-thou. You’d better believe what he says, goes.) Trouble is, antinomians are all-too-human. At his installment as Speaker, Mike took pains to make Kelly’s absence conspicuous. To that end, he blathered that, having “spent the last couple of weeks on her knees in prayer to the Lord” (for the strength needed to sit through the ceremony?), she was, “uh, a little worn out.” Hmmm. On her knees. Wearing herself out. Yeah. Right. For 10-15 seconds after reading Mike’s nonsense, I tried to take his words at face value. No dice. Smack on the face of it, you need not be Fellini, Freud, Daniels, Dr. Ruth, or Amanda Marcotte (author of the above-cited “A Kind of Stepford Wife….”) to divine the innuendo that MAGA Mike (with such antinomian glee) unleashed. Hello. Smack on the face of it, prayer tends to uplift, not indispose. Honestly. For work, school, or any function whatsoever, have you ever heard of anyone pleading ‘I couldn’t make it because talking to the Lord wore me out?’ Wouldn’t Mike have been more plausible if he’d said, ‘She fell out the window’ or, ‘the dog ate her homework?’ To me, the video evidence looks clear. On hitting the word “worn” (see YouTube, etc.), he breaks into a leering, lascivious sneer. (If that doesn’t evince concern for the wrong kind of body politic, it’s hard to imagine what could.) Of course, the GOP’s antinomian Regent Uber Alles is The Donald. As if to seize the moral high ground from below, he smears our devout, devoted, decent Catholic President Biden as a “corrupt….crooked….SleazeBag” (“’The same can happen to you…,’” Raw Story, 10/30). On and on, the GOP pot calls the stove top black. For two decades, Garry “Doonesbury” Trudeau has pegged Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) “The Gropenfuhrer.” In this limited space, suffice to say: that grim-but-apt tag fits Big Blonder to a “T.” In reality, it’s hard to imagine how Mr. Biden could be less sleaze-baggy- or Trump, more so. In all, can we talk? Are we allowed to tell anything but lies? Truth to tell, personal and/or political evil in the name of Christ has no place in this country. We don’t need a Leader (or cult) who’ll Make America Grope Again. And Again. And Again. Better late than never, let’s grasp the theocrats’ unholy perfidy- and pull out all stops to quash it. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/6/2203612/-It-s-the-Hypocrisy-AND-the-Theocracy-Stupid?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/