Some Big Organizations Have More Muck To Muckity In Than Others
Okay. So, say you're a major muckity muck in a big organization. Like, international big, with over a billion followers. It happens. Now, further suppose that people in your organization have been doing naughty things to people in their care. You know, morally reprehensible...naughty things. If the well-being of the people who put their faith in you is as important as you claim in your sermons that it is, you will expel the wrong-doers from your organization, allowing them to be dealt with by the criminal justice system.
The Vatican went in a different direction.
According to Cardinal Raymond Burke, who was once under threat of imminent Popedom, Catholicism's problem with child sexual abuse has nothing to do with toxic masculinity or the sexual repression that it charmingly refers to as "celibacy." No, it's all the fault of those...girls who infiltrated the club house and completely changed how its members played with their toys. You can see his point: when a woman was chosen as Pope, the Church went completely to hell.
Decent people own up to their problems and commit themselves to being better in the future. Deplorables blame others for the forest of trees in their own eyes. And, why not? Senior members of the Catholic Church have been residents in the basket of deplorables for decades, before there even was a basket of deplorables, really, and the institution has managed to carry on pretty well...<'p>
A Couple Of Minutes On Facebook Would Show Him Who The Real Adorables Are
Pity the President.
His winks and nods to anti-Semites resulted in a sharp spike in hate crimes against Jews. A lot of people, including people close to him, advised him to denounce those hate crimes; a lot of people can be insensitive to the needs of the highest office in the land that way. But, if he did that, the people he had been winking and nodding to would think that his flirting with them was insincere. Then, how would he get a date to the Hostility Hoedown when he needed it in 2020?
This is Donald Trump's compromise: he will say that attacks on Jews are "reprehensible," then suggest that some of them are being perpetrated by Jewish people themselves to make others look bad. (Since the only person Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump, you can imagine how he defines "others" in this context.)
The belief that anti-Semitic attacks are "false flag operations" is supported by KKK leader David Duke; that should be enough to declare a deplorable level orange. Henh henh - kind of appropriate, that. But, ahem, seriously. The Deplorable-in-Chief may enjoy his penthouse suite in the basket, but that's no reason for him to delude himself into believing that he's actually living in the basket of adorables.
Coulter, But No Wiser
Most people look at pictures of women and children running away from tear gas at the Mexican border with the United States with disgust. It takes a rare person to look at such images and think, Pussies. Let's see how they like it when we replace the teargas with bullets!
Anne Coulter is just that person.
It's hard to know what Coulter is really trying to say amidst this maelstrom of verbiage, but the gist seems to be: posse comitatus, schmosse schmomitatus, evil liberal bastards are tying the hands of our poor, hard-done by soldiers by not letting them gun down women and children. And, anyway, if immigrants don't respect our borders, why should bullets? Shoot them! Shoot them now! Sovereignty, schmovereignty - haven't I already made clear my feelings about international law? Do I need to club a baby seal for you?
As long as the baby seal had its own club to defend itself...
Hmm...Women...Jews...Latin Americans...I Can't Help But Feel That We're Missing A Minority To Scapegoat, Here...
And, if you were expecting a younger generation of Christians to be more...undeplorable...
I suppose Matt Powell is a kinder, gentler homophobe. He wouldn't, for instance, put homosexuals to death himself - he has probably never picked up a stone in anger.
Powell has a somewhat...limited idea of what the government's job is. Executing criminals is certainly part of it. And, killing foreign weirdos in other parts of the world before they kill us. And, of course, supporting foreign dictators with weapons and other treats if they are willing to pay us for them. ...And, there may be some other, less tangible good reasons for having governments, but I can't think of them at the ever...
And, don't even get me started on the "humane, you know, putting to death." I imagine a scenario like: sitting in a hospital bed at the age of 87 surrounded by your children and grandchildren, watching videos of 80s-era disco hits and Barbara Streisand movies. I'm not gay, but I can imagine worse ways to go.
But, then again, I don't live in the basket of deplorables, I just write about those who do, so what do I know about humane, you know, putting to death...
