A friend who retired from D.C. to Arizona sent me this frightening story.
A televangelist says that if Biden wins, people will start have set with cattle.
My friend says they are locking up the cattle, just to be on the safe side.
A friend who retired from D.C. to Arizona sent me this frightening story.
A televangelist says that if Biden wins, people will start have set with cattle.
My friend says they are locking up the cattle, just to be on the safe side.

I guess this televangelist knows his flock very well to say this about them. And all this time we thought the privacy of the confessional was sacrosanct.
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LOL. But the fundies don’t have confession. They just have to carry this burden with them.
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No, that’s precisely why they have Televangeli$t$ like Pat Robertson to tell them that God will forgive them as long as they “repent!” (And send a check, of course)
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When my grandmother died and we picked up her mail, in it, alas, were thank you notes for contributions to one of these jackals, Jimmy Swaggart.
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The Televangelist Entreaty
You must repent!
And send a check
To make a dent
In sinning debt
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Shortly after her death, Swaggart was involved in a couple scandals, involving prostitutes, that led to his defrocking. My grandmother would not have been pleased. LOL.
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SDP, you are on a roll today!
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My grandmother tithed all her life, according to the old rule, 10 percent.
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But it fits right in with the schtick because no matter what you do and no matter how many times you sin, as long as you repent , God will forgive you.
This is precisely why do many people follow these Televangelist s because they assure them that God will always forgive them in the end.
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It’s basically a ” Get out of Hell free” card, except it’s not completely free customer they do have to keep sending in those checks.
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I saw a Frontline documentary once–I think it was Frontline–in which they visited one of these operations. Rows and rows of people opening envelopes with cash and checks in them. It’s a lucrative business, the faith con.
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It’s just another version of the indulgences people used to pay to the Catholic church, the primary reason for the Protestant Reformation.
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yup
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Jimmy Swaggart cried on TV:
I have sinned against you. 😂🤣
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Cried all the way to the Swiss Bank where he had stashed most of the loot.
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Has Joe Biden DENIED that he will be forcing people to have sex with cattle? Has the mainstream media not covered this important story?
Some rabid Trump supporters want us to know that the big danger to democracy is whether or not the media will report this conspiracy theory as fact!
That is the single most important issue to them in this election! And they will vote for the candidate who supports “freedom of the press” to require that these conspiracy theories be placed prominently in every news source and Americans forced to read them. And that would be their beloved Trump.
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This report and other absurdities come from Diane’s wide-ranging sources including the news from Dead State.
“Without resorting to clickbait and misinformation, DeadState highlights both the absurdity and triumphs of people, politics, current events, religion, and the overall human condition from an unapologetically secular progressive perspective.
The video is just one of perversions of reason featured on the website. The website also has brief bios about the writers who find examples of the scary reasoning and idiocy now abroad in the land.
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SDP, Yes God forgives. 😁 One is supposed to try not to repeat the sin and repent. 🙂
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And people are believing this? Where do they find these crazy stories?
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Trump has repeatedly warned that Biden will kill God and religion and close down churches. This from a man with no religion. Biden will also ban cows and do lots of other rabid things because he is a pawn in the hands of Bernie and AOC. His base believes him.
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Biden isn’t Hindu, so he has no reason to ban cows. 😐
It’s difficult to kill God. Even Communist countries can’t completely. 😐
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Is Frank Amedia associated with any voucher schools?
As far as “animalism” is concerned, Melania already sleeps with a man that is full of bull. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
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Hahaha … retired teacher. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Good one.
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retired That reminds me of the old joke about the Texan, in this case, Trump, who died, and was so big they couldn’t find a coffin big enough to bury him in . . . so they gave him an enema and buried him in a shoebox.
CBK
(Did I write that?)
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Good one!
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Are you sure they don’t sleep separately?
After all, Trump already believes he’s Lincoln so probably sleeps in Lincoln’s bedroom.
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Not sure how Mary Lincoln feels about that.
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After Melania caught Covid, Trump claimed that it would dispel rumors that the do not sleep together.
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Maybe she caught it from Mary Lincoln, who left her own bedroom for obvious reasons.
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Love it!
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An extreme white largely rural right-wing bloc has been around in America for decades. KKK was very powerful in the 20s/30s. This retrograde force will continue even if Biden wins after Nov. 3. far less focused once Trump leaves the scene, but still “standing by.” They are a minority of the electorate and of the population but they have been focused by Trump after 5 years of nonstop propaganda campaigns, and are armed, resistant to democratic persuasion. They can be marginalized, forced back to the periphery, if a militant democratic opposition consolidates folks of color, white liberals, progressive labor, immigrant advocates, women, environmental groups, queer groups, and urban community org’s. B/c the charismatic creature Trump has mobilized, incited, and legitimized his 42% fraction of the electorate into a raging force, the great danger after Nov. 3 should Biden win is that activist forces left of center will dissolve, many from awesome exhaustion, others assuming Joe can get the job done alone, and let the status quo drift back into its center-right domination which produced Trump and consolidated his MAGA minions in the first place. Perhaps hard to hear now after so many months of tireless opposition, but all of us must stay in the field for the long term, out-of-doors for as long as possible, vigilant, alert, b/c the job is not done and the damage will take long to repair when and if Biden wins.
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Well said, Ira. Even more frightening than Trump is the MAGA army he has assembled. They are not going away. The Republicans used to have intelligent candidates like Eisenhower, dare I say even Nixon, Bob Dole, Romney. Even when I didn’t agree with them,I didn’t think they were evil fascists. Trump is.
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I disagreed with Romney about just about everything, but this I know: he is a basically decent man. And so, when he came to speak at an event I attended a few years back, I was happy to shake his hand. I lived in Massachusetts when he was governor. He was willing to work across the aisle. He was willing to compromise. Obamacare was HIS program before it was Obamacare. It was the one he created for the state of Massachusetts. I don’t agree with him about a lot of things, but I respect him. More like him.
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Bob . . . and then there was that video . . . . CBK
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Diane, your opposition especially has to continue after Nov. 3 b/c Biden and his closest advisors are clueless on education. All of us have to weigh in with you but education is only one looted and abused sector. We will be fighting for health care, green planet policies, living wages, affordable housing, women’s equality, queer inclusion, and no more white violence or supremacy after Nov. 3. We’ve got the mental muscles for this task and we also are part of the majority in America, not them.
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You bet.
First, get rid of the fascist wannabe.
Then turn our attention to pushing hard on Joe to make sure he keeps his promises.
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Beautifully said, Ira!!!
BTW, I managed to get my Socialist card without doing the required cow ritual. Does this make it illegitimate?
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Bob I’m sure there are some grateful cows out there. Whew/mooo!
But I heard a news interview the other day with a Mexican fellow in California who had voted for Trump. Why? Because Biden and the democrats were, wait for it: “pandering too much to blacks and women.” . . . . . CBK
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It’s a crazy world, CBK!
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Great summary. The Biden White House, if it ever comes to be, will be confronted by hostility on the right that will say openly, as they did when Obama was elected, that they will not allow anything to proceed. Obstruct, blame the government for the trouble you caused by obstruction. Only an active and unifying person can bring us together around making the nation one again.
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The unifier has to be Biden.
Trump never changes. He lives to inflame and divide.
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Don’t forget Putin and his rubles plus his goons on social media.
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https://giphy.com/gifs/bernie-sanders-socialism-xTcnSPpiTnnvizsouc
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Did these guys’ school really ban critical thinking?
Something for after Tuesday to think about – but seriously – – what is the backstory on these people? What I really want to know: Where did they go to school?
What is the psychology of a conspiracy theorist (“theory” being in that description is a stretch). Not the “second shooter” theories or we Neil Armstrong landed in an Arizona desert – the real crazy thinking.
How did this guy and all like him grow up to where they actually believe this?
Flim-flam artists, snake oil salesmen, heck even the white guys on fox know exactly what they are doing. The reality-game show host in the white house does, too. (Only difference is the guy the guy in the WH somehow believes what he is selling is good -the others know they are just selling).
The preacher in “Footloose” knew everyone was going to hell but probably didn’t take every word in the book literally (which Kevin Bacon knew when he quoted scripture).
Spencer Tracy clapped the Bible with Darwin at the end of “Inherit the Wind” – but he didn’t wrap them up in the Enquirer.
But these guys? They are in another category.
So seriously – Who were their sixth grade teachers? Did they see it? (Mine would have nailed it in a second).
Who are these guys?
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My favorite scene:
REPORTER: Mr. Darrow, Mr. Darrrow, don’t you believe in the Bible?
DARROW: Believe in it? I’ve seen hundreds of them.
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The loon landing
Armstrong landed on the loon
And loon was not impressed
Said loon to Armstrong, “Watch your step!”
Or else you’ll be undressed
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The schools are at a disadvantage with these people because they are more influenced by their religious leaders because their families put the church and it’s pastors ahead of schools.
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Makes no sense whatsoever. I’m betting the majority of cattle ranchers and dairy farmers are members of the Cult of the Idiot. And don’t get me started on their views of sheep. Speaking of which, this even made the SNL news last night:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/stanford-researchers-trump-rallies-covid-deaths-infections.amp
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And if read the post correctly, it seems to me that we’ll be playing tennis with cows!
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Trump said, “They want to take out all the cows.” I thought he was talking about vegetarians, but I guess he was saying they want to take out all the cows — on dates. Wow. Giuliani’s already reaching down his pants in anticipation.
You know what, it’s not even a little funny because making fun of how daft Trump and all of his followers are is getting so old.
Why did we have to set the clocks back an hour last night? That’s one more hour we have to wait for this election to be over and Joe Biden to be president elect. It was leap year, too, this year. Argh! Time must go faster.
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I wonder if there is an online dating site for that.
If not maybe I will start one to get a jump on the stampede
Maybe
Cowharmony.com?
Or
CrossSpeciesmatch.com?
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Cowharmony.com
Meet the cow of your life
Meet your future wife
Harmony of cows
Browse their photos now!
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A little background that I wrote for my students in preparation for reading and performing in Antigone:
Cadmus. To the Southeast of Greece, across the Mediterranean Sea, lay Phoenicia and its major city, Tyre. There dwelt a young prince of divine lineage named Cadmus. His grandparents on his father’s side were Poseidon, god of the sea, and Libya, goddess of a portion of Northwest Africa. His grandfather on his mother’s side was Nilus, the Nile River.
When Cadmus was in his teens, the ruler of the Gods, Zeus, whose name means “sky” and who wields the power of the thunderbolt, abducted Cadmus’s sister, Europa. The girl had been picking wildflowers with friends when she saw an amazing thing: a white bull swimming across the sea to the shore. Taking human form, Zeus threw the girl onto his back. Then, taking the form of a bull again, he swam back out to sea.
Cadmus went searching for her. With several companions, he headed for Delphi to consult the oracle of the Apollo, god of truth and prophecy. The oracle told him to give up his fruitless quest. He could not go up against a god and succeed. The oracle then told him that he would encounter a cow with a crescent moon on her thigh. He was to follow this cow and, where she lay down, he was to found a city. For as far back has human memory extended, among many peoples, the cow had been sacred to the mother goddess. Among the Greeks, the goddess of women and marriage was Hera, wife of Zeus. Zeus had a history of abductions of mortal women, and Hera had a history of reacting to these. Perhaps it was she who sent the cow.
Cadmus followed the cow, and where she lay down, he founded the Greek city of Thebes (not the city by the same name in Egypt). As befitted so momentous and undertaking, Cadmus set about to sacrifice to the gods. Cadmus sent his companions to a nearby spring to gather water for the sacrifice, for sacrifices are a messy business.
Cadmus heard his companions scream. When he ran to them, he saw that they had been torn to pieces by a great, serpentine dragon, the guardian of the spring, which was sacred to Ares, god of war. Cadmus slew the dragon.
The goddess Athena appeared to Cadmus and told him to dig furrows and to sow the dragon’s teeth like seeds. This he did, and from the furrows sprang armed warriors, the Spartoi. Fearful of these, Cadmus threw a jewel among them, and the warriors set about fighting with one another over this jewel until only five were left. These Spartoi became the ancestors of the nobles of Thebes.
Cadmus brought with him from Carthage the Phoenician alphabet, which became the basis of the Greek alphabet. So, he was the semidivine embodiment of learning. The gods gave him Harmonia—harmony, beauty, divine proportion—to be his wife. And so learning and harmony, Cadmus and Harmonia, were wed.
All the Olympian gods attended the wedding. Among these was Aphrodite, goddess of love; wife of Hephaestus, god of welding and the forge; and lover of Ares, the god of war. Perhaps in anger over the killing of the dragon who guarded Ares’s spring, Aphrodite presented Harmonia with a necklace that carried a curse. The curse would follow Cadmus and his descendants for generations to come.
Cadmus and Harmonia had several children. One was Semele, who became a priestess of Zeus. One day, after a sacrifice, Semele went swimming in a river to wash herself of the blood. Zeus came to her in the form of an eagle. When Semele became pregnant, Hera in her mysterious way knew this, and the goddess visited Semele in the form of an elderly woman, or crone. She sowed doubt in Semele’s mind about the identity of this lover who claimed to be a god. Semele demanded that Zeus show himself to her in his true form. Few can look upon a god and survive. When Zeus showed himself, Semele was immediately incinerated as by lightening. Zeus snatched the baby from the fire. The baby was Dionysus, god of wine and revelry and of the harvest.
Oedipus. Things went badly for Cadmus in Thebes. Eventually, he abdicated in favor of his son, Polydorus. Polydorus ruled only briefly, as did his son, Labdacus, after him. In keeping with the curse, Labdacus was killed in battle while still quite young. Labdacus’s son, Laius, became king and married Jocasta. The Delphic oracle foretold that Laius would sire a son who would grow up to kill him. So, when Jocasta bore a son, the couple had the feet of the child pierced with a stake and ordered a servant to expose the child on a mountainside.
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Is that your cowharmony bio?
Clearly you are hoping to attract the intellectual type.
Best of luck!
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I hate cowharmony. I’m Jewish, so I would go to jcowdate, but all the cowdating sites are junk. If you want a date, just go up to a bovine in the grass aisle of the market and use a pickup line. How now, brown cow? Going to dating sites is what Trump calls herd mentality, so I have online herd immunity. Ha, Donald, ha!
By the way, funny you should mention Ancient Greece because, just yesterday, I was reading a John Henry Newman essay called, “University Life at Athens”: “So now let us fancy our Scythian, or Armenian, or African, or Italian, or Gallic student, after tossing on the Saronic waves, which would be his more ordinary course to Athens, at last casting anchor at Piræus. He is of any condition or rank in life you please, and may be made to order, from a prince to a peasant.” For thousands of years, school has been the opposite of DeVos’ vision. Schools and instruction have always been meant to be diverse and inclusive of all. DeVos has the intellect of a cow. Still wouldn’t date her.
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Your wordplay is superb!
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“Herd mentality”
Every time the word was heard
I found it quite absurd
The udders thought the word was herd
The word they had inferred
But udder word had not occurred
To udders in the herd
This udder herd had heard the word
That udders had inferred
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SomeDAM Poet,
LOVE it.
I needed that laugh.
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I hope you have some idea what I said cuz I sure don’t.
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Too funny! We have to laugh at this. There has never been an election like this.
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We have never had a president like this, surrounded by his own swamp.
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Is this what some time cattle watcher and teacher VAM inventor William Sanders meant by Value Added Model?
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That’s a good one!
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The preacher should really be more clear. By “people” he means men. Women have far more sense.
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LMAO
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Republican women only go for elephants? And Democratic women only for Donkeys?
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Frank Amedia is a regular on Jim Bakker’s show. 😐
He converted from Judaism to Christianity, way back in 1980. 😐
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My wife and I have not been to church since the COVID-19 struck. We are Catholics by faith. Never missed a Sunday. But, this evangelical moron and others just like him are exactly why I may not be returning to church when things get back to normal. It is beyond me why the Catholic Church, the Evangeilical Churches, and others of the Christian faith have been so willing to bow down to Trump and his evil vile diabolical ways. It really makes me question what is going on with Christianity in this country.
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One of my best friends is a devout Christian. She detests Trump, who represents everything she loathes.
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Some say loathe, it is a river that drowns the tender reed
Some say loathe, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say loathe, it is a hunger, an endless senseless tweet
I say loathe, it is a Donald, and “vote for its defeat”
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When people tell me they are Christian, I now ask if they are Classic Jesus or Republican Jesus. You will know the answer by the look on their faces.
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LOL, LisaM. That’s perfect.
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Jewsus
Jesus was a Jew
And he was Christian too
So Jesus was a Jewsus
And prolly to confuse us
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Hi SomeDAMPoet. Jesus wasn’t Christian. It took decades to split Christianity from Judaism. 😐
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Smart comment.
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Is Michael Jordan Jordanian?
I would say yes, even though he is not from Jordan.
Of course, Jesus was not technically a Christian , but Jesus was Christian in the sense that he established what it means to be Christian. He started Christianity, for God’s sake😀
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moeone2015, Diane, and all: Below is a link to a review of a new book Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister. The review is written by Timothy Troutner, a doctoral student of theology at University of Notre Dame.
In my view, Troutner gives a good background and a well-deserved critical analysis of what the authors refer to as Integralism, which apparently is nebulous enough to include non-Catholic movements that share their severely right-wing and retrograde ideas.
The review helps us answer your question by providing some understanding of the background forces that are going on in Catholic/political circles in the U.S. today.
I was glad to see such a review written from the mind of someone undergoing an education at Notre Dame. CBK
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/new-integralists
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I can assure you that a great diversity of views coexist within many religious traditions. The problem is that trump supporters have seized the chance to tell us all, and quiet believers like my mother keep to themselves. The result is a great move to the trump end of the scale due to no one challenging the ridiculous assertions of the trumpists .
The other aspect of the matter is that the fastest growing demographic is the one that never attends church.
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Someone should tell him that it’s called “bestiality.”
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I am loyal to Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and Kamala Devi Harris. 😁
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Moooo. Baaaa
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Either stop flirting or tell us what moovie you want to see.
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FWIW, I can say with certainty that I will not start having sex with cattle if Biden wins. Just to make sure, I finished having sex with all my cattle early this morning, to avoid the rush.
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. . . raising the question about discernments of the bovine type. CBK
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The same people who believe this are the ones who believed in Russian Collusion and a sex party from 20 years ago for a SCOTUS nominee with no witnesses. #idiots.
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