Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone held a rally in Harrisburg earlier this week where he announced that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. next year.
If anyone could be said to be the very embodiment of evil, fanatical conservatism, it’s Saccone, who often drapes himself in American flag clothing, totes a bible, and is most seriously pro-gun. Now Saccone is claiming to be the very important representative of one ‘god’ to rule all.
In the radio interview, Saccone said that if Christians “don’t get involved in government, the government will get involved in you, and you won’t like the results. The government will run over you and you won’t have any say it. So Christians have to stand up and make sure that they have a say in their government and that they’re protecting their rights and our religious liberties which are being trampled on every day across this nation. If we don’t speak out, those liberties will be taken away. You can see it day after day, case after case.”
Right, much better to have our rights trampled by fanatical christians! It will be a more righteous kind of slavery, you’ll see!
“God has set out a plan for us,” he continued. “He wants godly men and women in all aspects of life. He wants people who will rule with the fear of God in them to rule over us. And if they don’t, then the evil side will take over and the government will control and run over the good people and so they have to stand up, that’s just part of it. If you don’t have good people in government, then you’ll have bad people in government—and when bad people are reigning over us, the people will not be happy.”
Well, you got part of that right. Yes, we have bad people in government, you would be one of them, dipshit. All those bad people in government do indeed make me unhappy, and that’s an understatement. There are no fucking gods, but if you want to delude yourself, fine. Keep your delusion to yourself, please. It has zero business intruding into my life, at any level. Decent people of Pennsylvania, I think you know what to do. Make sure this wannabe Sauron is smacked down, hard.
Via RWW.
Today we have a bonus near-fatal eyeroll, from Lance Wallnau, of course.
“A lot of us don’t watch the Academy Awards because it’s so irritating with the politics,” Wallnau said. “All night they’re bashing Trump, all night they set up this imaginary Donald Trump figure and beat him like a pinata. And then when it comes time for them to do the best picture, they screw it up, they have the wrong envelope. Hollywood evidently knows enough to lecture the president and the rest of the country on what the president’s policy should be, but they don’t know enough to find their own envelopes.”
“All night long they’re beating up on Donald Trump and the headlines the next day [are] how screwed up the Academy Awards was,” Wallnau continued. “I don’t know how long this grace is going to be on Donald Trump but, I’ll tell you what, there’s an anointing on that guy and God literally makes his enemies look foolish.”
This is what your puny god has? And you’re…bragging about that? Holy shit, dude, that’s flat out embarrassing. You should be having a chat with ol’ Jehovah, let it know that it really needs to step up its game.
Via RWW.
rq says
Ow, my face. And my eyes.
Kengi says
Yesterday there was a banana peel on the floor right in my path. That goofy Jehovah was at it again!
Kengi says
Wait. Does that explain why God gave Trump a Twitter account?
Marcus Ranum says
“God has set out a plan for us,”
…. and god’s plan appears at present for religion to get out of the public sphere. Why U hate god’s plan?!?
Marcus Ranum says
Decent people of Pennsylvania, I think you know what to do.
Most of my neighbors still have Trump signs up, and many fly confederate flags. Which decent people of Pennsylvania are you speaking to?
Caine says
Marcus:
People such as yourself. Y’know, decent, as opposed to indecent, like Trump fans and flag wavers.
Marcus Ranum says
Caine@#6:
People such as yourself.
I think there’s one other liberal FtB reader between here and Philadelphia. But most liberals out here are under cover.