So when it came down to a choice between her faith and Trump, she ditched her faith. Yeah, that checks.
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Karoline Levitt ditches religious necklace after Jon Stewart’s brutal joke: ‘Some sort of weird Pinocchio cross’
(www.independent.co.uk)
I grew up with people like this. The cross is purely for virtue signalling. It has no real value to them other than being like a Costco membership card to get access to manipulate people who are easily manipulated by such things.
Near where I live a church put up one of those 50 foot tall aluminum-siding crosses.
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There are still hungry and homeless people, but that's how you choose to spend your money?
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If you have to put up a giant symbol to show you're a church, you're probably not a very good church. After all, as some guy who I'm totally blanking on his name once said, you will know a tree by the fruits it bears.
If you have to put up a giant symbol to show you're a church, you're probably not a very good church.
Insert "awkward look monkey puppet" meme dressed as a bishop with an ornate Gothic cathedral in the background
Are you 100% certain it's not a cell phone tower?
These are often just appear as a sheet metal pillar from the outside. If you see a small windowless concrete hut surrounded by a fence somewhere on the property, the church could be leasing to a telecom and hiding the antennas inside their oversized idol. Icing on the cake is that this is often a method the telecoms use to hide their operations from local municipalities so that they can avoid taxes until caught.
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Grifters like Trump are her faith. Now she's just being honest.
Here is an easy way to tell: If someone wears a cross, that isn't a strong indication of faith. If a cross wears them, that's a pretty strong indication of faith.
Why would she have to give up her faith to be duplicitous and deliberately cruel?
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Jon Stewart and getting fascists to change their neckwear. Is there a more iconic duo?
Given Tukkker's career arc post-Crossfire, this might actually be good for Leavitt.
She'll end up podcasting from her basement and irradiating her testicles with manosphere-branded red lights?
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I want the unimaginable amount of harm Bimbo-Goebbeles is doing to be called out. She's not just lying, she's actively normalized institutional gaslighting, basically setting up the premise necessary for the public to have just enough doubt about the veracity of the horrific stuff they'll hear about that it empowers the fascists to move on to more and more horrible deeds... Holy smokes this bunch is dangerous
This is what Trump's first term was like too. All of those press secretaries were lying their asses off in every briefing.
Everything about this term is the same except for Project 2025 and DOGE. Granted, those are pretty huge, but nothing else surprises me.
There was a Heritage Foundation document for 2016 as well. There has been one for every president since Regan.
Yeah, I dunno why people act like project 25 is some crazy new scheme they cooked up. This is part of their standard play book.
Except Stephanie Grisham. Bet you forgot about her, and that's because she didn't hold any press conferences at all.
Hiding in bushes…
It’s fucked up on another level, too. She knows she’s lying her ass off. Why would she remove the cross otherwise?
As being a narcissistic sociopath is basically a prerequisite for working in this administration, she likely doesn't handle ridicule well, and thus no cross.
Lordy, this is good:
On Monday night, Stewart skewered Leavitt, saying, “By the way, I think that the more she lies, the bigger her cross gets. Is that possible? It’s like some sort of weird Pinocchio cross.”
But this requires a desperate call to the local burn unit:
The host also noted that Leavitt is likely to be “the only one” who will be able to leave the administration “unscathed … Because I don’t think that she has any principles in there left to die.”
I don't know much about this person, but my attention has been drawn. And I shamefully admit, I'll be looking to hear of the size of a crucifix she might choose to wear on any given day.
Choose one too small, and one might question her lack of faith. If missing altogether, it could be interpreted as blasphemy.
That’s a ‘T for Trump’ cross isn’t it?
The World State is built upon the principles of Henry Ford's assembly line: mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods. While the World State lacks any supernatural-based religions, Ford himself is revered as the creator of their society but not as a deity, and characters celebrate Ford Day and swear oaths by his name (e.g., "By Ford!"). In this sense, some fragments of traditional religion are present, such as Christian crosses, which had their tops cut off to be changed to a "T", representing the Ford Model T.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#The_World_State_and_Fordism
Man don’t give them any ideas.
That’s disgusting blasphemy and I’m not even religious. I get it though, he’s their god.
BRUTAL
The burning sensation became too intense.
Sorry there Baghdad Barbie II: Fascist Boogaloo, you already broke that whole thou shall not bear false witness multiple times, you're still going to hell and removing your fake symbol isn't going to help that.
You are talking about, TACO Belle.
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TACO Belle needs a new icon.
Here's a necklace idea for TACO Belle:
Hopefully Kristi Noem Is triggered and pulls out her SOP for bad puppies.
That was her takeaway? “Maybe I shouldn’t be lying so much with this thing on.”
But it’s still ok to lie. Without the cross.
There's only one kind of acceptable neckwear for a fascist
God is not with the fucked up MAGAts.
I'm shocked she didn't change it up to a cross with Trump on it. Shit, I better not give them ideas
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