Cable Forum - President Trump 2.0

The US religious right forms one of the MAGA strands and they're quite sensitive to this type of thing. One of Trump's many self-defeating posts. :dunce:

Yes, clearly someone’s managed to get through to him and convince him this was an especially stupid piece of social media trolling, even by his low standards. The casual, implausible lie by way of explanation is a classic of the genre. It’s brazen, and contemptuous of his voter base who, you have to assume, are the only ones they can expect to be fooled by it.

Paul	13-04-2026 21:23

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Yeah, seems it didnt go down well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17v8y0z9z2o

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The AI-generated image, which showed Trump appearing to heal a sick man in a hospital bed, sparked fierce backlash from both sides of the US political spectrum, including from some of Trump's most ardent supporters.

Hugh	16-04-2026 23:11

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I think I preferred it when the President of the USA wasn’t a whiny, petty, little bitch…

1andrew1

17-04-2026 07:38

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36214016)

I think I preferred it when the President of the USA wasn’t a whiny, petty, little bitch…

Strange hiring descision criteria.

Sephiroth

17-04-2026 09:39

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Originally Posted by Dingbat (Post 36213914)

Not as if he hasn’t got form in denigrating the Pope and the Catholic Church.

What’s not to denigrate? Ponzi comes to mind.

Carth

17-04-2026 09:50

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36214016)

I think I preferred it when the President of the USA wasn’t a whiny, petty, little bitch…

I've got to the stage where I preferred it when America was yet to be discovered.
Nothing but trouble ever since :D

Hugh	17-04-2026 13:22

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Originally Posted by Dingbat (Post 36213914)

Not as if he hasn’t got form in denigrating the Pope and the Catholic Church.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36214037)

What’s not to denigrate? Ponzi comes to mind.

Sorry, you’ve confused me - a Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors; how is the Pope and/or the Roman Catholic Church like that?

Sephiroth

17-04-2026 13:39

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36214047)

Sorry, you’ve confused me - a Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors; how is the Pope and/or the Roman Catholic Church like that?

I doubt that I've confused you! I suppose you're trying to be literal about the meaning of a Ponzi scheme.

In this case, the Pope (and/or his predecessors) is/are the "first investor" and the subscribing flock are the existing/renewable flock. Then there is whatever the Catholic church invests in so as to grow its riches.

Generally, peops know what I mean.

The CoE is another such Ponzi scheme - perhaps even more so.

TheDaddy

17-04-2026 13:41

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36214047)

Sorry, you’ve confused me - a Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors; how is the Pope and/or the Roman Catholic Church like that?

I wouldn't worry about it Hugh, if it's what I think it is it's an old, a baseless slur based on diocese donations, it's ignorant and best ignored imho

1andrew1

17-04-2026 13:50

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Keeping to religion, this is my funniest MAGA moment of the week!

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Pete Hegseth quotes Samuel L. Jackson’s fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during sermon

A prayer delivered by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appeared to paraphrase a speech from the cult class movie Pulp Fiction, rather than scripture.

Viewers watching Hegseth’s sermon during a Pentagon worship service on Wednesday were left scratching their heads and questioning whether he had just quoted Samuel L. Jackson’s famous monologue.

While discussing the Sandy 1 rescue mission, which brought back downed pilots stranded in Iran earlier this month, Hegseth urged his audience to join him in a prayer that he said was delivered at the start of the mission.

Hegseth said the prayer, “CSAR 25:17,” which stands for “Combat Search and Rescue,” is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17. He then urged his audience to pray with him.

Instead of the scripture Hegseth mentioned, his prayer appears to mirror the fictional Ezekiel 25:17 that Samuel L Jackson’s character, Jules Winnfield, delivered before killing a character in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2959108.html

Hugh	17-04-2026 13:52

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36214049)

I doubt that I've confused you! I suppose you're trying to be literal about the meaning of a Ponzi scheme.

In this case, the Pope (and/or his predecessors) is/are the "first investor" and the subscribing flock are the existing/renewable flock. Then there is whatever the Catholic church invests in so as to grow its riches.

Generally, peops know what I mean.

The CoE is another such Ponzi scheme - perhaps even more so.

You would be mistaken - I was confused, and as a (lapsed) Catholic, I had never heard of the RC Church (or indeed any religion) described this way before…

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