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Thanks for that. I haven’t seen South Park in a few years and hadn’t seen that clip.
Yes, thank you. I’m not anti-Reagan by any means, but few people seem to understand that being married to another woman, while an ex-wife is still alive, is something the Bible also considers adulterous. Biblically, marriage is a life-long commitment, even if one is divorced by earthly law.
Which is not to say that Reagan’s character was as bad as Trump’s. Trump is (allegedly) lying about his attempts to keep the indiscretion out of public view. If true, that’s a bad thing.
What’s ridiculous is how Shapiro’s tweet is being blown out of proportion. It’s surprising that Candace Owens whinged about it the way she did. Shapiro merely tweeted the word “no” a few times, to a celebrity 10 times more influential than himself. Are we to believe Kanye West feels bullied, or even disrespected by such?
If Shapiro was envious of the attention West was getting, he’d be happy to see him undermine his own credibility, with an Alex Jones interview.
Who said anything about Kanye feeling bullied or disrespected? I have no idea how Kanye felt.
What’s the view when you’ve been involuntarily divorced? As I understand it the divorce was pursued by Jane Wyman, not Reagan. Their’s became a story to match A Star is Born as her career was in ascension while his was in decline.
(Supposedly Reagan was asked if there was a corespondent in the case and he replied “Johnny Belinda.” Now for you youngsters who don’t know what divorce was like before the 1960s, anyone who sued for dissolution of a marriage had to show grounds, and in many states suing over adultry meant you had to “name names” of who your spouse was cheating with. That was known as the corespondent. “Johnny Belinda” was the title of the movie for which Wyman won her Oscar in 1948. The Reagans divorced in ‘49.)
The same.
The point is, the OP correctly observes that American culture wandered away from Christian standards quite a while ago. If French has seen some Evangelicals defending Trump for lying, or for the affair itself, then I guess he may be right to call them out. The rest of conservative Evangelical-dom can still be reasonably expected to support Trump, so long as he is our defense against the likes of Obama, et al.
OK, so what’s your objection to Shapiro’s comment? If you don’t think it’s bullying, then what’s wrong with it? Is it somehow overbearing? What did he do wrong?
I said it was “ridiculous”. Ben should mind his own business.
Alex’s show used to be about 20% actual serious guests. Now, not so much. lol
So Trump is actually John Connor? Who knew?
Well, I guess Alex Jones did.
On every front, SoCons lose. They lose to the progressives, they lose to the libertarians, they lose to the FisCons. So, it is rich for those same people to point fingers at the SoCons and blame them for making what they think is the only winning strategy they can find, which is to support a flawed man who has treated them better than they have gotten from anyone else.
This constant urge to make voting in your own self-interest into a moral failing is simply nuts. The whole flipping point is to vote in your own self interest.
Ben, like Candace Owens, is a professional minder of other people’s business. You are doing it for free right now, as am I.
The whole reason they’re talking about Kanye West is that West strayed from his business (music) to talk about politics (which is, by nature, other people’s business).
Exactly!
It’s quite a leap from politics being other people’s business to Shapiro tweeting about who Kanye should not talk to, which is specifically what I found to be ridiculous.
It’s not a leap. It’s not even a step, shift, or shimmy. This whole discussion is about politics. Kanye West was talking about politics, and was allegedly going on a political show, to discuss his political comments. I don’t understand why it’s even note-worthy that Shapiro, a professional political commentator, would voice an opinion on that.
“Political media guy has an opinion on political media goings-on. Story at 10.”
Best photo-shop yet!