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November 2016

November 02, 2016

DO NOT MISS THIS: Jon Stewart Teaches Us How To Win A Twitter War With the Nation’s Village Idiot: Donald Trump–Hilarious!

(Photo YouTube) Speaking at the Stand Up For Heroes benefit in New York on Tuesday...

November 02, 2016

When Trump loses the election the only unifying issue evangelicals will have left is their hatred of Hillary Clinton

(Photo YouTube) White Evangelicals support Donald Trump. Writing in the Guardian Anthea Butler notes that...

November 01, 2016

Do not miss this! NEW & Spooky/Funny President Barack Obama (best president in the last 50 years) on Full Frontal interviewed by my friend Samantha Bee (most perceptive news person in non-news-comedy) WATCH

(Photo Facebook) When Samantha Bee's show interviewed me I had a lot of fun... great...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

#HillaryIsGreat

(Photo YouTube) Four years from now you'll admit I was right. Hillary is great. WATCH...

October 29, 2016

Priceless Bill Maher Analysis do NOT Miss this 6 min Truth telling on FBI “bombshell” and False Moral Equivalency! (Hilarious too)

(Photo YouTube) False Hillary/Trump "Moral" equivalency (and idiot voters) exposed by Bill Maher ... WATCH...

October 29, 2016

Sex or Trump? You can’t have both. NEW STUDY FINDS 60% OF AMERICANS WOULD RATHER STAY SINGLE and forego sex THAN DATE A TRUMP SUPPORTER

(Photo YouTube) When it comes to dating and sex, Trump supporters are still a better...

October 28, 2016

Do not miss Seth Meyers doing the best job (so far) of Explaining Trump’s wrecking of the Republican Party

Do not miss Seth Meyers doing the best job (so far) of Trump's wrecking of...

October 28, 2016

It Is With Great Joy That I Present The Most Magnificently Bizarre Trump TV Add Ever (For Real!) And Thus Prove God and/or the Universe Isn’t Laughing WITH America But AT America– Do NOT Miss This!

(Photo YouTube) When your grandchildren and/or aliens from another planet ask "Just how weird did...

October 27, 2016

The Disinherited: There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of step with the rest of America: if you live in a pretend world for long enough you snap

(Photo YouTube) There is a reason that the white American underclass is so out of...

October 26, 2016

InterVarsity Follows the TRUMP-VERSION of “JESUS” and Gordon College’s in HARD Turn to the Homophobic anti-Gay (Trumpian GOP) Right

InterVarsity is joining the ranks of what might be called the Ralph Reed/Jerry Falwell...

October 24, 2016

TRUMP: Aging White’s Last Gasp — “End Times” fans signed on for Armageddon then found an alternative reality presidential candidate

(Photo YouTube) # Nostalgia for the lost era of white male boomer control created the...

October 24, 2016

“TRUMP SEEKS REFUGE IN ECUADORIAN LONDON EMBASSY AND IS SHARING ROOM WITH JULIAN ASSANGE”… and other fantasy headlines my Facebook Family and I came up with

(New Jersey monthly Photo/YouTube) Frank Schaeffer Published by Facebook Mentions · 20 hrs ·...

October 23, 2016

Don’t Miss This! WATCH Tom Hanks Give Nervous TRUMPED America The Pre-Election “Dad” Talk We All Needed Needs On ‘SNL’

(Photo YouTube) TOM HANKS -- “America’s Dad” sat down with us for a quiet pep...

October 21, 2016

I think it is time we talk to our “enemies” when we can… When Trump is gone, what’s left? We have to rebuild… so I’m starting a new blog with a self-described redneck evangelical (Luke Moon). We plan to act as if we can get along and have a rational discussion about life, faith and politics. Here’s our first joint effort. I hope you follow us.

I think it is time we talk to our “enemies” when we can… When Trump...

October 20, 2016

POST 3RD DEBATE HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS: TRUMP WON’T ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULT AND SO TRUMP’S PASSED FROM MERELY BEING HORRIBLE TO TREASONOUS

(photo YouTube) Putin is waging a global campaign to discredit the very idea of...

October 19, 2016

Imagine if God answered these Christian prayers about abortion…?

(Photo YouTube) "For those who would like to see fewer abortions, perhaps it’s time for...

October 19, 2016

One Picture Says It All: Here’s the Real Trump “Legacy”

(a gun ad that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal photo Twitter) “I got three words...

October 18, 2016

THIS IS BIG-BREAKING NEWS…President Obama’s Most Important Statement of his Presidency: The election is not “rigged.” (President to Trump “STOP Whining!”)

(Photo YouTube) Breaking News... President Must Defend Democracy Itself Against a Would be Fascist: A...

October 18, 2016

Here’s the Best overall Commentary on Trump, America, the media and the fact-free Right of 2016: DO NOT MISS THIS 15 Min BILL MAHER INTERVIEW WITH FAREED ZAKARIA – CNN

(Photo Twitter) This Bill Maher (15 min) interview on the overall meaning and threat of...

October 16, 2016

Trump Is No Aberration to Christianity, In Fact Trump Is the Perfect Christian Candidate: He Actually Represents the Worst of What Might Be Called “Deep Christianity”

(photo YouTube: Christian leaders praying for Trump to win) ``````` Trump is the prefect Christian...

October 15, 2016

Trump is getting ready to take revenge on America for spurning his unwanted groping of our entire nation: FIRST INDICATIONS OF THE TRUMP-INSPIRED KILLINGS TO COME AFTER TRUMP LOSES: ALLEGED WHITE TERROR PLOT BY TRUMP SUPPORTERS FOILED BY FBI

The FBI just foiled an alleged terror plot hatched by white supremacist Trump...

October 14, 2016

Will Evangelicals Who Love Israel Follow Trump as he Unleashes His Last Ditch “New World Order” conspiracy theories With Heavy White Supremacist Age-Old Anti-Semitic Overtones?

(Trump photo YouTube, Logo of "Stormfront" Radio "a community of racial realists and idealists. We...

October 13, 2016

Liberty U Students Rebuke Jerry Falwell Jr. Over His Support for the Woman-Molesting Pervert Trump (The name Falwell and the words Sexual Assault will be linked forever…)

(Photos Twitter/YouTube) Students at Liberty University have proved themselves more ethical than their school's president....

October 12, 2016

Re-TRUMP: Are The Last (Actual) Evangelical Leaders Mormons?

(Photo YouTube/Twitter) Turns out the last evangelical leaders are Mormons. As far as evangelical leaders...

October 11, 2016

WATCH, LAUGH, CRY: DO NOT MISS SAMANTHA BEE Unleashes a ‘Vagina Monologue’ On Trump’s Sexual ASSAULT BRAG

WATCH, LAUGH, CRY: DO NOT MISS SAMANTHA BEE Unleashes a ‘Vagina Monologue’ On Trump...

October 10, 2016

Yes, Hillary is a Strong and Tremendous Human Being. You Got a Problem With That?

(Photo C-Span) "There’s an episode of the dystopian TV series Black Mirror in which terrorists...

October 10, 2016

My Video Rant on Donald Trump: Flag-Burning Woman-Molesting Fascist: This is the END (&BTW MY Family Knew Reagan and He’d have decked this SOB)

(Photo YouTube) Please WATCH my video rant on Trump Flag Burner... `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` P.S. If you...

October 09, 2016

It Is Time to Ask: When Will Ivanka Trump Tell Us What Her Daddy Really Did to Her?

(Photo YouTube) Trump's misogyny is legion. There's another question that runs deeper: What has Trump...

October 08, 2016

Ralph Reed and Tony Perkins: Trump Still Great-Post-Sexual Assault Bragging: Reed–It’s no big deal… (Reed/Perkins Just Killed the last shreds of Evangelical Self-Respect)

(Photo Twitter) Ralph-pussy-grabber-endorser-Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and a member of...

October 08, 2016

I have received hundreds of messages from people distressed by parents and friends supporting Trump asking “What can I say?” Here’s my favorite gutsy solution from a Facebook friend… (Read, Laugh, Cry)

Hi Frank- I just called my staunch Republican parents, and confronted them about the latest...

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