“The cardinal should go to confession.
Timothy Dolan let a white-tie charity dinner in New York
showcase that most uncharitable of men, Donald Trump.
At the annual Al Smith dinner, Dolan suffused the impious Trump in the pious glow of Catholic charities. Dolan looked on with a doting expression as Trump made his usual degrading, scatological comments about his foils, this time cloaked as humor...Instead of telling Trump he was over the line, Dolan enabled him in his blasphemous effort to cast his campaign as a quasi-religious crusade and himself as a saintly martyr saved by God. The conservative cardinal didn’t care about soiling the legacy of the great Democratic patriot Al Smith." - Maureen Dowd, 'Trump’s Charity Toward None’, NY Times
The Al Smith dinner in NYC is a decades-long tradition in the interest of comity and fellowship even amidst political differences. Named in honor of the most famous Catholic presidential candidate, it has featured friendly exchanges between the likes of Obama and Bush Jr. as well as Reagan, former Democratic (Mass.) Sen. Tip O'Neill.
But say goodbye to comity after last night.
A Buffoon named Jim Gaffigan repeatedly took shots at the Democratic nominee during Thursday night’s glitzy event in Manhattan after Harris became the first presidential candidate in 40 years to not appear in person at the Catholic charity bash. (She did appear via pre-recorded video, just not in person.) It seems that being a traitor insurrectionist and convicted (34-count) felon is no biggie once you appear at an event and get to roast your 'enemies' after you threatened them all week.
The two-bit twit Gaffigan barked:
“I mean,
consider this, this is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This
is a layup for the Democratic nominee,”
Actually not, given the orange pestilence Trump defecated verbally on the entire proceedings and on those attending including Gaffbag, using expletives to describe the Democrats, as well as emitting numerous deranged and inappropriate comments and psychotic “weaves”.
He mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name, spouting she “had no intelligence whatsoever.” He made fun of her husband, Doug Emhoff, for an affair he acknowledged during a previous marriage. He questioned the manhood of Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the same time belittling transgender people. He then called out former president Barack Obama’s middle name of Hussein, as he often does at his rallies. Ending his “shit talk” (PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s term on CNN) by use of profanity to disparage former New York mayor Bill de Blasio.
E.g.
Trump Spews Profanity and Bizarre Insults at Catholic Charity Dinner (thedailybeast.com)
Most amusing is when this dumb Turd blurted in a master stroke of projection (of his own self):
“We have someone in the White House who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental faculties of a child, is a person that has no intelligence whatsoever—but enough about Kamala Harris,”
Forgetting that Kamala wasted his orange "tangerine ass" (Jimmy Kimmel's words) in their Sept. 10 debate.
Then there was the scene of Cardinal Timothy Dolan joking with the Traitor Swine. (See photo at top). Perhaps Timmy was trying to get on the orange cockroach's good side to help bail out the LA Archdiocese - after the news it faces a $880 b pony up to pay out for over 1300 child sex abuse victims.
As I told Janice, Al Smith would be turning in his grave at the spectacle last night. Thus, an event in previous times that had the hallmark of decorum, civility and bon homie between attendees, had instantly descended into the shit can and sewer by the presence of Trump and his disregard of all norms and propriety.
But what would you expect given the traitor imp has become
totally unhinged in the past week even threatening other Americans (“the enemy
within”) with a military action. This is
the class A fuckwit that 48 % of our fellow Americans appear to believe is
worthy of leading this nation, who actually attempted an insurrection against
it for which he ought to have been disqualified.
He also ought to have been disqualified as persona non grata to
appear at the event last night. But given he did get invited, perhaps as a
cynical bet to go after the pro-abortion Kamala, I understand why she didn’t
appear in person. For what purpose? To stand out as Trump’s punching bag.
As for the claim in the New York Post – the FOX News equivalent of a newspaper- that social media in the wake of Gaffigan’s riffs described them as “the murder of a whole party”. Dream on. The murder of a party part is true, but it is of the GOP Trump cult for refusing to torpedo this “despicable human” – as the Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell called him (in a recent quote from a book).
At the other end of disreputable and shameless Trump plumpers we have Holman Jenkins Jr. who recently (Oct. 16, WSJ, p. A13) scribbled this witless folderol :
"Yet if Mr. Trump is as bad as his enemies say, isn't a 'come to Jesus' realization due concerning how much their own lying has empowered and legitimized him?
Total rubbish, but what can you expect from a Trump homer? This toad still believes the entire Russian op from 2016 is a "hoax". In fact, he has steadfastly failed to acknowledge the multifold lines of evidence clearly contained in docs pertaining to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
The 1917 Espionage Act, indeed, was actually used to put former AF officer Reality Winner in a federal prison for leaking many of these docs. One could argue that would hardly have been the case if the documents were merely vanilla 'doc-speak' or bogus. This despicable op-ed hack actually also dissed Ret. Gen. Mark Milley for referring to Trump as fascist to the core. But in Jenkins screed "he likely has an inability to define the term except as bad". Actually, you regressed imp, a military professional would have studied the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s as a prelude to World War II. So he'd have been very familiar with its meaning in context, unlike you.
But widdle Holman Jr. isn't done sporting his ignorance:
"And shouldn't Democrats be giving us somebody to vote for? Instead of using Mr. Trump to shove down America's throat a last minute stand-in?"
In fact, that "last minute stand-in", Kamala Harris, has more character in her pinkie finger than Trump and the entire mass of the pro-Traitor axis of the Repub party, you derelict nincompoop! You don't hear Kamala asserting the military is needed to go after the "enemy within". Nor do you hear her calling immigrants "vermin". Nor do you see or hear her lying about hurricane aid and FEMA assistance to the point unhinged nuts are triggered to try to take out FEMA personnel.
Let me lay out the case in even clearer, 'bullet-point' prose to lessen your confusion concerning choice in this election:
- Only one candidate promises to accept the result of the Nov. 5 election
- Only one candidate favors restoring a more bipartisan approach to governing, including putting members of the other party in key cabinet positions.
- Only one candidate pledges to maintain U.S. overseas alliances.
- Only one candidate promises to give continued support to Ukraine and stand up to Putin.
- Only one candidate promises to make the wealthiest - like Elon Musk - pay their fair share to help the neediest citizens.
- Only one candidate promises to restore a woman's right to make decisions about her own reproductive choices and health.
- Only one candidate believes climate change is real.
- Only one candidate promises to maintain the Affordable Care Act.
- Only one candidate has advanced specific ways to expand home ownership.
- Only one candidate promises to expand the child tax credit.
- Only one candidate promises to expand and protect federal voting law protections.
That candidate to whom all the above apply is Kamala Harris, who you have the nerve and chutzpah to refer to as a last-minute stand in.
To which I say, better a last-minute stand in with superior moral character than a 34 count convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and twice impeached insurrectionist traitor. Another reminder for Jenkins Jr., as Anne Applebaum points out in The Atlantic, Trump uses the language of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini to rouse hate and violence. This, while insanely calling Jan. 6 a “day of love.” Frankly, knowing this no sane person can vote for Trump. And no sane person – and especially a professed scribe – can express doubt that this degenerate is unfit to be president. It is a no-brainer.
Clear enough for ya, Holman? Or maybe take in this little video too:
https://youtube.com/shorts/mVOR0ReqLb0?si=1hLbC6TcICIERTIb
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by Jaime O’Neill | October 19, 2024 - 6:03am | permalink
The annual Al Smith dinner was held this week in NYC, the place to go if you want to prove that you can make it there and thus could probably have made it anywhere. If you didn’t make it there, however, you were not there unless you were waiting on the rich people who had been invited and were sitting down.
Unless, of course, they were serving you, or standing up talking to you, most Catholics had no business being there. For those who never heard of Al Smith, he was the first Catholic Mayor of New York so this shindig in his name is dedicated to raising money for the church from the gold-plated guest who want to get their tickets punched for admission to heaven, or to be granted whatever favors they might seek from the church in the secular world of business, corruption, wheeling and dealing. The gala dinner usually is attended by Cardinals and a variety of fascism-friendly Catholics who play footsie with politicians. The more fascist-friendly of them often seem to share racist views that show disrespect and disregard for the poor and desperate, many of whom continue to drop pesos in the collection plates to support the handsomely rewarded and very comfortable hierarchy of a church that too seldom seems supportive of those smaller donors. If Christ showed up in robe and sandals, you'd be wise to bet they wouldn't let him in. Maybe he could forage for leftovers in the dumpster out back.
Trump delivers profanity, below-the-belt digs at Catholic charity banquet - The Washington Post
And:
Trump’s age finally catches up with him - The Washington Post
And:
Harris calls out Trump for ‘gaslighting’ Americans about Jan. 6 attack - The Washington Post
And:
'The Apprentice': A Must -See Film Showing How Trump Mutated To The Malignant Psychopath He Is Today
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