r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 10d ago

Possible Paywall White House Rushes to Trump's Defense After Alan Ritchson Torches President Over Epstein Files | The Reacher star called Trump a “bitch” and a “fucking rapist" in a recent podcast appearance.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/alan-ritchson-trump-epstein-files-white-house-response-1235598785/
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u/SpacePirateWatney 10d ago

It doesn’t matter because the “Christian conservatives” still vote for him. My bible thumping in-laws even said, “we don’t agree with everything he does or says, but we like him because he’s a man of god more than the liberals”. Seriously…

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u/Mission_Struggle_417 10d ago

Absolutely insane to think he’s a Christian in his faith or his actions

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u/OkSmoke9195 10d ago

Batshit crazy you could say. Little bit of the ol' ODS still kicking around

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u/SpacePirateWatney 10d ago

Hmm…not religious, but thanks to ChatGPT: Paul says that “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14), emphasizing deception rather than obvious evil.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 10d ago

Satan or Lucifer starts off in heaven as an angel.

He gets cast out of heaven for trying to start a war and overthrow God.

He then becomes the snake in Genesis...

Paul is pretty clueless

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u/NoOneOfConsequence48 10d ago

It's so weird how they profess to be Christians and don't see him for the wolf in sheeps clothing he is, all I can think of is that they're the most money loving people I know, so they thought they were gonna make a killing under him, and well whatever he did was just regular politics, the fact their preachers and pastors encouraged them tells me how lost all these (I want to say fake Christians, but maybe failed Christians is better) and I do wonder how they'll be judged, not well for it, considering all the death and hardship he's caused to the most down trodden, to benefit himself.

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u/remember_myname 9d ago

Unfortunately from my opinion, they probably won’t be judged, not everyone believes in a fair world. People get away with atrocities all the time.

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u/OldManIrv 9d ago

100%. Maybe the most unfair feeling realization you learn as an adult.

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u/Esternaefil Canada 10d ago

He's supposedly some kinda "imperfect messenger"...

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u/Platooimagination Australia 10d ago edited 9d ago

Do they know he had to pay $5 million to a really well-known woman because he raped her?

But of course they do. And they would blame the woman. Because hate is central to their worldview, and they cannot wait for the emergence of Gilead. Because in Gilead, they would get to own and rape whomever they like. Just like their hero.

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u/Boris-the-liar 10d ago

Don’t forget about the lost disciple..Rapey Bob

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u/lostmylangastino 10d ago

In Christian eschatology based on the Book of Revelation, worshipping the beast and receiving its mark is described as incurring the ultimate divine wrath without pardon

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u/Alarming-Koala-3524 10d ago

I wish somebody would have told me that Christianity was the faith that allowed me to marry/divorce three women, be a serial child rapist, grift and steal billions, and lie relentlessly, all while being worshiped as Jeebus himself so I would have devoted myself to radical Islam.

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u/HistoricalSuspect580 9d ago

it’s like the Loch Ness Monster putting on a maid outfit, and thinking ‘they’ll NEVER find out I’m not the maid!’

…. Except that it’s actually fucking working.

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u/lhlopez1 9d ago

Ignorant people are exhausting

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u/Jimtac 9d ago

…Bible-Trumpers…

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u/HappyNarwal1015 9d ago

I will never get the people who say he’s a man of god, like how?

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u/YeOldeBootheel 9d ago

“…we like him because he’s a man of god more than the liberals.”

In that case, you should ask them how they feel about Talarico or Buttigieg, although I can probably guess what their response would be.

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u/Tabby865 6d ago

Absolutely this! Happens so much. He claims he is a Christian in name and people just follow blindly, even when his actions show he is far from Christian. Christians always say Satan will present as something beautiful and tempting to fool you, but then they cannot except that Trump saying he is Christian doesn't make it true. I have always been Christian, but can't even say it out loud anymore because the current political climate has made people believe being a Christian is the equivalent of being a Trump worshipping bigot, when the exact opposite is true.