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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#246626: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:20:10 PM

Dennis Hof, a Pimp with several Sexual Assault allegations against him, has won a Nevada State Assembly Seat, thanks to Evangelical Voters. Hof is also a Trumpeteer.

So Nevada now has a Pimp Trumpeteer in their State Assembly, thanks to Evangelical voters.

Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#246627: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:21:12 PM

[up] Family Values party, ladies and gentlemen.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246628: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:21:15 PM

[up][up]So any bets as to how the Evangelicals will top this? Because I'm sure they will.

edited 22nd Jun '18 12:21:31 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#246630: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:22:57 PM

He did not ask God to deliver Nevada and the Republican Party from Hof, the thrice-divorced author of “The Art of the Pimp” who campaigned as the “Trump of Pahrump.” Although Christian groups have long rallied against the state’s legal brothel industry, Fuentes was willing to overlook Hof’s history as a champion of the flesh trade and gave thanks for his victory.

To quote a fanfiction about a Mandalorian soldier I once wrote, "I have never been more ashamed of my people."

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246631: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:25:12 PM

Surprised by this? I'm not.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#246632: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:26:09 PM

Well that's offensive and completely expected. Evangelicals really are terrible degenerates.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#246633: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:28:40 PM

I'm taken aback by how over the top that sounds, but not really that it happened.

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#246634: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:30:30 PM

Young Trump supporters having trouble?

Womp fucking womp.

They work for a tyrant who made concentration camps. No Sympathy.

And what a surprise Evangelicals have zero standards or anything resembling cognition.

They're becoming the Positive Christianity of our time. A prop of the ruling party made by and for them.

edited 22nd Jun '18 12:34:05 PM by NickTheSwing

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246635: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:34:18 PM

Besides the tiny violin, this also comes to mind when thinking of Young Trump supporters being ostracized.

[down] Yes.

edited 22nd Jun '18 12:38:43 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#246636: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:36:45 PM

Isn't that the origin of "womp womp"?

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#246637: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:37:35 PM

Who knew it might be hard to get a date when you support one of the world's most famous misogynists.

And evangelicals being hypocrites? Say it ain't so.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#246638: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:42:34 PM

“People will set aside for a moment their moral beliefs, their religious beliefs, to get somebody that is honest in office," he said. "Trump is the trailblazer, he is the Christopher Columbus of honest politics."
Yeah, only one problem with that argument: TRUMP. IS. NOT. HONEST!!!

danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#246639: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:44:13 PM

Then again, comparing him to Christopher Columbus is actually pretty on-point. Rapist, pillager, con man.

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#246640: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:45:26 PM

"Trump is the trailblazer, he is the Christopher Columbus of honest politics."

This, but ironically.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#246641: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:49:09 PM

So any bets as to how the Evangelicals will top this?

They'll vote for a Himmler or Breivik type neopagan enthusiast who openjy rejects Christianity. They'll justify their vote by saying that while his words may be unchristian, God is secretly working through him.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#246642: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:49:18 PM

I swear some of these Evangelicals would vote for Satan himself if he promised to end abortions and gay marriage.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#246643: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:50:50 PM

[up][up] ...Nope, still wouldn't surprise me.

Disgusted, but not surprised
KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#246644: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:50:53 PM

[up][up] Hey, that will speed up the Apocalypse and bring the Paradise faster. It would be actually rational to them to do it.

Sure, they will be dammed, but the saved ones will be grateful.

edited 22nd Jun '18 12:51:56 PM by KazuyaProta

Watch me destroying my country
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#246645: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:52:09 PM

I swear some of these Evangelicals would vote for Satan himself if he promised to end abortions and gay marriage.
I said this before. The republican candidate could literally be Satan (explicitly), and they'd still find a way to justify voting for them.

edited 22nd Jun '18 12:52:31 PM by Draghinazzo

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#246646: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:54:28 PM

They'll vote for a Himmler or Breivik type neopagan enthusiast who openjy rejects Christianity. They'll justify their vote by saying that while his words may be unchristian, God is secretly working through him.
Ok personally I find this hard to believe, they support such people because they believe they'll put their values into effect. And there is a rather large difference between supporting someone personally lax like Trump or this pimp guy and supporting someone who's values are explicitly antithetical to their own.

It's like saying they would vote for a Salafist, they totally wouldn't.

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KazuyaProta Shin Megami Tensei IV from A Industrial Farm Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Shin Megami Tensei IV
#246647: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:56:38 PM

[up] That is because the Salafist would usually be non-white.

Republicans only have bigotry and greed as fuel, that and being Anti-Abortion (also, being totally outdated in the debate about it, there good secular arguments to be Anti Abortion, they just dont use them). That is...pretty much everything.

[down] If the Satanist is white, then he would have a chance.

And I finally could stop saying "I am christian but..."

edited 22nd Jun '18 12:59:17 PM by KazuyaProta

Watch me destroying my country
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#246648: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:58:00 PM

[up]Yeah of course, one of their values is ethno-nationalism.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#246649: Jun 22nd 2018 at 12:59:56 PM

As long as the neopagan in question were anti-immigration, anti-abortion, nationalistic and pro-whites, I'm sure he could get Evangelicals to make an exception for him.

There is a non-insignificant movement of pagan enthusiasts in alt-right circles. Their values aren't all that different from that of the average Trump Chump. (And I'm saying this as someone enlisted in Iceland's thankfully mostly alt-right-free Ásatrú church, so I'm not making a judgment on whoever might be interested in that kind of thing).

edited 22nd Jun '18 1:08:50 PM by DrDougsh

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#246650: Jun 22nd 2018 at 1:01:29 PM

[up]Except they're explicitly theocratic, I find it very hard to believe that they would accept someone who obviously violates one of their major values.

Furthermore it's not like the evangelicals are fond of those atheistic alt-righters, so that's not really a good argument.

edited 22nd Jun '18 1:02:01 PM by Fourthspartan56

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

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