DC Episcopal Bishop Decries Trump Photo-op in Front of St. John's

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Anonymous wrote:They were peacefully protesting, a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It was still half an hour or more before the curfew. They were told to leave for no legitimate reason. The Military Police shot rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd and marched into and clubbed people to force them back. All the criminals in this action were in uniform.

Totally debunked.

LOL. It’s cool, everyone! The cops have explained that they didn’t do it. It’s “debunked,” no further questions needed.

I SAID, NO FURTHER QUESTIONS!

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I found her tweet disturbing. She was more concerned about Trump than the fact that the "protesters" set fire to the church. Seems a little topsy turvy to me.

I don't like it when any pastors get political--and that includes the ones that support Trump and the ones that don't. They should stay out of politics.

Are you Christian? You think speaking out against police violence and a man using your religion as a photo op moment is political??

I agree with pp. There was no police violence last night.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

Bullshit. We watched them do it live on TV. We watched the Australian TV footage of them being attacked for no reason. We can see the new White House campaign video that was the whole purpose of using the military to attack U.S. citizens who were peacefully protesting. It can’t be debunked. Millions of people saw it happen.

Shunning me?? Oh, how very painful - LOL.

Again, if they dispersed as asked, would the police have had to use tear gas?

Stop deflecting with this bs about being asked. Several accounts, including from the pastor of the church, say they weren’t asked, that the police just started charging.

Bottom line: the president disrupted a peaceful protest for a cheap photo-op. WTF cares if he asked or not.

They were indeed told to disperse. They did not.

They were peacefully protesting, a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It was still half an hour or more before the curfew. They were told to leave for no legitimate reason. The Military Police shot rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd and marched into and clubbed people to force them back. All the criminals in this action were in uniform.

Totally debunked.

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Guaran-damn-tee you the church was notified that the President was coming. What they chose to do with that warning and what happened afterwards? It's on them.

No, apparently they weren't. They did not want it.

OBVIOUSLY the gassed priests are lying, but even if they were gassed it was because they wouldn’t let Trump worship. We all know how important church attendance is to Trump. He held that bible like someone who has definitely held a lot of books, mainly bibles, in his life.

(Some people are just totally lost.)

Duh. The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington is lying. The rector of the most traditional and hidebound church in the country is lying. Our eyes and ears are lying.

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This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

Shunning me?? Oh, how very painful - LOL.

Again, if they dispersed as asked, would the police have had to use tear gas?

Stop deflecting with this bs about being asked. Several accounts, including from the pastor of the church, say they weren’t asked, that the police just started charging.

Bottom line: the president disrupted a peaceful protest for a cheap photo-op. WTF cares if he asked or not.

They were indeed told to disperse. They did not.

They were peacefully protesting, a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It was still half an hour or more before the curfew. They were told to leave for no legitimate reason. The Military Police shot rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd and marched into and clubbed people to force them back. All the criminals in this action were in uniform.

Totally debunked.

Bullshit. We watched them do it live on TV. We watched the Australian TV footage of them being attacked for no reason. We read and heard the first hand accounts of the Episcopal priests. And now we can see the new White House propaganda video that was the whole purpose of using the military to attack U.S. citizens who were peacefully protesting. It can’t be debunked. Millions of people saw it happen.

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My kids were like -- photo op? This picture is totally meme-able!

+1. Thanks, PP! I forwarded it to my kids.

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This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

Shunning me?? Oh, how very painful - LOL.

Again, if they dispersed as asked, would the police have had to use tear gas?

Stop deflecting with this bs about being asked. Several accounts, including from the pastor of the church, say they weren’t asked, that the police just started charging.

Bottom line: the president disrupted a peaceful protest for a cheap photo-op. WTF cares if he asked or not.

They were indeed told to disperse. They did not.

They were peacefully protesting, a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It was still half an hour or more before the curfew. They were told to leave for no legitimate reason. The Military Police shot rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd and marched into and clubbed people to force them back. All the criminals in this action were in uniform.

Totally debunked.

Bullshit. We watched them do it live on TV. We watched the Australian TV footage of them being attacked for no reason. We read and heard the first hand accounts of the Episcopal priests. And now we can see the new White House propaganda video that was the whole purpose of using the military to attack U.S. citizens who were peacefully protesting. It can’t be debunked. Millions of people saw it happen.

I happened to have on the local DC news. Watched in real time as the police moved on peaceful protesters and began spraying and shooting them before the curfew so that Barr and Trump could waddle over to the church for a staged photo op. Absolute bullsh**. F*** Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:
This is how you win an argument with a liberal - use fact until you force them into stupidity.

Oh look, another Con thumping his chest about an argument he actually lost.

You can’t defend the indefensible. Your orange baby gassed people to make one of the dumbest, crudest photo ops in history. All your attempts to conflate the peaceful protestors he gassed with looters are transparent lies. Whether or not he had the right to gas them is irrelevant in the face of the cruelty he inflicted by actually gassing them. The church where he grandstanded is outraged that he used their property to wave around someone else’s bible and didn’t even pretend to pray.

If they dispersed as asked, would they have been ‘gassed’?

And this is why we are shunning you. What a shameful, unAmerican thing to say.

Shunning me?? Oh, how very painful - LOL.

Again, if they dispersed as asked, would the police have had to use tear gas?

Stop deflecting with this bs about being asked. Several accounts, including from the pastor of the church, say they weren’t asked, that the police just started charging.

Bottom line: the president disrupted a peaceful protest for a cheap photo-op. WTF cares if he asked or not.

They were indeed told to disperse. They did not.

They were peacefully protesting, a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It was still half an hour or more before the curfew. They were told to leave for no legitimate reason. The Military Police shot rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd and marched into and clubbed people to force them back. All the criminals in this action were in uniform.

Totally debunked.

Bullshit. We watched them do it live on TV. We watched the Australian TV footage of them being attacked for no reason. We read and heard the first hand accounts of the Episcopal priests. And now we can see the new White House propaganda video that was the whole purpose of using the military to attack U.S. citizens who were peacefully protesting. It can’t be debunked. Millions of people saw it happen.

I happened to have on the local DC news. Watched in real time as the police moved on peaceful protesters and began spraying and shooting them before the curfew so that Barr and Trump could waddle over to the church for a staged photo op. Absolute bullsh**. F*** Trump.

+1. Plus, the tear gassing started at 6pm, 40 minutes before the Park Police said they started doing whatever they did.

[Anonymous]

Trump tear-gassed priests and peaceful protestors for a photo-op. It's hard to get my head around that.

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Because the area wasn't cleared out for a photo op. It was cleared out - people escorted to an area where the police had control.
And, it looks like their plan actually worked.

WTF is wrong with you? People were “escorted out”? Did you read the account from the church’s pastor about running from the gas? Because none of this had anything to do with Cheeto’s photo op 10 minutes later?

I want some of what you’re smoking.

So Trump gassed and evicted protestors AND the church’s own priests.

Guaran-damn-tee you the church was notified that the President was coming. What they chose to do with that warning and what happened afterwards? It's on them.

As a cradle Episcopalian and a member of EDOW and member of a DC parish (I won't name it), I can tell you first hand that neither EDOW nor St. John's was notified beforehand. I know several of the priests who were at St. John's yesterday, peacefully protesting, playing music, bearing witness, handing out snacks (seriously).The rector of St. John’s, Gini Gerbasi was there and gave her account - I'm sure you've seen it.

What Trump did was an ugly publicity stunt in the style of a cheap, self-styled dictator. If you have any decency or love for this country, you should be outraged.

But, but the PP guaran-damn-tees is that they had notice. Are you saying we should believe the priests and bishop over the PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is right.

And Trump is a fake Christian.

And Evangelicals all appear to be fake Christians too.

Evangelicals are simply an insult to the Christian faith!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She is right.

And Trump is a fake Christian.

And Evangelicals all appear to be fake Christians too.

Evangelicals are simply an insult to the Christian faith!!

Evangelicals are not an insult to be h Christian faith. But they do have a clear choice now. Do they actually believe in the values they espouse.?

A church was attacked and innocents were injured. There was a freaking calvary charge. It was before curfew. It was done for a photo op. There was no prayer. There was no reflection. The sacred was defiled.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is right.

And Trump is a fake Christian.

And Evangelicals all appear to be fake Christians too.

Evangelicals are simply an insult to the Christian faith!!

Evangelicals are not an insult to be h Christian faith. But they do have a clear choice now. Do they actually believe in the values they espouse.?

A church was attacked and innocents were injured. There was a freaking calvary charge. It was before curfew. It was done for a photo op. There was no prayer. There was no reflection. The sacred was defiled.

I mean, we've known that all along. God gives his blessings to those who deserve them. Etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is right.

And Trump is a fake Christian.

And Evangelicals all appear to be fake Christians too.

Evangelicals are simply an insult to the Christian faith!!

Evangelicals are not an insult to be h Christian faith. But they do have a clear choice now. Do they actually believe in the values they espouse.?

A church was attacked and innocents were injured. There was a freaking calvary charge. It was before curfew. It was done for a photo op. There was no prayer. There was no reflection. The sacred was defiled.

Evangelicals don't care. The main reason evangelicals broke away from mainline denominations is because the mainline churches stopped supporting bigotry. The rise of evangelical churches has been a direct backlash against mainline churches supporting civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is right.

And Trump is a fake Christian.

And Evangelicals all appear to be fake Christians too.

Evangelicals are simply an insult to the Christian faith!!

Evangelicals are not an insult to be h Christian faith. But they do have a clear choice now. Do they actually believe in the values they espouse.?

A church was attacked and innocents were injured. There was a freaking calvary charge. It was before curfew. It was done for a photo op. There was no prayer. There was no reflection. The sacred was defiled.

I mean, we've known that all along. God gives his blessings to those who deserve them. Etc. etc.

It's their choice at this moment. There is no closing their eyes or covering their ears. It happened. It was witnesed. It is clear ciut and uncomplicated. We will all be judged by our maker for what we do this day forward.