General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaybe in a way, Jim Bakker is actually onto something here
In a conversation with pro-Trump prophet Frank Amedia this week, televangelist Jim Bakker proposed that all the church people band together to launch a class action suit against them, whoever they are who are literally stripping the power from the president of the United States.
Bakker and Amedia were discussing the Supreme Courts decision to allow Trumps travel ban to take partial effect while they wait to hear arguments on its constitutionality, a case that Amedia insisted the courts should have never even heard.
We were headed to having a president, a leader, who had no power, Bakker marveled. They were literally stripping the power from the president of the United States. If we would have had an army attack us, they want to take his power away.
He then proposed a class action suit against them, whoever they are, whoevers taking the power from America because theyre destroying the United States of America.
Theyve unelected a president, Bakker said. Its wrong! It should be a great crime.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-bakker-proposes-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-those-literally-stripping-the-power-from-trump/
Trump has revealed the danger of the power of the executive branch, it can be no different than giving a loaded handgun to a toddler. If there is protecting the environment, standing up to authoritarianism and bullying, and saying no to romanticizing war on one side and "respect for the office" on the other, then I'm not going to side with the latter, sorry. So yes, there absolutely should be an agenda from the bottom and from the top to strip powers from the President, it's time to crack the bully pulpit.
Worktodo
(288 posts)Had to look it up on Wikipedia. This is the same guy right?
ck4829
(35,039 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,866 posts)Initech
(100,043 posts)I'm sure SCOTUS would hear a case called Bakker V. Them.
Gamecock Lefty
(700 posts)Saw him on TV one time peddling chairs made of wood from the lands where Jesus walked. Also saw him peddling food rations.
Bakker, Falwell Jr, Franklin Graham - all what I called Whores for Jesus.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)90-percent
(6,828 posts)From Frank Zappa's last tour in 1988.
Frank's concerns about America becoming a religious theocracy are as valid today as they were thirty years ago. Maybe more so with a treacherous cretin like Pence in the picture.
That tour was about the same time as the Swaagart scandal that resulted in "Louisiana hooker with herpes" sung to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
-90% Jimmy