Posted on 10/19/2024 6:42:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
“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,” Trump told the New York fat cats. “It’s a person who has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever. But enough about Kamala Harris.”
Trump also offered this beauty: “I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods. But then I met Tim Walz.” When Trump joked about keeping Doug Emhoff away from nannies, even he admitted it was “too tough.”
As he did in 2016 when he crudely attacked Hillary Clinton as she sat on the dais, Trump added a rancid cloud to what used to be a good-tempered bipartisan roast.
Dolan could have stood up and told Trump “Enough!” We have been longing for that voice of authority who could deliver the Joseph Welch line — “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” — to our modern Joe McCarthy. It is the church’s job, after all, to teach right from wrong.
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.
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Morose Dowd, the ultimate angry, old, childless cat lady.
IF? Thank you for your “optimism. “
And here I thought Maureen Dowd found the fountain of youth and became attractive
That bitter old hag Mo Dowd is still alive?? Who knew? 🙄
Plus it never hurts to view the woman. Js
I was wondering that as well. I signed up in 2003 and was unaware of that FR tradition.
I am but I cannot guarantee the result. I’m just watching from the sidelines. I try not to underestimate the level of evil from the other side.
Ha! Thanks for that reminder. I vaguely remember the Dowd / Douglas / Jones saga and FR’s hilarious reactions to bitter old Dowd back in the day. You summed it all up very nicely.
Whom bedsides The Clinton family did the Clinton Foundation benefit?
For the four years Trump was President he donated his salary to charity.
Biden on the other hand sent our his drug addicted whore monger son to shake down any leader of any country that wanted a favor.
Long story short the New York Times sucks.
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Trump’s just trying to change the climate, raise the tide and lift all boats!
I live in Pennsylvania, and plan on voting on Election day since I will be on vacation. After I vote in the morning, I’ll be driving to Williamsburg, Virginia for some much needed R&R. On the way, I will be fairly close to the Trump winery in Charlottesville, so I plan on stopping by, and picking up a bottle or two.
One of my sisters came after me early this week, trying to get a reaction about Milley saying Trump is a fascist. Because my arm of the family has 5 veterans in the 2 generations; she thought veterans would support Milley. I said no, they don’t really respect him or hold him to represent the characteristic of valor to which many veterans aspired. Then she hit me back with a very long message, making 15-20 “points” about Trump being racist, having Project 2025, having “his armed rioters” for J6, etc. etc. When I disputed those points, she said she felt that I was being aggressive and accusatory and that we were done talking about it. WTF. I don’t even care any more. I have tried to NOT talk politics with her for years, but she started with the Milley crap.
If Donald Trump wins this November, they’ll finally know how we felt about the last four years.
Nobody but the Clintons.
I’m so thankful that my sister — our whole family, in fact — is rabidly MAGA. The meal after my mother’s funeral in April morphed into an impromptu Trump Rally. There were about 100 of us siblings, cousins, children, grands, etc. Mom would have LOVED it! Maybe she did.
She picked a fight then blamed you. Sorry you have to deal with that gaslighting.
And now you know how every conversation you’ll ever have with a liberal/leftist will go, under the best of circumstances.
Been there and done that many times. Don’t even bother anymore.
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