Here is an epic moment provided, free of charge, by lying dolt Tommy Teepell. More on him in a second, but first, savor this moment:
Now, back to Teepell who, in addition to having a hilarious name, is also one of that breed of mediocre white Christian liars for Jesus MAGA breeds like larvae in the carcase of the rotting GOP.
Yelling, “Let me interrupt your competence with my confident accusation” at a brown guy is their stock-in-trade and no matter how often these immovably stupid men get publicly schooled and humiliated, they keep coming back. Dogs learn when you hit them on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. These guys, not so much. That’s because dogs, though dumb, are humble. These guys are dumb but filled with black, satanic pride. As Tolkien observed about “that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler”, “the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will.”
The thing to note here is that the Cult never ever ever asks questions to find things out. They ask questsions to keep from finding things out. Conversations with them can be fruitful (as this one was) to highlight the difference between the honesty of an honest person and the dishonesty of the Cult, just as Jesus’ conversations with people who wanted to kill him were. So, for instance, Jesus knows perfectly well, that the question about “rendering unto Caesar” is not asked by his interlocutors because they have an honest scruple about it, but because they are fishing for a way to put him in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” bind If he says, “Don’t pay the tax” then he’s a traitor to Caesar advocating a tax revolt. If he says “Do pay the tax” then he is a traitor to his people and to God–or so they imagine. Jesus replies to them, not for their sake, but for the sake of their onlookers, who genuinely do have real moral qualms about the question.
Interestingly, there are other times when Jesus refuses to engage such malignant enemies, most notably when, after twice multiplying loaves and fishes, they immediately demand that he perform a sign for them. To this wilful blindness, he simply replies “No sign will be given but the sign of Jonah” referring to his own death and resurrection. Likewise, immediately after turning the water to wine (a eucharistic sign intimately tied to the “hour” of his death and resurrection) Jesus again responds to his enemies’ demand for a “sign” that he has the authority to cleanse the Temple by again refusing and referring them to his death and resurrection. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” (Jn 2:18-19).
In this, he very much stands in the Jewish prophetic tradition, which often tends to move to the use of parabolic language in speaking to hostile power. So, for instance, in Matthew 13, Jesus (for the first time in that gospel) begins to speak in parables as the leadership class in Israel begins to harden against him. Jesus explains his parables to his disciples, But if there is no third party to benefit from seeing the contrast between himself and his enemies, Jesus seems to simply ignore enemies with insincere “questions”. As he himself said, “Do not cast your pearls before swine; do not give what is sacred to dogs.”
El-Sayed had a perfect opportunity to exploit a malignant, lying enemy soiling the Name of Christ and he used it to the full to tell the truth. Bravo!
One final note: When lying MAGA bullies try this crap, every Dem needs to immediately ask if and when they explicitly disavowed the KKK and the Nazi party. Put the Cult on the back foot when they try this bullshit.
PS: “Do you know what the Constitution of the United States is?” and “Do you know who John F. Kennedy is?” are sick burns.
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