Mr. D. Goes to Washington: No President Has Done More
I know what you're thinking — done more what? Harm? Damage? Golfing? You'll have to watch to find out.
For three years now, I've taken a good deal of heat from fellow non-believers for being so devotedly anti-Trump. I have never really understood the opposition. And now, in light of the Christianity Today editorial calling for Trump's removal from office — and more importantly, Trump's response to that editorial, I'm even more confused. In this video, I'm hoping to understand the opposition — at least a little more than I do currently.
Thank you all once again. Thank you for ALL your support in 2019!!! I intend to keep pumping these videos out in 2020. But I'm also trying to get back to movie-making this coming year. This time with Scott Clifton, who was the star of our "The Bourne-Again Identity" video we made some years ago. He's an incredibly talented actor (with two daytime Emmys), and crazy smart too — look up his YouTube channel, Theoretical Bullshit. It's spectacular! Sean and (hopefully) Amy will be joining me as well. And maybe I can find a bit part for Jimbo. Who knows?
I'll have more information on that project as we gear up. But thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for everything you've done for me in 2019! I really do appreciate it! And I'll see you in the New Year!!! B
P.S.: Please forgive all the exclamation points.
Mr. D. Goes to Washington: No President Has Done More (YouTube)
Comments (30)
I realize that I am arriving late to this party. That means that the Trump supporters in your viewership have had 2 months to post an explanation such as you very nicely asked them to write. As a side-note, for the Evangelical editorial writer in Christianity Today sounds far more like Capt. Renault than Elmer Gantry.
By the way, have you been raiding the "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" wardrobe department?
HaHahaha!!!
I thought your slide into Trump-bashing was quite seamless. You had made countless videos mocking an arrogant, incompetent and insecure deity, so it felt like a president with the same qualities would be a natural next target. The theocrat-pandering should put him in your crosshairs too. Keep it up, Mr D!
Seen today in a bumper sticker: "Giant Meteor 2016: Just end it already." Where's the one for 2020??
Already on the road Bumper sticker for 2020 "Anyone Else"
That being said, once I start listening to non-biased sources, I found certain arguments on both sides far more compelling, and myself less convicted on the obvious and inherent correctness of one side over the other...
Apparently I’m bad at internet-ing - this comment was an extension to a reply in my previous comment 🙄
I posted a lengthy comment about whether asking for the other side’s perspective was an actual request or just a superficially indignant rallying cry to your base supporters... but I’m not seeing that comment now... did it get accidentally deleted? 🤔
If it's the one to Kelly D Anderson, then no it's still there.
I share your confusion. The Trumpistas screw the working class on a daily basis, but the more they suffer, the greater their admiration. I ask people how they can support someone so antithetical to their own interests, and all I usually get in response are insults, character assassination and profanity. Hard to argue with that.
You might consider whether your questions are meant to actually listen/learn their motivations or just to frame your own counter-argument (per your own description - “hard to argue with that”)... moreover, if you go into a conversation with the mindset that the people with whom you disagree are monolithic (e.g. inflammatory rhetoric like “Trumpistas” acting “antithetical to their own interests” - who are these people? which interests? we all have many identities and interests that may or many not easily align) you’re likely to get dismissive responses like insults, character assassinations and profanity because that’s exactly what you’re opening with, at least in subconscious tone/attitude - if not in direct verbiage...
Who the republican hell is grilling you between 1:09 and 1:25? Is this holy smoke?
If you listen, I said I was taking a “lot of heat.” Little visual joke there.
I couldn’t agree with you more. And I really don’t understand the evangelicals. This is the most profoundly immoral president in my life time and I am 70. I have a devoutly Christian (Lutheran) brother who is steadfast in his support. I just don’t get it. You keep doing what you are doing because it needs to be said.
I am as bewildered as yourself.
You are my hero.
I don't understand either how others can disagree with your observations. Keep on keeping on.
Oh, BriBri, it’s been one of the most stunning examples of cognitive dissonance in my lifetime, certainly. To watch the overly self-righteous and “pious” citizens of this country ignore the vast majority of the “nice” bible stuff (few admit to enjoying Deuteronomy) to somehow embrace a man who so evidently and self incriminatingly commits what they would normally (I’m presuming) consider sins on a daily basis leaves us all breathless. Is it that religion is so inherently corrupt a concept that these people actually have no moral center? (The very thing they accuse us of). Wish I could grasp this conundrum and wrestle an answer out of it but so far, I’m bereft. Keep up the good work though. We need your voice and thoughts. Happy New Year!
For 25 years now, I’ve believed that religion was ultimately about power — power to control. So I’m not that puzzled by the religious. The anti-theists though — that’s confusing as can be. Especially with a Trump’s latest admission.
I am afraid I have to side with the comments above if I were a believer I would have to find myself either ignoring some very basic points of morality or be very embarrassed of the president and evangelical community. Keep on with your message Brian I think you are spot on.
Yes, I'm simplistic to a fault, but I opine that it is all due to… mammon. Not just for those who are bathing in it, but more importantly for those who dream and hope and fantasize that the bathwater will trickle down to them, too. They're delusional. Ain't gonna happen.
When people surrender their principles, it’s clear that they never really cared about them in the first place. In almost all cases, those principles were simply a means to money and power. If they can find another way, they’ll dump their principles in a New York minute. And they have.
Yes, thank you for this video. I am not sure who from the skeptical community would be on the side of this president and what he stands for.
The same hubris and blind faith that emboldens the religious to talk out of their asses (and even talk in front of their Brothers and Sisters on Fast Sundays) likely emboldens the religious T. supporters to assume that he's God's choice for President. They simply "know" that T. is God's man, but don't know why. The mysteries of God. And somehow it all boils down to two things: 1) A woman's right to her own sexual autonomy and 2) in your face, libruls. Those two factors can light up a true believer's bosom like the best Fast and Testimony Meeting ever!
I too am puzzled how anyone could support this president. Fortunately, I don't know any fellow atheists in the Trump camp. Here in South Central Pennsylvania (rural Trump country} I started an Atheist group (Dillsburg Area FreeThinkers) as a support group for atheists. Most meetings end up being anti-Trump pile ons. It's hard to keep this IMPOTUS out of our discussions. My only comforting thought is that he is so tied with the evangelicals that when he comes crashing down he will take a lot of them with him.
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Spot on Mr. Deity. The CT article displayed the moral courage that has all but evaporated from the evangelical crowd supporting Trump. Those religious supporters have now lost any claim to a moral high ground. The cognitive dissonance required to accept Trump as "the chosen one" and simultaneously claim to be a follower to Jesus is incomprehensible. Yesterday, an evangelical friend tried using the example of King Nebuchadnezzar, an amoral leader used by God to further His work as justification for his unconditional support for Trump. The hypocrisy of the religious right's support for Trump should come as an embarrassment to any true believers. If Trump is the type of man that the god of the religious right requires to accomplish their objectives, they have sold their souls to the proverbial devil.
I fear that your insistence on rational thought and adherence to fact based argument has put you far outside the mainstream of modern political philosophy. Fear and hatred are the motivating forces for us now. Get used to it.
That’s some brutal pessimism. Sadly, you may be correct.