Don Jr was recently featured on r/tooktoomuch when he was so high that he claimed that he was a “Duke of Hazzard, and a Kentucky Colonel.”
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At least some of the apparent double-speak seems like it stems from the fact that “christian” can both be a description of someone who falls into a specific(often not very specific) theological category and a description of someone whose theology has at least the faintest whiff of an interest in Jesus and is within the speaker’s view of what respectable American religiosity looks like.
I certainly wouldn’t presume good faith and intellectual consistency; or concede the implied claim to be implementing “christianity” well enough to deserve the term that an evangelical protestant makes when they say that catholics are not christians; but the tendency to talk both ways arguably makes more sense given that the two sides haven’t really papered over any substantive theological differences; but are close collaborators on being on the wrong side of social and establishment clause issues.
I always distrust either the honesty or the intellectual clarity of someone who slips between multiple definitions without notice; but, given that there’s both a ‘specific theological stuff’ definition and a ‘is part of the in-group’ definition it’s not too weird to see an evangelical protestant(or a person targeting their signals to evangelical protestants) slipping back and forth between speaking of catholics as non-christians, when they have the theological categorization in mind, and as christians, when they have their shared interest in forced birth, suppression of gender traitors, and state-enforced religious practice in mind.
The situation is also a bit reminiscent of the “a language is a dialect with an army and a navy” quip explaining how substantially mutually intelligible romance languages backed by different squabbling nation states all got to be ‘languages’, while Mandarin and Cantonese are merely dialects.
When it’s ultimately about getting another hit of that sweet, sweet, temporal power theological quibbles that people have fought and died for can be brushed over(heck, even mormons get to be ‘christian’ when it’s reactionary politics time); but when there’s not a political project of shared interest to focus on, the fact that there are fairly profound theological differences that have never actually been reconciled sometimes comes back up.
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Easily explained. He was either a mutant or a sport, like the nectarine.
I wondered how merkin von bankrupt’s niece Mary got her brains, and assumed it was maternal-wise.
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It’s even more hilarious that:
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Biden is a practicing Catholic and attended an Easter service. If it was true, he would consider himself a terrorist? LOL.
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So many of Trumps Evangelical and Baptist base don’t even consider Catholics to be true Christians.
ETA - oops I didn’t mean for this to be a reply.
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Just like his father.
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You are overanalyzing this. It’s just gatekeeping Christianity, which is a favorite pastime of evangelicals. And some Catholics, for that matter. Some Muslims and Jews do it, too. A lot of religions do it. “My God is the one true God. All others are false, even if you think it’s the same God.” I certainly wasn’t assuming good faith arguments on the part of Don, Jr. Hell, that’s my whole point. His screed here isn’t borne out of ignorance. He knows what he’s saying isn’t true. This is fascist disinformation. And I’m frankly tired of people dismissing its seriousness by attributing it to stupidity.
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Checks out.
While watching the news coverage of Steve Bannon’s initial appearance in federal court on Monday, I kept thinking about his 2018 confession to the acclaimed writer Michael Lewis. His quote is like a compass that orients this crazy era of American politics. “The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
That’s the Bannon business model: Flood the zone. Stink up the joint. As Jonathan Rauch once said, citing Bannon’s infamous quote, “This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.”
source:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/media/steve-bannon-reliable-sources/index.html
see also:
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It’s a deep subject.
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When you are trying to demonstrate fealty to the in-group, openly embracing and repeating the obvious lies of that group are markers of your membership in that group. The more absurd and obvious the better for that purpose.
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For Jr, I always remember the stories I heard years and years ago. Jr. was constantly knee walking drunk and his frat bros were disgusted by him.
One day, Dump came to pick him up to go to a baseball game. Jr. wasn’t suitably dressed in a suit and tie. Apparently, Dump knocked him across the room, said “Tr*mps are always seen in a suit and tie, change clothes and get to the car”. Dump left and Jr. changed. No wonder Jr’s warped and he and Eric are always trying to please Daddy. Nothing they did was ever good enough.
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But the suit always shouted “Here’s a cheap hustler, who doesn’t want to pay for a master tailor, and wouldn’t know how to wear it if he did!”
I suppose Obama passed on the name of his tailor, Martin Greenfield, as president, who could have told him how to wear a suit. If so, odd why Donnie wouldn’t want the same tailor. 
Fast forward to 34:33:
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And using scotch tape instead of a tie tack really emphasizes the “cheap” bit.
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That’s mad! I followed a link there to what purported to be the official list of Kentucky Colonels. There was a link at the top to add your name to the list but it was just some donation site. I’m sure it was something I would want defunded if it has the stank of Jr about it. But yes, his name wasn’t there.
Jr: “Love me, daddy…PLEASE”
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