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ck4829

(34,905 posts)
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 09:03 AM Jul 2017

Maybe 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 Court’s decision to allow Trump’s 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, whoever’s taking the power from America because they’re destroying the United States of America.”

“They’ve unelected a president,” Bakker said. “It’s 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.

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Maybe in a way, Jim Bakker is actually onto something here (Original Post) ck4829 Jul 2017 OP
I though Bakker was still in prison Worktodo Jul 2017 #1
The very same guy ck4829 Jul 2017 #2
He has been out for quite a while. And back on TV. nt leftyladyfrommo Jul 2017 #7
So it's a them vs they lawsuit? Good luck with that. Initech Jul 2017 #3
This Bakker is a Creepy Guy! Gamecock Lefty Jul 2017 #4
Still stealing money from the sick and the old. Now add the deplorable. Va Lefty Jul 2017 #5
Charming song about Jim and Tammy Fay 90-percent Jul 2017 #6

Initech

(99,881 posts)
3. So it's a them vs they lawsuit? Good luck with that.
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 09:42 AM
Jul 2017

I'm sure SCOTUS would hear a case called Bakker V. Them.

Gamecock Lefty

(698 posts)
4. This Bakker is a Creepy Guy!
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 09:46 AM
Jul 2017

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.

90-percent

(6,817 posts)
6. Charming song about Jim and Tammy Fay
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 10:30 AM
Jul 2017

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

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