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demmiblue

(36,929 posts)
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:31 AM Jul 2017

Trumps Independence Day Tweet Features Baptist Choir Singing MAGA Just for Him

Source: Time

On President Donald Trump’s first Independence Day as president he tweeted out a song written just for him, one that celebrates his administration.

Last weekend the First Baptist Church in Dallas performed a new song penned in honor of the president at the “Celebrate Freedom Rally” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The piece is titled: “Make America Great Again.”

It is intended to be sung by Evangelical church choirs and is primarily a refrain of its title. But it also features the lyric “lift the torch of freedom all across the land / Step into the future joining hand in hand.”

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-independence-day-tweet-features-maga-choir-singing-just-him-631644?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

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Trumps Independence Day Tweet Features Baptist Choir Singing MAGA Just for Him (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2017 OP
Vomit shenmue Jul 2017 #1
Both ends at once here. Did not look for fear of stroke or coronary. n/t rzemanfl Jul 2017 #2
Right there with you! bitterross Jul 2017 #21
Idolatrous nonsense . . . MousePlayingDaffodil Jul 2017 #3
Ook. forgotmylogin Jul 2017 #4
It's C-major. Still In Wisconsin Jul 2017 #18
Dear Leader jeffreyi Jul 2017 #5
Remember when they said Obama was full of himself oberliner Jul 2017 #6
Well, that's different, he is black. DK504 Jul 2017 #13
Technicolor yawn-inducer. Mc Mike Jul 2017 #7
He Is About to Pass Caligula On Scale of Most Narcissistic Leaders TomCADem Jul 2017 #8
About? jmowreader Jul 2017 #17
ABOUT???? heaven05 Jul 2017 #22
Clarification necessary, and following jmowreader Jul 2017 #26
Weren't we punished enough already Rural_Progressive Jul 2017 #9
Omg GrapesOfWrath Jul 2017 #20
The arts and republicans.... Rural_Progressive Jul 2017 #23
Some idol worship of Dubya keithbvadu2 Jul 2017 #10
Oh, shame on them! classof56 Jul 2017 #11
More from article: Leghorn21 Jul 2017 #12
A Dark Wind blows across our land Achilleaze Jul 2017 #14
Hmmm.... trusty elf Jul 2017 #15
Pukeworthy. Vinca Jul 2017 #16
I suppose ,,, Cryptoad Jul 2017 #19
And here I thought Christians worshiped Jesus Christ... Blue Idaho Jul 2017 #24
When has The Donald Astraea Jul 2017 #25
They're all so full of it. What they want is freedom from taxes & to proselytize YOHABLO Jul 2017 #27
In case anyone doubted Trump is a .. Hieronymus Jul 2017 #28
Did you read the lyrics to this masterpiece? dawn frenzy adams Jul 2017 #29
Trump makes #July4th2017 all about himself. #Shame riversedge Jul 2017 #30
Maybe not the thread to do this, but... Fix The Stupid Jul 2017 #31
 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
21. Right there with you!
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 02:18 PM
Jul 2017

Man, I want to scratch my own eyes and ears out when web sites automatically start playing 45 speaking. This is just as bad - if not worse.

3. Idolatrous nonsense . . .
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:36 AM
Jul 2017

Blacksliding Robert Jeffress appears to have progressed from apostate to full-blown heretic. A disgraceful witness to the Body of Christ.

forgotmylogin

(7,540 posts)
4. Ook.
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:37 AM
Jul 2017

Messy clattery orchestra arrangement. Sounds like the intro to every CBN, PTL, 700-Club chat show. If you have a choir, why have them sing in unison? If your choir is singing in unison, why is the sound so sloppy? Cutoffs please? Dynamics please? Please rehearse your choir how to sing in unison. Ten seconds of that will do. Next!

Oh, and I'm not ear-trained, but that descending bass line sounds like C-Major to me. All white keys. BORING.

Mc Mike

(9,118 posts)
7. Technicolor yawn-inducer.
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:54 AM
Jul 2017

Leave it to Dallas 'christians' to give north korean propagandists a run for their money.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
22. ABOUT????
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 02:26 PM
Jul 2017

everything related to fairly and successfully administering his charge, given him by a minority vote of americans, the country called the United States of America. Period. And yes Caligula. Any man that can walk into the beauty pageant dressing room of teenage girls, for what reason who knows, talk openly about what he was able to do to women by being a celebrity and the question about his sexual proclivities while in Russia leads one to certain conclusions. Period.

jmowreader

(50,608 posts)
26. Clarification necessary, and following
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 06:58 PM
Jul 2017

TomCADem claimed that Trump's narcissism was "about" to surpass Caligula's. I feel it already HAS done that.

If you look close at Caligula's record, you see there were two parts to his reign.

The first few years Caligula was in office, he did some good things for the people...among them building very good aqueducts and improving Rome's ability to import grain by improving some of Rome's major ports.

Then someone attempted to assassinate him, and he turned into a tyrant.

Trump decided to skip the warm and fuzzy parts of Caligula's reign and go straight to tyranny.

Rural_Progressive

(1,107 posts)
9. Weren't we punished enough already
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 11:12 AM
Jul 2017

when John Ashcroft let the eagle soar??

Anymore of this and my ear drums are going to burst.

Rural_Progressive

(1,107 posts)
23. The arts and republicans....
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 02:47 PM
Jul 2017

music, comedy, movies, theater.....not really their thing and I so wish they would stop trying, everything they create just plain sucks.

classof56

(5,376 posts)
11. Oh, shame on them!
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 11:27 AM
Jul 2017

My Mother's family attended Dallas First Baptist when she was young. Good Calvinist "christians" all, they were. I'm guessing they'd have loved this song, just as they'd have loved tRump. Makes me sick to say that. Took awhile, but I've now disavowed "christianity" and I'm an atheist. Just couldn't figure out why the god I'd believed in for most of my life would put up with this crap out of his so-called followers. Now understand it's because he doesn't exist.

I repeat: Shame on Jeffress and that whole crowd.

Peace.

Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)
12. More from article:
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 11:33 AM
Jul 2017

"During his speech Trump praised the choir. “Your music honors our heroes more than words will ever do,” Trump said."

Uh, which "heroes" exactly? God and Trump? God Emperor Trump? Little Tiny Baby Jesus is a "hero" now?

dawn frenzy adams

(429 posts)
29. Did you read the lyrics to this masterpiece?
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 01:25 AM
Jul 2017

A fourth grader could have written better lyrics. It is more American fodder for the world to ridicule. You should check out the Independent U.K.'s review of it?

Fix The Stupid

(951 posts)
31. Maybe not the thread to do this, but...
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 12:34 PM
Jul 2017


What's with all the "freedom" bullshit?

Why is everything 'american' tied into that word?

How exactly are americans 'free'?

What does that even mean?

Anyone?

Seems like a lazy buzzword for the anti-intellectuals to glom onto..."we're american , we have freedom!"

WTF?

I would love to ask a right-winger this question:

"What does 'freedom' mean in the context of comparing 2 or more countries?"

If their answer is "well, ask that in china or saudia-arabia!", my retort would be "if these countries are so awful, why does america do business and arms dealings with them?"

Then watch their heads spin.


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