The ‘Jericho walk’

In one of the most bizarre moments of the tRump “administration” SO FAR, the “president” ordered his stormtroopers to forcefully remove peaceful protesters from an area in front of the Church of St John so he could look tough and get that now infamous photo of him taken holding up a [fake] Bible as he sneered at the cameras.

All of this apparently because the “president” got upset when it was leaked to the press that – as the protesters approached the White House last Friday – tRump was whisked away with Melanoma and Barron to the fortified cold war bunker under the White House to hide like the sniveling coward he is.

The even weirder part was that the lunatic Despot did not bother to even enter the church – which had been damaged by fire the previous night; not to inspect the damage, and certainly not to pray. Fuck, he didn’t even ask for permission or bother to inform any of the church officials of his stunt. Instead, he just stood there, scowled at the press and held up a bible in a really, really creepy way.

Afterwards, he posed with the four horsemen of the Apocalypse while the cameras rolled.

No one from the MSM called them out. Not tRump, Attorney General Fred Flintstone, Secretary of Defense Mike Esper, Death, Famine, nor tRump’s new sex slave / WH spokes-demon Kunty McSmirkface were questioned over the pointlessness of this bizarre and deeply disturbing episode.

Just prior to that walk The Despot had declared himself the “law and order” president, vowing to defend the law, “including your Second Amendment rights.”

Predictably, he explicitly DID NOT mention the First Amendment…which is of course concerns freedom of religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition the government…none of which tRump or his handlers care about in any way shape or form.

The Guardian recently ran a story about a typical white trash family of tRump supporters from Florida who’d gathered to eat a bunch of fatty fast food, guzzle gallons of sugary sodas and watch FOX News live as their cult leader ordered peaceful protesters to be violently assaulted with teargas and rubber bullets so he could walk across the street from the White House for the photo op in front of St John’s Church.

The Horbowy family (pronounced “Whooo-boy!”) chewed on snickers and sucked down cherry Cokes as they watched the “president” walk 200 feet from the White House to St John’s. “My mother just shouted out, ‘God give him strength!” said Benjamin Horbowy, family patriarch. “He’s doing a Jericho walk!’”

Apparently, in some of the more retarded evangelical circles, a ‘Jericho walk’ refers to the biblical book of Joshua, where god commanded the Israelites to walk seven times around the opposing city of Jericho, whose walls then came crashing down. Whatever.

When Trump held that bible aloft, Horbowy said he and his family were overcome with the holy spirit.

“My mother started crying. She comes from Pentecostal background, and she started speaking in tongues. I haven’t heard her speak in tongues in years,” he said. “I thought, look at my president! He’s establishing the Lord’s kingdom in the world.”

Okay, so I’m reading that and I’m thinking, HOLY SHIT THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING NUTS!

Let’s be perfectly clear: speaking in tongues is crazy cuckoo gaga insane psychotic behavior, and it should never be considered a good thing, okay? Your fucking mom needs to seek immediate medical assistance, Benjamin. It’s not something to be proud of.

Asked about the protests over the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Horbowy replied, “There’s a Bible verse that says we shouldn’t talk about evil things. We can just say, ‘There’s evil’ and move on.”

Horbowy couldn’t remember the exact verse where he supposedly saw that – in the only book he’s ever read – because of course he just made that shit up.

Without pausing or feeling any guilt or shame, Horbowy continued: “I believe it’s like Ephesians 6:10 through 19…I believe this is a president who wears the full armor of God.”

Whoo-boy!

In a short speech before the infamous walk to St John’s, tRump said he would “dominate the streets” over the protests. “That is the “kingdom in the world,” Horbowy claimed, making no sense whatsoever.

So there you have it. When tRump declares himself a “law and order” president and then holds up a fake Hollywood Bible [as if he’s actually ever read the thing] – he purposely conflates which “laws” he will enforce, and whose orders he will follow.

But he sure knows his base.

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