MORE MAMAW CHRISTIANS

Good evening. ☕️🌄

*Please forgive the grammatical errors.  

Pip watch! We're on pip watch. How exciting! My grandma gene is going hard right now.

So

I'm pondering moving to Henderson, NV. I currently reside in Enterprise. Enterprise is also called Las Vegas the same way Encino is called Los Angeles but ain't no one who actually lives in Encino call it L.A. I live in Enterprise.

Henderson, NV, can be summed up like this: Google map search "sushi restaurants" and Olive Garden pops up. I kid you not. The town does have a beloved Mister Kim's Korean BBQ oddly enough but Mister Kim's is a chain AYCE restaurant and we all know how much Southern Nevadians love to eat - buffets like an ocean as far as they eye can see. Anyway, I like the town. It's hick. It's small town. I was at Starbucks and a fat old Karen with a bird's nest for hair stared at me like she wanted to say something and I got excited like a long forgotten actress making a comeback in aTarantino movie, "Oooh say it. I dare you. Say it!" But she didn't. Perhaps her radar went off letting her know I grew up in a place where literally anything can be used as a deadly weapon even at Starbucks: napkin dispenser, chair, straws, all of it could put you in a coma, lady, all of it I promise you. I don't condone violence but I understand it.

While waiting for the metro some old man missing more teeth than he had left, engaged in conversation with me by asking where I live. The conversation went as well as could be expected with a man who looked like he fought in the civil war. It ended with his utter confusion as to which way was east and which way was west. He scampered off when I reminded him Las Vegas Blvd runs north and south. In truth I think he was beginning to sundown. 

America. When our country goes completely up in smoke only Gen X'ers will survive and the country will end with us because all the women of my generation are pre/post menopausal. Just take it back, Mexico. In 40 years ain't no one stopping you - although you might be met at the boarder with an army of midlife crises content creators who will insist on a dance-off first. 

Day 43 government shutdown. 🫤

Obviously. When was the last time politicians cared about the American people. We're all just unwanted children stuck in the middle of mom & dad politics while they go through yet another bitter separation for the umpteenth time. 

"They'll get paid on the 30th" the Orange tube donkey said like politicians are doing TSA employees a favor by paying employees. You know Trump wants us all to be serfs. 

And y'all think he doesn't have dementia. Are you sure? Is this real? He can't even be thankful without sounding completely insane. Can you imagine him saying Grace before dinner? 

THIS THIS THIS! 👇🏼

I'm finally reading Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance before becoming VP Vance. I've been curious what inspired Ron Howard to direct a film based on this book by this author aside from the fact it spent 54 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. I'm about halfway through the book now and it definitely is a hillbilly elegy albeit very well written and quite interesting. He's a good writer. Vance had more layers to him before becoming the nitwit MAGA mushroom you see before you today. I'm not fond of storytellers in written form lacking dialog as in there is none in this book, furthermore I don't know how a script was manufactured to make a film but I guess that means I have to watch the movie now when I'm done reading the book. If all I knew about J.D. Vance is what I'm reading in this book I'd say he's a likable guy, or at least he used to be. In the book Vance fought the good fights, praised blue collar working class, and knew the difference between right and wrong... Aaand then he went hard deep into politics. Still, it seems growing up Appalachian wasn't that much different from growing up prarie like I did. If Vance went back to being the guy who wrote Hillbilly Elegy, shedding off his Maga snake scales and just went back to being the guy who fought bullies and loved his Mamaw to no end, he could actually be the next president of the United States running as either Democrat or Republican. Only time will tell I guess. Who knows, maybe he could even get us Independents and Libertarians back to the Republican party. I'd still like to see Newsom run for president but I'd also like to see Vance go back to the man he was when he wrote Hillbilly Elegy. Additionally I think Vance would get the Christian vote which is in part how Trump (somehow) won 2024. Catholics and evangelicals, and oh boy is there a lot of them in this country, believe only God wills it, and while Lutherans too believe we have our own personal relationship with God, unlike evangelicals we know man is responsible for himself. 

Man must be obedient to the teachings of Christ, FYI that includes the removal of all seven deadly sins from your life, if he dare calls himself a Christian.  

CHAPTER 6: "... where she would watch Law & Order, read the Bible, and fall asleep." Welp, that's describes me at least five nights a week. "Mamaw, does God love us?" She hung her head, gave me a hug, and began to cry." Also describes me at least five nights a week. 😏 

I like this book far more than I thought I would. No wonder it was on New York Times bestseller list for 54 weeks. It's just so relatable. Humble. Human. 

I'm too lazy to type out the following quote so here's a screenshot of what Vance wrote in Hillbilly Elegy: 

Oh. You mean like this?👇🏼

I don't know what kind of crosses those are BUT commonly known among Christians, Catholics wear crucifixes,  protestants (if they wear any cross at all) wear small silver crosses. No self respecting Lutheran/protestant who actually follows the teachings of Christ would wear such an embellishment as those monstrous crosses shown above. It's a false praise. Its virtue signaling. It's the same reason Lutherans/protestants don't have crucifixes in their houses, or statues of Christ, or paintings of Christ, or candles with Christ's image in their homes, praise be to God and the son of God, not embellishments. You and me, Mamaw! 

Gentle reminder: All members of ordained clergy swore an oath to God. 

That oath: chastity, obedience, and poverty. Their earnings come from the church in the form of stipens (less than minimum wage). 

Pope Francis is deeply admired among Lutherans for upholding his oath of poverty. He reportedly didn't reside one day in the Apostolic Palace instead chosing to live in a guest house at the Vatican which was reported to be a single room and bathroom.

It is reported Pope Leo XIV returned Catholic tradition by living in the papal palace as is his right.

Martin Luther's reformation oppose those trying to purchase their way into Heaven. Wealth can buy you many things but it cannot, will not, save your soul. 

NOTE this is what a decent sane person says who is admittedly not Christian:

Me too, brother. I support atheists if that's what you want to be. We got bigger fish to fry.

IN THIS EPISODE of sharing a bathroom with a man:

It's hetero males like Trump who encourage filthy dudes like the one I share a bathroom with to leave ick stuff like this in our communal shower. 🤮 Is that what I think it is? is that mold on it?! Gross!! Males are so gross. He's going to be single until the day he dies. And by the looks of it "something" is rotting off his body. 🤮 Nasty. 

Thank goodness for Sesame Street. The only thing in our country that makes sense to me these days. 

I love you too Elmo! 

Sonetimes the doom scroll can be rewarding. 😏

We're so inundated with politics (everywhere!) it's no wonder pet reels are the most popular subject on a social media. I miss the days when we got our news on TV at 5pm. We had favorite news anchors and our country wasn't a 24/7 horror freak show because we were ignorant of it. Only at 5pm, 6pm and/or 10pm did we suffer the news and usually we (kids) were out the door immediately after supper to play until the street light came on. I also miss the early days of the internet, AOL chat rooms, watching the car wind down that mountain until the ultimate jump scare, and back when ASL meant something other than American Sign Language. (Sigh) How fast it all changed. 

The tech world is working fast and hard to make us gals AI boyfriends. Can't say I hate the idea especially since fleshy men are struggling with body rot apparently. 🤮

🤮 Dude. Bro. 

MAGA, so ridiculous even James Woods jumped ship.

Welcome to sanity my guy. 

AND ANOTHER THING

Preach Preacher! 👇🏼😀

For two years in my teens I attended Catholic church and considered converting to Catholicism but then I came to my senses. 😏 Don't need no priest to talk to God. You ain't His secretary, sir. But in those two years I learned a thing or two about their catechism (oh dear!) And it amazes me still how supposed-catholics get their own faith wrong. 

"What happens to a good person when they die who are not Christian. Do they still get into Heaven?" 

"No. They go to Hell."

Um. That's not in the Catholic catechism. I believe that's what y'all purgatory is for. We protestants however just think you die. The end. Into the ether. Unless of course you're of different faith then you go wherever you've prepared your soul to go. God speed.

ANYWAY

Called it! 

Bro, my cow-bro, Google Ed Gein! Your human is a cannibal! I mean you're probably safe and all but - CANNIBAL! 

(Sigh)

Are the kids okay? 

Are they?

The carnivals are in town. Take your kids to the carnival. Do everything and anything to give them good memories of childhood. I've seen a few of these being set up. I actually like carnivals. We had them come and go on the prarie when I was a kid. Very innocent times they were. 

I pray for us. 

Hear it from your human leader, Catholics: 

As I preach, no Christian defender of the faith supports war. We are conscientious objectors. Always have been, always will be.

Don't believe me? Hear it from the Pope:

Thank you, good sir. 🙏🏻

God bless us all.

In closing...

I liked him when he ran for president. I didn't like him in the White House. He was stronger on the road than in the White House. Just my opinion. I liked his wife as First Lady, though.

OK Bye 👋🏼