I'm so late and far behind as usual and I don't have time to catch up, but everyone in this thread (up to pg 1420) has missed the point about evangelicals being big mad, especially
@LORD IMPERATOR (who is missing almost everything else, too). Clock me if it's already been mentioned.
I say this with complete, unironic sincerity--evangelicals screeching about Trump and USAID is a
good thing. A spectacular thing, actually. I've mentioned before that USAID has contributed more than a million to Christianity Today. I've also mentioned a while back a book
Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham. For decades evangelicals have been drifting liberal/progressive, from the seminaries to the churches. It's to the point where the few conservative evangelicals that are left aren't even calling themselves that anymore. Basham talks about the different leftists organizations behind the liberal creep, and now it's revealed some of it is coming from USAID and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more than a million has been funneled to different sources with the same destructive goal. Of course evangelical leaders are going to scream and cry over it. They're losing their funding and their ability to keep poisoning the Christian well.
Taylor Swift--I wouldn't be surprised if some of those boos were coming from people aware of Justin Baldoni suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, several PR firms, and the NYT for trying to destroy him and his career, to the point of figuratively murdering him in the latest Deadpool movie. I'm linking the website where the court docs and receipts are. It's a ton, but worth the long read. Disney is also involved (because of Deadpool) and while Taylor is carefully not mentioned by name, it's clear she's a part of the whole thing and it's why she's been distancing herself from her BFF and mother of her godchildren. There's a thread on it that I was going to necro but there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in discussing it.
As far as the political connection--it's looking like Ronan Farrow might be involved, plus Megan Twohey wrote the hit piece. Those two reporters were the ones who started Me Too and brought down Weinstein...and it's looking like not all is what it seems.
Baldoni Lawsuit
Sad!
