In one Truth Social post Trump managed to misspell two words. The “he” refers to Jack Smith.

“He doesn’t want me to speak about the Rigged and Stollen [sic] Presidential Election of 2020, where the Evidence is MASSIVE & CONCLUSIVE, or Nancy Pelosi’s turning down 10,000 troops for January 6th, which would have quickly ended any problems, or why and how the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs & Misfits illegally deleted and destroyed all information and evidence pertaining to their findings, which we were going to use in our defence [sic].”

Above is a thief who has stolen stollen.

There are many photos of Trump with his hand over his heart.

Civilians typically put their hand over their heart during the Pledge of Allegiance or when the National Anthem is played. According to the article “Putting Your Hand Over Your Heart Makes You Both Appear And Behave More Honestly” in Smithsonian Magazine “researchers conclude, can trigger us to behave more morally. But at the same time, skilled liars could use this simple cue to manipulate others into believing that what they say is the hand-over-their-heart truth. “

You can come to your own conclusion as to which group Trump belongs in. My opinion is shown in the photo where I added the cross fingers. This gesture has two alternate nd very different meanings. One is that the person is wishing themselves or someone else luck. The other is that they are lyiing.

As the gesture evolved, people used it not just for God’s favour or luck, but to ward off evils and illnesses, among other things. These days, you don’t even have to cross your fingers, with many simply saying “fingers crossed” or “I’ve got my fingers crossed for you,” as a way to say “good luck.”

The origin of why fingers are crossed to indicate that we are lying—and negate the negative connotations of lying, or justify the lie—are even murkier in terms of any real evidence, but it’s generally thought this little “get out of jail free” trick may very well have roots in Christianity, the same as crossing your fingers for luck.

One of the Ten Commandments is “do not testify falsely against your neighbour”—or, put simply, do not lie. It is speculated that Christians started making the cross symbol with their fingers when lying to protect themselves against God’s wrath for breaking one of the commandments. As to when this started, it has been speculated that it dates all the way back to the beginnings of Christianity the same as the Ichthys- when Christians had to lie about being Christians since the religion was outlawed, often under penalty of death. However, as with the “luck” finger crossing, direct evidence is hard to come by, so we’re left with educated theories.

Another theory is that crossing your fingers when lying evolved from crossing your fingers for luck. In this case, you would be silently asking for luck in getting away with the lie. This is also entirely plausible, but we can’t be certain which theory is actually correct (if either).

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If Trump actually believes in any divine being I’d eat one of my expensive Tilley hats. Hell’s bells, I’d eat all three…

That being said, even though he doesn’t actually cross his fingers for all to see when the Pledge of Allegiance is recited or the National Anthem played you can bet he is just impatient to get the play acting over with.

The day after I posted “A Trump Christmas card” which was about Trump’s holiday posts on Truth Social I went back and added the bag of coal. The orginal photo featured Trump standing in front of a Christmas tree looking angry with his fist clenched. Without the bag of coal it was a good illustration for his Christmas message.

Below: This has nothing to do with Trump unless you count that she’s a lovey-dovey supporter . I made it to put on as a comment to this RawStory article..

Sometimes I don’t even have to make an illustration. For example in this article I simpley used a ready-made illustration with a DonkeyHotey caricature.: Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for embalmers to testify to GOP on COVID conspiracy theory I wrote: “Dare anyone suggest that MTG (the G doesn’t stand for genius) do a simple Google search for Covid vaccines and blood clots? (here)” 

And then there’s the latest defeat for Nikki Haley in the war to win the GOP nomination. Whether it turns out to be the woman who defended the right of the South to secede‘s Battle of Gettysburg which her hero, Robert E. Lee lost, remains to be determined.

Above, Nikki Haley, goes with this article. Top is regular Confederate soldier hat, bottom is officer’s hat.

Rather than make the NSFW photoshop of the inhibited theater groper Lauren Boebert which I was tempted to make which would be beneath my dignity and that of RawStory, in the Christmas spirit here’s my version of the photo used in this article.

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