I’m pretty sure “rogue pastor” in the US is gonna look like Dietrich Bonhoeffer (and probably suffer the same fate). The “rogue pastors” we would want to keep in line with a tax are all huge, HUGE Trump advocates from their pulpits, so mainline now.

I chose the wrong profession…

God, this tastes like I took a giant bite out of an onion. They are…so serious and committed to having a cigar lounge in the capital building that they are going to stage a cigar sit-in in the office of the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES while literally doing nothing legislative.

It’s just…absurd. The article even read like an Onion piece; same pacing, same over-dramatic statements about minor inconveniences, same “no actual news source like Axios would report on this childish bullshit” feeling.

The original Axios article, with it’s serious tone almost feels more oniony: https://www.axios.com/2024/06/16/speaker-johnson-tom-cole-capitol-cigars

How did the absurdity become the norm?